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« Liberal Outrage: August 2006 | Main | Liberal Outrage: October 2006 » Liberal OutrageSpreading Freedom WaPo: Bush made no mention of the dramatic events on Tuesday and left New York yesterday without ever seeing the deposed prime minister, much less offering any public support for a onetime strong ally of the United States. The president's spokesman later provided a strikingly mild response only after being asked by a reporter, pronouncing the White House "disappointed" by the coup. By fnord12 | September 25, 2006, 12:45 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link ...before they break. Not content with fighting "wars" in Afghanistan and Iraq and threatening to invade Iran, we've now added Pakistan to the list. Using the language of a soldier, he claimed to have the mandate to cross into Pakistani territory without informing, leave alone consulting, Islamabad, if he had specific evidence of terrorist whereabouts. Ofc, if the terrorist is in the U.S. and another sovereign state tried to claim a mandate for coming in without "informing" or "consulting" our government about it, that would be another matter entirely. I'm no tactician, but if we already don't have enough soldiers, how exactly are we going to manage to invade on yet another front? By min | September 22, 2006, 9:31 AM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1)| Link Injuries civilians incur in combat zones can sometimes qualify them for a medal. Halliburton is offering to help their injured employees get this medal if they sign a release form that indemnifies Halliburton of any responsibility. This is capitalism at its finest. Talk about ingenuity. Halliburton surely proves that they're not asleep at the wheel. Keep up the good work, guys! Staci Schneider, Carter's press secretary, said that the group notified the AG last week that they had halted the calls. But it was too late. At least seven Hoosiers filed complaints with the state, according to Schneider. The statute allows for a penalty of up to $5,000 per violation, meaning that the group could be hit with a $35,000 fine, based on the seven complaints, although the AG has not yet decided on the penalty it will seek. A hearing is scheduled for September 27th. By min | September 19, 2006, 3:33 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Google's courting the Republicans. That's bad enough considering the Republicans are nothing if not fond of Big Brother tactics and big government. According to TPM, the company they hired is of the extra slimey and shady variety. Fair enough: they can't afford to be completely on the outs with what is at least for now the majority party. But buried down deep in the article it says they've hired the DCI Group. If you're a dirty tricks and slimey opps afficionado a chill most certainly just went down your spine. DCI, if you're not familiar with them, is an interlocking group of companies which is the phony seed bed for most noxious astroturf organizing and general bamboozlement in contemporary politics. So, who's got a search engine for me? Anyone? By min | September 14, 2006, 9:23 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Shamelessly stealing from Joshua Micah Marshall: If the Dems "take the bait" -- defend themselves in the conventional way -- they will lose. Why? Because they'll burn their ad dollars playing Rove's game. They will have "localized" the election. What to do? Stay focused on one and only message -- "You -- the Voters -- have ONE DAY to hold the Bush Administration accountable for what's happened in Iraq, and here at home. ONE DAY -- election day. If you like the way things are going, vote Republican. If you think things need to change, VOTE DEMOCRATIC. Seize the day. It's your very last chance." We're talking to you bozos. Hillary, Harry, Howard, Barrack, Nancy, the lot of you. Quit listening to your loser advisors. They haven't won you a goddamn thing in all this time. What makes you think they have any clue? Oh, and as i pointed out yesterday, you all really need to stop being a slave to polls. I really have no hope for any of you, but i felt it was my duty to at least give it a try. By min | September 12, 2006, 11:14 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Not content with rigging electronic voting machines, the Republicans are also manipulating poll data. FBI Special Agent Jeff Rovelli said 50 percent of information compiled by DataUSA and transmitted to Bush's campaign was falsified, the Connecticut Post reported Thursday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Chang said on several occasions when the company was running up against a deadline to complete a job, results were falsified. Sometimes, the respondent's gender or political affiliation were changed to meet a quota, other times all survey answers were fabricated. Couple this with the fact the Democrats can't make a single decision without first seeing the poll results. The Republicans are much better strategists who aren't afraid to fight dirty and the Democrats are too stupid to learn from their mistakes. By min | September 11, 2006, 3:50 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link The newest ploy is to go public with the secret detention centers so that it will become more palatable. Gee, i'm so sympathetic about the pressures you felt about keeping it a secret that you tortured prisoners in secret locations. Yeah, that happens when you change the law so that what you do stops being illegal. "Harsh" interrogation techniques. At the same time, the administration will ask the intelligence committees to give it guidance to draw up a separate, shorter list of harsh techniques it might still employee under certain circumstances. The point, said one senior official, "is to make the program more durable" and not "subject to the pendulum swings" of Congress or the president. Translation: They get Congress involved in making decisions on what's acceptable and what's not and when the shit hits the fan, Congress is just as dirty as the CIA so nobody is likely to get penalized. Good ass-covering strategy. Prisoners were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques including feigned drowning, extreme isolation, slapping, sleep deprivation, reduced food intake, and light and sound bombardment -- sometimes in combination with each other. Also, they investigated themselves and determined that everything they've done so far was legal and not torture. By min | September 7, 2006, 3:25 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link « Liberal Outrage: August 2006 | Main | Liberal Outrage: October 2006 » |