David Brooks Tranksgiving
The final paragraph of Davids's most excelent op-ed in today's NYT:"For it is from those Pilgrims, the last WASP's to truly look good in black, that we have inherited the essential elements of the...
View ArticleAn Easy Step with a big footprint
I think it all came home to me the day that I went in to work for a weekly staff meeting an hour early because there was to be a telecommunte phone call with a vendor. cb
View ArticleAnother Timely Terrorist Plot Uncovered
Thy just finished the grand show in NYC where they've exposed another terrorist plot. It was interesting that the dialog consisted mainly the intelligence they couldn't talk about weighted against the...
View ArticleOur Immutable President
Maureen Dowd's column was excelent today. In summing up his ability to shift to meet new challanges she writes:That's what's so frustrating about watching him deal -- or not deal -- with Iraq and...
View ArticleThe Beans and Toast Hit the Fan
Yesterday when Blair announced that he will not be prime minister this time next year. The players in this drama are principally Tony Blair the prime minister and Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the...
View ArticleHonestly, honest
Why can't democrats just run on a simple platform of competence, transparency and honesty. Is there something so difficult about that? Bill Clinton had his BJs but they didn't cost us world...
View ArticleIraq and 9/11 Link Persist
I want to be supportive of Calvin Woodward of AP and his item this afternoon. He attempts to put the focus back to the needless waste of our young, the result of our continued occupation of Iraq: The...
View ArticleSpeaking Truth to Power
I found the following while doing research on aspects of speaking truth to power. It's from "Speak Truth to Power": an educational and advocacy package in collaboration with Amnesty International and...
View ArticleHastert Knew
Washington Post reports this morning that Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.) has said that Hassert and senior Republicans knew of Foley's emails last year. Currently the marching orders of the House...
View ArticlePlans Underway to Attack Iran
Arnaud De Borchgrave UPI's editor in chief's alleged connections with the world's clandestine services is legendary. Politically he's a hawk and close if not in the middle of the Neo-Con camp but his...
View ArticleBrits Refuse to Take Back Guantánamo 9
As a second generation Brit who follows UK politics rather closely, I've tracked the machinations of the UK government in trying to obtain release of 9 of it's citizens for the past 4 years. Now they...
View ArticleOlbermann Special Comment tonight
Not enough legs to really be a diary but don't want it burried in an Open Thread. Here's a preview of tonight's special comment by Keith
View ArticlePolitics is just a game
I'm tired of so many things. I'm tired of Foleygate and I'm tired of pundits who treat politics as a game. We as a community of strong progressives are taking our eye off of what really counts; and...
View ArticleFocus real hard on Iran ... Gotcha!
While everyone is focusing on Iran, it looks as if Korea is ready for a show down with it's plan to conduct nuclear testing in the coming days. Japan, South Korea and the United States diplomatic...
View ArticleVoteVets is a good bet
I'm a Viet Nam erra vet who until this year has not really felt compeled to fiancially support veteran political groups. I think the main reason is that veterans groups seemed to me to be aligned to a...
View ArticleWhat War Did Your Loved One Die In
There are two wars being fought in Iraq. The only nobility to be found are is our young that signed up to fulfil a sense of duty. Now they find themselves in two conflicts. One day they are the...
View Article600,000 Innocent Lives -- Gone
Of course we all knew that there had to be something to the report when it was instantly dismissed by both the Bush and Blair administrations. An editorial featured in Daily Star of Lebanon writes...
View ArticleCalling Cards for Disabled Veterans
I have written a couple of diaries where I try to take the politics out of the inhumanity this war has leveled against the Iraqi people and our men and women in the Armed Forces. In one of my last...
View ArticleBritish Political Cartoons
This diary started as a specific posted diary but has turned into something that I just keep adding to as new Bell/Rowson cartoons become available. If you are new to Steve Bell, he takes a little...
View ArticleVery Good Video from BBC
This is a very short diary that I'm posting because the BBC video is so powerful. It gives insight into the soldier's view of Iraq and the whole joke of We'll stand down when they stand up. Sean...
View ArticleCIA Director - Hayden - Visits Saudi Arabia
In a world of coincidence CIA director Michael Hayden, just so happened to visit Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah a day after the US issued alerts that the Saudi oil fields were possibly under attack...
View ArticleLast Vestige of Iraq Oversight -- Gone!
During a closed-door session of the house, the republican side of the House Armed Services Committee, over the objections of Democratic counterparts, inserted an obscure provision that terminates the...
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Second only to OBL, Bush Seen as Most Dangerous Person on Planet
From the Guardian. George Bush is ranked with some of his bitterest enemies as a cause of global anxiety. He is outranked by Osama bin Laden in Canada, the UK, Mexico and Israel. UK voters: 87%...
View ArticleDay After the Hussein Verdict
It appears there are three facts that have come out of after the Saddam Hussein verdict. First, The majority Shiites are jubilant and the minority Sunni are pissed which will lead to increased civil...
View ArticleBaker’s Doughnut Document
I have a lot of trust in the thoughts and writings of Fareed Zakaria. For those of you not acquainted with Fareed, he is the editor of Newsweek International, overseeing all Newsweek's editions...
