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Posted by CabinGirl | Sep 12, 2007 | 31 |

Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway.
– John Wayne

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CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 7:29 am

asks Petraeus if he’s wanting to take a side trip to Iran, since he’s already in the neighborhood:
- ask on September 12, 2007 at 8:22 am
  
  We watched that snip in disgust last night (I think, on Olbermann). How low can the man go?
  - CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 8:37 am
    
    Apparently he just gets out a bigger backhoe everytime we think he’s hit bottom, and keeps digging.
    
    I’m so glad he can’t go on teevee with a D next to his name anymore, and help the MSM pretend they’re providing a balanced view of things.
CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 7:40 am

I don’t think your ‘base’ is going to like this: Bloomberg/Yahoo

Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson, who has based his campaign on appealing to conservative voters, said he isn’t a regular churchgoer and doesn’t plan to speak about his religion on the stump.

Thompson, in his first campaign stop in South Carolina, told a crowd of about 500 Republicans yesterday that he gained his values from “sitting around the kitchen table” with his parents and “the good Church of Christ.”

Talking to reporters later, Thompson, a former Tennessee senator, said his church attendance “varies.”

“I attend church when I’m in Tennessee. I’m in McLean right now,” he said referring to the Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., where he lives. “I don’t attend regularly when I’m up there.”

In other words, only when politically convenient.
CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 7:45 am

or something? WashPo

University of Maryland administrators moved quickly over the weekend to assure students and other members of the community that they were taking the possibility of a campus hate crime with the utmost seriousness.

“The University of Maryland will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or acts of hate,” university President C. D. Mote Jr. wrote Saturday in a letter posted on the university’s Web site.

Mote was responding to reports of a noose found hanging in a tree near a building that houses several African American campus organizations.

Are we regressing on issues of race in this country? Or are these noose incidents just being more widely reported?
- chocolate ink on September 12, 2007 at 12:55 pm
  
  I can’t say from any scientific fact but I’d say yes that we’re regressing on issues of race. Maybe not regressing but it’s bubbling up and over again. And blame bush for that also for gutting the Civil Rights division at the Justice Dept. and not doing anything in that area to pursue justice these last 7 years.
CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 7:50 am

Two of the seven soldiers who wrote the New York Times op-ed piece criticizing U.S. counterinsurgency strategy 3 ½ weeks ago have been killed in Iraq. Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora died Monday in a vehicle accident in Baghdad. The AP has reported on Yance Gray here, and KHOU, a Houston-area TV station has reported on Omar Mora here. Their families have been notified.

(h/t to Brandon Friedman at the Great Orange Satan)
- Kahli on September 12, 2007 at 10:08 am
  
  Killed by whom?
  - ask on September 12, 2007 at 10:15 am
    
    Their vehicle overturned.
  - CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 10:21 am
    
    I have to admit, my first thoughts turned to the Pat Tillman story, too…
    - ask on September 12, 2007 at 10:27 am
      
      We’ll see if more detail comes out…
      
      This is how it was presented (Alice’s links).
      
      “He was coming home in November. He was coming home in November,” his mother Olga Capetillo said.
      
      Mora, 28, died Monday. He was one of seven American troops killed near Baghdad in vehicle rollover accident.
      
      It was his second tour of duty.
      
      MILES CITY, Mont. (AP) – Staff Sergeant Yance Gray of Ismay was killed when the cargo truck he was riding in overturned in Baghdad.
      
      It happened yesterday.
      - ask on September 12, 2007 at 10:28 am
        
        Sorry – CG’s links above.
- JanetT in MD on September 12, 2007 at 12:42 pm
  
  Seven soldiers and two detainees died in that accident — apparently the vehicle not only turned over, but went off an overpass or something.
  
  A very high number of casualties come from vehicle accidents. Not sure if that’s because the vehicles themselves are not safe, or if the vehicles are being driven too fast (to avoid ambushes, or making sudden swerves at highway speeds means a greater chance of rollover, etc), or if “vehicle accident” is a catch-all term that covers up other causes (such as the driver being shot, or the vehicle hitting a mine, etc.).
  
  This is very sad news.
- chocolate ink on September 12, 2007 at 12:57 pm
  
  And unfortunately my very first thought was that they were fragged.
ask on September 12, 2007 at 8:24 am

This is truly scary:

Pollution blamed for fall in Arctic baby boys

Twice as many girls as boys are being born across much of the Arctic because of pollution from industrialised countries, scientists have found. The study also found that in parts of Russia many newborn boys were sickly or underweight.

The Scandinavian scientists behind the study suspect the same to be the case in Greenland and Canada.

