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Archive for February 21st, 2007

21 Feb

Club Blue

QuestionGirl 10:33 pm (Club Blue)

[[ Video ]]

Tina Turner
Let’s Stay Together
May I look as good as she does when I’m in my 60’s. Whew……

21 Feb

Justice Department’s Terrorism Statistics Wrong

QuestionGirl 9:27 pm (Justice, Terrorism)

Is there anyone who believes anything this administration says? Why would you? They lie about EVERYTHING.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics reported by the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI from the September 11 attacks until early 2005 had some inaccuracies, the department’s inspector general said on Tuesday.
The findings [...]

21 Feb

What Happens When Cowboys Don’t Shoot Straight Like They Used To

QuestionGirl 6:31 pm (Russia)

The frank words of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to the assembled participants of the annual Munich Wehrkunde security conference have unleashed a storm of self-righteous protest from Western media and politicians. A visitor from another planet might have the impression that the Russian President had abruptly decided to launch a provocative confrontation policy with the [...]

21 Feb

Making Martial Law Easier

QuestionGirl 6:18 pm (More Dumb Shit)

From a New York Times Editorial:
A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration’s behest that makes it easier for a [...]

21 Feb

Edwards Dares to Speak the Truth

QuestionGirl 2:24 pm (2008 Presidential Election, John Edwards)

Why is it we can’t talk about Israel in the United States? Why is it anyone who utters a word of truth about Israel is labeled anti’semitic? I’ll tell you what…….if Edwards did say this, then kudos to him for having the fucking balls to tell the truth. Unfortunately, I’m not a rich [...]

21 Feb

The ‘Hateful’, ‘Polarized’ Blogs

QuestionGirl 9:45 am (Miscellaneous)

[[ Video ]]

David Gregory, Tony Snow and Richard Wolffe talk about the blogoshere at the National Press Club.

21 Feb

Rape Accusations Reinforces Fears in Divided Iraq

QuestionGirl 9:35 am (Iraq)

al-Maliki today fired a top Sunni official who called for an investigation into this case.
The most wicked acts are spoken of openly and without reserve in Iraq. Torture, stabbings and bodies ripped to pieces in bombings are all part of the daily conversation.
The 20-year-old Sunni woman who claims that she was raped by [...]

21 Feb

Denmark Plans Withdrawl From Iraq

QuestionGirl 9:29 am ((Unspecified))

Next….
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Denmark is considering boosting its contingent in Afghanistan by 200 troops to 600, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday.
Earlier, the government presented plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. Fogh Rasmussen said no firm decision had been taken on the Danish troops serving under NATO command in Afghanistan, “but we cannot exclude [...]

21 Feb

Lou Dobbs Democrats

Buck 8:29 am (Just Plain Wrong, Lou Dobbs)

Excellent commentary by Lou Dobbs over at CNN- “Dobbs: Will the Democrats save their souls?” A very good read!
Quotes from that article:
—The ascension of the so-called Lou Dobbs Democrats in the November election gave hope to many that our representatives and senators were awakening to the need to represent the largest single group [...]

21 Feb

Brushback Pitch? Ten Reasons for Concern

Batocchio 3:25 am (Bush, Dick Cheney, Iran, Neocons)

(crossposted at Vagabond Scholar)

(”But Dick, I-m not sure I want to bomb Iran!”)
This past week on L.A.-based NPR show To the Point, The New York Times- David Sanger theorized about the Bush administration’s intentions toward Iraq. The most likely scenario to Sanger was that all their saber-rattling was a “brushback pitch“ to make Iran [...]