By:
Mike Finnigan on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 at 8:00 AM - PDT
The Rural Blog: A congressional investigation has found that the coal-mine disaster that killed nine people in Utah last summer could have been prevented if the general manager or other officials had been honest with the US Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Daily Howler: The divine right of pundits
Matthew Yglesias: We can’t leave until we’ve achieved “victory,” defined as killing everyone who wants us to leave.
Radamisto: Col. Morris Davis is an American hero.
Cliff Schecter: Looks like we got us another “Pastor Problem.” Will the corporate media will notice?….naah
The Impolitic: Bullsh*t
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bottom line….
if you are truly a progressive and you believe in the rule of law, then bush, cheney and all their staff are war criminals, guilty of crimes against humanity
and the congress for not impeaching and imprisoning these people are accessories after the fact, and are thereby guilty as well
Tell me how I am wrong!
Here’s my “World of the Straights” Roundup
Child ‘Forrest Gump’ actor leaving Army
David Archuleta’s dad loses ‘American Idol’ backstage pass
Fans flocking to see ‘Sex and the City’ — in the city
Hollywood plans film of hit video game ‘Bioshock’
Rebate checks: How to spend em
People: Madonna, Mariah Carey, Uma Thurman
L.A. Confidential @ 2:
“Straights” as in Straight People.
Dammit, that adds another person in the Religious Right to be burned at the stake when I’m the Grand Inquisitor. That’s fucking sacriligeous!
Now I understand why Muslims get pissed at Muhammad cartoons. That bastard did the same thing, and…..
L.A. Confidential @ 2:
wow
what a list of completely meaningless bullshit mainstream media crapola
i bet you get Entertainment Weekly in the mail!!!
marko @ 1:
The only thing I would add, is we are all accessories and guilty for allowing bush and this goverment to invade another country in our name. The majority of this country have turned their heads and looked the other way. We the people have done nothing to try to hold these pricks accountable for starting this war or the crimes they have committed in our name. Its easy to place blame, but alot harder to look in a mirror and also see blame.
marko @ 5:
Oh yeah how would I ever survive without my TV Guide and People Magazine!!!
diamondmc @ 6:
I call and write my congressman/senators weekly (the young lady that answers Kit Bond’s(R-MO) phone is a little nazi lol)
I have signed every online petition I can find
I highway blog on I-55
Short of a “Bastille Day” type armed March to Washignton, please advise of other means!!
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Will and Grace reruns???
marko @ 5:
Don’t be talkin’ smack about my EW
marko @ 8:
And your one of the good guy’s, but as I said the majority of this counrty did nothing. Untill this country wakes up, people will do great damage in this country’s name and we all have a stake in that.
marko @ 9:
Actually I enjoy destroying TV sets with a sledge hammer. It’s excellent therapy.
So wheres Mr. Al Global Warming Gore. Normally it’s in the 70’s and 80’s here by now but the pattern continues to be dipping into the 30s at night, 50’s during the day and wind chills in middle of May.
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
No I don’t live in Los Angeles. Just for the record.
So when is Bob Murray gonna be arrested, tried, convicted, and inprisoned with a horny roomy named Greeko?
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
There’s a difference between Weather and Climate.
14 L.A. Confidential
You’re employing the true definition of Argumentum ad Hominem as well as Argumentum Ad Reductio. Climate change doesn’t discredit the ideal of transitory weather changes, and has everything to do with all aberrant weather patterns when they’re part of a larger scale measure.
Try again.
diamondmc @ 16:
I understand that. Especially since since we’re basically just a space rock hosting meat and plant biology hurtling through a infinite void.
ysbaddaden @ 17:
Somewhere along the line I realized a formal education was the greatest impediment to learning ever devised. Therefore I simply started at one end the library and began reading; I’m a data junkie with an analytical mind and my mind was thrown wide open because, thankfully, no one was actually trying to teach me anything.
I can see it now, a season of freakishly many and powerful hurricanes and tornadoes, with understandably cooler weather during the actual storms, and there’d be some yahoo saying, “Land o’goshen ma, it’s only 45 degrees, where’s Al ‘Global Warming’ Gore?”
