Well, just like last month when we decided to stop looking for bin Laden (not sure I linked that, but I should have), apparently we ended the search for WMDs in Iraq three weeks ago. Give those ideas a couple moments to sink in. One of the reasons we invaded Afghanistan can't be found, and THE reason we invaded Iraq has been proven absolutely, unequivocally invalid.
And half this country voted for the moron who can neither orchestrate a plan to find one man nor one that involves using solid intelligence instead of fairy dust to consider whether or not to invade a sovreign nation. Idiots.
On to Social Security. While Bush and the GOP establish fearmongering, it is discovered that the program, if left alone, won't even tap out its trust fund until at least the 2040s. And sometime in the late 2050s the system will take in more than it pays out even given mediocre projections (aka not the fake Bush ones). So, in short: THERE IS NO PROBLEM OTHER THAN BUSH GETTING AWAY WITH LYING AGAIN.
And why would he do this in the first place? Even his pack of flying monkeys insists that their "fix" won't even solve the problem they have conjured out of thin air. It's simple: the GOP wants to destroy Social Security. They've even gone as low as trying to pretend FDR would be actually for this crap. His family, of course, rejects this defamation of a American legend's character. David Hackworth asks the question: why don't we worry more about our military security (which IS in shambles) than Social Security?
By the way, my next update will be from a mental institution if Bill Frist has his way. Apparently, he's pushing a bill to make "political paranoia" a clinical mental illness that can, presumably, take your rights away and put you into a totalitarian-controlled environment where your every thought and action is closely monitored. Its like the PATRIOT Act with clean sheets, Lithium, and restraints on the bed. But hey, its all for your own good.
More on conservatives trying to take over our schools and discredit evolution. Their new tactic is called "intelligent design," which is like alchemy except for instead of making gold from mud, it is about feeding crap to our children. Look, if these guys hate public education so much, why don't they stay out of it?
Not all is bad news though. Cobb County, GA has been told to take off the anti-evolution stickers it's religious zealots put on their district's biology books. Limbaugh and other hate mongers are off the air in liberal parts of Vermont. The state also comes up prominently - and positively - in this article on how the citizens there has gotten used to, and protective of, the civil unions there.
More on racist cops, and on Fox responding to charges of Muslim stereotyping. GOP sore losers in Washington trying to invalid an election on charges of voter fraud they probably instigated, and the unethical actions of the GOP in Kentucky causes one of the state senators to quit the party in protest. Tennessee decides it doesn't want to act like France when it comes to headscarves. Good call seeing as this country was actually founded on religious freedom.
Also, Jon Stewart wins...sorta. CNN has let go that pompous nitwit Tucker Carlson and is out to cancel Crossfire, which has become more bully than bully pulpit.
An update from the tsunami zone. Scientists are concerned that the rush of salt water will make many of the affected islands uninhabitable for the near future. Plus, Leslie linked me to another place for before-and-after overhead images of devastated regions.
One more. Remember when Bush kept unfairly getting on Kerry for treating the War on Terror as a judicial problem rather than a military one? Guess who the numbskull picked for his second chance at a replacement for Tom Ridge the Wooden Man? A lawyer. Not just any lawyer, but one that can actually pass a Senate confirmation hearing. Wow, great credentials. Never mind he's never run a major operation, or a big budget, or anything similar to the details and personalities he'll have to manage. Some thoughts on that from Slate.
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