I must be channeling SayUncle or something. The Daily Show just ran a piece on a luxury resort in Colorado where you can receive self-defense, firearms, and counter-terror training in addition to your swedish massage. I know they were making fun of it, but it actually looked like a lot of fun to me! And [...]
Archive for September 28th, 2004
Must Be the Uncle in Me
Posted in I do too have a life on September 28, 2004 | 5 Comments »
More Documents Concerning Bush's Lack of Service
Posted in Politics, Satire on September 28, 2004 | Comments Off
Via The Onion: Freshly unearthed public documents, ranging from newspapers to cabinet-meeting minutes, seem to indicate large gaps in George W. Bush’s service as president, a spokesman for the watchdog group Citizens for an Informed Society announced Monday. …snip… According to Rocklin, the most damning documents were generated at roughly one-day intervals during a period [...]
On Fairy Tales and Political Campaigns
Posted in Culture on September 28, 2004 | Comments Off
Jeanne has a thoughtful rumination on the state of modern campaigns. Exceprting would od it an injustice. Just go read the whole thing
The Free Market Health System: More Money, Less Coverage
Posted in Health on September 28, 2004 | 6 Comments »
This wont come as a shock to most people, but over the last four years, people have been paying more for healthcare Nationwide, workers’ costs for health insurance have risen by 36 percent since 2000, dwarfing the average 12.4 percent increase in earnings since President Bush took office, the liberal consumer group Families USA reports [...]
Bush was Warned to Expect Iraq Problems
Posted in Iraq on September 28, 2004 | 1 Comment »
They knew months before the invasion that they could expect huge problems in Iraq: The same intelligence unit that produced a gloomy report in July about the prospect of growing instability in Iraq warned the Bush administration about the potential costly consequences of an American-led invasion two months before the war began, government officials said [...]
FBI Lagging on Terror Translations
Posted in Terrorism on September 28, 2004 | Comments Off
This makes me feel safer: Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and computer problems may have led the bureau to systematically erase some Qaeda recordings, according to a declassified summary of a [...]
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