They say that coastal Inuit populations are at particular risk because pollution builds up in the blubber of seals and whales, which are an important part of the traditional Inuit diet. The findings were reported by Lars-Otto Reiersen, head of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, and Jens Hansen, director of the Centre of Arctic Environmental Medicine at the University of Aarhus, at a symposium in Greenland organised by the Orthodox Church.
- CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 8:35 am
  
  Google “environemental estrogens”, and you’ll really get creeped out.
  - ask on September 12, 2007 at 9:20 am
    
    OK – I did.
    That is depressing reading.
ask on September 12, 2007 at 8:29 am

Russians given day off work to make babies

Workers in a Russian region have been given today off to have sex in a bid to boost the birth rate.

Today has been declared the Day of Conception in Ulyanovsk, Lenin’s birthplace, when couples are told go to home and multiply.
- CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 8:35 am
  
  Nice find.
Alice on September 12, 2007 at 8:36 am

Alternet says he wore a button saying “I love the people of Iraq.”

Anti-War Minister Is Attacked, Gets Leg Broken for Trying to Enter Petraeus Hearing

Link
It just gets worse day by day and
Washington leads the way.
- CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 8:40 am
  
  And the update at the bottom of the linked piece:
  
  Update: Liz from Hip Hop Caucus is at court and can’t get online, but wanted people to know that Rev. Yearwood has a broken leg, he’s in a cast and he’s being arraigned for assaulting an officer and disorderly conduct.
  
  His leg is broken by the police, and he’s the one charged with assault?
  
  I am so sick of these thugs.
BooMan on September 12, 2007 at 10:31 am

I thought courage was thinking about the possibility of a terrorist attack and wetting your pants.
- chocolate ink on September 12, 2007 at 12:59 pm
  
  Only if you’re a republican.
dada on September 12, 2007 at 11:30 am

coming soon to a pulpit near you:

In Greenland, an interfaith rally for climate change

Surrounded by icebergs, Sunni, Shiite, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, and Shinto leaders committed themselves last Friday to leave the planet “in all its wisdom and beauty to the generations to come.” They included the Grand Rabbi of Paris, René-Samuel Sirat, Bishop Sofie Petersen of Greenland, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, and the Rev. Jim Ball, founder of the Evangelical Environmental Network.

They are in Greenland for a six-day tour on the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the senior-most figure in Orthodox Christianity, widely known as the Green Patriarch for his efforts to mobilize religious leaders to protect the environment.

[…]

“Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development, and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family,” said Bartholomew at the conference’s opening.

link

lnteresting, perhaps this will raise the level awareness among the masses.

lTMF’sA
- ask on September 12, 2007 at 12:07 pm
  
  Here’s a video:
CabinGirl on September 12, 2007 at 3:43 pm

Petraeus is a liar…but you already knew that.
- dada on September 12, 2007 at 4:12 pm
  
  Only when he speaks.
  
  Another observation, regarding the administrations control of the dialog in this charade: Where’s Betraeus’ boss? Adm. Fallon?
  
  lf l were taking testimony, l’d want to have him in front of me, especially given the fact that he does not share the generals, nor it would appear, the congresses view:
  
  Fallon, chief of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees Middle East operations, sent a rear admiral to Baghdad this summer to gather information. Soon afterward, officials said, Fallon began developing plans to redefine the U.S. mission and radically draw down troops.
  
  link
  
  Conspicuously absent, independence of thought is not a virtue inside the the beltway…on either side of the aisle.
  
  lTMF’sA
  - dada on September 12, 2007 at 5:45 pm
    
    his boss apparently thinks so…
    
    The Washington Post reported this weekend that there is an internal military debate, described as “Armageddon,” brewing between Petraeus and Fallon because the two men have “profoundly different views of the U.S. role in Iraq.”
    
    In January, President Bush replaced Abizaid and Casey, who were “surge” skeptics, with Adm. William Fallon and Gen. David Petraeus. This week, Petraeus — first public hearings since taking on his new role — delivered his Iraq assessment to great media fanfare. But where was his boss, Admiral Fallon? Inter-Press Service suggests animosity between the two might be one reason for Fallon’s absence:
    
    Fallon told Petraeus [in March] that he considered him to be “an ass-kissing little chickensh*t” and added, “I hate people like that”
    
    Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) announced today that he will be asking Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) to call Fallon to testify on “his views on the region.”
    
    link
    
    he didn’ say that?! this could turn out very interesting.
    
    lTMF’sA
Kamakhya on September 12, 2007 at 5:08 pm

I think I would have to repeal all laws passed in the past 6 years and tell Congress to start thinking about their constituents before passing new legislation.
- Kamakhya on September 12, 2007 at 7:16 pm
  
  OH DUH!! I was wondering why my comment on the Welcome Wagon didn’t show up! Sorry folks.
- on September 12, 2007 at 7:17 pm
  
  Bingo.
  In my several years of watching and commenting on boards I still find the majority of people have little clue when it comes to the full and complete analysis of current and historical events.
  Years of fluff, ratings driven news in this country has recently been replace by corporate driven outright propaganda. This is partly to blame.

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