Rice admits "thousands" of errors in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060331/pl_nm/britain_usa_rice_dc_8

BLACKBURN, England (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza accepted on Friday the United States had probably made thousands of errors in Iraq but defended the overall strategy of removing Saddam Hussein.

"Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them," she said in answer to a question over whether lessons had been learned since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Secretary Rice, let me help you with that math. These are rough estimates because we don't know for sure how many you have slaughtered but here goes:

2,400+ American Soldiers Dead
30,000+ wounded (most are without limbs)

100,000+ Iraqi civilians dead

i'd say there were a few thousand errors..... you evil bitch

Prayer Doesn't Aid Recovery, Study Finds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033000902.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

Praying for other people to recover from an illness is ineffective, according to the largest, best-designed study to examine the power of prayer to heal strangers at a distance.

The study of more than 1,800 heart-bypass patients found that those who had people praying for them had as many complications as those who did not. In fact, one group of patients who knew they were the subject of prayers fared worse.

Surprisingly, 59 percent of the patients who knew they were being prayed for experienced complications.

No shit... that's because there is no God, you freaks.

YO, FUCK YOU... YOU MUTHA FUCKIN' MOOLIE

EVA HERD OF THE JUDCIAL BRANCH?

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=132848

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT JERKOFF... TAKE IT UP WITH MY BOSS... JESUS FUCKIN CHRIST

LEAVE THE GUN, TAKE THE CANNOLI

uh.uh..uh... i, mean what do you think? i'm some sort of dumbass?

don't be silly Mr. President. we don't think you are a dumbass. we think you are a dumbass lying sack of shit for brains.....

is this the gesture the kid uses after being Scaliad???? he he he he

Debt Snowball - Prime goes to 7.75%

a little humor from the folks at snl......

http://www.devilducky.com/media/41738

Eclipse Tomorrow Will Blot Out the Sun

ACCRA, Ghana - Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around the world for a solar show — the first total eclipse in years, which will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia, blotting out the sun across swathes of of the world's poorest lands.

Wednesday's eclipse will blot out the sun in highly populated areas, including west Africa, where governments scrambled to educate people about the dangers of looking at the eclipse without proper eye protection.

One Indian paper advised pregnant women not to go outside during the eclipse to avoid having a blind baby or one with a cleft lip. Food cooked before the eclipse should be thrown out afterward because it will be impure and those who are holding a knife or ax during the eclipse will cut themselves, the Hindustan Times added.

2ND PLACE.......

Everybody's talking at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind... wah.... wah, wah, wah

Johansson Tops FHM's 'Sexiest Women' Poll

.......

Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/international/europe/27memo.html?hp&ex=1143522000&en=1a8220fd45b2aca0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

this story is getting surprisingly little coverage in the main press... it basically confirms what we already knew: George Bush is a lying sack of shit for brains.

New Home Sales Plummet in February

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060324/economy.html?.v=6

puke factor setting in...
West saw 29% decline
South saw 6.4% decline
inventories are rising with over 6 months supply on the market... look out in chenal

At Least 56 Dead in Latest Iraq Violence - and still counting....

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Despite assurances from the Bush Administration and Republican Presidential hopeful Gov Mike Huckabee that talks of a civil war are "blown out of proportion", at least 56 Iraqis died Thursday in violence, including a car bombing that killed 25 people in the third major attack on a police lockup in three days.A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance to the Interior Ministry Major Crimes unit in Baghdad's central Karradah district, killing 10 civilians and 15 policemen employed there, authorities said.

Before Dubya and Huck-a-fuck make such moronic and outlandish comments i think they need to strap on a flak jacket and make a little visit to the hornets nest.....

