oh oh

remember afghanistan? i mean, the afghanistan of the 1980's.... well, may i present iraq.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. concessions to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraqi law marked a turn in talks on a constitution, negotiators said on Saturday as they raced to meet a 48-hour deadline under intense U.S. pressure to clinch a deal

i wonder how much the * administration is going to rob the honor of the real writers of their constitution. we'll know monday when scotty gets to break the news.

'sides, didn't anybody teach that punk george that forcing democracy down people's throats, just doesn't work?

they're finally beginning to talk

and that could be very dangerous, since we know that the klan they fight are ferocious, vindictive, and otherwise, predictable.

(CNN) -- A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state's presentation to the United Nations on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life.

"I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life."

--source

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

word!

this is a test post, done in … get this, word.

yeup, you can find this lil’ nifty tool over here.

so i'm not alone

seems the problems i'm experiencing with rendering html in IE, are problems experienced by others as well. and one had the decency to document it.

http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/01/26/ie_factor.html

an ebay virgin no longer

http://cm.ebay.com/cm/ck/1065-29296-2357-0?uid=200097696&site=0&ver=LCA080805&item=6795116553&lk=URL

and from the good news department:

Wednesday August 17, 2005--President Bush's Approval Rating has tumbled five points over the past week to the lowest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports.

Just 43% of American adults now approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove.

The President's Approval Rating has fallen to 47% among those who are married. Just 38% of unmarried respondents give the President their approval. Forty-six percent (46%) of Investors Approve along with 41% of non-Investors.

--rasmussen

high gas prices and school buses

this school year will be the test on whether or not our economy is on the right track, or the wrong track, in which case, like trains, you can expect a wreck.

just listened to john roberts on cbs

reporting the top story being the gaza pullout.

why does the MSM refuse to disclose that IT'S PALESTINIAN LAND to begin with?

Letter Of The Day

The Register missed an important point in the Aug. 1 article about police cars doing away with light bars. I am sure we have all spotted a police car when we are driving, checked our speed and occasionally slowed down. I have. If we cannot spot the car because it has no light bar, that preventive aspect of policing is gone. I would rather the cars have light bars and slow down thousands of speeders a day instead of ticketing 10 or 20.

-Bruce Fleming, Des Moines.

--source

they're going to crawford texas to support cindy sheehan. and from their website:

“We disdain both political Parties. We believe that both the cowardly Democrats and the rapacious Republicans have become so systemically corrupt, that, as Senator Warren Rudman said when he resigned from the Senate, ‘This place has become so corrupt it cannot function anymore.’ It is no longer capable of representing the people, but only the special interests, the wealthy, and the corporations, especially the multi-national corporations.

“We intend for our new film and this website to be a strong intelligent voice that brings consciousness, new ideas and real power back to the people.”

you GO!!!

watch for billy jack to hit the news soon

they're going to crawford texas to support cindy sheehan. and from their website:

“We disdain both political Parties. We believe that both the cowardly Democrats and the rapacious Republicans have become so systemically corrupt, that, as Senator Warren Rudman said when he resigned from the Senate, ‘This place has become so corrupt it cannot function anymore.’ It is no longer capable of representing the people, but only the special interests, the wealthy, and the corporations, especially the multi-national corporations.

“We intend for our new film and this website to be a strong intelligent voice that brings consciousness, new ideas and real power back to the people.”

you GO!!!

watch for billy jack to hit the news soon

they're going to crawford texas to support cindy sheehan. and from their website:

“We disdain both political Parties. We believe that both the cowardly Democrats and the rapacious Republicans have become so systemically corrupt, that, as Senator Warren Rudman said when he resigned from the Senate, ‘This place has become so corrupt it cannot function anymore.’ It is no longer capable of representing the people, but only the special interests, the wealthy, and the corporations, especially the multi-national corporations.

“We intend for our new film and this website to be a strong intelligent voice that brings consciousness, new ideas and real power back to the people.”

you GO!!!

a sad, ssd story of a soldier

http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/1870805.shtml

Letter Of The Day

Bush's gift to America. Price of oil on Jan. 20, 2001: $22 a barrel. Price of oil on Aug: 8, 2005: $64 a barrel. Increase: 190 percent.

-Keith Nichols, Perry.

and

In his Aug. 8 column, George Will suggests that Ford, GM and Chrysler increase their profitability by "trimming some of the benefits the United Auto Workers won when the Big Three were the world's largest automobile companies."

Well, George, how about this solution: that the United States join the rest of the industrialized world and implement a national health-care system for all its citizens. This would allow Ford, GM and Chrysler to cut $1,500 off the cost of every vehicle!

They would then be more competitive in the marketplace, and they wouldn't have to cut benefits for the men and women, past and present, who do the kind of work in the automobile factories that George Will and his friends couldn't handle for one day.

-Gary Sanders, Iowa City.

--source

the epitomy of incompetence

that's donald rumsfeld, summed up in about 4 words. why?

The ensuing scramble to produce more plates was marred by a series of missteps in which the Pentagon gave one contract to a former Army researcher who had never mass-produced anything. He was allowed to struggle with production for a year before he gave up. An outdated delivery plan slowed the arrival of plates that were made. In all, the war was 10 months old before every soldier in Iraq had plates in late January 2004.

--source

a sure sign that the bushites have run their course

The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

--source

Letter of the WeeQ

I enjoyed reading "Iowa's Concrete Lifeline - Life Along Interstate 80" in the Aug. 7 Register.

I spent the summer of 1964, following my junior year of college, working on the road-building crew that paved the sections between Grinnell and Malcom (miles 182 to 191) and Kinzi Manufacturing and Williamsburg (miles 216 to 220). I drove a water truck that piped water to the traveling on-site concrete mixers and was paid $2 per hour.

Along with overtime pay, I earned enough in 12 weeks to pay 100 percent of my expenses for my senior year at Iowa State University. My, how times have changed!

-Robert C. Wemer, Montezuma.

--source

Letter Of The Day

This year average Americans will work 185 days to pay their tax burden. President George Bush has taken 70 billion of those dollars to give to corporations as incentives, while they're moving American jobs to foreign countries.

We stand by fecklessly and do nothing. Who voted for this guy?

-Larry Wohlgemuth, Ankeny.

--source

finally, an editorial that makes a very strong case for national heath care.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050814/OPINION03/508140314/1035/OPINION