New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia), comprising 90% of Australia’s inhabitants, recognised same-intercourse marriages and civil partnerships performed overseas, providing automated recognition of such unions of their respective state registers. Once once more, the most insightful writing on a topic seems not in information pages or among the paid columnists on the Washington Post, however on the letters page, the place readers discover fault with Broder and Marcus on the subject of DeLay and Abramoff’s corruption.Although Howard Dean has already achieved a powerful job as chair of the DNC, he’s apparently making people really feel higher by putting a brand new fundraiser into a publish that was vacated last September: Carl D. Chidlow, who’s presently the finance director for Grassroots Democrats — a state focused fundraising group — will take over the DNC’s vacant fundraising publish at the start of next month, according to occasion officials and contributors. Nothing within the nationwide consensus to fight terrorism after 9/11 envisioned the unilateral rewriting of more than 200 years of tradition and law by one president embarked on an ideological crusade.This Broder column would have been fairly good if he’d deleted all that crap about how Alito is “a highly intelligent authorized craftsman completely schooled in Supreme Court precedents.” Did I mention how tired I am of listening to this rubbish about someone who nonetheless cannot locate the rights of The People in the US Constitution?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). Your happenin’ worldMahabarb on What We’re Up Against: However the Clintons, and the Democrats through the 1980s and nineteen nineties, mounted no critical challenge to the GOP’s management of the sea – the VRWC and the Republican Noise Machine. In a bit update, Jane directs us to some extra info from AltHippo, who finds Bloomberg saying Abramoff’s ‘Equal Money’ Went Mostly to Republicans: Between 2001 and 2004, Abramoff gave greater than $127,000 to Republican candidates and committees and nothing to Democrats, federal records present. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has tossed away so much of itself it’s exhausting to know what it stands for any more. Saturday, 14 January 2006 Staring down this broken landWe’re all the time listening to that these conservative jurists and students are “sensible minds” who have a thorough understanding of the law – a piece of PR that has yet to be justified however is wonderfully contradicted by even a cursory look at just about all of the work of their “great” thinkers. Given that Paddy’s dark imaginative and prescient of the way forward for broadcast journalism has since change into the programming bible for an entire era of cable information executives, I suppose it is no nice surprise that the Mao Tse Tung Hour has also reached the little screen — but in Iraq, not the U.S., and suitably updated to mirror both modern political realities and the rise of the Internet.

Awesome, however Impractical: The entire concept of Eating Food within the Shower. Dean allies note that he has already put the committee on sturdy monetary footing. It stays to be seen whether Dean’s efforts repay in a financial windfall for the committee over the following 10 months. Via Biomes Blog, the place I additionally found Radio Bush – with captions.I know I’ve been in the doldrums however I simply realized it’s been ages since I visited my favorite photo websites, so here’s Slot Canyon Gold (more neat slot canyon photos here), The Sombrero Galaxy, A Sun Pillar Over Maine, and Nice Beaver. Short and candy. Via Secular Front.Rebranding “Creationism” as “Intelligent Design” hasn’t worked so well, so its hucksters have a plan to do it again, perhaps call it “Intelligent Evolution” (IE), and make us go through the whole colleges-and-courts factor another time. There’s nothing distasteful about receiving assist from your personal constituents, even if some of them could even have occurred to make the error of getting ripped off by Jack Abramoff.Why does this sort of crap even get mentioned? “Living water,” mentioned Weena, who was waiting there for us.

There ain’t no secrets and techniques within the cityAtrios is having posting issues with Blogger, but he’s still managed to level to some good hyperlinks – to this merchandise on a brand new Zogby poll exhibiting growing support for impeachment of Bush; a short however scathing prescription for the Democratic Party from John Aravosis; and extra on unlovely pseudo-ombudsman Deborah Howell from Califlander at Daily Kos. I particularly loved the remark from Thurston Howell III.Does anyone beside me discover this Steve Gilliard post way too naive and optimistic? I like John’s suggestion that the Post wants to rent an ombudsman to regulate Howell. Several tales, together with one on June 3 by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, a Post business reporter, have mentioned that a number of Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and Sen. Bush’s vocabulary test: I can perceive people being abhorrent about war.Mark Shields: But a case might be made — four-and-a-half years after the terrorists’ assaults on New York and Washington — that the criminals who organized and executed that attack have succeeded past their wildest expectations.