How not to make a point

If you cannot laugh at this -- an example of MoveOn making complete asses of themselves and basically sucking up facetime that more reasonable critics desperately need -- then I'd recommend you check your pulse: you may be dead.

The politics of it is really irrelevant. Be you left, right, whatever, that shit is funny.

FINALLY some good news

Diabetics may be able to stop stickin' themselves soon...

An advisory panel Thursday recommended Food and Drug Administration approval of the first inhaled form of insulin, offering some diabetics an alternative to some daily injections.

Panel members twice voted 7-2 to recommend FDA approval of Exubera for each of the two most common types of diabetes.

Sounds familiar...

"Election? Egypt? who cares?"

Hosni Mubarak has been officially declared the victor of Egypt's first contested presidential elections, winning a fifth consecutive six-year term in office.

Although the current President's win was widely expected - he received 88.6 per cent of the votes cast - the low turnout figure was a surprise. Mamdouh Marei, the chairman of the Presidential Election Commission, announced that just 23 per cent of the 32 million registered voters took part.

The low participation reflected widespread skepticism among Egyptians over its government's claims that the election opened the door to greater democratic reform - and apathy over a vote that Mr Mubarak was certain to win.

The spread of democracy ain't so great, huh?

US constitution: R.I.P.

Go f*ck yourself, Mr Luttig:

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court ruled today Jose Padilla, the so-called "dirty bomber," can be held forever in jail as an enemy combatant and never allowed to defend himself at trial, although he is an American citizen and was arrested in this country.

The unanimous decision by a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., significantly boosts the Bush administration's secret program of jailing what it claims are key Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects around the world without filing criminal charges or holding trials in an effort to squeeze intelligence information from alleged terrorist operatives.

The ruling was reached by a three-member panel of the appellate court and was written by Judge Michael Luttig, who is considered by many to be on the short list of candidates to fill the open vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Padilla's attorneys plan to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. But many believe it unlikely they will prevail there, making today's ruling the all-but-final approval of Bush's highly controversial use of executive authority to skirt America's traditional legal process system and decide for himself who will go to trial and who will simply be held incommunicado.

I don't feel like saying any further right now. This is really beyond comment.

Yes, it is biased

The media coverage of the survivors of the flooding from Hurricane Katrina basically took a big fat dump on race relations here. That is FACT.

Anyone who has seen the coverage can tell. Anyone.

Notice that when they showed scenes of people looting it was all blacks? Even when they finally acknowledged that the COPS were participating in the looting also, what race are the cops they show stealing shit? Black. They talk about aid efforts being stalled out of fear, while showing on the screen nothing but blacks, as if suggesting that there was an association.

They've even taking to calling the survivors "refugees". These are goddamn citizens of the United States of America, and they're being portrayed like strangers in their own country.

Anyone out there on the fence about it, and/or thinking that blacks are being "paranoid", despite the extensive history, click here. If you can look at that image and still think this is some kind of cheap shot, then you are blind.

Things get even more complicated

Roberts hasn't even gone through his hearings yet. Now....another vacancy:

William H. Rehnquist, the 16th Chief Justice of the United States and a leader of the court's conservative bloc for three decades, died Saturday evening at his home in Arlington, a court spokesman announced.

Rehnquist, 80, has been undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer since October. His death creates the first vacancy for a chief justice since 1986.

Court spokesman Kathy Arberg said Rehnquist was surrounded by his three children when he died, the Associated Press reported.

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updated @ 9:45pm EST: never mind, Bush just decided to kill two birds with one stone:

Seizing a historic opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court, President Bush swiftly chose conservative John Roberts as chief justice Monday and weighed how to fill another vacancy that could push the nation’s highest court to the right on issues from abortion to affirmative action.

BTW: the editorializing in this one is surprisingly thick. Of course, I don't personally believe any media can ever truly be "balanced" and wouldn't expect it to be, my issue is with where they place the opinion. Yelling "Roberts is a conservative!" is like reporting that Michael Jackson is weird, tell us something we don't know for once...