Bernanke Says Yield Curve Doesn't Signal Slowdown

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aGM4EaFiVQDo&refer=home

no worries, the chairman of the federal reserve said we don't have to worry about the inverted yield curve. it doesn't predict recessions.
uhhhh.... what did he say?
also from the article: ``If spending depends on long-term interest rates,'' Bernanke said, and special factors lower those rates, then demand will be stimulated and `a higher short-term rate is required.''
that should be interpreted as meaning that he will not only continue to raise short term interest rates which drive prime, but that the lower the long-term yields stay the more stimulative they are thus requiring more tighting of the short rates..
he also said some other stupid shit and i am very concerned this guy doesn't know his head from his ass.... very concerned.

Memo to Democrats - Bring back our heros

It's simple.. in order for the Democratic party to take the nation back is to embrace the values and wisdom of our former leaders who have been tossed out with history. We should ask these two men to help formulate a unified agenda and roadmap for execution. it's not too late and it can be done.

http://www.habitat.org/how/carter.aspx

http://www.garyhartnews.com/hart/about/resume.php

Weakening Home Sales and Recessions

Note the white shaded areas are times of recession. This is no surprise as the housing market is very cyclical. It does make one wonder if this time a slowdown in the housing market would drive us into another recession. the pundits say no. looking at this chart and knowing that the whole rebound in the economy was driven by cheap money and a real estate boom (most new jobs since Bush elected in housing business) then you would have to conclude a slowdown in housing would put pressure on jobs and consumption. With 70% of US GDP consisting of consumer spending, you would have to then conclude a sharp deceleration in economic growth due to a housing slowdown would have a negative affect on US output

some debt tidbits from WSJ

Congress Raises Debt Cap, Fourth Increase Under Bush

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Congress approved a $781 billion increase in the federal government's debt limit, the fourth time lawmakers have raised the cap since President George W. Bush took office.
The Senate voted 52-48 to increase the legal limit on federal borrowing to $8.97 trillion, up from $8.18 trillion. The House approved the measure last year, meaning the legislation now goes to the president for his signature.
Treasury Secretary John Snow warned Congress in increasingly dire terms that the government couldn't keep paying its bills, and risked defaulting on its debt, without an immediate increase in the cap. The ceiling was lifted about 30 minutes after the Treasury postponed the scheduled announcement of the sale of three-month and six-month Treasury bills. An hour later Treasury said it would sell $37 billion in bills.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a8BKSum9ZWeU

Federal Borrowing to hit $9 trillion in a $12 trillion economy? no way the next President won't have to raise taxes.. no way. that debt can't be paid off at this rate. Bush has completely wrecked the financial discipline excercised under Clinton.....

Hot pepper kills prostate cancer cells in study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Capsaicin, which makes peppers hot, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, U.S. and Japanese researchers said on Wednesday.
Capsaicin led 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice to commit suicide in a process known as apoptosis, the researchers said.
Prostate cancer tumors in mice fed capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of tumors in untreated mice, they reported in the journal Cancer Research.
"Capsaicin had a profound anti-proliferative effect on human prostate cancer cells in culture," said Dr. Soren Lehmann of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine.

Bring on the Nachos.....

Halliburton Failed to Protect U.S. Troops' Water

WASHINGTON - Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq in one instance missing contamination that could have caused "mass sickness or death," an internal company report concluded.
The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said the company failed to assemble and use its own water purification equipment, allowing contaminated water directly from the Euphrates River to be used for washing and laundry at Camp Ar Ramadi in Ramadi, Iraq.
The problems discovered last year at that site — poor training, miscommunication and lax record keeping — occurred at Halliburton's other operations throughout Iraq, the report said.

3 words: NO BID CONTRACTS

where is the outrage?

Jessica Simpson snubs Bush

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Concerned about politicizing her favorite charity, singer-actress Jessica Simpson on Wednesday turned down a invitation to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush, a snub that left Republicans dismayed.
The apparent final word that Simpson would be a no-show at a major Republican fund-raiser with Bush and congressional leaders on Thursday night came after a day of conflicting reports from her camp and organizers of the event.
The blond star of the film "The Dukes of Hazzard" still plans to visit Washington on Thursday to lobby members of Congress on behalf of Operation Smile, a non-profit venture offering free plastic surgery for disadvantaged children overseas with facial deformities.

