Great Idea… It would make people wake up and think for once.

“Waldorf Word Salad” (in your best snooty tooty sounding voice)

what’s another? waldorf first came to mind… but that’s apples…
anyway…
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MonkeyButt - thanks for the report… we know you’re doing your best at what you have to do! …come back here often and keep us informed!
TAKE CARE! you AND your buds!

And that, my friend, is what I like about Obama. He listens to what a lot of people with differing opinions has to say. I have total faith in the fact that he will do what is right at the time he takes office. I’m hoping that the first thing he will do is to close the permanent bases that are being built.

Regarding those bases, why can’t Congress pass a law that says the Bush Administration can’t spend any of the money appropriated for Iraq on permanent bases? That would be a definite step in the right direction.

I hope that the Democrats run an ad saying “The Republicans (and John McCain) tell us they support the troops.” Then go on to list all the bills they have killed that actually support the troops, highlighting John McCain’s votes. Especially hit on armoring the troops and the care they don’t get when they come home. And then there’s always the GI bill college benefits legislation that it looks like McCain is not going to support. That will be a BIG mistake on his part.

“Concern about stigma was disproportionately greatest among those most in need of help from mental health services,” the study’s authors said.

Among the reasons cited for not seeking help, 63 percent of those with signs of mental health problems agreed with the statement “my unit leadership might treat me differently” and 65 percent said that they would be seen as weak.

Those extra tours of duty are taking too high of a toll on these guys. The biggest crime of this war is the survivors that have been irrevocably changed for life. That have to live with horrific nightmares, outburst of anger, the inability to never be able to relax and a damaged phyche.

We can repair wounds to the flesh. But how do you repair the deepest of all wounds to the heart and mind??

Just one weekend a month, and 2 weeks a year….

yeah

right….

I seem to recall hearing that sometime or another….

Chuckie Heston kicked the bucket — it’s time to go pry his guns out of his dead, cold hands.

A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment. In closely watched testimony in Washington next week, Gen Petraeus will state that the Iranian threat has risen as Tehran has supplied and directed attacks by militia fighters against the Iraqi state and its US allies.

The outbreak of Iraq’s worst violence in 18 months last week with fighting in Basra and the daily bombardment of the Green Zone diplomatic enclave, demonstrated that although the Sunni Muslim insurgency is dramatically diminished, Shia forces remain in a strong position to destabilise the country.

“Petraeus is going to go very hard on Iran as the source of attacks on the American effort in Iraq,” a British official said. “Iran is waging a war in Iraq. The idea that America can’t fight a war on two fronts is wrong, there can be airstrikes and other moves,” he said.

From Zbigniew Brzezinski , ONE YEAR AGO:
“A plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks; followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure; then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran…”

I really hope I am Wrong about this.

Glen Greenwald writes

Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:

“Yoo and torture” – 102
“Mukasey and 9/11? — 73
“Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16
“Obama and bowling” — 1,043
“Obama and Wright” — More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)
“Obama and patriotism” – 1,607
“Clinton and Lewinsky” — 1,079

And as Eric Boehlert documents, even Iraq — that little five-year U.S. occupation with no end in sight — has been virtually written out of the media narrative in favor of mindless, stupid, vapid chatter of the type referenced above. “The Clintons are Rich!!!!” will undoubtedly soon be at the top of this heap within a matter of a day or two.

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Every day, it becomes more difficult to blame George Bush, Dick Cheney and comrades for their seven years (and counting) of crimes, corruption and destruction of our political values. Think about it this way: if you were a high government official and watched as — all in a couple of weeks time — it is revealed, right out in the open, that you suspended the Fourth Amendment, authorized torture, proclaimed yourself empowered to break the law, and sent the nation’s top law enforcement officer to lie blatantly about how and why the 9/11 attacks happened so that you could acquire still more unchecked spying power and get rid of lawsuits that would expose what you did, and the political press in this country basically ignored all of that and blathered on about Obama’s bowling score and how he eats chocolate, wouldn’t you also conclude that you could do anything you want, without limits, and know there will be no consequences? What would be the incentive to stop doing all of that?

Blinky eyes
Blinky eyes

What WAR CRIMES?
What Usurpation of the Constitution?
What TORTURE?

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It’s more comforting than the truth, ain’t it, Zooey? ;)

Absolutely. :-)

It’s more comforting than the truth, ain’t it, Zooey? ;)

Gee, I didn’t realize that fathers had so much control over their adult daughters. Monica was an adult. What an idiot.

Very good actor, though, IMO.

Hey, party at TheZoo…

(ralph bows)