Heating up in the UK

"A burning car has been rammed into the terminal building of Glasgow Airport in Scotland, heightening terrorism fears with the UK already on alert over the discovery of two cars loaded with explosive materials in London".

BREAKING:
Fortunately, the attacks in London and Glasgow so far appear to have been committed by the previously unknown group, the El Rushdie 'Knight This!' Brigade, an off-shoot of the Miami 7, and there are no reported deaths or injuries.

Stay tuned to Fox News - They will have periodic updates from Rudy Giuliani on how scared you should be.

While we patrol the streets of Baghdad ...

Taliban Spreading, Pakistani President Is Warned

The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was warned this month that Islamic militants and Taliban fighters were rapidly spreading beyond the country’s lawless tribal areas and that without “swift and decisive action,” the growing militancy could engulf the rest of the country.

The warning came in a document from the Interior Ministry, which said Pakistan’s security forces in North-West Frontier Province abutting the tribal areas were outgunned and outnumbered and had forfeited authority to the Taliban and their allies.

... It appears to be the first such document to emerge from the Pakistani government formally recognizing the seriousness of the spreading threat here from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, according to a Western diplomat.

... “It’s tragic it’s taken so long to recognize it,” the diplomat added.

What's more egregious, what we've wasted in Iraq or what we've neglected where the real 'evildoers' are?

Wow ... I'm confused ... sort of

No to 'Bong hits 4 Jesus' but ok with the drunken cokehead "chicken-hawk-in-chief"?

Court allows student's anti-Bush T-shirt

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.

A seventh-grader from Vermont was suspended for wearing a shirt that bore images of cocaine and a martini glass - but also had messages calling President Bush a lying drunk driver who abused cocaine and marijuana, and the "chicken-hawk-in-chief" who was engaged in a "world domination tour."

After his suspension, Zachary Guiles returned to school with duct tape covering the offending images.

Williamstown Middle School Principal Kathleen Morris-Kortz said the images violated the school dress code, which prohibits clothing that promotes the use of drugs or alcohol.

An appeals court said the school had no right to censor any part of the shirt.

On Monday, the court said schools could regulate student expression if it advocated illegal drug use. Justice Samuel Alito cautioned that schools could not censor political speech.

The case is Marineau v. Guiles, 06-757 [LA Times]

So if the "Bong hits 4 Jesus" kid, Joseph 'Smokin' Joe' Frederick, had put some type of political statement on his "Bong hits 4 Jesus" banner, he would have won his case?

'Political speech' versus what, goofy free speech?

They're both innocent ... Our 'Court' is being held hostage by five goddamn morons.

Democrats will try to stop the bleeding

George Bush loses his power Saturday to seal "fast track" trade agreements without interference from Congress, where Democrats blame recent deals for sending U.S. jobs abroad.

Since 1975, only one other president, Bill Clinton, has been stripped of that trade promotion authority, designed to speed the reduction of trade barriers and open new markets with other countries. Bush won't get it back again, and the next president might not either.

House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, whose Ways and Means Committee handles trade policy, said in a written statement Friday that their legislative priorities "do not include the renewal of fast track authority."

"Before that debate can even begin, we must expand the benefits of globalization to all Americans," they said.

Our trade deficit is out-of-control. George hasn't done so well making his own deals without Congressional oversight.

Did you realize that the United States, the great powerful nation that once fed the world, is now "a net importer of food"?

How about some Chinese fish?

Time for Plan B.

Why are Americans so stupid?

Poll: More Than 4 in 10 Americans Still Believe Saddam Involved with 9/11

Nearly six years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S., better than 4 in 10 Americans still wrongly believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in planning or carrying out the actions. Surprisingly, that number has even risen in the past two years, according to a Newsweek poll.

The belief that Saddam had something to do with 9/11, which was endorsed by Vice President Cheney and other Bush administration officials, was seen as a prime reason for broad public support for the attack on Iraq in 2003. Some have suggested that the media did not do enough to dispel this myth. President Bush and Cheney have belatedly declared that Iraq actually had nothing to do with it.

We all know how stupid Americans can be since 62 million of them voted for George Bush after he lied and led us into Iraq, was the first president since Herbert Hoover to go a full term in office with negative job growth and took the huge budget surplus that Clinton left him and turned into a $400 billion deficit. But it's still hard to imagine just how stupid people can be.

And when you have 5 million people a day listening to the drug-addicted perverted pedophile Rush Limbaugh, 20 million watching pay-per-view WWF Wrestling, and millions a day watching Fox News, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that people are too stupid to realize how ignorant is to think that Saddam Hussein would have collaborated with one of his biggest enemies, Osama bin Laden.

It's embarrassing being an American sometimes.

VICTORY!

Immigration Bill Defeated!

My apologies to the Chamber of Commerce - Your cheap labor force will soon be drying up and you will be paying workers a living wage in the not too distant future.

We now need to enforce the current laws and fine and imprison all employers who hire any person in this country illegally.

Period.

wha - wha

George Bush, the King of earmarks

Bush called out for his earmarks

Democratic and Republican appropriators are accusing President Bush of urging Congress to pack spending bills with pet projects despite his high-profile crackdown on earmarks this year.

A House Appropriations Committee report accompanying legislation funding the Department of the Interior shows that Bush requested 93 of the 321 earmarks in the bill. A panel report for the financial services and general government spending bill showed that Bush requested 17 special projects worth $947 million, more than any single member of Congress.

Are you surprised? You shouldn't be since Bush is a Republican and it was Republicans who increased earmarks tenfold between 1995 and 2005, from 1,439 earmarks in 1995 to 13,997 in 2005 and then to well over 14,000 in their last year, 2006, in control of Congress.

Republicans, the Party of big spenders and national bankrupting.

Bolton: "Very worried" about Israel

John Bolton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington."

Hey, I don't want Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon either, but it doesn't have anything to do with Israel.

Iran's 'nuclear negotiators' spent the past weekend talking with IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei - Remember ElBaradei? He's the guy, along with Hans Blix, who begged Bush to give them more time on the weapons inspections in Iraq just before Bush threw them out.

