Archive for: March 2008

So what was the hottest topic in the ’sphere middle of last week?

Nope, wasn’t the long-legged Obamarathon Wright-stuff stuff.

This is what is was: It was the kerfuffle over meany IDists tossing a scientist from seeing their movie. Yep.

I recently …

I just got a happy little assignment for the next few months… further, uh, forward than I am now.  I do not know if I will be able to access the ‘net or not.  If not - I hope to …

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Iraq: Security
Multinational Force

US air strikes kill six in Baghdad: military
 Source: Yahoo News, AFP 21 March, BAGHDAD–Clashes involving fighters firing mortar shells and U.S.-Iraqi forces in southwest Baghdad killed six suspected insurgents and wounded one, Iraq’s interior ministry and American officials said on March 21. The clashes occurred in the Saydiyah neighborhood on March 20. “There was an engagement yesterday in the Saydiyah area involving an aerial weapons team and an enemy mortar team,” Major Kirk Luedeke said.

Gates considers US force levels for Iraq
 Source: Yahoo News, AP 21 March, WASHINGTON–Top U.S. military leaders presented Defense Secretary Gates with their strategy for future force levels in Iraq on March 20, including expected recommendations for a pause in troop cuts for as much as six weeks later this summer. The hour-long videoconference marked the start of what will be a series of meetings, presentations, and congressional testimony over the next two weeks that will assess the military, political and economic progress in Iraq.

US Military: Seven Terrorists Killed in Iraq
 Source: VOA 20 March, WASHINGTON–The U.S. military says coalition forces have killed seven terrorists and detained 20 suspects during operations in central and northern Iraq. A military statement says raids on March 19 and 20 targeted mainly roadside bombers and Al Qaeda fighters.

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“We recognise that separating humanity from nature, from the whole of life, leads to humankind’s own destruction and to the death of nations. “Only through a re-integration of humanity into the whole of nature can our …

Wright: “You know better than to even think of using me on a Saltine.  Or a Ritz.  Do I have to spell it out for you?”

Wright: “And an English muffin?  How much colonialism must a condiment of color …

Some of you may have been following the recent kerfuffle about the Dutch film by Geert Wilders “Fitna” which was expected to create some chaos.  Well, as it turns out, LiveLeak has pulled the film.

This is kind of …

In today’s NCP we find an article again trying to explain Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s plan for the Democratic Party’s superdelegates to meet early in June, choose a candidate for November’s election, and attempt to settle the rancor between …

What follows is a selective fisking of a longer article at Huffington Post by Lorelei Kelly.  She’s writing a whole guide book for progressives who want to talk about and to the military.  So, some of my thoughts on her …

Barack Obama claims to be the first post-racial candidate. But he’s not. He was preceded in this century by Stan Jones who has run unsuccessfully in Montana for senator and governor several times….