That certainly appears to be the case based on a CBS investigation of at least one area in Iraq: an expensive military effort to minimize US casualties from IEDs.

I've complained before about the Pope's carefully tailored apology for the abuse of children by Catholic priests. It's good to know the Pope pays no attention to me--he just reiterated the same limited apology which puts all the wrong on the priests who directly committed the abuse, whitewashing the church bureaucracy that fostered it and allowed it to continue so much longer than it otherwise could have.

In keeping with the religious right's concept of "The birth, the whole birth, and nothing but the birth," the pro-birth forces are out in force, singing the praises of the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule to define various methods of contraception as "abortion."

Who would have thought that Our Feckless Leader's minions had still more nasty tricks up their sleeves? Ah, but yes, the Bush minion wreak terror and stupidity wherever they tread, and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the latest victim.

In what seems like one of those "this was gonna happen eventually" deals, some of America's major airlines are begging customers to nail the oil future speculator's tail rotors.

And this worries somebody?

Ah, ever so the Washington Post, which was once a front for, y'know, real news? Not Rethug propaganda? Conserv spinorama?

I love stuff this stupid...

For someone with her education and background, Condoleezza Rice has always seemed a bit "off" to me--as though she has a whole world inside her head which has nothing at all to do with the world outside of her head.

Everybody who doesn't have one of those little mind control devices makes fun of Fox News, and, IMHO, rightly so. But what is it like to be a journalist forced to deal with this devil child of good old Rupert Grrdock? Or to be a serious thinking person who suddenly gorges herself on Tripe Central?

Needless to say, there's a bit to talk about with this item, the passing of former Senator Jesse Helms, who died 7-4-08. Even more so, how many have already written history....

...or so they think....

Frankly, I think we're running out of time to turn this country around before we're too far gone. And I definitely think that John McCain is not the man to turn it around. What I'm beginning to wonder is whether Barak Obama is the man to turn it around. Or if we have anyone currently in politics who can turn it around.

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