In other words, let's listen to those who have a proven track record and not some dumbass warmongering idiot like John Bolton.

And, if Israel has a problem, that's their problem, not ours.

Michigan's killed in action are NOT insignificant!

Army Sgt. Justin Wisniewski of Standish, Mich., was killed last month in Iraq while searching for three missing soldiers.

As he was buried, the American flag was lowered to half-staff at all the state's buildings, just as it is every time a serviceman or woman in Michigan is killed in Iraq, which has occurred 127 times since late 2003.

"I think that the families really need to know that their loved one will be remembered, and this is a way of remembering them," said Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm.

But just as the war has ignited debate in this country, so has the decision by 30 states to fly the flag at half-staff for their fallen.

Some war supporters said the gesture is being used by war crtics to make an anti-war statement. The flags at federal buildings are not lowered.

"It's really a statement pro-soldier, pro-family, pro-our communities who have lost these loved ones," Granholm said.

Some said lowering the flag so often, almost every week in Michigan, could trivialize its symbolism.

"If the flag is half staffed all the time, then it will be trivialized in that we won't take notice to it anymore," said Joyce Doody of the National Flag Foundation. "We want to make sure that half-staffing remains a significant, unique gesture of national mourning."

If you're embarrassed by your support for Bush's war, just keep your goddamn mouth shut and don't degrade those who have needlessly died because of it.

Michigan's governor, Jennifer Granholm, has made the decision that she WILL honor those from our state who have been killed there and we should all be proud of that decision.

Bill O'Reilly, Fox News and the sheep that follow them might want to ignore and hide the truth but this Blue state will not. And those who are too embarrassed and don't give damn, like Joyce Doody, are insignificant, and don't matter anymore.

Joseph Briseno, the 'most injured soldier'

TAMPA, Florida — He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.

Four years ago almost to this day, Joseph Briseno Jr. was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range in a Baghdad marketplace. His spinal cord was shattered, and cardiac arrests stole his vision and damaged his brain.

The 24-year-old is one of the most severely injured soldiers — some think the most injured soldier — to survive.

Shot in the back of the neck, probably by one of the same Sunni insurgents that Bush and Petraeus now want to give arms to, young Joseph Briseno and his family will now live with the agony for the rest of their lives because of Bush's needless invasion.

Between 35,000 and 53,000 wounded Americans all for a lie. And those responsible for that lie, for the war that never should have happened, are still using up good oxygen?

He looked guilty

ST. LOUIS - To the very end, convicted killer Larry Griffin shouted his innocence to the world — through court filings, in pleas to the governor and to nearly any reporter willing to listen.

None of it helped. Griffin, strapped to a white gurney, was executed by injection.

Now, 12 years later, St. Louis' chief prosecutor will soon release a report offering an opinion on whether Missouri put an innocent man to death.

As usual, the 'activism' come from the right ...

... As does the attack on the First Amendment

A high school student's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner got slapped down by the Supreme Court in a decision Monday that restricts student speech rights when the message seems to advocate illegal drug use.

The court ruled 5-4 in the case of Joseph Frederick, who unfurled his handiwork at a school-sanctioned event in 2002, triggering his suspension and leading to a lengthy court battle.

Today's ruling is additional proof - not that reasonable people who actually know what goes on in this country don't already know - that it is rightwing judges in this country who are the 'activist' judges.

It is not the school's, or the Supreme Court's, business what a student does after school and off school grounds.

It is not the Supreme Court's business if an individual in a free society wants to 'advocate drug use'. It wasn't on school property and it wasn't during school hours. It was during some dumb Olympic Torch event.

As is the case in almost all Supreme Court rulings anymore, it was a 5-4 decision, with the '4' being the least activist, the 'liberals' on the Court who voted in favor of the Constitution and those from the 'right', the '5', who trampled on it.

But, what's new?

Sunday Scroll #17 Excerpt

We only wasted 6 1/2 years
North Korea will close a nuclear reactor producing plutonium within three weeks in return for fuel oil and political concessions, a U.S. envoy said Saturday.
After 6 1/2 years of ridiculing Bill Clinton's Agreed Framework policy with North Korea, the Bush administration, war-mongering neocons, and rabid Clinton-haters, now embarrassingly have to admit it was the best policy all along. Man, that grinds their asses!

Sunday Scroll #17

We only wasted 6 1/2 years
North Korea will close a nuclear reactor producing plutonium within three weeks in return for fuel oil and political concessions, a U.S. envoy said Saturday.
After 6 1/2 years of ridiculing Bill Clinton's Agreed Framework policy with North Korea, the Bush administration, war-mongering neocons, and rabid Clinton-haters, now embarrassingly have to admit it was the best policy all along. Man, that grinds their asses!

More waste
CNN reported Thursday that the Secret Service expects President Bush to be "a high value terrorist target after he leaves office." They then showed the Secret Service practicing to deal with everything from James Bond-style stealth weapons to roadside IED's in order to meet that challenge. Even before 9/11, the cost of protection for former presidents was estimated as $24 million a year, and Bush will be guarded by an unprecedented 103 full-time agents starting in January 2009. However, a 1997 law limits the duration of Secret Service protection for former presidents to just 10 years.
A 103 full-time agents? He's going to need all that protection.

Oh shit, if this was Hillary!
Rudy Giuliani employs his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa as a consultant at Giuliani Partners despite a 2003 Suffolk County, N.Y., grand jury report that accuses Placa of sexually abusing children, as well as helping cover up the sexual abuse of children by other priests. Placa, who was part of a three-person team that handled allegations of abuse by clergy for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, is referred to as Priest F in the grand jury report.

Now you've pissed them off!
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to prohibit any aid to Saudi Arabia as lawmakers accused the close ally of religious intolerance and bankrolling terrorist organizations. In the past three years, Congress has passed bills to stop the relatively small amount of U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia, only to see the Bush administration circumvent the prohibitions. - Poor George and Dick - now they can't funnel any more of our taxpayers' money back to their Saudi buddies.

...only the outlaws would...
Photo provided by the National Geographic/Puruchuco-Huaquerones Archaeological Project shows a nearly 500-year-old wound, believed to have been caused by a Spanish firearm, in the first documented gunshot victim in the New World. Found in an Inca cemetery near Lima, Peru, the skull belonged to an Inca man who was likely involved in the 1536 siege of Lima.

