Category: Misc

Just now being reported on MSNBC. More is expected at the top of the hour.

Number of soldiers now killed in George Bush’s bullshit war. 26 this month alone.

That must be the reason for this: The Bush administration said yesterday that it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone […]

Did anyone thing otherwise? The United States said on Wednesday it opposed setting firm targets for greenhouse gas cuts at a G8 summit but offered reassurance that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts. President George W. Bush told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he had a “strong desire” to work […]

Looks like Turkey is now involved, and not by our invitation: Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press. Two senior security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the […]

(And let’s not get into jokes about pickles being in Libby after he arrives at the big house!) Last night the subject of pardoning Scooter Libby was brought up at the GOP debate. All the conservatives said they would. Sam Brownback went as far as to say that Clinton only had his law license revoked […]

So what is HR 451 you ask? Well it deals with corruption. Here is how Pelosi’s site describes it: The House has passed HR 451, introduced by Democrats, which calls on the ethics committee to either empanel an investigative subcommitee or report to the House describing its reasons for not doing so within 30 days […]

Huckabee was just praising Reagan for the “defeat of the Soviet Union” and then immediately talked about how we must defeat the Taliban. Interesting point. True when Reagan was “defeating the Soviet Union”, he was using the Taliban to help. These people really need some lessons in history. UPDATE: Aravosis gives Huckabee a little lesson […]

Not exactly in “tornado alley”. As matter of fact the last tornado in New Hampshire was an F1 in 1995. So why this talk of weather (besides the fact I am a weather junky)? Well as soon as I heard about this, my mind went to work. I wonder if this did turn into a […]

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