Three months ago, a 36-year-old man showed up in Gerald, Missouri claiming to be a federal DEA officer. He drove a car with a siren bar and a police radio and wore a black t-shirt with “Police” emblazoned across the chest. He carried a gun and had a federal ID card and an official-looking badge. And perhaps most importantly, he was sturdily built and clean-cut. According to the mayor “He was everything that you’d think a federal officer would be”.
Except, that he was a fake.
The subterfuge might have gone on longer except that the “agent” started doing drug busts without search warrants. But did that make police suspicious? No, it took a reporter from the local (weekly) newspaper to call up the local sheriff and ask him if he knew anything about this agent.
John McCain (and most other republicans) are refusing to support a bill to restore veteran’s benefits to the levels they were at after WWII. Their reason? They claim that it will hurt “troop retention” and encourage soldiers to leave the service.
Here is Jon Stewart’s take on the rebranding of the Republican party:
I notice that he missed the fact that Effexor XR comes in a Republican red pill with a large “W” on it, which we reported on four days ago. You heard it here first, folks!
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Once again it seems like the only thing that saves us from the Bush administration is their sheer incompetence. And the only thing that saves us from knowing about their incompetence is the mainstream media.
The Bush Administration has been beating the war drums against Iran. On May 3, the US military under General Patraeus alerted the US media to a “major news event” where captured Iranian arms in Karbala would be displayed, proving that Iran was supplying arms to the war in Iraq. But when US munitions experts went to Karbala, they discovered that there wasn’t a single Iranian weapon there and the event was cancelled.
Since the US media announced this event, do you think they would bother to report when it was cancelled? Of course not. The only mention in the US media was in a Los Angeles Times blog. The story wasn’t carried in the LA Times itself. If you want to read about it, you have to go to the foreign press.
Lt. Worf from Star Trek has traveled back in time to endorse Barack Obama. Like Obama, Worf had an absent father and an unclear racial identity. Worf also compares the threat of Islamic extremism to the Borg.
A post here earlier today pointed out the hypocrisy of Bush comparing Obama to Nazi appeasers because Obama is in favor of negotiating with (some of) our enemies. But it just keeps getting more bizarre. Today McCain (who is largely running on his foreign policy experience) defended Bush’s remarks and further claimed that the reason that the hostages in Iran came home in the 80’s was because Reagan refused to negotiate.
Unfortunately, McCain seems to lost his bearings again. Has he forgotten the Iran-Contra Scandal? That’s where Reagan’s administration was caught red-handed sending arms to Iran in exchange for the release of the hostages. Doesn’t that sound like appeasement?
UPDATE: It turns out that McCain has totally flip-flopped on whether we should be talking with Hamas. Two years ago he was in favor of it, now he is attacking Obama for being in favor of it. Which astoundingly is not even Obama’s position on Hamas (both Clinton and Obama have said that Hamas must change its policies toward Israel and terrorism before it can have diplomatic relations with the US).
UPDATE 2: While Bush and McCain are attacking Obama for wanting to sit down and talk with Iran, Bush’s own Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, is calling for the same thing! “We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage … and then sit down and talk with them” Gates said about Iran.
Today, NARAL announced their endorsement of Obama for president. Apparently, this didn’t sit well with Ellen R. Malcolm, the president of EMILY’s List, who said in a news release “I think it is tremendously disrespectful to Sen. (Hillary) Clinton … to not give her the courtesy to finish the final three weeks of the primary process.”
Which is strange, considering that EMILY’s List endorsed Clinton back in January.
I notice that he missed the fact that Effexor XR comes in a Republican red pill with a large “W” on it, which we reported on four days ago. You heard it here first, folks!
