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Stop me if you’ve heard news like this before … 

Rogue cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc continues to push for withdrawal schedule.  Measure seen as not having a prayer.  Why does that sound so familiar?  

Some reading of the tea leaves on Mook’s moves here.  I have to say he has a bit more of a coherent plan than certain players farther west, even though they already have a date certain for withdrawal … January 20, 2009 … who, despite the eery similarity of their prliamentary manuevering, unlike al-Sadr haven’t figured out they might come out  better if they hold their fire and pretend to be engaging positively rather than by fighting battles they cannot win.

Bush, at an Austin Powers-themed fundraiser, “We will succeed in Iraq … I believe we’re the party of the doer, the dreamer, the people that work. I believe we’re the party of low taxes. And I know we’re the party of strong national defense to protect the United States of America.”  Oh, behave!

The big news this week is that Bush, facing defections from the squares on his flank, is ready to talk benchmarks.  Hey, if Congress represents the will of the people, how come no one likes them?  This news never gets old: they were for it before they were against it.

Madam Speaker’s hometown rag sees this as the beginning of the end for Bush.   Good luck with that! 

Hey, I thought the George Tenet newsflash was that George Bush lied, people died.  Tell me it’s not a lie!

Well, it’s May, springtime in Washington. All kinds of things are blooming! Speaking of gas … pun intended … you may find everything you need to know about the candidates here.  Aren’t the pork blossoms lovely this year?

Look over there, across the pond.  Someone got jailed for revealing official secrets in Britain. Odd reverse image of effort to go after alleged official secrets spillers here, where the secrets weren’t official, and weren’t really secret, let alone not being true.  And they weren’t really much interested in the person who actually spilled the unofficial non-secrets, anyway.  Which will make it a crime if this guy gets jail.

Huge news as the French make a decidedly unFrench move. Well, some of them.  Others throw a fit in the style currently all the rage in Paris and the provinces.

Win some, lose some. Blair’s long goodbye was big in the news, but “whither Britain” is the news we’re waiting to hear.  Brown pledges “rethink” on Iraq. It may be news to some that commitments to political and economic stability require a commitment to security.

Old news new again.  Going back, oh 230-odd years, U.S.-French relations have had a lot to do with U.S.-Brit relations.  Blair’s love affair with Bush was seen as his downfull, but when the limeys see Nick getting kozy with U.S., will they get jealous?  

News flash: We’re still at war.  Allowing illegal aliens to range freely in your country is a bad idea.  Al-Qaeda, as advertised, operates by inspiring jihadis to think globally, act locally.  Hold on, they’re victims.

It’s Friday in Gaza, and we all know what that means … it’s Death Cult Mickey time!

News out of Russia, increasingly unpleasant of late. So if we’re the Nazis, does that make Putin the Man of Steel?  Bush and the Putster have a chat.  I wonder what that was like. 

The United Nations: a place where news like this really isn’t news.

All that news out of Europe, the homefront, you’d almost forget these guys. They’ve been very busy. Still newsworthy.

Hey, if a couple of grumpy generals can make headlines, what do 2,700 grunts need to do to make the news?

More news like this: Senator on active duty in Iraq.

All the news you can bare: Dancers for Democracy. 

Speaking of news about stripping.

Correctly predicting the news about dissent under the evil Bush regime.

Sperm news: you gotta watch what you do with that stuff.

What’s news for the goose is news for the gander, Al.

Anyone surprised by this tornado news out of Kansas? 

Imagine my surprise as a first-generation Australian-American (a small but fiercely proud minority) when I saw this news.

Rightwing news.

News about news = news.

Newsman taken away by military in my old town, Dhaka.

Not too proud to eat crow when the news bears out a Massachusetts hack re hillbilly heroin.

Here’s looking at news, kid.

Topics: Good News Bad News

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:14 am Comments (3) on Friday, May 11, 2007

3 Responses to “Good News Bad News”

1. The Thunder Run Says:
   May 11th, 2007 at 11:09 am

   Web Reconnaissance for 05/11/2007

   A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.

2. RebeccaH Says:
   May 11th, 2007 at 4:38 pm

   It’s been the beginning of the end for George Bush ever since he was elected. Ho hum. In a year and a half it really will be the end, and then what are they going to cry about?

   Interesting statement from Ms. Nabila Ahmad. Muslims in Australia in 1650? Wonder what her evidence was. She didn’t say, did she?

   Bad movie ratings for smoking in movies? Another ho hum. That certainly hasn’t stopped determined under-17s from seeing most of the crap they put up on the screen. Why do they think anyone will pay any more attention to a bad rating for smoking?

3. Papa Ray Says:
   May 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

   Great RoundUP.

   I wonder if Kanas has an impeachment clause or at the very least a clause where the governor can be tarred and feathered.

   Papa Ray

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