Wall Street Journal poll gives Bush an F on Iraq

The most conservative daily newspaper with the most conservative readers give Dubs a fat F by wide margin. It's not surprising.. kind of looks like a typical Bush report card.

Iraq = Civil War.... except if you are Gov of Arkansas

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 14 — The police reported finding 68 bodies (updated: now 85) today scattered around the city, as the wave of reprisal killings for Sunday's attack on Shiite civilians appeared to gain steam.
The victims, all male, were shot or strangled after being bound and blindfolded. Many of the bodies were found in Sadr City, the Shiite-controlled area where Sunday's bombings took place, although 15 bodies were found in a minibus on a road west of Baghdad, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
The wave of killings followed a graphic display of street violence on Monday, in which Shiite vigilantes seized four men suspected of terrorist attacks, interrogated them, beat them, killed them and left their bodies dangling from lampposts on Monday morning, witnesses and government officials said.
The sense of growing lawlessness deepened Monday night with a mortar strike against a well-known Sunni mosque in Baghdad, killing three people.
The spate of killings today continued the cycle of heightened violence that began with an assault last month on a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which in turn provoked a wave of Sunni mosque burnings. Now many people are worried about an extended tit-for-tat sectarian war.
Except that is for Republicans in Washington and those running for the Republican nomination for President like Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who thinks prospects for civil war in Iraq are being "blown out of proportion."

I'd like Governor Huckabee to go over to Bagdad and visit all the Arkansas troops and tell them to their face the civil war is being blown out of proportion.. my guess is that they might have different opinion.
it seems to me the civil war is being blown into proportion. maybe that's what he meant.

Bush: Iraq Insurgency Wants Civil War

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Monday insurgents in Iraq were trying to ignite a civil war by escalating violence and warned there will be more "chaos and carnage in the days and months to come."

"Excellent.... Mr. President.. this is working exactly as i have planned. Before you know it, the whole Middle East will be ours."
Uhhhh..... but who's gonna babysit these psychos?

No shit, Dubs, that's what we said about 3 years ago before you kicked off the global "destroy civilization as we know it tour".....

Would somebody get the word to Clusterhuckabee's camp.. Iraq=Civil War
do you want to babysit these psychos?

blown out of proportion? that makes me sick to my stomach.... puke on you gov clusterhuckabee

The Mission: Find a Way to Stay Relevant... Even as he destroys the world as we know it

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1172231-1,00.html

Through the challenges, the President has kept his human touch. Touring New Orleans last week, he met a man who had survived for days on canned goods before being evacuated to Utah. "Were you the only black man in Salt Lake City?" Bush asked.

uhhhh..... what?
"I thought you black dudes preferred fried chicken and gravy. did you enjoy that wolf brand chili i had Brownie send down a few days after the storm hit. he he he, when's the last time you had some wolf brand chili? Get it Sec. Jerkoff?"

"sir, i get it. way to step up to the plate in times of crises. you the man."

what a disgrace

Presidential Candidate Huckabee says talks of civil war in Iraq "blown out of proportion"

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Police found the bodies of four men dangling from electrical pylons Monday in a Baghdad Shiite slum, hours after car bombs and mortars shells ripped through teeming market streets, killing at least 58 people and wounding more than 200.

The grim scene underscored fears Sunday's bloody assault on a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr would plunge Iraq into another frenzy of sectarian killing.

Really? I'm glad he can be so optimistic.. or so delusional

Governor, you need to quit reading the Democrat Gazette if you want to run for President...

Barnhill South hosts Hogs in Rd 1

they couldn't have asked for a better draw. Potentially playing Memphis in Dallas is like a home game. As Reece Davis on ESPN said, "they'll be calling those hogs like mad down in Dallas".

