Archives: June, 2007

Cable Newsers Go Ga-Ga over Undetonated Car Bombs in London
Jon Ponder | Jun. 30, 2007

Are you scared yet? As you have undoubtedly heard by now, a pair of car bombs were discovered in London yesterday. Authorities said both cars were Mercedes and the apparatus in both was the same: Canisters of propane and gasoline and nails. “These vehicles are clearly linked,” said a London police commissioner.
The thwarted terror attacks [...]

The Search for Iraq’s WMDs is Officially Over
Trish Ponder | Jun. 29, 2007

The U.N. announced today, five years after our invasion of Iraq because we were told by our president that he knew for sure they had weapons of mass destruction, the search is over.
The resolution, approved by a vote of 14-0, terminated the mandate of the U.N. bodies responsible for overseeing the dismantling of Hussein’s programs [...]

Romney: My Dog Liked Riding on Car Roof 12 Hours from Boston to Ontario
Jon Ponder | Jun. 29, 2007

Mitt Romney has reacted to the story that he illegally transported his large dog in a carrier on the roof of his car for 12 hour trips in the 1980s, including one from Boston to Ontario. He says the dog liked it:
“He scrambled up there every time we went on trips, got in all by [...]

Quote du Jour
Buck Banks | Jun. 29, 2007

I know war as few men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
— Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), American general

Mitt’s Dog: “Dad is Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer”
Trish Ponder | Jun. 29, 2007

The Boston Globe’s Scott Lehigh penned a pointed, but under the circumstances, quite restrained analysis of the Mitt Romney dog on the roof story.
If the question of what to do with Seamus was presented as a Harvard Business School case study, the remedy Mitt arrived at would not be widely seized upon as the most [...]

Topics: Campaign 2008, Humor, Politics, Republicans

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Is Cheney Giving State Secrets to the Saudis?
Jon Ponder | Jun. 29, 2007

Rogue government: Is the Vice President of the United States doling out the nation’s secrets to its allies, such as the Saudis or the Israelis? Or how about our enemies — the Chinese, North Korea, Iran?
Cheney has visited Saudi Arabia twice in the past seven months — at the end of November and again in [...]

Topics: Impeachment, Politics

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BuzzFlash: Pelosi Says Impeachment Is Still Off the Table
Jon Ponder | Jun. 28, 2007

This has to be the biggest BuzzFlash.com headline ever.

Topics: Campaign 2008, Impeachment, Politics

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Romney Strapped Dog in Carrier to Roof of Car, Drove 12 Hours
Jon Ponder | Jun. 28, 2007

He should have gone to jail in 1983:
Romney strapped a dog carrier — with the family dog Seamus, an Irish Setter, in it — to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario, which the family apparently completed, despite Seamus’s rather visceral protest. [The dog beshat himself.]
Massachusetts’s [...]

Topics: Campaign 2008, Politics

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DoD: More Concerned with Appropriations than Appropriate Medical Care for Soldiers
Buck Banks | Jun. 28, 2007

So what happens if you develop a software system that enables Army physicians in Iraq to seamlessly track medical information on a wounded soldier through the Army’s medical system and into the Veterans Affairs medical system? And what if that software solved the problems that plagued Walter Reed Army Hospital and its treatment of wounded [...]

Topics: Military, Politics

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“Warrantless Wiretaps” Now Spun into “Warrant-Free Eavesdropping”
Trish Ponder | Jun. 28, 2007

This reeks of classic Rove.
The AP — and therefore official mainstream media — wording for Bush/Cheney’s warrantless wiring taping program is suddenly the new and improved “warrant-free program” or alternatively, “warrant-free eavesdropping.”
“Warrantless” wiring taping sounds as if what you did was without a warrant, which would make it illegal. “Warrant-free” just means you were unfettered [...]

Topics: Domestic Spying, Impeachment, Media Watch, Message Points, Politics, U.S. Attorney Purge

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