One Utah

From Think Progress:
This morning, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) held a press conference to express their “pleasure” about President Bush’s statement this morning regarding what he described as “encouraging news from Iraq” and “the success of the surge.”

Warning! - malarkey levels unsafe for logical comprehension:
LIEBERMAN: That’s why Senator Graham and I [...]

My pick for the day is Jeffrey Feldman’s article at Frameshop.
Here’s the money quote:
In a healthy civic body, an engaged citizen is someone who learns and analyzes information, examines problems, and formulates solutions. In a poisoned civic body, an engaged citizen is someone who offers opinions, expresses disdain for different opinions, and gathers [...]

To punish a fellow Republican lawmaker, Utah Republican legislative leaders alleged that Rep. Steve Mascaro, R-West Jordan, had been hitting on an intern in a most inappropriate manner.
This was punishment for requesting an investigation of Walker, the guy that tried to bribe his opponent in the contest for Utah State Treasurer.

And this ain’t no HBO [...]

PZ Myers reports receiving:
somewhere well above 12,000 hate mail messages from religious people, mostly Catholic; two reasonable messages from Catholics who said that while they are unshaken in their faith, they approve of my opposition to cracker idolatry; and zero comments of any kind from admitted Muslims.

Sam Harris, in The End of Faith [...]

According to Rocky Anderson, in this radio interview on the Peter B. Collins show, “The New York Times” didn’t even cover last weeks, (albeit disguised), impeachment hearing, and the “Washington Post” published it’s second snarky article by Dana Milbanks about representative John Conyer’s attempts to cast light on the war crimes of the Bush administration [...]

President Bush now wants a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. I assumed you would read this while sitting, otherwise I apologize and I’ll give you a moment to get up off the floor…

“Kilroy was here”

Remember when anyone who favored withdrawal was accused of wanting to “surrender,” and betray the troops?
Senator [...]

USAF A-10 Warthog over Afghanistan
Via Think Progress:
According to statistics provided in a new report from the United States Institute of Peace, the use of air power in Afghanistan by U.S. and NATO allies increased from 5,000 pounds of munitions per month in 2005 to 168,000 pounds in December 2007. The result is that “civilian casualties [...]

Figleaf at the not always safe for work Real Adult Sex had this to say:
Although it’s been many years since I was a member I grew up in that church. My youngest brother’s ashes are there. The last time I went, last year, my father introduced me around, so proud that I’d come back. [...]

I don’t know how many times we have to tell you people. The idea of fighting terrorism with law enforcement agencies belongs to an outmoded, naive September 10 mentality. People who think that Al Qaeda’s attacks on the USA could have been stopped by the FBI (if the top brass listened to their [...]

Author’s note: I’m closing comments on this post. Since I posted this, I’ve deleted over a dozen comments from the spam filter that so crossed the line of respectful discourse I felt no guilt deleting them. The inability of some commenters to understand why I would hope the young man in question [...]

The parade of phony Iraq experts appearing on TV lately has treated us to nonstop blather about “conditions on the ground” and “facts on the ground.” Usually the magic words are said with a satisfied smirk, implying that the Average Americans wouldn’t be so keen on getting our troops back home if only they [...]

Okay, so this pathetic whack job shoots up a Unitarian church and they interview someone who knows him and she says:
“He never went anywhere. He never had anybody over. Just, it was really quiet. He rode a motorcycle and you know he would go out on the weekends on his motorcycle, but other than that, [...]