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney06/bracket

Slobodan Milosevic "Butcher of Balkins" Dies in Prison Cell

hopefully he died a painful death.. the above photo references the bombing of a market in downtown Sarajevo. it was consindered the worst atrocity of the war in Bosnia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/market.htm

As horifying as it was in Sarajevo, think about what it's like in Bagdad

for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War

Bracketology = Kwanzaa extension

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology

Good looking draw for the Hogs if it plays out.. this guy has been very accurate over the last few years. I have no problem meeting up w/ JJ Sullinger, the traitor, and spoiling OSU's dance party. Also Memphis would be weakest 1 seed in my opinion.. strap it on...

BLUNDERING US HAS LOST WAR IN IRAQ, HERSH SAYS

MONTICELLO - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh said on Thursday that the war in Iraq has already been lost and American inteligence-gathering there has eroded.

"Now it's clear," he said. "The only question is how do we get out without losing more American boys and killing more Iraqi people."

Conveniently buried in the bottom corner of section B, the sorry gossip rag Arkansas Democrat-Gazette made sure that Mr. Hersh's comments would be tough to find. Why would our paper actually inform us of anything news worthy? God forbid any soldiers in LR would read the article which quotes one Guardsman as saying they were never told of any mission in Iraq. Just cover your ass.
Paint the pages with automobile ads, a new list of the country's billionaires and editorials about school reform. That will make sure citizens are informed.

They didn't give us a review of the smoking Rolling Stones show

One of the daily editorials discussed the death of former Arizona Cardinal and US Ranger Pat Tillman and how embarrasing it was that the Army misreported the circumstances around his death. Embarrasing? How about disgusting, reprehensible and maybe criminal? How about the fact that they lied to his parents and then ran a patriotic propaganda campaign in the NFL and across the country saying he died in a fight with the Taliban when he was really shot by "friendly fire".

Just another lie propagated by the Bush administration.

The Democrat-Gazette editorial staff is the most miserable group of writers in America. Greenberg and Hussman should be ashamed that they are so supportive of ignorance.

it's only rock n roll and i like it.. like it.. yes i do

Jumping Jack Flash
Let's Spend The Night Together
It's Only Rock'n Roll
Oh No Not You Again
Dead Flowers
Back Of My Hand
Tumbling Dice
Midnight Rambler
Night Time Is The Right Time --- Introductions
This Place Is Empty (Keith)
Happy (Keith)
Miss You (to B-stage)
Rough Justice
Get Off Of My Cloud
Honky Tonk Women (to main stage)
Sympathy For The Devil
Start Me Up
Brown Sugar
You Can't Always Get What You Want (encore)
Satisfaction (encore)

Review by Dean Goodman A bluesy night in the country as the Stones returned to Little Rock for the first time since November 1994, and rolled out “Dead Flowers,” “Back of My Hand,” “Midnight Rambler” and “(The Night Time is) The Right Time.” Of course, Arkansas is very special in the Stones annals, thanks to Keith and Ron’s infamous traffic stop in the small town of Fordyce in 1975. After Keith was introduced to raucous cheers, he asked, “Anyone here from Fordyce? I used to know the chief of police there.”
The show took place amid thunderstorm alerts, but the weather was calm as we trooped into the Alltel Arena. I was fortunate to sit next to an excited 22-year-old lap-dancer who had driven eight hours from Kansas, and I knew there was no way the show could suck. Country legend Merle Haggard got things off to a great start, and Mick thanked him before dusting off “Dead Flowers,” the first of two consecutive songs on which he played guitar (followed by the welcome return of “Back of My Hand”).
Mick did not say much during the show, apart from noting the 12-year absence, and sardonically commenting, “You haven’t changed a bit. You look fantastic.” The crowd, indeed, was more rowdy than the Los Angeles people on Monday, not needing much incentive to sing along with such tunes as “Brown Sugar” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
This was the 37th and last show I saw on the Americas leg of the “Bigger Bang” tour, and I’m glad that “Satisfaction” finally sounds like it should. Keith is brandishing a white guitar that Ronnie plays in some earlier tunes, and the song packs a lot more heft.

JAZZFEST: SPRINGSTEEN, HAYNES, HANCOCK, ETTA...

http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=8112

and the METERS.......

