Outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace said that “the recent rise in U.S. troop deaths in Iraq is the ‘wrong metric‘ to use in assessing the effectiveness” of the U.S. military in Iraq. “So it’s not about levels of violence,” he explained. “It’s about progress … in the minds of the Iraqi people.”
For a good cause
[John Edwards has a bumper sticker that reads] " Ask me about my son's death ..."
Those rotten bastards killed Mickey!
A Mickey Mouse look-alike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was beaten to death in the show's final episode Friday. In the final skit, "Farfour" was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli a "terrorist." "Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.Twin watches twin die
They were twins and, by coincidence, corporals in the same battalion. On Friday they should have been celebrating their 24th birthday. But it was not to be; Will Rigby sat at the bedside of his brother, John, in an Iraq field hospital and watched him die. Corporal John Rigby had been fatally wounded by a roadside bomb near Basra Palace in southern Iraq that morning, and was named by the Ministry of Defence yesterday as the 153rd British serviceman whose life had been claimed by the conflict.Closing in on Henry
Barry Bonds watches the flight of his 750th career home run [on the way to 756]
The trip from hell
A 2 ½-hour JetBlue Airways flight bound from Fort Lauderdale to New York on Wednesday turned into a 25-hour odyssey that finally ended Thursday afternoon, as a chain of problems left 150 passengers staggered by the mind-boggling delay.
Sure, he could just blend in
An inmate with tattoos covering his face and head stole a gun from a corrections officer and shot him to death Monday when the prisoner was at a doctor's appointment, authorities said. Curtis Allgier fled the University of Utah medical center on foot, carjacked a Ford Explorer and was captured miles away at an Arby's restaurant after a high-speed chase.Today a long time ago
The Battle of Gettysburg
The two armies began to collide at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division, which was soon reinforced with two corps of Union infantry. However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.You can take it to the bank
George W. Bush made plain his feelings about Fidel Castro on Thursday - wishing the Cuban leader would disappear. "One day the good Lord will take Fidel Castro away," Bush said in answer to a question after a speech at the Naval War College. Asked whether Bush was wishing Castro dead, White House National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said: "The president was commenting on an inevitable event."
No. 28301-016
For years he was known as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and assistant to President Bush. On Wednesday, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby became federal inmate No. 28301-016... The assignment of an inmate number by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons represents another step on the road to prison. Inmate numbers stay with prisoners even after their release.But it wasn't in his freezer
Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), repeatedly accepted large sums of money and expensive gifts from Abramoff and his clients. In return, he routed $400,000 to the lobbyist’s client and championed Abramoff’s interests to federal officials.
I guess we should ask nicely
"The U.S. military said the raids, conducted in the pre-dawn hours in the densely populated Shiite slum, targeted terrorists tied to "Iranian terror networks," which the military said are responsible for helping the flow of lethal aid into Iraq. ...Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the attacks were carried out without the proper approval".
It's tough out there
Fox News reporter Laura Ingle got the shock of her life yesterday when, during a live interview, a man walked up and yanked the microphone out of her hand. Ingle was outside the Fifth Ave. Apple store around 9:30 a.m. speaking to Newsweek technology editor Steven Levy about the new iPhone when the man lunged at Ingle's mike.Let God separate them
Under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. special operations became a “giant killing machine,” according to former Army colonel Douglas Macgregor, who anticipates a change when Navy Vice Adm. Eric Olson takes the helm of the operations. “The emphasis will be on, ‘If you have to kill someone, then for God’s sakes, kill the right people,’” Macgregor said. “That’s been lost over the last several years.”
Yeah sure, he's stable
According to the Boston Globe, in one of the [Romney] family's 12-hour drives to their family's cottage in Canada over 25 years ago, Romney strapped a dog carrier to the roof of the car for the whole trip -- with the family Irish setter, Seamus, inside. Seamus protested in a scatological way, going to the bathroom on the roof of the car.Can't get her off my ass
A couple driving home separately from Wisconsin each hit the same deer earlier this week. Winona County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Ron Ganrude said the deer jumped out of the ditch about 4 p.m. Wednesday on a road near Nodine and rammed the left side of Bill MacAskill's Acura. The animal caused about $3,000 worth of damage to the front and rear doors, MacAskill said. "The deer was moving pretty fast," he said. Following behind the Acura was MacAskill's wife, Jean, on a Honda motorcycle. She braked hard to avoid hitting the wounded deer and lost control.
How a Democrat should act
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), a former NFL quarterback, keeps a sign outside his congressional office noting the federal deficit and the average American’s individual share of the debt. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) wanted to use it as a prop, so he took it. Shuler was not amused.I guess you picked the wrong sign, Louie.
We want Gore
More than half of Americans say they wouldn't consider voting for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new national poll made available to McClatchy Newspapers and NBC News.
Yeah George, it's pouring ...
"Three years ago today [6/28/04], the U.S. officially transfered sovereignty to Iraq ...
“The Iraqi people have their country back,” Bush said at a NATO summit in Istanbul, Turkey. Bush was passed a note from National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that put it this way: “Mr. President, Iraq is sovereign.” Bush wrote “Let freedom reign!” on the note and passed it back."
Is George a poet or did he get that line from that stupid theme song on Hannity's radio show?
Limbaugh/HD Award
The winner of this week's Limbaugh/HD Award is our second repeat winner, having won the #10 award in April, Mr. Rudy 'Did I mention 9/11?' Giuliani, joins only George W. Bush as multiple recipients of this 'prestigious, but infamous' award.Rudy was out whoring for votes at Pat Robertson's Regents University this week and the subject of terrorism came up [now that's surprising - I would think he would talk to a bunch of evangelicals about family-values, abortion, or the sacrament of marriage] and Rudy completely forgot what he had said only nine months earlier. The lie was so obvious, even Rudy, after reviewing the video tape, and being confronted about his flip-flop, threw up his arms [pictured above], and admitted he thought his chances were good that he'd be winning his second Limbaugh/HD Award.
Rudy, this week at Regents University;
Giuliani argued that Clinton treated the World Trade Center bombing as a criminal act instead of a terrorist attack, calling it "a big mistake" that emboldened other strikes on the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia, in Kenya and Tanzania and later on the USS Cole while docked in Yemen in 2000.
"The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond," Giuliani said. "(Osama) bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it."
Rudy speaking in Florida, September 2006;
"The idea of trying to cast blame on President Clinton is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don't think he deserves it."It's one or the other, Rudy.
I'll go with your first instinct - Your 9/06 version is more accurate and unlike this week, you didn't have your pants around your ankles when you said it.
Congratulations, Mr. Overrated - You're #18.
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh/HD Award
Crazy Lying Okie - James Inhofe - 6/24/07
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
