While promising a more aggressive approach, Steele also insisted that Republicans will show "class" in countering Obama.
"We are going to take this president on with dignity. This will be a very sharp and marked contrast to the shabby and classless way that the Democrats and the far left spoke of President Bush."
The woman who prayed instead of getting medical help when her daughter was dying of diabetes, Leilani Neumann, has been found guilty. The defense argument?
Linehan countered, saying Neumann didn't realize her daughter was so ill and did all she could do to help, in line with the family's belief in faith-healing.
He said Neumann is a devout Christian who prays about everything and took good care of her four children.
"Religious extremism is a Muslim terrorist," Linehan said. "They are saying these parents were so far off the scale that they murdered their child. The woman did everything she could to help her. That is the injustice in this case."
Charming redefinition there — so only Muslims can be terrorists? I think everything this crazy woman did fit perfectly into the definition of religious extremism.
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This is pretty awesome. Wingnut WorldNet Daily is running a fundraising drive to "raise awareness" about Obama's birth certificate.
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Why I hate Komodo Dragons - Volume 439,753
Used to be the prevailing wisdom about Komodo dragons was that their bites killed through the toxic bacteria in their mouths. Now it has been discovered that they release venom that causes prey to go into shock and bleed to death.
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No, I don't think we should let up on Dick Cheney's claim that he "kept us safe after 9/11." Closing the barn door after the horse leaves, when you knew that door wasn't secure doesn't qualify you for a medal. An administration that came into power claiming that "the adults are now in charge" and then ignored (perhaps deliberately) warning after warning that something very big and very bad was about to happen has absolutely ZERO claim on "keeping us safe."
Now, former 9/11 Commission member Richard Ben Veniste, best known for asking Condoleeza Rice for reciting the title of the now infamous August 6 Presidential Daily Briefing, has heard quite enough about how Dick Cheney's lunatic view of the universe "kept us safe" AFTER the Bush Adminitration's spectactular level of negligence: http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/05/ask-those-who-lost-loved-ones-in-911.html
Also, two top Bush-era officials rejected Cheney's lies and scathing criticism of US President Barack Obama, saying the country's national security was not in jeopardy.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in the same post under former president Tipsy McStaggers, and Tom Ridge, the former head of Homeland Security who invented the color-coded terror alerts he used to terrorize us, both voiced disagreement with Cheney a day after he attacked Obama's performance as the new commander-in-chief.
Ridge also said he was disappointed with Cheney, saying the bloated old f*&k has a lot of nerve even talking about the subject of security, when he presided over the annihilation of over 3000 American citizens.
Well, he should have, anyway.
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Matt Taibbi on scapegoating: Don't pin the recession on AIG's Joe Cassano.
Taibbi points out something that's always troubled me when politicians do it: They divorce themselves from any impact their actions have on innocent people. That is the very essence of moral bankruptcy.
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Karl Rove was angered by Obama's critiques of the Bush administration, and he disputed the fact that the Bush administration had left a "mess" at Guantanamo so he went on the Brian and the Judge radio show and blamed the mess on Obama:
"What's ironic to me is that yesterday he said "this is a mess that was left to me by my predecessors." No. This is a mess, to the extent that it is a mess, left to him by his friends and allies like Attorney General Eric Holder. Remember, there are DOJ appointees of this president who are in court arguing against the government's position on these kind of things. I mean, it is his friends and allies and in some instances, his appointees who are in court arguing for an expansion of the rights of the terrorists and arguing for an end to the military commissions."
It's unclear what cases Rove is referring to. There has been no litigation on the military commissions since Obama took office in January. And as Obama noted, "the problem of what to do with Guantanamo detainees was not caused by my decision to close the facility; the problem exists because of the decision to open Guantanamo in the first place."
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Here's some more of that change we can believe in: we're outsourcing the torture: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/world/24intel.html?_r=1&hp
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Despite US demands, Israel refuses to halt settlement construction: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087541.html
Let's give them some more money so they can use it for things like this:
Darling Israeli girls signing bombs headed to Lebanon "with love"
I have never believed anything that has come out of Dick Cheney's mouth, but I do believe this:
"They (terrorists) have never lacked for grievances against the United States. Our belief in freedom of speech and religion … our belief in equal rights for women … our support for Israel … these are the true sources of resentment…."
"Our support for Israel" fuels terrorism - Cheney got that part right.
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Yesterday in Iraq: 1 soldier and 2 US contractors killed.
4,300 soldiers killed in Iraq
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