Just for fun, here’s a link to my latest post over at the anti-Keith Olbermann site, Olbermannwatch dot com. Enjoy the attacks on yours truly! And, feel free to jump into the debate. It’s really quite funny.
Tags: Keith Olbermann, Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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Trying to figure out the next step in the War Funding resolution. It’s the old "rock and a hard place" situation for the Congressional leadership…
A savvy House Dem staffer we know gives us a candid and dispiriting overview of the political situation facing Congressional Dems on Iraq — and worries that the Dem leadership will cave [...]
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It’s really disgraceful, the way this agency operates. We get example after example, but nothing is ever fixed. It may be, as this writer says, time for FEMA to go…
After tornado, FEMA disarms town, turns away help
On Friday, May 4, an F5 tornado wiped the town of Greensburg, Kan., almost entirely off the map. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, along with the National Guard and local police from all over Kansas, then systematically kept out relief workers while they went house to house disarming the residents [...]
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In the ongoing Iraq saga. This latest incident may be have worse than initially thought…
If we are going to understand anything about the war underway in Iraq we have got to get the terminology right. The news media–CNN in particular–continue to call last week’s attack on small U.S. Army outpost in the Mahmoudiyah area (wihch is south of Baghdad) an "ambush". This was not an ambush. An ambush is defined as: 1. The act of lying in wait to attack by surprise. 2. A sudden attack made from a concealed position What happened to a squad of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 10th [...]
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Mike Palacek is his name. I’m betting you’ve never heard of him. Never heard of his writings. I hadn’t, until I stumbled on a blog post. He is, at least, intriguing. This post is duel-purpose…it updates his book tour and includes the text of the speech he makes at the book signings. Intriguing, indeed…
The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA – Dispatch 21
…Two questions I often get asked about my writing are who are you, and why are you doing this? Each time I tell my wife, let me try to explain. The American Dream. It’s an anti-war novel. It’s also about the lies we live on, like junk food. It’s propaganda, like in the USSR. We thought it couldn’t happen here. Maybe it’s not happening in exactly the same way, but it is happening here. We have fake history, fake news, which leads to brainwashing that results in [...]
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Regurgitated. It would be, as the blogger says, "silly". If it weren’t such a sad indictment of our leadership…
This morning’s White House press gaggle, hosted by Bush spokesperson Tony Fratto, was genuinely amusing. I realize bringing in a third-string press secretary is no way to get the White House’s A game, but this was just silly. Q: Senators Schumer and Feinstein are going to introduce a no confidence resolution for Attorney General Gonzales next [...]
Editor & Publisher says the reporters actually did a pretty good job of backing Fratto into a corner…
Reporters Demand Answers On ‘Ashcroft Hospital Visit’
Tags: Fratto, White House, Gonzales
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CT’s = Conspiracy Theories. The JFK Assassination is back in the news again. And that means it’s a good chance to start dredging out some of the good old Conspirary Theories surrounding his death. There are some I’ve never heard of including in the following post via The Existentialist Cowboy…
More than forty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a British newspaper reports that new research has given new life to an old idea: Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone gunman. A new investigation could stir up a can of worms and pose a threat to official orthodoxy. A complete investigation of the murder of JFK must begin anew, taking into consideration the liklihood that much of the evidence that has managed to survive has most probably been tampered with. That would include [...]
Tags: Kennedy Assassination, JFK
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And they deliver them to the White House.
about vetoing troop pay raises and benefits for military widows [...]
Tags: War Funding, Military Pay
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NBC’s Richard Engel writes about his ABC colleagues, murdered yesterday in Iraq, and thinks about the future. His future.
Is reporting in Iraq still possible?
Baghdad’s dwindling press corps learned today that two of our own were brutally murdered, apparently for doing nothing more than their jobs. ABC News announced that its Baghdad-based cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, were ambushed yesterday while driving home in western Baghdad. Their bodies were discovered today. Iraqi police told us they’d apparently been tortured before they were killed, and then shot in the head execution style. I was always impressed with Alaa. He was smart, well connected and savvy. I liked him so much I tried to hire him for [...]
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But, to me, the term "purge" is becoming more and more accurate…
30 and climbing. In a story this morning, McClatchy ups the The Washington Post’s toll of 26 U.S. attorneys to 30. So now we’re up to one-third of the nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys who were once tagged for firing over [...]
Tags: U.S. Attorneys, Purge, Gonzales, DOJ
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A Colorado school district puts its administrative brain in neutral and makes a really bone-headed move. Here’s a rarity: I’m linking to Michelle Malkin for this rare time that she makes sense!
