Opponents of ‘Clear Skies’ Bill Examined The chairman of a Senate committee that oversees environmental issues has directed two national organizations that oppose President Bush’s major clean-air initiative to turn over their financial and tax records to the Senate. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), who heads the Environment and Public Works Committee, asked for the [...]
Archive for February, 2005
Race to hate at Daytona
February 20, 2005
As Orcinus points out, white supremacist groups are becoming much bolder in their outreach and recruitment efforts. Billboards, pamphlets, and airplane advertising are just the beginning, unless their message of hate is met with a stronger message of tolerance. In an attempt to reach out to NASCAR fans, local white supremacists say they have hired [...]
WMNF’s new building not for everyone
February 19, 2005
From the SP Times, we’re reminded that today marks the official start of broadcasting from WMNF’s new building. Starting today, WMNF officially switches its signal – not to mention its studios, news center and nearly 50,000 CDs and 20,000 LPs – to a brand new, $2.2-million building next door. And from my inbox, an email [...]
Litterer gets burned
February 18, 2005
Justice is served The 20-year-old San Francisco resident was rolling across the upper deck of the Bay Bridge at 10:40 a.m., smoking a cigarette. When he got to Harrison Street, he rolled down the window of his white 2004 Ford Expedition SUV and tossed out the butt. Instead of bounding along the pavement, however, the [...]
Help the ALA help you
February 18, 2005
The American Library Association is fighting for your right to read whatever the fuck you want. Right now, the FBI can come along and secretly browse through your library record without a warrant or probable cause that a crime has or will be committed. The ALA wants to put a stop to these fishing expeditions. [...]
Jeb! seeks power to “fix” elections
February 18, 2005
Katherine Harris helped to throw the 2000 election to George W Bush. She was both Florida’s secretary of state, in charge of statewide elections, and Bush’s Florida campaign manager. Her successor, Glenda Hood, made many decisions last year that could be seen as partisan, including her blind support for a fatally flawed felon purge list [...]
Jeb! plan would enable state sponsored fraud
February 17, 2005
Jeb! has been steaming ever since last year when severe flaws were exposed in his felon scrub list, forcing the Secretary of State to make its use optional. Most local elections supervisors opted not to use the list, which contained tons of black democrats, but almost no Hispanic voters whatsoever. Well, here’s Jeb!’s plan to [...]
Compassionless conservatism
February 17, 2005
W just loves beating up on the poor and powerless. For the fourth consecutive year, the Bush administration wants to eliminate a program that provides education and training to a large migrant farmworker population. Ending the National Farmworkers Job Program would save $76.2 million, according to the administration’s 2006 budget plan. The administration argues that [...]
Schiavo’s parents fall in with bad crowd
February 17, 2005
Terri Schiavo needs to die. Judges have repeatedly found that she made her wishes clear to her husband and that he has every right to remove her feeding tube and put an end to all of this pathetic madness. Her parents, the Schindlers, are now being used as tools by the religious right, no doubt [...]
GOP wants minimum wage optional for employers
February 16, 2005
I alluded to the sweetheart deal that WalMart got from the Bush administration a few days ago. NathanNewman has been covering the WalMart mess well, and it turns out that he’s also all over the Florida minimum wage fight – a fight to make the voter mandated $6 something per hour Florida minimum wage optional [...]