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Lose your watch someplace? Would you own up to it if you had?

An e-mail from Sen. Larry Craig’s office circulated Friday regarding a found watch. Kinda funny WHERE it was found… in the men’s room on the fifth floor of the Hart Senate Office Building, where Craig’s office is located.

These stories write themselves.

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Oh, man… we’re two-faced! Whodathunkit?

Actually, Dr. Eland is right on the mark. We lost our way a long time ago. Past administrations were much better at rationalizing their apparent ‘improprieties’. Today, they simply don’t seem to give a damn.

U.S. double standards for friend/foe

“If the U.S. is going to criticize other countries- behavior, it should eliminate the double standards at home first.”

Since World War II, the U.S. has been the most aggressive country in the world.

The Bush administration is attempting to soothe the Turkish government’s apoplectic reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s label of “genocide” on Turkey’s slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians, which occurred almost a century ago.
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Similarly, the United States has never been too enthusiastic about criticizing Japan’s denial of having used Chinese and South Korean women as sex slaves (so-called “comfort women”) during World War II.
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Yet the administration is still repeatedly bringing up Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s December, 2005 denial of the historical fact of the Jewish holocaust at the hands of the Nazis.

That’s because the U.S. government chooses to get along a lot less with the Iranian government (than it does with the governments of Turkey and Japan); because Israel, Iran’s nemesis, is a U.S. ally; and because the administration can win points with its domestic Israeli lobby.

In the same vein, the administration is supposed to be supporting the expansion of democracy overseas-that’s why the United States invaded Iraq, right?-but does so only in less friendly countries, not close allies.

Dr. Eland

Aljazeera.com

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Politics as usual.

Senate Republicans said Thursday they would invoke new ethics rules to block Democratic efforts to send to President Bush the first appropriations package of the 110th Congress.

Despite Republican grumbling, House and Senate negotiators on Thursday agreed to tack a $65 billion bill funding the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction onto a $151 billion bill for the Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education departments. The Veterans Affairs measure is about $4 billion more than Bush’s budget request, and the Labor-HHS-Education bill would add $10 billion to the president’s proposal.

When the conference report moves to the Senate floor - which could happen as early as next week - Republicans plan to raise a point of order to strike the language on Veterans Affairs and military construction. The move will likely intensify a partisan battle over spending priorities and allow each side to blame the other for delaying funding for veterans.

More at the Hill

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