Another Great Moment in Public Education
In last week’s installment of Great Moments in Public Education, we saw one teacher foisting Brokeback Mountain on students in one classroom and another school faking a surprise gun attack on sixth-graders. This week, it’s Sex, Drugs, and CYA [...]
Tags: Malkin, Public Education, Sex, Drugs
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Greg Palast is a good journalist. He plays by the rules…researches his sources and looks for facts that can be supported. This interview contains a wealth of important information. I’ll warn you upfront that it’s heavily infiltrated with unadulterated pitches for his latest book. But, that’s not a bad thing, when you consider the content of the interview…
Are they going to steal the 2008 election? No, they’ve already stolen it
…The prosecutor firings were 100% about influencing elections — not about loyalty to Bush, which is what The New York Times wrote. The administration team couldn’t tolerate appointees who wouldn’t go along with crime. In the book I present the evidence that Karl Rove directed a guy named Tim Griffin to target suppressing the votes of African American students, homeless men, and soldiers. Nice guy. They actually challenged the votes and successfully removed [...]
Tags: U.S. Attorneys, Election Fraud, Voter Fraud
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To say the least…
Dems make huge concession on Iraq spending bill, Bush says no
What a surprise. The Democratics tell Bush that the timetables they were going to include in the legislation – the very part of the legislation that most troubles Bush – will only be optional. Bush can waive them at any time. Making them pretty much meaningless. Bush said no. The man doesn’t want to negotiate. It’s Paul [...]
Pelosi Speaks On Impasse With White House
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The Administration really should learn to pick its fights better. Arguing against that military pay raise seems just silly…
Troop Pay Raise That Bush May Veto Amounts To $6/Month To Average Soldier In Iraq
As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, President Bush has threatened to veto a House defense bill over a provision that raises the pay for U.S. soldiers by 3.5 percent, instead of the 3 percent preferred by the White House. Last night on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Todd Bowers — an Iraq war veteran and director of [...]
Tags: Millitary Pay Raise, Keith Olbermann, Bowers
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And the Home Team ain’t hitting them out of the old ballpark..
Kmiec takes a swing and a miss
For all the excitement surrounding James Comey’s testimony this week, there’s been one missing element: a counter-argument. A couple of days ago, Tony Snow said, “Jim Comey gave his side of what transpired that day.” And what’s the other side? No one knows; the Bush White House and its allies have been surprisingly quiet. Finally, after [...]
Tags: Comey, Gonzales, Department of Justice
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TPMmuckraker snags an exemplary example of why he calls this…
It would be wrong to call the House ethics committee incompetent. Because, really, it ably strives to make itself as irrelevant and impotent as possible. Please take a moment out of your day to appreciate its efforts. From Roll Call [...]
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That’s right, a new career for Donald Rumsfeld. I wonder about scholarships….and the commenters are having a field day…
Rumsfeld To Create Research Foundation To Teach About ‘U.S. Engagement In World Affairs’
The world’s next generation of Donald Rumsfelds will soon have a place to study and grow. Former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld “is working on setting up a new foundation” to “remain engaged in public policy issues” and offer “teaching and research fellowships for graduate and post-graduate students.” The Washington Times reports: Rumsfeld has moved to new offices on [...]
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Sometimes you find the most amazing things while cruising the conservative blogs…you read that right – this is from a conservative blog…
We cried with our President in September of 2001 when he stood on a pile of rubble at the World Trade Center remembering those who were murdered while speaking through a megaphone and promising us that those responsible would be hunted down and brought to justice. We cheered with him [...]
Tags: 9/11, World Trade Center, Bush
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A lowly little employee. Who helps with speeches. That’s all. Oh, she just happened to marry him along the way. Not a smart move, Rudy.
Giuliani’s Wife Got $125,000 Salary To ‘Help’ Him With Speeches
Being Mrs. Rudy Giuliani can’t be easy, but at least it pays well – about $10,000 a month. A day after the former mayor disclosed in federal filings that he considers his third wife, Judith, a salaried employee, sources said he has paid her about $125,000 a year for speechwriting help – since before they [...]
Tags: Giuliani, Judith Giuliana
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There is a growing feeling that the Bush Administration needs to get Gonzales out of the Attorney General position. The question is – who moves in? And that is a huge issue. If you’re making a change, it has to be a good one. With the right person. Nobody seems to have a handle on who that might be…
Alberto Gonzales, White House Consigliere
Democratic leaders announced Thursday they will seek a vote of “no confidence” in Alberto Gonzales, hoping that convinces Gonzales or the White House that he should resign. Firedoglake’s looseheadprop will discuss the tactical significance of this later this morning. On MSNBC’s Hardball, Senator Schumer said he saw no purpose in recalling Gonzales to testify, because [...]
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