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Monthly Archive for July, 2008

U.S. terrorist list hits 1 mln names
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Xinhua) — The U.S. terrorist watch list now has 1 million names on it, partly due to the loose criteria for adding names to the list, a rights group said Monday.
“America’s new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what’s wrong with this [...]

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Drash: I thought this thing was rejected by the House and/or Senate?  Sheesh.  How is this sort of thing possible?  Giving retroactive immunity for crimes against Americans? 
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in [...]

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The sad saga of a soldier from Long Island
BY MARTIN C. EVANS
The March 2003 image became one of the most iconic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: that of a bespectacled American soldier carrying an Iraqi child to safety. The photograph of Army Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, who was raised in Mount Sinai, was used by [...]

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(Anti-)War Crimes

By: Devvy Kidd
July 7, 2008
My last column on The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, brought some very ugly email as well as one polite disagreement. Let’s look at what two Americans had to say about my column. Email one:

“…withdraw from this heinous, unconstitutional war in Iraq (and Afghanistan).” When I read lines like [...]

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Jesus Hears a Who?

Why does the following remind me of Horton Hears a Who?  
Is pastor Biltz making the assumption that Yeshua is “hard of hearing” or perhaps is off doing something more interesting, like bowling with the angels or something…   At any rate, there is no need to engage in such a foolish exercise.  No one can force God’s hand [...]

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Optimists losing faith…

Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization’s Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation’s 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags [...]

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Suffering Messiah Foretold

The following article is inconclusive, of course, though it provides evidence that the idea of bodily resurrection of a suffering Mashiach was part of the Messianic expectation before Jesus’ time… Skeptics, of course, will attempt to use this as “proof” that the gospel story was fabricated — by why draw that conclusion, especially considering how [...]

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(WASHINGTON) — Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year’s end. He conceded that June was a “tough month” in the nearly seven-year-old war.
In fact, it was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the conflict began. More [...]

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Dollar Has Dropped 41% Under Bush

[ Part of the planned deconstruction of America, friends...  Paid for by your tax dollars... ]
Bush’s Dollar Drop Maps Loss of U.S. Clout at Final G-8 Summit
By James G. Neuger
July 3 (Bloomberg) — When President George W. Bush went to his first Group of Eight summit in 2001, a dominant issue was the dollar [...]

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More Fox Propaganda: 24

Is 24 Propaganda? Is The Pope Catholic?
Talking heads omit fact that U.S. government, Neo-Con ideologues met with cast members to run PR for war on terror
by Paul Joseph Watson
To coincide with the start of a new season of Fox’s much vaunted 24 program, MSNBC featured a debate asking whether the lead character, Jack Bauer, [...]

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