Monthly Archives: May 2007
I do need to lose a little weight, but….
….I really resent the Living XL catalog offering me this: Siltec® Heavy Duty Electronic Platform Scale 500lb. Capacity Built to industrial specifications from reinforced sheet steel and aluminum, this extra-strong scale has a 1000-lb. capacity. Features include a remote keypad … Continue reading
Filed under food/drink, gadgets, healthcare, Humor
In case you didn’t get the full story on the Brits kidnapped in Baghdad…
This is how good bad the security situation has gotten in Baghdad: From the Guardian UK It was one of the most brazen attacks on a government building in Baghdad. More than 40 men in police uniforms drove up in … Continue reading
al Qaeda didn’t follow the Russians home from Afghanistan
just sayin…. Osama bin Laden got his start helping to boot the Ruskies out of Afghanistan back in the late 90′s. Last time I checked, he and al Qaeda didn’t follow the Russians home. And Russia was a lot closer … Continue reading
Dallas Morning News: Bush “setting up Iraq” so we can’t get out???
I pay special attention to Bush stories that come out of Texas. Maybe that’s wrong…maybe with his Texas pals Bush talks more “macho” (not to say he might be drinking…). Who knows…but this story out of Dallas is yet another … Continue reading
Waas spotlights role of GOP operative Hearne in US Attorney scandal
Murray Waas at National Journal unravels some of the involvement of GOP operative and Karl Rove protege Mark Hearne in the Arkansas and Missouri chapters of the US Attorney scandal. Hearne is probably involved in all of the those situations … Continue reading
Scooter Libby, multiple felon, is a hero to “conservatives”
Anonymous Liberal today notes the ridiculous hero/victim cult that worships the remorseless felon Scooter Libby (which cult includes Norman Podhoretz, by the way). Patrick Fitzgerald’s sentencing brief in the Libby case was released today. He concludes: Mr. Libby, a high-ranking … Continue reading
Filed under Dick Cheney: Hannibal Lector in disguise?, Iraq, Politics
Baseball: A-Rod goes over the line (again).
link Yelling at an infielder who’s trying to make a play. Baseball has rules against baserunners interfering with fielders. In part, these rules are designed to keep order, but also to minimize the chance of injury; fielders have to concentrate … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, sports, The Big Lebowski
Bush fantasizes a South Korea-type occupation for Iraq
Bush is finally coming somewhat clean on the reasons he decided to invade Iraq: a longterm military presence. Trying to make it into a South Korea, however, is a joke. link The half-century US military presence in South Korea may … Continue reading
This year’s must-read: Andrew Sullivan on torture
Okay, maybe something more important will come along next week. But for now, this is it (you’d be better off to go to Sullivan’s site). The phrase “Verschärfte Vernehmung” is German for “enhanced interrogation”. Other translations include “intensified interrogation” or … Continue reading
Norman Podheretz: It’s 1938, Iran or somebody is Germany, somebody is Hitler, and let’s bomb somebody; okay, God?
Norman Podheretz has an op piece in the Wall Street Journal today, in which he “hopes and prays that the US bombs Iran.” Podheretz was one of the principal architects of Bush’s “ideas” about the Middle East that resulted in … Continue reading
