So Thomas Friedman of the New York Times had a sudden revelation about Guantanamo Bay: Just Shut It Down Yeah… we fucking told you so! After spending the last couple of years cheerleading the Bush administration in its race to destroy the international image of the US as a beacon of freedom and peace, Friedman [...]
Associated Press writer Patrick Quinn has filed this report today: 40,000 Iraqis to Form Shield in Baghdad Among the usual daily litany of bombings, murders and every imaginable kind of violence under the sun, there is this astonishing passage: In Baghdad, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told a small group of Western reporters that next week’s [...]
I just read this astonishing article by Ellen Knickmeyer from the Washington Post who was with US Marines while they were on another futile mission along the Iraqi-Syrian border to root out the insurgents. Read it here: Looking for Battle, Marines Find That Foes Have Fled This article is so full of amazing quotes, I [...]
As it turns out, while the White House and the Capitol were evacuated, President Bush was mountain biking… and nobody told him that there was a Red Alert over a potential terrorist attack in Washington DC. Now my first thought was that somebody just screwed up and the Secret Service kinda forgot to tell him. [...]
The New York Times seems to have a major case of split personality lately… while the editorials by Krugman, Dowd and Herbert are full of accusations of how the Bush administration has mishandled the war, the economy and pretty much every other facet of statemanship, they also posted this “Op-Chart” today… an amazing peace of [...]
Have you seen the footage of all the politicians and their entourage running in panic through the streets of Washington, D.C.? So let me get this straight… four years after the terror attacks of September 11 a small two-seat airplane approaches Washington at a speed of maybe 80 Mph, and the only reaction that the [...]
It seems that my MT-Blacklist actually deleted all comments from the site… I noticed that I suddenly got ZERO comment spam – there was an entry in the blacklist that not only stopped all comments from being posted, but during a regular cleaning also threw out all old comments. Well. That sucked. Apologies to everybody [...]