Chupacabra Report

News that gets my goat!

-When people use the terms “Houston Chronicle” and “liberal press” in the same sentence, I respond with three words: William Randolph Hearst. And their reactionary positions didn’t end with the robber baron that started the Spanish-American War, this paper endorsed Reagan, the Bushes, and Tom DeLay for 20 years. Nevertheless, Chronicle staffers are still committing journalism down on Main Street, and deserve credit when they get it right.

I’m not very confidant that people are paying attention, but the editorial staff was right on the money with yesterdays lead editorial about the administrations program to develop new hydrogen bombs undermining nuclear nonproliferation. Here’s some:

“If the established nuclear powers continue to maintain and upgrade their nuclear stockpiles without pursuing internationally supervised disarmament, as envisioned in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, leaders of other countries will conclude that the pact is one-sided, to be enforced on the have-nots and ignored by the haves.
In a world where 40-50 nations, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency,
possess enough fissionable material to build a bomb if they choose, such a message could lead to a disastrous resumption of a global arms race.”

Do you feel safer than you did seven years ago?