Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents. It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect’s mom greeted him wearing an American … Read More
Please Help
Sigh. I really dislike those people. You know who I am talking about. I’m talking about people out there arguing for tax cuts for the rich, and whose idea of "supporting the troops" is to put a yellow ribbon on their car, and that’s it. Those people and their faux patriotism annoy me. And stuff like this is why. Grim … Read More
Wankers Of The Day
The British police. It seems that the young Brazilian electrician who was shot because he was thought to be a terrorist subway bomber . . . (a) was not wearing a heavy jacket, (b) paused to pick up a newspaper on his way to the tube, (c) used his travelcard to pass the barrier, (d) did not run from the … Read More
Now, Watch This Drive
Vacationus interruptus: How could President Bush be cavorting around on a long vacation with American troops struggling with a spiraling crisis in Iraq? Wasn’t he worried that his vacation activities might send a frivolous signal at a time when he had put so many young Americans in harm’s way? "I’m determined that life goes on," Mr. Bush said stubbornly. That … Read More
1787 or 1861?
Neo-cons like to imagine that the New Iraq is something akin to our own country’s historic period of 1787, when our constitution was ratified and a new democracy forged. But I’ve come to believe that the ethnic strife going on over there renders the U.S. Civil War (Iraqi style) a better analogy. Harold Myerson says the same thing: It looks … Read More
Perspective
Mithras at Fables of the Reconstruction has been crunching the numbers: As of this moment, Iraq Body Count says that between 23,589 and 26,705 Iraqi civilians have died since the United States invaded Iraq. Let’s average that out, even though their method for counting deaths is extremely conservative and there is, I think, good reason to believe that the actual … Read More
Plamegate Primer And Timeline
Late to the party and need resources on what this Plamegate thing is all about? Visit The Left Coaster.
Right Wing Newspaper Hearts Dictator
This just in: Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) — Leader Kim Jong Il Tuesday received Joo Dong Mun, president of the Washington Times Corporation, on a visit to Pyongyang. On the occasion the president offered his congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the 60th anniversary of Korea’s liberation. Kim Jong Il welcomed the Pyongyang visit of the president, had a cordial … Read More
Fourth Circuit And Invocation Of Jesus
A few months ago, I blogged about a Fourth Circuit opinion which ruled against a woman who challenged her local government’s practice of beginning meetings with an invocation of a monotheistic God. The Fourth Circuit stupidly said that the practice did not violate the Establishment Clause because, to put it bluntly, only monotheism is protected by the Establishment Clause. (I … Read More
Another Grieving Mom
Courtesy of The Green Knight, here’s a picture of another grieving Mom: Green Knight adds: …this man went to his death voluntarily and heroically. He was an adult when he did it. Apparently, according to the modern pro-war right, most of which thinks it’s Christian, his mom shouldn’t have been unhappy about it. Green Knight, with apologies to Cenk Uyger … Read More
WaPo Bows Out Of 9/11-palooza
Good for them. The Washington Post announced tonight that it cease its co-sponsorship of the Pentagon-organized Freedom Walk next month. The paper’s involvement had drawn heat from within and outside the paper, with a guild committee today calling for the link to end. The newspaper told the Department of Defense that it was pulling back on its offer of free … Read More
Wingnuttia Of The Day
A.W. at Freespeech.com has been on trial lately (he says), so he’s been a little late in playing the Cindy Sheehan smear game. But what he lacks in punctuality, he make up for in both verbosity and wingnuttery: I’ll lay out my evidence shortly, but here are the pertinent points in my book. The proper reaction, I think, should be … Read More
A Soldier’s Letter To Cindy Sheehan
From Daily Kos: Fort Hood, Texas12 August 2005 Dear Mrs. Sheehan: I am a Soldier stationed at Fort Hood who is scheduled for deployment to Iraq (soon). Like you, I do not support the war because I believe it represents a horrible waste of lives and lucre that is bankrupting our nation. However, I am sworn to obey my orders … Read More
Michelle’s Lame Response
As I reported yesterday, intellectually dishonest Michelle Malkin reported about Cindy Sheehan’s divorce claiming that "like it or not, it is news", a seeming contradiction of her previous "hands off" policy when it came to the mentioning of Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter and the New York Times inquiry into John Roberts’ kids. Today, Malkin lamely responded to the obvious hypocrisy: … Read More