WHEN IT COMES to the future of Iraq, there is a deep disconnect between those who have firsthand knowledge of the situation — Iraqis and U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq — and those whose impressions are shaped by doomsday press coverage and the imperatives of domestic politics.
…in a survey last month from the U.S.-based International [...]
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RECOVERING
Well my big surgical procedure seems to have gone OK. Many thanks for the good wishes I have received from many readers. I felt like shit when I came out of the anaesthetic but after a few hours of post-operative testing they let me go home, whereupon I fell straight into bed and [...]
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A Toronto man acquitted of sexual assault charges; he had sexsomnia…
Husband Shoots Self, Kills Wife By Mistake
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Our 23-year old is back from Iraq.
Safe and sound, our son Edgar brought us happy reports of our being welcome there for our guts, our help, their infrastructure, their schools, their new ability to vote. . . well, just turn off the mainstream media and turn on Talkradio and you’ll get the facts about how [...]
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RECOVERING
Well my big surgical procedure seems to have gone OK. Many thanks for the good wishes I have received from many readers. I felt like shit when I came out of the anaesthetic but after a few hours of post-operative testing they let me go home, whereupon I fell straight into bed and [...]
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If you use any of the over the counter eye drops made by this company you should probably stop, and throw whatever you have away. They probably aren’t sterile, and the FDA has made them stop producing the drops until they can fix the problems at their manufacturing plant.
Eye-drop maker MBI Distributing Inc. has [...]
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One of the columnists at Townhall.com this morning reported seeing a bumper-sticker in Berkeley saying, “Animals are just little people in fur coats.”
Now I really don’t know what to say to that any more than I would know what to say to someone who said, and meant it, that [...]
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Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, has said that President Bush was “too detached” from the war details. Powell himself was, of course, also at odds with Bush and Cheney a number of times.
I can’t remember if I read this before or after I read some other former [...]
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Another eight Chicago employees joined the lawsuit against the city of Chicago claiming that there was no way to get a promotion without the approval of the Mayor Richard Daley’s brother John. And, how did you get John’s approval? Well, by doing political work for the Daley Administration.
The eight employees were added to the [...]
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Donald Rumsfeld finally figured out that there really is not an “insurgency” in Iraq. Now we just need the media to get a clue and we’ll really be getting somewhere. Of course, there’s no chance of that happening anytime soon.
This is a group of people who don’t merit the word `insurgency,’ I think,” Rumsfeld said [...]
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