Monthly Archives: August 2007
US military trying to swiftboat visiting congressmen.
This is over the line: Washington Post: when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier last weekend just what he was holding, the congressman was taken aback to find out. In the soldier’s hand was a thumbnail biography, … Continue reading
Report: Warmongering against Iran begins in earnest
The Cheney/Bush initiative for war against Iran may be starting up in earnest. Trita Parsi sees parallels with the war propaganda effort against Iraq in 2002, and an initiative in January of this year: Bush’s speech to the veterans in … Continue reading
Water borne disease in Iraq
Surprising that we haven’t seen cholera before this. Link More than 2,000 Iraqis in the northern part of the country have contracted cholera, U.N. officials said Wednesday, citing local authorities. The outbreak is thought to be the result of poor … Continue reading
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Tucker Carlson: liar, gay, or gay basher? you decide….
Media Matters: ABRAMS: Tucker, what did you do, by the way? What did you do when he did that? We got to know. CARLSON: I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the — you know, … Continue reading
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Boy Scouts: the new “altar boys?”
Boy Scout merit badge #!6 was, as I recall, entitled “Things to do in the dark.” I never got that merit badge, because they wouldn’t give credit for independent study. Many other scouts, however, were well instructed: “The Boy Scouts … Continue reading
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The new countdown to attack on Iran
Back to the countdown. Bush continues to escalate his rhetoric into the realm of acts of war, as Glenn Greenwald documents today. Words like murderous and holocaust cannot be taken lightly in this context. The US took prisoner an Iranian … Continue reading
Michael Vick: “I’ve met Jesus,…turned my life over to God.”
I assume that Vick’s business manager made the introductions.
National “Fair (sales) tax”: Scientology gone mainstream
from Kevin Drum : Bruce Bartlett shreds the idea of a national sales tax in the Wall Street Journal here. New things I learned: the idea orginally came from the Church of Scientology (“The Scientologists’ idea was that since almost … Continue reading
Art project scrapped; would have shown sea level rise
SANTA BARBARA, California: A global-warming activist has withdrawn a proposal to paint blue lines across a swath of the city depicting the level the ocean could rise to if Greenland’s ice sheets keep melting. The project, known as “lightblueline,” had … Continue reading
Filed under Al Gore, global warming/environment, Politics
How to make Two Buck Chuck into real wine.
Two buck Chuck. It’s the California wine with the cult following. “Charles Shaw is known in local circles as “Two Buck Chuck,” said shopper Mercy Malick. Humble Two Buck Chuck. The $1.99 nectar of the gods that is sinfully cheap … Continue reading
Filed under food/drink, Humor, San Francisco
