Thanks, Tommy Thompson, you’re our winner!
I think Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, Governor Schwarzenegger’s speech last night was one of the finest I’ve ever seen at a convention, and I’ve been going to conventions for 28 years. his speech was outstanding, he gave a portrayal, he painted a picture of why people should be a Democrat, better and more ably than any person I’ve ever heard before.
Emphasis added. Thanks Atrios!
I was never much of a Jack Kemp fan but TNR’s blog has an interesting piece about Jack Kemp and Jewish voters among other things.
Not that even Giuliani has a good chance of getting a large piece of the Jewish vote for Bush, but it’s an interesting story from the otherwise uninteresting RNC convention.
So after months of hinting that something big was in the wind, Josh Marshall & friends have broken their story. The thesis?
The DoD-Ghorbanifar meetings suggest the possibility that a rogue faction at the Pentagon was trying to work outside normal US foreign policy channels to advance a “regime change” agenda not approved by the president’s foreign policy principals or even the president himself.
I need to go dig into my library to confirm this (and it’s late Saturday night so I’m not going to do it now) but I have a recollection that Ghorbanifar did in fact have some sort of Israeli connection as well as being a player in Iran-Contra way back when. If I’m remembering correctly, then it’s quite possible that Mossad is involved in this whole DOD/intelligence passing mess and boy is that not good for the Jews.
All that said, this is not the “bombshell that’s going to rock Washington” that Marshall was promising, unless there’s more yet to come. Bummer.
I thought it was hilarious, per Atrios:
I swear that I witnessed George W. Bush having carnal relations with a swine. I am willing to sign an affadavit stating so.
I can now appear in commercials stating. “I am a pig farmer. While at a campaign stop in Iowa. George Bush attacked one of my sows. George Bush is a pigfucker. I know, because I was there.”
Soon I will appear on the cable news shows. The Washington Post will dutifully report on my claims, because, it will not judge my credibility. I will be appointed to be a federal judge by the Kerry administration. My career path is set. Bring it on.
Yet more proof that you don’t need to make stuff up when – from their own mouths – you can have why God wants you to Vote Republican (not!)
And even better, they have a source list for the quotes in the cartoon.
Even a new kitten high can only last so long. It’s back to reality today. Not only is the Marine Corps cutting its training time for soldiers,
The exercise, called a CAX in Marine lingo, has been shortened from 23 to 11 days, Col. Blake Crowe, operations officer for the Marine Corps Training Command at Quantico, Va., said in an interview.
This was done, Crowe said, to “get more battalions through” in a shorter period of time. Until now, the Marine Corps trained 10 battalions in CAX every six months. Under the accelerated schedule, it will train eight battalions in two months.
but the trainees don’t even get to actually fire some of the weapons they’ve been trained on due to lack of funding.
Staff Sgt. Don Allen, a combat instructor, said his trainees watch demonstrations of the M203 grenade launcher, the Squad Automatic Weapon and the .50-caliber machine gun, but not everyone gets to actually fire the weapons.
“It’s financial,” said Allen, a combat engineer who fought in Iraq last year with the 8th Marines. “I wish I had the money for them to shoot actual rounds. When I went through this training in 1995, we all shot every weapon.”
Where the hell is all the money going?