And he’s wrong that “no one” anticipated this insurgency. Pretty much all the Iraq war critics did. Fuck, Bush 41 predicted this, giving it as his reason for not going into Iraq once he got them out of Kuwait. Goddamned everyone predicted this. General Shinseki predicted this, and he was shoved aside. Not “no one”. [...]
This is how the US makes friends. The intelligence director told me that (Mr Armitage) said, ‘Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the stone age’,” Gen Musharraf was quoted as saying. And folks wonder why world opinion of the US is in the toilet.
(Washington Post, via the War Room) “Asked point-blank whether the United States is winning in Iraq, Abizaid replied: ‘Given unlimited time and unlimited support, we’re winning the war.’” Wow. Just wow.
This month’s 5×5 is benefitting the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. For any new folks: for every participating comment, I will donate $2.50 to a charity of my choice, up to $50. You guys are welcomed and encouraged to do any kind of thing you wish to do, like make matching donations. In any case, [...]
So I’m still loving this new MBP: it’s just the sweetest little laptop I’ve ever used. And there’s one thing I’ve noticed about this that’s different from my old Powerbook. I have no idea if the feature has changed, but the illuminated keyboard is now worth something. With the old PB, the keys reflected the [...]
The White House has backed down from it’s stated desire to be barbaric pigs. I don’t know if this is supposed to play well for Republicans this November, as they sacrifice the ailing Bush on the altar of public opinion, but that’s immaterial: the right decision got made, and the Republican party showed that there [...]
Yeah, that’s right, it’s International Talk Like a Pirate day. So quit yer lubberly ways fer the day.
…the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found no link between Saddam and al-Qaeda. Isn’t that interesting? Fascinating. I’m only surprised this was allowed to come out before the elections.
This happened more recently, when my in-laws were visiting for a week. Yatsze took her parents shopping, and was driving when her phone started to ring. Yats scrambled to find her phone before the voicemail picked up, and she and her mom began the “search through jackets and backpacks and purses and whatever” to find [...]
Here’s an exchange that happened a year or so ago, but I wasn’t around for it and didn’t hear about it until yesterday. Mona was playing with her cousin Marisa, and Yatsze asked them what they were playing. “We’re playing Evil Friends.” “Evil Friends? Why do you want to be evil friends?” “So we can [...]
