BREAKING: Search For Miners Suspended
No link yet for an official story, but I’ll get one too you as soon as I’m able. According to CNN, the search for six miners trapped in a mine in Utah has been indefinitely suspended by the federal government.
I’ll get more to you when I can. Until then, my deepest hopes, sympathies and best wishes to the families of the miners. I can not begin to understand how much this must hurt.
UPDATE: Link
BREAKING: Larry Craig to Resign
According to the AP Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) will resign tomorrow.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday. Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise Saturday morning that he will resign effective Sept. 30, four state GOP officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Bde, bde, bde, that’s all folks!
Canadian Girlfriend
(All apologies to matttbastard)
Picking through the various scandals and grievances in the White House can be such a chore. There are just so many. But allow me to remind you about email. Email is good. It’s faster than snail mail, accessible just about anywhere these days, and as long as you’re willing to put up with letters from foreigners trying to get you to help them out with their massive fortunes, and pornography ads, the service can really help you out.
Unless you’re the White House, and you have a habit of being naughty.
“Improvements”
I try very hard not to toss out too many “Orwellians” out there when I write. It’s not that I don’t think that there’s a lot of Orwellian stuff going on, it’s just that, well, everyone’s doing it, and I’m an individual, damn it.
But when I read the following headline, the very first word to pop into my head (thought police, stay away) was, “Orwellian”.
The Height of Hypocrisy
We have heard the argument played out over and over this past few days, does the Republican party open itself up to charges of hypocrisy by their actions? These question came into focus when yet another cultural conservatives actions, the bathroom antics of Iowa Idaho Senator Larry Craig, came to light. That story has dominated the news like only a sex scandal can. Sadly however, a much graver example is playing itself out in Iraq that is unlikely to receive the same focus from the main stream media.
Does This Mean We Can Be Done With This Soon?
According to “well placed” sources, disgraced Idaho Senator Larry Craig will resign, possibly as early as today. My response is simply, Thank GOD!
This Day in History - August 31
A brief look back at this day in history.
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Kevin Drum; Not Getting It On Iraq
You know, I used to respect Kevin Drum a lot. His blog, Political Animal, was the first political blog I had ever come across and to be honest, was probably a big reason why I started blogging myself. I don’t read him quite as much as I used to but I still pop in once in a while. Or at least I used to, I’m seriously thinking about making that past tense, ever since I read this drivel.
So You Had A Bad Week
We all have bad days, and occasionally those bad days string together to make just an awful week. I’ve been there, trust me. I know how once you get in the middle of one of these bad weeks, by Thursday you don’t even want to get out of bed anymore.
Well, the next time a particularly bad week is getting you down, just imagine how much worse it would be if you were President of the United States, and REALLY bad at your job.
Obama On Katrina; Not Just Talk
I still remember when whispers first hit that Barack Obama might run for president. There were some good things said, of course, and some pretty nasty things. One of the recurring themes that fit in the nasty column would have to be the “Let’s make him the Democratic Nominee because he can give a good speech,” theme.
Of course, that’s what politicians do, give good speeches and smile pretty for the camera. But what seperates the real deals from the phonies isn’t how they act on camera, it’s what they do when the cameras stop rolling.
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
Complex. It’s a word you might hear a lot nowadays when talking to a member of the reality based community. More often than not, you will probably hear it within a few seconds of the phrase “Iraq war,” or “Iraq conflict,” probably because complex is exactly the right word to describe whatever the hell it is we’re doing over there.
Have We Really Learned So Little?
April 16th of this year began as any normal day on the campus of Virginia Tech. As I remember it, the weather was nice; warm and sunny but had yet to descend into the oppressive heat and humidity that would come in later months. Students were heading to classes, finals looming in the near future, but that ordeal would be followed by the reward of a summer break, friends, family, and thankfully no school work.
No one at the time knew the horror that awaited them.
Hold On, Let Me Get My Shocked Face
I suppose I should just go ahead and get this out of the way here and now. Yes, Fred Thompson will be announcing his campaign supposedly on September 6th. Calm down, I know this comes as a huge shock to all of you, but please try and control yourselves.
Not like it matters anyway, I would put money on the idea that Fred jumped the shark LONG before this decision to make it official every happened.
Commutation
It seems these days I don’t often get to write about good news. Believe me, while it may appear as though I take joy and pleasure in watching the current administration stumble as a result of its own failed policies, nothing could be further from the truth. I would much rather have a competent government.
The end result is that while I dedicate most of my waking hours to this endeavor, most of it is at best bittersweet, a mere chronicling of one bad event after another. It is therefore something of a surprise that Governor Rick Perry of Texas has given me something good to write about.
Okay, No Consensus, And?
I’m big into the whole climate change concept, and we should do something about it. I admit it. I’m no “modern messiah” on the subject, that would make me a hypocrite given that I personally am not as “green” as I would like to be, but on the other hand, it’s important, and I honestly find myself boggled by the uproar against the concept of climate change and the near hysterical fight against anything to work towards fixing the problem.
Progress Unspun
It has been a tough few weeks for we Defeatocrats. Those of us who are wishing so much for utter failure in Iraq and the complete destruction of our troops have found little to cheer about lately as first military progress started to rear its ugly head in the country we liberated. Then, just as we tried to pull the old bait and switch in an attempt to get people to look away from the miracle that was the Anbar Awakening by begging people to look at the political failure, somehow there all of a sudden was political progress in Iraq as well. Drats!
Thank God the GAO was able to come through in our moment of need. (/sarcasm)
Thank You Rich
The lesson for the day, boys and girls, is that dumb people have their place, you just have to find where that place is, and put them in it. If I were on Obama’s staff, I think I would be seeking to hire Forbes.com’s Rich Karlgaard, and then have him write every day the same kind of drivel we see here. Have Rich do one of these babies up every day on a different plank in the platform, and Obama would already on his way to the Oval Office.
But since I’m not on Obama’s staff, I’m just going to go ahead and thank Rich for all he’s done.