"... Outgoing Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend told CNN that al Qaeda may target the presidential elections. She said that while there is currently no “specific information,” “we know that Al Qaeda views these periods as being a particularly vulnerable period.” In the past, the administration has never let a lack of evidence stop it from baselessly claiming that terrorists are interested in manipulating U.S. elections."[It's election season - Time to scare and herd the sheople]
Another Bush Poodle Spanked
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Conservative Prime Minister John Howard, one of the Bush administration's staunchest allies, suffered a humiliating election defeat Saturday at the hands of an opposition leader who has vowed to pull troops out of Iraq.[Supporting George Bush is not good for your career]
A Republican paradise
The British are some of the most watched people in the world. There are more closed circuit TV cameras here than in any other country. The government plans to increase its knowledge about each citizen through biometric identity cards, a controversial multibillion-dollar project that has civil liberty advocates breaking out in a cold sweat. The government, led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, insists there is nothing to worry about for the law-abiding Brit.
[Maybe we should deport all of the anti-Fourth Amendment wingnuts to Britain. Ours would be a much better nation if we did.]
One of these two after Bush?
... Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, started the spat with a campaign press release detailing Giuliani's fiscal record as New York mayor headlined: "Big City, Big Spender." --- "The problem with Governor Romney is, he's in a glass house," Giuliani told The Associated Press in an interview on his campaign bus during a stop in Laconia. "Governor Romney spent considerably more than I did ..."[Obviously, Romney and Giuliani are both big-spending, huge debt creating, faux 'conservatives' in the same mold as the last three Republican presidents who drove us to a $9.1 trillion debt.]
... And giving
West Michigan soldier killed in Iraq
A Fruitport soldier was killed Sunday when a bomb exploded while he was on mounted patrol in Baquabah, Iraq. U.S. Army Cpl. Jason T. Lee was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, in Fort Lewis, Wash. The Department of Defense announced the death this Wednesday morning.
Going the wrong way
Lebanon's President Hands Power To Army
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, right, shakes hands with Army commander Gen. Michel Suleiman at the Presidential palace in the Baabda suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday(AP) Lebanon's political tumult intensified as President Emile Lahoud said the country is in a "state of emergency" and handed security powers to the army before he left office Friday without a successor. The rival, pro-Western Cabinet rejected the declaration.
They're still liberal commie traitors
When the New York Times published a front page story Sunday about the United States’ and Pakistan’s joint clandestine efforts to protect nuclear weapons, the newspaper offered a glimpse into a “highly classified program” the Bush administration long objected to seeing in print. That is, apparently, until now. In the article’s 11th paragraph, the Times disclosed that publication was delayed “for more than three years,” after the administration argued “that premature disclosure could hurt the effort to secure the weapons.”
The Taliban insurgence in Pakistan
This is the 23-foot high Buddha of Jenanabad, one of the finest examples of Gandharan [Buddist] art, as it appeared until recently.
Here's how it has looked since October 8.
Remember how the Taliban destroyed the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, in Afghanistan, in March 2001? Well, this Buddha in Swat was attacked twice last September by forces led by a local cleric named Maulana Fazlullah, who heads the "Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law," aligned with the Taliban. On October 8, the Pakistani Talibs succeeded in obliterating its face with dynamite. This was not widely reported in the U.S. press, perhaps because it would have so dramatically demonstrated how Taliban influence far from waning has spread outside Afghanistan, and is even leading some Pakistanis to attack their national treasures.Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan
The conflict in Afghanistan has reached "crisis proportions," with the resurgent Taliban present in more than half the country and closing in on Kabul, a report said on Wednesday. If NATO, the lead force operating in Afghanistan, is to have any impact against the insurgency, troop numbers will have to be doubled to at least 80,000, the report said.
Don't taze me, bro ...
Too late, chump!'Rooster' Romney fits in well
When news broke about alleged push poll calls in Iowa and New Hampshire critical of Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, the presidential candidate's campaign referred reporters to a few voters who had received the calls. But the campaign didn't disclose those voters were also on Romney's payroll. Marshan Roth, a Fairfield, Iowa voter, told The Salt Lake Tribune she received a pollster call that asked positive questions about Sen. John McCain but negative slanted questions about Romney. When asked if she was a Romney supporter, Roth said she was leaning toward backing him, but not sure. Roth didn't disclose, nor did the campaign, that she has received $3,000 since April from the Romney camp as a grassroots field organizer.
