So the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA makes a trip to JORDAN to meet with Iraqi PM Maliki and Maliki blows Bush off.
You’d think our friends in the conservative wingnutosphere would be racing at the bit to excuse Maliki and claim that the no-show is a sign of Bush’s strength and determination.
As of […]

RayRay left this link on a post. It was too good not to share! Thanks RayRay!! Good stuff.
Bush Nuts
Are George W. Bush lovers certifiable?
November 23, 2006
By Andy Bromage
A collective “I told you so” will ripple through the world of Bush-bashers once news of Christopher Lohse’s study […]

Dazed and confused | Salon.com
SHINED by Maliki.
Why is it that conservative “realists” have been putting up with Bush Administration bullshit without question for the past six years? Isn’t he supposed to be AWESOME NATION-BUILDING MAN?
Flush Iraq down the toilet - along with the Bush legacy and the Republican Party.
This is so terribly tragic, I […]

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Sometime in the past 10 years I fell in love with Heifer International as a charity. It is my favorite and I continue to donate to it. I’m asking the LA community to donate, too.
Heifer International […]

Across the LibWeb, on Atrios, WashingtonMonthly, etc., there has been quite a bit of chatter recently about the meaning of the term “centrist” and the fact that in common usage it speaks of a place that’s not really anywhere in particular on the ideological spectrum.
I disagree somewhat. I actually think that “centrism” is a […]

As expected, Bush’s insistence on meeting directly with Prime Minister Maliki has prompted Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw from the governing coalition. Maybe that was the whole point of the exercise (link).

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) will not run for president in ‘08.
(via Oliver Willis)
(cross posted at appletree)

Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid and gently nudge it from path to Earth
“… being able to have astronauts go out there and sort of poke one with a stick would be scientifically valuable…”
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I’ve fallen and I can’t get up
“German scientists have developed an intelligent walking stick that calls an ambulance if the owner […]

The Violence
Recent violence in Iraq led columnist Tony Karon to make this grim assessment:

It has been clear for some time that the U.S. is not in control of events in Iraq. But the latest sectarian bloodshed suggests that even help from Iran and Syria may not be enough to stop the slide into chaos.

As […]

Bush to Press Iraqi Leader on Strategy to End Violence - New York Times:
Dismissing suggestions that Iraq has deteriorated into a civil war, President Bush on Tuesday blamed Al Qaeda for the rising tide of sectarian violence there and said he would press the Iraqi prime minister to lay out a strategy for stopping the […]