"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2007
April Toll Is Highest Of ’07 for U.S. Troops – washingtonpost.com Under the new counterinsurgency plan, many U.S. forces have left large, more secure bases to live in small combat outposts and to patrol hostile neighborhoods where the risk of insurgents targeting them has multiplied. Not being a loyal Bushie, this strikes me as bad…
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 23rd, 2007
A Hostage Situation – New York Times Anyway, never mind the political calculations. Confronting Mr. Bush on Iraq has become a patriotic duty. Amen. The President threatens to veto a non-binding suggestion that he withdraw, then says the democrats are at fault for daring to have anything to say about the debacle the President’s leadership [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2007
Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors – New York Times But in August of that year, according to the Republican official, the committee decided that e-mail sent by White House officials would be kept on the server. Still, the change did not prevent White House officials from manually deleting their e-mail, and some, including [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 6th, 2007
Bush Appoints Walter Reed Commission – New York Times I’m sure Dole and Shalala will do and admirable job of investigating the problems in the military health care system. I’m also sure the Bush administration will ignore them just as they did the 911 commission and the Iraq Studyy Group. These people enjoy using the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2007
Food risks up, inspections down – Infectious Diseases – MSNBC.com Another debacle brought to you by Bushco. There’s been a 47% drop in food inspections since 2003.
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 11th, 2007
Crooks and Liars » Olbermann: A Look Backward at the Commander’s Credibility The video of Olberman’s pre-speech retrospective of past statements from the decider-in-chief should be enough to scare all but the most rabid neo-cons out there. In discussing the speech with friends today the point was made that the most important thing is not [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 4th, 2006
Video Is a Window Into a Terror Suspect’s Isolation – New York Times Is this the America that you want to be part of? A place where a man is held in inhuman conditions for what appear to be very weak charges? A place where the accused is denied counsel for 22 months, drugged, blindfolded [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 29th, 2006
Union Leader – Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech – Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism. Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 3rd, 2006
As Bechtel Goes – New York Times The administrations final answer on dealing with wasted money, outright incompetence and perfidy in the failed reconstruction of Iraq is to shoot the messenger. Instead of dealing with correcting the situation they have decided to close the Special Inspector General’s Office for Iraq Reconstruction. It was simply too [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 7th, 2006
Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD – Yahoo! News Is it really possible that so many American are that fucking stupid?
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 20th, 2006
Bush casts his first veto on stem-cell bill – Yahoo! News The man is an idiot. He can’t veto pork laden bullshit that comes out of congress but he can veto this? What pisses me off about the whole thing is the sheer falseness of it. During the announcement of the veto, there were children [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 6th, 2006
It would be one thing if the wholsale outsourcing of military functions was cost-effective and consistent with the mission, it’s another thing entirely if people die so others might profit while damaging our effectiveness in the field. Check out the trailer for “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers”
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 21st, 2006
Missing Soldiers Found Dead In Iraq …The deaths were first reported by an Iraqi defense official. Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Muhammed Jassim said in a news conference Tuesday they had been tortured and killed “in a barbaric way.” This is exactly why the US needs to renounce torture and abide by Geneva Convention standards for [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 21st, 2006
US House clears $427.6 billion for Pentagon – Yahoo! News Voting 219-207 largely along party lines, the House defeated an amendment to make the National Security Agency obtain warrants before listening to the international phone calls and reading the e-mails of U.S. citizens. I guess it’s clear which party favors judicial oversight and which party [...]
Posted in Blog Post on May 11th, 2006
Add massive data mining operations to the laundry list of transgressions by the Bush administration: Yahoo News gives us the President’s reaction to a USA Today story – NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls Text: Bush’s Comments on NSA Activities – Yahoo! News Today there are new claims about other ways we are [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 29th, 2006
Tim Roemer writes in today’s NY Times Op-Ed section (behind a subscription wall): Enough Already – New York Times “Had Enough? Vote Democratic!” is a slogan that spotlights the many mistakes in Iraq, the mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina and the mangling of fiscal responsibility with “bridges to nowhere.” Indeed, you can see and hear Democratic [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 7th, 2006
Warrantless Wiretaps Possible in U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales left open the possibility yesterday that President Bush could order warrantless wiretaps on telephone calls occurring solely within the United States — a move that would dramatically expand the reach of a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program. If this doesn’t bother you, then you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2006
Somebody straighten me out here. Are all women just flat out, balls to the walls, incurably insane? Are high levels of estrogen toxic? I begin to think so.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2005
Date: 07/01/2007