GOP CAMPAIGN FRAUD: Up To $1Million!!

By- Suzie-Q @ 9:30 PM MST

From: Huffington Post
GOP Group: Ex-Treasurer Diverted Up To $1M
Washington Post | Paul Kane | [...]

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Bad Apples and Bad Policy: Stereotyping a New Generation of Vets

By Paul Rieckhoff @ 07:14 PM (EST)

Upset over a breakup with his girlfriend, Tennessee National Guardsman Rusty Rumley went to his former girlfriend’s apartment building and killed her mother and current boyfriend as well as a neighbor and friend. Rumley later took his own life. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
An Iraq war veteran who was given a [...]

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Evening Jukebox… Calling All Angels

By- Suzie-Q @ 4:40 PM MST

Train- Calling All Angels

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Eliot’s Mess:

punditman says @ 5:40 EST:
I just knew that Bush$Co had something to do with this. Click on the link and then check out Greg Palast’s interview on Air America:
The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked.

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Anti-War Protesters Chant “War Criminal” at Rice

Sudhan @21:15 CET

Published on Thursday, March 13, 2008 by Reuters

Chanting “war criminal,” anti-war protesters waved blood-colored hands at U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday, but police held them back as she left a Capitol Hill hearing room.

Earlier, Republicans had complained about the distraction from the group as they held up signs [...]

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McCain’s Other ‘Evangelist Friend’

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:15 PM MST
From: Crooks & Liars
McCain’s other crazed evangelist ally
By: Steve Benen on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 5:30 AM – PDT
There’s been considerable discussion, at least online, about John McCain reaching out and embracing televangelist John Hagee, despite Hagee’s record of attacking people not like him, most notably [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… What I Like About You

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:00 PM MST

The Romantics – What I Like About You

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McCain-Lieberman ‘08—we can’t say we weren’t forewarned

anthony @ 17:20 GMT

Richard Spencer | Taki Mag | March 10, 2008

Nestled in the second-to-last paragraph of Bill Kristol’s morning op-ed in the Times is a rather fascinating series of suggestions:
”Perhaps the most obvious way McCain could upend the normal dynamics of this year’s election would be a bold vice presidential choice. He could pick a [...]

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Olbermann aims ‘Special Comment’ at Clinton campaign

anthony @ 17:10 GMT

David Edwards and Mike Sheehan | Raw Story | Thursday, March 13, 2008
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann for the first time turned his “Special Comment” sights on a Democrat: Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Olbermann pulled no punches in a withering attack on events surrounding the Clinton campaign in recent days regarding Geraldine [...]

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Thursday News…

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 AM MST

From: Cliff Schecter’s Blog
Thursday Round Up
by Paddy · Thursday March 13, 08:12 AM
I’m ready to put the whole Ferrarro bs behind me. Anyone else feel the same? Memo to cable talkers- Let’s try some substance for a change, please?
Washington Times: Mayor Still Fears For New Orleans
New Orleans Mayor [...]

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12 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq in Last 3 Days

Sudhan @09:55 CET
International Herald Tribune, March 13, 2008

The Associated Press
BAGHDAD: Three American soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in southern Iraq on Wednesday, bringing to 12 the number of soldiers who have been killed in Iraq over the past three days.
Lieutenant Patrick Evans of the U.S. Navy, a military spokesman, said the three soldiers [...]

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Official US study denies Saddam had links with al-Qaida

Sudhan @09:45 CET
Elna Schor  in Washington | The Guardian, UK, March 13, 2008
A US military study officially acknowledged for the first time yesterday that Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, undercutting the Bush administration’s central case for war with Iraq.The study, based on more than 600,000 documents recovered after US and UK troops [...]

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