I’m filling in today on Saturday Asylum, on Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 2 to 4 pm today! Shameless Self-Promotion: Help me get an afternoon show! DJ DDP is leaving Saturday Asylum, so there is an opening for a programmer on Saturday afternoon. Call or Email WMNF Program Director Randy [...]
Archive for December, 2003
Civitas comes calling
December 20, 2003
Ed Turcnachik promised he wouldn’t need any public funds to complete his Plan to Take Over the World. He lied. Tax breaks, government grants and waived fees were tacked on Friday to the growing wish list of a company trying to replace public housing with upscale development. Civitas representatives have said for weeks that they [...]
Cassel on courts
December 19, 2003
Follow the link: Thursday, December 18, brought some good news for those among us who thought the judicial branch of government was asleep. An independent judiciary is alive and well in two federal circuits–the Second Circuit (New York) and the Ninth Circuit (California). Both appeals courts rejected the Bush administration’s claims that President Bush has [...]
Courts decide that they are a branch of government after all
December 19, 2003
Finally: The broad presidential powers invoked by the Bush administration after Sept. 11, 2001, to detain suspected terrorists outside the civilian court system is now being challenged by the federal courts, the very branch of the government the White House hoped to circumvent. The two separate appellate court rulings on Thursday swept away crucial parts [...]
Tampa’s Welfare Daddies
December 18, 2003
Corporate welfare roles in Tampa continue to rise unabated as Tampa’s elite join forces to attempt a massive transfer of public wealth into private hands. BlogWood has learned that lazy, shiftless corporate entities are living large off the public dole, and asking for more! While honest taxpayers struggle to make ends meet, their government is [...]
911 Bombshell The Wicked Witch is Still Caught!
December 18, 2003
CBS News had a very interesting interview last night with Thomas Kean, the Republican chairman of the 911 Commission: “This is a very, very important part of history and we’ve got to tell it right,” said Thomas Kean. “As you read the report, you’re going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn’t done and [...]
Good news for Plan B
December 17, 2003
NYT: In a 23-to-4 vote, two expert advisory committees to the Food and Drug Administration recommended Tuesday that a so-called morning-after pill to prevent unintended pregnancies be sold over the counter. The F.D.A. usually follows its committees’ advice, although the final decision rests with its commissioner, Dr. Mark B. McClellan. But the overwhelming vote by [...]
Today on MorningWood
December 16, 2003
Today on MorningWood, on Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am every Tuesday! Shameless Self-Promotion: Help me get an afternoon show! DJ DDP is leaving Saturday Asylum, so there is an opening for a programmer on Saturday afternoon. Call or Email WMNF Program Director Randy Wynne and ask [...]
Dean doesn’t waver
December 15, 2003
Howard Dean says it better than I did (see below): “Let me be clear: My position on the war has not changed,” Dean said in an address to the Pacific Council in Los Angeles. “The difficulties and tragedies we have faced in Iraq show that the administration launched the war in the wrong way, at [...]
Saddam is caught… now what?
December 14, 2003
First, the end does not justify the means. Second, this is not the end. Nobody likes Saddam. But we are paying an awfully steep price to get him. And not a WMD in sight. You remember the WMDs, right? Those horrible, powerful, easy to deploy weapons that Saddam was getting ready to use against America? [...]