Archives for June 2006
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“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
As a history major, I was delighted to read Dan Melson’s weekly round-up of the Raging RINO’s, relating this week’s posts to people & vents of the past, including the invasion […]
Zengerle fesses up
Steve Gilliard claims that he did not write the email I attributed to him in this post. After doing some further investigating, I’m afraid to say that he is correct. He did not write that email. I apologize to Gilliard for not checking with him before publishing my post, and I regret the […]
Iraq Govt. Plan Calls for U.S. Withdrawal Timetable
A timetable for withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq. Amnesty for all insurgents who attacked U.S. and Iraqi military targets. Release of all security detainees from U.S. and Iraqi prisons. Compensation for victims of coalition military operations.
Those sound like the demands of some of the insurgents themselves, and […]
BBC SPORT
A wonder strike in extra-time from Maxi Rodriguez gave Argentina victory in a pulsating end-to-end encounter.Mexico took a surprise lead after five minutes when Rafael Marquez got on the end of a Mario Mendez free-kick.
Argentina replied five minutes later when a corner was forced home by a combination of Hernan Crespo’s foot and Jared […]
For Good or Ill, Boom in Ethanol Reshapes Economy of Heartland - New York Times
Dozens of factories that turn corn into the gasoline substitute ethanol are sprouting up across the nation, from Tennessee to Kansas, and California, often in places hundreds of miles away from where corn is grown.Once considered the green dream of the […]
Honestly, we wingnuts should just STFU about Armstrong. We need him to be in the Democratic Party’s inner circles.
Screenshot, just in case:
The following serious discussion of how Jupiter’s retrograde conjunction etc. was going to affect Warner’s chances in an election have to be read to be believed, and Warner’s “current transit of progressed Venus […]
In the latest blogosphere kerfuffle about Kosola, Markos’ attempts to squelch the story, and TNR’s coverage of it, there have been questions about the Leftie bloggers’ response to Markos’ infamous “omerta” email.
TNR reported: Also on the same day [June 18], the blogger Steve Gilliard wrote to the “Townhouse” list:
I dont see how this can be […]
How Kos and Jerome “The Sorcerer” Armstrong sold out “Fighting Dem” Paul Hackett, in favor of Armstrong’s employer, Sherrod Brown.
The Ohio “kosola” connection | Buckeye State Blog
Grab a cup of coffee, sit back and relax while I tell you a long story about the Jerome Armstrong/kos connection in Ohio.
The details from this Ohio Democrat blogger […]
3 carriers, 280 planes, and 22,000 troops
The largest U.S. military exercise in the Pacific in decades ended Friday after showing North Korea and other nations that the United States can swiftly muster a huge combat force in the region, officials said.
The five-day “Valiant Shield” exercises massed an armada of three aircraft carriers and 25 other […]
Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal
Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday. The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch Thursday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman said he ate […]
November came, with raging south-west winds. Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement. Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent … The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. In […]
The London Times is reporting a Peace deal that offers Iraq insurgents an amnesty. I must be skeptical. First, let’s see what, if anything, is announced on Sunday. Second, I’m not sure who the Iraqi government can negotiate with. Does the terrorist insurgency have a finite number of leaders and groups who can reasonably represent […]
American plotters arrested in Miami
Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., a federal law enforcement official said.As part of the raids related to the arrests, FBI agents swarmed a warehouse in Miami’s Liberty City area, using a […]
The Plank has emails the Lefties were exchanging about co-ordinating their response to Kosola
From these e-mails, it appears there was a good amount of concern among liberal bloggers about the Armstrong SEC story and the allegations of “pay for play” against Kos and Armstrong, and some of these bloggers wanted to address these issues forthrightly. […]
INDCJournal: Unhinged!
No, not referencing the title of Malkin’s recent book, rather Ace of Spades - a blogger that I often disagree with yet generally respect for his humor and bits of considered analysis - losing his freaking mind.
Bill makes a case that probably shouldn’t have to be made.
