Map of Sadr City: Green lines indicate completed sections of wall, red is uncompleted wall. Blue diamonds are joint security stations (forts). Yellow symbols are checkpoints sealing off the area of operations, where more than two million people live.
From Bill Roggio on The Long War Journal:
US and Iraqi forces continue to strike […]
This morning’s Trib contained an op-ed from Maggie Jessop, that began with the not so provocative opening line:
So, you want to hear from the FLDS women, huh? OK, you asked for it.
Normally, “You asked for it” is followed by a good rant. Not in this case. The op-ed itself is semi-coherent - […]
One should drink with smart people.
A while back, I had the opportunity to drink with a very smart woman who said, “Hillay will have an almost impossible time dropping out of this race unless Obama actually wins enough delegates. She is a good second wave feminist and it is her turn. She’s waited. She’s earned […]
Last night was the annual meeting of the Coalition of Religious Communities (CORC). The Coalition represents 20+ denominations thoughout Utah. Members of CORC work on a broad array of social justice issues, primarily issues of economic justice - although we were also one of the leading groups supporting effective hate crimes legislation. CORC’s leadership is drawn […]
Via The Washington Independent we learn that Helen Thomas went to Tuesday’s White House press briefing with Dana Perino and asked the questions few dare to ask, even of the most unpopular administration ever:
THOMAS: Yesterday, according to The New York Times, we dropped a bomb on a home in Sadr City and burned alive a […]
“I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I’m asking you to believe in yours.”
This week’s “very special kind of stupid” award goes to Kathleen Roberson, of Dove Creek, Colorado. Her letter in the Trib has a special mix of “bumpkin” and pearl-clutching, “Get me my smellin’ salts, Vern, I’ve got the vapors” kind of stupid and moral indignation:
During a visit to Salt Lake City, just blocks from […]
Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity.
– General George S. Patton, Jr.
U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division guard construction of a concrete wall running through the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, on Sunday, May 4, 2008.
Why is the U.S. Army building […]
Saw this at PZ Myers’ place and decided it was simply too weird to be true but apparently not . . .
Land ‘O Lakes, Florida — The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming. There was even a substitute teacher in New Port Richey who got in trouble […]
Postcard from the Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq
The best thing about blogging is it takes no imagination, which is good because I would never be able to make this stuff up myself. Via Think Progress:
The AP reports that the Pentagon is backing a $5 billion dollar plan to “transform the U.S.-protected Green Zone” into a […]
Today the rest of this nation knows what some of us have known for seven years and counting. We have the most unpopular boob in American history running the country in the most frightening period of national history. His incompetence is legend. Let me name the ways:
First, of course, this war of choice, […]
It’s rare, but it happens. I watched The Golden Compass last night and I have to say I think it was a better movie than book. Interestingly, all the kerfuffle from conservative christians about the film was a mistake - the film’s supposedly anti-Christian content is all but missing. To be honest, I expected more.
But […]
Before convicted criminal, Republican congressman, Bob Ney went to prison, he pushed the “Help America Vote Act (HAVA)” through congress under the false premise that it would help standardize the way America votes and come into compliance with the Federal Supreme court decision to break precedence and overrule states rights in the 2000 election contest […]
Here’s the Reverend Wright speech I referred to in my last two posts.
Reverend Wright, I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTISED OF THEE & The Reverend Jeremiah Wright….Jeremiads are What the Bible Says
The sound bites being used to sell air time this week were clearly taken out of context. Wright said, ‘the black religious tradition, despite […]
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