This time last year
By Libby
I decided to start deleting my old hold files of all the links I saved but didn't get around to blogging. There's a lot of them. I have links going back three years. Any sane person would just delete en masse and start fresh but I can't bear not to look at them first. I figure I saved them for a reason and sure enough, there's some good stuff and still worth blogging so this may become a regular feature of sorts.
This is what we were talking about a year ago.
I wanted to just post this photo, it's so funny but it loses some impact without the caption. Dan Bartlett and Tony Snow touring Iraq. [Jesus General]
This piece got a lot of big attention at the time. Conservative thoughts on Corporate Welfare. The money quote.
That hasn't changed in the last year. [Rising Sons]
And I was surprised to find it was only a year ago that US troops killed al-Zarqawi. That was the turning point that was supposed to destroy the insurgency in Iraq. With all the turning points since then, I guess it just seems longer. [Chris Floyd]
Who remembers today, that three inmates at Gitmo committed suicide last summer. [Detroit News blog]
The White House wasn't just rewriting scientific reports. Under White House pressure, NASA has been forced to cut funding for all projects designed to monitor climate changes. We've yet to feel the full impact of that. [Boston Globe]
George W. Bush was named worst president in 61 years in a popular opinion poll. [Raw Story]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked whether the 04 election was stolen. I've always thought it was and it's good to remember that with 08 looming. We've got to get our elections out of the hands of Diebold and that takes time. [Rolling Stone]
Rolling back the clock a little further, three years ago, we were just hearing about the private mercenaries role in Iraq.
Abu Ghraib was the hot story three summers ago as well. Questions were being raised about four former state prison officials hired by the Justice Department to help set up Iraq's prison system . Each had lawsuits or other problems linked to their tenures in state government. I think nothing ever came of that. [Truthout]
It was 3 years ago that Sean Baker, an Air Force veteran and member of the Kentucky National Guard, was asked by an officer in Guantánamo asked him to pretend to be a prisoner in a training drill. He was severely injured, suffering a permanent brain trauma that left him disabled. I wonder what ever happened to him? [Not in Our Name]
And finally, a long forgotten GOP sex scandal. Illinois Republican Jack Ryan denied accusations he pressured his wife into public sex at kinky clubs. He was running against Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
He lost the race. I'm guessing he didn't do that well in the divorce either. [Smoking Gun]
I decided to start deleting my old hold files of all the links I saved but didn't get around to blogging. There's a lot of them. I have links going back three years. Any sane person would just delete en masse and start fresh but I can't bear not to look at them first. I figure I saved them for a reason and sure enough, there's some good stuff and still worth blogging so this may become a regular feature of sorts.
This is what we were talking about a year ago.
I wanted to just post this photo, it's so funny but it loses some impact without the caption. Dan Bartlett and Tony Snow touring Iraq. [Jesus General]
This piece got a lot of big attention at the time. Conservative thoughts on Corporate Welfare. The money quote.
4. We can NOT trust the Private Sectors to reinvest in America. Corporate profits that DO remain in America are increasingly going only to the top brass, funnelled away to their tax-sheltered investments. Those funds that remain in the corporations are being doled out to finance foreign ventures.
That hasn't changed in the last year. [Rising Sons]
And I was surprised to find it was only a year ago that US troops killed al-Zarqawi. That was the turning point that was supposed to destroy the insurgency in Iraq. With all the turning points since then, I guess it just seems longer. [Chris Floyd]
Who remembers today, that three inmates at Gitmo committed suicide last summer. [Detroit News blog]
The White House wasn't just rewriting scientific reports. Under White House pressure, NASA has been forced to cut funding for all projects designed to monitor climate changes. We've yet to feel the full impact of that. [Boston Globe]
George W. Bush was named worst president in 61 years in a popular opinion poll. [Raw Story]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked whether the 04 election was stolen. I've always thought it was and it's good to remember that with 08 looming. We've got to get our elections out of the hands of Diebold and that takes time. [Rolling Stone]
Rolling back the clock a little further, three years ago, we were just hearing about the private mercenaries role in Iraq.
Four civilian contractors from Reston-based DynCorp International were present during the Iraqi police raid on the home and offices of former exile leader Ahmed Chalabi in Baghdad , the U.S. occupation authority has confirmed.They've become a bit more visible since then. [WaPo]
Officials of Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress have said that Americans in civilian clothes, holding rifles and wearing body armor, directed the Iraqi police on what rooms to go into and what items to take. The Americans did not enter Chalabi's home but did enter the Iraqi National Congress offices that also were raided May 20, Chalabi's associates said.
Abu Ghraib was the hot story three summers ago as well. Questions were being raised about four former state prison officials hired by the Justice Department to help set up Iraq's prison system . Each had lawsuits or other problems linked to their tenures in state government. I think nothing ever came of that. [Truthout]
It was 3 years ago that Sean Baker, an Air Force veteran and member of the Kentucky National Guard, was asked by an officer in Guantánamo asked him to pretend to be a prisoner in a training drill. He was severely injured, suffering a permanent brain trauma that left him disabled. I wonder what ever happened to him? [Not in Our Name]
And finally, a long forgotten GOP sex scandal. Illinois Republican Jack Ryan denied accusations he pressured his wife into public sex at kinky clubs. He was running against Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
He lost the race. I'm guessing he didn't do that well in the divorce either. [Smoking Gun]
Labels: Linkfest
posted by Libby Spencer at 8:20 AM
5 Comments:
yuo can go to any day of the week june 17. and go to 2007, 06, 05 , 04 and 03 and you will find simliar stories abuot iraq, including conservative pundits saying it is getting better but the MSM won't report it.
also here is an excellent link
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56242
if you ahve an open mind :)
Sad but true Lester. I'll check out the link when I can. I have nothing against WND.
One small correction:
And finally, a long forgotten GOP sex scandal. Illinois Republican Jack Ryan denied accusations he pressured his wife into public sex at kinky clubs. He was running against Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
He lost the race.
Ryan actually dropped out of the race. The moribund IL GOP recruited odius GOP carpetbagger Alan Keyes to run against Obama.
Keyes was roundly thrashed.
Good point MW. I forgot exactly what happened and was too lazy to look it up.
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