Yes, We Have No Gulag

Here's an interesting chart, about our non-Gulag, Gulag. Unlike Alterman, I believe we need to keep speaking the truth over & over & over to these bastards. It's the only way to defeat them &, BTW, they are not the opposite side to my coin.

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The wingnut ReThugs are out in force here. Thanks to a friend who put it thusly - "These people are ****ing nuts!" I couldn't have put it better.

Eagle blogging 2 - ditto 

Eagle blogging 1 - a field south of Marengo, WI 

Barista Boss Blogging, plus the new kid. Both are looking good. 

Friday cat blogging - Tchoupa - quit your giggling, morons - it's the kid's cat. 

Cave Bear

Science Friday.

Random Headlines

No links. Lazy this a.m.

Bush S.E.C. Pick Is Seen as Friend to Corporations



Insurgent Attacks in Iraq Kill at Least 33



U.S. Embassy Warns of Attacks in Indonesia

Car Bomb North Of Baghdad Kills 10, Wounds 12 5:58 a.m. ET

Iraq Officials Put Toll of Insurgency at 12,000




Estimated civilian total indicates that the violent attacks have claimed the lives of about 20 people each day over the past 18 months.

Wounded civilians in Iraq get little help

Syria test-fires Scud missiles, Israel worried about chemical attacks

Insurgent attacks kill more than 820 since new Iraqi government formed

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I needed this laugh.

Kinda sorta unfortunate event name



Personally I don't think that an organization that "takes in needy pregnant women to help them facilitate the choice to have their children" should call their annual event "Ball for Life". It seems kind of dim...

But then we see that the "stars" that will be attending include barren skank Ann Coulter, America's Stupidest Man™ Sean Hannnity, coke whore Larry Kudlow, and a special tribute to Our Lady of the Dolphins, Peggy Noonan and we realize that this event isn't exactly being underwritten by MENSA.



posted by tbogg at 11:31

Via Tbogg.

Well, Well...Take This Dobson, You Moron

Got to love them fruit flies.

Bird Season

takes on new meaning with this article. Come on ornithologists, get on board.

It's Thursday

Tonight - Drinking Liberally -
The Black Cat, 6-9 p.m.

First The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Next the Hibbing, MN paper, now the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Will this story continue making front page news? Maybe. It's a good read, spread the news.

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Iraq War: Drafting the dead

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

President Bush was among the 260,000 graves at Arlington National Cemetery when he said it. But it was clear Monday that the president was referring to the more than 1,650 Americans killed to date in Iraq when he said, "We must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives; by defeating the terrorists."

Bush insists on clinging to the thoroughly discredited notion that there was any connection between the old Iraqi regime -- no matter how lawless and brutal -- and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

U.S. military action against an Afghan regime that harbored al-Qaida was a legitimate response to the 9/11 attacks. The invasion of Iraq was not.

As of Memorial Day 2003, Bush had declared major combat operations at an end, predicted that weapons of mass destruction would be found and that U.S. forces were in the process of stabilizing Iraq. One hundred sixty U.S. troops had died.

The U.S. death toll has grown more than tenfold. No weapons of mass destruction were found. More than 700 Iraqis have been killed since Iraq's new government was formed April 28.

Bush said of the insurgents at a news conference yesterday, "I believe the Iraqi government is plenty capable of dealing with them."

Of course, this is the same president that assured the world that military intervention in Iraq was a last resort and that the United States would make every effort to avoid war through diplomacy. Giving lie to that as well is the so-called Downing Street War Memo, which shows that as early as July 2002, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the Intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

Perhaps all presidents' remarks in military graveyards are by nature self-serving. But few have been so callow as the president's using the deaths of U.S. troops in his unjustified war as justification for its continuance.

Rose Colored Glasses?

How about blinders. & the big fool says to push on.

NASCAR Nation Indeed

Bill "Cat-Killer" Frist (R-Tennessee) is a real NASCAR family man. Apparently, knowing your "family" is not a NASCAR value. Via ESPN. The telling paragraph:

Frist also drew some chuckles in a brief interview session with reporters when he referred to Tennessee's lone Cup driver as Sterling Martin, instead of Marlin.