L.A. Confidential @ 18:
David Deutsch Video from TED
You will like this LaCon
The rev. Moon and his wife did get crowned by US Senators in a US government building.
watch and remember the USA has guideline about separation of gov and church, and is a republic not a monarchy
march 23rd 2004
heres the video 7:20 into it aprox
marko @ 21:
Yes quantum and particle light wave theory is definitely one of my favorite subjects of pursuit.
I always wondered what the LA in LA Fitness Gyms meant, Los Angeles or Louisianna?
I’ve been self-teaching myself for over 30 years. It’s not exactly like Texas high school students discuss logic and reasoning.
As for my 2 associates and one bachelor, when I had one course in Freshman Rhetoric, we were mostly taught how to use the computer to get assignments, and transfer them completed back to the instructor’s electronic briefcase.
You presume way too much.
ysbaddaden @ 24:
“Lost Angels”
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
Another is how can Iraq be at once a peaceful democracy and yet be a genocidal ‘killing field’ or more precisely walled up killing ghettos.
Sadr City and Basra is getting the treatment now, and soon Mosul.
However, education can be an inpediment too learning, why look at our MBA resident.
Oh yeah, and kindanasty rice has a Doctorate in Sovietology, and specialty about as relevant as the history of pottery.
Without connections I doubt she could get a job at Barnes & Noble.
Sorry, “a specialty,” I’m drinking my Twining’s English Breakfast tea, when what I need is French Roast, black.
25 L.A. Confidential Says: ysbaddaden @ 24:
I always wondered what the LA in LA Fitness Gyms meant, Los Angeles or Louisianna?
“Lost Angels”
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Wasn’t that the title to a book about underaged vampires on Sunset Blvd.?
L.A. Confidential @ 18:
Well, I was going to explain the difference between weather and global warming, but others beat me to it. So I’ll point out that the Earth isn’t hurtling through an infinite void. Imagine a napkin as space and it’s floating horizontally. Now imagine a small ball as earth. When you place the earth on the napkin, the earth creates a depression in space. We’re literally stuck in orbit around the sun.
ysbaddaden @ 29:
I reckon somebody misheard during her job interview… degree in Scientology more explains the FUBARs that surround her.
WSJ: FDA Withholds List of Chinese
Heparin Suppliers From Congressional Probe
We American citizens aren’t allowed to purchase pharmaceuticals produced in other nations because other nations don’t assure the purity of the pharmaceuticals like “our” FDA does .. right?
But not only are the pharmaceutical companies who sell in the USA allowed to import over 80% of their ingredients from other nations, they are also protected from revealing their sources.
I’ll shut up now, 4 of the last 7 comments were by me
Damn it!!! 5 out of eight…
And I need to go do my recycling.
ferrofluid @ 26:
In dogma it’s “just the way it is”. In metaphysics it’s duality theory, or negative and positive polarity is required for this hallucination to continue to exist in material form. Or the “glue” thats holds it all together.
ysbaddaden @ 30:
I would recommend go to wallyworld (which has it) or similar and get some Tetley’s British Blend premium black tea,
thats the real authentic strong stuff (stand your spoon up in it) and has a real tea flavour, cheap too and comes in 80 qty round teabags.
32 Leslie [Hussein] Says:
Earth isn’t hurtling through an infinite void. Imagine a napkin as space and it’s floating horizontally. Now imagine a small ball as earth. When you place the earth on the napkin, the earth creates a depression in space. We’re literally stuck in orbit around the sun.
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A lot of that has to do with the theory of dark matter, and sub-quantum “particles–strings–tissue” theory.
Now imagine my napkin(s) at a Texas barbeque.
I understand the Brits call diapers nappies.
ysbaddaden @ 28:
If your poking at me I said it “CAN”. I did not say it’s an absolute concrete rule of universal law. It’s up to an individual to set their own limits as to what they can and can’t accomplished.
ferrofluid @ 37:
“one per cup and one for the teapot”
ysbaddaden @ 38:
If the BBQ helps add to the gaseous dark matter, please pass me a rib.
L.A. Confidential @ 36:
of course glue being the wonderful billions available in ‘no bid’ contracts to friends of Chimpy and the Repocketsis.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 41:
Napkins and trad diapers both are smallish squares of clothe.
ferrofluid @ 42:
Hey, that’s our glue and I want it back.