29 May
Jim Swanson 10:48 pm (Global Warming)
By Mica Rosenberg
Collapsing bridges, bursting sewer pipes and crumbling roads caused by global warming could cost Alaska up to $10 billion over the next few decades, researchers said.
Atmospheric temperatures in the northernmost U.S. state have risen by more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit (around 2 degrees Celsius) over the past five decades, Peter Larsen, [...]
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29 May
Jim Swanson 10:39 pm (Bush, Congress, Iraq, Military, Opinion)
Written by YABOSI
from Blog Critics magazine
Now that Baby George Bush has signed the war funding bill the Dumbocrats will look back on a missed opportunity. Rather then simply cave in to their fears of being seen as not supporting our brave soldiers who have been thrown into this misadventure, Congress should have seized the [...]
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29 May
QuestionGirl 10:33 pm (Club Blue)
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Ashford & Simpson
Solid as a Rock
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29 May
QuestionGirl 10:14 pm (More Dumb Shit)
A Virtual Tour of the Baghdad Embassy
From MotherJones:
Tom Engelhardt has come across what might be the first public glimpse of the $1.3-billion U.S. embassy under construction in Baghdad. At 104 acres, and with 1,000 staffers, it’s going to be America’s biggest embassy anywhere. It might as well have a giant “kick me” sign on [...]
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29 May
QuestionGirl 6:53 pm (Books, Bush, Congress)
From Counterpunch:
By Dave Lindorff
Perhaps the best indication of the toothlessness and complicity of the new Democratic Congress is that President Bush, who between September 2001 and December 2006 used so-called “signing statements” and a bogus claim of extra-constitutional executive authority as commander in chief in time of war to invalidate 1200 laws or parts of [...]
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29 May
QuestionGirl 6:22 pm (World Bank)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former U.S. trade representative, as the new president of the World Bank to replace Paul Wolfowitz, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
Bush plans to announce his selection on Wednesday and expects the bank’s board to accept it, the administration official said.
Bush [...]
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29 May
QuestionGirl 6:02 pm (2008 Presidential Election)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service expects to borrow more than 2,000 immigration officers and federal airport screeners next year to help guard an ever-expanding field of presidential candidates, while shifting 250 of its own agents from investigations to security details.
Burdened by the White House’s wartime security needs, the persistent threat of terrorism and a [...]
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29 May
QuestionGirl 4:18 pm (Iran)
Couple things. I don’t know who’s crazier, Bush or INEEDADINNERJACKET. Second, why is it ok for the US to scoop people up, not charge them with anything and answer to no one, yet when someone else does it, they demand they be released? I’m not saying these people are or are not spies, [...]
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29 May
Batocchio 4:10 pm (Afghanistan, Holiday, Iraq, Pentagon, Propaganda, Veteran's Affairs, Veterans)
(Cross-posted at Vagabond Scholar)
Joe Haldeman, a Vietnam vet and award-winning science fiction writer, told the following story in the introduction to a 1986 sci-fi anthology:
A friend of mine in Vietnam took a sniper’s bullet in the back but his life was saved, at least for the time being, by his inability to spell: the bullet [...]
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29 May
QuestionGirl 3:21 pm (Dick Cheney, Plame)
By Dan Froomkin
Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
Libby was [...]
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