Friday 17th of May 2024

a surge of convenience .....

a surge of convenience .....

No matter what happens in Iraq, Bushit & ‘play it again’ John McCain always have an answer - 6 more months. 

When the "surge" began a year ago, they told America things would get better by September. In September they said we'd know more by spring. And this week, General Betraeus was on Capitol Hill asking for - you guessed it - 6 more months. 

keeping you safe .....

keeping you safe .....

The Bushit administration’s Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act redefines what a terrorist is.  

enduring bushit .....

enduring bushit .....

Bushit & Nouri al-Maliki want to sign a long-term security treaty.  

Both are supposedly leaders of nations with Constitutions that require treaties to be ratified by their respective legislatures & both know that ratification doesn't stand a snow-ball's chance in hell of happening. 

the great reflater .....

the great reflator .....

President Bush urged Congress on Monday to resist efforts by Democrats to pass a second economic stimulus package, saying that while the economy is “in a rough time right now,” he is confident it will begin to rebound by the end of the year.

divide & conquer .....

divide & conquer .....

Iraqi Prime Minister Threatens to Block Shiite Cleric's Party. 

in the company of mad hatters .....

in the company of mad hatters .....

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will pick up the pace again as he meets British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street and the Queen at Windsor Castle. 

Half way through his 18-day global tour, Mr Rudd had a brief reprieve from his heavy schedule.

the great traducer .....

the great traducer .....

Thirty pages into a memorandum discussing the legal boundaries of military interrogations in 2003, senior Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo tackled a question not often asked by American policymakers: Could the president, if he desired, have a prisoner's eyes poked out? 

a privileged voice .....

a privileged voice .....

For months, a debate raged at the top levels of the Bush administration over how quickly to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But the discussion shut down soon after President Bush flew to Camp Arifjan, a dusty Army base near the Iraqi border in Kuwait, in January for a face-to-face meeting with the man whose counsel on the war he values most: Gen. David H. Petraeus. 

on the jericho road .....

on the jericho road .....

They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops.  

They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees.  

going sour .....

going sour .....

A March 25 George Lekakis column in The Herald Sun summarised the case: “Data collected by Bloomberg News shows that the default risk of Australian banks has never been higher, with Macquarie Bank emerging as one of the riskiest banking players in Asia. ... ‘Macquarie is the closest link in Australia to the problems that are afflicting Bear Stearns and other US investment banks,’ said David McDonald, of Shaw Stockbroking.”  

a sick joke .....

a sick joke .....

At the NATO Summit in Bucharest this week, our Kevin found time to catch-up with an "old friend".  

At the start of the session on Afghanistan, Kevin saluted the world’s greatest terrorist, war criminal, thief & draft dodger, establishing his own credentials as the US replacement for little rattus as as regional ‘deputy sheriff’. 

now you see it, now you don't .....

now you see it, now you don't .....

The head of the crisis-hit investment bank Bear Stearns has blamed short sellers and market manipulators for spreading negative financial rumours to induce a collapse of the 85-year-old Wall Street institution. 

footprints of freedom .....

footprints of freedom .....

On the small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world.  

the fix .....

the fix .....

President George W. Bush's successor should renounce his monarchy. It betters the instruction of King George III, which provoked the Declaration of Independence. 

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