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Archives for September 2006
About That August Decline In Baghdad Civilian Deaths
Somebody made it up. Never happened. Head over to Michael Stickings’s blog for the whole story. Both the U.S. military and Iraqi authorities, after all, had good reason to report a significant drop in Baghdad’s death toll — that is, to lie. For both, as well as for America’s civilian leadership back in Washington, a …
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The Harris Syndrome
In The China Syndrome filmmakers proposed a hilariously misinformed scenario where the melted-down core of a nuclear reactor escapes containment, bursn its way through the Earth’s core and comes out the other side in China. Besides the gravity-defying second half of the putative reactor’s trip the scenario also ignores what happens when the core meets …
The ABC Mockumentary
Let’s say off the bat that somebody will get fired for this. After ABC has to eat its $30 million investment they might sack whoever decided to aggressively promote a fictionalization of the events leading to 9/11, written by a known conservative activist and promoted exclusively to rightwing blogs and allied news outlets like Rush …
Saber Rattling
This is not the kind of news I want to read: US President George W. Bush branded Iran’s president a tyrant and compared leaders in Tehran to Al-Qaeda terrorists who cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. “America will not bow down to tyrants,” he said in the second of a series of election-year speeches …
Three Four Opinions On Iraq
The Pentagon: Attacks and civilian deaths in Iraq have risen sharply in recent months, with casualties increasing by 1,000 a month, and sectarian violence has engulfed larger areas of the country, the Pentagon said Friday in a strikingly dismal report to Congress. The quarterly report, based on new government figures, showed the number of attacks …
RIP Steve Irwin
This sucks: Television personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin has died from a stingray wound while filming off north Queensland. Friends believe he may have died instantly when struck by a stingray as he filmed a sequence for his eight-year-old daughter Bindi’s new TV series. Irwin’s friend of 20 years, Ferre De Deyne said Irwin had …