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Archive for March 15th, 2007

15 Mar

Club Blue

Batocchio 11:59 pm (Club Blue)

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The Pipettes - “Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me”
Here’s Brit girl-group The Pipettes (with backing band The Cassettes), a deliberate throwback in style with some twists in content. Indie without the angst, with some witty (and smutty) lyrics, their hallmarks are the overlapping, harmonizing vocals of their 60s predecessors, synched moves and [...]

15 Mar

Interview With Zbigniew Brzezinski

QuestionGirl 11:14 pm (Jon Stewart)

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Jon Stewart interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski about his new book, “Second Chance” on the Daily Show. Bzezinski was President Carter’s National Security Advisor, and offers an excellent insight into current global affairs and geopolitics.
Book available here

15 Mar

Pentagon Releases Bleakest Assessment of Iraq Yet

QuestionGirl 7:44 pm (Iraq, Pentagon)

The Pentagon yesterday released its bleakest assessment of Iraq yet, reporting record levels of violence and hardening sectarian divisions in the last quarter of 2006 as rival Sunni and Shiite militias waged campaigns of “sectarian cleansing” that forced as many as 9,000 civilians to flee the country each month.
Weekly attacks in Iraq rose to more [...]

15 Mar

Valerie Plame to Testify Tomorrow

QuestionGirl 7:29 pm (Plame)

I hope this hearing is on C-Span tomorrow.
WASHINGTON Valerie Plame’s life changed the day her name appeared in a newspaper column, her job as a CIA officer exposed in black and white.
She goes before a House committee Friday as both a shadowy figure and a celebrity, with lucrative book and movie deals [...]

15 Mar

Subpoenas Delayed for Justice Department Officials

QuestionGirl 7:15 pm (Alberto (I don't recall) Gonzales, Congressional Hearings)

Sampson says he met with Gonzales regarding the firings of the US attorneys. And oh shock shock shock…..Gonzales has no recollection of that meeting! Sound familiar? Oh, and who postponed the subpoenas? None other than good ole Arlen Specter.
Washington, D.C. - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved by voice vote Thursday [...]

15 Mar

An Army Stretched to Thin

QuestionGirl 5:41 pm (More Dumb Shit)

There are bound to be more and more and more deaths……. these soldiers have to be so very spent.
An Army already stretched painfully thin is now being asked to find the additional 25,000-plus troops to man President Bush’s escalation in Iraq and, it’s now obvious, prepare for additional combat rotations next year.
All [...]

15 Mar

Senate Rejects Time Table for Withdrawal

QuestionGirl 5:21 pm (Congress)

So you know who to write and call……..and not vote for next time around!!!!!!!!! And why didn’t McCain vote? Anyone know????
Vote Summary
Question: On the Joint Resolution (S. J. Res. 9 )
Vote Number: 75 Vote Date: March 15, 2007, 03:51 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Joint [...]

15 Mar

But Hey……The Surge is Working!!! There’s Less Violence!!

QuestionGirl 4:26 pm (Iraq)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The U.S. military says four U.S. soldiers were killed and two were wounded in a roadside bombing in eastern Baghdad.

15 Mar

Damn Right, We’re Angry!!

QuestionGirl 4:06 pm (Miscellaneous)

Paul Waldman is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America and the author of the new book, Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Can Learn From Conservative Success.
We can-t deny it any longer. There’s no point in hiding it, no point in trying to explain it away. Yes, it’s true: We progressives [...]

15 Mar

Confessions, Confessions and More Confessions

QuestionGirl 3:01 pm (Torture)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told a U.S. military tribunal that he also masterminded the ‘magic-bullet’ used in the Kennedy assassination as well as the planning he did for John Wilkes Booth. But the most amazing revelation was he was implemental in planning, with Yamamoto, the Pearl Harbor attack using planes that flew under the radar! [...]