New Orleans Ladies

Oh, what a great song.  "New Orleans Ladies" by LeRoux.  What wonderful memories of a magnificent city, New Orleans.  Mardi Gras was better this year. Better than last.  But, the city is still not herself. Yet, somebody is happy.

NOLA: Bush’s Plan Is Working

Thomas F. Schaller writes in Salon: A key reason for the troubles facing Blanco and her party is the massive out-migration of New Orleans-area Democrats in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The storm, and the administration’s botched handling of it, literally drove Democrats out of Louisiana. Though a perfect estimate is impossible, analysts who follow the [...]

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Compounding the Wounds

We’ve blogged about it before.  It’s been big news all week. How the Pentagon is failing to properly care for wounded military personnel at Walter Reed Hospital.  Now, radio/TV guy,  Don Imus,  is going after the government.  Big time.  He may be getting older.  He may be contankerous as all lget out.  But, sometimes, he’s on game.

http://krilefiles.blogspot.com/2007/02/simply-so-wrong.html

This morning on his radio show, Don Imus continued to call attention to the deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Imus has highlighted the issue every day this week. On yesterday’s show, he revealed, “I haven’t heard from anybody [in the administration] about whether I can come down there and take a [...]

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Dinner Discussion

Looking for something to spark the conversation at dinner tonight?   Consider some fresh quotes via AmericaBlog –

George Bush may very well be breaking the Army

Speaker Pelosi’s blog, the Gavel, expands significantly on a NYT story today about the extent to which Bush’s "surge" in Iraq is straining our military resources. The Gavel notes the following military experts expressing real concern that Bush may be breaking the Army:  "Lieutenant General David Poythress, the state adjutant general for the Georgia National Guard, 12/17/06: “There is a danger of breaking the Army, but there is an equivalent danger of breaking the Guard. Guardsmen don’t sign up to be full-time soldiers. If that’s what they wanted, they’d join the active Army.”  General Peter Schoomaker, Chief of Staff United [...]

Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Military Resources, Breaking The Army

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Quick Thursday Update

Just took a break for lunch and a few moments to see what’s happening in the outside world!  One of the most talked-about stories seems to pick up where we’ve been before.  Not enough manpower.  Not enough equipment.  Not the correct equipment.

They don’t even have the right rifles

Thousands of National Guard and Reserve troops had been told they could expect a longer break between deployments to Iraq. In some cases, reservists were promised they would get years between deployments. Now, they’re being told to forget what they’d been told; Bush’s escalation strategy demands more sacrifice. The Pentagon is planning to send more than [...]

UPDATE: As you can imagine, those on the other side of the aisle don’t agree.  One, in particular, has put together an attack.  You now have both sides.  Comment away.  I’m still thinking the equipment isn’t where it should be.  Not by a long shot. No pun intended.

When the Deceptive and Uninformed Attack

The liberal blog The Carpetbagger Report has a post up this morning entitled They don’t even have the right rifles, in which the author laments over National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers being re-deployed without enough time between deployments and [...]

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New Orleans Ladies

Oh, what a great song.  "New Orleans Ladies" by LeRoux.  What wonderful memories of a magnificent city, New Orleans.  Mardi Gras was better this year. Better than last.  But, the city is still not herself. Yet, somebody is happy.

NOLA: Bush’s Plan Is Working

Thomas F. Schaller writes in Salon: A key reason for the troubles facing Blanco and her party is the massive out-migration of New Orleans-area Democrats in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The storm, and the administration’s botched handling of it, literally drove Democrats out of Louisiana. Though a perfect estimate is impossible, analysts who follow the [...]

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Compounding the Wounds

We’ve blogged about it before.  It’s been big news all week. How the Pentagon is failing to properly care for wounded military personnel at Walter Reed Hospital.  Now, radio/TV guy,  Don Imus,  is going after the government.  Big time.  He may be getting older.  He may be contankerous as all lget out.  But, sometimes, he’s on game.

http://krilefiles.blogspot.com/2007/02/simply-so-wrong.html

This morning on his radio show, Don Imus continued to call attention to the deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Imus has highlighted the issue every day this week. On yesterday’s show, he revealed, “I haven’t heard from anybody [in the administration] about whether I can come down there and take a [...]

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Dinner Discussion

Looking for something to spark the conversation at dinner tonight?   Consider some fresh quotes via AmericaBlog –

George Bush may very well be breaking the Army

Speaker Pelosi’s blog, the Gavel, expands significantly on a NYT story today about the extent to which Bush’s "surge" in Iraq is straining our military resources. The Gavel notes the following military experts expressing real concern that Bush may be breaking the Army:  "Lieutenant General David Poythress, the state adjutant general for the Georgia National Guard, 12/17/06: “There is a danger of breaking the Army, but there is an equivalent danger of breaking the Guard. Guardsmen don’t sign up to be full-time soldiers. If that’s what they wanted, they’d join the active Army.”  General Peter Schoomaker, Chief of Staff United [...]

Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Military Resources, Breaking The Army

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Quick Thursday Update

Just took a break for lunch and a few moments to see what’s happening in the outside world!  One of the most talked-about stories seems to pick up where we’ve been before.  Not enough manpower.  Not enough equipment.  Not the correct equipment.

