political nonsense

Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail reported on the situation in Baghdad before the election:

It is as if people are preparing for a war here. Shops are selling out of bread and food. There’s the ongoing gasoline crisis. So many families are even leaving Baghdad…election refugees…”I don’t want to be nearby when a giant suicide bomb strikes this polling station.”…Most feel that this violence and chaos that has become the norm in occupied Iraq will only continue to increase after the elections occur.

Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, speaking to us from Baghdad.

Martha Stewart pointed out that prison food sucks.
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Half of American food goes to waste.
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10,000 people are dying each month in Darfur.
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Six high level CIA officers have resigned since Porter Goss took over in September. Porter Goss has complained of Democratic partisanship within the CIA and has forced out several top Democrats in the CIA since taking his position. In August of 2004, Goss called John Kerry’s national security views “unrealistic and dangerously naive” Critics have also accused Goss of being a crony of the White House. According to our President, who appointed Goss, the CIA should be able to “learn things that our adversaries don’t want us to know,”

Iraqi candidates for office are too frightened of being killed to even admit they are running. “Too dangerous,” said Hussein Ali, who spoke for the United Iraqi Alliance, a party fielding dozens of candidates for the elections here. “It’s a secret.”

The central figure in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal admitted he was “wrong.”

he also mentioned it wasn’t his fault

Some say that Maggie should be moved from the Alaska Zoo to a warmer climate where she could get more outdoor exercise. Zoo officials have responded with plans to build her a treadmill.

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