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
The Lower Depths
Just when you think Michelle Malkin can’t get any lower in her smears of Cindy Sheehan, she does: Like it or not, the dispute between Cindy Sheehan and some of her family members is news. Malkin then goes on to note that divorce proceedings have been filed by her husband against Ms. Sheehan. Others have pointed out what I’m about … Read More
Mmmmm . . . Pork!
Great WaPo editorial called "Big Government Conservatives": THREE TIMES in the past quarter-century, conservative leaders have promised to restrain wasteful government spending. President Ronald Reagan tried it and showed he was at least half-serious by vetoing the pork-laden 1987 transportation bill. House Speaker Newt Gingrich tried it and risked his party’s electoral standing by battling to restrain the growth in … Read More
9/11 Records
The New York Times has made available certain documents and recordings pertaining to 9/11: Audio files of dispatch transmissions recorded on Sept. 11, 2001 12,000 pages of oral histories (in pdf format, broken down by interviewee)
Justice Sunday II
Captain Ed has been live-blogging proceedings at Dobson’s Justice Sunday II conference. I laughed when I read this: 3:14 [p.m.] – Chuck Colson says he can’t understand why the New York Times considers this so controversial. All they want to see is justice, not money or power. The message of justice has always been central to Christianity. He said he … Read More
Bored?
Cynical-C has some web recommendations of interest: First, an animated gif of a plane getting hit by lightning, pictured here: And then, a website devoted to death row inmates’ last meals. Have fun!
Chronicle Of A Non-Scandal
PHASE ONE: The Able Danger "scandal" as first mentioned by Kevin Drum on August 11: The story was about a U.S. Army military intelligence program called "Able Danger" that had supposedly used data mining techniques to identify the al-Qaeda cell run by Mohamed Atta a year before 9/11. Unfortunately, as the story went, nothing was done about it because Defense … Read More
Wingnuttia Of The Day
From a commentor at The Poor Man Cafe: I know this isn’t going to [be] popular on this website, but may I just point something out? A soldier’s #1 job is to stay alive. If you die, you can’t accomplish the mission, and you weaken your team and put your buddies in danger. Obviously Sheehan’s son, I forget his name … Read More
Both Theories
Intelligent design proponents, having created a bogus controversy about intelligent degisn vs. evolution, argue that the only fair thing to do — now that there is a "controversy" — is to teach both theories. Yeah, bullshit:
Lowered Expectations
It’s interesting. At the very moment, when Cindy Sheehan is asking Bush (or trying to ask Bush) why her son died, the Bush Administration is changing its answer: U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq Administration Is Shedding ‘Unreality’ That Dominated Invasion, Official Says The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in … Read More
Weapons Of Mass Destruction Found In Iraq
Sadly, they weren’t there before the invasion. Now wonder most Americans (correctly) believe that the Iraq War has made us less safe. From WaPo: U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said … Read More