Andymatic

Month: November 2006

  • King Tut, Caged Dames and Other Niceties

    And it is Wednesday. I didn’t set my alarm for today but still ended up waking up at 7:30am. The final blogging class call stretched into an hour and forty-minute extravaganza. Mostly because I didn’t get to cover everything from the previous week. Had a great time with my sister here. We went to the […]

  • Houston Landscaper and Gardener Garden Guy Inc. with Todd and Sabrina Farber

    NYTimes: Last month, a local [Houston] landscaping firm prompted a furor here by telling a gay couple in an e-mail message, “We choose not to work for homosexuals.” In an interview Friday, Sabrina Farber, 34, co-owner of the company with her husband, Todd, 37, said the company had picked up $40,000 in new business in […]

  • WaPo: Post-Election Call Up of Remaining Reserves and National Guard

    (via Digg) Don’t call it a draft, yetn Plans are secretly underway for a suprise new call up of National Guard and Reserves to be announced sometime after the election.The Washington Post has now reported that plamning that is now classified, being kept secret from voters and military families until the election is over, could […]

  • FBI Willing to Go Undercover in Congress

    Has anyone in Congress also considered that maybe the wiretaps are reaching out to them as well? Checks and balances, indeed. The new chief of the FBI’s Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on […]

  • Former Intelligence Offer: Google Connected to CIA

    Former CIA clandestine service officer Robert David Steele: Steele raised eyebrows when he confirmed from his contacts within the CIA and Google that Google was working in tandem with “the agency,” a claim made especially volatile by the fact that Google was recently caught censoring Alex Jones’ Terror Storm and has targeted other websites for […]

  • The Myth of Barack Obama

    (from CounterPunch) Obama’s agenda is reheated Clintonism: raising the minimum wage, an expansion the Earned Income Tax Credit, and investment in education, alternative energy and technology–positive steps, perhaps, but certainly no far-reaching social programs. Workers at risk of job loss should have access to wage insurance, he writes, but he doesn’t call for an increase […]

  • Why Is There a War on Drugs?

    (via Digg) Creepy cogent quote: There is a war on drugs because the people who control the State do not want to be stuck answering the phone, they want an excuse to break down your door. In other words, they don’t want to be limited to providing dispute resolution services, they want an instrument of […]

  • Merry Vote-mas!

    I’m pretty stunned that the Senate is as close as it is. I thought for sure the GOP would be able to scare everyone into thinking that men kissing was more important than national security or the war. And with Rumsfeld quitting finally (or being allowed to quit) we can now turn to Robert Gates: […]

  • Democralypse

    Remember: Don’t vote, don’t bitch. If you don’t vote today and are eligible to vote then you don’t get to say jack about the way things go for the next 2 years. Don’t you WANT to be able to be snide, smug and self-righteous? VOTE. If you aren’t eligible to vote in the US, barrage […]

  • How the 2006 Election Was Stolen

    Palast is back: Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen. Note the past tense. And I’m not kidding. And shoot me for saying this, but it won’t be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they’ll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the […]