Today is Sgt. Adam Plumondore�s Memorial Service.
Stop by Rivrdog�s to take a look at and see an explanation of the wreath that will be lain.
Ms. SondraK will be joining Rivrdog at the service today. Due to work and a must do item on my schedule, I will not be able to attend.
So I will say Thank You Sgt. Plumondore, for your service and your sacrifice and my most humble condolences to your family and friends.
And wave �em like you just don�t care.
Because whoever parodied these Ops hand signals had some time on their hands.
Found at Murdoc Online via Castle Argghhh!!! Mudoc calls them �an oldie but a goodie�. I had never seen them before and laughed my ass off.
You may remember that on Tuesday, the Committee to Protect Bloggers held �FREE MOJTABA AND ARASH DAY�.
Apparently, the Iranian government didn�t like the content of my email,
The Iranian government
sentenced the prominent blogger Arash Cigarchi to 14 years in prison for expressing his opinions on the Internet and in the international press, marking a new low for freedom of expression in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. �The Iranian government is sending a message to its critics: keep silent or face years in prison,� said Widney Brown, deputy program director of Human Rights Watch.
Um..lefties…Exactly who are the fascists in this world?
Is Bush still equal to Hitler?
Exactly who do you put your support behind?
Remember folks, people like Scott Ritter think that just because the Iranians are sitting on a lifetime supply of crude oil that they shouldn�t be denied nuclear power.
Does this still sound like a good idea to you?
Found at Right Thoughts, where Jim K has a few select words for the blogging left as well.
Just a little bit over 1.7 million. As in dollars. Per player. Per year. To play hockey.
How the NHLPA could screw this up so badly, I’ll never know. An entire season cancelled. Most of the NHL “talent” playing in Europe for a fraction of what they would have made here under the worst of circumstances. Well, the greedy bastards “got what was coming to them.”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7004168/
It’s just a shame that those of us who love and play(ed) the sport for free have to take it on the chin and watch an entire season go down the tubes.
Nothing to “see here.”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23kristof.html?ex=1266901200&en=d9bc5fbe39eed505&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
Part 22! Just for you!
It has been a while since I have put one of these up, so I figured that it is about time to do it again.
So far, nothing much has happened. Two rather uneventful stops in court have yielded, well, nothing much.
The Dems keep motioning that the case be thrown out and the judge keeps denying their motion. The Repubs keep stacking up potential evidence for the actual court date and the judge keeps reminding them that each piece had better be corroborated or he will throw it out.
Yawn.
The newst news bit is that the Repubs announced yesterday that they have found 1108 felons who voted across the state, with 884 in King County alone. Some of their earlier �felons who voted� lists have turned out to have been less than true, in one case, listing a rather non-felonious college professor who is listed quite plainly in the phone book.
So, we�ll see. I seriously doubt that they will be able to get any of the voting felons into court to offer up a mea culpa, and I know that they won�t be able to get 130 of them to admit that they voted for Gregoire.
But, as I understand it, that is not the standard. They should only need to come up with 260 verifiable felons who voted to show that without those votes, the election�s outcome is truly unknown.
Like I said, we�ll see. And I�ll let you know how that turns out.
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In other Washington State political news, Christine Gregoire has broken her first campaign promise!
Throughout the election, she had promised to make Washington State “a leader” in Stem Cell Research by using taxpayer funds to build a facility for the genetic scientists. She used the topic to beat Dino Rossi over the head with, saying that his religious views forbade him from even thinking about being that �forward looking�.
She now says that she doesn�t have the money for it.
Big Surprise There, Christine!
The state has been in the red for over half a decade now, thanks to our former Governor Gary �PhotoOp� Locke�s mismanagement. She was the #1 Legal Eagle in Washington state for over a decade.
I guess law school didn�t require any math skills.
Commies for al-Qiada are at it again!
March 19th, 2005. Global Day of Coordinated Actions on the 2nd Anniversary of the “Shock and Awe” Invasion of Iraq initiated by antiwar organizations worldwide including the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition in the United States
Local & Regional AntiWar Actions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Fayetteville, New York, New Paltz, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis & in hundreds of other cities around the country and the world.
Here is the part that will have you falling out of your chair:
We will demand:
* Bring the Troops Home Now
* End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti & Everywhere
* Stop the threats against Iran & Cuba
* Health Care, Education, Housing, and a Job at a Living Wage Must be a Right!
Now that I have might have your blood up, go here and read the list of states that have active International ANSWER chapters.
If you don�t count Washington DC they are only in 50% of the states. That is funny. They say they�re �interntaional�, but they can�t even count themselves as �national�.
Sadly, my state IS listed. I�ll have to fix that.
Found at FreeWillBlog
Europe � Thy name is cowardice
A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am onntag, “Europe -your family name is appeasement.” It’s a phrase you can’t get out of your head because it’s so terribly true.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements. Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman, suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.
Found at The Rivrdog
So a couple of the cattle in the Canuck�s herds contracted Mad Cow disease and we here in the US stopped buying it, and in fact banned it from importation.
But they still want us to pay for it,
Canadians want U.S. to pay for beef ban
Call it the stampede from up north.
Under an obscure provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canadian cattlemen are asking the U.S. government to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to cover losses they incurred when the border was closed to Canadian beef after mad-cow disease turned up in Alberta.
With the ban set to be lifted early next month, the case spotlights NAFTA’s little-known Chapter 11, which allows companies to claim damages from governments if their laws or actions damage trading partners.
I call it ignorance from up north.
If it had been our fault that their cattle had caught MCD, I could see this. If it had only been a false alarm I could see it. But they�re beef was diseased and we�re still going to have to pay for their problem?
Sounds like international welfare to me.
LGF has a link to an audio recording of everyone�s favorite fake Indian, Ward Churchill at the University of Hawaii, whining about being �persecuted�.
The thing I find the most idiotic about Churchill and his sycophants is the line in his �Little Eichmanns� essay about the term �Blowback�. The term was coined by the CIA to describe what happens after you lend a hand to a somewhat questionable individual or group and that individual or group turns around and comes after you when you do something they do not like.
What Churchill is facing now can technically be labeled as �Blowback�.
So, if according to Chruchill, the people who are mindful of those attacks should be more introspective of why it is our own fault that the attacks happened, why is he bitching?
Oh wait, he�s a liberal hypocrite. Sorry, I forgot.
