While hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agents intercepted imaginary Cuban migrants during a massive training exercise in south Florida, two boatloads of actual Cubans sneaked ashore on Miami Beach on Thursday.
Boaters dropped off 21 Cuban migrants at a popular nudist beach and left 19 others on another beach a few hours later, the Border Patrol said. Both vessels escaped.
A bit of irony
The most 'notorious' person Bill Clinton pardoned was fugitive financier, Marc Rich, who he pardoned for crimes committed in 1983. From 1985 to 2000, Marc Rich's lawyer was, I. Scooter Libby.
'Thank god' for November
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004, said, “Thank god” Congress changed hands in November.
Eason also lamented that so many service members believe that conservatives “are good for the military.” “That is rarely the case. And we have got to get a message through to every soldier, every family member, every friend of soldier,” that the Bush administration and its allies in Congress have “absolutely been the worst thing that’s happened to the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps.”
Fuckhead turned 50 yesterday
Mr. Conservative
"Our government continues to spend $17 million a day more than the government takes in" - Ronald Reagan, October 1964.
By the time Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter for president in 1980, Carter and the federal government were spending $216 million a day more than the federal government took in.
In Reagan's first year in office the federal government spent $351 million more every day than it received - a staggering 63% increase in one year.
In Ronald Reagan's 8 years in office the federal government spent an average of $484 million every day, all 2,918 of them, more than what it brought in.
$484 million Xs 2,918 days = $1.412 TRILLION. Add 20-27 years of interest to that and tell me what you come up with. I don't think your answer can be considered 'conservative'.
Emboldening the enemy
"Any student of history recognizes that there is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq" - General David Petraeus, US commander in Iraq - 3/8/07.Of course not
Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton’s infidelity.
Selling you a used car
In his introductory remarks, Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young (R-FL), who chaired the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, explained why he had not carried out the kind of oversight that was now occurring on the treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed.
"General Kiley, we did not go public with these concerns because we did not want to undermine the confidence of the patients and their families and give the army a black eye while fighting a war," he said.
Calling all wingnuts, 18-42
Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find.
The likely result will be extending the deployments of brigades scheduled to come home at the end of the summer, and sending others earlier than scheduled.
Pass the Glade
Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after George Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
The "spirit guides of the Mayan community" decided it would be necessary to cleanse the sacred site of "bad spirits" after Bush's visit so that their ancestors could rest in peace.
Today a long time ago
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America, as adopted on March 11, 1861.
Kondracke the comedian confirms it
Mort Kondracke, the 'supposed' leftwinger, the 'balance' on Fox propaganda shows, had this to say about Democrats firing Faux News from covering the Democratic presidential debate,
“If Fox was embarrassingly right wing or something like that, it would be plain for all to see.”
Very funny, Mort. The very fact that you're on Fox respresenting 'the left' is all the proof anyone needs that Fox News is, 'embarrassingly right wing' .
The Limbaugh/HD Award
This week's winner is Fox News' Brit Hume
Brit Hume is a very deserving recipient of the Limbaugh/HD award - given here at 'done that' each week to the person 'who can show a total disregard for the truth', without batting an eyelash.
But Fox News' Hume wins the Limbaugh/HD Award this week with a bit of a twist on that; He told the truth, but didn't mean to. Or, in other words, he meant to lie, but he forgot to....same difference.
Walter Reed 'looks' terrible for W
On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume spoke about the Walter Reed scandal in entirely political terms, saying “the problem” is that it “looks terrible” for the administration.Brit Hume is your typical phony patriot, which also makes him a brillant pick for the namesakes of the Limbaugh/HD. Phony patriots who choose their partisan political views, regardless of how wrong they've been proven to be, over what's right for our active military and veterans.
Hume called the neglect and deplorable conditions at the military hospital a “potential” political firestorm, but said that the “administration did what it did to try to get it over with, and it may well have succeeded.”
Hume suggested that if Democrats had not taken control of Congress in November’s election, the Bush administration would not have demanded resignations from the Army Secretary and the chief of Walter Reed. “This is an administration which is known or had been known for sticking by people even when they were embattled.” Watch it:
...Thought it 'looked' bad for the administration...so deserving of the L/HD.
