Must read: McCain, melanoma, baseball caps, and you
Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 05:02:28 AM PDT
I have just read one of the best pieces of medico-political journalism I have ever encountered, and I urge you all to read it as well. Not only does it provide more evidence (as if it were needed) of John McCain's hypocrisy and political cowardice, it contains vital information about the dangers of melanoma and how to prevent it, the incredible increase in incidence, and how the FDA caved into the cosmetics industry on the issue of sunscreens after lobbying by John Roberts (remember him -- head of the SCOTUS).
Please read Brian McKenna's McCain's Melanoma Cover-Up piece immediately, especially if you have children. I lost a dear friend to melanoma about one year ago (he was 40 years old with a child). Learn the basics of protection, and learn how McCain is acting, as usual, as an ass. Some excerpts after the jump.
Note: McKenna is a 16-year survivor of melanoma. He writes brilliantly, and knows what he's talking about.
Hillary's latest Iraq War vote excuse
Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 04:57:19 AM PDT
Well, she finally made my head explode with yet another "explanation" of her vote on the Iraq War Resolution--formally known, let's recall, as the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. First, from Wikipedia, a description of the resolution:
The resolution "supported" and "encouraged" diplomatic efforts by President Bush to "strictly enforce through the U.N. Security Council all relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq" and "obtain prompt and decisive action by the Security Council to ensure that Iraq abandons its strategy of delay, evasion, and noncompliance and promptly and strictly complies with all relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq."
The resolution authorized President Bush to use the Armed Forces of the United States "as he determines to be necessary and appropriate" in order to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq."
[My emphasis]
--wikipedia
More follows...
Pentagon: Give it one final Friedman
Wed Feb 28, 2007 at 01:22:21 PM PDT
From today's Guardian:
An elite team of officers advising US commander General David Petraeus in Baghdad has concluded the US has six months to win the war in Iraq - or face a Vietnam-style collapse in political and public support that could force the military into a hasty retreat.
Their to-do list is a bit daunting, to say the least:
By improving security, the plan's short-term aim is to create time and space for the Iraqi government to bring rival Shia, Sunni and Kurd factions together in a process of national reconciliation, us officials say. If that works within the stipulated timeframe, longer-term schemes for rebuilding Iraq under the so-called "go long" strategy will be set in motion. But the next six months are make-or-break for both the US military and the Iraqi government.
Nothing Bush, Bliar, Cheney and Rice can't handle though...right?
NYT RIP-- Judy has killed the "Newspaper of Record"
Sat Oct 15, 2005 at 02:03:04 PM PDT
Jeez I thought I wouldn't add to the noise here but this makes my blood boil...
The Second Libby Meeting
I interviewed Mr. Libby for a second time on July 8, two days after Mr. Wilson published his essay attacking the administration on the Op-Ed Page of The Times.
Updated with link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/national/16miller.html
cont'd
Update II
Handy-dandy NYT timeline here:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/politics/2005_LEAKTIMELINE_GRAPHIC.html
click on Judy to see her key role in destroying the world as we knew it...
The President and "First Lady" at the UN (photo and rant)
Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 02:31:20 PM PDT
Screw Misti, Kerri, Barbi, Bambi and the rest of that lot
Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 02:10:14 PM PDT
So how much does it cost to bump the AVP from its seemingly permanent home at the top of DailyKos?
The world is going to hell in a handbasket and it seems pretty tasteless to carry those cheesecake (and occasional beefcake) ads all the frigging time.
Is there no editorial control over the ad placement? When New Orleans is flooded pictures of smiling swimsuit-clad professional volleyball players doesn't seem quite right.
</curmudgeonly rant>
Dowd DESTROYS the Boy in the Bubble
Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 09:00:38 PM PDT
That vacation did Maureen good...
This president is in a truly scary place in Iraq. Americans can't get out, or they risk turning the country into a terrorist haven that will make the old Afghanistan look like Cipriani's. Yet his war, which has not accomplished any of its purposes, swallows ever more American lives and inflames ever more Muslim hearts as W. reads a book about the history of salt and looks forward to his biking date with Lance Armstrong on Saturday.
A bit more below but just read it:
http://nytimes.com/2005/08/17/opinion/17dowd.html
Rummy In Wonderland
Thu Aug 11, 2005 at 02:14:54 PM PDT
From
Stars and Stripes, though it reads more like Lewis Carroll:
In response to a USA Today story Monday about a Marine Corps colonel in Iraq who said he repeatedly asked for 1,000 more Marines, Rumsfeld said such a request was not an indication that there are too few U.S. troops in Iraq.
