A few good links
Jane Novak has an article in Global Politician, on Yemen’s faux democracy.
Barry Campbell is pitching in with Operation Valour-IT.
And reader Cathy sends this Youtube video about Operation Gratitude.
All good stuff.
Inside Larry’s Rino sightings
Inside Larry’s Head: Rinosightings: Another Halloween in the neighborhood
Don’t miss this fearsome roujndup.
I want my APC
Free to a Good Country
Across the world, the Pentagon has thousands of garages, hangars and sprawling lots to store all its jets, tanks and other weaponry. But, like most American households, it is cluttered with old, unused and unwanted things.
And so the Pentagon runs a little-publicized giveaway and tag sale program to clean out its […]
The original Chickenhawk
I’m generally not very impressed with the Chickenhawk meme, but did enjoy this incident from Thucydides Peloponnesian War (a book almost entirely devoid of humor).
Seven years into the war, the Athenians had landed at Pylos, in Spartan territory, in the Peloponnesus. Understandably provoked by this attack on their homeland, the Spartans promptly counter-attacked, but […]
Virginia is for lovers
… of bizarre, explicit, pornographic fiction?
It sure seems to be working for Jim Webb.
Sadr City Surrounded
Twofold Operation Seals Sadr City
American military police backed by Iraqi troops maintained their cordon of Baghdad’s Sadr City on Sunday, manning barricades and checkpoints in and around the Shiite slum in an operation to find a kidnapped U.S. soldier and to capture the man considered Iraq’s most notorious death squad leader.
The soldier, an Iraqi […]
Another day in Iraq
23 Iraqi Police Killed
Suspected Sunni Arab gunmen killed 23 policemen Sunday, including 17 in one attack in the predominantly Shiite southern city of Basra, signaling the possible start an insurgent campaign against Iraq’s predominantly Shiite Muslim security forces.
Political tension deepened in Baghdad when Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, the country’s highest-ranking Sunni politician, threatened to resign […]
Borat’s coming to town
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Next week I hear. Check out the trailers. They are pretty funny.
Inoperative
During the Watergate affair, Nixon’s press secretary, caught up in ever-changing White House versions of the events, was compelled to declare previous statements “inoperative.” In other words, “we were lying then, but we’re not now.” From that point on, there was nowhere to hide. The Nixon loyalists had to grimace and shrug; independents moved […]
A long way from “shock and awe”
Rumsfeld tells war critics to ‘back off’
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that anyone demanding deadlines for progress in
Iraq should “just back off,” because it is too difficult to predict when Iraqis will resume control of their country.
During an often-combative Pentagon news conference, Rumsfeld said that while benchmarks for security, political and economic progress […]
Lucy to visit U.S.
Ethiopia’s “Lucy” to be exhibited in United States
Ethiopia agreed on Tuesday to exhibit its world-acclaimed archaeological find — the 3.2 million-year-old remains of a female hominid known as Lucy — and 190 other heritage items in America, officials said. An exhibition is scheduled for September 2007 at the Houston Museum of National Science and then […]
Limbaugh off his meds
Limbaugh says actor Fox exaggerating his disease as stem cell issue churns
Rush Limbaugh has accused actor Michael J. Fox of exaggerating the physical effects of his Parkinson’s disease in political ads urging viewers to vote for Democrats in next month’s election.
The conservative radio host told listeners Monday that Fox’s lurching, palsied movements in a TV […]
China puts it out there
China: N. Korea doesn’t plan second nuke test
China gave its first full public account Tuesday of its recent diplomatic mission to North Korea. An official said leader Kim Jong Il did not apologize for the atomic explosion, but he did say there were no plans for a second nuclear test.
North Korea’s reclusive leader expressed willingness […]
Could this be an exit strategy?
Iraqi Prime Minister Lambastes U.S.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki lashed out at the United States Wednesday, saying his popularly elected government would not bend to U.S.-imposed benchmarks and timelines and criticizing a U.S. and Iraqi military operation in a Shiite slum of Baghdad that left at least five people dead and 20 wounded.
Maliki’s comments came […]
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