My Left Wing :: A Liberal Translation During a farewell ceremony at the Pentagon last week, Dick Cheney called outgoing cabinet member Donald Rumsfeld the best Secretary of Defense the United States ever had. Apparently, no one in the audience laughed, a sign that sanity has yet to be restored at the Pentagon.

504 melturd, gay expat, rupert (sweet tea makes back hurt) SHOW LINK:   http://syphill.us/sirius/weekof122506/yr504sirius.mp3 BLOG LINK: http://yeastradio.podshow.com/?p=953 SYNOPSIS:  Andy Melton answers the question we all want answered: Why does sweet tea make your back hurt. Also, ANdy complains about how much it sucks to weigh close to 400 lbs. Lots of fun banter as Madge harasses […]

The White House has approved a $468.9 billion budget for the Pentagon in fiscal year 2008, a six-percent increase over last year’s request, according to a Defense Department document obtained by Reuters.It is also asking the Pentagon to cover some Army and Marine Corps war costs in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the regular […]

“The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey,the latest agency subjected to controls on research that might go against official policy.New rules require screening of all facts and interpretations by agency scientists who study everything from caribou mating to global warming. The rules apply to all scientific papers and other […]

The Blog | James Zogby: Revealing the Obvious | The Huffington Post Sometimes polling reveals the obvious. And sometimes the obvious needs to be revealed. Our most recent Arab American Institute/Zogby International (AAI/ZI) survey of Arab public opinion demonstrates that overall attitudes toward the US have worsened, and that negative attitudes have hardened. Here’s the […]

So NL gave their air to a private corporation? That’s nice of  these Netherlands. Today, the Netherlands rendered “rabbit ears” extinct, becoming the first country in the world to eliminate analog television signals altogether and switch to digital. But it was a largely silent shift, according to a report from the Associated Press, because 94 […]

A team of scientists from the United States and Canada has found new evidence about the rapid melting of ice in the Arctic.Data presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union suggests all year-round ice could disappear by the year 2040.The scientists also believe recent research shows a tipping point which would trigger a […]

Well, this is a sure-fire way to get Europe to hat your country too: My question is why? Iran is obviously provoking the allies. Why? The foreign ministry had said that 67 foreign researchers from 30 countries were scheduled to take part. Among those speaking today are David Duke, the American white-supremacist politician and former […]

Causes of kernel panicsGeneral causes of kernel panicsKernel panics are often caused by one or more of the following issues. * Defective or incompatible RAM are the most frequent causes of kernel panics. Despite being a highly-reliable product, RAM can fail. Modern operating systems, like Mac OS X, are sensitive to RAM. Purchase additional RAM […]

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Six of 1,000 speak Arabic fluently at U.S. embassy in Iraq After more than three years in their country, the U.S. military still can’t understand Iraqis. The Iraq Study Group said the lack of Arabic speakers has hurt U.S. intelligence collection and analysis. The bipartisan panel said the U.S. military and government rely too much […]

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan on trial – Americas – International Herald Tribune EW YORK: An employee of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, the sister of former U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, testified Thursday that she canceled a meeting with a women’s group last March when she saw prominent anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and […]

Disinformation :: Fight the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) (S.3880) defines as “terrorism” causing any business classified as an “animal enterprise” (e.g., factory farms, fur farms, vivisection labs, rodeos, zoos and circuses) to suffer a profit loss and is punishable by a long prison sentence — even if the company’s […]

1977 Senate Hearing on MKULTRA: Opening Remarks The Central Intelligence Agency drugged American citizens without their knowledge or consent. It used university facilities and personnel without their knowledge. It funded leading researchers, often without their knowledge.

Deadly Secrets: A Compendium of Obscure Conspiracy Theories * If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are […]

Secrets, Lies, And Sweatshops A compliance manager for a major multinational company who has overseen many factory audits says that the percentage of Chinese suppliers caught submitting false payroll records has risen from 46% to 75% in the past four years. This manager, who requested anonymity, estimates that only 20% of Chinese suppliers comply with […]

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More and more reports coming in of irate voters calling various House Democratic campaigns complaining about the repeat-call-back robocalls. In other words, these are the harassing calls paid for by the NRCC made to appear that they’re from the Democratic campaign. And a lot of angry voters are getting fooled by the scam, it seems. […]

The Washington Monthly .Majid Khan, currently being held as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay, is not being allowed to speak to his lawyer. Why? Because previously he was detained in one the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and “he may have come into possession of information, including…alternative interrogation techniques.” “May have come into possession.” Indeed […]

(from craigblog)Hey, theres’s a number of good efforts underway to help stop people from screwing with voting machines. Check out the following efforts: the Electronic Frontier Foundation The National Campaign for Fair Elections Video the Vote This is real serious, the bad guys are getting desperate… Posted by craig at October 31, 2006 02:16 PM