Last Wednesday Ahmed Ressam was sentenced to a 22-year prison term for his role in the plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Eve, 1999. Chief U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, who is obviously not a fan of John Ashcroft or Alberto Gonzales, had this to say at the hearing:
The [...]
Archive for July, 2005
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Remember old Ross Perot and his talk about that “giant sucking sound?” Well, with the passage of CAFTA, ffFFFWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000000DdT! It just got louder.
Here’s what old honest Abe had to say about labor versus capital around a hundred fifty years ago:
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of [...]
Update: I got up Thursday morning, opened the paper, got to about page three and discovered that The House passed the CAFTA bill last night by two votes. That happened before I wrote this post last night, but since my primary source of news coverage after about 5:00 p.m. is The Daily [...]
… The Bush administration has no plans to bring the troops home from this misguided war, which has taken a fearful toll in lives and injuries while at the same time weakening the military, damaging the international reputation of the United States, serving as a world-class recruiting tool for terrorist groups and blowing a hole [...]
If you know what that stands for, then what do you call this “real cool” mom?
…aAAAACCCKKKk gag… Oh just read it.
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Bush likes to refer to himself as a “War President.” That he is, but he is also the “Deficit President.”
The previous post talks about the tremendous federal deficit that we have accumulated in the five years that Bush has been president and how he and Congress have no real plan to reduce it. [...]
Bob Herbert wrote a great column for The New York Times today titled “What Bush Doesn’t Know.” Here’s the money quote:
There is still no indication that the Bush administration recognizes the utter folly of its war in Iraq, which has been like a constant spray of gasoline on the fire of global terrorism. What [...]
Location of one London bomb in doubt.
Published by July 23rd, 2005 in Iraq, Miscellaneous, Politics and al Qaeda. 0 CommentsThe survivor located closest to one of the explosions has expressed doubt as to whether the bomb was carried aboard the train in a rucksack.
He and Crystal were helped out of the carriage. As they made their way out, a policeman pointed out where the bomb had been.
“The policeman said ‘mind that hole, that’s where [...]
This post is for you regular readers of The Boondocks that until today had never heard of Steve Stoute. I had never heard of him either, but I do know how to Google. Here’s what I found:
As head of McDonald’s latest campaign, Hip-Hop mogul Steve Stoute is set to recruit urban clothing lines [...]
Hunter Stockton Thompson was born July 18, 1939 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Here are a few quotes from the doctor:
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
In a nation [...]
