Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 15th, 2006
It depends on what the definition of “is” is
You see, if Congress will hurry up and redefine what torture is, then nobody will have to worry about being accused of torture!
2 Comments » - Posted in Politics, Rant by shelbinator
Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Of course, it’s all Clinton’s fault
Yep. There it was. ABC went ahead and included the totally fictitious scene of Sandy Berger essentially blocking at the last minute an operation to snatch Bin Laden in Afghanistan, an operation that was never in place according to the 9/11 Commission. Naturally this scene immediately followed an excerpt of TV news […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Politics, Rant by shelbinator
Sunday, September 10th, 2006
News from the other war
I’d better go ahead and get my jabs in on the 10th so I can be respectful and unified on tomorrow’s anniversary. Lucky for punditry, this weekend’s news is chock full of bad tidings from Afghanistan, the place where terr’rists used to come from until we arbitrarily relocated and vastly expanded the “central front […]
No Comments » - Posted in (In)security, Politics by shelbinator
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
I found this 40-foot pole
Aw, dammit, I made it through the whole Sixth War without blogging about it, but the more I read, the more I feel like it’s at least worth documenting in this little corner of the universe for posterity. So here it goes, with as little commentary or slant from me as possible — and […]
No Comments » - Posted in (In)security, Politics by shelbinator
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Be afraid: Nazis are back
Who set the wayback machine to 1939?
Okay, one more from Cheney. To those who point out that Iraq wasn’t a nexus of terrorism until we invaded, Cheney responds, “They overlook a fundamental fact: We were not in Iraq on September 11th, 2001, and the terrorists hit us anyway.”
Huh?
