What is the State of Our Union?

No Clemency for Paris Hilton

Seeded on Wed May 9, 2007 2:49 PM EDT (idontlikeyouinthatway.com)

You have seen her pathetic attempt to stay out of jail. For those of you who are sick of celebrities getting away with this stuff, sign this anti-petition which will also be sent to the governor!!!

paris, hilton

U.S. May Have Botched Training of Iraqis

Seeded on Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:52 AM EST (apnews.myway.com)

Training the police is as important to stabilizing Iraq as standing up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group say.

bush, iraq, cheney, congress, us-news, murtha, pelosi

4 troops abducted, killed in Iraq attack - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:08 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

I was stationed at the JCC at Karbala during the elections in 2005. I know first hand that there are 4 checkpoints to get into the compound and Iraqi "security" outside the compound. We never let our guard down and always had at least two squads outside on guard.

bush, iraq, troops, world-news, karbala

Murdoch says US death toll in Iraq 'minute'- The Times of India

Seeded on Tue Nov 7, 2006 10:35 AM EST (Times of India)

"The death toll, certainly of Americans there, by the terms of any previous war are quite minute," Murdoch told reporters at a conference in Tokyo.

bush, iraq, politics, war, fox

AlterNet: GOP Fear-Mongering Kicks into High Gear

Seeded on Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:48 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Sure enough, with just two weeks to go and the polls heavily skewing Democratic, the administration's panic-button pushers have brought out the big guns, including an ad featuring Osama Bin Laden saying that 9/11 was "nothing compared to what you will see next," the specter of co …

bush, elections, politics

O'Reilly: Like Iran, "the reason North Korea is causing trouble is that it wants to influence the November election"

Seeded on Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:34 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

I think that the one who is really trying to influence the November elections is FOX News.

north, korea, politics

Iraq police college a symbol of failed U.S. plan - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:49 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

"When we break down this amount, it averages $2.7 million in overcharges each day we've been in Iraq. That's amazing," said Waxman

us-news

ABC News: U.N. Expert: Iraq Torture May Be Worse

Seeded on Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:23 PM EDT (ABC News)

GENEVA Sep 21, 2006 (AP) Torture in Iraq may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein, with militias, terrorist groups and government forces disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Thursday.

politics

20 Most Corrupt Members Of Congress: Burns, Frist, Santorum, Doolittle, Jefferson, Harris... | The Huffington Post

Seeded on Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:01 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Today, the Center For Responsibility And Ethics In Washington released its second annual survey of the twenty most corrupt members of Congress, aptly named "Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch)."

politics

Think Progress » Rumsfeld Unveils New Justification For Iraq War: High Gas Prices

Seeded on Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:48 AM EDT (Think Progress)

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: The fact of the matter is - if Saddam Hussein were still in power in Iraq, he would be rolling in petrol dollars. Think of the price of oil today. He would have so much money.

us-news

Iraq Stumbling in Bid to Purge Its Rogue Police - New York Times

Seeded on Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:15 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Shiite militiamen and criminals entrenched throughout Iraqs police and internal security forces are blocking recent efforts by some Iraqi leaders and the American military to root them out, a step critical to winning the trust of skeptical Sunni Arabs and quelling the sectaria …

Dick Cheney is Crazy: Cheney says did "helluva job" since September 11

Seeded on Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:29 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Dick Cheney is balls to the wall crazy if he believes what he told Tim Russert this morning. God help us!!

politics

Scholastic and ABC Team Up To Spread Misinformation About 9/11 To Students Nationwide | The Huffington Post

Seeded on Thu Sep 7, 2006 11:18 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Here is more info about ABC and their attempt to spread misinformation about the events leading up to 9/11. This is starting to remind me more and more about 1984.

politics

GOP secretly channeled millions to Lieberman

Seeded on Wed Sep 6, 2006 5:43 PM EDT (insightmag.com)

This should really come to no surprise to anyone.

politics

House Democrats Demand Accuracy in ABC 9/11 Film

Seeded on Wed Sep 6, 2006 5:27 PM EDT (housedemocrats.gov)

Representatives John Conyers, Jr., John Dingell, Jane Harman, and Louise Slaughter today called on ABC to fix the inaccuracies in its mini-series The Path to 9/11, before its scheduled airing on September 10th and 11th. Read the letter:

us-news

AlterNet: War on Iraq: The 10 Most Brazen War Profiteers

Seeded on Tue Sep 5, 2006 3:23 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

If you are looking for reasons why the president wants to "stay the course", here are 10 of them. Anyone who does not understand that Iraq is a war about $$$ has their head in the sand.

us-news

My Way News - White House: U.S. Safer but Not Yet Safe

Seeded on Tue Sep 5, 2006 2:56 PM EDT (apnews.myway.com)

Trying to justify....again.

iraq, us-news, 9-11, gwot

33 Bodies Found Scattered Across Baghdad

Seeded on Mon Sep 4, 2006 3:56 PM EDT (apnews.myway.com)

Meanwhile the Bush administration continues to deny, deny, deny that anything is getting worse over there. It is amazing that periodically there will be an arrest of some previously "unknown" person who the US or Iraqi officials claim to be some number 2 of some group.

bush, iraq, civil-war, world-news

Think Progress » Writer of ABC's 9/11 'Docudrama' Is Avowed Conservative Activist

Seeded on Sun Sep 3, 2006 6:25 PM EDT (Think Progress)

I don't know how many of you out there know abou this. ABC is airing a two part docu-drama about 9/11. First off, I think that it is deplorable for any kind of sensationalized account or artistic license to be taken with such a serious subject as 9/11.

arts, 9-11