This is pretty rich. Has to make you chuckle, just a bit.
Here’s a press…
Here’s a press release just out from 60 Minutes on the McCain Baghdad ’stroll’ … Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he misspoke in comments he made about security in Baghdad and acknowledged that heavily armed troops and helicopter gunships accompanied him when he visited a market there. McCain tells this to Scott Pelley in his first interview since the visit for a 60 [...][
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By stretching the National Guard. To the point where it’s getting dangerously thin.
Harry Reid on the stark dangers of the escalating escalation
Trying to bring some sanity to the Bush Iraq policy is no easy task, but the Senate Majority Leader keeps at it. He has to. Reid just issued this statement in response to the revelation that 12,000 more National Guard troops are being sent to war zones overseas: "Democrats are continuing to fight to give our troops the resources they need, including a strategy for success worthy of their sacrifices. The President’s new plan to follow up his ill-advised escalation by sending ill-prepared National Guard troops to Iraq is another misguided [...]
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And, too, the questioners.
Lauer loses legitimacy with lousy Pelosi criticism
When it comes to Speaker Pelosi and her bipartisan delegation to the Middle East this week, this has not been the mainstream media’s finest hour. Take Matt Lauer’s reporting from this morning’s Today Show. This morning, NBC’s Today Show ran a biased segment casting doubt on Pelosi’s Syria trip. Every single question asked by anchor Matt [...]
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Bigger, badder and longer ones. That’s one of the major things the United States will likely see in the not-too-distant future, thanks to climate change. Global warming. Call it what you will. We updated the topic yesterday and just stumbled across a fascinating BBC site that helps explain this latest report even more.
Climate change around the world
Climate change is a real and frightening thing. Part of the fear is that the average person does not know how his area will be affected. There is a powerful site at the BBC that addresses this. Click on the [...]
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Making a list and checking it twice. The Administrations association with another Attorney General is being questioned. Why? Get ready for the Wisconsin political soap opera, the purge turned upside down.
Wisconsin Case Raises Eyebrows
In the wake of what the U.S. attorney firings scandal has revealed about the Bush Justice Department, it’s hard to imagine a more troubling scenario than this: A Bush-nominated U.S. Attorney launches a corruption case during an election year that [...]
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Well, this is an interesting twist for those of you following the Arkansas Razorback basketball debacle. Gillespie was the guy Arkansas wanted, but he said he was staying in Texas and accepting a huge new contract. What Arkansas couldn’t do, Kentucky managed to do.
Gillispie Leaves Texas A&M for Kentucky
After a two weeks of speculation, Kentucky introduced its new basketball coach. Billy Gillispie, who coached Texas A&M to the Round of 16, will take over Wildcats. [...]
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It’s the Easter Weekend. Whether or not you believe, you certainly understand the concepts of right versus wrong and good versus evil. Don’t you? Here’s a little Friday gift to get you thinking.
Hope is Good, Help is Better
I’m just beside myself, I was walking to the subway tonight and a man approached me with two young kids and asked if I could help them get some food. In a usual New York fashion, I said I didn’t have any money and kept walking (I lied, I had a twenty in my [...]
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The numbers just keep spirally downward. I feel almost guilty even posting this. Almost. Were it not for the fact that it just substantiates the overall loss of confidence Americans feel for the Administration. While these numbers are from California, the national polls aren’t that much better, you’ll recall.
Bush Poll Numbers at All Time Low in Calif; Rival Those of Nixon
There’s no love between Californians and George W. Bush. On war and the economy, his approval ratings in the state have tanked to Nixon-like [...]
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You could almost see this coming, couldn’t you. Adding yet another log to the fire burning under the big question of why the Bush Administration is (apparently) so worried about Alberto Gonzales talking about the U.S. Attorneys who were fired. I think we’re nearing the point where the flames will be rapidly spreading. There are, by the way, multiple layers of fascinating new information in this post. It’s a "must read".
Any Way You Slice It…
***UPDATE: This just in: the April 12th Gonzales appearance before the Senate Budget Committee has, indeed, been postponed because the DoJ is now refusing to turn over thousands of documents that needed to be reviewed prior to the hearing, setting things up for a subpoena showdown. Hold onto your hats, [...]
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This is pretty rich. Has to make you chuckle, just a bit.
Here’s a press…
Here’s a press release just out from 60 Minutes on the McCain Baghdad ’stroll’ … Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he misspoke in comments he made about security in Baghdad and acknowledged that heavily armed troops and helicopter gunships accompanied him when he visited a market there. McCain tells this to Scott Pelley in his first interview since the visit for a 60 [...][
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The Senate bill to get our troops out of Iraq picks up another sponsor. Another heavyweight. This thing is really going to take off like a freight train when Congress comes back from the break.
