As the late Ted Healy said: "Now, that's funny!"

Slow leaking liquid is itself a form of torture, but this week we're seeing slow leaks about torture.  Check out this story from the Washington Post, which continues the revelations about how we really have conducted our Iraqi interrogations.

Lee's latest diary entry raises a point I've been keeping an eye for many moons now: That certain economic theories don't hold water.

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.

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