Sunday January 14, 2007. Issue 0028, It's been a while, no?
- *permanent headline* More die in Iraq
- What's the next plan after the whole
"surge" thing backfires?
- Bush mad that people think his latest
brilliant idea is going to bomb (no pun
intended)
- Carter v. Zion
- More rights have eroded (I should
make this a permanent headline too,
shouldn't I?)
- Left v. Right
- Clinton in Iraq, *points to Iraqi
soldiers and makes "jerk-off" motion*
- Dumbass with a shovel thinks he
found ancient artifacts in a place
where miles of ice ground everything
into dust
- Troops agree with Clinton
- IMF and World Bank screw Mexico
into starvation
- Height and its meaning
- Big ol' booties good, skinny
anorexics bad (get it through your
heads already, Jesus)
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What's the plan for when the "surge" fails (because you know it
will...)?
Here.
Excerpt:
After last Wednesday's dramatic announcement by Bush of the immediate raising of US troop numbers in
Iraq by more than 20,000 - the much heralded 'surge' which is widely recognised as the last chance to
rescue the mission to enforce stability on conflict-torn Iraq - the question is being increasingly asked in
Washington and the region: what comes next? Many believe that Bush has planned a second - equally
high risk - strategy to run in parallel with the surge: to move against growing Iranian influence in Iraq,
snubbing the key recommendation of the Iraq Study Group and the will of the British government that it
should talk to Tehran, not threaten it.
The way I see achieving a resolution to this conflict is not to let Iran and Syria divide the country up but for Bush to
get down on his knees and beg for forgiveness from France, Germany, Russia and the U.N. He has to admit that he
was/is/and always will be wrong and a complete 'tard when it comes to his decisions involving his invasion of Iraq.
Add to this some begging for the aid of those four in helping to stabilize the civil war and rebuild the nation in a way
that does not involve US contractors but trained Iraqis. Maybe if we gave people jobs they would have less time to
hate and blow each other up? It may be too late for that hope though...
At any rate, if the U.N. is involved in this operation from now on we could invite the Iranians and Syrians to patrol
chunks of desert and give them the impression that they are helping and exerting an influence on the war-torn land.
As far as Iran is concerned we need to make friends. Send some wrestling squads, soccer teams and chess players
over there and build diplomatic relations through common loves. Creating enemies will get us as far as it got
Hitler--suicide in a bunker and nation-wide shame among the populous.
Bush "lashes out" at those who dare question his ability to make
good decisions
Here.
Excerpt:
President George W. Bush lashed out at lawmakers who have opposed his new plan for Iraq,
and said critics must offer an alternative solution to quell the sectarian violence in that nation.
``To oppose everything while proposing nothing is irresponsible,'' Bush said in his weekly radio
address. ``Those who refuse to give this plan a chance to work have an obligation to offer an
alternative that has a better chance for success.''
I believe the time for offering a better solution was 4 years ago when people like me told you it was the
most retarded idea ever to go there in the first place. Statistically we have killed more people in 3.5 years
than Saddam did in 20...
How about this for a solution to quelling sectarian violence: We just threaten to put Saddam in charge
again with all his own cronies unless everyone calms down and starts acting all neighborly? Oh wait, we
can't do that because we killed him last week... and that inflamed sectarian violence in the region... which
further necessitates our need to send more troops over there... which will do nothing to improve the
situation...
First, if you are going to be a bone-head and invade a nation for no real reason at least don't be stupid
enough to send a pussy-sized force that can't rule with an iron fist. GW, your own dad said that it should
take an occupation force of half a million. How is another 20,000 going to help?!?!

Former president Carter getting crap for his new book because people
with more loyalty to a foreign nation than this one think he's wacky for
trying to make peace
Here.
Excerpt:
Mr Carter has faced a backlash to the argument in his latest book, Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid, for a renewed effort to kick-start the Middle East peace process. The book has been
denounced by some commentators as anti-Israeli.
The 200-strong advisory board of the Carter Centre is drawn from prominent local figures in
Atlanta, Georgia, where it is based. In a letter to Mr Carter explaining their decision to quit, the
14 members accused him of holding a "strident and uncompromising position". They said the
book "portrays the conflict between Israel and her neighbours as a purely one-sided affair with
Israel holding all the responsibility for resolving the conflict ... It seems that you have turned to
a world of advocacy, including even malicious advocacy."
I have not read this book yet but I will probably get to it eventually. Does anyone remember what caused
the "recent" wave of violence in Israel/Palestine? It was when Sharon "the butcher" went to the sacred
mosque on the Temple Mount. Sharon did this after great headway and relative peace had settled over
the region since the Oslo Peace Accords presided over by President Clinton in 1993 (peace accords that
caused Yitzhak Rabin his life at the hands of a right-wing Jew who hated the idea of peace). The
Palestinians went nuts over Sharon's obvious disrespect and add to this the fact that just a few months
later Sharon then became Prime Minister of Israel.
