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While Cheney faces French bribery and fraud indictments, Bush says "F4 ‘em all”. All this from the 'moral' right. So are we going to get them out of office? Not if the racism in the voting process continues. So, if Bush is running on strength of his anti-terrorism efforts, wouldn't the continued lack for CIA leadership post a problem? But hey, if they cancel or postpone the election, what does that say about their belief in democracy (year 2000 and Florida notwithstanding)? And with the 9/11 commission final report possibly coming out this week, it appears he won't have many faces to stand on when looking for the support he gained shortly after the towers fell. Now, I have a serious, present-day question. Why, when terror threats are at their highest levels since 9/11 are the colour-coded alerts still at yellow? Have they lost the remote control? Or are they propping up false alerts to keep up their poll numbers? Maybe they just forgot...worried about losing their conservative support. This is looking serious...Cheney may have to break out one of the c-words, since the f-word didn't cut it.
Posted by Greg @ 01:21 AM PST [Link]
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In Iraq, Halliburton labour supervisors are paid $80,000 to not supervise any labourers as they are told "just log 12 hours a day and walk around and look busy", while company officials say "We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s going to care". This according to a former company auditor. Costs like $45 cases of soda and $100/15lb. are rampant. This happens while soldiers are forced to buy their own gear. Even the Army reports say "American soldiers who defeated the Iraqi regime 15 months ago received virtually none of the critical spare parts they needed to keep their tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles running. They ran chronically short of food, water and ammunition. Their radios often failed them. Their medics had to forage for medical supplies; artillery gunners had to cannibalize parts from captured Iraqi guns, and intelligence units provided little useful information about the enemy."
Back at home, recent poll numbers show the possibility that Bush could be soundly defeated. Maybe Bush trying to get church member lists will make a difference. But it's certainly annoy a number of people.
Heck, that may be enough to get Cheney to use the F-word again.
All of this criticism of Bush seems to be rising, as journalists start to do their damned jobs. Unfortunately, up until this point, there's been pressure not to. Wassamata, George? Can't handle the hard questions? Specific to that last link, the White House gave the reporter questions about about what Irish PM Ahern was wearing that day to ask. Because that's oh-so-much-more-important than the ongoing war in Iraq, or the forgotten Afghanistan, where elections have been postponed until October since democracy is failing badly under U.S rule. But then again, can the U.S. be blamed if even the troops barely know where it is?
Posted by Greg @ 10:32 AM PST [Link]
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LINKS and STUFF
Userfriendly.org - It's a geek comic strip. Really it's the main geek comic strip that has content based more for the geek crowd than any other. Other 'geek' comic strips have humour and content that almost anyone can get. I go there more out of habit these days than anything else, I used to work for it, and am still the head moderator for their comments system. I guess that's my intro to blogging in some way.
Aspectus - This is Illiad's (of Userfriendly fame) other project, which is like Slashdot in some ways and like a personal blog in some ways, but cooler than either. Needs more content, and more visitors, but that'll come.
RED MEAT - Oh my. I imagine there is a FBI file on the artist. I never, ever want to meet him. But I will glory in his comic strip. Brilliance and intelligence wrapped up in the tattooed skin of a circus freak and tied with a bow made of blown O-rings.
Imparte.com - Rich's site. Not going to talk about it until he says I can. But go visit anyway.
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