U.S. Confirms the Quran was abused

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The Pentagon finally admitted that Newsweek wasn’t actually wrong, and that the Quran was abused at Guantanamo Bay. Of course they did this late Friday, after the evening news was already on, so that it would miss the news cycle over the weekend.

U.S. military officials say no guard at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects flushed a detainee’s Quran down the toilet, but they disclosed that a Muslim holy book was splashed with urine. In other newly disclosed incidents, a detainee’s Quran was deliberately kicked and another’s was stepped on.
On March 25, a detainee complained to guards that “urine came through an air vent” and splashed on him and his Quran. A guard admitted he was at fault, but a report released Friday evening offering new details about Quran mishandling incidents did not make clear whether the guard intended the result.
In another confirmed incident, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet, and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.

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Downing Street Memo Smoking Gun

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So far, the republican controlled main stream media are trying to keep a lid on the smoking gun memo from Tony Blair’s office that reveals that Bush was planning to attack Iraq long before there was any intelligence about WMD or terrorist involvement.
Help out with the campaign to blow the lid off this powder keg story and force the media to report the news instead of the White House’s talking points.

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More language mangling from the Moron in Chief

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It would be funny if it weren’t completely painful and just sad. So sad.

“It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations — by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth.”

“Dissemble” is what Rove actually said in Bush’s earpiece. Not “disassemble”, which is what Bush heard and repeated. And even more frightening that he tried to give a definition, like the American public doesn’t know what the meaning of “dissemble” is. Except that they probably don’t, given that they voted for this doorknob.
What’s even more hideous about this is that the Chicago Tribune corrected the transcript with the right word, not the word he actually said. So how much do you think the Tribune is getting paid by the White House?

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Not in Our Neighborhood!

Brian Bosma, Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and one of Indiana’s leading opponent of GLBT rights, is holding his annual “Junetoberfest” campaign fundraiser on Monday, June 13th at the Rathskellar Biergarten, right in the heart of Massachusetts Avenue, in an area whose revitalization was driven by the GLBT community.
Bosma is apparently willing to promote gay-friendly Mass Ave as a flourishing tourist and business district while simultaneously advocating the curtailing of human rights for Mass Ave’s inhabitants and their families.
To address this gross act of hypocrisy and injustice to our families, Indiana Action Network is leading a protest beginning at 5:00 PM outside the Rathskellar, where Bosma’s drunken bash is to take place. We will bring our families with us and stand together to show Brian Bosma and his ilk that our families are just as deserving of basic social rights as the “traditional” families his exclusionary agenda professes to defend.

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Ohio’s GOP Money scandal: investing government money in coins

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Yep, you read that right. The GOP “invested” $50 million of the taxpayer’s money not in secure investments, but in rare coins, an autograph of Jackie Kennedy and a picture of Lincoln without a beard, among other things. The fund was controlled by GOP fundraiser Tom Noe, who then apparently embezzled about $10 million dollars of the money and donated part of it to George W. Bush’s re-election campaign. All of this comes to light after the Toledo Blade newspaper spent months investigating the issue while being stonewalled by goverment officials and the Republican Party.
Yeah, after finding this out, I’m sure those elections in Ohio were on the up and up.

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Anti-Gay Cross Burnings in Durham, NC

Durham, North Carolina had three cross burnings last night, that are apparently anti-gay related. The seem to be in response to a production of the Laramie Project, and also targeting a gay-friendly church, although none of the news outlets are willing to make that connection, except the pastor of the church, who mentioned it as his best guess for the cause.
Don’t get any ideas, Indianapolis bigots. Eric Miller better keep his KKK pals in line.

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Christian Iraqis to US Christians: We were here before you

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Christian Iraqis are pissed at American Evangelicals who are flooding Iraq with Bibles and attempting to “convert” their youth to Christianity, because as they rightly point out, the Judeo-Christian religion was born in Iraq, and the’ve been Christians for 10 centuries longer than American Christians.

Iraq’s Christians have been in existence for almost 10-times longer than the United States. The country is well aware of Christianity.
Until March 2003, Iraqi Christians and Muslims lived in peace. Neither side tried to convert the other. Even Jews lived in Iraq in harmony. But, the new Iraq is on the verge of sectarian violence that could become ugly. All because of the intervention of the U.S.
Christian evangelists who travel to Iraq to save the savages are merely taking a cue from their masters in Washington. They are so ignorant that they think Iraqis have never heard of Christ and must be taught to see the light. In reality, most Iraqi Christians and Muslims are probably more knowledgeable about Christianity’s history than the light-skinned invaders from the Florida group.

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right-wing nutjob school

I had no idea something like this existed — Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute is a school for conservatives that teaches them how to rig elections and engage in dirty politics. Among it’s graduates: Karl Rove, the man who runs the White House, and his boyfriend, gay prostitute/fake journalist Jeff Gannon.
No wonder the religious right is so organized and has so much money to use against us. Yikes.

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The Top 10 Conservative Idiots (No. 199)

Hip, Hip… Hypocrisy! Edition
I’ve been pointing out Republican hypocrisy for quite a while now — Democratic Underground covers the recent blatant examples of it. The upshot is that pretty much any conservative who lectures on “family” values is either gay, a wife beater, a child molester or a white collar criminal. Because for them it doesn’t matter what you actually DO, it only matters what lip service you pay.
This week, the White House blames Newsweek for reporting that U. S. soldiers were desecrating the Koran — never mind that they WERE, and that there’s proof, Newsweek shouldn’t say those things out loud because it causes Muslims to hate us. Because of course they don’t hate us for illegally invading their country, or anything.
And of course the guy who threatened to kill Michael Moore — gosh, he didn’t lose his job or anything. But that’s not surprising considering that Republican senators like Cornyn say that it’s okay for people to kill judges, and nothing happens to them.

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