Spring - but it ain't just birds singing!
Ex-DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty
A former top aide to Rep. Tom DeLay pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and promised to cooperate with the government's investigation of lobbying fraud on Capitol Hill.
I wonder if the spring weather just made Tom Delay a little warmer.
Straight Talk Express Derails
John McCain once called Jerry Falwell an
"agent of intolerance." He is now going to be the
graduation speaker at Jerry's Liberty University.
While Sen. McCain and Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell have had their share of political differences through the years, the two men share a common respect for each other and have become good friends in their efforts to preserve what they see as common values. This will mark his first ever appearance at Liberty University
I guess when one wants to be president bad enough, what was once
straight can become
crooked. Or vice versa.
hat tip to
Josh Marshall
Where's Tom? Where's Milwaukee's Economic Development Plan?
I have been meaning to talk about the the interest of
BuySeasons relocating their distribution warehouse to the Menomonee Valley. There are many reasons this is just bad, and I'm glad our
Congresswoman has brought some to light. Our underemployed central city work force needs REAL jobs with a living-wage, not part-time work in a warehouse without benefits. It's also important to remember that the city spent millions of dollars redeveloping the brownfields in the valley for a specific purpose -- light industrial and manufacturing. We need a real economic development strategy for valley, and the city, that creates QUALITY jobs. Jobs that produce export oriented goods, not just service work. This is the only way to bring new money into the region (thus growth), rather than just circulating existing money.
I've got much more to say, but have just been swamped with 'life' recently. I'm making the biggest purchase of my life, and it's certainly keeping me busy.
Kudos to those of you who are able to constantly keep your blog on top of things. I'm envious. Unless of course you don't leave the house to truly live life... but I digress....
More soon.
Have we been here before?
Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving - guilty of violating Virginia's ban on interacial marriage and ordered to leave the state.
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." -- Judge Leon Bazile, Circuit Court of Caroline County, Commonwealth of Virginia
Mr. RODDENBERY. ( ... ) The resolution to which I make reference is one already introduced by me, providing for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, with the usual resolving clause, and the article is as follows:
That intermarriage between negroes or persons of color and Caucasians or any other character of persons within the United States or any territory under their jurisdiction, is forever prohibited; and the term "negro or person of color," as here employed, shall be held to mean any and all persons of African descent or having any trace of African or negro blood.
Nothing will contribute more to the popular development and wise administration of a republican government than for the people in their legislatures to have an opportunity, by the adoption of this resolution, to provide that forever hereafter it shall be contrary to the fundamental law of the Republic for a negro or a part negro or an African or a part African to intermarry with a white person, a Caucasian, or any person of like description. The object of this resolution is to submit to the States a constitutional amendment for this purpose.... " Congressional Record, 62nd Cong., 3rd sess., Dec. 11, 1912. Vol 49, p. 502DON'T go backwards Wisconsin! Go "FORWARD"
Punish the guilty ?
"I'd have signed it," said Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) to Newsweek about the South Dakota bill banning abortion
"Rape and incest are horrible crimes, but why punish the innocent child?"Indeed Sammy B. Let's save the punishment for the evil whore of a woman who let herself be raped!
Long Live Helen Thomas...
May whomever stands behind that podium feel the wrath of Helen for a long time to come.
In this piece,
Lap Dogs of the Press, Helen states that nothing "is more troubling to me than the obsequious press during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq," and calls on the White House press corps to ask the hard questions.
Does it depend on what the definitions of is is?
"We do not torture."President George W. Bush
Nov. 7, 2005-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban
McCain Law May Not Apply to Cuba Prison
[washington post 3.2.06]
Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison.
Clearly, this President's statements should come with footnotes
Sigur Rós !
Sigur Rós will be playing The Riverside on
May 10th! Do yourself a favor and check them out -- It's a magical experience! Pre-sale
tickets available now!
MXP will see you there
