Author: Ruby Sinreich

Bush fails

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My dad is a high-school math teacher so I should be able to figure this one out. On a 4-point scale, not including the incompletes:

 1 A- (4)
 9 C  (2)
12 D  (1)
 5 F  (0)
Bush's GPA = 1.2 or D+

Way to go, Bush! I feel so much safer… than an Iraqi. Whenohwhen does the president get held accountable???

[The bipartisan 9/11 commission] issued a “report card” reviewing how the commission’s 41 recommendations have been implemented, and gave the government five failing grades of F…

The government earned 12 barely passing grades of D and nine mid-level grades of C. It received two “incompletes,” and only one top grade, an A-minus in counter-terrorist financing.
– Leaders failing to keep America safe: report – Yahoo! News

Now more than ever, Iraq = Vietnam

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Oh. My. God. Thanks to the Facing South blog, which is the kick-ass voice of the progressive south, for publishing this quotation from 1969 of Richard Nixon explaining why the U.S. had to stay in Vietnam to serve the cause of global peace. The parallels to that conflict have been many ever since the begining, but now it’s starting to seem like Bush has copied the play verbatim!

Will we never learn?

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Good (god) music

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I have come across a couple of really great free music resources online this week. One is a “mixtape” by the hip hop group The Legendary K.O. These are the guys who did the radical “George Doesn’t Care About Black People” song (download MP3) after Hurricane Katrina. I had better luck downloading the “C.I.G.A.C ‘Pre-Season’ Mixtape” from the RappersIKnow.com blog than from the K.O. site.

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Me, aggregated

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If you are trying to stalk me but getting frustrated with how my stuff is spread out all over the Internet, someone has got just the tool for you! SuprGlu lets me aggregate everything of mine that can be syndicated – all in one public web page. I can’t quite call it “useful” yet, but somone will think of a way to do so, I’m sure.

Act now

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WordPress.com is now offerring free, hosted, WordPress* blogs with no ads! They had been gradually meteing out blogs to folks who asked, but now they are feeling better about their ability to scale so bring it on!

There’s no excuse – start blogging today!

* WordPress is the blogging platform I use for both lotusmedia.org and OrangePolitics.org. I highly recommend it.

Thanks to Matt for the announcement.

Whaa?

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Excuse me but was that a pig I just saw flying by? And did el Presidente just say it’s not unpatriotic to question him? And did he almost apologize for insulting a critic?

“I know that the decision to call for an immediate withdrawal of our troops by congressman Murtha was done in a careful and thoughtful way. I disagree with his position,” Bush said.
– Bush tries to cool tempers over Iraq – Yahoo! News

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