Things aren’t close to what Bush claims when he talks about Iraq, and some notion of progress there. The figures he gives are wildly off the mark, totally misrepresenting the actual situation, according to, well, almost anyone else.
Here’s my first post to the blog using Ecto, a pretty good looking blogging client that supports damned near everything. I used to use its precursor, Kung-Log, back when Kung-Log was the thing to use, but Ecto apparently took over as the successor app, and it didn’t support WordPress immediately, so I haven’t had a [...]
Jimmy Carter has pretty dire things to say about Florida’s ability to conduct a fair election. Yep, we have our very own banana republic in Florida, and Kerry has a serious problem on his hands because of it. Florida has joined Rhode Island as One Of Those Unexpectedly Hideously Corrupt State Governments, states where I [...]
Phil Parlock is a Republican loon, bent on making the Democrats look bad. The fact that he feels the need to invent reasons for them to look so bad is indicative of the fact that he can’t find real evidence to make them look bad. Anyway, elections in the US get bogged down in crap [...]
The front page story at CNN has been Hurricane Ivan for three days now. Total dead at 60, in the US and Carribean, which almost equals the number of folks killed in Baghdad this week in suicide bombings. Yet Iraq war news is relegated to a side headline, even as the very damaging news that [...]
How concise can the stupidity of the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq be put? Try, “The idea we’re going to have an Iraqi force trained to defeat an enemy we can’t defeat stretches the imagination.” Part of this opinion piece at Salon.
…and I think they look a lot like Florida. The Republicans are fighting tooth and nail to get Nader onto ballots, and the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to keep him off. The Republicans control the government in Florida, and would have you think that they’re worried enough about deadline pressures and a hurricane [...]
