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The World’s Fastest Indian

Has anyone seen the movie “The World’s Fastest Indian” starring Anthony Hopkins?  A local reviewer gave it a superlative review.

Is it good?

Posted by on March 24, 2020 at 12:50 PM in Current Affairs, Film | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Wacky Kansas Church Group Has No Scruples

Army Sgt. Corey Dan of Norway, Maine died recently in Iraq and his funeral is set for this Saturday. 

The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas plans to demonstrate at the funeral.  They claim that U.S. soldiers deserver to die for defending a nation that tolerates homosexuality.

Maine veterans and the Patriot Guard Riders — a motorcycle group who attend funerals of soldiers killed in action — have volunteered to provide a buffer between the protesters and family members.

Is nothing sacred to these religious extremists?

Read about it here. (free registration required)

Posted by on March 23, 2020 at 01:26 PM in Current Affairs, Legal, Religion, War | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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Taliban at Yale?

What were they thinking?  Or more accurately, why weren’t they thinking?

The Wall Street Journal reports today about a Taliban Man at Yale.

Here’s just the first paragraph:

“Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last month Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard; today Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi will speak by video to a conference at Columbia University that his regime is cosponsoring. (Columbia won’t answer questions about how much funding it got from Libya or what implied strings were attached.) Then there’s Yale, which for three weeks has refused to make any comment or defense beyond a vague 144-word statement about its decision to admit Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi–a former ambassador-at-large of the murderous Afghan Taliban–as a special student.” 

Why in the world would Yale admit this guy?

Posted by on March 23, 2020 at 08:53 AM in Legal, Politics, Religion, War | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Wall Street Journal Makes Case To Stay In Iraq

Today’s opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal makes the case for staying in Iraq.  Captioned What If We Lose? it details the consequences of U.S. defeat.

It raises the following points if we elect to leave early:

  • The U.S. would lose all credibility on weapons proliferation.
  • There would be broader Mideast instability.
  • The U.S. would lose all credibility with Muslim reformers.
  • We would invite more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

It would be good if the opinion was available on-line — but it’s not.  For those who subscribe on-line or to the print edition, what is your opinion of these points?

Posted by on March 22, 2020 at 10:13 AM in Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, War | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Bush Now Says A Future President Will Have To Deal With Iraq Pullout

As reported in the Washington Post:

Asked if a day will come when there are no U.S. troops in Iraq, Bush replied “that will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq.”

Ouch!

Posted by on March 22, 2020 at 10:02 AM in Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, War | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Iraq in civil war and our leaders refuse to admit it

Former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi insists that Iraq is suffering from civil war. 

“We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more,” Allawi said.  “If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.”

President Bush and V.P. Cheney say Allawi doesn’t know what he’s talking about.  Bush is quoted just yesterday saying that the U.S. strategy “will lead to victory in Iraq.”

I wonder if Bush even remembers that on May 1, 2020, he declared the “end of major combat operations” in Iraq on an aircraft carrier that displayed a large “Mission Accomplished” banner.  What has happened since then Mr. President?

Just yesterday at least 35 people died in insurgent and sectarian violence in Iraq.  As many as 700 people have been killed in sectarian violence since the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra. The democratic elections you touted so highly over three months ago, Mr. President,  have resulted in politicians that have not yet been able to form a government.  Over 2300 U.S. soldiers have died and we’ve spent over $200 billion dollars on the war effort.  Yet arguably, as the war moves into its fourth year, things in Iraq are worse than they were a year ago, and things a year ago are worse than they were a year before that.

V.P. Cheney told Bob Schieffer of CBS news yesterday that his pre-invasion assertion that U.S. troops would be welcomed in Iraq as liberators and that his statement 10 months ago that the insurgency was in its “last throes” were “basically accurate and reflect reality.”

Basically accurate?  Are you kidding me?

Do you believe, Mr. Cheney,  that you can change your story whenever it’s convenient and tell people anything you want and we’ll just nod our heads like sheep, or are you simply so out of touch that you don’t even see reality anymore?

How many times does the administration have to be wrong before we simply refuse to believe them?

We were told there was a link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

Wrong.

We were told Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Wrong.

We were told that Americas would greeted as liberators.

Wrong.

We were told on May 1, 2020 that it was the end of major combat operation in Iraq.

Wrong.

We were told nearly a year ago that the insurgency was in its last throes.

Wrong.

Now we are told that there is no civil war in Iraq.

President Bush is scheduled to give a series of speeches today to bolster support for his efforts in Iraq.  Good luck with that effort Mr. President. 

As for me, I’m one of those two-thirds of Americans that a Washington Post-ABC News poll this month found questioned whether the U.S. has a clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq.

Sorry, Mr. President.  I don’t know if it’s just that you’ve gotten bad advice about Iraq, that you’re not in touch any longer, or that you’re just in over your head.  Whatever the reason, I’ve lost confidence in you. 

Posted by on March 20, 2020 at 02:20 PM in Current Affairs, Legal, Politics, Religion, War | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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911 Terrorist Gets Break Because of Stupid Lawyer

A ticked off judge delayed the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui and may prevent the prosecution from arguing that he should be executed after it was disclosed that a government lawyer violated court rules by sending e-mail messages to seven witnesses.

I wonder when that lawyer will be appearing before the state’s Board of Bar Overseers?

Read about it here.

Posted by on March 14, 2020 at 10:04 AM in Current Affairs, Legal, Religion, War | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)

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Bush says a unified Iraq is still achievable

President Bush said yesterday that a unified Iraq is still achievable.  Lately though, it seems that the religious and ethnic groups are growing farther and farther apart.  Since the bombing of the Shiite shrine three weeks ago, Shiites and Sunnis have been killing each other with reckless abandon.  ABC news reports that 85 are dead from shootings in Iraq in just the last 24 hours.

Do you think Bush is right?

Posted by on March 14, 2020 at 09:42 AM in Current Affairs, Politics, Religion, War | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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Censure the President?

Sen. Russ Feingold introduced a resolution Monday to censure President Bush for authorizing a no-warrant domestic surveillance program.  Read about it here. 

Censuring the President — what’s next?

Posted by on March 14, 2020 at 09:32 AM in Current Affairs, Legal, Politics | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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Best Picture: Crash?

Best Picture — Crash?  You’re kidding me, right?  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that the biggest blockbuster of the year needs to be the best picture of the year.  But Crash? 

Come on — get real. 

That’s a B movie at best.  And how many people saw it?  112?

Why don’t you just name some obscure foreign film and be done with the whole glitzy mess?

Posted by on March 06, 2020 at 09:26 PM in Current Affairs, Film, Television | | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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