Top U.S. Bishop Accused of Sex Abuse

SPOKANE, Wash. - A woman has filed a claim that she was sexually abused more than 40 years ago by Bishop William Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops and leader of the Spokane Diocese.
Skylstad issued a statement Wednesday categorically denying the accusation, saying he has not violated the vow of celibacy he took 47 years ago.

What the hell does that mean? I may have shoved a few cigars up some vaginas, but as President Clinton proved, that isn't sex. I'm still good on the celibacy charge. Get off my jock, you mother fuckers....

Cpt. Midnight coming to Little Rock?

Wow! thanks for all the info. I am definitely interested in your friend's late night ball and I sent an email to Sticky Fingerz.
Cornerstone might be good too. Ideally we'd drive up and get a couple gigs to make it worth the drive. Do you think we'd have a better shot if I mailed you a couple press kits and you could pass it on to the clubs you know people at? I'm sure youre a busy guy and if you don't have time to do it, I totally understand. Its just been my experience that if you know the owner of the club, you can get a better night, quicker. Either way, thanks for the info and keep in touch. peace, 12am

http://www.captainmidnightband.com/jams.html

check this out for some crazy tunes.....

Bush Travels to Vote in Texas Primary

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush didn't take his responsibility to vote in the Texas Republican primary on Tuesday lightly — he took a nearly 1,500-mile trip from Washington to vote in person.
The president and Mrs. Bush voted Tuesday afternoon at a polling station set up at the volunteer fire department in Crawford. The election includes a contested congressional seat in Bush's district.
"It's always good to come home to vote," Bush said after casting his ballot. "And I urge all people to vote when given the chance."
The Bushes then went to their nearby ranch to spend the night.

"Man that was a tough day. Guys get me back to the ranch so I can get some rest. We can go to New Orleans tomorrow afternoon... after we've had some of mama's blueberry pancakes. Man, they're good... he he he he"

Ah, sir, Mr. President, the world is falling apart.......

Coordinated Bombings Kill 15 in India

VARANASI, India - A series of coordinated bombings rocked a packed railway station and crowded temple Tuesday in Hinduism's holiest city, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens in an attack that raised fears of communal violence.

Cities across India were put on high alert as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm, said his spokesman, Sanjaya Baru.
"Stern action will be initiated against all those found involved," said Mulayam Singh Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the state where Tuesday's blasts occurred.
The attacks, which injured at least 62 people, came only days after Hindus and Muslims fought in the streets of Lucknow, leaving four people dead, during a visit to India by
President Bush.

"Adios muchachos,
Let's get the fuck out of here....."

Bush Weaves Rug Story Into Many an Occasion

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601446_pf.html

Bush went on: "The interesting thing about this rug and why I like it in here is 'cause I told Laura one thing. I said, 'Look, I can't pick the colors and all that. But make it say 'optimistic person.' "

"uhhhh.... because i'm destroying the world as we know it.. i think if anything, my rug should scream optimism"

Iran faces consequences in nuclear dispute: Cheney

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces "meaningful consequences" if it persists in defying the international community, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday.
Cheney, speaking to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, also reaffirmed that the United States was keeping all options on the table -- including military force -- in its determination to prevent Iran from developing nuclear arms.
"The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course the international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences," Cheney said

meaningful consequences include nuking the shit out of the middle east..
nukes? i'll show em some nukes. i'll have Dubya drop a nuclear cap in your ass. how's that for nuclear proliferation?

Mayor of Dookieville confirms potential Kwanzaa extension

Now hear this,
the Hogs are primed for a final run and we must prepare for the final charge. Kwanzaa hangs in the balance and me must prevail. we can't stand down. we must carry on through this weekend and extend the season.
go hogs, whooo pig sooieee..... let's call those hogs

Video shows Bush Katrina warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4765058.stm

Bush fully briefed on the Hurricane before it hit....

Congrats to Mr. Baber (pronounced Babaarrr)

nice work, jerky