Case Against Custer Battles Dismissed by Reaganite Judge
Which brings us to Custer Battles.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, a Republican and Reagan appointee with a history we’ll get to a bit later, dismissed outright the case against Scott Custer and Mike Battles. In order to understand what level of judicial abortion this is, you first have to know a little about the case. Sydney Blumenthal explains.
Read MoreWhy Is Health Insurance So Expensive?
The predatory practices of the health insurance industry are one reason. The Boston Globe is reporting today that Humana Inc, one of the bigger insurers involved in providing the new Medicare drug benefit with some 2,000,000 seniors signed up in seven states, is going to raise the price for its Standard prescription drug coverage plan by 130% in Massachusetts.
Read MoreThe SOTUTU
I didn’t watch the SOTU tonight. I fell asleep (a medication thing). I caught the last 5 minutes when he was doing the “Introducing Heroes” Segment and then signing autographs (!!! WTF?). It was inspiring that there are still people, some of them Congressmen, who want his signature on a piece of paper that isn’t his resignation.
Read MoreLow Taxes and Privatization: Failure Squared
Molly used to tell the story of her first day covering the Texas legislature for the Observer. She sat in the press box that morning watching the most powerful men in the state (they were all men in those days) enter the chamber, slap each other on the butt, and commence talking about what “a fine piece o’ tail” they had last night, you shoulda seen ‘er, some of them packing guns under their suit coats, and she thought, “This is going to be fun.” It was due to her reporting, at least in part, that the Texas legislature became a national joke.
Read MoreCoulter Smacked by the Pendulum (Updated)
I was going to talk about Ann Coulter but I hear you have to go into rehab if you use the phrase “brain-dead fascist bimbo”.
Jesus. I can’t believe I have to waste time and energy talking about this but there’s something that needs to be said and nobody’s saying it.
Believe me, I’m pleased as punch that a furor has erupted over Coulter’s jab at John Edwards during her speech at the annual CPAC meeting. Nobody deserves it more. (Michael Savage, maybe, but that’s how low you have to go to get underneath Anorexic Annie.) But, really, what’s the big deal? Calling a Democrat a “faggot” is mild for her, and it was clearly a joke – or what passes for one at a right-wing gathering (it’s not like Republicans have senses of humor a normal human being can relate to). She wasn’t seriously suggesting Edwards is gay, she was just dissing him with her usual lack of class.
Read MoreDirective 51 Isn’t the Problem: It’s Those Secret Annexes
There has been some concern – probably not enough – over Bush’s recent signing of Directive 51. Directive 51 effectively moves responsibility for the management of a “catastrophic emergency” from FEMA and other scattered Federal depts into a single locus – the White House.
Pam Spaulding at pendagon titled her post on this, “Bush: dictator with a stroke of a pen” and called the Directive a “power grab”. In a typical response like several I got in my email over the weekend, one writer put it this way:
Read MoreRestoring a hard disk (HDD) – the primary self diagnostics
This article is kind of a short guide to the preliminary diagnosis of the hard drive (HDD).
The hard disk on your computer can be IDE or SATA. IDE interface old, with long flat cable and connector. SATA drives began appearing a couple of years ago. This interface can be distinguished by a thick cable with a small connector.
Read MoreQuote for the Week:
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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