Maybe Shell announcement is good for PR, but I don't think dumping tons upon tons of our processed and largely inedible cornmeal onto the shores of Arfica would help solve their hunger problems. On the other hand, corn ethanol is not a Shell is really working to create the science and infrastructure behind switchgrass ethanol or the like, more power to them (though I tend not to trust every oil company's promises).

Here's how it was originally written: On the other hand, corn ethanol is not a *workable solution for an alternative fuel. If* Shell is really....

Re: Mideast, a different group of religious nuts blame turmoil on the gays.

Can we move Dobson and for that matter most of the citizens of Colorado Springs (many of whose politics are to the right of the Kaiser) to the middle east? The sad thing is that Colorado Springs is beautiful (although Charles would hate most of the architecture) but is ruined by Dobson and what is in reality ex-military retiree nutcases.

I gotta say, that's a pretty stupid campaign. I mean, dogs don't moo. They just don't. So what the hell is the point supposed to be?

But apparently there is a dog that moos. That's the whole point.

For real? They're actually saying there's an actual dog that actually moos? It seemed to me more like a cutesy cartoon than a documentary.

Maybe I am naive, but I didn't know there were Jewish homophobes, too. I thought the fundy christions and muslims had the market cornered on that.

W sure picked a good issue to bring to the NAACP. After all if the inheritance tax had been in place when their great grandparents were slaves, their owners heirs would have had to cut of bits of them to send in the taxed percentage of that property to D.C.

the pi article on the sonics/okc has terribly misleading graphs. the y-axis starts really high up, so with the bar-comparisons seattle looks to have almost twice the population and over twice the median income. population is actually only 5% higher, according to the numbers provided, and median income 28%. same goes for the arena statistics charts.

The right-wing nut job has a point...no one is BORN 'gay', just like no one is BORN 'straight'. People become gay, straight, queer, bi, whatever. Yes, he's still a nut-job, and yet...

From the Good To Know file:

A former Seattle woman who saw what appeared to be two thugs beating a homeless man later complained to the Sheriff's Office when she discovered that they were Metro deputies. But Sherry Reynolds' complaint to the sheriff in 2002 was short-circuited because she, too, was charged with obstructing, four months after filing the complaint.

Now, thats shit is fucked up. quote from:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/278362_transitcops21.asp

Sorry Levislade, I misread; I think you were right at first. Plus the mooing in the commercial looks pretty fake, so I agree, it will be easy for FOTF to use that against us (mooing was unnatural or acquired). It's a damn cute dog though, and FOTF isn't putting in much money rebutting it, so maybe it will just start conversations, which was the whole point anyway.

An open-source letter to the Dub Daily about the morning news:

Your July 19 editorial fails utterly as an indictment of our Republican-sponsored ownership society, but succeeds brilliantly as an indictment of the Democrat-sponsored entitlement society of tenured radical professors who believe they are entitled to taxes from workers, rich and poor, for brainwashing pampered and privileged students such as you who believe your soft ride should be subsidized by workers, rich and poor. How does your editorial fail and succeed? Let us count the ways:

* You write, referring to the Supreme Court's 2005 Kelo decision, that we can be stripped of our homes if they stand "on land where Wal-Mart would like to put up a super-center." Kelo was rammed through five-to-four by the Court's activist liberal majority. The Court's Republican-sponsored conservatives voted no, and leftist Harper's Magazine proved that leftist Costco is particularly guilty of seizing private property for its fat-cat super-centers;

* You write about a Republican-sponsored elective war against those who are "poor, black and unable to escape the natural disaster" that destroys their homes. In his July 9 New York Times review of liberal historian Douglas Brinkley's book about Hurricane Katrina's deluge, David Oshinsky writes that "Brinkley [who teaches at Tulane in New Orleans] sees one villain above all. The Ray Nagin we meet in these pages is part coward, part showboat, part Uncle Tom. A pawn of the city's business elite, 'always deferential to whites,' he sold out his race. ... When it comes to poor people, the book suggests, the mayor couldn't have cared less. It was Nagin who waited too long to order a mandatory evacuation, who left the buses to rot, who turned his back on those who couldn't leave. It was Nagin, 'terrified for his own personal safety,' who rarely visited the frantic throngs at the Superdome and the convention center ...";

* You write that Americans in Lebanon are now "tasting the fruit of compassionate conservatism" because the U.S. military demanded reimbursement for their evacuation. Reimbursement was required by federal law on the assumption that those who can afford to spend their summer vacations in tough neighborhoods (e.g. Beirut), can afford to spend the dollars to get themselves out. George Quincy Bush, compassionate conservative that he is, relaxed the requirement mandated by federal law.

Your vilification of the U.S. military in Lebanon is part of a pattern. Last week the neo-Marxist Daily suggested that our military is a neo-Nazi adjunct of the Aryan Brotherhood. Our military, in fact, led the way in making Civil Rights work. For decades, while civilian society lagged behind, the military put black men (and women, later) in positions of authority over white men.

The modern military has been marred by racism, as you imply, but it's the kind of racism toward which you and the Southern Poverty Law Center are oblivious. In 2003 Sergeant Hasan Akbar, black and Muslim, fragged and killed other soldiers in Kuwait because, perhaps, they were white and Christian.

Remember, people, whenever you report thugs dressed up as county transit cops beating up on homeless people, use the name Josh Feit or Ron Sims.

Never - ever - use your real name.