October 07, 2006
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Coors' Club Hires Felons to attack Ritter....Posted by jbholston at 09:51 AM
The Colorado GOP machinery has paid for a range of hate ads against Bill Ritter, the Dem candidate for Governor here who has been endorsed by all the major media in the state.
The dollars have all flowed through a right-wing millionaire 527 club called the Trailhead Group, created by Governor Owens, Bruce Benson, and Pete Coors. (Trailhead is under both federal and state legal scrutiny, including 'overly-friendly' money laundering )...
The Coors' Club's most despicable advertisement featured an African American woman arguing that Ritter as DA had too-easily letoff the driver who killed her daughter in a hit-and-run. (The facts are that the woman agreed to the plea deal.)
Today, I found this about the ad's 'star', buried on page 11 of the Rocky Mountain News;
A week before September Dixon starred in a Republican TV attack ad calling Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter a liar who cared more about the hit-and-run driver who killed her daughter than the victims, she was accused of trying to run down her ex-boyfriend and his woman companion.
"I am going to run you both over, and I'm going to kill you both," Dixon shouted in the Sept. 13 confrontation before allegedly making separate attempts to run down the man and woman outside an Aurora bar, according to an arrest warrant issued for Dixon this week by an Adams County judge.
The 27-year-old Dixon is charged in the arrest warrant with one count of felony criminal mischief for allegedly ramming the man's car and two counts of felony menacing for allegedly using her car to make the couple fear for their safety.
How much did the Coors' Club pay her?
What's their response to the hypocrisy?
Alan Philp, head of the Republican Trailhead Group that paid for the five-day ad, said he didn't think Dixon's latest run-in with the law and her lengthy criminal history undercut the credibility of her criticism of Ritter, the former Denver district attorney in the TV spot.
Will the television stations that ran the Coors' hate ad feature the above story in response, for at least as long as the ads ran?
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October 06, 2006
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All coverups, all the timePosted by jbholston at 09:51 PM
Hastert scandal's latest perverse GOP twist is their effort to blame the dems ... for the GOP predator, and Hastert's year-plus-long coverup. They've set up an 'investigation' to derail all investigation until after the election... ....and, since that's not working, top Republicans are just flat-out lying about it all.
And, this;
Speaking to reporters on Thursday after returning from a trip that included a one-day stop in Baghdad, (Republican Senator, and Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee) Mr. Warner said the United States should consider “a change of course” if the violence there did not diminish soon. He did not specify what shift might be necessary, but said that the American military had done what it could to stabilize Iraq and that no policy options should be taken “off the table.”
With the blessing of the White House, a high-level commission led by James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state, is already reviewing American policy in Iraq. But the commission is not scheduled to report to Mr. Bush and Congress until after the November elections, a timeline that the White House had hoped would enable Mr. Bush to avoid public discussion of any change of course until after voters determine which party will control Congress next year.
Noone can want to be led by these demagogues....
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Where in the world??Posted by jbholston at 12:32 PM
Mars, actually...
Love Rover -- Floyd Landis, without the drugs...
To be more precise, Opportunity;
The Mars robot Opportunity and its twin Spirit landed on Mars in early 2004, and were expected to last about 90 days. More than 900 days later, Opportunity is now sending back the most dramatic images of its voyage.
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October 05, 2006
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Had too much? n+1Posted by jbholston at 01:00 PM
The House Republican leadership knew for three years that GOP Rep. Foley was having inappropriate interactions with minors working as pages.
And did, and will do, absolutely nothing.
Shut up in order to maintain power.
'Family-values', single-party, absolute power.
Had enough?
Meanwhile,
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Thirteen U.S. soldiers have been killed in Baghdad since Monday, the American military reported, registering the highest three-day death toll for U.S. forces in the capital since the start of the war.
...The number of planted bombs is "at an all-time high," said Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, a military spokesman, defying American efforts to stanch the vicious sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad that threatens to plunge the country into civil war.
...Caldwell also announced yesterday that an entire Iraqi police brigade -- comprising an estimated 800 to 1,200 officers -- had been pulled out of service and placed under investigation for alleged complicity with death squads. On Sunday, gunmen burst into a food factory in Amil, a Baghdad neighborhood under the brigade's control, and kidnapped 26 workers.
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October 03, 2006
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Today's JuxtapositionPosted by jbholston at 04:13 PM
Top two headlines on CNN;
MSNBC:
Actually, this Newsweek article about Abramoff tipping off clients to Bush' Iraq war plans (leaked via Karl Rove, sitting in the gifted skybox with Abramoff) is even more ... incredible..
...as it happened a year before the war.....
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