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It’s starting to look like McCain got caught in a shocking exaggeration or outright fabrication of his own POW experience.
Over the weekend, both McCain and Obama stroked uberpowerful-Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren’s ego by participating in his presidential forum. During McCain’s performance, he recalled a real tear-jerker of a [...]
The next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will not delight and dazzle the nerdy masses this November. Instead it will beam into theaters July of 2009.
Apparently, The Powers That Be, think the film will make more money next July, a prime summer movie month. That could be true, but my guess [...]
It’s easy and perversely comforting to think of the world as bipolar. Good vs. Evil. Communist vs. Capitalist. Democratic vs. Autocratic. USA vs. Russia. But the world isn’t so simple (despite what John McCain may think).
Despite whatever comfort simplified labels give us, Russia is not an evil imperial power hellbent on invading all of Europe. [...]
I just don’t get it. I figured as a society we accepted, if not universally loved, over-the-top comedies. I don’t remember a big stir when Not Another Teen Movie hit theaters. Hell, there will soon be a fifth Scary Movie.
When I read that activist groups were “asking movie theaters and moviegoers to shut [Tropic Thunder] [...]
… standing 5 feet away from the band and some huge speakers takes a lot out of you. So there will be no official post today.
But for your viewing/listening pleasure, here is who I saw play last night:
If you notice anything in the news you want to talk about, or want me to blog about [...]
Remember back in 2006 when Israel invaded Lebanon because of a border skirmish? Back then, the international community condemned Israel for their disproportionate military response.
This was what George Bush had to say back then:
The recent crisis in the region was triggered by the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers by the terrorist group Hezbollah and the launch [...]
9:30am
Blogging it up, so you can get down. Btw, I saw Wilco on Friday, they were awesome as usual.
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Iraq’s foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari had this to say Sunday when asked if the Iraqis would accept an agreement without specific dates, “No, no definitely there has to be a very clear timeline.”
Could Bush & McCain [...]
The Bush administration has been shameless when it comes to naming their programs and policies. The PATRIOT Act destroys civil liberties, the Clear Skies Initiative reduces air pollution controls, Operation Iraqi Freedom put Iraqis under US military control, etc.
We’ve long needed a guide to these insults to language and logic, and Spencer Ackerman’s Iraq Euphemism [...]
Read more at CNN…
From the New York Times:
“The Iraqi government now has tens of billions of dollars at its disposal to fund large scale reconstruction projects,” said Mr. Levin, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in the statement. “It is inexcusable for U.S. taxpayers to continue to foot the bill for projects the Iraqis are [...]