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Anybody seen this yet – it’s feckin’ amazing.

Powell: Intelligence suggests Iran trying to adapt missiles for nukes I can easily believe that Iran is guilty of this and a lot more. But when I saw the headline, something in me reflexively hedged – can we believe anything Colin says at this point? Once upon a time he was walking, talking, credibility personified. Then he whored his integrity

Hey everybody, say hi to Jim Booth, aka sirpaulsbuddy. Jim used to be a BlogSpot guy, but has been persuaded that LJ is a better way of life. Drop by, say hello, friend him, invite him over for tea and cakes, whatever. He’s good people.

Right. Cleaning the insurgents out of Falluja, that was likely the easy part.

My buddy Dee Forsythe passed this one on: Questions for Rice Check this graf: “If Rice can persuade Bush to forsake the influence of Cheney and Rumsfeld for an approach in the internationalist spirit of her predecessor Colin Powell, she may be a fine secretary of state.” Hell, if she can do THAT, with another sweep of her magic wand

Oddly, the new Bugger Me Elmo® doll didn’t make the list….

It hit me this morning: why are the families of America’s unborn children being forced to pay over $9 billion dollars in extra taxes each year? We can expect a full-court press in the next four years to get rid of Roe v. Wade. Part and parcel of the agenda involves neat things like the Laci Peterson Law, which extends

This guy has 17 more where this came from, and some of them are pretty darned scary. Thanks to fikshun for the tip…

Uh-oh. Nothing good’s gonna come of this…..

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but do two losers make a winner? We’ll find out – right now about the only thing either company has that anybody wants is The Great Indoors. And batteries and tools.

“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except Negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.’ When it comes to this,

Thanks to koenbear, who after that earlier post let me know that Bush’s faith-based initiative czar has since amended his answer. Sort of. Says koenbear: There’s an article about it here from the article: “Mr. Towey said that he had replied honestly; he was not aware, at the time that he answered the question, of any Pagan charitable organizations. Since

This just buckles my knees. Poached from chromatic_dawn over on – Jim Towey, the White House Deputy Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, actually SAYS this: “I haven’t run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor! Once you make it clear to any applicant that

Well, this is good to know. I guess. You are 53% Aquarius How much do you match your zodiac sign?

The headline on the CNN.com splash page was big and exciting and sinister and appalling: Police use stun gun on 6-year-old boy (!!!) Wow. I mean, every other day we hear about some outrage or other, and this header was designed to conjure jackbooted thugs in riot gear raining some righteous technosmack on a defenseless first grader who had probably