Make love, not war
Just this month, the government confirmed that an Ohio Air Force laboratory had asked for $7.5 million to build a nonlethal "gay bomb," a weapon that would encourage enemies to make love, not war. The weapon would use strong aphrodisiacs to make enemy troops so sexually attracted to each other that they'd lose interest in fighting. ABC

He's a smart man
"Al Franken won Ben Stein’s money — and high-dollar contributions from scads of other celebrities in his bid for Minnesota’s Democratic Senate nomination, according to Federal Election Commission reports," Nicole Duran reports for Roll Call. "Stein, who hosted the eponymous Comedy Central game show 'Win Ben Stein’s Money' for six years, gave the former 'Saturday Night Live' writer $1,000." Stein, a former speechwriter and lawyer for Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, received criticism from the right for his support of the left-leaning Franken, revealed in his campaign's FEC report. At the Radio Equalizer, Brian Mahoney wanted to know what was "behind Ben Stein's bizarre contribution," and points to a "a sharp-eyed blogger" at Fraters Libertas who wrote the longtime Republican to find out why. The blogger asked Stein "why in the world do you want to stick up poor Minnesotans (and the rest of the country) with a comedian who fancies himself a second coming of secular St. Wellstone?" "Al is a close friend and one of the smartest people I have ever met," Stein told the blogger.

Get your checkbook out, dickhead
Following Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney's office. The amendment to the bill that sets the funding for the executive branch will be considered next week in the House of Representatives. "The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch," said Emanuel in a statement released to RAW STORY.

Pimped his ride
Imagine Ronald Leung's surprise. The 59-year-old Northern California car enthusiast and former sheriff's deputy learned Thursday that a prized 1956 Ford Thunderbird stolen from his mechanic's shop in 1976 had been recovered by the California Highway Patrol. "I said, 'You're not kidding me,'" Leung, still giddy from the news, told ABC News. "The car's been gone longer than my son is old. My son's 30, the car's been gone for 31 years." In fact, Palo Alto police called him on the same exact day -- June 21 -- that the car was swiped in 1976.

Don't forget to count Sgt. Sandoval
Sgt. Frank Sandoval was declared brain dead early Monday morning at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. He never regained consciousness after a June 13 surgery to implant a prosthetic mold to replace a portion of his skull that was removed due to a combat injury that occurred in Iraq in November 2005. He was kept on life support until Wednesday's procedure.

What's Rudy going to run on now?
Former Environmental Protection Agency boss Christie Whitman says she urged Ground Zero workers to wear respirators, but then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani blocked her efforts. She also said city officials didn't want EPA workers wearing haz-mat suits because they "didn't want this image of a city falling apart." In an interview scheduled to run the day before Whitman testifies in front of Congress on Monday, she told WNBC-TV she warned the city of the risks almost every day. And she said she believes illnesses killing first responders can be blamed on the city's lack of action. "I'm not a scientist ... but I do [believe that]," she told WNBC's Brian Thompson.
Rudy 'Be Scared' Giuliani just lost 90% of his platform.

What a croc
"But this is big: Crocs have made their way to the White House. Bush was photographed earlier this month wearing a black pair of the wildly successful resin shoes that got their start in Niwot. According to The Washington Post, Crocs representatives said Bush came by his pair independently. And never mind stem cells or Iraq. The real debate is socks with Crocs or not."
No, the 'real debate' for the Goober in Chief is if he's lacking in the Y chromosome area. If you wear black socks with shorts you're questionable ... if you where 'crocs', there's not much doubt about it, you need some damn testosterone injections.

My kind of woman
"The Republicans are dead in the water, and we need to put our foot on their necks and drown them." -- Maxine Waters

Phantom Thunder
Ten thousand American troops closed in on hundreds of suspected al Qaeda militants [actually, they're 'al-Qaeda-Lite] in western Baqouba, in Diyala province, the fiercest battleground in Operation Phantom Thunder, in a multi-pronged attack that is the largest single military campaign of the Iraq war. Al Qaeda insurgents fled to Baqouba when the American troop surge arrived in Baghdad. This time, U.S. troops hope to capture or kill them in Baqouba so they don't have to do this again in yet another city.

The Limbaugh/HD Award

Wow! Gentlemen and ladies, our esteemed blue ribbon panel that selects the winner of the 'prestigious, but infamous', Limbaugh/HD Award, given here weekly [almost], has its first unanimous pick. A very easy selection, and as the entire panel stated, one who undeniably has that same tinge of 'pathologicalness' ... that bizarre tendency to just totally fabricate a lie out of nowhere, as the two namesakes of the award.

By the way, how's the water in Oklahoma?

Oklahoma's senator, Mr. James Inhofe, is in dire need of a psychiatrist. The stunt he pulled this week alone would qualify his ass for a straight-jacket, but he has a long history of just being crazy.

Inhofe told a tall tale on a Los Angeles radio station on Thursday of how he was, "going over to vote the other day," when he overheard [Hillary] Clinton and [Barbara] Boxer conspiring to rein in right wing talk radio".

You listened to that audio tape, didn't you? Thursday, Inhofe said that just "the other day" ... "he was walking with two very liberal gals", and overheard them bitching and moaning about conservative talk radio. That audio is very clear.

Drudge, Fox News, Malkin, Coulter, Bortz, Goebbels, Hannity, Himmler, World Nut Daily and all the frightened wingnut blogging lambs went ballistic! Those carpet-munching conspiratory commie bitches are coming after our talk radio!!! They screamed and wrote, 'over our cold dead chickenhawk bodies they will'!

Both Clinton and Boxer denied saying it. Drudge, Fox News, Malkin, Coulter, Bortz, Goebbels, Hannity, Himmler, World Nut Daily and all the frightened wingnut bloggers called them both 'lying carpet-munching conspiratory commie bitches', but then;

Old Crazy Jim Inhofe - the best Oklahoma has to offer, obviously (and Tom Coburn?!!*??) - called Neil Cavuto's show Friday with the punch line for the whopper he told the day earlier. Inhofe told Cavuto;

“I’ve been telling this story for three years and told this story 100 times. I have it memorized … I tell it the same way every time because it gets a very good reaction."

