Daily Glean: Bush reaches out to embattled transnational conglomerates struggling to make ends meet

• Health care is strictly rationed, and unaffordable in any case. "Job security," "pensions" and "collective bargaining" are terms more likely to surface on a history quiz than in the workplace. Miners got trapped, again, because the government doesn't want to impose safety standards lest it send mining industry investors the wrong message. Bridges fall down, a tragic and deadly metaphor not only for the house of cards that is the nation's crumbling basic infrastructure, but also the collapse of the nation's commitment to the social contract. The planet is baking. Hundreds of millions of its people are needlessly mired in poverty and disease and don't even have clean safe drinking water. And on and on and on and oh, what to do? Thank goodness for President Bush and his insightful and dedicated advisers, who understand that the only sensible solution is to give the world's largest and most influential corporations a tax cut. Post
• The appropriation of relatively modest single-family domiciles by giant calculating presidential campaigns for media consumption; part of an occasional series. Sun
• The one (and probably only) time that it would have been in everyone's interest for the Nevada War Party to show some effectiveness and competence, and they totally screw the pooch. Ah, to go watch War Party prez wannabes fill the air with religious code and wingnut catchphrases in person, and then make fun of them later. What larks, Pip, what larks! Alas, that possibility was all but killed even before the South Carolina GOWarP Party, which probably didn't even know Nevada was holding a War Party caucus, let alone care, switched its date and relegated the Nevada contest to history's dustbin. Thanks so much to overpaid area War Party consultants Pete Ernaut and Chuck Muth for this stunning and truly comprehensive failure. Most impressive. Oh well, at least we've still got the Democrats to kick around, at least for the next few days. LVRJ, Post, Atlantic/Ambinder,  MSNBC/FirstRead, Politico, Union Leader, Yepsen/Des Moines Register, etc., etc., etc.
• You know that pervy swinger porn music you've been hearing in the grocery store? It turns out it's some 40-year-old virgin's ring tone. That's right, through the wonders of technological progress, people now have the capability to actually personalize the sound their cell phone makes! Who knew? As might be expected when those madcap Americans spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, the results can be surprising, curious, amusing and, oddest of all, newsworthy. LVRJ
• Outraged netroots (we seem to be identifying a lot of redundancies this week) are typing like mad over Democrats caving (see? yet another redundancy) to the War Party and letting Mr. Cheney spy on you and shit. NYTimes

Comments

[True Blue]

I think The Murderer-in-Chief has a future in stand-up on the Strip. He was asked about Fredo in his pre-vacation press conference and said he's answered questions and provided lots of paper, so he isn't hiding anything and couldn't have done anything wrong because they haven't found anything. Gotta love him. Makes Mitt the Magic Mormon from Mammon look like a genius.

[Sam Dehne]

This was meant for here:

Hypocrisy "rains" supreme in the upper echelons of America's govt.
Where's gen Patton when we need him?
Sam

Where's the FBI? (weblink)

[CollegeStudent]

Its a good thing you read the RJ, Mr. Gleaner. If not, I would have had no idea that cellphones were annoying. I have to visit there newsroom someday,I mean if they have annoying cellphones in there who knows what else they could have? Maybe some mildly-displeasing time machines?

[texex]

TB - is that Mormon or Moron?

the difference is only technical