Hominid Views

I had a long, busy day today. This evening when I finally got a chance to look at the national news, here is what I found:
It appears the Bush Administration has been writing propaganda for the Iraqi press. From the LA Times:

As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military [...]

From a King County Press Release:

King County Executive Ron Sims today called upon King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng to initiate a formal perjury investigation of Lori Sotelo, the King County Republican Party vice-chair who erroneously challenged the voter registrations of hundreds of King County residents on the eve of the election.
Sims’ call comes in [...]

Yesterday, the King County Canvassing Board voted on the GOP challenges over voters whose residence was a mailbox or storage facility. Switzerblog has a great archive of blog and media sources for this story. Here is the King County Press Release on the hearing. The short story:

Today, the King County Canvassing [...]

This piece is somewhat dated, but what with all this reevaluation of the evidence that took us to war, I though this poker parable should be re-circulated. From The Poor Man:

Poker With Dick Cheney
Transcript of The Editors’ regular Saturday-night poker game with Dick Cheney, 6/19/04. Start tape at 12:32 AM.
The Editors: We’ll take [...]

Carl Hiaasen, a columnist for the Miami Herald, has an interesting editorial about Dick Cheney today.

Nobody pushed harder than Cheney for a military strike against Saddam Hussein. Nobody was more cocksure about the presence of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear components. Nobody was more emphatic about a secret alliance between al Qaeda and Baghdad.
And [...]

The Sunday Telegraph reports on a video that has been posted on the internet. The video shows private security personnel in Iraq shooting at people.

A “trophy” video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can [...]

The staffers at Al Jazeera have set up a new blog to cover the story (or conspiracy theory, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair claims) about Bush suggesting military action against the broadcast network.
The blog is called Don’t Bomb Us – A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers. It should be a good place to [...]

The latest release from Mark Fiore is called Stay the Course Man. If you haven’t seen all of his animated editorial cartoons, check them out in the animation archive.
Here are a couple of games being highlighted at Bushflash.com:
The first is an oldie but goodie called Bush Wants Beer.
The second game [...]

Last Tuesday afternoon the story broke about the leaked British Memo that allegedly said Bush raised the idea with Tony Blair of “military action” against Al Jazeera; Blair reportedly talked Bush out of it. Al Jazeera’s is based in Qatar, a country that has been a U.S. ally in the Iraq invasion.
Unfortunately, [...]

ThinkProgress writes:

20 Reasons to Give Thanks
This Thanksgiving, progressives have a lot to be thankful for. Here’s our list….

It is a nice list of things to be thankful for. Read carefully, because the 14th item on the list says:

We’re thankful for HorsesAss.org, for exposing (in such ironic fashion) ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown’s checkered past [...]

Remember Representative Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) who gave a speech before the House of Representatives last week suggesting that Representative John Murtha (D-PA) is a coward? Here exact words were “He [Col. Danny Bubp] also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: cowards cut and run; Marines never do.’’
Murtha is [...]

Last night, The General wrote that

I’ve been in a funk for the last few weeks. I’m absolutely horrified by what my country has become. Corruption has replaced the rule of law. The media has sold its watchdog role for a few pieces of silver and invitations to the ruling class’ cocktail parties. The owners in [...]

Everyone is wondering why Bush decided to visit Mongolia on his whirlwind trip through Asia.
The official word is that he wanted to thank Mongolia for their contribution of troops to the Iraq invasion. But, Mongolia only sent a measly 120 soldiers! It probably cost a million bucks for the [...]

I am pretty sure this is satire, but when it comes to the Bush administration, ya just never know!
From thehim at blog reload:

Washington DC – Nov. 21, 2005 – The Pentagon has announced today that it will soon run out of operation names for the war in Iraq. After the next three military [...]

Andrew at Northwest Progressive Institute has put together a collection of quotations from prominant Republicans discussing Clinton’s use of the military.
For example:

“President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this [...]