Hominid Views

Smiling Faces (via TalkingPointsMemo).
Bill Moyers takes a look at some of the smaller stories coming out of Iraq.
Olbrmann and Wolffe on Bush’s struggle with reality.
Goldy has a regular Saturday and Sunday night “On-air Blog” called The David Goldstein Show that is also podcast by KIRO Radio. (Saturday was preempted by football [...]

The bathroom sex scandal is leaving Sen. Larry Craig abandoned by his party. Apparently a movement is a-foot (OUCH!) by high profile Republicans to get Craig to resign:

On Wednesday, three Republican lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain, called on Craig to resign.
Their statements came a day after Craig made his first public statement about [...]

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Ay-rab Mos-lums are hiding under your bed, in your car trunk, and boarding your airplanes. How dare they board our airplanes !
From the San Diego Union Tribune:

Flight 590 was scheduled to depart at 11 p.m. for Chicago O’Hare International Airport but was rescheduled for Wednesday [...]

The Idaho Statesman offers this story from an anonymous source about previous bathroom encounter with Sen. Larry Craig:

“Upon walking into Union Station one day, I made eye contact with a well-dressed older gentleman whom I recognized as Sen. Craig. We, after having made eye contact for 30 seconds or so, we began [...]

As a broader management practice, though, Bush has made a fetish of loyalty even when unaccompanied by ability.

— John Dickerson, Slate

Rep. Brian Baird is taking some heat from his constituents:
Baird is in a tough spot. He has clearly formed his opinion about the value of continuing the occupation of Iraq, but that opinion does not coincide with the majority of those he represents.
How angry are his constituents? From [...]

Bush is on his way to Bellevue today to raise bucket-loads of money for Rep. Dave Reichert from a small number of wealthy donors.
What does Bellevue really think of Reichert?
In the mean time the Netroots have raised nearly $100,000 from 2,500 donors for Darcy Burner.
Please contribute something (even $5) [...]

Did you hear the one about two people who marked a trail for their running club by sprinkling flour across an IKEA parking lot?
They ended up being charged with a felony.
It’s a true story, and it caused a freaking terrorism scare.
As Juan John puts it, “[w]e are now officially a nation [...]

Darcy has another supporter in former Republican General Paul Eaton:

A special fundraiser is going on right now for Darcy Burner. Stop by this Act Blue page or contribute with this form….

Help Darcy Defeat Bush Reichert: $

Goldy provides some more details about the Darcy Burner Virtual Town Hall event:

The “Send a Message” Town Hall will be held Monday afternoon at 3pm PST at the Bellevue Westin, just three blocks from the Hyatt where Reichert and Bush will be holding their exclusive high-donor affair. Space is very limited, but don’t you worry [...]

English poet Les Barker recites his poem on Iraq (via OneGoodMove).
Sen. Leahy: The White House is in contempt (via ThinkProgress).
Al Franken on George Bush raising money for Norm Coleman. (His situation is a lot like Darcy Burner’s!)
Jon Stewart on a different kind of war (via OneGoodMove).
Bush’s Vietnam Verdict

Alison Stewart on Countdown: Bush compares [...]

Without question, Darcy Burner is one of the most exciting candidates to appear on the Washington State political scene in the last few years. In 2006 she went from “nobody” to almost beating Rep. Dave Reichert for the Washington State 8th CD.
Well…she’s back. And Joe Wilson has a message [...]

…is give war a chance.

A new group of prominent conservatives plans to begin a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign Wednesday to urge members of Congress who may be wavering in their support for the war in Iraq not to “cut and run.”
The group, Freedom’s Watch, is rolling out television, radio and Internet advertisements in more than 20 [...]

Ya learn something new every day. Apparently, the term “illegal alien” is a misnomer except under some very specific circumstances. People who illegally come into the U.S. are not illegal once here. Their crime is limited to a one-time act at entry, not an ongoing “flaunting of the laws [...]

HOW MANY more times will Alberto R. Gonzales’s credibility have to be shredded before his own sense of decency compels him to step down?

What blogger wrote this typical leftie rant? It wasn’t a blogger…this is an editorial in the Washington Post. It continues….

If Mr. Gonzales were merely the victim of partisan [...]