They don’t even have the right rifles

Thousands of National Guard and Reserve troops had been told they could expect a longer break between deployments to Iraq. In some cases, reservists were promised they would get years between deployments. Now, they’re being told to forget what they’d been told; Bush’s escalation strategy demands more sacrifice. The Pentagon is planning to send more than [...]

UPDATE: As you can imagine, those on the other side of the aisle don’t agree.  One, in particular, has put together an attack.  You now have both sides.  Comment away.  I’m still thinking the equipment isn’t where it should be.  Not by a long shot. No pun intended.

When the Deceptive and Uninformed Attack

The liberal blog The Carpetbagger Report has a post up this morning entitled They don’t even have the right rifles, in which the author laments over National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers being re-deployed without enough time between deployments and [...]

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Pssst. Lookee Here

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Bush Cutting Medicaid To Pay For ONE FAMILY’s Tax Cut

Who is our economy FOR? Bush is cutting Medicaid by $28 billion. Bush is giving the Walton family (Wal-Mart heirs) a $32.7 billion tax cut. You do the math. Go see who else wins and [...]

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The Spin Continues

If you thought they were spinning the comments, what they’re doing with the poll numbers is nothing short of a tornado.

Conservatives are aggressively…

Conservatives are aggressively pushing a new poll by a GOP firm which allegedly shows that there’s more support for the Iraq war than anybody thinks. So we asked another Republican pollster to look at the poll’s numbers, and get this: He tells us that the poll is bogus. What [...]

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Simply Stupid

Nothing more to say.  This is an extremely frustrating attitude, to say the least.

Boortz: “Teachers Unions More Dangerous Than Nuclear-Armed Terrorists”

On Hannity and Colmes last night, Neal Boortz told an agreeable Sean Hannity that teachers unions are more dangerous to America than terrorists armed with nuclear weapons because a nuke could only wipe out 100,000 people but public schools are "destroying a generation."Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring in a [...]

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Twisting The Truth

I really have to wonder if the folks in Washington really believe all they say these days.  Part of me wants to believe that they do; part of me thinks that there is no way they can believe the spin they are spewing.

Al Qaeda is resurgent, bin Laden is back in charge, yet Cheney says Pelosi and Murtha will validate the terrorists

Again, Cheney is talking like it’s 2002. Unfortunately, the reality facing America now is that for al Qaeda, it’s 2001 all over. The terror network is on the move and it’s happened right under the noses of Bush and Cheney. Just this week, we learned that Bin Laden is back in charge. The terror networks are expanding. Al Qaeda has taken [...]

Tags: Dick Cheney, al Qaeda, Terror Network, Bin Laden, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha

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Vilsack Ready To Implode

It looks like the man from my home state of Iowa may have made a major mis-step in the 2008 presidential campaign. Heck, Tom Vilsack had to be a long shot, at best.  This ain’t gonna help any –

Well, That’s News

Had some interest in how Vilsack would perform, but now that he’s advocating the long run destruction of social security by indexing benefit increases to prices, not wages, all signs point to "not well." For an explanation of why this basically [...]

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Today With Tony

Tony Snow is ALWAYS good for a quote to contemplate.  And try to figure out.  Today, was no exception.

Snow Backtracks, Now Claims Bush Didn’t Know Of Walter Reed Neglect

During yesterday’s White House press briefing, Tony Snow tried to play down the neglect uncovered at Walter Reed by portraying it as old news. President Bush "certainly has been aware of the conditions in the wards where he has visited," Snow said, affirming that the administration was aware of Walt [...]

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Health Care Costs

There’s just something so fundamentally wrong with this prediction. The precentages are simply staggering.

Study: US healthcare to account for 1 in every $5 spent

The AP reports on a new study which predicts the cost of healthcare is going to go way up at current rates unless something is done: Health care is expected to account for $1 of every $5 spent in the United States in another decade. That means a rise in out-of-pocket expenses, such as the copays for [...]

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The Big Story Today

One thing I haven’t managed to get in my new digs, is cable TV!  I miss keeping one ear on the news, while I go about my work.  So, I’m catching up tonight, with some Cable News and lots of internet scanning.  It’s relaxing, in a sense.  If the news, itself, wasn’t so controversial.

Today’s Clinton-Obama flare up

I mentioned this briefly earlier, but it seems to be the big political story of the day, so let’s flesh this out a bit. In her column today, the NYT’s Maureen Dowd quoted entertainment mogul David Geffen, who was a loyal Clinton supporter in the 1990s, saying all kinds of critical things about Hillary, while explaining [...]

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Settling In

Sorry for the extended departure. Making the job switch matched up perfectly with a long, tiring, weekend of driving for an out-of-town meeting.  But, all is well.  I’m settled into the new, non-media, gig and enjoying it very much. Hopefully, this will mean I can carve out some time each evening to snag a few blogs for those of you who are still hanging around. Heck, I’d welcome some new folks, so spread the word!

And, now, we return you to your regularly scheduled program.  Already in progress. All Spin. All the time.

The Delusional Dick Cheney

After Dick Cheney got done telling ABC News that it was a good sign that the Brits are pulling their forces out of Iraq he went back on the attack. He scurried off to East Asia rather than be here in town for the potential conviction of his top henchman. And he continues to say anything and just make shit up in order to maintain the fiction that we are fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq. ABC News interviewed the vice president in Tokyo, where he told troops aboard the USS Kitty [...]

Tags: Dick Cheney, Iraq War, British Troops

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