Monday Morning News

Good morning Conflucians! Here are some news stories that interested me today. Health Care Mess Is Harry Reid willing to lose his Senate seat in order to give the insurance companies what they want? Jane Hamsher thinks he is taking that risk. Harry Reid is losing in the polls in his own state of Nevada [...]

Late Night Fantasy: Would you take a one way trip to Mars?

I think it’s late enough for this. I just had to share this story that I heard about on NPR’s Science Friday. What a fascinating interview! The audio is posted on the upper left hand corner of the page. A One-Way Trip To Mars? Lawrence M. Krauss is a professor at the School of Earth [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Lazy Sunday Edition

War on Terror, Cont’d From the plethora of horrible consequences from the Iraq war. A deadly interrogation in Iraq A U.S. soldier who lost two of his men questions a suspected insurgent about the attack. Afterward, a slain, naked Iraqi — and the truth about what befell him — are left behind in a dark [...]

It’s Bilby Day!

Few things are more worth celebrating than bilbies, and the second Sunday in September is their day. It’s now nearly 7 AM on Sunday in Australia, so what are you waiting for? The omniscient Wikipedia notes: They are nocturnal omnivores that do not need to drink water, as they get all the moisture they need [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Saturday Edition

Remembering 9-11 I have to give him all the due credit: Obama gave a great speech yesterday. Obama calls for unity as America remembers the 9/11 dead Americans marked the eighth anniversary of the September 11 atrocities yesterday with modest ceremonies and a call from their President to rediscover the “common purpose” they found after [...]

Uncle Sam Contracts Frater Magnus to Safeguard his Healthcare Liberty

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln There’s a sucker born every minute. – P.T. Barnum We, the People, are born every minute. The last ten [...]

Friday Morning News

Good morning Conflucians! Today is September 11, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of focus on that grim anniversary in the major newspapers. The New York Times has a couple of articles. The first is about fears that never materialized: Remembering a future that many feared So much has been said and written [...]

Dennis Kucinich responds to The Greatest Speech On Health Care Reform EVAH!

This was posted in the comments earlier but it deserves to be on the front page.  Kucinich is a real liberal which makes him “unelectable” according to the media and the Democratic establishment. Yes, I know he endorsed Obama last year.  We all make mistakes.  Get over it. He is also a co-sponsor of HR [...]

Has an Obama speech ever changed anything?

We all know that Barack Obama is famous for speechifying.  Until he was elected to be Reader of the  TOTUS it was the first and foremost item on his skimpy resume.  But for all the swooning of the fanboiz in the media and blogosphere have any of his speeches made a difference? Obama’s first great [...]

Eye-Patch Underwear?

This month’s political sex scandal stars 54 year-old California Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall, a conservative Republican from the O.C.  There’s even a video tape of of him bragging about getting his freak on: She wears little eye-patch underwear. So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And
 so, we had made love [...]