Apr 25 2007
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Feb 02 2007
Because of the “surge” my friend Nicole’s husband gets to stay in Iraq another six months instead of coming home on Valentine’s Day.
* And yes I made up the number to approximate the dollars wasted on this necessary war
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Nov 08 2006
Today I hope is a new beginning for the United States. Voters have made a loud and clear statement of unhappiness with the direction of our country. The balance of power has clearly shifted in the House of Representatives and currently looks to swing in the Senate as well. However, we will not know the results of the final Senate race for probably a month.
The results of the elections were good news in its own right. However even better news came this morning. Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down as the Secretary of Defense. Perhaps now, the military leaders can actually implement strategies that will help end the conflict in Iraq instead of inciting conflict.
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Oct 24 2006
Another Special Comment from Keith Olbermann:
An excerpt:
But to forgive you for terrorizing us, we would have to believe you somehow competent in keeping others from doing so.
Yet, last week, construction workers repairing a subway line in New York City, were cleaning out an abandoned manhole on the edge of the World Trade Center site, when they stumbled on to the impossible: human remains from 9/11.
Bones and fragments.
Eighty of them.
Some as much as a foot long.
The victims had been lying, literally in the gutter, for five years and five weeks.
The families and friends of each of the 2,749 dead–who had been grimly told in May of 2002 that there were no more remains to be found–were struck anew as if the terrorism of that day had just happened again.
And over the weekend they’ve found still more remains.
And now this week will be spent looking in places that should have already been looked at a thousand times five years ago.
For all the victims in New York, Mr. Bush–the living and the dead–it’s a touch of 9/11 all over again.
And the mayor of this city, who called off the search four-and-a-half years ago is a Republican.
The governor of this state with whom he conferred is a Republican.
The House of Representatives, Republican.
The Senate, Republican.
The President, Republican.
And yet you can actually claim that you and you alone can protect us from terrorism?
You can’t even recover our dead from the battlefield–the battlefield in an American city–when we’ve given you five years and unlimited funds to do so!
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Oct 19 2006
The President finally signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This is a scary bill, that hopefully will get wiped off the books, either by the Supreme Court or by the next Congressional session. A lot of the stuff going on at the governmental level reminds me of the Antibalas’ song “Who is this America?” Honestly I don’t know.
A Special Comment by Keith Olbermann. See below the cut for the text of Olbermann’s comment. (He says this much more eloquently than I could)
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Oct 18 2006
from Crooks and Liars (via MyDD)
Paul Evans is the real deal. City Councilman in Monmouth, Oregon at age 18, Evans has been twice elected as the city’s mayor, served in the Air Force and the Air National Guard and been a teacher at Western Oregon University and Oregon State University. Evans is currently running as a Democrat for the State Senate in Oregon, his campaign representing one of the party’s best pick-up opportunities in the chamber this year. And now he has been informed that he will be shipping out for duty in Afghanistan on November 5, as Peter Wong reports for the Salem Statesman Journal.
When Election Day rolls around three weeks from today, Oregon Senate candidate Paul Evans will learn his fate from afar: Afghanistan.
Evans, a veteran of the Air Force and Oregon Air National Guard, will be en route to the nation with the 116th Air Control Squadron.
He is scheduled to leave Nov. 5, 10 days ahead of his original deployment date. His mission will last 60 days — which means he would be back for the opening of the legislative session on Jan. 8 if he is elected Nov. 7 to the Senate District 10 seat.
[…] In a written statement, he said, “When my commander said I was needed, there was no question of whether or not I would go. Duty calls.”
[…]He likely is the nation’s only candidate who will be on active duty in the Middle East on Election Day. (Read More from the Statesman Journal)
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Oct 09 2006
So far this year all the Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans. The Medicine, Chemistry, Physics and Economics Prizes have all been announced. This is likely to change as of Thursday, when the Literature Prize is announced. Why? Well for starters, three of the last four prizes have gone to people writing in English. It is highly speculated that this years prize will go to someone writing in another language.
English betting site Ladbrokes.com has the current odds as shown below the cut:
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Oct 09 2006
This is the world the Bush administration has helped create. A world where nuclear weapons are spreading. Eventually something very, very bad is going to happen.
See Glenn Greenwald’s blog for his take on the situation. (There’s no need for me to recreate the wheel)
More from Gleen Greenwald: Iraq vs. North Korea
I wonder what we can do to change this course we seem to be on.
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Oct 06 2006
Perhaps the harshest mainstream critic of the Bush Administration is Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. In resent weeks he has used the “Special Comments” section of his show Countdown to intelligently attack the stupidity of the administration. Finally more of the media is beginning to wake up and acknowledge the uniqueness of his work. (from the Washington Post)
It amazes me (and Olbermann) the stuff that comes out of the Bush Administration. The seem to try to bend everything to perpetuate a culture of fear. Trying to make us blind to the principles from our constitution that they are infringing on every day. Make no mistake, if we continue down the road set out by this administration, we will be attacked again. The actions of this administration do not protect us. We are heading towards some sort of theocracy. That is not a country I want to be a part of.
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