From Laughing Wolf at Blackfive,
I discovered that Patti is a finalist in the Microsoft Above and Beyond Awards. Patti does go above and beyond, always has and always will methinks, and that seems to be the norm for the fine folks at Soldier’s Angels, as I haven’t met a one of them who don’t do so too.
For all that she has done, for all that she does, and for all that she will do — and for the force she has unleashed to help our soldiers, please go vote for her now. I can think of no one who deserves this honor more.
Patti is one of the most inspirational people I have ever had the honor of meeting. The enormity of what she has done with Soldiers Angels cannot be conveyed in a few words. Soldiers Angels is a remarkable organization.
Please vote for Patti!
I took the quiz and here are my results,
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 Overall: 70% Conservative, 30% Liberal Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal Fiscal Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Ethics: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal |
Got to give the MSM points for persistence. Just a few days ago we got a hearty laugh out of the report about ditch diggers at Iraq’s largest cemetery. Seems like the dramatic drop in violence was bad for business.
Now, we have yet another story that twists itself into a pretzel trying to bring “context” to the situation on the ground. Yes, the violence is plummeting, but there are still “victims” like the now helpless cab drivers that used to idle their cabs outside the morgues.
Taxi driver Ahmed Khalil Baqir used to station himself outside Baghdad’s main morgue, waiting for grieving families who went there to claim their relatives’ dead bodies.
“I was totally dependent on them for my living,” Baqir, a 44-year-old father of four, said.” I never thought about picking up people in the street as I was being hired five to eight times a day by these families. But now it is a waste of time to wait there and these days I wait only for about three hours in the morning and I continue my work picking up passengers in the street.â€
When will this parade of bad news end? Oh the humanity.
Get ready for the next big scandal of the Bush Administration, according to Newsweak Magazine,
The Bush administration is starving for good news out of Iraq, and it may finally have some: new U.S. government statistics showing that violent attacks of all kinds are down to levels not seen since 2005. But until recently, the administration appears to have resisted acknowledging a key element of the new data, because it flies in the face of President George W. Bush’s ongoing rhetorical confrontation with Iran’s clerical regime.
That’s right, Bush is downplaying good news in Iraq in order to attack Iran. Uh-huh.
And you dear reader get three guesses at the sources behind this brilliant theory,
According to three senior U.S. officials, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, the decline in Iraq violence also includes a decrease in the number of attacks attributable to insurgents backed or armed by Iran. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell confirmed to NEWSWEEK that “there has indeed been a drop” in such attacks, but he added that “it’s not entirely clear what the reason for that is.”
Ok fine, you only needed one guess, “anonymous sources”.
Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette has more on “never-before published quadruple super secret” information from the United Nations here.
Later in the same story, Newsweak outs itself as a member of Bush’s Vast Necon Conspiracy,
…trends show a significant drop in violence over the last several months, according to previously unpublished military statistics obtained by NEWSWEEK.
It’s getting harder all the time to tell the difference between the MSM and Scrappleface.
Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed.
Today I am in Iraq, back in a war of such strategic consequence that it will affect generations yet unborn—whether or not they want it to. Hiding under the covers will not work, because whether it is good news or bad, whether it is true or untrue, once information is widely circulated, it has such formidable inertia that public opinion seems impervious to the corrective balm of simple and clear facts.
Anyone who has been in Iraq for longer than a few months, visited a handful of provinces, and spoken with a good number of Iraqis, likely would acknowledge that the reality here is complex and dynamic. But in the last six months it also has been increasingly hopeful, despite what the pessimistic dogma dome allows Americans and British to believe…
…The only antidote for this toxic press is a steady dose of detailed stories about the amazing men and women who serve in the United States military.
So, what is Michael doing? He’s offering his work FREE to any newspaper in the country that wants to print it. How many will take his offer? He loses a lot of money by doing this, so we need to support his efforts here.
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Cape Cod Commission denies Cape Wind application
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Cape Cod Commission in Massachusetts Thursday denied Cape Wind’s application to bury electric cables needed to connect its proposed 420-megawatt offshore wind farm in the Nantucket Sound to the state power grid.
Cape Wind said in a release that it would challenge the Commission decision. The Cape Cod Commission is a local organization created by the state in 1990 to manage growth and protect Cape Cod’s natural resources.
Sen. Ted Kennedy and many residents who own coastal property from where they could see the wind turbines on a clear day oppose the project along with some environmental groups concerned about disrupting the patterns of migratory birds and the potential effect on local sea life.
Congraulations to Ted and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to author David McCullough, and all the other enviro-phonies who lose sleep over global warming yet fight tooth and nail to preserve their sacred Nantucket Sound views from the evils of wind power. Now they can go back to their private jets and powerboats and focus on telling the rest of us how to live.
A challenge to liberals, go ahead and defend this one…