Leahy adds name to troop redeployment bill
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, will join Sen. Russ Feingold, D-WI, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, in introducing legislation aimed at ending the current military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of U.S. forces. The bill, which will be introduced when the Senate [...]
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It’s tough to find much that paints an upbeat picture of the Bush Administration. Not even from the usually-supportive military.
The response was underwhelming
In recent years, it’s often been assumed that the president could deliver a war-related speech on a military base and receive an enthusiastic response. It’s practically a foregone conclusion — men and women in uniform are going to give their commander in chief a boisterous response, especially when he’s trying to motivate them with encouraging [...]
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You know you can’t turn away when there’s a trainwreck to watch. Give Bill O’Reilly credit for being willing to risk whatever little credibility he might have had to spar with Geraldo Rivera. O’Reilly stuck his neck out for the wrong side of THIS argument.
O’Reilly Flips His Lid…
Wow…Just wow. Bill O’Reilly goes Morton Downey Jr. The latest phony issue created by O’Reilly is crucifying the mayor and police chief of Virginia Beach for not having previously deported an undocumented immigrant who ended up killing two teens in Virgina Beach in a drunk driving accident. He’s mad not because the guy was a drunk [...]
UPDATE: Here’s the Crooks and Liars version, in case you have any problems with the video in the first link.
Bill O’Reilly’s head practically explodes as he screams at Geraldo…
UPDATE 2: It took some time, but I found one. A blogger who agrees with O’Reilly
OReilly and Geraldo Shout It Out or “Dueling Megalomaniacs”
Geraldo Rivera is as wrong as wrong can be. When a crime is committed by an illegal alien in the US that’s an avoidable crime. That crime should not have happened. In this case these two teenagers would be alive if the mayor of this city had not granted sanctuary to the illegal alien criminals. His other points are a bunch of hooey too. Illegal aliens are a huge crime problem in this country. We did not [...]
UPDATE 3: Ya just gotta figure that will make Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight. Considering the fact that O’Reilly (and BFF’s) made it yesterday:
World’s Worst: Dick Cheney Takes Home the Gold
UPDATE 4: Both O’Reilly and Rivera comment:
"That Was Lively, Eh?"
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Welcome to the new (and improved) American Dustbowl. This is really chapter two of one of my key aggravations. Regular readers will recall yesterday’s rant about the shortsightedness of some critics of climate change. Follow that link and catch up. Then, consider this from USA Today.
The desert is moving north.
"Dust Bowl" drought driven by global warming will be the normal climate of the future for the American Southwest, report climatologists. "We’re essentially moving the desert further north," says Mingfang Ting of Columbia University, co-author of a study released Thursday by the journal
Science. By 2020, rain estimates show "very unusual" agreement among climate projections, with the Southwestern states facing permanent drought. That would worsen already arid conditions in Las Vegas, Phoenix and other locales dependent on [...]
UPDATE: Almost forgot that this report was due out today. Right on time and right on target with predictions.
UN Panel Issues New Dire Warnings on Global Warming
Climate experts issued their starkest warning yet about the impact of global warming, ranging from hunger in Africa to a fast thaw in the Himalayas, in a report on Friday that increased pressure on governments to act. More than 100 nations in the U.N. climate panel agreed a final text after all-night talks during which some scientists accused governments of watering down conclusions that climate change was already under way and [...]
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By stretching the National Guard. To the point where it’s getting dangerously thin.
Harry Reid on the stark dangers of the escalating escalation
Trying to bring some sanity to the Bush Iraq policy is no easy task, but the Senate Majority Leader keeps at it. He has to. Reid just issued this statement in response to the revelation that 12,000 more National Guard troops are being sent to war zones overseas: "Democrats are continuing to fight to give our troops the resources they need, including a strategy for success worthy of their sacrifices. The President’s new plan to follow up his ill-advised escalation by sending ill-prepared National Guard troops to Iraq is another misguided [...]
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And, too, the questioners.
Lauer loses legitimacy with lousy Pelosi criticism
When it comes to Speaker Pelosi and her bipartisan delegation to the Middle East this week, this has not been the mainstream media’s finest hour. Take Matt Lauer’s reporting from this morning’s Today Show. This morning, NBC’s Today Show ran a biased segment casting doubt on Pelosi’s Syria trip. Every single question asked by anchor Matt [...]
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Bigger, badder and longer ones. That’s one of the major things the United States will likely see in the not-too-distant future, thanks to climate change. Global warming. Call it what you will. We updated the topic yesterday and just stumbled across a fascinating BBC site that helps explain this latest report even more.
Climate change around the world
Climate change is a real and frightening thing. Part of the fear is that the average person does not know how his area will be affected. There is a powerful site at the BBC that addresses this. Click on the [...]
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