Musings of the Great Eric

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Ken Lay’s memorial attracts power elite
Houston’s political and business leaders, including former President George H.W. Bush, turned out for Kenneth Lay’s memorial service Wednesday, less than a week after the Enron founder’s sudden death.

That’s actually par for the course; one wouldn’t expect the Bush’s to have morals. Here’s the fucked up part:

The Reverend Dr. Bill […]

This guy will get the Democratic nomination and win the Presidency.

Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner (D) has ramped up his fundraising for congressional Democratic incumbents and challengers, signaling a national organizing strategy to position the centrist Southerner for a White House bid in 2008.

I really hate talking about something that’s two years out where a […]

Stewart is brilliant as always:

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Just corrupt sons of bitches?In stock market, US senators beat averages

The study found that during the boom years of 1993-98, a majority of US Senators were trading stocks - and beating the market by 12 percentage points a year on average. By comparison, corporate insiders beat the market by 5 percent, and typical households underperformed […]

Enron witness found dead in park:
A body found in north-east London has been identified as that of a banker who was questioned by the FBI about the Enron fraud case.
Police said they were treating the death in Chingford of Neil Coulbeck, who worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland until 2004, as “unexplained”.

Two deaths associated […]

During a hearing before a House of Representatives subcommittee, politicians argued over the merits of compelling schools and libraries to cordon off access to social-networking sites, requiring some form of an Internet ID that would prove a person’s age, or doing nothing at the moment.

My favorite quote from the article:

“MySpace.com has been a center of […]

Who’s Making What In The White House:
President Bush’s most senior aides — the ones who hold the coveted title of “assistant to the president” — recently received a $4,200 cost-of-living bump-up in compensation and now earn a top pay rate of $165,200, according to an internal White House list of staff salaries. The list was […]

Novak Says He Named 3 Sources in Leak Case
Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak acknowledged for the first time yesterday that he identified three confidential administration sources during testimony in the CIA leak investigation, saying he did so because they had granted him legal waivers to testify and because Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald already knew […]

Religion Taking A Left Turn?

But these are not the conservative Christian values which have been so influential lately. This is the religious left.
“Jesus called us to love our neighbor, love our enemy, care for the poor, care for the outcast, and that’s really the moral core of where we think the nation ought to go,” […]

BBC:
Scores of people have been killed in at least seven blasts on trains in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), police say.

Sad.
It’s always hard to comment when something like this happens. You feel a need to say something, but to say anything worthwhile, you need the wider perspective that can only come with time.
What comments […]

This is hilarious with more than just a small grain of truth to it:

Liberal: I didn’t say that either! No, wait, just wait… (takes deep breath). I only said the USA has fifty states. Puerto Rico isn’t a state ­ it’s a commonwealth.
Conservative: And they don’t speak English!
Liberal: Well, many Puerto Ricans do.
Conservative: How do […]

Yahoo News:

Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay died of a heart attack on Wednesday, six weeks after being found guilty of fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

I take no joy in a man’s death. But neither do I necessarily shed tears. Either way, his ill gotten gains do him no good […]

According to the CIA, Osama Bin Laden was aiming to help Bush when he released a video four days before the 2004 election:
On Oct. 29, 2004, just four days before the U.S. presidential election, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden released a videotape denouncing George W. Bush. Some Bush supporters quickly spun the diatribe as “Osama’s endorsement […]

Why we’re more scared of gay marriage and terrorism than a much deadlier threat.
NO ONE seems to care about the upcoming attack on the World Trade Center site. Why? Because it won’t involve villains with box cutters. Instead, it will involve melting ice sheets that swell the oceans and turn that particular block of lower […]

It’s a series of tubes:
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? - Sen. Stevens, R-AK

Senator Stevens, you are a man of genius.
Do read the whole thing… every line of it is pure gold.
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The Big Ten (Nice diagram)
What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Thus what we have today is not a problem wholly new in kind but rather the disastrous upshot of an evolutionary process whereby that old problem has become considerably larger–and that great quantitative change, with just a few huge players now co-directing all the nation’s media, has […]

Engineering Gems of the U.S. Highway System

The U.S. interstate highway system is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill to pay for the wide ribbons of highways that connect America’s cities and towns.
The system of highways profoundly changed American society: where we live, how we live and how […]

Yesterday, the Supreme court handed Bush a major defeat, basically saying “Yeah… that rule of law thing… you’re still bound by it”.
Go Democracy!
Justices, 5-3, Broadly Reject Bush Plan to Try Detainees

The Supreme Court on Thursday repudiated the Bush administration’s plan to put Guantánamo detainees on trial before military commissions, ruling broadly that the commissions were […]

Reuters:
Billionaire Warren Buffett on Monday called for U.S. lawmakers to retain the estate tax, after announcing plans to leave more than $37 billion of his own fortune to charity, not his children.
Buffett spoke after agreeing to sign over roughly $30.7 billion of his $44 billion fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, run by […]