Doh!

On Thursday, it was just the 'other day', but on Friday, he's told the same old tired lie '100 times over the last three years'? Don't these lying fools realize they're being recorded when they say this stuff?

Drudge, Fox News, Malkin, Coulter, Bortz, Goebbels, Hannity, Himmler, World Nut Daily and all the frightened wingnut blogging lambs sure have an awful lot retracting and apologizing to do.

Inhofe is a perfect match and a very worthy recipient of this week's award for liars ... In fact, as the panel's unanimous vote indicates, he may be the most worthy in the long history of this 'infamous' award ... He's at that same pathological level - at about the same stage of his obvious illness, as the paranoid schizophrenic liar, 'HD'.

Congratulations, Insane Okie. You are a perfect fit and - You are #17.

Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 6/17/07
Mormon Moron - Mitt Romney - 6/10/07
Bye Week - 6/3/07
Commander Guy - George W. Bush - 5/27/07
Pat's Brother - Bay Buchanan - 5/20/07
Used car salesman - John Boehner - 5/13/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/6/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 4/29/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 4/22/07
The Decider - George W. Bush - 4/15/07
Lying Chickenhawk VP - Dick Cheney - 4/8/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 4/1/07
Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales - 3/25/07
Fox mouthpieces Sean Hannity and
Victoria Toensing - 3/18/07
Fox News guy - Brit Hume - 3/11/07
VA Secretary - Jim Nicholson - 3/4/07
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 2/25/07

What Free Market?

Are there any Democrats, liberals, moderates or independents that live in any of the following states?

Arkansas
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Nebraska
Tennessee
Utah
Wyoming

None? Not even in Atlanta, Indianapolis, Little Rock or Knoxville? None in Connecticut or Delaware?

How about Dallas and Houston, Texas? Or St. Louis, Missouri? Las Vegas? How about the state of Florida anywhere north of Daytona Beach? Are there any Democrats that live in any of those areas? Any moderates or independents?

Of course there are. A lot of people other than 'conservatives' [sic] live in those states and cities and I'd venture to say that at least 50% of the people who live in those areas fit that category.

So then why doesn't Ed Schultz have a single radio station in any of those areas? There's no 'market' for the number 1 progressive radio talk show host in all those entire states and cities? Here's a guy who beats Sean Hannity head-up in Denver, Seattle, Portland and San Diego but he can't get a good audience in Atlanta, St. Louis or Las Vegas?

Doesn't sound like a 'free market' to me and do you know why? Because it's not. It is a small group of conservative owners who are monopolizing the public airwaves. If they were 'fair' and really driven by wanting to make a buck you can't say with a straight face that they wouldn't squeeze the Ed Schultz Show somewhere into their line-up to capture that segment of the population.

Progressive radio is shut out of those areas not because of the 'market'.

Expand the ownership and licensing of new radio stations and you will have a 'free market'.

TP

“Bin Laden Family Flight”

Does the FBI admit we screwed this up?

"Osama bin Laden may have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said FBI documents released Wednesday.

The papers, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, were made public by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based group that investigates government corruption.

One FBI document referred to a Ryan Air 727 airplane that departed Los Angeles International Airport on September 19, 2001, and was said to have carried Saudi nationals out of the United States.

"The plane was chartered either by the Saudi Arabian royal family or Osama bin Laden," according to the document, which was among 224 pages posted online".

Democratic Underground

Well after all, Bush did say "money trumps peace". I guess he could have added that in some circumstances it could possibly trump justice, too.

We need to find out who authorized these people to leave and how thoroughly were they investigated before they left.

Nice investigative reporting, Judicial Watch.

You know it's bad when Cheney bails

CHENEY: "VP OFFICE NOT PART OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH"

Vice President Dick Cheney's office has refused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information for the past four years and recently tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce those rules, according to documents released Thursday.

The vice president's office provided the information in 2001 and 2002, then stopped. When the oversight office objected, Cheney's office suggested the oversight office be shut down, according to documents released by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). The oversight office, a unit of the National Archives, appealed the issue to the Justice Department, which has not yet ruled.

Waxman said Cheney's office claims it need not comply with the executive order because it is not an "entity within the executive branch."

Now that's 'overwhelming force'

More than 7,500 US troops and 2,500 Iraqi forces, which are combing Baquba, also uncovered several weapons caches, including four homemade bombs in a house and another 10 bombs buried underground, the US military said.

What to do with 10,000 troops?

Baquba, the capital of Diyala province just northeast of Baghdad, had been infiltrated by al-Qaeda over the past year—between 400 and 500 al-Qaeda fighters were estimated to be in the city when the U.S. forces attacked on Monday, and now those who remain are surrounded, in a slowly tightening cordon.

What? You annihilate 500 al-Qaeda scumbags, that's what you do.

But, pardon me for asking. Couldn't the '2,500 Iraqi forces' handle the 400 to 500 al-Qaeda bad guys? I mean, if those fucking lightweights can't handle them when they outnumber them, 5 to 1, maybe they deserve to have their asses kicked. At least they don't deserve our guys dying for their chickenshit asses, that's for sure.

The only thing overwhelming about our fiasco in Iraq is just how fucking overwhelmingly dumb we've turned out to be.

Not my sons you sons-of-bitches. Not in this lifetime.

He's an idiot ... she's a phony

That baby's ugly!








You can post a real picture of an embryonic stem cell - like the one above that can fit on the tip of a pin - Or, you could use this bogus picture on the left to make your point like Michele Malkin did on her blog.

Those in denial like the ones with the little 'babies' in it.

And what do those who should have the most to say on the subject think?

No, let's listen to the 25-30% of the least knowledgeable, those too stupid and/or too backward thinking to know better, on this subject.

(By the way, thanks to my 'comrade', 'Dum Pendebat' for leading me astray, or rather, to Malkin's blog.)

