Progress in Iraq

This is the progress:
1. More than 2 million Iraqi's have left the country and more are internally displaced, making fewer Iraqi's to fight.
2. Most of the insurgents are foreign fighters from Saudi Arabia, so all we need to do to stop this is talk to our friends the Saudi Arabians.
3. Almost everyone is walking out of al-Maliki's government, making fewer people to have to convince to vote on such items as the Oil Law that a vast majority of Iraqi's do not want.
4. Al-Maliki is spending a lot of time talking to his friends the Iranians, so when we go after them it will whip al-Maliki into line.
5. The 190,000 AK47's were manufactured by former coalition of the willing partner, Poland, for the Iraqi Army and lost from there, thereby creating plausible deniability.
6. The ~1,00,000 Iraqi civilians we have killed means fewer Iraqi's to keep in line.
7. Soon we might get the electrical and water systems for the Green Zone Palace (American Embassy) working, proving if you are harsh enough with your slave labor you can get something done.
Yeah, for Progress in Iraq!

Plastic Bags

This is why I use cloth bags. (Can you believe this! There was an error in the html and I actually remembered enough to fix it!)

DHS Flashlight makes you vomit

Somehow the fact that DHS is developing this Special Flashlight makes me feel that it might be used at home and on homegrown protesters rather than terrorists. Of course it depends on your definition of terrorist.

Spam

I heard on the radio that there has been a large uptick in the amount of email spam. I had been wondering why I had been getting a lot of messages from weird names with attachments in my junk mail folder. I have my email filter set to exclusive so I don't get any in my inbox, but I have to check the junk mail folder to make sure that nothing I really want is in there. I have been checking, deleting, and reporting all the strange email to hotmail and it has been decreasing. Only had one today.

Ted Bed

Teddy really likes her new bed. She was still asleep on it this AM. Sure glad Wm suggested getting it for her as she is an old dog and needed something soft to sleep on.

Going out Tomorrow Night

Wm is off camping with the boys, so I am going out with Karen Q to 'Lilyonyx in the Isis Rise' a celebration of the feminine.

Russia and China

Russia and China are conducting a joint military exercise. The Neocon saber rattling and planned positioning of portions of the missile defense system in eastern NATO countries is driving the start of a new cold war alliance.

26%er

Funny Nance rant about the Republicans who still love Bush.

Another nitwit prays for another 911

Here is the link to his news/opinion article of drivel. I sent an email to his surely overloaded inbox.

Colin Powell talks?

I think Colin Powell will come forward and talk about the administration prior to the '08 elections. Maybe in a sequel to his prior autobiography. Bush administration is worried about this. In "No End in Sight" a very good documentary about the Iraq War a number of former Bushites have come forward. I hoped to be able to see this movie, but it has been suppressed in the MSM and looks to have a very limited distribution. I have emailed owner of the Magic Theater to ask about it.

Who is going to be the Republican Nominee?

Newt Gingrich will capture his party's nomination despite not being in the race yet. He is saying all the right things in an intelligent way. Bearing in mind that I think he is a creep, he is less of an idiot than the rest of the field. Remember you read it here.

Nomination is not over yet

Remember this poll from 03?

August 2003, Likely Democratic Voters:
Howard Dean: 12
Wesley Clark: 2
Joe Lieberman: 23
John Kerry: 10
Dick Gephardt: 13
John Edwards: 5

The powers that be were already crowning Lieberman and speculating on who his VP pick would be. So remember it is only August.

Now we know the economy is bad

Bush says U.S. economy strong despite stock swings.

US Kills Mastermind of Iraq Shrine

The Pentagon’s latest Big Lie I read this entire very long essay and found it very interesting and credible.

EU travel crackdown?

Travelers from US face EU crackdown

With passage of New US visa law that requires travelers to give US authorities at least 48 hours’ notice of their plans to visit the country, EU commission is considering a tit for tat arrangement for visitors from the US. Nice.

One more Dam thing

Disaster looms as 'Saddam dam' struggles to hold back the Tigris
Dam poorly built in early 80's certain to fail with huge loss of life and certain (though undeserved in this instance) blame for Iraqi government and US.

Snark Article

The War on Infrastructure

Very Funny! Who knows might be true!

Permanent Spying

Analysis: New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture Back doors will be created allowing perpetual access. Nice.

Google spy

When you search on Google the data is stored forever and can be searched and used against you. If you wish to search anonymously use Googlonymous.

China Dollar Threat

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales

Described as China's "nuclear option" in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels. It would also cause a spike in US bond yields, hammering the US housing market and perhaps tipping the economy into recession. It is estimated that China holds over $900bn in a mix of US bonds.

Nice.
Update: Author of this article is probably not a reliable source.