Suicide Rate in Army Continues To Go Up
I found this video at the Chicago Tribune while I was researching my post below about anti-U.S. street demonstrations in Iraq. We have read and heard about military suicides all too many times before, but it does not get less upsetting.
I tried to embed the video but it doesn’t work, so just go to the text link and you can watch it from there.
Anti-U.S. Street Demonstrations in Baghdad
This is what Iraqis think about a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq:
Thousands of Iraqis filled the streets of Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood this afternoon to demonstrate against a long-term United States presence in Iraq, the first significant anti-American rally in the massive Shiite slum in more than two years.
As American helicopters hovered overhead, young and old men and even children flowed out of their weekly Friday prayers and began burning American flags and chanting “no, no to America” and “yes, yes to independence.”
Quotable Quotes
The Bush administration has been watching political developments in Pakistan with apprehension, worried that the country’s newly elected leadership will not be as tolerant of occasional unilateral U.S. strikes against al-Qaeda as was the government of President Pervez Musharraf, a close ally in the U.S. fight against terrorism.
Overly Law-Minded Judge at Gitmo Is Fired
The chief judge in charge of Guantanamo ‘war crimes trials’ has summarily fired one of the trial judges, Army Col. Peter Brownback III, after Brownback refused to set a trial date in the case of a Canadian detainee because the prosecution was refusing to provide the detainee’s defense counsel with his medical and interrogation records. The LAT article about the dismissal suggests that it was motivated in part by the government’s strong desire to fast-track the show trials for political reasons:
In Bushworld, Betrayal Is Okay for Thee, Not for We
Jonathan Martin at Politico reports that Bob Dole flamed Scott McClellan in an email that makes a typical Michelle Malkin post look like a church newsletter:
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Okay, Friday’s are supposed to be reserved for me working on my… ahem… novel, but I just couldn’t resist posting this: Obama’s kicking off his general election campaign at the site of the GOP’s national convention.
Oh this is going to be such a fun election.
Lulz…
How to Parse Words, by Geraldine Ferraro
In an pretty crappy op-ed piece for the Boston Globe titled “Healing the wounds of Democrats’ sexism” (where, ironically enough, she doesn’t point out an examples of sexism on the campaign but demands that a study be undertaken to explore the issue), race-baiter and Hillary supporter Geraldine Ferraro has this to say on the thoughts of Reagan Democrats (ie: the white, working class folk voting for Hillary) concerning racism:
…If you’re white you can’t open your mouth without being accused of being racist. They see Obama’s playing the race card throughout the campaign and no one calling him for it as frightening. They’re not upset with Obama because he’s black; they’re upset because they don’t expect to be treated fairly because they’re white. It’s not racism that is driving them, it’s racial resentment.
Racism and racial resentment… Well slap my monkey silly, I didn’t know there was a difference between the two! And how exactly do these Reagan Democrats think they are going to be treated unfairly for being white? Will an Obama administration round up all the white folk, throw them into ghettos, pay dick for the education of their children, and not care about the chemicals polluting their environment? Haha! Who am I kidding? That’s all silly talk. Of course none of that ever happens, and if it did and it were discussed, we would never accuse those pointing out these issues as being guilty of racism just for pointing out racism!
How We Know the Terrorists Have Already Won
Damn it, I don’t even like donuts. But because I’m highly susceptible to suggestion, and I can’t get away from the stupid Rachael Ray story, I’m all of a sudden making emergency runs to the 7-Eleven to pick up Boston cream and chocolate eclairs. Just what me and my belly needed.
Through The Shrillness
Corrente is another blog that has become virtually unreadable as of late, however there is a glimmer of hope. Hypnot posts what strikes me as one of the sanest blog posts about the coming end of the Democratic party, though the mastication in the comments section has already begun.
Pity.
Jammie Wearing Fool and Macsmind Prove They Either Don’t Understand Polls, or Don’t Understand California
So when a good friend asks if I wanna join a fight, and we’re on the same side of that fight, you bet I’m in. Especially when the topic at hand is as close to my heart as gay marriage.
Killing Clinton’s Last Argument
At this stage of the game, Hillary Clinton has only two real arguments left. One is that she is the popular vote leader; an argument that in and of itself is built upon so much dishonesty that you can actually feel your integrity rotting away as you entertain it. The other is this idea that Clinton will, based upon polls and primary performance, do better against McCain in the general election.
Building Bogeymen
Please Don’t Think This Is About Obama, But Did You Hear About the Latest from Obama’s Church?
Armando apparently is unfamiliar with the concept of white privilege. I don’t know how else to explain why he has such a bad case of the vapors over this video:
Memoirs of a White House Press Secretary
I’ll be completely honest; White House Press Secretary has to be one of the crappiest jobs you can have as one of the President’s senior staffers. This, of course, taken from the infinite amount of knowledge I picked up somewhere between the second and the third viewing of the entire West Wing series.
Joseph Lieberman Is a Shonde for the Goyim
This has got to be the most craven, shameful, disgusting thing Lieberman has done — and there is a lot of competition for that honor:
Why? It Didn’t Help McCain Any
The RNC has decided to take Obama to task for not learning about our little country of occupation first hand. Because Obama’s gone over two years without visiting Iraq, the GOP are siezing upon that fact to try and humiliate him on foreign policy.
My question: Why? It’s not like visiting Iraq has made John McCain much of an expert on our presence in the Middle East.
All The More Reason Not To
Power can be fleeting.