Becomes even worse. As the number of victims grows.
KBR Gang Rape Survivor Says 11 More Women Like Her
An extraordinarily brave Jamie Leigh Jones testified before the House Judiciary Committee today. Not-so-brave was the Justice Department — they were supposed to send a representative, but none showed up. John Conyers was quite righteously indignant about the failure of the Justice Department to show Jamie Leigh: “He handed me the drink and said ‘don’t worry, I saved all my Roofies for Dubai,” or [...]
Tags: Iraq, KBR, Rape
Categories: Halliburton · Iraq War
We were talking about this at home the other night, after making a grocery store run. Talking about how the juicer we bought last Christmas has been sitting on the counter, unused, for several months. You have to push a fair amount of fruit through it to get a couple of glasses, and it’s just too darn expensive.
Macaroni and cheese may not be as good for you, but you don’t need a loan to make a run to the supermarket to buy food for the family. I’m always amazed at how much people who are buying for a full family must spend. We’re down to just the two of us and it still costs a ton, although we DO try to stick mostly to things that are relatively good for us. Or, at least, not horribly bad!
Now, there are numbers to back up our discussion.
Who Can Afford to Eat Right? Healthy Foods Are Too Expensive for Millions, Research Shows
It’s hard not to spend too much time at the dinner table during the holiday season, getting fatter on our way to the poor house. Though we are lectured constantly about eating right, most of us don’t. And the reason, it seems, is more a matter of economics than self-indulgengence [...]
Tags: Grocery Prices, Healthy Eating
Categories: Economy
America’s veterans are committing suicide. In record numbers. And, apparently, we lack the ability to help them effectively. That is simply wrong.
The Disgraceful Treatment of our Veterans
As you do your holiday shopping this year and think about a big turkey dinner and piles of gifts and the good life that most Americans enjoy, please spare a thought for those who made it all possible: Those who serve in our military and the veterans who’ve worn the uniform. There are some new statistics that give us reason to be ashamed for the way that our country has treated those who’ve served and [...]
Tags: Veterans, Suicide
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War · Military
Fred, it’s called “campaigning” for a reason. You’re supposed to get out there, walk the streets, shake some hands, kiss some babies. Even if it IS a bit chilly.
Fred Thompson: Lazy as Charged
When is retail politics not retail politics? When candidates refuse to get off their big buses and go do it. — Fred Thompson rolled into this small town on the Cedar River in north-central Iowa on a giant brown bus Tuesday [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Fred Thompson
Categories: 2008 Election · Thompson
Nope. You can’t trick me. No matter how many times and how many ways you ask. Just ain’t gonna say something that might get the big guy mad at me!
Deputy AG Nominee Hedges on Waterboarding, CIA Torture Tapes Probe
…When Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA ) asked whether waterboarding is torture, he punted, parroting Mukasey’s answer exactly. Like Mukasey, Filip called the practice “repugnant.” But stopped short, explaining that since Mukasey is conducting a review, he couldn’t “get out in front of him on that question.” He added: [...]
Tags: Torture, Waterboarding
Categories: Bush Administration · Torture · Waterboarding
This who global warming debate is confusing. Everytime somebody comes out with a report that pulls me solidly into the camp of “believers”, another bunch of brainy people studies the data and comes up with the opposite conclusion. Go figure.
New Study: Warming Is Naturally Caused And Shows No Human Influence
The debate is over. PS, please stop debating. Didn’t you hear? It’s over. What part of “over” don’t you understand? The “o” or the “ver”? Now shut up and pretend to care about CO2 (The Invisible Killer) while producing as [...]
Tags: Global Warming, Climate Change
Categories: Global Warming/Climate Change
Interesting thinking – that the results of the early primaries could put pressure on the Bush Administration to cooperate.
Next Moves on FISA
The next vote on FISA might be a short term extension of the PAA, according to today’s The Hill. Reid is considering the short-term extension to allow a delay of consideration of the bill just tabled (S. 2248) until after the early presidential primaries. “Reid said Senate Democrats might have a better chance of resolving internal disputes and moving a rewrite of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) once the early primaries have concluded….Under Reid’s plan, [...]
Tags: FISA, Primary Elections
Categories: Bush Administration · FISA
And, honestly, neither puts the U.S. and the Bush Administration in a very good light.
The Kirkuk Fiasco
.Juan Cole is suspicious about the timing of the recent Turkish raids on Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, which came just as Condoleezza Rice was flying to Kirkuk to meet with Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani. “A meeting [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Maybe the Clinton Camp doesn’t think this will be a big negative, but I’d advise that it’s not good to spite the hand that feeds ya’! Shultz has a point – Hillary got her face all over every TV morning show the other day, but can’t take 10 minutes to talk on the radio. It’s Liberal Radio, for goodness sakes! It’s your people!
Shultz Slams Clinton
…During his nearly 10-minute diatribe, though Schultz noted that he “carried more water for John Kerry than anybody else on the radio” and would have provided the New York senator with a friendly forum to express herself. “Does Hillary Clinton think that I am going to nail her? Does she think [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Radio
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Radio
It’s vanishing for more and more people, unable to make their housing payments. It once was quite simple: if you worked hard, made a decent amount of money, you could afford to buy a home and maintain it. Not so, for many middle-class Americans today. They’re watching their dream explode right in front of their eyes. Merry Christmas.
Foreclosures up 68% in November
U.S. home foreclosures rose 68 percent in November from a year earlier as adjustable-rate mortgages left subprime borrowers unable to meet higher payments, according to data compiled by RealtyTrac Inc. There were 201,950 foreclosure filings in Nov [...]
Tags: Economy, Foreclosures
Categories: Economy
I sense this trend that has people sliding into the holidays a bit early this year, burning vacation time to stretch Christmas into a l-o-n-g weekend. Good for all of us! With all of the political/election BS floating around, we could use a little break.
So, let’s load up the Huckabee shotgun and fire away:
Aw, Shucks-a-Bee, Why Not Huckabee
Aw shucks, I like this guy, Huckabee. He’s a smooth talker, he is. Why, he could charm the hide right off an ornery gator at a hundred yards and be wearing the genuine-hide boots by suppertime. But I’d have to be hog-tied for sure to give him my [...]
Christ Ad is Huckabee’s Cross to Bear
Mike Huckabee’s new TV ad features the Republican presidential hopeful telling voters that “what really matters” during the holiday season “is the celebration of the birth of Christ,” apparently a first for a presidential candidate in a TV commercial. The same ad features Huckabee speaking in front of what appears to be a floating cross [...]
Huckabee Now a Candidate With Something to Lose
Mike Huckabee is attempting a tough political transition: from also-ran to novelty act to overnight leader, with all the scrutiny that [...]
Last one for tonight. Promise,
Huckaboom Means Conservabust
Does the ascension of socially conservative Baptist minister Mike Huckabee in the presidential race spell disaster for the GOP? In his surge, Rick Moran detects the signs of “the great conservative crack-up that has been predicted for [...]
Ah, I had “King’s X” on that promise. Even PowerLine is kicking Huckabee.
More mush from the Huck
…This self-pitying nonsense is an insult to Republicans, and demonstrates further why Huckabee should not be the party’s standard bearer. First, Huckabee overlooks the fact that George W. Bush, though not a preacher, is a born-again Christian. If Republicans like Lowry wanted to keep Christian conservatives at arms-length why did they support Bush so firmly? The notion that [...]
Tags: Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
