Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

Fair and Balanced

Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

Probe of Calif. Energy Crisis Facing Hurdles (washingtonpost.com) It's never too often to remind people of the 25 billion dollar rip off of California by the energy industry. They are still plodding away at FERC and they'll never give us what we deserve, but it's great to be vindicated, and we will be. There was a massive theft from the people of California and the Federal Government let it happen. FERC commissioners in place at the time are criminally negligent.

The other party I want to heap blame on is the Republican House delegation from California. They sat on their hands on the energy subcommittees and did nothing to defend the state in order to toe the party line. When California Congressmen and women ignore their constituents in favor of their Texas party bosses it's time for the voters to toss the bums out, both in California and in Texas.
posted by Dave on 12:23 AM | 0 comments link

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