As PM Sharon pushed for the settlement of Palestinian regions of the West Bank by Jews and in strategic
regions like the Golan Heights. In addition to this, Sharon pushed forward with the construction of an
Apartheid/communist/ghetto wall surrounding the West Bank that made it impossible for Palestinian
workers to get from one side to the other leading to further economic depression due to rampant
unemployment.
As far as I see it the Oslo Peace Accord was square one. Everyone could start anew and try to work this
out and then blood-thirsty idiots like Sharon rose to power and screwed everything up.
I am not condoning the violence of Hamas or the PLO or anyone else in the region but look at who has the
money and who has the power. Do Israelis suffer from 50% unemployment? Are they considered
refugees? Are they the ones being relegated to a ghetto? How would you react if you were in the same
predicament as the Palestinians? It just seems to me that some people never learn from history and that is
probably the point that President Carter is trying to make with his book.
Guess what? The Pentagon has the authority to check out your
bank records without warrant--at least that's what they say
Here.
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon and to a lesser extent the CIA have been using a little-known
power to look at the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others
suspected of terrorism or espionage within the United States, officials said Saturday.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Saturday the Defense Department "makes requests
for information under authorities of the National Security Letter statutes ... but does not use the
specific term National Security Letter in its investigatory practice."
Whitman did not indicate the number of requests that have been made in recent years, but said
authorities operate under the Right to Financial Privacy Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and
the National Security Act.
So let's see... How many invasions of privacy does this administration claim to have the authority to break
now?
- Listening to our telephone calls without warrant.
- Forcing ISPs to turn over web surfing habits of users without warrant.
- Reading our mail without warrant.
- Detaining, without charge, US citizens indefinitely.
- ,,,And now the ability to inspect our bank records without warrant... I know I am forgetting a few.
Maybe you can remind me?
That right there are five basic tenants of our democracy that are being broken by this administration. If
Clinton had done even one of these things the right would have gone wooly.
I had this thought many years ago back when I was in high school: Right-wingers are inherently wrong in
their philosophy because they can't even get along with other right-wingers. My case in point:
- Right-wing Jews cannot get along with right-wing Palestinians but left-wing Jews and left-wing
Palestinians live peacefully in Kibbutzes and get along just fine tending to the same orchards and
going to the same schools.
- Right-wing whites in South Africa can't get on with right-wing blacks but lefties on both sides have no
problem with each other.
- Right-wing Shia and right-wing Sunni want to kill each other but their counterparts on the left don't.
- The right-wing Taliban can't get on with our own right-wing executive branch.
- Same goes for the right-wing mullahs of Iran.
See what I mean? The right of one group will always quarrel with the right of another because their
grievances and their uniting factors are fictitious and/or not substantive. They unite over religious
differences; something that can't be logically defined or proven. They unite against their fear of another
race or religion with no substance or rationality and often involving lies created and propagated by one
side over the other. They force laws upon one another based not on philosophy but on subjective
realism. Their reality is what they have been told by their illiterate, xenophobic elders and have been
warned not to question these traditions for fear of the wrath of whatever God they have been raise to
follow. There has been no personal journey, critical thinking or logic involved. Just bigotry.
When one form of bigotry meets another fights break out.
Just a thought.
Us and Them
Senator Clinton doubts Iraq's ability to do anything, anything at all
(and with good reason!)
Here.
Excerpt:
"I don't know that the American people or the Congress at this point believe this mission can
work," she told ABC News in Baghdad. "And in the absence of a commitment that is backed up
by actions from the Iraqi government, why should we believe it?"
Noting she had to travel wearing body armor and surrounded by soldiers and security guards,
Clinton called the situation in Iraq "heartbreaking."
"This is my third trip here. I've seen the violence and security problems increase, not
decrease," she said, calling on Bush to start withdrawing U.S. troops.
"That would really demonstrate to the Iraqis that we don't have an open-ended commitment,"
she said. "We are not going to be here providing protection for their leaders, which we do. We
are not going to be here standing by and trying to be called in from time to time as they see fit.
That is not in the cards."
And Bush wonders why everyone is questioning his new plan of the same thing but with a few more troops
on some corners in Bagdhad--not even the most violent place in Iraq. Sigh.


Archaeologists find some of the oldest tools ever discovered in
North America (geologically it doesn't make sense to me)
Here.
Excerpt:
Wells and other archaeologists discovered around 50 objects this past year while investigating
a route for a planned road that would serve a major community development project in Walker.
The items were found beneath a layer of glacial deposits that had been covered by windblown
deposits. Based on what's known about the geology of the area, they believe the objects are
between 13,000 and 15,000 years old.
How does anything that is man-made survive being made into glacial till let alone last through the pressure
of having miles of crushing ice sitting on top of them grinding them into powder. One must alsoo consider
how they could be aged to exactly when all of Minnesota was ice itself and had no human inhabitants. I
agree with the skeptics in the article, the burden of proof is on the discoverers to change everyone else's
mind.