Meanwhile, on page B7

Army Again Weighs Longer Iraq Tours

WASHINGTON - The Army is considering whether it will have to extend the combat tours of troops in Iraq if President Bush opts to maintain the recent buildup of forces through spring 2008.

Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren testified Tuesday that the service is reviewing other options, including relying more heavily on Army reservists or Navy and Air Force personnel, so as not to put more pressure on a stretched active-duty force.

Most Soldiers spend 15 months in combat with a guaranteed 12 months home, a rotation plan that has infuriated Democrats because it exceeds the service's goal of giving troops equal time home as in combat. In coming weeks, the Senate will vote on a proposal by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., that would restrict deployments.

Military.com

Sorry, we can't find your reason for being here

Missing Soldier's Wife May Be Deported

BOSTON -- The wife of a soldier missing in Iraq could face deportation, her lawyer told a television station.

Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, who has been missing since his unit was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on May 12, had petitioned for a green card for his wife, Yaderlin, whom he married in 2004, Boston's WBZ-TV reported Tuesday.

Their attorney, Matthew Kolken, said Yaderlin illegally entered the United States from the Dominican Republic in 2001. Her husband's request for a green card and legal residence status for her alerted authorities to her situation, Kolken said.

The attorney said his client would not be eligible for a green card under normal circumstances, but he is seeking a hardship waiver for her. If she were to have to leave the U.S., she would have to wait 10 years before reapplying.

Nah, they don't cheat

“The Republican Party has a long and ignominious record of caging – much of it focused on the African American community,” Kennedy and Whitehouse explain in their letter which gives details of the RNC using voting caging tactics to suppress minority voters in both 1981 and 1986. After both incidents, the GOP had signed consent decrees that they would not engage in the activity in the future.

Nonetheless, email evidence has shown that in 2004, Tim Griffin created and sent caging lists on behalf of the Bush 2004 campaign as originally reported by the BBC to little American media fanfare, prior to the election. Griffin, who became an aide to Karl Rove, was later appointed by the Bush Administration as the US Attorney from Arkansas after they had fired Bud Cummins. Griffin has since resigned from the post in the wake of the scandal."

It's merely a myth that Republicans repress the vote of African Americans in this country.

Just ask any of the African Americans in the picture on the left here who were still waiting to vote on November 2, 2004, in Miami, two hours after the polls closed. Or ask some of those who waited in line for up to 'seven-to-nine-hour'[s] to vote like they had to in Cleveland.

Nah - it's a figment of their imaginations ... Republicans don't cheat when it comes to elections.

Scoop

Juneteenth

"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer." - General Gordon Granger

On June 19, 1865, the Union General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Tex., to inform inhabitants of the Civil War's end two months earlier. Two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Granger's General Order Number 3 finally freed the last 250,000 slaves whose bondage, due to the minimal Union presence in the region, had been essentially unaffected by Lincoln's efforts. June 19th-which was quickly shortened to "Juneteenth" among celebrants-has become the African-American addendum to our national Independence Day, for Juneteenth jubilees remind us, the Emancipation Proclamation did not bring about emancipation, and the prevailing portrayal of Independence Day ignores the ignominious incidence of slavery entirely.

Sunday Scroll #16 - Who's Your Daddy Edition

Fathers' Day
"... is a primarily secular holiday inaugurated in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day" ... In other words fellas, we got a day because mothers already had one. Happy Fathers' Day.

Today 35 years ago
When Frank Wills, a security guard, found proof of the break in, he called the police. On June 17, 1972, police apprehended five men attempting to break into and wiretap Democratic Party offices. The five men were Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez and Frank Sturgis. With two other accomplices they were tried and convicted in January 1973. All seven men were either directly or indirectly employees of President Nixon's Campaign to Re-elect the President, CREEP, and many people, including the trial judge, John J. Sirica, suspected a conspiracy involving higher-echelon government officials. ~ Watergate

All this with a Republican Congress
"To hear George W. Bush tell it, he's on the side of the angels when it comes to federal spending. In his Saturday radio address, he blasted congressional Democrats for pursuing "tax and spend policies," while trumpeting his own commitment to keep taxes low and restrain federal spending. He said his plan will produce a balanced federal budget by 2012. But what Mr. Bush didn't mention, and what he almost never mentions, is the National Debt. With good reason.

On the day he took office, the National Debt stood at this unfathomable number:
$5,727.776.738,304.64
In fiscal shorthand, that's $5.7 trillion dollars. Trillion with a "T."
Six and a half years later, the Bureau of Public Debt tells us the National Debt clocks in at a staggering:
$8,835,268,597,181.95

That's $8.8 trillion – an increase of $3.1 trillion dollars since January 20, 2001. And that amounts to a jump of 54% during Mr. Bush's watch."
[Gotta love those 'conservatives']

What is that?

This is supposedly Angelina Jolie's back and of course your attention is drawn to her tatoo's but what's with the top of her spine along her neck?

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Grinds their asses
Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton liquidated the contents of their blind trust upon learning it contained investments of $5 million to $25 million that could pose conflicts of interest or prove to be embarrassing to her presidential campaign. The blind trust and a bank account valued in the same range place the Clinton's total wealth at between $10 million and $50 million. The Clintons had to disclose the contents of the blind trust in April under instructions from the Office of Government Ethics and sold the assets in May, according to a disclosure form filed Friday. The Clintons have had a blind trust continuously since 1993 and had no control over its transactions.
Slick, and raking it ... Grinds their asses ...

A whale of a tale
This photo released by the New Bedford Whaling Museum shows the disassembled bomb lance fragment, patented in 1879, left, that was removed from the neck of a bowhead whale captured at Barrow, Alaska, in May 2007. At right is a similar assembled, unfired bomb lance patented in 1885.

A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.

He did do it













The Miami bankruptcy judge's finding clears the way for Fred Goldman to pursue a claim to the book rights, which are held by a court-appointed trustee for the bankrupt company, said one of Fred Goldman's lawyers, David Cook. "Judge Cristol ruled that Lorraine Brooke Associates is a speed bump on Goldman's journey, for his quest to justice," Cook said. He said Goldman would sell the rights to publish the book under a revised name -- "I Did It," or possibly "Confessions of an Acquitted Murderer." - [picture link]

Not a good day
Two brothers were killed in separate highway crashes in this coastal town just hours apart. Adrian Basford, 52, of Winterport, died Saturday afternoon when his motorcycle went out of control on U.S. 1A, crossed a driveway and struck an embankment. State police said Basford was traveling too fast while rounding a curve. His brother, Wallace Basford, 48, then died just before midnight in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 1. His van failed to negotiate a left turn as he was coming off a bridge and slammed into a wall, the Waldo County Sheriff’s Department said.

