Archive for April, 2004


23
Apr

Explanation soon, if anyone’s still there …

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17
Apr

Add a hunt club and you got a Cheneymobile

Call it Air Force Three; it’s perfect for the occasional quiet getaway with other like-minded dignitaries.
A limosine company based in Mexico has come up with what it thinks is the ultimate luxury car - a converted Boeing 727 passenger plane.
The company has taken the wings off the Boeing and turned it into a big deisel-powered […]


17
Apr

The free market triumphs

You might think this would be front page news.
Among the many, many, many sins of ommission and commission we’ve comitted in Iraq is the failure to adequately secure — or secure at all, in a number of important instances — Iraqi nuclear, industrial and military facilities. This is particularly spooky.
(AP) Some Iraqi nuclear facilities appear […]


17
Apr

It’s a cryin’ sham

Ernst and Young, one of the Big Four accounting firms which benefitted from the meltdown of Andersen Accounting following the Enron collapse, has been punished by the SEC for its own lapses of judgement. The firm has been sanctioned for a deal dating back a few years and for operating under “independence policies that the […]


16
Apr

Funhouse

Let’s review: we’re negotiating with terrorists and dead-enders in Fallujah, we’re simultaneously accusing Iran of interfering with Iraq’s internal affairs and asking them to interfere with Iraq’s internal affairs by negotiating on our behalf with Moqtada al-Sadr, the murderous outlaw whom we’ve sworn to kill or capture, we’re proceeding with the June 30 turnover to […]


14
Apr

Octagenarian assassins

I was convinced this was the work of some Gordon Liddy wannabe trying to make his bones for the GOP, but it turns out to have been the brainchild of a group of Democratic senior citiziens in St. Petersburg. I’ve a feeling the president of the club, Ken Steinke, whose age has been reported variously […]


12
Apr

Set a thief to catch a thief

When you’re in need of a way to suppress a Shiite insurgency, where better to turn than the people with the most experience in suppressing Shiite insurgencies?
The US military has begun recruiting former officers of Saddam Hussein’s military to staff the new Iraqi army, an acknowledgement of the serious problems it has faced in trying […]


12
Apr

Bush*: “now may be a time to revamp and reform our intelligence services.”

Unbelievable.
Now, the 9/11 Commission hearings are going to analyze that which went on and, hopefully, bring recommendations forward to help this administration and future administrations do our solemn duty to protect the American people. And that’s why I think the hearings are a good thing, particularly when they address any weaknesses in the system.
And […]


12
Apr

Bush*: “now may be a time to revamp and reform our intelligence services.”

Unbelievable.
Now, the 9/11 Commission hearings are going to analyze that which went on and, hopefully, bring recommendations forward to help this administration and future administrations do our solemn duty to protect the American people. And that’s why I think the hearings are a good thing, particularly when they address any weaknesses in the system.
And […]


11
Apr

Praise the lord and pass the vaseline

“Fuck you,” explained the president.
CRAWFORD, Tex., April 11 — President Bush*, after Easter prayers for the safety of U.S. troops, acknowledged Sunday that it has been a “tough week” in Iraq and said it is difficult to know when the violence will subside.
Bush*, on a trip from his ranch here to nearby Fort Hood, […]

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