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on cheney-speak

John Dean: Cheney may have given false statements to FBI the Raw Story By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer November 3rd, 2009 There is "a lot of evidence" that Vice President Dick Cheney gave false statements to the FBI during its investigation of the Valerie Plame leak affair, says former White House attorney John Dean. […]

Beck and Limbaugh purging “roaders”…

I was kind of joking aroung with that last post, about RINOs, but I think I missed the significance. Limbaugh sort of runs on themes – Operation Chaos, Club Gitmo, now RINOs [Republicans-In-Name-Only]. But then I was waiting for a file conversion that was taking an hour, so I surfed around and ran across this: […]

RINO?

I guess I can’t refuse the bait every time: Dede Scozzafava Screws RINOs Rush Limbaugh 11/02/2009 RUSH: How about Dede Scozzafava?  You know what?  Dede Scozzafava has just screwed every RINO in the country by showing everybody who they are.  It’s what I say about radio, people say, "Rush, does it matter AM, FM?"  No, […]

Cooper’s Conundrum…

… I was interested in an ancillary question about why government officials, publicly and privately, seemed to be disparaging Wilson. It struck me, as I told the grand jury, as odd and unnecessary, especially after their saying the President’s address should not have included the 16-word claim about Saddam and African uranium.. Matthew Cooper: July […]

will we break 10%?…

Well, it’s that time of the month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly Unemployment Rate next Friday, November 6, 2009, at 8:30 AM EST. The above graph has the monthly change figures through September. And here’s the Unemployment Rate in percentage for this century:

just doesn’t seem to pan out…

We called it Operation Enduring Freedom back on October 7, 2001, and we poured across the Afghanistan border. Osama bin Laden exited to Pakistan shortly thereafter [How bin Laden got away, CSM, March 4, 2002]. By December 17th, the area bin Laden  had inhabited was under our control. Karzai challenger refuses to participate in Afghanistan […]

about time…

Cheney’s damned spot

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two: why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Act V Scene 1 Freud was right about what he […]

more torture reports…

Documents Detail Conditions Found at Secret C.I.A. Jails New York Times By SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE October 31, 2009 F.B.I. agents who arrived at a secret C.I.A. jail overseas in September 2002 found prisoners “manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock,” and a C.I.A. official wrote a list of […]