Senator Patty Murray introduced a bill last April to increase funding for the Veterans Administration because her calculations showed the program was seriously underfunded. The bill was voted down primarily because Jim Nicholson, the VA Administrator since February 2005, wrote a letter in April 2005 saying, “I can assure you that VA does not [...]
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It appears Amazon is not responding to my requests, Dave.
It appears Amazon is not responding to my requests, Dave.
It appears Amazon is not responding to my requests, Dave.
How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
Allen Raymond
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I didn’t listen to the speech on the drive home yesterday, but I did read through it this morning. Here’s a quick summary:
My greatest responsibility is to protect you.
Terror!
September 11, 2001
Terrorists!
BOO!
September 11th
Iraq is the latest battlefield in this war.
Terrorists kill people.
Osama bin Laden is bad and wants to kill you.
BOO!
September 11th
Terrorists and insurgents
September 11th
Support [...]
Over two years ago, our military cruised through Iraq and took over the Iraqi capitol of Baghdad. On May 1, 2003 our glorious leader was flewn onto the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego and, after parading around his stuffed flight suit, he had this to say:
Major combat operations in Iraq [...]
Burning Flags, Credibility, and a sick cartoon
Published by June 24th, 2005 in Miscellaneous. 0 CommentsIt’s been a couple days since I posted anything and there’s plenty to write about, but I don’t have the time. So rather than ramble on here, I’ll just point you to a few noteworthy items out there.
The House passed the controversial “flag burning” amendment on Wednesday. It’s now in the hands [...]
On June 14th, Senator Dick Durbin had the courage to speak the Truth when he stood before the Senate and said:
When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]–I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have to be added to this debate. [...]
Something fishy went down one year ago today…
Published by June 22nd, 2005 in Iraq, Middle East, Miscellaneous and Politics. 0 CommentsOn 06/22/2004, $2,401,600,000 was loaded onto a cargo plane and flown to Baghdad. While that is odd, even more odd is that it was all in $100 bills, a mere 6 days before the country was “returned” to Iraq governance. The Fed was opened on a Sunday, and the largest transfer of [...]
Today, Billy Corgan published a full page ad in the Chicago Tribune stating his intent to reunite the Smashing Pumpkins. See the MTV story here.
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Dick Cheney said this about Howard Dean during an interview on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes.
“I’ve never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I’ve never met anybody who does. He’s never won anything, as best I can tell.”
Howard Dean was elected of governor of Vermont FIVE [...]
Today is Ian McEwan’s 57th birthday. Here are a couple of quotations from this great novelist:
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State’s crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
And here’s a quote from his latest novel, Saturday. This [...]
Things haven’t been going so well for Bush lately. The insurgency in Iraq has proven to be quite resilient and has escalated its attacks over the past couple of months. Recent polls show that the American people don’t approve of Bush’s handling of the war. But rather than come up with solutions [...]
