My own little space where I can rant and rave after watching the news.
Easy going......unless there is a liberal in the house.
"Judge Alito is one of the most accomplished and respected judges in America," the president said in announcing Alito's selection. "He's got a mastery of the law and a deep commitment to justice." Bush exhorted the Senate to confirm his choice by the end of the year.
Can you say filibuster Chuckie?
LOL, yes a pick with a Libertarian background! My kind of guy, Alito is.
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In a last-minute flurry of interviews, FBI agents canvassed Plame's neighborhood to see if anyone knew about her covert work for the spy agency before her cover was blown in a July 14, 2003, newspaper column by Robert Novak.
Why would they wait 2 years to question neighbors?
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Click here to view your drivers license on the net.
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CHINA'S Shenzhou VI spacecraft, its second to take astronauts into orbit, is expected to land back on earth this morning and the country has geared up for its return with a gush of patriotic fanfare.State television will run live coverage of the primary landing site on the remote steppes of the northern Inner Mongolia region as of 4am local China's Shenzhou VI spacecraft has safely returned to Earth, after five days in orbit.
The craft, carrying two astronauts, landed at 0432 on Monday (2032 GMT on Sunday) in the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia.
It is the second manned spaceflight for China - only the third country to successfully put a man into spacetime (4am AEST today).
LOL, this looks so phony.......why do I feel the need to question this?
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In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera _ making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep.
Matt Lauer struggled to keep a straight face, joking about the "holy men" who were walking on water.
"Have you run aground yet?" Katie Couric asked. (google news)
reminds me of the exaggerated leans into the wind during hurricane coverage. A reporter was leaning quite strongly to his right, when a petite woman walks into the camera background standing very erect......quite comical.
These are the same people that make a big story out of the scripting of the interview between the soldiers in Iraq and President Bush. Of course the minimal rehearsal that was done, was primarily to instruct the soldiers to whom and where to pass the microphone, who would answer what questions, etc. It was done to insure the interviews ran smoothly.
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If thousands show up
why do they call it a million more march?
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The Democrats like to refer to themselves as the Progressive Party. Ya................they appear progressive to me........*sarcastic laugh*
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Ahhh sweet Harriet, the pit bull in size 6 shoes, has everyone guessing. Trust Bush? We trusted him for Iraq........., He promised a conservative like Clarence Thomas......What is her background....
Let's see what the hearings bring out. I did hear today that Bush had approached other female nominees for the position, but they turned him down.
I'll give her a chance, but she better appear deserving of this honored position. There are too many people who have worked hard, put their opinions on the line, took risks, who deserved and worked for this kind of appointment.
REBUTTING WHITE HOUSE SPIN - II
“Republicans also say they were angered by some of the White House ‘spin,’ such as the argument that Miss Miers is similar to conservative icon and former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist because neither had previous experience as a judge. ‘That's just grossly offensive,’ said an aide. Staffers also said many of them chuckled over a biographical ‘pocket card’ of talking points about Miss Miers that the White House distributed for use by any senator wishing to praise the nominee. ‘They had to double-space it,’ said one aide, laughing.”
- Washington Times, 10/12/05
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The president intended to give Americans a newly detailed description of the terrorists' clearly thought-out strategy for dominating the world with their brand of Islam and continued attacks on democracy.
I hope he makes it clear that it's just not about Iraq! U.S. Government Pressing Saudi Arabia on Indoctrination
"One factor that all Islamic terrorists have in common is exposure to radical theology. Today, Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi sect is the world's biggest propagator of radical Islam. I've touched on this issue in my recent article "Wahhabi Prison Fellowship," and in an earlier post on the Freedom House's report "Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques." Saudi literature regularly incites readers to fight in jihad against non-Muslims; is filled with virulent anti-Semitism and animus toward Christians and moderate Muslims; condemns secular government as fundamentally illegitimate; and features harsh edicts regarding the treatment of women" -Posted by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (counterterrorism blog)
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"In a city in which the mayor is very much a hands-on mayor, it is improbable to a very high degree that these kinds of offenses could have taken place without acknowledgement or the tacit approval of Mayor Daley," Shakman said.
