Will Michael Moore's Facts Check Out?

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Will Michael Moore's facts checks out? This movie review in the New York Times spends a lot of time asking that question. I plan on going to see it, don't think I'll do the fund raiser premier that the Progressive Alliance Foundation is promoting.

The New York Times > Movies > Will Michael Moore's Facts Check Out?: "Mr. Moore makes extensive use of obscure footage from White House and network-news video archives, including long scenes that capture President Bush at his least articulate. For the White House, the most devastating segment of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' may be the video of a befuddled-looking President Bush staying put for nearly seven minutes at a Florida elementary school on the morning of Sept. 11, continuing to read a copy of 'My Pet Goat' to schoolchildren even after an aide has told him that a second plane has struck the twin towers. Mr. Bush's slow, hesitant reaction to the disastrous news has never been a secret. But seeing the actual footage, with the minutes ticking by, may prove more damaging to the White House than all the statistics in the world. "

The meaning of 'is'/Bush takes lesson from Clinton

Checking through all the different stores on the White house knee jerk reaction to being caught in another set of lies over Iraq and Al-Qaida, this

Editorial: The meaning of 'is'/Bush takes lesson from Clinton stands out.
From the Star Tribune Minneapolis - St. Paul

Watching the Bush White House defend itself on the issue of linkage between Iraq and Al-Qaida brings to mind President Bill Clinton's infamous statement that, "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is." President Bush and those around him are parsing the meaning of words with a precision that would do a lexicographer -- or Clinton, for that matter -- proud.

Travesty of Justice

I am not the only one who thinks John Ashcroft is the worst attorney general in history. This Paul Krugaman Opinion piece in the New York Times is well worth the time to read Travesty of Justice

I got the the link from Change for America

There may be hope!

This gives me hope that Bush will be replaced. Retired Envoys, Commanders Assail Bush Team (washingtonpost.com)

"I think we will in time come to be very ashamed of this period in history," Freeman said, "and of the role some people in the administration played in setting the tone and setting the rules."

Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw

This is more of the voting problems that terrify me. The safest way would be with open source machines that create and leave a paper trail.


Yahoo! News - Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw

The Bush administration has no respect for science.

the Bush administration has systematically manipulated scientific inquiry

Just one more of many reasons that Bush is the worst President (ever), a total embarrassment to the United States.

Don't think about this to much, it will make you sick

When politicians dictate science, government becomes entangled in its own deceptions, and eventually the social order decays in a compost of lies. Society, having abandoned the scientific method, loses its empirical referent, and truth becomes relative. This is a serious affliction known as Lysenkoism.

This next quote could be about almost anything the Bush Administration has tried.

Politics without objective, honest measurement of results is a deadly short circuit. It means living a life of sterile claptrap, lacquering over failure after intellectual failure with thickening layers of partisan abuse.

Ashcroft tries to cover up crime

Ashcroft has refused to release memos detailing U.S. torture policy as lawmakers accused him of trying to hide how the Bush administration has justified the abuse of prisoners.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said critical information was being withheld from the Congress. "These memos clearly do exist, and ... they appear to be an effort to redefine torture and narrow the prohibition against it by carving out a class of something called exceptional interrogation," she said.

"So these memos actually either reverse or substantially alter 30 years of interpretation by our body, as well as the executive, of the Geneva Conventions."

Maryland Election Officials Under Fire From Voters

EFF: Maryland Election Officials Under Fire From Voters

Maryland - EFF has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Maryland case that challenges the integrity of that state's electronic voting machines, which are manufactured by the troubled electronic voting machine company, Diebold Election Systems. EFF presented evidence of problems with electronic voting machines from more than 18 elections nationwide in the past few years, including the 2002 gubernatorial election and March 2004 primaries in Maryland. The evidence includes reports of lost votes, votes registering for the wrong candidate, and voters turned away from the polls using both Diebold and other electronic voting systems.

I love the Electronic Frontier Foundation they are always stepping up and do the work I wish I had the balls to do.