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Archive for December 7th, 2006

07 Dec

Club Blue

Batocchio 11:59 pm (Club Blue)

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Damien Rice - “The Blower’s Daughter”
I got to see Damien Rice perform a couple years back when he was just starting to hit it big. This is probably his most famous song. The video uses footage from the film Closer (adapted from Patrick Marber’s play), which features the song prominently.

07 Dec

Israelis piqued by Gates

Mirth 6:06 pm (Israel)

JERUSALEM
Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candour on the Iraq war.
Some Israelis were less pleased, however, to hear Gates mention with equal frankness what U.S. administrations have long avoided saying in public — that the Jewish state has the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal.
To be [...]

07 Dec

Bush and the Poodle

QuestionGirl 5:22 pm (Bush, More Dumb Shit)

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Bush and Blair at press conference. How this shithead can laugh about it being bad in Iraq is beyond me. Amoral, self serving, cold hearted son of a bitch. Still blah blah blahing the Al Queda and 9/11 shit. For the love of God, would someone shut his piehole up [...]

07 Dec

Stewart’s Plan

Mirth 2:28 pm (Political Video)

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07 Dec

Israel and the green Line

Mirth 1:29 pm (Education, Israel/Palestine)

Green Line in school maps angers right-wingers

Education Minister Yuli Tamir decided on Tuesday that new geography textbooks ordered by the Education Ministry will include the so-called Green Line in their representations of the map of Israel, triggering condemnation from right-wing MKs.
“This is for the purposes of education and demonstration and discussion,” Tamir told The [...]

07 Dec

Canada’s top policeman quits

Mirth 12:44 pm (Terrorism, Torture)

OTTAWA
Canada’s top policeman resigned on Wednesday, a day after he admitted misleading legislators about how his force had botched the case of a Canadian deported to Syria by U.S. agents.
The position of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli had become increasingly untenable since September, when an official report said police had falsely told Washington [...]

07 Dec

Russ Feingold’s Take on ISG Report

QuestionGirl 12:27 pm (Keith Olbermann, Russ Feingold)

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Russ Feingoldon Keith Olbermann says Iraq Study Group report totally misses the point.

07 Dec

Baker wants Israel excluded

Mirth 12:24 pm (Iraq, Israel, Middle East)

The White House has been examining a proposal by James Baker to launch a Middle East peace effort without Israel.
The peace effort would begin with a U.S.-organized conference, dubbed Madrid-2, and contain such U.S. adversaries as Iran and Syria. Officials said Madrid-2 would be promoted as a forum to discuss Iraq’s future, but actually focus [...]

07 Dec

David Gregory Takes on Tony Snowjob

QuestionGirl 12:24 pm (Iraq)

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Tony Snowjob never seems to like, or actually answer, David Greogory’s questions.

07 Dec

Oil Lease Agency Found Inadequate

QuestionGirl 11:42 am (More Dumb Shit, Oil)

Gee here’s a shocker……..

By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 7, 2006; Page D03
The agency that collects royalties from oil and gas producers lacks the data, coordination and manpower to keep track of companies operating on federal land and in federal waters, a report by the Interior Department’s inspector general said.
The report criticized the Minerals [...]