"The Clinton condom will be the top of our line," he said. "The Lewinsky condom is not quite as good."

I wonder what Bill and Monica might have to say about that...

Condoms Are Named for Clinton, Lewinsky

I do so love seeing things like this. "...to protect and promote Biblical values for women and families." Oh, so the real goal of Concerned Women for America is to make sure they stay second class people? And if it's "Concerned Women for America" could you explain why spots 3-5 on the list are guys?

Please, do the rest of the country a favor and go screw yourselves before stepping in front of the nearest speeding train.

Concerned Women for America - Leadership

The most affluent one-fifth of China's population earn 50 percent of total income, with the bottom one-fifth taking home only 4.7 percent, said the report by the official Xinhua News Agency, carried in newspapers Wednesday.

"The income gap, which has exceeded reasonable limits, exhibits a further widening trend. If it continues this way for a long time, the phenomenon may give rise to various sorts of social instability," it said.

Interesting. I wonder if they were taking a shot at the US about as the respective US numbers are 50.1% at the top, with the bottom fifth making 3.4%

Gap Between China's Rich, Poor Alarming

And now, the other shoe.

Hurricane Rita at this time yesterday was a tropical storm. As of an hour ago, Rita was a Cat2, with strengthening expected. Where is she going? Galveston/Houston. Hopefully, the storm will blow itself out before it does any damage. That and a tank full of gas will get you the hell out of Houston to someplace safe(r) like Dallas.

The only thing I ca say for sure is, New Orleans had best hope it keeps going that way. If it turns right like Katrina did, it could dump everything on New Orleans, and worse, into the Mississippi watershed. The Lake Ponchetrain levees failing was bad. Dump an entire hurricane into the Mississipps and you risk losing the levees on that side. If that happens, it's all over. The level of the river is much higher than the lake, and it has a constant inflow of water. Lots of it.

Stay Tuned...

Update: Another 24 hours and it is now a Cat 5 as of an hour ago.

Hurricane RITA

Dean's charges are impassioned and more severe than many of Bush's most persistent critics. But those charges are realized only after careful reasoning and steady logic by a man who knows his way around scandal and corruption.

As a former White House counsel, John Dean (that's JOHN Dean not HOWARD Dean) knows what he's talking about on every level of this. The real question will be, what happens in 2008 when someone not named W goes to the White House and tells their new AG to get the SoB.

Assuming of course they don't stage a Reichstag fire between now and then.

Amazon.com: Books: Worse Than Watergate : The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

President Bush on Friday ruled out raising taxes to pay the massive costs of Gulf Coast reconstruction, saying other government spending must be cut to pay for a recovery effort expected to swell the national debt by $200 billion or more.

Sorry W, you want to cut what? Good luck, everything that isn't pork is already gone. Oh, and you want to keep that tax cut too? In the words of Homer Simpson, "You're living in a fantasy world!"

Bush Rules Out Tax Hike to Fund Recovery

Education Board Chairman Steve Abrams, a conservative Republican who has supported the proposed standards, said he was unmoved by the scientists' plea, which became public Thursday.

"I don't think anything should be taught as dogma," Abrams told the Lawrence Journal-World.

Oh! That explains it! He wants religious dogma taught as science!

Nobel Laureates Frown on Science Standards - Yahoo! News

For all the criticism of the Bush administration's confused response to Hurricane Katrina, at least two federal agencies got it right: the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center.

And these are the same two organizations that Rick Santorum wants to dismantle because they compete with private forecasting companies. (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/04/21/m1a_wx_0421.html)

Yep, that's right, let's put those public dollars where they belong, in the pockets of people like Santorum and W's cronies.

Hurricane Forecasters Were Quite Accurate - Yahoo! News

President Bush called for the special day of worship, held nearly three weeks after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast.

Hey moron, how about a call for building levees and houses and places for these people to live? Or better yet, dumping the "Department of Homeland Security" because it's obvious it has made the homeland less secure.

Special day of worship? Take your religio-fascist bullshit and shove it right up your WASP ass.

Many Churches Heed Bush's Call for Prayer

Striving to bridge the impasse, China proposed a revised draft agreement at the six-nation arms talks, affirming Pyongyang's right to civilian nuclear technology. But Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice hinted Washington's patience is running out.

Hey Condi? What are you going to do when Pyongyang tells to to go screw? We don't have a military option, and we already don't trade with them. We can't get world opinion turned against them anymore than it already is, so what's the "or else?"

N. Korea Slams U.S. for Refusing Demand