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the elephant in the corner .....‘This week, we thrill to the domestic media’s continuing obsession with a dozen unnecessary deaths in West Virginia. We admire the mainstream media’s noble determination to get to the bottom of the accident and we happily rush to blame and berate Big Coal.
If only this heartfelt reaction and media diligence could be directed at the elephant in the corner, the immovable field of funerary and wrongheaded foreign policies called Big Iraq.’
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that Bush is a weed
Thanks for this article John...
Ratus rectumus
These lines, from Chris Flyod in the Moscow Tmies... (Context.)
Crushed testicles. Torture. Tyranny. Aggressive war. Bush better start developing a taste for rat rectums right away. He's going to need it.
duh ......
"I can say unequivocally that we have gotten information through this program that would not otherwise have been available," General Hayden said.
FBI Complained of NSA Spying on Innocent Americans
a real box office hit .....
‘Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Economic Assn., we presented a new estimate for the likely cost of the war in Iraq. We suggested that the final bill will be much higher than previously reckoned — between $1 trillion and $2 trillion, depending primarily on how much longer our troops stay. Putting that into perspective, the highest-grossing movie of all time, "Titanic," earned $1.8 billion worldwide — about half the cost the U.S. incurs in Iraq every week.
Like the iceberg that hit the Titanic, the full costs of the war are still largely hidden below the surface. Our calculations include not just the money for combat operations but also the costs the government will have to pay for years to come. These include lifetime healthcare and disability benefits for returning veterans and special round-the-clock medical attention for many of the 16,300 Americans who already have been seriously wounded. We also count the increased cost of replacing military hardware because the war is using up equipment at three to five times the peacetime rate. In addition, the military must pay large reenlistment bonuses and offer higher benefits to reenlist reluctant soldiers. On top of this, because we finance the war by borrowing more money (mostly from abroad), there is a rising interest cost on the extra debt.’
War's Stunning Price Tag
can you decide .....
‘Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring, processing and understanding information.
Much of the problem is the media itself, which serves as a disinformation agency for the Bush administration. Fox "News" and right-wing talk radio are the worst, but with propagandistic outlets setting the standard for truth and patriotism, all of the media is affected to some degree.’
Polls Show Many Americans Are Simply Dumber Than Bush