The archaeologists making these claims say that at the time Minnesota was an "oasis" free from ice...
Really? Then why were the tools found in a glacial deposit? Also if Minnesota was free from ice then
where did the whole "land of 10,000 lakes" thing come from? Are these the same people who happened to
help that dude over in Bosnia with his pyramid "discovery"?
Troops agree with Hillary;
Troops doubt Iraq's ability to "stand up"
Here.
Excerpt:
The day after his speech, the soldiers of Apache Company went on a mission to the volatile
neighborhood of Hurriyah that underscored the challenges confronting U.S. troops as they
attempt to clear neighborhoods of sectarian fighters and keep them clear under Iraqi control.
Across Baghdad, Iraq's mostly Shiite security forces have proved unable to keep
neighborhoods secure on their own. Sunni Arabs deeply mistrust the army and police, viewing
them as a sectarian weapon of the Shiite-led government. Iraqi army commanders say their
soldiers lack training and equipment, while some U.S. officials worry that Iraq's troops are too
dependent on their American counterparts and will become even more so with the expected
influx of U.S. troops.
Our president must really love his bubble. The problem is that, eventually, bubbles burst.
Mexico suffering from a corn shortage, I say the IMF and World
Bank are to blame
Here.
Excerpt:
Soaring international demand for corn has caused a spike in prices for Mexico's humble tortilla,
hitting the poor and forcing President Felipe Calderón's business-friendly government into an
uncomfortable confrontation with powerful monopolies.
Tortilla prices jumped nearly 14 percent over the past year, a move Mexico's Central Bank Gov.
Guillermo Ortiz called "unjustifiable" in a country where inflation ran about 4 percent. Ortiz
pinned the blame on companies monopolizing the market and blocking competition.
"We clearly have a problem of speculation," he said.
The government and economists also blame increased U.S. production of ethanol from corn as
an alternate fuel.
Bullshit. Mexico is a net-exporter of wheat. No one in Mexico eats figgin' wheat! They have mowed down
their cornfields to replant them with wheat for export. Mexico outlawed corn imports after Monsanto's GMO
varieties started hybridizing with native species so ethanol production (which hasn't even really begun yet
anyway) has nothing to do with the rise in prices. Plus, beat sugar and sugarcane produce 50-75% more
ethanol per acre than corn anyway.
Why did Mexico replant their fields with wheat? Remember when the Peso collapsed about a decade ago
and the IMF and world Bank swept in with loans? Well, the only way they could stabilize their economy with
international aid was to reorganize their market according to IMF and WB guidelines and to produce for the
global market which included producing wheat for export.
Mexico, give the world the finger and start growing corn again so you can feed your people. You have my
permission.

A really cool story on height in Europe v. US and it's implications
on health and wealth
Here.
Excerpt:
If you were to stretch a string from the head of the earliest soldier in that row to the head of the
most recent recruit, you might expect it to trace an ascending line. Humans are an ever-
improving species, the old evolution charts tell us; each generation is smarter, sleeker, and
taller than the last. Yet in Northern Europe over the past twelve hundred years human stature
has followed a U-shaped curve: from a high around 800 A.D., to a low sometime in the
seventeenth century, and back up again. Charlemagne was well over six feet; the soldiers who
stormed the Bastille a millennium later averaged five feet and weighed a hundred pounds.
“They didn’t look like Errol Flynn and Alan Hale,” the economist Robert Fogel told me. “They
looked like thirteen-year-old girls.”
A good read.
Great job, Bush, the doomsday clock is moving due to worsening
conditions
Here.
Excerpt:
The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" plan to move its hands forward next Wednesday to
reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world.
The symbolic clock, maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, currently is set at seven
minutes to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe.
The group did not say in which direction the hands would move. But in a news release
previewing an event next Wednesday, they said the change was based on "worsening nuclear,
climate threats" to the world.
Makes you feel warm and cozy, no? Well, at least the evangelicals and leading scientists can agree on
something; the end of the world is near. You know, I think this is the first time I ever cited Newsmax. I feel
kind of dirty.
Men like booty and this reporter is trying to figure out why women
starve themselves to become creatures no man wants to bone.
Girl, put some meat on that ass!
Here.
Excerpt:
In contrast, the burlesque stars of yesteryear, such as Blaze Starr — whom no one would have
accused of being a member of the aristocracy — were quite zaftig, and today, the dichotomy
between respectable waifness and voluptuous infamy remains. The most successful women in
pornography, such as Vanessa Del Rio and Jenna Jameson, tend to be much curvier (one is
tempted to say "earthier") than the models who hawk clothes, perfume and cigarettes from the
pages of Cosmo. The fact that women like to emulate waifs while men masturbate over T&A tells
the real truth of the matter: thin may be classy, but curves are sexy.
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