"The idea ... that because somebody wishes they had more [troops] at a certain moment suggests the total number is wrong is a non sequitur, obviously a non sequitur," Rumsfeld said.
--http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30855
More vintage Rumsfeld "wisdom" below...
Bush to London: DROP DEAD
Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 01:43:40 PM PDT
Unlike his Rethug predecessor (Gerald Ford, who seems as sweet as the Tooth Fairy in retrospect), Bush actually means it:
Q CNN reports that about two-thirds of British residents believe the bombings are a protest to Britain's support of the U.S. effort in Iraq. Does that concern the President, and has he done anything to reassure Prime Minister Tony Blair?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think the President has talked about the situation in Iraq and the progress that we're making there. The terrorists have chosen to make Iraq a central front in the war on terrorism and we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here at home.
--http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050721-3.html
Mission NOT Accomplished -- Juan Cole
Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 05:21:45 AM PDT
Well sounds like Bush, Cheney, Halliburton Inc. kinda screwed things up:
' the Bush administration cannot have been filled with joy when Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and eight high-powered cabinet ministers paid an extremely friendly visit to Tehran this week. The two governments went into a tizzy of wheeling and dealing of a sort not seen since Texas oil millionaires found out about Saudi Arabia. Oil pipelines, port access, pilgrimage, trade, security, military assistance, were all on the table in Tehran. All the sorts of contracts and deals that U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had imagined for Halliburton, and that the Pentagon neoconservatives had hoped for Israel, were heading instead due east. Jaafari's visit was a blow to the Bush administration's strategic vision, but a sweet triumph for political Shiism.
--
http://www.juancole.com/
US tsunami generosity breathtaking NOT!
Mon Dec 27, 2004 at 02:25:54 PM PDT
from Reuters and no doubt elsewhere...
Dec 27, 2004 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expects to initially pledge $4 million in aid for victims of the devastating tsunami in Asia and has already released $100,000 to each of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, an official said on Monday.
"We are talking to the Red Cross about covering $4 million of a more than $6 million appeal they have made for emergency aid," said the State Department official, who asked not to be named.
-- http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=362910
[too disgusted to make the blockquote thang]
Let's see, 160 gazillion dollars to "liberate" (cough) Iraq and all of $4 million for the tsunami victims. <sarcasm>I'm real proud to be an American. </sarcasm>
President Skull vs Senator Bones
Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 11:51:03 AM PDT
New AP/NYT/Boston Glob BULLSH*T re Fallujah
Sun Nov 14, 2004 at 01:25:38 PM PDT
The following is from an AP "reporter" but has been duly reported in the Boston Glob (and presumably the NYT, though I haven't checked). It is absolutely scandalous. I quote a few passages below:
By Jim Krane, Associated Press, 11/14/2004 15:52
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) In April, 2,000 Marines fought for three weeks and failed to take Fallujah from its insurgent defenders. This time, war planners sent six times the troops...
''We had the green light this time and we went all the way,'' Maj. Gen. Richard Natonski told The Associated Press.
more war crimes beneath the fold...:
It's official -- W. "Villain of the Year"
Fri Oct 29, 2004 at 07:14:57 AM PDT
Courtesy of
The Reg we know that Bush is officially more terrifying than Dr Octopus, Leatherface et al:
Bush was awarded the honour for his role in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and in the process eclipsed the contributions of shortlisted Doctor Octopus, Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Gollum and Elle Driver (Kill Bill) to the cause of world villainy. Total Film editor Matt Mueller told the Standard: "It is possible that people have been a little bit tongue in cheek here, but they are also saying that Bush was very scary in Fahrenheit 9/11. He was absolutely terrifying in that film. He looked like a man who had lost control - the famous scene where he sits there in a school, absolutely paralysed, after being told about the twin towers, is just one example."
Who would you rather have a beer with, George W. Bush or Elle Driver? :)
They got to him too (source renegs on L. Bush drug story)
Thu Sep 23, 2004 at 06:30:53 AM PDT
From the
NYT (via WIRED):
Mr. Nash contacted The New York Times by e-mail on Sept. 15, one day after the newspaper cited him in its review of the book as the source for the passage about drugs. In an e-mail exchange responding to questions from a reporter, Mr. Nash did not deny the statement attributed to him but said that in his conversation with Ms. Kelley he had merely acknowledged the existence of a rumor.
"With the clear understanding that I was chatting with her off the record," he wrote, "we discussed many things.''
Read more for the kicker...
