Democrats on Saturday touted legislation to guarantee troops time at home between deployments to Iraq. "The president's surge has sent many of our Army units to Iraq for the second and third time. We are asking our troops to make heroic sacrifices yet as soon as they return we rush them back into battle," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., author of the bill that passed the House Aug. 2 on a vote of 229-194.Bush serves French fries
"We have had disagreements on Iraq in particular. But I've never allowed disagreements to not find other ways to work together." [Want some freedom fries with that crow, George?]We're #42!
Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries. For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles.
What a trip
The International Space Station's robotic arm moves the S5 truss U.S. astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour have begun a spacewalk to continue construction on the International Space Station and examine possible damage to the shuttle.
Costs way more than gasoline
The average retail price of a gallon of whole milk has never been higher -- $3.80 a gallon -- according to July Department of Agriculture statistics. Experts blame the price spike -- up 51 cents since February -- on milk shortages in Europe and Australia. Prices are approaching $5 a gallon in Georgia...
Now if I could only figure out how to use as much gasoline as I drink milk.
Today a real long time ago
Mark Antony committed suicide, having been told Cleopatra was dead. According to the doctor Olympus (an eye-witness), he was brought to Cleopatra's tomb and died in her arms. A few days later, on August 12, 30 BC, Cleopatra also died by snakebite.
That explains it
Steve Graham might not be in the doghouse over a dispute with his wife, but as far as his neighbors are concerned, he's not far from it. For the past seven years, Graham, 55, has been living in his car parked in the backyard of a house he and his wife, La Donna Graham, own. An extension cord from the house to the car provides power for a 13-inch TV, an oscillating fan and a radio. "I get better reception there than I do in there," he said, pointing at the house. "I listen to Rush (Limbaugh) every day, just about."
You listen to Limbaugh every day and your damn brain turns to mush.
Their dirty little secret
'To save America, we need another 9/11'
ONE MONTH from The Anniversary, I'm thinking another 9/11 would help America.
You can bet a lot of them feel that way - It's just odd for one to admit it. They hideously feel it would somehow justify how wrong they got it - Only too foolish to realize it would only further reinforce, how wrong they got it.
Sorry Gov, no room in the Green Zone
(AP) A powerful roadside bomb on Saturday killed the governor and police chief of a southern province that has seen fierce internal fighting between Shiite factions, officials said. The bomb struck a convoy carrying the Khalil Jalil Hamza, the governor of the Qadisiyah province, and the provincial police chief home from a funeral service for a tribal sheik at about 5 p.m., army Brig. Gen. Othman al-Farood said.
The NEW Limbaugh Award
That's right ladies and gentlemen, the award, the prestigious, but infamous award for liars, will no longer be called the 'Limbaugh/HD Award'.
As all eight of you are obviously aware of, - [I know, last week I said 'six', but, and I apologize, I forgot two regulars here, 'gremio' and 'truthteller'(sic)] - HD completely embarrassed himself this week ... revealing his pathetic ineptness to absorb even the simplest of facts, when he ignorantly wrote;
-"Does Stram point out that these [Iranians] are Shi’ite MUSLIMS, who are allies of al-Qaeda and sympathetic to Bin Laden and the Taliban? No, he doesn’t."The selection committee, the acclaimed 'Blue Ribbon' panel, has been trying to get me to drop 'HD's' name from this award for quite some time and I have resisted - But after this past week, I have no defense against their argument that he's just way too dumb, simple-minded, and unworthy of having such a prestigious award named after him.
At one point, just before this week's final vote, I almost had the 'committee' swayed back into keeping the 'HD', [I'd like to get to 25 of these damn things] but then the comically incapable moron proceeded to write in one of his featured, 'daily round-up at 'done that'", pieces;
"He blogs over at ‘15 seats’ about “The most overpaid man in the country”.The problem? The post was titled, "The most overhyped man in the country". ... I can't defend that stupidity... Gentlemen and ladies, the 'HD', has been purged.
With that stain removed ... This week's winner of the prestigious award for lying, is Mitt "Big Rooster", Romney.
Ironically, the committee gave a lot of thought to giving this week's award to Rush Limbaugh, but since he won Buzzflash's Media PUTZ Award this week, the committee chose Romney for his egregious, but perpetuating, lie about Saddam Hussein and 9/11. Only compulsive liars are still making that claim.
Congratulations, Rooster Romney - You're #24.
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh Award
Total Suck Up - Glenn Beck - 8/5/07
General Gonzo - Alberto Gonzales - 7/29/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 7/22/07
Bush bin Lyin - George W. Bush - 7/15/07
Freed Felon - Scooter Libby - 7/8/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 7/1/07
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
