Author Archives: gr8geezer

The California Supereme Court today ruled that the same sex marriages performed in San Francisco are illegal as they were based on a decision San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom made by overstepping his boundaries. This is not much of a surprise for me. When this process started earlier this year I wrote that the mayor’s [...]

Legendary funk icon Rick James died Friday morning of a heart attack. Hopefully this is an isolated incident and there will not be a triad of celebrity deaths this time around.

Regular readers may have noticed the absence of posts on the Democratic convention. This is both intentional and unintentional. It is unintentional in that I have been preoccupied and intentional in that there has not been much to talk about. Most speakers have said pretty much the exact same things abour Kerry and Edwards and [...]

President Bush yesterday started to talk about Iran in very similar ways to the way in which he and his administration promoted the invasion of Iraq. Once again he mentions allegations of them harboring terrorists and 9/11 links. Let’s hope that many Americans will realize how overmilked that cow has become.

As we celebrate Independence Day today, let us reflect on what America really stands for and what we set out to do all those years ago. Today I shall remember the true intentions of the founding fathers, and not the perverted intentions of the fascists in Washington. As is custom for me on Independence Day, [...]

Although it is well known by now amongst attentive people that Iraq is far from being sovereign at this point, it is less well known just how much the “new” government of Iraq is like the previous. Not only have many of its members been endorsed by the US government, but many of them were [...]

Famous actor Marlon Brando passed away today at the ripe age of 80. Hopefully this completes the triad of celebrity passings and will keep this from turning into a string of passings like we saw in recent years.

A new telephone poll conducted in Florida shows that right now, both Bush and Kerry would get the same number of votes in Florida. The poll also indicated that if Ralph Nader were to run in Florida he’d be “stealing” more votes from Kerry than from Bush.

The US Supreme Court today ruled that people detained in the “war on terror” have the right to a trial. While they did not declare the practises of detention without charges or trial to be illegal, this does mark a clear step forward in the affirmation of the validity of the rights of people under [...]

Even though Iraq is now supposedly a sovereign nation, reality differs significantly from the official story. Over the weekend, former administrator of Iraq Paul Bremer appointed government officials and issued orders to enact new laws that remain in place under the new government of Iraq. While this is not entirely new, it nevertheless goes further [...]

In a continuation of his assault on the health of Americans, President Bush has ordered that all scientists must now get approval from an elected official before attending conferences of the World Health Organization. The truth about the President’s attitude towards science is becoming a lot more evident these days. While opposition to stem cell [...]

After having been heavily criticized for running as an independent Presidential candidate, Ralph Nader encouraged voters to vote for John Kerry in an interview with NPR. This marks a slight change in course for the man who has repeatedly been accused of stealing votes from Democratic candidates. Whatever the truth may be, I believe it’s [...]

Two recent events have clearly proven the influence of one of President Bush’s largest financial backers: The Christian right. First, there are the new CDC guidelines that force AIDS education organizations to abstain from educating people about condom usage and mandate that they teach abstinence instead. In addition, the FCC has determined that on-air curse [...]

The New York State Assembly is yet again considering raising tutition rates at the state’s public higher education institutions. This time tuition would be raised for out-of-state and graduate students. When will they awaken to the possibility that the money missing from the state’s coffers should be coming from the federal government?

The Bush administration seems to once again be suffering from amnesia. Even though the 9/11 commission has proven that there is no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda (at least as far as 9/11 goes), they keep on insisting that there were ties between the two. Both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are also [...]

The Financial Times today reported that what appears to be the first virus that can infect cell phones has been found. Although this virus is not volatile, this could well mark the start of even more virus problems than there already are with conventional viruses.

As shocking as the headline may seem, it does not tell the whole story. At the unveiling of former President Clinton’s official White House portrait, President Bush praised the Clintons by commending them for their “forward-looking spirit the Americans like in a president”.

The US Supreme Court ruled today that the Pledge of Allegiance was to remain religious by not undoing the change that was made to the pledge in 1954. This looks like further proof of the clout of the Christian right to me. On the upside, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled on Friday that reverse discrimination [...]

Before the funeral services for former President Ronald Reagan have even ended, another icon of American culture has passed away. Singer Ray Charles died today at 73 at his home in Beverly Hills, according to CNN. There is no indication of unnatural causes of his death or any other reasons but it is clear that [...]

Since the passing of former President Ronald Reagan, several mostly online sources, such as consortium news, have commented on the slanted coverage the mainstream media have given the life and career of Reagan. They have correctly pointed out that there has been nothing but praise in most media. While I would never jump in joy [...]

Former President Ronald Reagan died today at 93 of Alzheimer’s. His children were with him when he died at his Los Angeles home. It’s almost ironic that someone like him should die this close to D-day. CNN has the story.

Todays captain obvious award goes to Netscape / CNN who have finally gotten wind of the Taliban’s 2000 offer to hand over Osama Bin Laden to the US government. What’s even funnier is that they cite a German TV documentary as a source. So well done for ignoring this set of facts for so long.

The whole uproar about the torture of detainees in Iraq has, like so many other media events, obfuscated the truth. It appears that the torture in Iraq was partially ordered by Defense Sectretary Donald Rumsfeld and a part of a larger new approach to “information extraction”. This reminds me again that there is very little [...]

In a new article that is to be published in the upcoming issue of The Nation, author Greg Palast warns that the voter purges that nearly cost Al Gore the election in Florida in 2000 could well come back for the general election this year, only this time all across the country. If this turns [...]

Disney has ordered Miramax, one of its subsidies, to not distribute Michael Moore’s new movie “Fahrenheit 9/11″. Moore alleges that they have done this as they recieve large tax cuts in Florida where the President’s brother jeb is governor. Whatever the real reason may be, it does seem as though Disney has a vested interest [...]