30 Oct
Mirth 11:20 pm (Club Blue, Music, Political Video)
The song “Bring Them Home” is from the Burns Sister’s new CD, Wild Bouquet.
Learn more about them here.
For too long we have been fed a lie, spoonfed slowly until we feel full. It is a nasty gruel that has sickened us. It has caused us to see our country through the vision of a corrupt [...]
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30 Oct
QuestionGirl 10:35 pm (Iraq, Pentagon)
WASHINGTON (AFP) - With the US death toll in Iraq passing 100 this month and mid-term elections just days away, the Pentagon said the US force in Iraq has grown to 150,000 troops, the biggest it has been since January.
A Pentagon spokesman attributed the growth to overlapping unit rotations, but it came amid surging violence [...]
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30 Oct
QuestionGirl 7:36 pm (Miscellaneous)
[[ Video ]]
CNN VIDEO
Former Attorney General Janet Reno speaks out on Parkinson’s Disease, which
she is afflicted with. It is interesting how those speaking FOR Stem Cell
research are taking the high road…after those that mock the diseased took
the low road.
h/t JoeWo for this post
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30 Oct
QuestionGirl 7:28 pm (Election, Iraq)
US President George W. Bush charged Monday that “terrorists win and America loses” if opposition Democrats win 7 November legislative elections dominated by the unpopular Iraq war.
“If you listen carefully for a Democrat plan for success, they don’t have one. Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, yet they don’t have [...]
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30 Oct
Buck 6:37 pm (Dick Cheney, Election, Faulty Logic, Iraq)
Cheney links rise in Iraq violence to U.S. election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday insurgents had stepped up attacks in Iraq to try to sway next week’s U.S. elections and they were constantly surfing the Web to keep tabs on American public opinion.
“Whether it’s al Qaeda or the other elements that [...]
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30 Oct
Mirth 3:28 pm (GOP, Injustice, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Voting)
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery took on a grim regularity in October, when at least 103 American troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Iraq, the toll had reached 99 by Saturday, making October the deadliest month since January 2005.
Military officials attributed the high number of deaths to a spike in violence during the [...]
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30 Oct
QuestionGirl 12:48 pm (News News News)
BLAIR FACES NAIL-BITING IRAQ VOTE
MOM GETS PRISON TIME FOR IGNORING DAUGHTER’S INFECTED PIERCED BELLY BUTTON
UK ISSUES WARMING WARNING, HIRES AL GORE
BOMB KILLS 33 IN IRAQ, U.S. DEATH TOLL HITS 100
KIDNAPPED U.S. SOLDIER HAD MARRIED IRAQI WOMAN
BOOK PAINTS HOUDINI AS SPY
U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TAKES UNANNOUNCED TRIP TO IRAQ
ARMY REVIEWS SOLDIERS DEATHS, FINDS FAMILIES GIVEN FALSE [...]
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30 Oct
Mirth 11:57 am (Cartoons)
30 Oct
QuestionGirl 11:55 am (Election)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ — Today’s Los Angeles Times reports on Karl Rove’s three-pronged plan to win in November, which includes “putting the resources of the federal government to use for political gain.” The story cites the struggling campaigns of several Republicans who are suddenly seeing millions of taxpayer dollars coming into their districts [...]
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30 Oct
Mirth 11:36 am (Congress, Election, US Constitution, Voting)
Lowell Ponte is a former editor of Readers Digest magazine. His take on things:
1. Non-citizens are voting.
2. Districts are gerrymandered.
3. Elections are dishonest.
4. Ballots can be manipulated.
5. Our politics is a duopoly.
6. This duopoly is the Republican and Democratic Parties.
7. Political parties have been taken over.
8. Candidates lie.
9. Judges, not voters, are starting to decide [...]
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