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Monday, April 9, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on April 9 at 7:23 AM

Four Years Ago Today: Baghdad fell. “Mission Accomplished” indeed.

Meanwhile in Afghanistan: The Taliban is back in the business of beheading people.

Nuclear Iran:

“We have gathered, thanking Almighty God for the introduction of the uranium enrichment program to the industrial phase, and once again we thank Almighty God for allowing us to attain industrial enrichment plans,” said Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization head, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, addressing an audience at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran.

Mexican Drug Cartels: Fighting the drug war on YouTube.

America’s Fastest Growing Sport: Beating up the homeless

President Bush: Taking another stab at the immigration issue.

Freedom of Speech: Princeton professor criticizes president, lands on terrorist watch list.

One Million Down: Species census hits milestone. Meanwhile, the Florida manatee is about to lose its endangered species status, despite record deaths in 2006.

Downtown Bellevue: Discovering people like to walk on occasion.

Washington State: Looking to help students who have lost parents in Iraq.

News From the Funny Pages: Johnny Hart, creator of B.C. and The Wizard of Id has died.

Sexy Presidential Fact of the Day: From David McCullough’s Truman:

Sometime earlier that fall, when Bess had returned from a long stay with her mother in Independence, both she and the President had been so “jubilant,” so obviously happy to be with each other again, that the whole domestic staff felt a lift of the spirits. Everybody kept grinning, West remembered.

The next morning, when West reported to the First Lady’s study at nine as usual, to go over the day’s menu, she told him “in a rather small, uncomfortable voice” that there was a little problem with the President’s antique bed. Two of the slats had broken during the night, she said, blushing.

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1

Once again it is the Democrats who are out having the wild fun sex! Can you imagine Bush having sex with Larua?

I am sure that Ann Coulter would claim Harry S Truman was "a total fag" though.

Posted by Andrew | April 9, 2007 7:47 AM
2

I think that if every major politician was getting it regularly (as gross as it sounds), the country would be run far more efficiently.

"Let's hurry up and vote already, Daddy needs his hoo-hah!"

Posted by James Gonzales-Meisler | April 9, 2007 8:06 AM
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this adminstration is so blatant. putting a professor on a terrorist no-fly list because he was critical of the president, and a clerk blandly says "that'll do it" like it was no big thing. like it wasn't a violation of everything this counrty is supposed to stand for.

Posted by ellarosa | April 9, 2007 8:28 AM
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Actually, technically speaking, the mission was accomplished. Saddam was overthrown. Then things got worse. But that doesn't negate the fact that the original objective was met.

Posted by raindrop | April 9, 2007 8:55 AM
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3,282.

$415,600, 840,000.

The death rate is going up, so it's costing us less money to kill each American soldier, so that's good news, isn't it?

Posted by Fnarf | April 9, 2007 8:56 AM
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Do you eat with that mouth, Raindrop? The objective was never just "deposing Saddam, then splitting". It was "spread democracy and freedumb to the Middle East". That's how it was sold.

Posted by Fnarf | April 9, 2007 8:58 AM
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In terms of the professor, check out the post on Balkinization, http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-enemy-of-people.html, the people commenting say some crazy ass shit. Total denial.

Posted by Papayas | April 9, 2007 9:03 AM
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Oooh! This is a fun game!

"Actually, technically speaking, the mission was accomplished. Moscow was captured. Then things got worse. But that doesn't negate the fact that Napoleon's original objective was met."


"Actually, technically speaking, the mission was accomplished. Boston was captured. Then things got worse. But that doesn't negate the fact that King George's original objective was met."

Posted by golob | April 9, 2007 9:10 AM
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Actually.... the stated objective was to find and dispose of Saddam's WMD. The freedom stuff was just the frosting on the yellowcake.

Posted by dirge | April 9, 2007 9:13 AM
10

I think we're confusing Goal with Pretext a little here...

Posted by Art | April 9, 2007 10:14 AM
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RE: increased attacks on the homeless.

Have advocates for new hate crime legislation to protect the homeless taken into account how many murders of the homeless have been committed by other homeless people? No doubt that it's sickening that unprovoked attacks from overprivileged dumbfucks are on the rise, but would it be so hard to get a rough estimate of the percentage of attacks that can be attributed to them?

Posted by keshmeshi | April 9, 2007 11:18 AM
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Geez, Kubrick's movies are not supposed to be models for the future. Oy. Beating up the homeless--welcome to the Clockwork Orange.

Posted by jojo | April 9, 2007 11:28 AM

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