It’s Hard to Fight For a Liar

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From CNN — “We have actually, since this deployment began, we have decided that we will no longer be in the army.”
HEMMER: Oh, he’s getting out after this tour of duty in Iraq? How do feel about that?
HAMILTON: Yes, yes. He can’t stand for it.
HEMMER: Why is that?
HAMILTON: I support him 100 percent.
HEMMER: Why do you say he can’t stand it?
HAMILTON: It’s hard on the families, it’s hard on the soldiers, and it’s especially hard to know that you put your faith and trust into a president, and they continue to lie to you, they break promises, and it’s hard to fight for somebody like that.

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Soldier: “I’d ask him for his resignation”

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From ABC News — If Donald Rumsfeld were sitting here in front of us, what would you say to him?” I asked a group of soldiers who gathered around a table, eager to talk to a visiting reporter.
“If he was here,” said Pfc. Jason Punyahotra, “I would ask him why we’re still here, why we’ve been told so many times and it’s changed.”
In the back of the group, Spc. Clinton Deitz put up his hand. “If Donald Rumsfeld was here,” he said, “I’d ask him for his resignation.”

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Recent News Items

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Or, “Things That You Overlook When You’re Appendix is Exploding”

  • Michael Savage, darling of the right-wing, got fired for saying he hoped someone would get AIDS. Good lord, you didn’t realize the man said stuff like this all the time? Did you listen to him at all before you hired him?
  • Bush is exposed as overstating (non-existent) links between Al-Qaeda and Saddam.
  • Bush’s lies about weapons of mass destruction are being exposed. And it’s about way more than those 16 little words in his State of the Union, kids. You can say “case closed” all you want to, Georgie, but that ain’t gonna make it so.
  • Other countries are responding to Bush’s appeal for military help in Iraq by pointing out their hands are tied by Bush’s diplomatic failure: “‘[link deprecated:http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-14-021232.asp?reg=ASIA”>Were there to be an explicit U.N. mandate for the purpose, the government of India could consider the deployment of our troops in Iraq,]” foreign minister Yashwant Sinha told reporters after a two-hour meeting of the cabinet’s security committee.” Or to put it more succinctly: “We’d love to help, but we can’t without a U.N. mandate, and oh, yes, you fail to wait for one. Sorry.”
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Bush wants more Americans Dead

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Not content with the number of soldiers killed after our so-called victory, Bush taunted the Iraqis, saying, “Bring it on.” Of course, he said this from the safety of the oval office. This from a guy who not only avoided serving in Vietnam, he went AWOL from National Guard service, too. Yeah, you’re a tough guy, Bush.
Since his remarks: 10 more wounded American soldiers. I’ll bet they’re thrilled with W.

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Cost of War Clock

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How much the war in Iraq is costing us per second, and comparisons to what would happen if we’d spent the money on domestic programs.
While I was checking this (the numbers will increase by the time you check them):
— 1,330,851 additional school teachers could be hired for one year.
— 9,878,393 additional children could attend a year of Head Start
— 1,772,223 additional four-year scholarships at public universities
You can also click so see how much the war is costing you specifically in your town or region.

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The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 116)

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Tinky Winky Waves Hi!
Tinky Winky Waves Hi!
In this week’s list from Democratic Undergraound, Ann Coulter says that Joe McCarthy was right in blacklisting Americans, George Bush hides a 25% increase in Medicare premiums, and a Hindu gets mistaken for a Muslim (!!) and beaten up by fans of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

My favorite part of the Conservative Idiots list has to be the key. Especially the little Tinky-winky that symbolizes homophobia.

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Walmart’s “Big Brother” Technology

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Courtesy of my friend Lori, — UPC symbols are being replaced by RFID tracking chips in some items, which will help stores track individual products as they are carried around in the store. Which means that when you decide you don’t want that [item x] and take it out of your cart and set on any old shelf in the store, they’ll be able to find it and put it back where it goes. It’s possible that the technology could be used to track other things, like what you carry into the store with you if the tracker is still on it, but those issues are far in the future.

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