Archive for September, 2006
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
White House PR flak Tony Snow continues to push discredited links between Iraq and al-Qaeda in his press briefings, despite a bipartisan Senate report to the contrary. The report concluded, "Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and...the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Apparently unable to find enough of the "good news" the administration is always bashing the media for not reporting, they've hired 10 Miami-based journalists to turn out stories for administration propaganda organs Radio and TV Marti. The administration - apparently not stung badly enough in a similar previous deal with ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
For a man who paints himself as an uber-patriot, it seems Speaker Dennis Hastert needs a little remedial training in singing the praises of his country.
While singing along to the Star Spangled banner on Monday, Hastert mangled the first stanza beyond belief. True, he didn't grab his crotch ala Roseanne, ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Last night, on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, President Bush addressed the nation with a speech that can only be described as an attempt to 'catapult the propaganda' yet one more time.
Speaking from the Oval Office, Bush again used the events of September 11, 2001 to further ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
September 11, 2001 is a day that none of us will forget. It was a tragedy beyond comparison in modern times, but it was also a day that forever changed the way American's looked at the world and the world looked at us.
The federal government has issued several reports regarding ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
The best way to understand any issue is to ask questions. This might sound obvious, but in the case of 9/11/2001 this is not so. Questions were not the point, raw retaliatory reaction was the patriotic response, and nothing else could be considered “American.”
But, now five years later nothing has ...
Posted in General, Homeland Security, Middle East, Religion | 20 Comments »
Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Appearing on Meet the Press this morning, VP Dick Cheney continued to defend his hard line approach of governing through the use of fear, saying, among other things, that,
"We're here on the fifth anniversary (of the Sept. 11 terror attacks). And there has not been another attack on the ...
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
Ken Grandlund, here at Bring It On! got me thinking this morning. What would a Rightwing Constitution of the United States of America look like? Hmmm...
And what a preamble it would be!
I the individual, in order to avoid a more perfect union, relegate justice to a ...
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States ...
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
A woman deep in a vegetative state has given evidence of awareness of what others are saying, understanding what they say, and responding mentally in exactly the same way that a person in a normal state would.
Hey, I know, let's remove all food and water from her and put her ...
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