Moorcat responds to 4&20 blackbird guest poster, Widomaker.
Jaime sifts through the MT Supreme Court briefs on the case of the terrible trio of initiatives.
Jeff Mangan nails it in his assessment on the Missoulian editorial about the plethora of initiative-based lawsuits in court. Some good suggestions, but blaming the courts is ridiculous.
Nicole’s stirring tribute to the Amish how they contrast to the disturbing hypocrisy of right-wing Christians in power.
There was a debate in Bozeman while I was gone! ID’s posts: Senate debate part 1, part 2, and impressions; the House debate and impressions. Shane: Senate Debate and the House debate. Colby on the House debate. JEFF on the Senate debate. And a lil’ live blogging from Debate Scoop. Naturally the debate is on You Tube.
Evans-Novak email newsletter claims “worst-case scenario” for Republicans shaping up this election cycle.
Chris Bowers has a brilliant analysis of why Republicans are losing the 2006 election. It’s not because of “mistakes” the GOP is making: it’s because of GOP policy.
And here’s the “dumbest Democrat” on the Foley scandal.
And lest you think the Foley scandal was the Democrats’ “October surprise,” read about how knowledge about the case unfolded.
And surely this isn’t Karl Rove’s “October Surprise” either.
Let’s face it: the blame for our disastrous relations with North Korea and its impending nuclear test lies squarely on the Bush administration. Digby’s take.
And then there’s this little peachy article about the Washington Times owner and Bush-backer, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and his multi-million dollar gift to the North Korea regime.
Five years later, in the middle of a Middle East war, Arabic linguists still in short supply.
If you favor torture, you should read the accounts of what was done to “dirty bomber,” Jose Padilla, for 3 ½ years.
Did you see this? In excess of 665,000 “excess” Iraqi dead because of the U.S. invasion? That essentially means U.S. occupation is setting a faster pace for killing Iraqis than Saddam Hussein…
Bush says that’s okay, because the Iraqis are willing to tolerate the violence.
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October 11, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Uggh. Wow, you really love false polls. Okay, let’s go to North Korea. The explosion, if nuclear, now that we have accurate ratings of the blast, would be ½ Kiloton, or the equivalent if they loaded 500 tons of TNT. Let’s see, no radiation, an explosion equal to a basic bomb. But right, believe the man starving his people over every US intelligence report that it was not a nuke. The man wants attention and the New York Times loves to give it. On the 665K dead. Lets see, same report system was ruled inaccurate came out, oh, Oct 2004. Coincidence that a bad poll comes around every election. Mmm, and that over 70% of all of those “665K” were terrorists! Of course when we go to war with terrorists more terrorists die! Jeez! The polling system was people going door to door and not even using names, bodies, etc. How many times did Uncle Bob get counted, 50?
October 11, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Ugh. Don’t let reality hit you in the *ss on your way out, CC.
October 11, 2006 at 7:35 pm
I wondered if those guys were going to update their earlier death toll survey. A lot of the controversy last time around seemed to be from misrepresentation in the media – that it was 100k civilians, not simply Iraqis, who died. 665k is simply astounding. That’s a lot of terrorists, if CC is correct. And the supply is not diminishing, but increasing. What the hell are we doing?
October 11, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Of course the 665K are not all terrorists. In fact the vast majority are not terrorists. Just people who happened to live near where US bombs went off, who died in sectarian violence, who were killed by terrorists, or who died because of the lack of electricity, water, and medical care caused by the invasion.