2005 July at politburo diktat 2.0

Danny Boy…the pipes are calling

Sound Danny Boy.
The Irish Republican Army announced today that it will abandon its “armed campaign” and resume disarmament in a long-awaited declaration designed to revive the Northern Irish peace process.
The IRA, which has observed a cease-fire since 1997, said it would end all armed activity from 1600 BST today. But it said that it would […]

9 OTHER blogging carnivals promoted by glenn reynolds to the exclusion of RINO Sightings

[Presented with a thousand apologies to protein wisdom.]

Carnival of Gay Men who Look Like Wade Boggs, but with Better Bodies
Carnival of Conservative Law Bloggers (because there aren’t any of THOSE)
Carnival of Ann Althouse’s Posts
Carnival of People who Send Me Free Books
Carnival of TechCentralStation Columns
(tie) Carnival of Co-Ed Photos taken with $2000 Digital Cameras/Blog Mela
Carnival of […]

Victory or Stability or Viability?

A few reports have surfaced recently about a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, most recently by PM Jaafari, in the CS Monitor story noted below.
If we do withdraw within a year or two, the Lefties will surely howl about “cutting & running, declaring victory, and leaving a mess,” and will doubtless reference numerous prior declarations of […]

Definition of a Solider

What I Learned In The Service…
I hear a lot of people talking about how the military members are mercenaries. I hear a lot of people insinuating that we are government assassins I hear how some folks think we are such evil people they torment our families after we die. How many of us are merely […]

Baghdadarella

Beth’s Cotillion Carnival

Gimme shelter from that street fightin’ woman. This one will not fade away.

50,000 Terrorist Casualties in Iraq

This is the most unsettling report yet to come out of Iraq. The Washington Times reports that we have killed or captured 50,000 terrorists in Iraq. If you think that’s good news, you need to do some arithmetic.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed or arrested more than 50,000 Iraqi insurgents in the past seven months, […]

Shuttle Launch Successful

NASA sends shuttle back into space after long pause
NASA successfully launched space shuttle Discovery on Tuesday after a 2-1/2 year struggle to rebuild the shuttle program following the fatal Columbia accident.
The shuttle, carrying seven crew members, soared into slightly hazy skies, leaving behind a trail of smoke and flames, while the roar of its solid […]

Are You Now … Have You Ever Been?

mccarthyite v 2.0

Interview with David Scott Anderson

Many of you know that my favorite hefty Lefty, Central/African-American blogger is David Scott Anderson, a blogger In Search of Utopia. David seems a bit pre-occupied these days, but let’s go to the transcipt.
Commissar: Hey, man, how are you?
David: I can’t believe this Rove/Plame thing.
Commissar: Is the weather in Costa Rica always beautiful?
David: Rove […]

Cpl. Nicholas Gentry, USMC

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nicholas L. Gentry - DefendAmerica News Profile
Marine Chooses Service Over College
“Even though my parents would help me out (financially) with college, I wanted to go all out and join what I thought was the best branch in the military,” said Cpl. Nicholas L. Gentry, a 2002 graduate of Jasper High School. […]

Sunnis to End Iraq Charter Boycott; Bomb Kills 25

With just three weeks to go before an important deadline for the new constitution, Sunni Arab leaders said Sunday that they were ready to end their boycott of the drafting process. The statements came as a suicide truck bomber rammed into barricades at a police station here […]

The Letter

Here’s a hint to the Left: If you want to slam George Bush in a letter to Congress, signed by CIA agents, try to avoid including as signatories:

Melvin Goodman - Cynthia McKinney’s own 007, or perhaps, Mini-Me
David MacMichael
Ray McGovern
Col. Patrick Lang
Vince Cannistraro

These are all longtime, outspoken, anti-war, anti-Bush partisans, not merely aggrieved and […]

Second Arrest in Botched London Bombings

Second Arrest in Botched London Bombings
The suspect was apprehended in Stockwell, the south London neighborhood where another suspect was detained Friday and another man was fatally shot by police in a subway station, Scotland Yard said.
Police say the man they shot dead in south London on Friday was not connected to the bombing investigation.
The first […]

75 Killed at Sharm el-Sheikh

Egypt Bomb Attacks Kill at Least 75, Wound 120
At least 75 people were killed and 120 wounded in Egypt’s worst terrorist attack when three bombs exploded in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. At least seven foreigners, including a Czech and an Italian, were killed in the blasts. The attacks coincided with the anniversary […]

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