The Limbaugh/HD Award
This week's winner of the Limbaugh/HD Award used to be a Fox News propagandist but now he earns his living lying to the country for the Bush administration ... Ladies and gentlemen, this week's recipient is none other than, Mr. Tony 'Snowjob' Snow.

On The Daily Show Thursday Jon Stewart embarrasses Snow by playing a couple of video clips showing him flat-out lying. Stewart plays a clip from March 15 and the subject is the firings of the U.S. Attorneys and Snow says, "These things were based on performance and not on, sort of, attempts to do political retaliation."

Stewart then plays a clip of Snow at a news conference the day before, this past Wednesday, June 13, and Snow is asked by a reporter about the White House's claim that the firings were performance-based and Snow responds, "No, that is something we have never said."

Oops, sorry Tony ... And that was only three months ago. Congratulations, Mr. Snowjob - You're #16.

Go here to Raw Story and watch the video from The Daily Show. Stewart also exposes last week's winner, Mormom Moron Mitt Romney, for lying once again about his stance on abortion, has actual footage of a drunken John McCain, and get's a few digs in on Obama and Hillary - very funny video.

Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
Mormon Moron - Mitt Romney - 6/10/07
Bye Week - 6/3/07
Commander Guy - George W. Bush - 5/27/07
Pat's Brother - Bay Buchanan - 5/20/07
Used car salesman - John Boehner - 5/13/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/6/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 4/29/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 4/22/07
The Decider - George W. Bush - 4/15/07
Lying Chickenhawk VP - Dick Cheney - 4/8/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 4/1/07
Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales - 3/25/07
Fox mouthpieces Sean Hannity and
Victoria Toensing - 3/18/07
Fox News guy - Brit Hume - 3/11/07
VA Secretary - Jim Nicholson - 3/4/07
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 2/25/07

Hamas needs their asses kicked

"Today, the Hamas fighters overran two of the Fatah movement's most important security command centers in the Gaza Strip. Witnesses said they then dragged the defeated gunmen into the street and shot them to death, execution style".

If I was leading this charge, on the way out of Iraq I'd send 20,000 of my freshest troops - out of the newly relieved 150,000 - over to Gaza and kick some fucking Hamas ass for a week or two. That would be pretty easy duty ... it would save us the transportation costs, and it's obviously long overdue.

Read these - What word is missing?

Rudy Giuliani's "12 Commitments to America"

1. I will keep America on offense in the Terrorists’ War on Us.

2. I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders, and identify every non-citizen in our nation.

3. I will restore fiscal discipline and cut wasteful Washington spending.

4. I will cut taxes and reform the tax code.

5. I will impose accountability on Washington.

6. I will lead America towards energy independence.

7. I will give Americans more control over, and access to, healthcare with affordable and portable free-market solutions.

8. I will increase adoptions, decrease abortions, and protect the quality of life for our children.

9. I will reform the legal system and appoint strict constructionist judges.

10. I will ensure that every community in America is prepared for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

11. I will provide access to a quality education to every child in America by giving real school choice to parents.

12. I will expand America’s involvement in the global economy and strengthen our reputation around the world.

It's like Disney World over there!

"Gen. Petraeus was quoted as saying, "I'm talking about professional soccer leagues with real grass field stadiums, several amusement parks, big ones, markets that are very vibrant."

'Big amusement parks'?

It didn't take Petraeus long to take up that old familiar habit of lying like the Bush administration, did it?

What a shame.

There haven't been any Generals killed in Iraq but there sure have been a lot of casualties.

You couldn't make this shit up!

California GOP outsources political director position

The California Republican Party has decided no American is qualified to take one of its most crucial positions -- state deputy political director -- and has hired a Canadian for the job through a coveted H-1B visa, a program favored by Silicon Valley tech firms that is under fire for displacing skilled American workers.

Christopher Matthews, 35, a Canadian citizen, has worked for the state GOP as a campaign consultant since 2004. But he recently was hired as full-time deputy political director, with responsibility for handling campaign operations and information technology for the country's largest state Republican Party operation, California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring confirmed in a telephone interview this week.

In the nation's most populous state -- which has produced a roster of nationally known veteran political consultants -- "it's insulting but also embarrassing ... to bring people from the outside who don't know the difference between Lodi and Lancaster ... and who can't even vote," said Karen Hanretty, a political commentator and former state GOP party spokeswoman.

U.S. Department of Labor records show the state Republican Party applied for an H-1B visa to fill the job of "political consultant" and was granted a visa labor certification in March 2007. The three-year H-1B visa does not become valid until Oct. 1, 2007, government records show.

That's unbelievable ... We all know Republicans love to hire foreign workers at a cheap rate, but this is egregious even for a Republican!

Their stupidity is great entertainment

Certainly so-called 'conservatives' (sic) are not known to be the sharpest utensil in the drawer and their recent touting of the Gore video from 1992, where Gore so elegantly points out how Saddam Hussein was actually the creation of Reagan and the first Bush, further proves that.

Hey idiots, that video backs Gore's and those of us who have been right about our historical blunder of invading Iraq, position, not yours. And the fact that you're all too stupid to realize it is just more proof of just how lame you truly are.

Here, I'll let the Carpetbagger break it to you, dumbasses.

Man, are you dumb! Keep talking and writing - Laughing at your stupid asses is great entertainment.

Homeland Insecurity

Bush's War Weakens Our National Security

The last of 3,300 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade bound for Iraq are expected to fly out of Pope Air Force Base on Sunday [6/10], marking the first time since World War II that all of the division’s combat infantry brigades will be at war...

