Robin Trower
Too Rolling Stoned

Whew…..he’s as good as ever.

Thank you to The Other Buck for this post! And yes, of course you were right….you’re a very intelligent man!!

There comes a time when the lies become so blatant, so obvious that shock overcomes incredulousness and the deteriorating moral bearings of our once proud Republic are laid bare for all to see Allen L Roland
The Pat Tillman case could bring down the Cheney/Bush Administration for every key top level official, both Pentagon and white House, is involved and they are all apparently lying.
Let me lay it out for you. Here is the narrative that Rumsfeld and Myers offered last week ( under oath ) and let’s look at this obvious deception in detail ~ together with the known facts ( courtesy of RJ Eskow, Huffington Post )
Then you decide ~ Was a deliberate execution ordered by higher ups of Tillman because he was about to go public with his anti-war views and support kerry in 2004 during a Presidential election campaign or were honest mistakes made by honest men ~ like Donald Rumsfeld ??
The Cheney/Bush administration stonewalled the 9/11 commission before reluctantly allowing it to go ahead but with their own people in charge and Cheney and Bush not having to testify under oath . What were they hiding ??
Pat Tillman’s questionable death was stonewalled by top Pentagon Generals until the freedom of Information Act brought it to light . What were they hiding ??

Full article here

By Steve Holland
Reuters

Sink those teeth in, John and don’t let go. - JS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani came under attack on Friday from Democratic rival John Edwards for saying he spent as much time if not more at the site of New York’s destroyed World Trade Center than rescue workers.

The clash highlighted the continued importance of the September 11 attacks to U.S. presidential politics as Giuliani tries to use his record as former New York City mayor to help him get into the White House.

The group 9-11 Families, which represents some of those rescue workers, demanded an apology, saying, “Rudy Giuliani has insulted all September 11 first responders, family groups and especially those of us who are battling life-threatening illnesses with his delusional statement.”

In a visit to Cincinnati on Thursday, Giuliani told reporters that no one did more for firefighters killed in the attacks and their families than he did and that he raised millions on their behalf.

“Every single penny of the $227 million went to the families,” Giuliani said. “This is not a mayor or governor or president who was sitting in an ivory tower.”

“I was at Ground Zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers,” he said.

The Edwards campaign issued a statement from its national chairman, former Michigan Democratic Rep. David Bonior, who said, “Evidently, Rudy Giuliani has taken a break from reality.”

read more HERE

As her father disconnects the plastic tube from her throat, six-year-old Maria Aman’s face contorts as though she has been pushed through an air-lock in space. Hamdi, her father, has 50 seconds to clean her breathing tube before she runs out of air.

Paralysed from the neck down, Maria cannot breathe without a special ventilator. She has gasped her way through this ritual every morning for more than a year since the tragedy that wiped out most of her family and left her quadriplegic.

Now her fate rests with the Israeli Supreme Court, which will decide next month whether she should be deported from Israel. Her struggle is a compelling case of how even the worst aspects of the conflict can bring people together - and how bureaucracy and politics can tear them apart.

It began in May last year, when her uncle invited the family out to test-drive his new car in their native Gaza. They did not know that the car ahead contained Muhammad Dahdouh, a senior Islamic Jihad leader visiting his wife, who had given birth in hospital.

Suddenly the family heard the roar of an Israeli aircraft, and a missile slammed into the wanted man’s car, killing him. Maria’s mother, seven-year-old brother, uncle and grandmother also died in the fireball. Maria’s spinal cord was severed and her lungs were punctured by shrapnel.

Continue reading at The London Times

Archaeologists have found an 8-million-year old forest of cypresses, well preserved and not fossilized, in Bukkabrany in northeastern Hungary.

“The discovery is exceptional as the trees kept their wooden structure, they neither turned into coal nor were petrified,” Tamas Pusztai, the deputy director and head of the archaeological department at the local Otto Herman museum, who oversaw the excavation, said.

Archaeologists announced the find last week after uncovering the mysterious forest of taxodiums, a kind of swamp cypress, after a few days of digging.

Miners working in a brown coal mine had first uncovered several tree trunks that had been turned into coal, a common occurrence in this kind of environment.

More at the Middle East Times

If he’s setting up the legal system in Iraq, God help the citizens there!

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire at home with calls for his resignation, is spending some time in Iraq.

The Justice Department said that Gonzales arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for his third trip to Iraq to meet with department officials who have been there to help fashion the country’s legal system.

“I am pleased to see firsthand … the progress that the men and women of the Justice Department have made to rebuild Iraq’s legal system and law enforcement infrastructure,” Gonzales said in a statement released by the department.

His optimistic assessment came despite the frequent sectarian lawlessness and killings in the country.

More at YahooNews

This reporter says in her closeup that this is the first time in 2 years that she talked to normal Iraqi people in an open air market. However the rest of the report shows a hugely grim view of what needs to occur logistically just for her to do that. The 82nd Airborne surrounds her as do several helicopters as she admits they had more security than did John McCain in his visit to an Iraqi market a few months ago. The reporter is amazed that she can actually speak to shoppers and the rest of the report says things are awful. Apparently the reporter did not believe her own story.

H/T Joe for this post!

Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper announces plans to build military base in the Arctic and a port.

I had to add Canada to the categories, because we’ll be bombing them next…..

from The Center For American Progress

I can understand the ban of the Iran hostages selling their stories, but I think they’ve taken the gag a bit overboard here. Sound familiar?

The Ministry of Defence has introduced new guidelines to prevent military personnel talking about their experiences as members of the Armed Forces.

Soldiers, sailors and air force members will be prevented from blogging, taking part in surveys, speaking in public or posting on bulletin boards, according to The Guardian.

They will also be barred from playing multi-player computer games and sending text messages, photographs and audio or video material without permission if they relate to defence matters.

The guidelines say “all such communication must help to maintain and, where possible, enhance the reputation of defence”, the paper reported.

They come after the row earlier this year about two members of the Royal Navy selling their stories to the media after being held captive in Iran.

Receiving money for interviews, conferences and books which draw on official defence experience has now been banned.

More at This Is London