28 May
Jim Swanson 11:39 pm (CRIME)
ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. - Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans’ graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
Forty’six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 [...]
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28 May
Jim Swanson 10:00 pm (Club Blue)
28 May
Jim Swanson 2:29 pm (Bush, CrossPost, Karl Rove)
from THINK PROGRESS
White House political director and top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, “who has been with George W. Bush from the outset of his first presidential campaign, is the latest staff member to leave the president’s employ.
Taylor cleared out her office early last week. She plans to take her skills [...]
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28 May
QuestionGirl 11:54 am (Holiday)
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Ava Lowery’s Memorial Day 2007 video from Peacetakescourage.com. What an insightful, gifted girl she is!
This is the video I made for this Memorial Day. Regardless of how I feel about past and currents wars, I honor and respect anyone who signs up to defend our country. This video is my Memorial Day [...]
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28 May
Jim Swanson 11:51 am (Bush, Congress, Opinion)
from Congressional Quarterly
Craig Crawford is a news analyst for NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. His new book is “The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World.”
Whether you call it admirable resolve or blind stubbornness, George W. Bush’s refusal to compromise has once again kept management of the Iraq War [...]
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28 May
QuestionGirl 11:50 am (Jon Stewart)
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TDS on Monica Goodling testimony
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28 May
QuestionGirl 11:44 am (Iran, Oil)
I found this interesting. OPEC’s number two producer, and they spend billions every year to import refined oil from abroad.
From Alalam.ir:
TEHRAN, May 27–Iran could scrap a plan to ration petrol that was expected to have a profound impact on the economy of OPEC’s number two oil producer, the head of parliament’s energy committee [...]
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28 May
QuestionGirl 10:12 am (Holiday)
An editorial from today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune
Today this nation celebrates yet another in a long line of wartime Memorial Days. This one is doubly sad because the war now being waged in Iraq is such an unnecessary, fruitless war. And that makes each death there a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
Soldiers understand they may die in [...]
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28 May
Jim Swanson 10:11 am (Corruption, World Bank)
He blames the media? Oh, that’s right. The media gave his girlfriend a huge raise. - JS
LONDON - Departing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz in a radio interview broadcast Monday blamed an overheated atmosphere at the bank and in the media for forcing him to resign.
Wolfowitz, who has announced he will step down June 30, [...]
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28 May
QuestionGirl 7:03 am (Holiday)
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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,
And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
~Norman Schwarzkopf~
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