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Bremmer is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, December 14, 2004

Friday, September 21, 2007: Blackwater resuming operations in Iraq (CNN) -- "The security firm Blackwater USA is starting to resume normal operations in Iraq after a hiatus sparked by concerns among Iraqi and U.S. government officials over its actions... Saturday, September 22, 2007: Iraqi official says video shows Blackwater guards firing on civilians BAGHDAD, Iraq(AP) -- "Iraqi investigators have a video tape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in an incident last week in which 11 people died, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case had been referred to the Iraqi judiciary... Sunday, September 23, 2007: Iraq: Blackwater staff to face charges BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- "The Iraqi government said it will file criminal charges against employees of security firm Blackwater USA who were involved a gun battle in Baghdad in which civilians were killed, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Sunday... STORY HIGHTLIGHTS: Iraqi government to file charges against Blackwater staff, official says Iraqi government accuses Blackwater staff of shooting civilians to death Unclear how Iraqi courts will try to bring the contractors to trial U.S.-drafted Provisional Authority regulations shield contractors from Iraqi laws Blackwater mercenaries employees over Baghdad

A couple weeks ago I chipped in to help pay for the "Betray-Us?" invitations. Obviously, the party was a big success and a splendid time was had by all -- especially by No.13 Baby, who apparently got a little overdosed on the Kool-Aid (as evidenced by the fact that he just called me a Republican and apparently wants to see me with my pants down). Anyway, I want to thank everybody for coming and hope we can move on and do it again sometime soon.

Meanwhile, last week, congressional Republicans successfully filibustered three Democratic initiatives to curtail American involvement and sacrifice in Iraq. Without hardly anybody taking notice, three bills in Congress were kept from a vote. I don't think the Republicans could have had a better week. Lots of convenient mass distraction from the left and the right, and all paid for with not a dime out of the coffers of the RNC. Next.

I think it varies from country to country. In the USA, for example, the definition of sex includes toe-tapping in public restrooms. But in Greece...

The Age of Irresponsibility How Bush has created a moral vaccum in Iraq in which Ameicans can kill for free -- by Michael Hirsh "As anyone who has been in Iraq (like me) knows, on the ground the unspoken rule of Bush's counterinsurgency efforts over the past four years has been that almost all Iraqis, at least the males, are guilty until proven innocent. Arrests, beatings and sometimes killings at the hands of security firms and sometimes U.S. military units are arbitrary, often based on the flimsiest intelligence, and Iraqis have no recourse whatever to justice except in a few cases like Haditha. Imagine the sense of helpless rage that emerges from this sort of treatment. Apply three years of it and you have a furious, traumatized population. And a country out of control." Published on Friday, September 21, 2007 by Newsweek Editted by Crux at 11:15 to fix the Linky-link

Sep 22, 2:03 AM EDT Feds Target Blackwater in Weapons Probe: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday...

Call me crazy, but I always just drink out of the creek. For a long, long time. Admittedly, one might argue that I'm always lost. Again, for a long, long time.

Story on WTA site yesterday reported her friends say she goes hiking all the time, usually alone, but regularly. Why the confusion in the woods this time we don't know, but we take our wits for granted. Very glad to hear she made it out. That bit about "going downstream" seemed pretty irrational -- and dire.

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"Depending on whether the Blackwater security firm stays in Iraq will inform us whether Prime Minister Maliki has any power or is just a U.S. puppet. My money is on the puppet." -- Larry C. Johnson, The Iraq Blackwater Test. (Sep 17, 2007).

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The government is good at destroying things and killing people, bankrupting us all in the process. Those are not competencies we need in health care. A government run by "conservatives" is good at destroying things and killing people, bankrupting us all in the process. Those are not people we need in our government.

Umm, I luv me some lexicons 'til its balls drop off. Ya, yah, yummmy sac BIG! .

Hell yeah! He's the decider!

Democrats lack the 60-vote majority required in the Senate to override the filibusters promised and practiced by Republicans who support the war. nice try. there's another answer (the true one) KK, the Democratic majority you speak of does not exist. On more than one occasion since the 2006 elections, the Democrats have needed a 60-vote majority to override the Republican filibuster that blocks all proposed votes to get us out of Iraq. Even when four Republicans sided with them during July 2007, the Democrats still did not have that majority. Again, there are only 49 Democrats among the 100 members of the the United States Senate today. It takes 60 votes to override a filibuster.

Democrats lack the 60-vote majority required in the Senate to override the filibusters promised and practiced by Republicans who support the war.

Must suck to be stupider than that buffoon, with less education, "No. 13 Baby". Umm, KK... didn't you say you work in software?

Smashed testicles, no hot chicks, public scorn -- this bastard thing might be as much fun as climbing.

I would assert that our rights are not lost, as they are inalienable. But we have seen a concerted effort by the Bush administration to remove those protections in our laws which were put in place to prevent an unscrupulous executive authority from trespassing upon our rights at will.

are you referring to the six abortion center incidents in the past ~ 10 years, or McVeigh....the confessed AGNOSTIC ericb writes, "the confessed agnostic," as though being an agnostic were a crime, the crime. Interesting.

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LOL Hook , line and sinker. So you want to go fishing? Ok then. (Catch ya later.)