Odds and Sods

The weather has really been too nice to sit in front of the keyboard today, so I took a pedal bike ride to the beach and went swimming instead. Here’s a few odds and sods of this and that to chew on for a bit though.

The next time someone starts spouting off about progress in Iraq ask them about simple things like electricity and if they’re willing to go sit in +50 deg. C without an air conditioner. According to an Iraqi publication the Ministry of Electricty has finally acknowledged that it cannot meet the needs of Iraqi citizens. Ministry insiders said that the current output is less than 1/2 of what the country needs, and that things are worse now than they were before the U.S. invaded and occupied the country.

A Republican Representative from the great state of Idaho is worried that god may withdraw his protective hand from the United States.

He’s concerned that

“We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives now, Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Those are changes — and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers,”

– all this apparently “creates problems for the longevity of this country.”

How surprised is anyone to read that

Official reprimands issued to three high-ranking Army officers are only mildly critical of their mistakes after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman and at times praise the officers.

Tillman was shot in the back by the military he belonged to and died shouting at them to quit shooting at him and that same military cobbled together some story about a firefight with the evil enemy to cover it it.

Mistakes? Is that what they’re calling lies and cover ups down there these days?

And we’ll finish up with Maher Arar where the Liberals screwed it up, and the Conservatives are trying to cover it up — need any more proof that they’re all incompetent or corrupt?

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