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Archive for July 11th, 2008

By- Suzie-Q @ 6:40 PM MST

Phil Gramm’s Greatest Hits: ‘Poor People Are Fat’ And ‘There Should Be No Minimum Wage’
Think Progress
By Guest at 5:09 pm
During the last two days, the McCain campaign has gone into damage control over top economic adviser Phil Gramm’s belief that America has “become a nation of whiners” and is only [...]

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Evening Jukebox… Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

By- Suzie-Q @ 6:30 PM MST

Aerosmith – Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

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Obama Leading McCain By Three Points In Arizona

By- Suzie-Q @ 4:00 PM MST

McCain’s Arizona Woes Continue
New Poll Shows Obama Up by Three Points in McCain’s Home State
By John Dougherty 07/10/2008
PHOENIX — In a sign of continued weakness in his home state, an online poll shows Sen. John McCain trailing Sen. Barack Obama by 3-percentage points in Arizona. The poll also shows the [...]

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No More Blank Checks for War

anthony @ 22:32 BST

Patrick J. Buchanan | Takimag | July 10, 2008
After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from Kaiser Wilhelm a “blank cheque” to punish Serbia. Germany would follow whatever course its ally chose to take. Austria chose war on Serbia. And World War I resulted.
On March [...]

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Bush, McCain & Obama To Visit Bohemian Grove?

anthony @ 22:17 BST

Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet | Friday, July 11, 2008
Outgoing President George W. Bush and both of his presumptive replacements John McCain and Barack Obama are rumored to be in attendance at this year’s Bohemian Grove gathering, an annual get-together of the global elite staged inside a sprawling forest encampment which [...]

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McCain’s Divorce And Broken Reagan Friendship

By- Suzie-Q @ 1:00 PM MST

John McCain in an undated family photo with his wife Carol, Doug, Andy, and daughter Sidney.
(CRANDALL/SIPA)
July 10, 2008
McCain’s broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship
The nature and timing of his divorce from Carol Shepp alienated key friends — and his version doesn’t always match that in court documents.
By Richard A. Serrano [...]

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Putting Her Foot Down and Getting the Boot

Sudhan @19:53 CET
by: Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, Thursday July 10, 2008

Former Arlington Public Affairs Director Gina Gray speaks out about military’s attempts to block media coverage of Arlington Cemetery funerals. (Photo: Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post)
The ghost of Rummy is proving difficult to exorcise.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tried to sweep out the [...]

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US ‘killed 47 Afghan civilians’ on July 6, 2008

Sudhan @19:47 CET
BBC News, July 11, 2008

Medical staff help a boy injured in Sunday’s attack

A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says.
Reports at the time said that 20 people were killed in the airstrike in Nangarhar province. [...]

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By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST

A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue
New York Times
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: July 11, 2008
In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama [...]

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Cheney’s Iran Dreams: Have They Been Shattered?

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:30 AM MST

Are Cheney’s Iran Dreams Shattered?

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. Posted July 11, 2008
Just because there’s a will doesn’t mean there’s a way.
It’s been on the minds of antiwar activists and war critics since 2003. And little wonder. If you don’t remember the pre-invasion of Iraq neocon quip, “Everyone [...]

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