Monthly Archive: June 2004

The US Army is planning an involuntary mobilization of thousands of reserve troops to maintain adequate force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan … the last time the Individual Ready Reserve, mainly made up of...

Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization intent on deposing Saddam Hussein that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990’s to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities...

The insurgency took root during the occupation’s first few months, when the Coalition Provisional Authority seemed oddly disengaged from the problems of postwar anarchy. But what was Paul Bremer III, the head of the...

Economists at HSBC on Friday waded into the debate over whether the U.S. housing market is overinflated, declaring a bubble exists, something the Federal Reserve has been reluctant to do … “Prices are 10...

[Oklahoma State judge Donald Thompson] frequently masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections while his court was in session … Thompson used a penis pump, a device billed as providing sexual pleasure and...

Some settler leaders see in the Palestinians the modern-day incarnation of the Amalekites, a mysterious Canaanite tribe that the Bible calls Israels eternal enemy. In the Book of Exodus, the Amalekites attacked the Children...

Cheney didn’t flinch, the [911] report said. “In about the time it takes a batter to decide to swing,” he gave the order to shoot it down, telling others the president had “signed off...

This is too funny. Jeri Ryan, the fetish-clad Star Trek Voyager Borg Drone “Seven of Nine” ex-wife of “family values” Senatorial candidate Jack Ryan in Illinois (also a recent High School teacher), has described...

For a while now I’ve been wondering why there were so many clickthroughs to this blog entry. Then I found out it’s the number one entry in Google for “porno ice skating“. Figures.

Lots of other people have mentioned the second quote, but I did some digging and found this first quote: George Bush, February 8, 2003 Iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work...