Machinists were hired who had never even been machinists," she said. "All the promotions I saw dealt with favoritism."
The government alleges that the two manipulated the hiring system by inflating test scores and conducting sham interviews. In one case, the favored applicant won the job after getting a perfect rating on his interview. Problem was, prosecutors allege, he was serving in Iraq when the supposed interview took place.
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The new $10 note, which is the third denomination to be redesigned in the series, includes subtle shades of orange, yellow and red along with images of the Statue of Liberty's torch and the words "We the People" from the United States Constitution.
Portrait and Vignette: The oval borders and fine lines surrounding the portrait of Secretary Hamilton on the face, and the United States Treasury Building vignette on the back, have been removed. The portrait has been moved up and shoulders have been extended into the border. Additional engraving details have been added to the vignette background.
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Nuclear tunes blast on to Iran's airwavesOct 03 8:26 AM US/Eastern
Nuclear science may not be considered ideal subject matter for a popular song, but the musical boffins in Iran's state media apparatus think differently.
I prefer Heavy Metal
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When he was governor of Texas, Bush offered a less formal assessment at an awards ceremony, calling Miers "a pit bull in size 6 shoes." The line stuck, in no small part because it described her cool but dogged determination.
"The thing that comes to mind when I think of Harriet is that she basically puts her clients' interests ahead of everything, including her own personal life, sleeping hours and all those things," said Jerry Clements, a partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, the 400-lawyer Texas firm where Miers was a co-managing partner before coming to Washington. "She is defined by hard work, dedication and client loyalty."
By Michael A. FletcherWashington Post Staff Writer
........and from the Daily Kos: (tempers are flying and their blame game continues, even if it is against each other)
I want everyone to STOP IT!!!
by Ny Bri Sun Oct 2nd, 2005 at 18:53:27 PDT
I haven't taken part in any of the Obama/"Democrats Suck"/"I'm leaving the Party" conversations recently, but I think it's time I said my peace.
STOP IT!!!!!
The GOP has had its worst week in decades and more is to come...and what do I see Democrats from this site and accross the blogosphere doing? They attack each other. Good, God. I swear, if I didn't know better, I'd think everyone was on Rove, INC's payroll.
No Ny, they are exactly what your party is all about; lack of message and an abundance hate rhetoric
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I'm ready for the Bird Flu are you?
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The following is from the Blog 365 and a Wake Up. Please take the time to read it, I've also linked his web site, because reading it is an education.
September 15, 2005
The Abattoir
In combat you can easily become inured to tragedy, but every once in awhile you see something that burns through the mental armor and leaves you reeling. Such was the case today. Before this starts I should warn you this is not an appropriate post for all readers.
The sun was still low on the horizon as our vehicle made its way down one of the winding mulhollah streets. As our HMMWV snaked through the forest of dense infrastructure the only sound was the roar of the turbodiesel engine and the clipped and crackling radio transmissions. As SGT Bard whipped the HMMWV through the traffic snarled street SPC Spartan spun the turret in sweeping arcs, the two working together in mute synchrony. As we barreled down another nameless road we all felt the low flat crunch of tortured atmosphere pulse through the air. And then in unison we all yelled out what the shockwave had already revealed - “VBIED!”. SPC Spartan scanned the area and instantly called out the distance and direction, and I pivoted and watched a boiling column of black smoke claw upward in an impossibly straight line. Up and up went the vile pillar, pausing only to blossom into an ugly mushroom shape. For a moment the atmospheric death’s head glared over the wreckage that had spawned it, then it melted into the thickening smear of smoke.
