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Archive for December 21st, 2006

21 Dec

Club Blue

Batocchio 11:59 pm (Club Blue)

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Imogen Heap - “Hide and Seek”
Here’s a live version. A UCLA a capella group does a great version of this as well.

21 Dec

A Mother’s Grief

QuestionGirl 1:35 pm (Iraq, Military)

I’ve been following Maj. Gloria Davis’s story. Sad, indeed. She was deployed to Iraq for the second time in September of this year. She was 47 years old, and had two years before she could retire from the military. And no word about the circumstances surrounding her death.

A [...]

21 Dec

A Hollow Victory?

Buck 9:30 am (Bush, Minimum Wage)

Raise the federal minimum wage, and offset it with a tax break for small businesses. Wouldn’t this just shift more of the tax burden back to the workers themselves? I mean, it’s gotta be paid and someone has to pay it, right? And why is it I don’t like the sound of that “regulatory relief”?

Bush [...]

21 Dec

Any Questions?

QuestionGirl 9:13 am (Bush, Iraq, Robert Gates)

“We need to make damned sure that the neighbors understand that we’re going to be here for a long time _ here being the Persian Gulf,” said Gates.
Check out this “think tank”

Victory is still an option in Iraq. America, a country of 300 million people with a GDP of $12 trillion, and more than 1 [...]

21 Dec

Why Was This Ever A Problem?

Buck 8:47 am (Hypocrisy, Military)

How could any sane, intelligent person believe that, by putting gays and straights together in close quarters, mayhem would ensue? Rules of conduct apply to all. Who would join up just to turn around and be kicked out with a dishonorable discharge? No one would! It’s a stupid fear, cooked up from the recesses of [...]

21 Dec

U.S. Told to Make Clean Break From Iraq in International Crisis Group Report

QuestionGirl 1:03 am (Bush, Iraq)

But we won’t. George Bush is more dangerous now than he’s ever been. His bizaare refusal to listen to his military, his joint chiefs of staff, the American public, the Iraq Study Group……is just really scary. He may end up doing more damage in his last two years with a Democratic controlled [...]

21 Dec

U.S. To Declassify Secrets 25 Years and Older on December 31st

QuestionGirl 12:45 am (Miscellaneous)

WASHINGTON: It will be a Cinderella moment for the band of researchers who study the hidden history of American government.
At midnight on Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many FBI cold war files on investigations of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers. After years of extensions [...]