Thoughts on the Debate

At first I thought Palin was doing surprisingly well, aside from a few voice quivers that displayed her nerves. Than I noticed what was going on.
Palin wasn’t answering the questions. She would give an anecdote, a catchphrase, or a canned response after each question in order to burn up about 3/4 of her allotted [...]

Palin is Incompetent and the “Culture of Life” is a Farce.

First of all, let’s stipulate to the fact that Sarah Palin is an incompetent moron. Moving on.
This “culture of life” catchphrase that conservatives love to use is such a fucking farce, even more so than the term pro-life (which is also a farce). Now, of course, I don’t agree with [...]

McCain Calls Time Out

McCain says the problem in the financial sector is to big to focus on campaigning right now. He wants to delay the debate scheduled for this Friday.
Don’t take this is face value. I’d bet dollars to donuts that he is trying to get one of the debates canceled. Probably not the town hall, since [...]

Gates: Three More Brigades to Iraq

From the AP:
WASHINGTON – Up to three more combat brigades could be available to go to Afghanistan beginning next spring, in answer to repeated calls from commanders for more troops, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
This will more than double the size of the American contingent in Afghanistan. I must say, overall this is a [...]

Remember When Obama Tried to Delay Iraq Pullout?

Remember when the New York Post, a bastion of credibility /snark, reported that Senator Obama attempted to convince Iraqis to delay American redeployment for his own political benefit?
Like every thing else associated with Rupert Murdoch, that was a fucking lie.
More at VetVoice.

Sistani’s Website Hacked

The website of Iraqi cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini al-Sistani has been hacked. The content is replaced with some arabic writing and a video of of Bill Maher making fun of said web site.
It will be interesting to see the reaction to this in the Muslim world. Sistani is the most powerful Shia [...]

I Don’t Want a Bi-Partisan Candidate

At a VoteVets function in Denver during convention week, I had a conversation with Matt Stoller (who I also agree with regarding this being to weird to not be planned) about partisanship and polarization. We agreed that these are good things.
I’m a democrat. I’m a progressive. And I’m not too afraid of the [...]

Confirming Your Own Lies

If you had a news organization that was fond of reporting lies, what would be a good way for you to lend faux credibility to said news organization? Well, maybe reporting it’s lies in your other lying news outlet:
Barack Obama’s campaign denied a New York Post report Monday that said the Democratic presidential candidate privately [...]

Parallels

A Government spends seven years fighting a two front war. When it finds its coffers are empty, it creates a new economic policy. Cut taxes for the rich while placing the tax burden on the middle class.
Sound familiar? I’m not talking about the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan or the Bush tax [...]

Afghanistan 101

Throwback from my Afghanistan tour reposted at ATTACKERMAN.
The majority of fighting occurs in RC East and RC South. It can easy be traced along Highway 1 which runs from the Pakistani boarder, through Kabul and down into the Helmand River Valley where approximately 85% of the worlds opium is produced. The Taliban moves narcotics, money [...]