As we pulled into our link up point we married up with another security element, and then adjusted seats so that MAJ Ursa could accompany us to the site of the blast. As soon as our vehicles were arranged the turbodiesels roared to life and we sped towards the blast site. The drivers weaved through the maze of muhollah streets at speed, guided forward by the jet black beacon splitting the sky. And then we were suddenly at the site of the blast, watching the violent orange flames chew through the scattered remains of vehicles. The burned metal carcasses of shattered Iraqi cars were scattered on the road, their component parts spilled out as if they had been disemboweled. The residential buildings on both sides of the street were reduced to a burning mass of concrete and steel. And lying in the middle of the road, arms forever reaching to heaven lay the pulverized remains of one of the Iraqi victims. The grim scene was brutal, but it was the clinging smell that was hardest to deal with. The air was thick with the oily stench of a fuel fire mixed with the acrid stench of burning rubber, and all of these smells were wound around the nightmarish smell of burning flesh.
MAJ Ursa and I spent the next few minutes trying to coordinate the chaotic scene, setting in security and starting to move the wounded inside the buildings away from the scene. A minute or two after we set into position the Iraqi Police arrived in force and started fanning out to supplement our security posture. The Iraqi fire department was right behind the police, and they didn’t hesitate for a moment. Instead they barreled into the middle of the wreckage and starting to uncoil fat lengths of hose with desperate urgency. As soon as the hose was linked up the fireman turned on the water and started advancing on the fire.
With the fire under control we could finally move past the blast site, and I grabbed our medic and started towards the human wreckage laying in the road. As I walked over I wasn’t expecting any survivors, but we had to check to be sure. I stepped around the first body and as I passed one of the destroyed trucks I felt my boot crunch down on a shard of something. As my weight shifted forward it cracked with a sickening snap and I suddenly realized what was under my foot. I didn’t bother looking down. I knew better then that. Instead I continued forward into the human wreckage in front of me. It took less then a second to realize there was nobody left to save in this abattoir. The Iraqi victims were utterly annihilated. White ribs glittered out of scorched bodies like the ivory spars of shipwrecked boats. The slick concrete was awash in congealing rivers of scarlet. What we couldn’t see from our original position was that this was a wasteland of metal debris interlaced with smoking piles of meat and ruptured organs. We stood there in numb shock for a moment, our senses blinded by the utter carnage before us.
Then we turned and started to tend to the living. Dazed and bloodied residents were still filtering out of the area, and then I watched a sight as pitiful as any I have seen in Iraq. A grandmother carried a dead infant carefully swaddled in blankets away from her shattered home, the grief stricken mother following blindly behind. They continued forward utterly oblivious to the broken world around them, shuffling slowly forward until they were out of sight.
By then the Iraqi police and fire department had the situation well in hand, and quickly started restoring a semblance of order. Once the fire was extinguished the firemen approached our vehicles and asked for body bags and surgical gloves and we quickly gave them all the supplies we had on hand. They shrouded some of the bodies in bags, wrapping the rest in burned blankets they pulled out of the wreckage. As the firemen were wrapping the bodies two or three Arab media outlets arrived on the scene. The Iraqi police gathered in a small circle and gave an impromptu press conference, passionately speaking to the cameras. I caught some of the words, and they seemed as appropriate as anyy. The police spokesperson mentioned that the AIF were little better then cowards, unable to fight like real men. Instead they wantonly sowed death, without thought of anything except their own corrupt designs. I couldn’t have agreed more.
In a few minutes all the bodies were bundled into waiting vehicles and the Iraqis started to leave the gory scene. As we started rolling out I looked back at the steaming ruin – the blood stained patch of road was still littered with debris and stained surgical gloves. Those grim tokens would be left to others to gather up, for now there was little else that could be done. We mounted our vehicles and started the return trip to the FOB.
Once we had returned I thought back to the two faces of Iraq I had seen unfold. One was represented by the Iraq Police and Fire Department, who risked their lives to protect their fellow citizens in the middle of utter devastation. The other, the vile AIF, left its bitter calling card in the form of the wanton destruction the suicide bomber had visited upon the area. If the insurgency has a face, then this is surely it. There is no honor in their attacks, no higher purpose. They bray in articles and interviews about their martial prowess, but they rely on suicide bombers shot full of opiates to carelessly scatter destruction in crimson swaths. That is who we are fighting, a cancerous group of men bent on reshaping the world to conform to their own twisted design. Because make no mistake… to these jackals Iraq is just the opening act.
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