Willie Dixon
Rock Me Baby

Then

Now
CNN VIDEO: Glenn Beck is a hypocrite in the Muslim Congressman issue

Glenn Beck shows what a fool he is in that he says to deny a Representative
the option to be sworn in on a Koran is a display of intolerance and
actually anti-American. So why did he ask this same Representative if he was
with us or with the terrorists because of his wanting to be have his
photo-op swearing in on a Koran? It is as if he is a right wing wacko on
Headline News and a normal person on CNN with Paula Zahn. Which Glenn Beck
should we believe?

H/T JoeWo for this post!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, will leave his post to take a senior position at the State Department, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

“He will leave to become Deputy Secretary of State,” said a U.S. official who asked not to be identified.

The official said an official announcement is expected soon. But it was not clear how soon Negroponte would be able to leave his current position because there is no deputy standing ready to take over his responsibilities, the official said.

Negroponte’s office declined to comment.

Negroponte will become Deputy Secretary of State, the No. 2 position at the department after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The position was formerly held by Robert Zoellick, who announced his resignation in June to join leading investment bank Goldman Sachs. He had not yet been replaced.

NBC News, which earlier reported Negroponte’s move to State, said Negroponte’s likely successor as head of U.S. intelligence is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996 under former President Bill Clinton.

Read more at Boston.com

By Tom Engelhardt

The other day, the college-age daughter of a friend received an e-letter from a Marine Corps Officer Selection Officer, inviting her to “an awesome summer training program called the Platoon Leader’s Course.” Think of it as Marine Corps summer camp. No uniforms (”This is not ROTC!”), but reasonable amounts of moolah. Here’s some of what was on offer to her, part of a desperate military’s Iraq-era appeal to citizenly duty:

“You will earn approximately $2,400 (six weeks) or $4,000 (ten weeks) plus room and board during the training. How’s that for a summer job?…. You will not incur any obligation to the Marine Corps even after completing the training. (You can choose whether or not to continue with the program)…. Tuition assistance will be available to you after you complete training this summer. You could potentially earn $8,000 to $25,000 for school, depending on graduation date.”

Imagine! The Marine Corps is willing to pay young people to go to a uniform-less summer camp to test their “leadership potential,” with no commitment to the Corps necessary. Consider that; then consider what was certainly the President’s only significant decision of the holiday season past–to permanently expand the US military by as many as 70,000 troops.

Read more at The Nation

LEAVE MY CHILD ALONE!!!

I’d like to know the same thing Dan!!

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, January 3, 2007; 2:28 PM

The American voters in November made it clear that it’s time to start withdrawing from Iraq. Political leaders from both parties and any number of experts are increasingly coming to the realization that American soldiers are dying, day in and day out, in pursuit of an unattainable goal.

So what is President Bush about to do? By all indications: escalate. His “new way forward” in Iraq appears to call for more troops — along with a series of other measures that might have helped if he’d taken them three years ago.

News reports suggest that Bush’s plan is not likely to win enthusiastic support, even from within his own party. But my question is: Where’s the outrage?

If the vox populi and the cognoscenti agree that throwing more American bodies at the problem will only result in more American deaths, then how is the apparent Bush plan anything short of a betrayal of the troops and an expression of contempt for the will of the people?
And is there any more plausible explanation for Bush’s behavior than that he is willing to sacrifice more troops so he won’t have to admit — at least not yet — that he made a mistake? Is that a good enough reason to ask even one more soldier to die?

Read more at the Washington Post

May these rat bastards rot in hell, if not in a prison cell here on earth. The damage they have caused to our country hasn’t even begun to be felt yet.

WASHINGTON - FBI agents documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the [tag]Guantanamo Bay[/tag] military base, including one detainee whose head was wrapped in duct tape for chanting the Quran and another who pulled out his hair after hours in a sweltering room.

Documents released Tuesday by the FBI offered new details about the harsh interrogation practices used by military officials and contractors when questioning so-called enemy combatants.

The reports describe a female guard who detainees said handled their genitals and wiped menstrual blood on their face. Another interrogator reportedly bragged to an FBI agent about dressing as a Catholic priest and “baptizing” a prisoner.

Some military officials and contractors told FBI agents that the interrogation techniques had been approved by the Defense Department, including directly by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The documents were released in response to a public records request by the American Civil Liberties Union, which is suing Rumsfeld and others on behalf of former military detainees who say they were abused. Many of the incidents in the FBI documents already have been reported and are summarized in the ACLU’s lawsuit.

Read more at The Register-Guard

This story on Global Warming by FOX is so funny! First off you have no
balance of the discussion on the change in the environment. No one here
believes anything serious is happening. Secondly they are showing the
graphic that shows that global warming has a bias which is funny by itself.
They say the “Northeast Arrogance” drives the view of environmental change
in that the media is in the Northeast and the cold blizzards of late in
Colorado are ignored. That coupled with the Northeast reporters having a
mild winter supposedly result in the media highlighting global warming.
The panel is taking one weather event and pointing towards a worldwide
trend. They never did mention the island in the Pacific that has been
inundated with ocean to the point of the first ever loss of an island back
to the sea. The “hot water in the ice cube tray” comment shows how the
opponents to environmental change do not follow science because under some
circumstances hot water will freeze faster than cold water. The proof is
very simple. Google “will hot water freeze faster than cold water?” The
hot water freezing comment is counter intuitive but it has veracity and
shows that the people actually promoting the view of there being no
environmental change globally are not looking at the view scientifically.

This post by JoeWo

Bush couldn’t have said enough good things about Casey over the past three years. And Casey, like the good little bitch he was, said and did whatever the idiot wanted him to. Now……he’s disagreed about escalating the war, and he’s due to be thrown under the next Greyhound Bus to come along.

WASHINGTON- General George Casey, the United States’ Army’s senior commander in Iraq, will most likely be forced to pay the price of President George Bush’s strategic failures in the war in Iraq.

The New York Times reported that President Bush plans to fire the general, who was supposed to complete his service this coming summer, within the next few weeks.

The report said that Bush did not like his commanders’ strategy, which aimed for retreat without victory, and Bush is taking advantage of the replacement of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld with Robert Gates in order to get rid of Rumsfeld’s senior general in Iraq as well.

Bush is expected to announce the new strategy he wishes to outline for the war in Iraq. These past few days, Bush has been convening with his advisors, and will reveal his plans at the end of these meetings.

The issue of the temporary reinforcement of the troops in Iraq hovers in the background. This suggestion, which appears to contradict the principal ambition of minimizing the number of American soldiers in Iraq, is meant to achieve stability of the security situation before doing so.

Bush recently launched an experiment on the media regarding his intention to increase the number of American troops in Iraq, at least temporarily, from 140,000 to 170,000 troops.

Read more here

al Maliki will not seek a second term as Prime Minister of Iraq and wishes he didn’t have to finish out this term.

H/T SharingRaw for the video!

Here’s the video of Keith Olbermann’s special comment on sacrifice and Bush’s plan to “sacrifice” more Americans.
The new talking point: Surge and Excellerate

H/T to sgbnyc for the Youtube Video!