The propaganda:
We’re making progress there.
The reality:
At least 125 people were killed and another 130 wounded in the single bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Body parts were scattered for blocks, and hysterical survivors trudged through pools of blood searching for relatives.

A civil suit looking for class action status for war crimes against chemical companies for supplying the US military with Agent Orange that was dropped during the Vietnam War?
IMO that’s like launching a law suit against Remington for making the bullet that killed the bank teller, suits of this nature need to be launched against […]

One of the more peculiar fantasies infesting American conservatism is the notion that Hollywood is somehow a “leftist” place, and that its values are somehow “radical”.
To the leftists and radicals who gather nightly in the Stageleft bunker to drink vodka and plot the overthrow of Western Civilization, this has always seemed a laughable notion, […]

This week’s poll question from Stageleft is worth a bit of chat, I think.
The question: “Is the Pope being ill worth all the coverage it gets?”
Crusty old pagan that he is, I suspect Stageleft is voting no. Probably fifty times or so, the shmuck. It’s his poll, and I think he gets extra ballots. […]

Once again the left has spoken and it appears that most of us really don’t care if the president of the United States smoked a joint or not. The question was “George Bush might have smoked a joint”

40% Couldn’t think of a real poll question this week huh?
35% So what?
20% Impeach him!!
05% That’s horrible
00% It’s […]

THE chief of the British Army has apologised to the Iraqi nation after three soldiers were jailed and thrown out of the military for abusing civilian prisoners.
[ ….. ]
The Chief of the General Staff said: “I apologise on behalf of the Army to those Iraqis who were abused and to the people of Iraq.”
Although […]

Paul Cellucci, the please-God-let-it-be-soon departing U.S. ambassador, today expressed his deep concern for…wait for it…Canadian sovereignty. Speaking with the imperial disdain that has won him the affection and respect of Canadians everywhere, he sniffed:
“We simply cannot understand why Canada would in effect give up its sovereignty, its seat at the table, to decide what […]

The checklist
Bomb country - check (all done)
Oust Taliban - check (all done)
Hunt down ‘bin Laden - in progress
Rebuild country - behind schedule
One woman dies from pregnancy-related causes approximately every 30 minutes. One in five children dies before the age of five from diseases that are 80% preventable.
An estimated one-third of the population suffers from anxiety, […]

Prime Minister Martin has basically confirmed what we said in a previous comment on the subject of the new American weapons program
“I don’t think that anyone expected that there would be any other finger on a button than the Americans,”
We were a little more blunt
Do you seriously believe that if the system was […]

It’s a busy time of year, and I don’t really have time to read much more than headlines. So my awareness of goings on in the world is largely limited to the one sentence summaries I can grab from Reuters or AP.
As such, I was glad to note the headline quoted above: […]

JimBobby Sez has an excellent Filthy Racist Sumbitch Alert post up.
Following the link to the original material over at Mike Brock on the Attack may, or may not, shed more light on the idiot in question as Mike (probably quite rightly) deleted his comments.
The point of it is, if you see it and do […]

There’s a gator guarding your privacy at the Department of Homeland Security.
Among the appointees to the department’s 20 member “Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee” is D. Reed Freeman, the “chief privacy officer” of Claria Corporation.
That’s the company formerly known as Gator, infamous for its software, a.k.a. GAIN, which stands for Gator Advertising Information Network. […]

Canada has said no to the U.S. missile defence program, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Thursday.
The prime minister said the decision was made following extensive discussions with Foreign Affairs and National Defence.
The US reaction to the decision is predictable
“We simply cannot understand why Canada would in effect give up its sovereignty…”
Ain’t it so friggen […]

Information Clearing House
02/19/05 –United for Peace of Pierce County (WA) - - Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has “signed off” on […]

Really now? Same sex marriage is part of an ideology of evil? Unless there are some statistics I haven’t heard about that show that same sex couples are more prone to pedophilia than Catholic priests it’s probably safe to say that that particular ideology is more evil.
It brings to mind that really bad joke one […]