Daily Archives: May 9th, 2007 «

 

Toldjah So: Nutroots yawn over story of thwarted Ft. Dix plot

Posted by: ST on May 9, 2007 at 10:50 pm » 14 Comments

Surprise! Now, let’s imagine what the left’s reaction would be had the plot actually been carried out: “BUSH KNEW!!!!” As with everything else with the left, they are full of sound and fury signifying nothing but bluster. If an attack is carried out, “Bush knew.” If it’s stopped before it happens, it was “over-hyped.” Amazing. [...]

 

The end of an era: Tony Blair to announce tomorrow when he will leave office

Posted by: ST on May 9, 2007 at 9:52 pm » 6 Comments

Thur AM Update: Blair announced this morning that his last day in office will be June 27. Links galore on this story can be found via Memeorandum. ——— Via Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) – Ten years after sweeping into power, an increasingly unpopular Tony Blair will announce on Thursday when he plans to step aside and [...]

 

Berserkey in Berkeley: City Council proposes to add sex change option to city employee healthcare coverage

Posted by: ST on May 9, 2007 at 9:05 pm » 8 Comments

Feel like having a sex change but don’t want to pay for it? If you move to Berkeley and become employeed by the city, you may not have to (emphasis added): [...] The proposal is modeled after a similar benefit in effect in San Francisco since 2001. The council directed the city manager to create [...]

 

VIDEO: John Edwards appeases a 9-11 WTC building 7 Truther, promises to ‘look into’ what happened

Posted by: ST on May 9, 2007 at 8:20 pm » 56 Comments

Man, oh man. I had to watch this twice just to make sure I heard him correctly. A Truther who thinks the WTC building 7 was blown up on 9-11 has asked Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards what he was going to do about the ‘controversy’ they’ve created over what happened to WTC building 7. [...]

 

Will Senate Democrats put the brakes on the ‘short-term funding’ war supp idea?

Posted by: ST on May 9, 2007 at 4:27 pm » 4 Comments

That’s what it looks like. Will these clowns ever get their acts together? While they’re diddling, our men and women are fighting, and the funds question still remains up in the air, because House Democrats would rather pander to their Nutroots base than come up with a bill independent of input from the loonies who [...]

 

While Democrats try to cater to their anti-war base on the war supp …

Posted by: ST on May 9, 2007 at 11:42 am » 3 Comments

… commanders in Iraq are saying that the surge needs to “go through the beginning of next year” – via the WaPo: The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August as replacements, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. troops there until [...]

 

Debunking the “the Kansas NG was depleted thanks to Iraq” myth

Posted by: ST on May 9, 2007 at 10:50 am » 12 Comments

The dust had barely settled in Greensburg, KS, a town destroyed by a tornado on Friday which left 12 dead, when the mediots – along with the governor of KS, in full blame-Bush mode – tried to spin a supposedly lackluster National Guard response to the disaster on … Iraq. Bryan Preston, who was a [...]