- The iPad! Hi-tech feminine hygiene product, or just how Chicagoans says “iPod”? (CNN)
- Sen. Bernie Sanders has hired talk radio host Bill Press as the world’s oldest intern! (Politico Click)
- Justice Samuel Alito screwed up the one thing Supreme Court justices are required to do by law, which is to sit silently, motionless during the State of the Union. (TPMtv)
- The Gaza Strip’s largest power plant may shut down soon, and there is no conceivable way for anyone to blame Israel for it. (Jerusalem Post)
- Tony Blair, Britain’s George W. Bush, will appear before an inquiry into the Iraq War today, where he will most likely be thrown under the double-decker bus. (Reuters)
Archive for posts ‘Iraq’
- So those Iraqi elections that are supposed to happen in January? Probably not happening in January, says Secretary Clinton. Let freedom ring! (AP)
- Somebody had the terrible idea of putting Fred Thompson and Lou Dobbs in a room together, and now Lou Dobbs is running for president, maybe. (The Corner)
- Free Republic has declared jihad against Best Buy for acknowledging the existence of Muslims and their holidays, which is worse than trying terrorists in civilian courts! (Wonkette)
- Rep. David Obey (D-WI) has proposed a new tax to pay for America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as opposed to the current method of just hoping the money comes from somewhere. (ABC News)
- What’s worse than Glenn Beck gathering teabaggers in DC the day after 9/11 to call our president a terrible socialist Kenyan Muslim? Glenn Beck gathering teabaggers in DC on 9/11 to call our president a terrible socialist Kenyan Muslim. (Media Matters)
Blackwater Bribed Iraqi Officials
It must be nice for Blackwater to operate outside the law:
WASHINGTON — Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees. American and Iraqi investigators had already concluded that the shootings were unjustified, top Iraqi officials were calling for Blackwater’s ouster from the country, and company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Sounds like it’s time for Congress to get together and defund ACORN again!
Media Priorities
Vice President Biden is in Iraq this week, but instead of asking him about the troops or the situation on the ground or anything remotely related to defense or foreign policy, your national media wants to know what he thinks about President Obama calling Kanye West a jackass.
And they wonder why their industry is dying.
FOX News Unfamiliar with that Middle Eastern Country We Invaded
That place we invaded, with the WMDs and all, what was it called? Can’t quite remember, but I’m pretty sure it’s not Egypt.
Then again, you can’t really blame FOX News for not knowing what country we’re currently occupying, what with the whole “Mission Accomplished” and everything.
(h/t)
Quote of the Day
Experience suggests that the Bush doctrine of ‘pre-emptive’ war is ill-suited to America’s values, traditions and democratic institutions. It ought to be discarded.
– Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), former head of the NRCC, repudiating the Bush Doctrine.
Space Toilet Craps Out
- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, aka Kenneth the Page, plans to return to the national political scene today. So he must be resigning, then. (Gawker/WaPo The Fix)
- The American toilet on the International Space Station is broken, meaning America’s astronauts will have to use their Russian counterparts’ facilities. All part of Nobama’s Socialist plan, I’m sure. (The Register)
- If you have a government job, then complaining about government spending is not really in your best interest. (Not Larry Sabato)
- Sen. Patrick Leahy would be very, very grateful if people could stop being so racist to Sonia Sotomayor, to which GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions responded along the lines of, “Eh, we’ll think about it.” (CNN Political Ticker)
- Trusting Walter Cronkite more than Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew was easy, but if we had just trusted him more than George W. Bush we probably wouldn’t still be in this mess in Iraq. (Think Progress)
Dick Cheney Using Obama T-Shirts to Spy on America
- Your CIA really, really wanted to to tell you, the American people, and Congress about how they’ve been spying on your for eight years, but they couldn’t because the order to deceive Congress came from the top. Which is to say, from Vice President Dick Cheney. (New York Times)
- Mark Kirkorian, contributor to America’s Shittiest Website™, thinks stores selling Obama-related merchandise should not exist even though there is clearly a market for such things. Why do Mark Kirkorian and The Corner hate capitalism so much? (The Corner, via S, N!)
- “Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of bricks and made it a city of marble. Baghdad was another city of bricks, and a coterie of American generals turned it into a city of cement.” Heckuva job, guys. (Washington Post)
- We have Jenny Sanford to thank for Mark Sanford’s refusal to resign, because she knows that Jesus doesn’t believe in quitting, or something. (Sorry, Sarah Palin!) Anyway, thank you Jenny Sanford, for giving America your husband to kick around for another couple years. (The State)
Pentagon Wants Military Smoking Ban
The DOD wants to prohibit soldiers from smoking becuase, um, they are very concerned about their health? Okay, smoking is gross and bad for you, even Philip Fucking Morris knows that. HOWEVER, anyone who volunteers to go fight the war(s) that George W. Bush already won in 2003 should be allowed a cigarette now and then, if they so choose. Why does your US military hate fags so much?
Canada Day Fun for the Whole Family!
In honour of Canada Day, see if you can spot the word in each sentence below that is spelled incorrectly in the Queen’s English!
- Your esteemed publication THE POLITICO has devoted over a thousand words to figuring out why Norm Coleman lost. Let me simplify that for you, Politco: more people voted for humourous funnyman Al Franken than for Norm Coleman, the end. (Some rag)
- Here are some pictures of Iraqis celebrating the withdrawal of American troops from their cities. See, George W. Bush was right! They are greeting us as liberators, now that we’re leaving their neighbourhoods. (TalkingPointsMemo)
- A large majority of Americans, 69% of them in fact, want some kind of public health care option. Strangely, they are not satisified by those scallywags, the current system of bloodsucking private insurers and HMOs. Anyway, hooray for Obama’s Socalist mind control! (Bloomberg)
- Poor Mark Sanford! All he ever wanted was to do sexy things with women who are not his wife, but now he is being investigated by the SC Attorney General for potential misuse of state funds. Who will defend Mark Sanford from these horrible rumours, which he confirmed to the AP? (CNN)
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