The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today released the June, 2005 statistics on income and savings.  It definitely pays to read between the lines.

Number Six posted an interesting diary about straws piling on the camel's back, or giving Dubya enough rope to hang himself.

Leave it to our British comrades to tell it like it is!

How do you know when your money just got sent to some corporation you never heard of?  When the action takes place in a legislature at 4 a.m.

The permanent role of the U.S. military in Iraq is NOT to serve as sitting ducks for an Iraqi insurgency. Maintenance of large numbers of American ground forces in Iraq till now has been necessary to stabilize the installation of a government in Iraq suitable to U.S. interests and to protect that government until it could begin to defend itself by the recruitment of large numbers of armed men (ostensibly an Iraqi "army" and "police force"). This is literally the ONLY jobs program in Iraq for large numbers of able-bodied young men. In Iraq in 2005, if you want to work and provide an income for your family, you have to join the U.S. trained police or Iraqi military and defend the U.S.-vetted administration of your country. The U.S. goal is ultimately to recruit enough Iraqis to fight the insurgency on a daily basis that the bulk of American ground forces will be able to withdraw from Iraq.

From: Media Monitor

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From CP

Hitler's Shadow and The Coming Storm

Despite many differences, there are striking parallels between Bush's invasion of Iraq and Hitler's invasion of Russia, and understanding these parallels serves to warn of the coming storm Bush is calling down upon all of us.

From: Media Monitor

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From CP

There's an old saying: Give someone enough rope and they automatically hang themselves.

It looks like even more U.S. authority figures are being nailed as liars.  The Washington Post today includes a story with the headline The Truth About Abu Ghraib, detailing the evidence that Major General Geoffrey D. Miller lied when he testified to Congress last year that he did not recommend the use of dogs for interrogation at Abu Ghraib, and that dogs had not been used at Guantanamo (where he was formerly the commander).

It seems to me that, again and again in our country, we find the people who run things acting as though information was something bad, something that needs to be guarded against at all costs.  Why is that?

I've attempted to post diary entries twice now, and screwed up both times.

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