DAVE: THIS SUMS IT ALL UP WITH DEPRESSING ACCURACY
‘Michael Hirsch writes in his Newsweek.com column: “Was there any more mind-boggling bit of historic bad luck than what happened after Election Day 2000, when those 537 votes in Florida wobbled, then stayed in George W. Bush’s column? Never mind what kind of president Al Gore would […]
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Lebanese lawyer Bushra Khalil, a member of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s defence team, said her client does not fear execution and will either face the death penalty for crimes against humanity or return as president of Iraq.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)
After her statement she informed the assembled media that her company would be the sole distributor of […]
Reuters reports Swiss reasearchers find a 100,000-year-old, giant camel’s bones in Syria.
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Images: (Giza) culturefocus.com; (smart mouth camel) i1trekearth.com; (billboard) railscape.com
(camel pack) en.wikipedia.com; (individual cigarettes) woodencigar.com
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A pal in Chicago stated Pope Benedict did not seem to be a person who would say something without fore-thought. Still, I would have expected the Pontiff to pull a Billy Bats from GOODFELLAS when after a brief calm settled over a very tense confrontation with Joe Pesci’s ‘Tommy,’ Billy Bats had to turn the […]
Several days ago I posted a photo of a West Bank boy who was wearing a mask and had a toy assault rifle in his hand. As for the weapon, paleontologists have found 6,000 year-old paintings of American boys’ fanning Roy Rogers’ toy six-guns on the walls of the Luray Caverns. Because my friends and […]
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, brings down the
house with his much requested impression of Maynard G. Krebs,
Dobie Gillis’ wacky Beatnik pal. The audience screamed”WORK!?”
as the president did each of Maynard’s famous lines–
“Let’s go downdown and watch them knock down the old Endicott building”
and
“Ooh. Ooh. The Bijoux has the Monster that Devoured Cleveland.”
Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP
“US […]
(AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Hezbollah fans celebrate the two-run triple which gave them a 9th inning,comeback victory, 10-9, over visiting Brigate Rosa. The series continues with an afternoon affair at Danny Thomas Multi-Purpose Stadium in Beirut.
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“INSIGHTMag.comOn:
Bush, Cheney in deep funk after Israel war performance
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been extremely disappointed by Israel’s […]
“The Independent
Bush is crap, says Prescott
Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning ‘cowboy’ President at private meeting
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 17 August 2006
John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush presidency, summing up George Bush’s administration in a single word: crap.”
Please find the entire article here.
“Comment
The land of the free - but free speech is a rare commodity
You can say what you like in the US, just as long as you don’t ask awkward questions about America’s role in the Middle East
Henry Porter
Sunday August 13, 2006
The Observer
It used to be said that academic rows were vicious because the stakes were […]
“The Times August 07, 2006
Critics taking aim at the Condi Rice show
By Tom Baldwin in Washington
Video: Times Online TV
CONDOLEEZZA RICE is coming under sustained criticism on several fronts.
Some, even within the White House, have started referring to the “Condi Rice show” — suggesting that the Secretary of […]
“Richard Perle (Zuma Press photo) and Elliott Abrams (Reuters photo)
SALON
The neocons’ next war
y secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Aug. 03, 2006 | The National Security Agency is […]
“Against the advice, against the facts
“Tony Blair’s unthinking oversimplifications about the Middle East belong in an army recruitment pamphlet - not an adult conversation.”
Oliver Miles
August 3, 2006 10:09 AM
What are we to make of Tony Blair’s speech in Los Angeles on Tuesday about the struggles (or, as he would maintain struggle, in the singular) going […]