Daily Archives: July 18th, 2007 «

 

Little witches

Posted by: ST on July 18, 2007 at 8:53 pm » 6 Comments

Look at what these two little witches did to a poor little 8 week-old kitten named Adam. Three years ‘confinement’ as (possible) punishment isn’t nearly enough. If something like this ever happened to my cat and I found out who did it … well, let’s put it this way: I’d hope whatever prison they put [...]

 

Introducing Media Mythbusters

Posted by: ST on July 18, 2007 at 8:46 pm » 7 Comments

My good friend Lorie Byrd, along with several notable contributors, has created a Wiki page called “Media Mythbusters” – what is it? Who better than her to explain: The Media Mythbusters site was created to provide a place for the archiving of comprehensive facts and links chronicling major journalism’s treatment of certain stories in which [...]

 

Breaking: Explosion in Manhattan – building collapses

Posted by: ST on July 18, 2007 at 6:31 pm » 2 Comments

I can’t find a link to this story yet but the headline is up on the MSNBC homepage. Update I: Just saw this at FoxNews.com: NEW YORK — BREAKING NEWS: Fire and emergency crews responded to the scene of a suspected manhole explosion under a building in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday at the height of [...]

 

Miserable failures: Senate Dems fail to get the votes they need

Posted by: ST on July 18, 2007 at 11:30 am » 11 Comments

…. for an Iraq pullout. MSNBC has the headline up. I’ll have a link as soon as I find one. Here’s the only one I’ve found so far, and it’s very brief. ABC News’ homepage reads: AFTER AN ALL-NIGHT DEBATE, SENATE REPUBLICANS HAVE BLOCKED A DEMOCRATIC EFFORT TO REMOVE AMERICAN COMBAT TROOPS FROM IRAQ BY [...]

 

Remembering Mary Jo Kopechne

Posted by: ST on July 18, 2007 at 9:53 am » 7 Comments

I’m sure Senator-for-life Ted Kennedy has forgotten about Mary Jo Kopechne, but Roger Fraley hasn’t, nor have many other of my readers, if the emails in my inbox are any indication. Hat tip for the links: ST readers LCVRWC and Mark Dunn aka “Fat Tone”

 

Getting it done

Posted by: ST on July 18, 2007 at 9:19 am » 3 Comments

While Senate Democrats continue to stage useless political stunts in Washington, DC, the war on terror continues on in Iraq – with fruitful results: BAGHDAD — The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of Al Qaeda in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group’s foreign-based leadership [...]