A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees ” some as young as 10″ are also being subjected to rape and torture And still this story doesn’t splash all over the major television and print news outlets. It’s been bouncing around since Seymour Hersh’s first reports. A Google search on an unfortunate but important phrase in the story brings it up all over the blogiverse and the international news. It’s been touched on by a couple of our major papers, but it…
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The widow of former President, and Republican icon, Ronald Reagan has told the GOP she wants nothing to do with their upcoming national convention or the re-election campaign of President George W. Bush. Whoa. So noted. They really ticked her off over a campaign ad they were all set to run during or just after the week of Reaganmania that used images of former President Reagan in a way that seemed to connect his presidency to Bush’s, or gave the impression that he would have approved of Bush’s reelection. Scroll down in the article for some more tasty fulminations from…
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You know how sometimes, things go really well? And other times, things don’t go so well, and you only have yourself to blame? Well, what about those times when really well and not so well are all mooshed together? That’s how I feel. I feel really good about being more informed about politics. Also, I feel pretty good about some of the horses in the race. I like their chances. I feel pretty good about being better informed in general about international and national news. This is a result of reading about 4 or 5 news feeds via Bloglines. I…
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As reported in the New Republic on the 19th: The July Surprise is right on schedule. [Editor’s Note: This afternoon, Pakistan’s interior minister, Faisal Saleh Hayyat, announced that Pakistani forces had captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian Al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The timing of this announcement should be of particular interest to readers of The New Republic. Earlier this month, John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman, and Massoud Ansari broke the story of how the Bush administration was pressuring Pakistani officials to apprehend high-value targets (HVTs) in time…
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Okay, this works for me on so many levels: towleroad reports he’s a friend of TAR4’s Chip (not to be confused with TAR5 Chip). Anyway, the .50 millionaire of Season 4 is at the Democratic National Convention and had an encounter of his own with Bill O’Reilly. Remember him? He was one of the married guys. 😉 ‘Bill, I am gay, was married, and would appreciate you maybe next time on your show recognizing that two same-sex people in love should share the same rights as any other couple.’ He said, ‘I will consider it.’ Someone should start a blog…
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A snarling Staffordshire terrier trapped a German railway worker at his post for hours and even bit through metal trying to elude capture, police say. We’re thinking about getting a dog next spring. Not this kind of dog, I’m thinking.
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It seems that David is now at stage 3 with his WordPress blog: he’s created a button. As in “cool crap to stick on the sidewall.”
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Need to verify if I have Save Href installed per Al-Muhajabah’s Movable Type Tips’ recommendation. I quote a LOT of URLs that have ampersands, and although I tried to set up something to fix it, it doesn’t seem to be working. Nowhere close to validating. However, Elise’s previous advice on the topic is also helpful: don’t get too hung up on having to have every page validate.
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Anyway, we talked a lot about gadgets, blogs and Creative Commons. I got him to agree that it would make sense to put a Creative Commons license on his site so that people could use pictures of products and clips of his text to review products. I think that his stuff is PERFECT for blogs. I hope no one will be busting down my door and confiscating anything just because I thought those ducks were so damn kawai (cute) a few months back. Not to mention all the other fun things encountered at Dynamism and other sites that were just…
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Apparently, W. isn’t conservative enough for some. And this is a scary thought: 5 reasons Bush isn’t quiiiiite conservative enough for some people (admittely, he is more conservative than his Poppy was, thus more satisfactory to the hardline).