Tuesday, April 19, 2005
"It was like I was looking at the Grim Reaper himself coming down...."
Blog post title not, despite being completely appropriate, an actual reference to Ann Coulter.
"Big Media has no curiosity about the anomaly of Bush's approval ratings vs. his share of the '04 vote...."
"Iraqis say that the info on the hostage crisis has been exaggerated"
"Insurgents Shift Tactics in Iraq - more sophisticated attacks present a new challenge for the U.S. military." (full article from The Washington Post)
A week old but still noteworthy - Up to 300,000 Demonstrate in Baghdad.
"The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered. [emphsis added]" (full article Knight-Ridder news via The Washington Monthly)
"Airport screening not improved, reports say - Four years after 9/11 attacks, vulnerability persists." (MSNBC.com)
I am truly embarrassed to live in this country. I mean REALLY, truly....
Nice! "The wartime past of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, leading German contender to succeed John Paul II, includes a brief membership in the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a German army anti-aircraft unit." (full article from The Times of India)
allAfrica.com - a decent web portal for news about Africa.
Suburban Guerilla
Do new books by Benedict Miller, Mike Savage (BTW, he's judging who has mental disorders) and South Park Conservatives mark the return of the asshole conservatives to the book charts?
And what about this ridiculous Time mag cover story on Ann Coulter, c'mon WTF?! (related: Coulter's most recent outright errors, distortions, and lies via ThinkProgress)
Lots of cats already blogged about Bush's playlist on "iPod one" but what about Bush's Secret iPod Playlist? Or maybe he should just stick to The Beatles.
