Archive for January 12th, 2008

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Jan
News News News
by QuestionGirl

NEWS.gifHUCKABEE AND THE MURDERER: A VICTIM’S MOTHER SPEAKS OUT

CLINTON ADVISER ARRESTED

CA Appeals Court Invalidates Warrantless Entry and Arrest for Pot Smoking

Objects From Iranian Boats Posed No Threat, Navy Says

Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles

Blackwater Said to Taint Evidence

Admirers of Constitution Booted for Wearing Impeach T’shirts in DC

People Who Petitioned to be Taken off No Fly List May Now Deal With Identity Theft

Pelosi, Reid Ask For Meeting on Stimulus

Impeachment debate will target Bush, Cheney


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12
Jan
Club Blue
by QuestionGirl

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Paul Personne
“Loco Loco”

A little blues in french……. I have no idea what he’s saying, but I like the geeeetar playing! ;-)

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12
Jan
HOOTY HOO!!!
by QuestionGirl

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That’s all…..carry on.

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Jan
Impeachment: Still Off the Table?
by Buck

Maybe Pelosi will have a change of heart, come Jan. 14th.

Washington State Senator Introduces Resolution Exhorting Congress to Impeach Cheney and Bush

Washington State Senator Eric Oemig has drafted a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney and remove them from office. Oemig plans to introduce his resolution (SJM 8016) when the legislative session begins on January 14th. Senator Darlene Fairley, Chair of the committee that will handle the matter, has promised a hearing.


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12
Jan
Silencing The Opposition
by Buck

If you can’t beat’em, buy’em out!

I don’t understand why the owner of the paper, often critical of Pat Robertson, would allow this sale to go though. Pure greed? If that’s the case, then it’s damn sad.

Pat Robertson Could Bid for the Virginian-Pilot

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, who has sharply criticized The Virginian-Pilot in the past, is considering making a bid to buy the newspaper, an associate said Thursday.

Landmark Communications Inc., a Norfolk-based media company, announced last week that it was evaluating whether to sell all of its assets, including The Weather Channel and The Pilot.

“Although the price for The Weather Channel is a little rich for my blood, I am considering a potential bid for the Pilot and have asked my attorneys to look into it,” Robertson said in an e-mail forwarded by his personal assistant, G.G. Conklin. “It would be particularly helpful to provide internships for Regent University journalism students.”
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Randall Balmer, a professor of U.S. religious history at Columbia University who studies evangelicals, said an offer from Robertson “strikes me as a Rupert Murdoch kind of move, diversifying into different forms of media, obviously on a much smaller scale than Murdoch.”
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Robertson has objected to articles in The Pilot that he has said unfairly characterized his pursuits. Most recently, an article last month said Regent’s counseling program has experienced an exodus of nearly half of its faculty members. Students, the article said, have been punished for voicing concerns.


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12
Jan
CNN: Crappy News Network
by QuestionGirl

From Yahoo News alerts:

Saturday, January 12, 2008, 1:15 AM PST
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (AP) The top U.S. commander in Iraq says attacks there linked to Iranian explosive devices have sharply increased.

I DON’T THINK SO!! You have to wonder why the rhetoric has been stepped up since Bush’s visit to Israel. I’m guessing this latest report of Iranian explosive devices is bullshit, just like it was bullshit last year. Another recycled lie. C’mon, the least you could do is come up with some NEW propaganda!!

From the February 16,2007 LA Times:

EFPs, which have proved especially deadly for U.S. troops in Iraq - are made in Iran and exported to Iraq. But in November, U.S. troops raiding a Baghdad machine shop came across a pile of copper disks, 5 inches in diameter, stamped out as part of what was clearly an ongoing order. This ominous discovery, unreported until now, makes it clear that Iraqi insurgents have no need to rely on Iran as the source of EFPs.

The truth is that EFPs are simple to make for anyone who knows how to do it. Far from a sophisticated assembly operation that might require state supervision, all that is required is one of those disks, some high-powered explosive (which is easy to procure in Iraq) and a container, such as a piece of pipe. I asked a Pentagon analyst specializing in such devices how much each one would cost to make. “Twenty bucks,” he answered after a brief calculation. “Thirty at most.”

And then today we get this from CNN:

EFPs are more sophisticated and deadlier than the typical improvised explosive devices (IED) used by insurgents as roadside bombs to attack convoys and foot patrols until last year. EFPs use components manufactured in Iran and militants are trained in Iran to use them, the U.S. military has said.

Obviously CNN and evey other news outlet are most comfortable reporting any lies and fantasies this administration feeds them as truth…… without doing any fact checking.

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12
Jan
Now That’s Not Very Neighborly
by Buck

Have I missed something? Is Bush finally resuming his search for Osama? After all, he is quoted as saying: “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority“, and: “I am truly not that concerned about him.

No doubt about it though, a Saddam’style hanging of Osama would be a much needed boost to republicans before the November elections.

Musharraf tells U.S.: Stay out of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a U.S. military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and “against the sovereignty of Pakistan.”

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President Musharraf says the United States would regret attempting to hunt for Osama bin Laden in western Pakistan.

President Musharraf told the Singapore Straits Times that his military has the experience to operate in the mountainous terrain near the Afghan border and if the United States went in they would “regret that day.”

The New York Times reported last Sunday that the Bush administration is considering expanding covert operations in the western part of Pakistan to shore up support for Musharraf’s government and to find bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

“Nobody will come here until we ask them to come and we haven’t asked them,” Musharraf told the Strait Times this week.

Strait Times reporter Anthony Paul asked Musharraf: “If the Americans came, would you treat that as an invasion?”

“Certainly,” Musharaff said. “If they come without our permission, that’s against the sovereignty of Pakistan.”

He said if there is good intelligence that bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan “the methodology of getting him will be discussed together and we’ll attack the target together.”


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