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Gen.
Tommy Franks says Kerry qualified to be Commander-in-Chief AP:
Salon.com
article: Iran's next Salon.com lists the 21 assumptions and arguments about Iraq that were wrong...and upon which we went to war, have spent the lives of nearly 1,000 U.S. troops, and have spent $127 billion (figure rising by the second). Worse yet, the "neo-con[servative]s" who follow this idiocy that leads to war and massive national debt are still in power and ready to go after Iran next.
Happy
homefront news Steve
Adcock, who I wrote about here
and here,
landed safely at Louisville's airport just a few days ago, after
an arduous tour, twice extended, in Afghanistan and Iraq. He's a
Captain (and Ranger) with the 1st Armored. He came home with two
Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. Iraq
loosing $70 million a day in oil revenue An oil industry expert on the 7:00 am EST broadcast of BBC World News (I watch it on BBC America), estimates the loss of Iraqi oil due to violence and pipeline attacks at $70,000,000 per day. But what I found most surprising was his response to a question as to whether or not this loss of oil revenue is affecting reconstruction. He said, yes it is affecting it, and has been for a long time; but, then he went on to flatly declare that there's basically no reconstruction going on in Iraq. Iraq
pipeline watch Stumbled across this "Iraq pipeline watch" page on the site of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS). 931
U.S. military dead in Iraq and counting.... More U.S. soldiers died
in Iraq in July than June Bill Berkowitz raises a good point: the media seem to have lost interest in our brave soldiers losing their lives. Is that compassionate conservatism? It's certainly conservative compassion. Bob
Novack feeling the heat This audio clip's great. 30th
Anniversary of Nixon's resignation When he said he was no crook, he was lying. Employment
numbers better under Dems Floyd Norris in The New York Times Business section on Sunday:
Whistle
stop: Kansas City Kerry's
whistle stop train tour made a campaign swing through Kansas City,
where Kerry spoke to throngs who came out at night to greet Kerry
and Edwards. That
darned Gospel-thing The Bush clan got a bit of a talking-to from Episcopal priest, the Very Rev. Martin Luther Agnew. George H. W. and George W. Bush both worshipped this morning, with "Dubya's" brothers Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, first lady Laura Bush and Barbara Bush, the former first lady, at "a packed Episcopal church just down the road from the Bush family's seaside estate," according to the AP. Episcopal clery generally preach from the Gospel Lesson of that Sunday, according to the Lectionary. Consulting the Book of Common Prayer, I see today's Gospel Lesson was Luke 12:32-40, in which Jesus says to his disciples:
From the article:
Rev. Agnew said, "I'm convinced that what we keep owns us, and what we give away sets us free." Bing! No
better way to start off a new week for an NYC-based blog than a
hat-tip to a local pol. I adore Jonathan
Bing. He's a great guy who I had the privilege of
getting to know before he became a state assemblyman (representing
Manhattan's Upper East Side). He defeated, among others in the 2002
primary, Zack
Greenhill, whose campaign seemed to me a bit too-slick
and almost disingenuous...Okay...honestly: the candidate as crafted
by the campaign had, for me, all the charm
of depleted Uranium. (I admit
that Greenhill has great credentials! I've never met him--he made
no attempt to reach out to the citywide Stonewall
Democratic Club--and he might be a great guy! I just
wasn't real taken with his campaign.) I went against an arguably
serious but more or less under-the-radar operation within my own
Democratic
Club (a West Side club, Community Free Democrats)
in sticking by Jonathan, who is--to me--one of those pols a person
can refer to as "The Real Deal." There are other great
folks on the Upper East Side, like Kirk Swanson (smart,
interesting, with a lovely wife) who
I
supposed the cycle previous,
and who would have done right by the constituency, and Jerome Polansky,
who's a great guy who has always struck me as affable and bright.
Nonetheless, I think that the Upper East Side is lucky to be Bing
country. Changes
so fast it's like finally having Flash animation on my site Electoral-vote.com today went back to Kerry 307, Bush 231--Florida again being the factor; it's bouncing back and forth from one candidate's court to the other's. Visit this site; look to the upper-left at the icon updated daily; enjoy the show. Turkish
Co. leaves Iraq after kidnapping From the AP story:
More than 80 people have been kidnapped in Iraq by elements--I assume both national and al-Qaeda--seeking to drive out coalition forces. Eight hostages have been killed. A growing number of companies have met kidnappers' demands and quit Iraq. Decision:
Fahrenheit 9/11 ads cannot be banned From the Reuters story:
Rep.
Alexander makes 11th-hour switch to GOP in deceptive act The Democrats just lost a House seat. Rep. Rodney Alexander of Louisiana has been a Congressman for only 2 years. He worked closely with and courted the support of state Democrats, including Senators John Breaux and Mary Landrieu. He's always been a conservative Congressman--he voted for Bush's grotesque tax giveaways to the rich. In March, he reaffirmed his commitment to the Democratic Party. This past Wednesday, Alexander registered at the start of qualifying for the 5th District race as a Democrat. But yesterday, Friday afternoon, the last day of qualifying for the Nov. 2 ballot, he suddenly, secretly, re-registered as a Republican, leaving Democrats no time to enter a strong candidate in the race. This is simply betrayal, by any ethical standard; it involved deliberate deception. It is an immoral act. Apparently, he wants to demonstrate to Bush's GOP that he understands how to play their games of talking values and acting like Brutus and Judas. From the AP story:
New
group: Catholics for Kerry Some American Roman Catholics are apparently hearing a special calling: make preach the gospel of John Kerry and John Kerry elected. Current
Electoral Estimate Electoral-vote.com predicts, based on the most recent polls: Kerry 280 Bush 258 The good news for Democrats is that Florida, Missouri, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona are still considered to be in play. The bad news for Democrats is that Ohio is still tipping towards Bush, and Florida is now, too--at least on Electoral-votes.com. The Kerry bounce seems maybe to be over. His standing on Electoral-vote.com hasn't been this low since July 7. Nonetheless, the last time Bush out-scored Kerry on Electoral-vote.com, which is updated daily, was June 23. *chuckle* http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/ 9:00
am, the U.N., August 30th, let's be there Michelle Goldberg's Salon.com feature today was fantastic. She wrote about Cheri Honkala and the 150-and-growing gathering of homeless Americans now marching through New Jersey and on there way to NYC, where they will protest at the Republican National Convention. Goldberg:
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