4/29 Truth Movement is GO!

Jokes aside, I thought of this when the freeway melted. If only the 9/11 Truth true believers would stop showing up at war protests.

(from insanereagan.com) How many thousands of US soldiers (and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis) have died since Bush proclaimed “Mission Accomplished”?

I can’t believe that Bush will veto the Iraq Bill tonight! He will have to suffer the media highlighting for the American public how ironic it is that he is extending the “mission” on the day exactly four years after he said the mission was over. Juan Cole does a thorough job of rebutting each of Bush’s claims in the speech he gave May 1, 2003 from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Media Matters recalls, Mission Accomplished: A look back at the media’s fawning coverage of Bush’s premature declaration of victory in Iraq. (On a related note, such shitty reporting done by right-wing media pundits should give us pause (and make us pissed off) when considering that today NewsCorp, owner of Fox, has made a bid to expand its media empire to include DowJones, publishers of the Wall Street Journal.)

Why is raising taxes considered a third rail? Why does the idea of lower taxes sell so well in the US? Libertarian-backed tax cutting and budget restriction laws cripple many state governments and no one seems to touch them. Attempts to try often fail at the ballot box. People who pay little to no taxes consistently vote to cut taxes for wealthier people. In California Prop 13, the single biggest cause of California’s biggest problems: (transit, housing costs and poor eduction), is considered a third rail that no serious politician will even discuss repealing. Why are people voting against their own interest? What happened in this country that caused the marginal tax rate (federal) for someone make $30k to be 10%, and someone making 300k 35%?

I wonder about these things.