Olbermann, declaring that Bush aimed for Jaws and instead delivered Jaws 2:
It would all be laughable, Mr. Bush, were you not the president of the United States.
It would all be political hyperbole, Mr. Bush, if you had not, on this kind of “intelligence,” taken us to war, now sought to escalate that war, and are […]
What do you call a group of people that want to control your life based upon their own religous/superstitious ideology; who have an excessive need to control a woman’s freedom because their interpretation of their religous/superstitious ideology is that women are inferior to men and therefore deserve less freedom? I call it the Utah Taliban.
What […]
From Doug Ireland.
For the very first time, an official United Nations human rights report released last week has confirmed the “violent campaigns” against Iraqi gays and the “assassinations of homosexuals in Iraq.”
The details are, unsurprisingly, depressingly familiar.
UNAMI Human Rights Office “was also alerted to the existence of religious courts, supervised by clerics, where alleged […]
“It’s better than being a fuckin’ bullet sponge.”
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Heh, heh…heh, heh. This should pump up recruitment in our militaries.
Warning: This is not for liberal sissies. But if you know this kid, tell the CID. I wanna party with’m. He’s either the next Sean Penn (I hate that guy) or just a […]
A red alert, I mean, red letter day in Utah history.
Salt Lake and Davis counties, home to more than 1 million people, have been under a “red” alert for 16 days in January, which means the unhealthy air should be avoided by the elderly or anyone with respiratory problems. Some schools have kept kids off […]
In the words of the venerable Cpl M and Owner of the 2006 MilBlog of the year.
Tonight is Monday night and that means it is time for another hour of The Greatest Show on TV
Which one is the killer?
Hat tip to Jill at feministe.
There’s so many things wrong with this!
TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
But that’s not the worst of it.
While she was behind […]
As I blogged here a month ago, the United Nations estimates that 1.8 million Iraqis have become refugees in other countries and another 1.6 million are internally displaced as a result of the violence accompanying the occupation and civil war. In other words, 3.4 million people have been driven out of their homes in […]
Over at mydd, Matt has a great post about unions.
I’m quoting his entire first paragraph because it strikes me as so very right:
Whenever I spend time with people in unions, I get a very different picture of what this country looks like. The political establishment spends a fair amount of time theorizing about messaging and how […]
The Salt Lake Tribune has come out editorially condemning the ill-timed and ill-conceived budget cuts for DEQ proposed by a legislative committee, as I wrote about earlier here. Meanwhile, the hapless and hypnotized Deseret News finally decided the inversion is a story (public health is INTERESTING!) and produced both an article and a column today […]
On January 27, over 2,500 people shut down a military recruiting center in Seattle in support of war resisters and in opposition to a troop surge in Iraq.
download video:
seattlemilitaryrecruitingcentershutdown.wmv (6.3 MB)
From Alamogordo NM (hat tip to John at Americablog and Pam Spaulding):
It seems to me Republicans spend more time thinking about gay sex than any other group of people in the known world even more so than gay people trying to find other gay people with whom to have sex.
Of course, I’m talking about our […]
Hundreds Die in Clash Near Shiite Holy City
Monday 29 January 2007
Baghdad - Iraqi and American forces killed several hundred gunmen apparently planning to attack a Shiite Muslim shrine Sunday, fighting a daylong battle in which a U.S. helicopter crashed, killing two U.S. troops, Iraqi security officials said.
The fighting near the holy city of Najaf […]
the most vulnerable pay the price.
In the 1840s, the government of Great Britain failed spectacularly. The instance was the horrific blind dedication of the government to “free enterprise.” The result was the death of millions during the Irish famine.
From the history place:
As a devout advocate of laissez-faire, [Prime Minister] Trevelyan […]
Over at A Soldiers Perspective The good Corporal M a/k/a “Lil’ Hitler,” posted the story about the “hateful” anti-war protesters in Washington DC this weekend “spray painting the capitol.”
Keeping in mind Cpl M is their little pit bull, a twenty-year-old Marine Corporal (state-side) trying to impress “the guys”, here’s how Cpl M characterizes the event:
This […]
I’ve read my share of books about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are a lot of good ones out there, but the best so far IMHO is Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks, the Washington Post’s senior Pentagon correspondent.
Ricks pulls no punches. In addition to the usual […]
It’s hard to notice progress unless you know history. If you don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going. One of the best things about being a news junkie is you ingest so much information in your life, you detect changes, movement, improvement and deterioration. This past week was one of those […]
A Kossak (DailyKos) who spent six months following right wing blogs (RWB) has posted a number of observations. Not surprisingly, they are identical to my observations having spent at least a year, albeit more casually, traversing MilBlogs.
Read Macabee’s entire post.
I think Macabee’s first observation about banning is the most salient:
In RWB, trolls are banned with […]
I couldn’t resist the title.
For our readers not from Utah, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is and enigma here in Utah — loved by those of us not threatened by the idea of a reality-based unified world community and hated by many more rural Utahns suspicious of progress.
Speech transcript
Rocky made his mark in the […]
Remarks of Salt Lake City Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson
Washington, D.C.
January 27, 2007
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As Americans, we share common values – values of honesty, compassion, and, whenever possible, non-violence. We also recognize the moral responsibility we have to raise our voices in support of those values when they are under assault.
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