Black Dog

Corporate donations aren't illegal in Texas, provided the money is used to cover overhead costs. The issue in this case is DeLay's PAC is allegged to have used the corporate money to pay for consultants, pollsters, phone banks and professional fundraisers trying to raise donations for Texas candidates' campaigns.

The only way Hilary will win the nomination the entire Democrat leadership turns out to be card-carrying Republican loyalists. Which, given the Dem's performance against Bush to date, is a distinct possibility.

Having just got back from a week in Montreal, I can safely say that both Edmonton and Calgary are podunk burgs. Calgary is the Jed Clampett of cities: a hillbilly who struck in rich and bought a big house (with cement pond), fancy new car and so forth, but whom, in spite of all the trappings of wealth, remains a hick. Edmonton is worse because it aspires to be that hick.

Zarqawi group emergeing as self-sustaining guerrilla army Of course I'm not convinced Zarqawi is as potent a force, or if there is such an army, what his connections to it could be. I mean, hell: U.S. intelligence doesn't even know how many legs the guy is has...

The Niger story was discredited. The documents indicating Saddam's attempts to purchase yellowcake from Niger were fraudlent (something the IAEA spotted off the bat). This is widely accepted, even by the Bush administration. The prescence of a few hundred tons of unenriched uranium in a former nuclear facility prove nothing. Saddam had no active nuke program.

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From the article above: "Bankroll", huh? Scary stuff. Who knows what Hillary could accomplish with Jane Fonda's financial power behind her.... $2,000 is probably half of Condi Rice's monthy shoe budget. Why do Republican hacks lack any sense of proportion?

Nice how you build in the caveats in advance ("a genuine and perfectly enforcable promisory note..."). Fact is, Schiavo was offered substansial sums to walk. Man offers $1 million to save Terri

Hillary doesn't have to move to the right. She's already there. The Clinton's are representative of the democratic party as a whole: only slightly more moderate on a few issues than the Republicans, but beholden to the same financial interests as their rivals.

For the 18 billionth time, Fox News was never "banned" in Canada.

Michael Schiavo was awarded $300,000 of the $1 million malpractice settlement. The remainder was put in escrow to pay for Terri's continuing medical care. Out of that $300,000, I'm sure there were the legal fees from that battle and the subsequent battles with the Schindlers. As I said, if it was about money, he could have taken any number of offers to walk away a very wealthy man. He didn't. So, unles syou have any actual evidence for supporting your allegations, your slurs are unfounded.

I'm curious about something here. There is, really, one party in which social conservative views are represented. Now, based on your formulation of nearly 50 per cent of the electorate harbouring SoCon views, then the Tories should be guaranteed a minimum of, well, almost 50 per cent of the vote or aty leats close to that. Yet the SoCon party (be it Reform, Alliance or CPC) has never topped 30 per cent of the popular vote. If social issues are so impiortant to the huge numbers of socially conservative Canadians, why isn't that reflected in the election results or, uh, polls on Canadians' priorities?

Had you finished the above with ... "waited until the settlement came through" ... you'd be absolutely correct. But ..... you didn't. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You mean the settlement that was completely eaten up by lawyer's fees and care for his wife? Or were you talking about the offers ranging from $1 million to $10 million Schiavo was reportedly offered to walk away, but turned down?

And your point is....? Since when is donating money to a political cause the mark of a radical? If that's the criteria, then Richard Mellon Scaife is Che Guevera.

The number of Iraqi battalions capable of combat without U.S. support has dropped from three to one. A battalion, by the way, is roughly 300 to 1,000 men. Is this progress?

All of which is, of course, speculation and character assasination. The real point here is that DeLay was fine with having his own father's wishes carried out, but worked furiously to stop Michael Schiavo from carrying out those of his wife.

Well, given that homosexuals have existed as long as people, and is quite common innature as well, its hard to argue its unnatural. Again: the point is kids can get messed up regardles sof their parents sexual orintation or appetites. The examples you post (if true) are not examples of the "stable, loving, nurturing home" environment we're talking about. Nor are they necessarily indicative of homosexual couples in general, anymore than the endless examples of horrible "traditonal" parents are inicative of all such parenting structures. Again: "having a stable, loving, nurturing home, regardless of the gender of the parents, gives a child the best base to grow from."

Just like all Hindus, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, etc. etc. are potential terrorists. Perhaps we should ask them to leave too? So how, pray tell, if we are not fighting a conventional enemy, will additional funding to our conventional army help??

Schiavo had massive and irreversible brain damage. Her brain was about half the size of that of a normal adult. While the brain could regulate some functions, the fact is the feeding tube was all that was keeping her alive, given the fact she could not get nourishment through her mouth. First she didn't starve to death. Her cause of death was dehydration. Secondly, the person Terri Schaivo was died in 1990, no matter if her body continued to function at radicaly diminished capacity and with external assistance. Well, Michael Schivo was not remarried, so your allegation that he is a bigamist is nothing more than a slur. As for state law: so? Sure it did. Terri Schivowanted to die. The state did not force the removal of Shiavo's tube against her wishes and those of her family, but enforced her wishes. So to suggest that this case is a precursor to Nazi-style, state-sponsored euthanasia is hyperbole. BTW, referring to your hysterical hyperoble as such is not "name calling". Certainly less so than something like, oh, "ignorant crank". So quit whining.

You are completely ignorant about the make up of the insurgency and the ethnic/political.sectarian/triibal conflicts that are fuelling this conflict. but then anything simpler than the black hats/white hats dynamic is too much for you to grasp. The real irony is that, thanks to the U.S, the Iraqi people will soon be living under a Islamic theocracy with close ties to Iran. The Kurds and Shiites have made sure of that: Election change seems to ensure Iraq's charter

The courts ruled again and again that Terri Schiavowould not have wanted to live in such a state. Nonsense. Schiavo was beyond "technically braindead": her brain was gone. What's more is that feeding tubes are, according to the law, extraordinary medical treatments just like respirators, heart-lung machines, dialysis and antibiotics. There's a difference between having brain damage and having no brain to speak of whatsoever, as in Schiavo's case. Schiavo was dead 15 years before before her body ceased to function. Hyestrical hyperbole. The fact is, the state did not mandate Terri Schiavo's demise. The decision to continue or cease life-prolonging medical care is, as it always was, the decision of the individual and their families. Eleven applications to the Florida Court of Appeal, four applications to the Florida Supreme Court, three lawsuits in federal district court, three applications to the U.S. Supreme Court and nearly untold motions in the trial court resulted in the consensus view that Micheal Schiavo was carrying out his wife's wishes.

Media Matters and FAIR are two different organizations.

Big-government regulation? You mean big-money copulation. Those laws ceded control of the market to corporations. Somehow I doubt they kicked up much of a fuss about it. And I picked American tobacco companies simply because they are household names. I'm not denying that many progressive touchstones are rooted in America. The difference is the U.S. seems to be intent on rolling them back, whether it is through weakening organized labour, relaxing environmental regulations, prosecuting those who buy cheap pharmacuticals or any other of a host of initiatives designed to push America back in time. I celebrate the gifts America's progressives have given to the world. It is its future that I fear.

WaPo I read about Ronnie Earl's campaign against DeLay almost two years ago. He's been relentless. I doubt they would have got this far if the case against DeLay wasn't soild.

With the lid down at all times, I presume...