View ArticleMSNBC: All Politics, All the Time for Daily Kosmonauts
Howard Kurts in his 20 November piece in the Washington Post quoted Dan Abrams the new General Manager of MSNBC:"We've found a voice as of late, and a large part of that voice is politics," says MSNBC...
View ArticleThe Next Undisclosed Location
Well we know that Dick Cheney has been meeting with King Abdullah in an effort to have Saudi Arabia pressure the Sunni extreamist in Iraq but before his trip Cheney was in yet another "Undisclosed...
View ArticleOlbermann News
In a recent column in 'TVNewser' the headline screams Olbermann Doesn't Take Abrams SeriouslyIs there bad blood between Keith Olbermann and Dan Abrams? In a recent interview, Radar quoted MSNBC's...
View ArticleTrump ... Not Totally Inane
Short diary here. Maureen Dowd's Saturday column in the NYTs is, for me, a hit or miss affair. Today, she phoned it in. With Donald Trump making all the trash news ... for some reason she...
View Article(Heart) Breaking News
This is a small tribute and a call from a veteran to those who have fallen since the people have spoken and the mission has been validated as a failure. I could get into a long discussion why someone...
View ArticleRice Caught in Yet Another Lie
This woman has told more lies than truths. Today it was revealed that she lied when she indicated that she had never heard of Iran's attempts to negotiate with Iraq in the ramp up to the war.As...
View ArticleBroccoli Economics
I usually write about veterans affairs with a couple G. W. Bush rage writings thrown in. But a conversation with a co-worker this evening about broccoli, French and French food; and since Dana Priest...
View ArticleMore Hard Landings Than I Can Count
I think that the country is lost when no matter what is reported; no matter what excuse is made, you know it’s not the truth.Just reported was that another helicopter made a hard landing. The crew was...
View ArticleIf you had to eat what you kill (Updated)
Eat What You Kill has been used in various parts of the business sector, mainly sales, to summarize that one is only paid for the new business brought in or product sold. In it's fullest it says You...
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April Fools Feed More Meat to the Grinder
While the politicians bleat, this April has started off to be one of the worst in terms of fallen warriors since George Bush started his private war in Iraq.As of today 18 service men/women have given...
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Wolfowitz adrift
Paul Wolfowitz failed to appear yesterday at a high rollers meeting of the World Bank. Some speculate that it's because he's on his way out ... other's suggest that he was asked not to attend since...
View ArticleWolfowitz hires Robert Bennett
Wolfie's troubles continue to mount after the the executive board of the World Bank convened a special investigation that will report back at the end of this week.Most of us had anticipated that there...
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Stephanie Miller Live on MSNBC
Because of my weird working/sleeping habits I'm now watching Stephanie Miller Live on MSNBC ...Good show ... fast paced
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Craig’s Sunday Funnies
We start off with something old; something new ... Even though, from at least an international perspective, the Chimp has blown his wad ... I'm sure he could round up a coalition to invade the Sudan....
View ArticleFat Lady Warming up for Wolfowitz
There will be no jump suit but it looks like it's all over for 'Little Wolf No Witz' Wolfowitz.From the NY Times ...WASHINGTON, May 7 — A committee of World Bank directors has formally notified Paul D....
View ArticleCraig's Tony Blair Retrospective
Of course the big news this week is that Tony Blair has announced that he will be stepping down as Prime Minister. This has caused a flurry of retrospectives of ‘The Blair Years’ and prominent in...
View ArticleTraitorous Craigb without Graphics
I generally am known in these parts by the graphics I post but for this diary I would like to focus on my prose.I’m a closet patriot. A Vietnam vet that pays his taxes gives generously to political...
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Craig's Sunday Funnies
Well, I'm posting a review of the weeks best of Steve Bell, Martin Rowson, Mr. Fish and anybody else that catches my fancy along with anything I may have cobbled together.We start with some-Wolf and...
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Craig’s Sunday Funnies (Final Edition)
The pickings are getting slim from across the pond. The Brits and Frogs are involved in their own domestic issues.But Martin Rowson of The Guardian was able to capture Blair’s Farewell Tour in...
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Fox to Air New Show ... AEI: Washington with Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson announced this week that to promote his run at the presidency he is giving up his day job playing a prosecutor on the TV series "Law & Order." What hasn’t been publicized is that...
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Bush says "Trust Me"
Something this morning from The Guardian and Steve Bell: Russia should not fear a missile shield in eastern Europe, George Bush said in Prague today, in his latest bid to placate Vladimir Putin, who...
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Craig’s Sunday Funnies
We start off our line up with the new bobbsey twins, Obama and Hillary ... both taking a moment to lighten up.On to The Great Eight ...
View ArticleSomeone Should Tell Jon Stewart ...
Fareed Zakaria was once again on The Daily Show tonight. Someone should really clue in the on-point Jon Stewart, that his good friend Fareed Zakaria was one of the biggest supporters for our invasion...
View ArticleIraq: Three Generals ... No Consensus
Released through various news agencies on Friday and Saturday were stories with the headline: U.S. may reduce forces in Iraq by spring. And on Sunday there was the headline: U.S. Generals Doubt Iraqi...
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Next Time You Talk About Freedom and Iraq
Yo, Bush! The next time you stand up in a press conference and wax on poetically about how you as a war criminal want to bring freedom to those who yearn to be free, try to imagine that this woman is...
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