Nasiriya may soon be in Coalition hands

According to CNN, U.S. Marines may soon have control of the town of Nasiriya, which is up the river from Basra. If taken, this town will probably serve as the first truly major break in the war the coalition forces have made.

However, for all of the success the Marines may be having in Nasiriya, the Iraqis are still fighting back hard, as a missile has been reported to have struck a shopping mall in Kuwait City.

Instead of fighting head-on, are the Iraqis going to try missiles and artillery fire to keep the coalition ata distance? Makes one wonder.

Oy vey!

Testing a new program I've heard about called w.bloggar. Here's hoping it works. 

Movie premier in Tallahassee?

Yep. There's a new movie called Manfast that was filmed in and around (and unlike Something Wild, actually takes place in) Tallahassee. It's official premier is this Wednesday at a local theatre and I'm planning to attend.

If it hits your area, maybe you'll see it.

I'll probably just be looking at the scenery, though. "Hey, there's that and that!"

Hell, the poster features the Capitol! And Jan Brady and Wilma Dearing are in it!

PS: Identity sucked chunks (B until the ending, which gave it a C- overall), while Phone Booth was pretty nifty (an easy B+ to A-).

Those poor rich folks

Kevin Drum (the infamous California Pundit) points out, with numbers, what many of us have been suspecting for a long time: rich folks pay less in taxes than they ever have, and it's getting better for them.

[A]n average family paid about 5% of its income in federal taxes in 1948 and today pays about 25%. During the same period, the effective tax rate on millionaires declined from about 75% to 26%.

Rich people pay less, regular people pay more. This is why the Republicans, yet again, are dead wrong. The middle class needs to stop supporting these greedy pukes.

And before some conservative schmoe crawls out of the woodwork to accuse me of "class warfare," let me cut him/her/it off: yes, I am. I'm a socialist. I see evidence of the disparity of class everywhere.

But that's only because it exists.

Bu$h i$ $tupid when it come$ to certain $ubject$

More evidence to support my campaign (I mean, mine and T Rex's campaign) to get the word out: Republicans Are Bad for the Economy.

So what exactly do we need to do? And where exactly is this heading?

Even as everyone is demanding a "stimulus"-- classic anti-recession economic prescriptions-- we are seeing the exact opposite at the state level, as state and local governments are enacting Herbert Hoover-like policies under the strictures of local balanced budget requirements. States are facing a collective deficit of $100 billion in the coming year alone-- if they slash spending by that amount, that will remove $100 billion in wages and purchases by those governments from the US economy. This one-year subtraction of economic activity -- multiply by ten to a potential $1 trillion lost over ten years if the economy does not pick up -- is the anti-stimulus haunting our country like ol' Hoover's ghost.

Just like T Rex said. 

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Veja du, Hawkhead. Media Whores Online points this tidbit out to the world: Bush's flyboy stunt is a copycat he stole from Vladmir Putin. The parallels are astounding:

"Cut a dashing figure," eh? I think Russians were probably as embarassed by his actions as people are proving to be with Bush.

The Bush Flyboy stunt criticism even made the front page of today's Tallahassee Democrat. That, combined with the happy attitude during last night's Dean Meetup, provides optimism.