Birmingham Blues

Keith Olbermann has had it with W, Republicans, Faux Spews (thanks, Cindi!), et al, trying to blame everything on Bill Clinton.  Watch if you can; if not, there’s a transcript at the link, thanks to the good people at Crooks & Liars.  The media has been so cowed by the Bush machine that it’s big news [...]

Oh, dear!  This doesn’t bode well for Rick Santorum’s re-election bid.  Carl Romanelli, the Green Party candidate for Senate, was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Santorum campaign.  Republicans solicited petition signatures to get hiim on the ballot.  Almost all of his contributions came from Republicans who hoped he would take away votes from Democratic [...]

The most recent National Intelligence Estimate indicates that the war in Iraq has worsened the threat of terrorist attacks.  Duh.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall [...]

The Birmingham News reports that the Fairfield City Council is holding a public hearing next week “regarding the possibility of changing the name of Richard M. Scrushy Parkway”.  Um, yeah; it might be a good idea to name the road after someone who isn’t a convicted felon.

This is a lovely tribute to an amazing woman.  It will make you laugh out loud, and that’s as it should be.
Hat tip to Tom Hilton at If I Ran the Zoo.

I’m guest blogging for a week over at No More Mister Nice Blog while Steve M. takes a well-deserved break.  I’m joined by Tom Hilton at If I Ran the Zoo, Skimble, and Senator Bulworth, who’ve already posted good stuff.  Drop in and check it out.

That’s how Keith Olbermann described Bill O’Reilly’s disclosure that the FBI told him he and others at Faux News are on an al-Qaeda death list.  Funny how no one at the FBI or Faux News has heard anything about it.  Bill should be so lucky.  He’s just not that important.

I’m sure Bush will declare victory, but he was forced to concede on his desire to “reinterpret” the Geneva Conventions and to try suspects using secret evidence.  There’s no guarantee of passage, of course.  House negotiations on its version of the bill deteriorated to the point of being ridiculous before judiciary committee chair James Sensenbrenner [...]

This is a really nice editorial opposing Tennessee’s anti-gay marriage amendment.  It was written by the Rev. Don Shockley, a retired United Methodist minister and president of Nashville PFLAG.  It’s always good to see reason and love trump bigotry and fear.
Thanks to Callie at Red State Exile for the link.

Salon’s quote of the day, via Americablog:
“I still had a ham sandwich for lunch. And my mother made great pork chops.” — Virginia Sen. George Allen, explaining how news that his grandfather was Jewish is “just an interesting nuance to my background.”
Bigoted and clueless.  What a combination.