Plunderbund

Unreal.

Was the Oklahoma City bombing so unimportant as a terrorist attack in Oklahoma that they needed to appropriate the Twin Towers? Was a yellow ribbon magnet not showing enough militant support for our soldiers that the plate needed an ACU camo pattern?

You know, it’s natural to get frustrated when stuff like the “Protect America Act” manage to get passed in a Democratic Congress. But before you get too worked up, check this out.

Still think there’s no difference between the GOP and Democrats? CorrenteWire generated the chart, and has some analysis as to what’s going […]

We all know the saying - where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Except when wingnuts are the ones blowing smoke. A few weeks ago, RABid picked up on a piece from Front Page Magazine by Patrick Poole attacking local moderate Muslim Abukar Arman. I was going to attempt to provide supported counterarguments to […]

Elections have consequences. Our soldiers are bearing a heavy burden for our county’s failure to elect a responsible President in the past two Presidential elections.
(HT for the photo to AsOhioGoes.)

Of course, those of us who are propagandistic assholes know that it’s entirely possible to be pro-soldier and anti-Iraq-war. Many of us have tired long ago of being called “anti-American” for being against the Iraq War. So the question posed in the title above is clearly hogwash to begin with.
But it hasn’t been […]

Read a summary of the tripe coming out of Wingnutistan about universal health care (and SiCKO) breeding terrorism.
UPDATE: Krazy Kenny gets on the “universal healthcare causes terrorism” train.

I wrote about treason earlier in that the Republicans want to filibuster energy legislation that would decrease our reliance on Middle Eastern oil. How about preventing Arabic linguists from serving in the Army because they are gay? Treason? I think so. John Aravosis of AmericaBLOG has been in the lead on […]

An at-times amusing white flag has been run up by a Trinidad and Tobago blogger.
You see, America, the Fox News Channel is up to it’s old war-baiting sensational tricks again. It’s reporting that Trinidad and Tobago is the “New Hotbed in the War on Terror”. Now hoooooooooooold on for a just a sec, America. Easy […]

The “culture of fear” fomented by our current government and the media seems to have really taken hold in Boston.
In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America […]

The phrase “enhanced interrogation” has been used by the Bush Administration to justify the torture of Iraqi insurgents, often with the claim that since they are not uniformed military, they are not subject to the Geneva Conventions. This is not the first use of this kind of this kind of language to defend this […]

Another shocker: only a tiny fraction of cases filed by DHS are terror-related.
Despite repeated claims by high officials of the Bush Administration that fighting terrorism has been the central mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since it began operating, the data show that in the last three years a claim of terrorism was […]

What’s wrong with this picture:

WHITE HOUSE (AP) - Trying to defend his war strategy, President Bush has declassified intelligence asserting that Osama bin Laden ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks outside Iraq, and that the U.S. should be the top target.
Renew the “why haven’t […]

Iraq is a huge bake sale benefiting al-Qaida.
A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads, but has helped track an alarming increase in the movement of al-Qaida operatives and money into Pakistan’s tribal territories, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials.
In one of the most troubling […]

I’m sure I don’t need to dig up specific examples, as everyone should be well aware by now of how we treat “enemy combatants” we capture and send to Guantanamo Bay. Isolation, degradation, and even torture.
And then I saw this in yesterday’s Dispatch (emphasis mine):
Crew coach Sigi Schmid’s 82-year-old father, Fritz, is visiting Columbus […]

Ehud Olmert is under fire.
JERUSALEM - Members of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s ruling coalition joined opposition lawmakers yesterday in calling for the Israeli leader and his defense minister to resign after parts of a government report criticizing their handling of last year’s war in Lebanon were leaked to local media.
Officials close to the investigation confirmed […]