Monthly Archives: November 2006

What is Phil Gunson smoking?

Posted on November 15, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Whatever it is, he needs to put it down. It’s messing with his head, and the result ain’t pretty: Tariq Ali thinks the “Bolivarian” regime of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela is “reminiscent of Roosevelt’s New Deal and the policies of … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Sir Elton on the dangers of organized religions

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Sabina Becker

"I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that … Continue reading →

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Did Israel “mini-nuke” Lebanon?

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Sabina Becker

According to Italy’s RAI News, it smells suspiciously like it… The special report was triggered by the radioactivity measurements reported on a crater probably created by an Israeli Bunker Buster bomb in the village of Khiam, in southern Lebanon. The … Continue reading →

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If this is purity, give me DIRT!

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Why don’t boys have to covenant to abstain, Mommy? Because if they do, Jimmy, they’ll turn QUEEEEEEER. What’s QUEEEEEEER, Mommy? Trust me, Jimmy, you don’t want to know. Now take off your sister’s tutu and put it back in her … Continue reading →

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Chavecito, you need more stadiums…

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Sabina Becker

One more infrastructure project to put that well-earned political capital (and oil money) into, eh? Well, if it prevents “emergencies” like this, it will be worthwhile… Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has opened a military air base which was at the … Continue reading →

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Germany wants a piece of Rummy

Posted on November 11, 2006 by Sabina Becker

I think I may have to start holding up my German head again. This might just make up for 12 DISASTROUS years of Nazism–and certainly tells me that someone has learned history’s lessons well: Donald Rumsfeld, who quit as US … Continue reading →

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Impeachment: “off the table”, but…

Posted on November 11, 2006 by Sabina Becker

(Note: I just created a new category here–BushCo Death Watch. I have a feeling there will be many entries in it as this administration goes lame-duck. I retroactively added two more entries, seeing as the death watch has actually been … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: The Last Man on Horseback

Posted on November 10, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A musical tribute from Chavecito to his legendary great-grandfather Pedro Perez Delgado, a.k.a. Maisanta:I don’t know what impresses me the most here: that Chavecito has honest-to-Goddess revolution in his blood (with great-grandpa a shit-disturbing guerrilla, it’s historically inevitable); the fact … Continue reading →

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Time to put down the Sheepdog

Posted on November 9, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…not resurrect this distempered mutt, as BushCo is trying to do at the eleventh hour: John Bolton’s prospects for staying on as U.N. ambassador essentially died Thursday as Democrats and a pivotal Republican said they would continue to oppose his … Continue reading →

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The Pigman wallows

Posted on November 9, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Awwwwww. Poor Rush Limbaugh! Methinks that man is just about to drown his corpulent sorrows once and for all in a cocktail shaker full of OxyContin, Lorcet and Vicodin. Get a load of his latest incoherent ramblings…

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