But don’t worry. W and Karl have a cynical plan to make everything look alright before November. Expect to hear less about combat deaths, though they will still be happening, and more about our troops “coming home” amidst plenty of election year pomp and circumstance. Orwellian proclamations of “Victory” and hard-won “Iraqi Freedom” will follow. [...]
Archive for January, 2004
Demand a paper trail!
January 17, 2004
SP TImes: Last week’s special election in South Florida has pumped up a growing debate over whether touch screen voting machines need a backup paper trail. The House district race in Broward and Palm Beach counties was decided by 12 votes, but 137 people cast ballots without voting for anyone. Since all but the absentee [...]
Big Welfare Daddies in space
January 16, 2004
The Big Welfare Daddies are lining up to feed from the Space Odyssey trough that President Moonbeam announced this week: (I think I keep mixing MLK and space stuff together simply because those were the 2 big photo-ops this week? The common thread is disingenuous vote mongering) Industry officials said yesterday that they see a [...]
W’s jobless recovery
January 16, 2004
”There is no middle anymore” Cathy Wyatt is putting the finishing touches on her trendy coffee shop, Carpe Diem, opened just eight weeks ago. She is paying meticulous attention to her upscale clientele, complete with offering hard-boiled eggs marked for the Atkins-conscious crowd. It may not fit with northeastern Ohio’s hardscrabble image, but, she said, [...]
County Commission Kills Civitas?
January 16, 2004
The SP Times is reporting that the Civitas deal is be dead, but I’m not holding my breath. Secret meetings are still taking place, and lots of promises are being made. Don’t be surprised if a last minute deal is announced with much fanfare and confusion on Friday or Saturday. A sweeping redevelopment project that [...]
Happy Birthday Dr. King
January 15, 2004
President Visits Atlanta Several hundred protesters greeted President Bush Thursday as he laid a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. to celebrate the slain civil rights leader on what would have been his 75th birthday. Some demonstraters pushed past the barricades set up by the Secret Service to protest Bush’s brief visit. [...]
Ed Turanchik’s land of imagination
January 15, 2004
Didn’t I see this story in a movie somewhere? Here’s the setup: Con men form Civitas a front organization and purport to have a bridge, or perhaps some slightly swampy land for sale. They want to cut a great deal on the land, but they can’t let anyone see the land or know where it [...]
Ed Turanchik’s Plan to Take Over the World
January 14, 2004
An update: Civitas has given the Tampa Housing Authority a partial list of the properties it wants to trade for prime downtown real estate. Many of the lots are of questionable value and some are too small to build on. “We’re giving up prime property that’s worth a lot of money,” board member Hazel Harvey [...]
Get Up with MorningWood
January 13, 2004
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Herbert on Welfare Daddies and sick kids
January 11, 2004
What Ails Florida? The State of Florida really knows how to hurt a kid. It has money for sports stadiums. It lavishes billions of dollars’ worth of tax breaks and other goodies on private corporations. It even has money for a substantial reserve fund. But, in an episode of embarrassing and unnecessary tightfistedness, it has [...]