Saturday, September 29, 2007

Saturday whorage

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The first couple chapters of my novel Thirty Days at Zeta are up at The Practical Press . As always, pimp your own in comments.

Nature's gentle reminder...

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Click to embiggen Got plenty of nuts stored up? And what did you wake up to this morning?
Friday, September 28, 2007

Blackwater caused many Marine casualties

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Hammerin' Hank's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform faults Blackwater for the Fallujah ambush that left four mercs as han...

Deep Dick Dark Secrets

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Salt Lake Tribune Vice President Dick Cheney will speak to a super-secret, conservative policy group in Utah on Friday during his second tri...

The war on voting rights continues

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Glenn W. Smith with today's 'must read' on easy credit cards and difficult voter registration: Posner is an outspoken advocate ...

The great American hypocrisy tour

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Mark Morford 's in rare form today! Don't miss it! Larry Craig's bathroom stall! Haggard's meth hotel! See all the sites of ...

Condemnation much?

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Iraq vet and Dem Rep Patrick Murphy on Rush Lintball from TPM : "Someone should tell chicken-hawk Rush Limbaugh that the only phonies a...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Your Republican ticket

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Playing to the base in '08. Heh ... Pic courtesy of Dr. Attaturk .

Much as I bitch about the Dems ...

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They are still head and shoulders above the Rethugs. Shakes : This would be one example of why, despite our many legitimate grievances with...

Defense stocks hit new highs

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Boston Herald Defense stocks on Wednesday hit new highs as Defense Secretary Robert Gates requested an extra $42 billion in funding from Con...

Can't Win with 'Em, Can't Go To War without 'Em

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The Brookings Institution has a report on outsourcing security to private military 'contractors'. Good read. The use of private mi...

Never Coming Home

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Someone ought to tie Bush to a chair and run this for him in an endless loop: Iraq War: Love and Personal Loss A slide show of photogra...

Checkpoints ...

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Trudeau gets it. Click to embiggen. This probably looks familiar to the Vietnam guys too.

Vets' care ...

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Or the lack thereof. X finds that, even after all the Walter Reed hubbub, vets' care, you know, the guys who gave limbs, minds, and ot...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Burning the troops

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The War Party

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Matt Taibbi rakes the Repug candidates over the coals. An 'enjoyable read'. [...] In other words, who cares about Iraq when you mig...

My Bidet B'day

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I got this birthday card from my friend Bev, who's one day younger than I am: Clicking will reveal a load. Of inner beauty Inside says ...

STOP Lieberman

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USalone In case you thought it was just an aberrant moment of lunacy last week when Lieberman pressed General Petraeus for an attack on Iran...

Insulting ...

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Mrs. F and I talked about this yesterday afternoon, after seeing the CNN coverage of Ahmedinejad's speech at Columbia. What the fuck is...

A sham ...

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Josh Marshall has an interesting tidbit : My ability to bring you the full details on this are, to put it charitably, limited by my inabilit...