Cheney bashes Russia for 'brutality' in Georgia

OH sure, what does Cheney care? He's leaving office and moving to Europe. What does he care if he starts a US war with Russia? Even McCain in his acceptance speech said things to indicate he will take on Russia AND Iran as well."(CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney harshly...

Man sues restaurant after passing a 9-foot tapeworm

Two years ago Anthony Franz started eating at Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago.  He apparently became ill after eating a salmon salad, and ended up passing a 9-foot tapeworm. A pathologist said the tapeworm...

To Starbucks, a Closing; To Newark, a Trauma

After Seattle and now Newark...is starbucks going bankrupt?!..WATCH OUT, STARBUCKS SHARE IS GOING DOWN IN WALL STREET... "The green aprons, the blond wood, the safari-themed coffee art and the chalkboards. From...

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

Should we be on the look out for 4 horsemen?"DALLAS - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards...

How Angry Is Your City?

Interestingly enough, an Oklahoma city doesn't show up until #58 on the list. Oklahoma City, as the capitol, has that ranking. Tulsa, which, alas, is being affected more now by gangs and violent crime, wasn't cited."The last time an entire U.S. city got monumentally mad was...

Sexist Monkeys Terrorize Village

    In Nachu Kenya there is trouble stirring, for months the village women have suffered at the hands of a brutal troop. Think it is just the work of another run of the mill African, warlord,...

Bush Should Take Responsibility for Iraqi Refugees

"Bush Should Take Responsibility for Iraqi Refugees by Ivan Eland The Iraq War has made refugees of millions of Iraqis. They have been ethnically cleansed or displaced to other locations both inside the country, to neighboring countries, and overseas. Yet the Bush...

The Price of Delaying the Inevitable

"Good intentions frequently lead to unintended bad consequences. Tough choices, doing what is right, often leads to unanticipated good results. The growing demand by the American people for us to leave Iraq prompts the nay-sayers to predict disaster in the Middle East if we...

The Ongoing Iraq Intel Fraud

"Almost five years and perhaps half a million deaths too late, it’s finally the accepted wisdom in Washington that the intelligence that George W. Bush used to justify invading Iraq was garbage. But the pattern of twisting the truth about Iraq continues unabated and the...

Inquiry on Intelligence Gaps May Reach to White House

I wonder if they are entertaining calling Vice President Cheney to testify."Inquiry on Intelligence Gaps May Reach to White HouseBy DAVID S. CLOUD Published: February 10, 2007 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday that he would...

Pentagon: Dubious Intelligence the Foundation of Iraq Invasion

I hesitate to call this "news", as it is something widely known and accepted by most of the world. However, this is the first time it is coming from the mouth of a Pentagon official. "Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the...

What makes people click?

"There is a new kind of social site project invading the blogosphere these days: the 2000 bloggers list, initiated by Tino from www.trade-pals.com. The list counts already 1246 bloggers and includes many well-known figures of the virtual world. Another blogger, Steven...

Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq

"Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent...

President says Saddam Hussein must leave Iraq within 48 hours - March 17, 2003

My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all its...

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