Seventy to 90 percent of the Iraq detentions in 2003 were “mistakes,” U.S. officers once told the international Red Cross.
Year: 2006
i feel better after i type to you
The search queries of AOL user 23187425 from May 2006 as a 254 page book.
Portrait in Courage
“God is the one who chooses our rulers.”
- Katherine Harris, Our Founder
Update:
Not content with appointing herself God in her role in appointing our Commander Guy, Harris wants everyone to know that she still has an enormous set of hats. So watch out.
Also: Longboat Key Kiwanis Citizen Of The Year sez fuck all y’all bitches!
Hole
Keith Olberman video at Crooks and Liars
Full transcript:
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Sociopath 4 teh lulz
An emotionally disturbed 30 year old male poses as a 27 year old submissive female on Craigslist. Then he posts all responses with full email, contact info and pictures to a public wiki. On his blog, he asks his readers to help personally identify everyone. LOL!
Megiddo
Smoke billows 30,000 feet above Pioneertown, as fires burn towards the dead forests of the San Bernardino mountains.
And World War III starts heating up.
Could be a long summer.
they’re going to be called monsters anyway
Glenn Reynolds finally pundits his way into open threats and unambiguous fascist rhetoric:
The real danger is that we who support the war will reach the point that we say we might as well be taken as wolves then as sheep.
[P]eople assume that there’s no point in behaving morally when they’re going to be called monsters anyway. This seems rather uncontroversially obvious to me.
Could these lurid evocations of wolf packs and armed mobs really have any effect on a prosperous, well-educated, civilized nation?
Blebbing
July 7, 1947
I watch the hours cower in a corner ……… July 7, 1947
from The Cheshire Cat, Part 1, by Howard Fried
Atlantis
As usual, downtown was filled with people. Filled with cars, horses, streetcars, the air droning with the passage of dirigibles, the ground thrumming with the pressure of transient pneumatics.
Is it possible, he thought, for a civilization so encrusted with its own growth, such a towering coral reef of technology and detritus, to simply sink away? Be forgotten? Recede beneath the waves of history like Lemuria or Atlantis?
He looked down at his watch, a tight cluster of yellow tubes throbbing in an intricate pattern. He was going to miss his train if he didn’t hurry.
Flat
I want to take note of happy clowns like Jonah Goldberg.
“The earth is flat,” he hollers from around his rubber nose. “And even if it’s not, what about the profits? For God’s sake, won’t somebody think of the profits???”
“Global warming will be fun!” he hollers. And spring-loaded snakes pop from his ears while he dances a merry profit jig.
Racist Happy Fun Time
If these racist idiots were to mail one toilet brush for every person who marched through downtown LA, they would end up flushing away a couple million dollars.
It’s such a relief to know that the only thing in Los Angeles worth focused money and attention is the Amazon affiliate accounts of rich demagogs.
Happy Iraqi Freedom Day
Violence flared across the country on the third anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to the American-led invasion force, called Iraqi Freedom Day by the government.
In the southern town of Qurna, believed by some to be the site of the Garden of Eden, the mayor and his wife were shot dead in their car on Sunday morning.
A reassuring video of our Leader , hard at work.
Viva Bush
Courtesy of Media Matters.:
CNN anchor Jack Cafferty:
The Mexican flag has become a source of irritation to a lot of Americans during the immigration debate that’s heating up in this country. Carried as a source of pride by demonstrators, the idea could backfire.
Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes:
And that was that huge demonstration in Los Angeles yesterday where many, many people were waving Mexican flags. That just alienates Americans and will only further anger the anti-immigrant forces.
Eponymous pundit-borg Lou Dobbs:
I don’t think that we should have any flag flying in this country except the flag of the United States.
Grave-robbing baby-killer Robert Novak:
[B]randishing the Mexican flag signals divided loyalty or perhaps loyalty to a foreign power.
George W. Bush on his 2004 presidential campaign:
Newspeak
John Hinderaker at Powerline October 6, 2005:
Is this the most feeble indictment in the history of law enforcement? It is certainly a contender.
John Hinderaker at Powerline, April 03, 2006:
It’s too bad, I think. DeLay was an effective leader, albeit too liberal in recent years. It’s possible, of course, that he did something wrong along the way… [emphasis added]
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.’
A comment at Capitan’s Quarters, December 6, 2005:
The nice thing about this whole matter: DeLay is a Congressman.
If his district reelects him, there’s not much the MSM can do about it.
a German term meaning “pleasure taken from someone else’s misfortune”.
Pre-emption is Goat Sex
Repetitious glockenspiel of right-wing memes Glenn Reynolds compares the doctrine of pre-emptive action in the face of possible danger to underage goat sex.
In a related story, Condoleeza Rice admits that the Bush administration has made thousands of “tactical errors” in Iraq.
The tactical errors (or “underage goats” if you prefer) could not be reached for comment.
Hail Xenu!
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SXSWi – the truth can now be told
All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go
I’m standin’ here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin’, It’s early morn
The taxi’s waitin’, He’s blowin’ his horn
Already I’m so lonesome, I could die
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sxswi – first real news
Sitting at Opal Divines — where (need I point this out?) the wifi and beer are WAY better than the convention center — I keep hearing the story of a keg that somehow rolled down stairs and took out a table. In the words of one tavern worker: it was the event of my life, man.
Dear Nerdz:
You need more kegs rolling down stairs.
I don’t fear for my life at sxswi. I think that’s a problem.
Is that a food base procedure?
Such strange mammals, with our gangly arms and ranch dressing…..