The 82nd also has a support brigade in Iraq and an aviation brigade split between the two war zones, said the division spokesman, Maj. Tom Earnhardt. All told, the 82nd has an all-time record of nearly 17,000 troops deployed, he said...

...So many soldiers were deployed last month that the division had to cancel its annual All American Week celebration. Earlier this spring, it had relinquished its decades-old role providing the nation's emergency response brigade, a unit that stands ready to board planes within 18 hours to fight anywhere in the world.

Not only has Bush's needless war in Iraq cost our country 3,512 American lives, 26,000 wounded and a couple of trillion dollars, but it's also made our country less safe.

A war that has absolutely nothing to do with our national security has now, for the first time in almost 60 years, left us without our 'Ready Brigade', and the country remains silent.

The sheep and the ignorant, those who continue to remain silent or who defend Bush's needless and unnecessary invasion of Iraq, should be embarrassed by what their silence and/or ignorance has led us to.

But of course, if you're oblivious to reality and are nothing but a herd of scared sheep who do nothing but follow, you can't be counted on to do what's right.

So shut-up, sit there and be silent and those of us who have been right all along will bail your pathetic asses out with our continued resistance to Bush's made up 'war on terror'.

To Bill O'Reilly "it doesn't mean anything"

"Do you care if another bomb went off in Tikrit? Does it mean anything? No! It doesn’t mean anything." Bill O'Reilly - 6/12/07

I have said before here that wingnuts don't really care about the deaths of our troops and I have also said that it is surprising when they admit it.

Bill O'Reilly doesn't care if there are bombs in Iraq that kill and maim and that's not surprising if you know the same 'wingnuts' I know. I know they're phony patriots that couldn't care less about the number of deaths in Iraq. They don't want to hear about those deaths because it further shows how wrong they've been.

They're simply despicable and un-American.

Think Progress

No wonder Saddam didn't have any

“The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.”

If you told me our government actually did this I'd have to think you were making it up.

Sixty-four million pounds of nerve and mustard gas, 400,000 chemical-filled bombs and 500 tons of radioactive waste? Dumped not only into the Atlantic Ocean, but not far off our shore?

Come on - You can't be serious!
(VIA-TP)

what time is it?

Those 'adoring' Albanians ripped off Bush's watch.

Raw Story

UPDATE-I just saw video on 'Countdown' that showed Bush take off his watch and put it into his pocket. Those 'adoring' Albanians are not thieves - They're just confused.

I thought Bush listened to the Generals?

“A different choice was made by the President,” Powell answered. “The President received advice from his military advisers last fall that said, do not send more troops.

“Gen. [John] Abizaid went before the Congress, the commander of Central Command, and said he had consulted with all his division commanders in Iraq and all of the senior commanders, and none of them wanted to send additional troops.

“They thought the strategy at that point should be to put the burden on the Iraqis to resolve what I call a civil war.” - Colin Powell

The poor 'conservatives' (sic) ... Their darling poster boy is telling the truth about the 'Commander Guy' and his lying nonsense about 'listening to the Generals'.

It's hilarious to watch and hear all the backpedaling being done by all of the same people who thought Colin Powell was all it not so long ago.

They've unanimously turned against the General and for what? For finally telling the truth!

Now that's your typical so-called 'conservative'. Lie and cheat at the detriment of your country but don't ever question a fellow Republican.

Hey Albania, let's make a deal

"Nearing the end of an eight-day trip, Bush got a hero's reception in this desperately poor country ... Cannons boomed salutes from mountains overlooking the capital. Huge banners proclaimed "Proud to be Partners," and billboards read "President Bush in Albania Making History."

At home, Bush's job approval rating stands at its all-time low. But here, Prime Minister Sali Berisha said Bush was Albania's "greatest and most distinguished guest we have ever had in all times."

Since Albania is the only country left in the world that views George Bush favorably, maybe we could trade our village idiot for a few head of cattle, or whatever Albanians would have of mediocre value.

Let him screw up Albania like he's screwed up our country. We'll see how long that cheering lasts.

And oh yeah, by the way, someone needs to tell the Albanians that Bush opposed our involvement in Kosovo - where 90% of the population is ethnic Albanian - so their gratitude is actually owed to Bill Clinton's and N.A.T.O's policies, not Bush's.

If Kosovo had been left up to George Bush, those Kosovars would have been exterminated by the Serbs and there wouldn't be a Kosovo.

But I guess we shouldn't tell them that - They might give us less cattle.

The Post says, "for example, (Bush) was confronted with a difference of views over whether the United States should take military action to protect the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo. Zakheim was against it. Wolfowitz was for it. In the end, swayed by arguments that the crisis threatened European stability, Bush reluctantly backed Clinton's decision to intervene." (Washington Post, 11/19/99)

"I do need somebody to tell me where Kosovo is. I know how to ask," Bush said. Bush also conceded that his foreign policy experience was limited to Mexico and that Kosovo was "not even on the radar screen." (New York Times, 3/15/99)

As I said, if it had been up to Bush, (and a majority of Congressional Republicans) there would have been genocide in Kosovo.

Save your applause Albanians. You have the wrong Administration.

But then of course, so do we.

ABC

Sunday Scroll #15

Bandar Bush
"The new allegations point a finger directly at Bandar, the son of the Saudi crown prince and a man who has been a key ally for President Bush and his father, as well as a frequent contact of Vice President Dick Cheney. For years, the prince has been considered the most important go-between in the close and often secretive relationship between the U.S. and the royal family."
'Bandar Bush'

Can't beat 'em, hire 'em

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Dream on, Chia
NEW YORK - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says history will remember President Bush's foreign policy favorably despite current troubles in Iraq, Iran, North Korea and the Middle East

"History's judgment is rarely the same as today's headlines," she said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press.

How does that evolve?
A frog with fluorescent purple markings and 12 kinds of dung beetles were among two dozen new species discovered in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, scientists said Monday.



The sheep aren't herding as easily
Conservatives are upset that the public isn't buying into the spin that the recent rash of FBI-nurtured and incompetent wannabe so-called terrorist plots, are somehow related to the Iraqi insurgents. That is what Conservatives are really mad about and why they are spittin' fire angry that the American people aren't more concerned about terrorism. The Iraq-homegrown terrorism scheme...continued

Fox eats dog
A British performance artist has eaten part of a corgi -- the breed of dog Queen Elizabeth II favors as pets -- to protest the alleged mistreatment of animals by the royal family.

