Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Honoring the Real Pat Tillman
America loves its heroes. Pat Tillman was one of those people that became larger than life by his actions. A star athlete that turned down offers to play football in the big leagues, Pat Tillman made the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Pat’s brother Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother [...]
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
The Price of War
from DailyKos:
Earlier this year, it was reported that a Nobel-prize winning economist estimated the United States’ cost of waging war (and causing a civil war) in Iraq to be between one and two trillion dollars, far higher than official estimates. By obtaining U.S. census figures and dividing them by the low end (one trillion dollars) [...]
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Voting in California
If you’re like me, about two days before the absentee ballots are due, you’ll grab about five pounds of paper propaganda, sit down with a wet one, and try to sort out the nonsense in the course of an hour or two.
This year, it’s going to be different. I’m going to try and get [...]
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
The Ten Worst Congressmen of 2006
Rolling Stone has an article entitled The 10 Worst Congressmen
check it out:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12054520/the_10_worst_congressmen/print
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Republican Thinking…
A great cartoon from Needlenose.com. Download a larger version by clicking here.
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Fox News spin on Foley
Leave it to Fox News to pretend that recently-resigned congressman sexual-predator Mark Foley was a Democrat. This is from the O’Reilly Factor, courtesy of DailyKos. As this IS a taped show, not a live news show, you’d think they’d be able to get their facts right….
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Republican Ways!
It’s a great time for Republicans!
First, the National Intelligence Estimate, a consortium of sixteen different government intelligence agencies, declared that the Bush war in Iraq is actually increasing terrorism worldwide.
Bob Woodward came out with a book about the Bush administration’s defective Iraq policy, stating among other other things, that even Laura Bush believed Donald [...]