[Oh, that's wonderful - Another paranoid schizophrenic nutcase running for the Republican nomination]
"The Last Lecture"
A well loved and respected college professor, Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University, who is dying of pancreatic cancer, at age 47, gives his 'last lecture'.
[The Detroit News]
'Gold' at the end of that rainbow
Crude oil rose above $99 a barrel for the first time in New York as a weakening U.S. dollar increased demand for commodities. The dollar touched $1.4854 per euro yesterday, the lowest since the 13-nation currency was started in 1999. U.S. Federal Reserve policy makers yesterday lowered their growth forecast for 2008 on concern that the housing slump and credit market losses risked slowing growth in the world's biggest economy.Use it as the Bush Library
The new American Embassy in Baghdad will be the largest, least welcoming, and most lavish embassy in the world: a $600 million massively fortified compound with 619 blast-resistant apartments and a food court fit for a shopping mall. Unfortunately, like other similarly constructed U.S. Embassies, it may already be obsolete.Wishful thinking?
Man Who Helped Start Stem Cell War May End ItDr. James A. Thomson’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin was one of two that in 1998 plucked stem cells from human embryos for the first time, destroying the embryos in the process and touching off a divisive national debate ... Now with the new technique, which involves adding just four genes to ordinary adult skin cells, it will not be long, he says, before the stem cell wars are a distant memory."
[Ironic that one of the first to use embryonic stem cells is now claiming to have developed a way around it. I'll wait to hear more.]
Red Sox fans sing to Neil Diamond?I have never been to Fenway -- Obviously. I had no idea those wussies actually sing to Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline". They may want to change their tune now that Neil Diamond has come out and admitted he wrote that song about a nine year old Caroline Kennedy -- when he was 28! "Touching me, Touching you"? Pervert.
... Another natural segue to the;
The Limbaugh Award
It was another barnburner of a selection this week with the Committee once again deadlocked, and requiring me - for the fourth time in this award's long history - to intervene and use my role as the tiebreaker. And, my selection is, Mr. T. Boone Pickens - the 39th recipient of the 'prestigious, but infamous', award to the liar of the week.
Exactly half of the world-renown Committee wanted to select Karl Rove. 'Turd Blossom', no stranger to the Limbaugh Award, having won twice before, week #9 and week #26, gave it a good shot with his attempt to revise history with his joke on the Charlie Rose Show that the "The administration was opposed to voting on it [Iraq war authorization] in the fall of 2002.”
What a liar that Turd Blossom is ...
But, I had to go with that big-mouth, 'all hat - no cattle', lying redneck cowboy, T. Boone Pickens.
As you remember, Pickens opened his mouth on two recent occasions challenging 'anyone who could prove the Swift Boat Liars were wrong'; he'd give them a million dollars. And as you know, John Kerry took him up on that offer.
And what happened with Mr. T. Boone Pickens when John Kerry accepted his challenge? Ol' T. Boone cut and ran and welshed on his bet.
You owe John Kerry $1 million dollars, cowboy -- And you're also a liar, who just became, #39.
[More on T. Boone at Brad Blog]
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
Limbaugh Award
Republican Tool - Matt Drudge - 11/18/07
Their Favored Liar - Rudy Giuliani - 11/11/07
Fox News Liar - Chris Wallace - 11/4/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 10/28/07
Phony Patriot Liar - Rush Limbaugh - 10/21/07
Old Kentucky Homo - Mitch McConnell - 10/14/07
Liar-In-Chief - George W. Bush - 10/7/07
Phony Patriot Pig - Rush Limbaugh - 9/30/07
Big Stretch 'the truth' - Bill Sammon - 9/23/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 9/16/07
Sycophant - Gen. David Petraeus - 9/9/07
His own Idaho - Sen. Craig R-Idaho - 9/2/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 8/26/07
The Exterminator - Tom Delay - 8/19/07
Big 'Rooster' - Mitt Romney - 8/12/07
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
