on sunday, october 24, 2004, the los angeles times frontpaged an investigative piece that truly deserves to be read and considered by every american before going into a voting booth.  focused on the battle for fallouja, it provides not only an accurate timeline of events and responses but also includes direct quotes from both american policymakes and military commanders on the ground in iraq.   although i generally find it annoying when someone posts an article that consists...

it took me far too long to realize questions concerning  this year's presidential candidates' military service could be very easily resolved.   while pondering the problems of memo hoaxes and memory lapses, i had a sudden moment of such profound clarity i found myself physically paralyzed, unable to blink or turn away from the blinding brightness that is pure truth..   that epiphany leaves me with no choice but to concede i made a terrible mistake listening ...

i was so distracted by all those demonstrations of ms word vs typewriter text that this almost slipped by me.  saturday i was watching a 911 tribute that included an interview with some victims' family members, one of whom pointed out how adamantly the bush administration had fought the families' demand for a 911 commission.  fortunately bush--to his credit--eventually had a flip-flop moment in that regard.  that's when i realized hed done it ...

go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/ and you'll find a photo of dick cheney speaking to a group of marines at  camp pendleton, calif.  according to the caption, cheney told them:. "And the terrorists will fail because men and women like you stand in their way."  scroll down the page and you'll find a cheney bio full of praise for his government service.  what you wont see there (or in his bio at http://www.georgewbush.com --the official bush-cheney re-electi...

"People asked for autographs - thinking I was Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Don King. I didnt care. I signed them."  -- Rep. CHARLIE RANGEL, a Democrat, telling the New York Daily News about the reception he got at the Republican National Convention

strong. resolute. unwavering. determined. those were the leadership qualities for which 72% of russia's electorate cast their votes when choosing a president earlier this year.  the candidate whom they believed most fully embodied these characteristics was, once again,  vladimir putin.  while russia is forced to deal with a number of diverse issues, putin's successful campaign for re-election was a mandate for his unwavering determination to crush the chechnyan rebellion. ...

if or when you decide there just isnt enough useless crap converting perfectly good bandwidth into mini-versions of tracy given's weapons of electronic harrassment (stuff like  doorless microwave ovens for blasting energy waves through walls and down the block or those cool little crack vials filled with wiring and leds that can be shot between the layers of your skin with an ordinary if highly tweaked pelletgun) or perhaps you want to demonstrate your total disregard for the...

no matter who wins the us presidential election, im hoping someone gifts the victor the big golden book version of 'how to mullah your way to the top--and stay there: sistani's success strategies' .   id also hope our presidential  candidates weren't so caught up in their endless game of 'i'm rubber... you're glue' that they missed observing the grand ayatollah sistani at the top of his game. within 36 hours of returning to iraq from london where he'd undergone treatment for ...

the following was published august 21, 2004 in the chicago tribune by a tribune reporter named william rood who happens to be one of the two surviving swift boat commanders (kerry is the other) who saw action at  dong cung on february 28, 1969.  his article (im posting it in it's entirety below) speaks for itself.  the images ive provided are mr rood's citation for bravery for which he was awarded a bronze star    the after action r...

from the la times, august 18, 2004.  article entitled " Kerry Condemns Anti-Bush Ad" Sen. John F. Kerry took a cue from Sen. John McCain on Tuesday and denounced a television ad by one of his allies attacking President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. In the latest twist in an ongoing debate about military credentials, Kerry condemned the new ad by the MoveOn political action committee, even though it was produced in response to an ad questioning Kerry's Vietnam War r...

if being a crazed megalomaniacal dictator was an olympic event--and it really should be--my money would be on saparmurad a  niyazov to bring the gold back to turkmenistan.  niyazov, who also refers to himself as turkmenbashi ("father of turkmens"), may not be a household name here and now, but that'll probably change when a.) he does something really nuts following the failure of his plan to build an ice palace (yup out of real ice)  in the hot-as-hell turkmenistan mountains ...

"Always remember...don't forget.  Wait.  Maybe it's don't forget..always remember." -- Reginald Van Gleason  "If you have 5 apples and Little Susie has 2 pairs, you better fold."--Cleveland Amoritization. "Follow your heart--unless youre an organ donor." --Nutley Gojonzon. "Set a good example...you never know when the Romper Room Do-Bee Lady is gonna pull out that magic mirror."--Lanolin Z. Prepuce. He who builds his mansion on stilts can fall farther than he who don't" -- Stash W...