Monthly Archive for September 2004

Debate 1 of 3 in 2004

Overall, a near draw, which translates to a win for Bush. Kerry started strong a few times then failed to move in for the kill. Unwilling or unable? He should have came out and called the President a liar.Questions were biased against Bush, softballs for Kerry in large part. Bush failed to use his experience [...]

U.S. ArmyBAGHDAD, Iraq (Army News Service, Sept. 30, 2004) — In the middle of the largest rebuilding effort since the Marshall Plan, a young woman in Iraq joined the ranks of the legal profession this month via a video teleconference with an Iowa judge.Melissa Head took the bar exam two weeks before she deployed to [...]

Mudville GazetteInsurgents cannot hope to control Baghdad, so they try to show that the Iraqi government can’t control it either. Today’s attack at a sewage treatment plant did nothing to disrupt the function of the plant, but that is cold comfort to the families of thirty five children killed by car bombs.The insurgents can’t afford [...]

USMCMARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.(Sept. 23, 2004) — One Marine carried on a relentless, one-armed fight. Another is credited with spearheading a counterattack that left an estimated 30 insurgents dead. Their tenacious response to an enemy ambush last spring near Fallujah, Iraq, earned them the Bronze Star Medal, awarded Friday in a ceremony at [...]

Defend AmericaCAMP LIBERTY, Baghdad, Sept. 30, 2004 ‘ Soldiers attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Commandos), worked like cowboys as they rounded up livestock to administer life-saving medicine. Soldiers from the 345th Tactical Psychological Operations Detachment, Dallas, Texas, and 425th Civil Affairs Battalion, Santa Barbara, Calif., worked with Iraqi veterinarians to [...]

Information that you won’t see in the Old Media. Found at DefendAmerica [pdf file]

What? The Olympics are over?The heart surgeon for BJ has verified it. He has a heart of gold. 14 caret, plated, but gold none the less.Can you imagine what Michael Moore’s arteries look like?Frances hadn’t even left the state of Florida when the media dogs started barking “Ivan”. How about just a little less orgasming [...]

Go Ta North Dakota

You Oughta Go Ta North Dakotaby Lois Steele and Jack Fulton (1958)”Ya oughta go ta, North DakotaSee the cattle and the wheat,and the folks that can’t be beatYa oughta go ta, North DakotaAnd you just can’t say goodbye.”"The sky is bluer than blueThe sun is sunnier, tooAnd if you don’t believe meThere’s only one thing [...]

Toronto StarSome of Brando’s ashes were scattered in Death Valley, a place that the actor cherished, his son Miko Brando told the newspaper. The ashes of Brando’s late friend Wally Cox, who died in 1973, were also poured onto the desert landscape as part of the same ceremony.Wally Cox?This may make my brain explode.