Mark McGowan dined on corgi meatballs Tuesday at a table set up on a London street in hopes of drawing attention to media reports that Prince Philip, the queen's husband, had beaten a fox to death during a hunt. The event was broadcast over a live radio program.

The Limbaugh Award
This week's winner of the Limbaugh Award - The award for shameless liars given here weekly (almost) at 'done that', is Mitt 'the Mormon Moron' Romney.

At this week's Republican debate Romney told a BIG lie about the real truth with 'George Bush's War' in Iraq when he said, 'If Saddam “had opened up his country to I.A.E.A. inspectors, and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction,” the war might have been averted."

Now that's a lie.

Saddam Hussein had allowed the inspectors free reign of his country prior to the invasion and it was George W. Bush who told the I.A.E.A inspectors to leave or risk being blown to bits by the 'shock and awe'.

No, no, Mr. Romney. You are a bald-faced revisionist liar who might be able to get away with that bullshit with the many fools and sheep in this country too stupid to know better, but you won't get away with it here.

Franklin Roosevelt wasn't involved with the ratification of the 16th Amendment and it was George Bush who kicked out the weapons inspectors, not Saddam Hussein. So that earns you this week's award for shameless liars.

Congratulations Mitt - You're #15.

Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
Bye Week - 6/3/07
Commander Guy - George W. Bush - 5/27/07
Pat's Brother - Bay Buchanan - 5/20/07
Used car salesman - John Boehner - 5/13/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/6/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 4/29/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 4/22/07
The Decider - George W. Bush - 4/15/07
Lying Chickenhawk VP - Dick Cheney - 4/8/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 4/1/07
Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales - 3/25/07
Fox mouthpieces Sean Hannity and
Victoria Toensing - 3/18/07
Fox News guy - Brit Hume - 3/11/07
VA Secretary - Jim Nicholson - 3/4/07
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 2/25/07

"Don't Ask, Don't Translate"

"As the friends I once served with head off to 15-month deployments, I regret I’m not there to lessen their burden and to serve my country. I’m trained to fight, I speak Arabic and I’m willing to serve. No recruiter needs to make a persuasive argument to sign me up. I’m ready, and I’m waiting".

Very interesting first person account in the NY Times by Stephen Benjamin, that makes a helluva lot of sense.

So fucking typical

Tort reformer Robert Bork sues Yale Club
Claiming the Yale Club of New York City “wantonly, willfully, and recklessly” failed to provide easy to climb staging, conservative uber-activist Judge Robert Bork is suing the club for $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages from a fall Bork sustained while mounting the dais at the club for a scheduled speech. Bork, an infamous tort reform advocate, hasn’t always been such a fan of suing for punitive damages, at least when other people do it.

Just like a phony-ass conservative - The absolute epitome of hypocrisy.

Bitch and moan your entire career about excessive lawsuits and turn around and sue because your fat clumsy ass slips and falls.

Unbelievable ... but so fucking typical...

TP

Off the wagon

"US President George W. Bush was unwell Friday and had to skip a morning working session at the Group of Eight summit"

Great representation, huh?

'Near beer'? Yeah right.

06/06/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. Caleb P. Christopher, 25, of Chandler, Ariz., died June 3 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment...
06/06/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
Staff Sgt. Greg P. Gagarin, 38, of Los Angeles...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division...died June 3 in Thania, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an IED detonated near their vehicle
06/06/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
Sgt. James C. Akin, 23, of Albuquerque, N.M...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division...died June 3 in Thania, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an IED detonated near their vehicle
06/06/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
Sgt. Tyler J. Kritz, 21, of Eagle River, Wis...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division...died June 3 in Thania, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an IED detonated near their vehicle
06/06/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
Sgt. Robert A. Surber, 24, of Inverness, Fla...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division...died June 3 in Thania, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an IED detonated near their vehicle
06/06/07 MNF: Soldiers attacked during combat logistics patrol - 1 killed
One 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device at approximately 5 p.m. June 6 while executing a combat logistics patrol in the vicinity of Bayji, Iraq.
06/06/07 MNF: Task Force Lightning Soldiers attacked - 1 killed
One Task Force Lightning Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations in Diyala Province, June 6.
06/06/07 DoD Identifies Air Force Casualties (part 2) previously unannounced
Staff Sgt. Matthew J. Kuglics, 25, of North Canton, Ohio...assigned as Special Agents to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations...died June 5 in Kirkuk, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.
06/06/07 DoD Identifies Air Force Casualties (part 1) previously unannounced
Tech. Sgt. Ryan A. Balmer, 33, of Mishawaka, Ind...assigned as Special Agents to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations...died June 5 in Kirkuk, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.
06/06/07 AP: Eagle River soldier killed in Iraq
A young soldier from Eagle River has lost his life in Iraq. The family of 21-year-old Tyler Kritz says he died on Sunday serving his second tour of duty as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Kritz had been stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.
06/06/07 AP: Albuquerque soldier killed in Baghdad
Army Sgt. James C. Akin, 23, was killed over the weekend in Baghdad when his Humvee was destroyed by a bomb, family spokesman Victor Raigoza told the Albuquerque Journal...Raigoza said Akin’s wife, Syreeta Akin, was notified of the soldier’s death Sunday.

Bush's new yo-yo

Two months ago Gen. David Petraeus argued against a timeline from withdrawing from Iraq “because we’re only about two months into the surge". Yesterday Petraeus stated, "We haven’t started the surge — the full surge — yet. So let me have a few months".

Bush couldn't find any other general but Petraeus to lead his so-called 'surge'. It's becoming clearer now why he accepted.

He has almost less credibility than Bush.

They all look alike anyway

In yesterday's report on the corruption indictment of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., Fox News Channel aired footage from its archive that actually showed another black lawmaker, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.

A clip of the mistaken identification was posted to YouTube by a liberal blog, Talking Points Memo.

And neither of them are named Sherrod?

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