Big, Big Snow
I don't blame Michelle for posting this shot of the new White House Press Secretary on Tuesday. Because Tony Snow's appointment was still a rumor at that point, Malkin disclosed straight away that the image came from the right-wing photoshop factory. I think the image says a few things...
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There Will Be No Snows
Honestly, I was hard pressed to identify "better" or "worse" images from the trailer for "An Inconvenient Truth."... With the Katrina disaster fresh in mind, the hyper-spinning hurricane on the thermal weather tracker is pretty nerve wracking, as are the pinned back palm trees and the slamming, crashing wave...
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The Lei Away Plan
As the Telegraph points out (link), lesbian and gay families on Monday encountered probably the most disarming enforcers the White House has ever employed. If you were following Easter's edition of the culture wars, you might have heard how gay families from across the country had been planning to claim...
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Campaign Update: Tower Three
As the Moussaoui trial devolves into disaster porn, "America's Mayor" couldn't have gained a better campaign platform on Thursday. If discretion generally governs depiction of the stricken World Trade Towers, this courtroom drawing practically turns Rudy's head into a surviving Tower Three. Of course, placement and scale not only...
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Reading With The Sound Off
How rickety is Bush's faulty tower? This is how bad it is: This morning, GW was actually forced to take a question from Helen Thomas. I don't know what news briefing CBS was watching. Although Bush was edgy and aggressive in his own defense, Jim Axelrod reported simply that: "this...
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Iraq Anniversary
Lately, many of the Iraqi images you've sent me have emphasized blood -- mostly blood in the streets, or blood on people's hands. I tend to interpret this as a wish for finality -- as if the presence of so much blood must represent some kind of bottom line.... ...
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Fresh From Elmo
Fresh from her meeting with Elmo in Indonesia, Condi Rice had a rough go in Australia where protests marred her appearance at the University of Sydney. Inside the school's Conservatorium of Music, students heckled her, then provided 45 minutes of critical questions on issues such as America's international...
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L IED
From GWB's speech on Monday at GWU: Some of the most powerful IEDs we are seeing in Iraq today includes components that came from Iran. Our director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, told the Congress Tehran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of anti-...
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Me Thinks They Doth Protest … For A Change
I'm with Digby on this one, and the visuals only drive home the point: It is past time for elected Democrats to begin laying out the case that the leader of the Republican party, the man to whom the congress has blindly followed at every turn for the past five...
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Oops, Just Missed
You don't think Rove feels like he's a living genius after Bush drops a hysteria bomb out of nowhere about some fuzzy, years-old, supposedly foiled jet liner attack on L.A.'s library tower ... and the newswire hands him this?
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And Who Saves The Missionaries?
The long lead article in this weekend's NYT Mag (The Call - link) follows one family, The Maples, who have been living in Northern Kenya working as missionaries. Jackie Nickerson's cover photo, of Rick Maples with a member of the Samburu tribe, is simply stunning. Aside from the moral...
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A Nuke Is A Nuke Is A Nuke
stoking fear with pix of building http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uniran22jan22,1,5801937.story Iran's Nuclear Stance Poses Quandary for U.N. Bringing Tehra Iran & the Bomb 1: How Close Is Iran? guest post by Dr. Jeffrey Lewis of armscontrolwonk.com. http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2006/01/002300.html Image of a nuke plant not same as where actually do the work...
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Bush's Happy New Ear
"When you are in the presence of the president of the United Staes, I don't care if you've been a devout Democrat for the last hundred years, you're likely to pull your punches to some degree," Mr. Eagleburger said.... 1: Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/politics/05cnd-prexy.html I ran this image myself back in...
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"Victory Plan" Theatre
Trying to counter critics of his war strategy, Bush vowed on Wednesday that U.S. forces will not cut and run from Iraq but said improvements in Iraqi security forces may clear the way for a reduction in U.S. troops.... Trying to counter critics of his war strategy, Bush vowed...
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De-Fence Of Liberty
On the other side are liberals who see a subtle and no so subtle racism in the border debate and feel that all this talk of cultural dissonence is a false construct.... I think my theory is borne out by the right's increasing emphasis on the Mexican border...
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11 Reasons Why The Iraqi Army Has Been Going Nowhere (Featuring More Images From Photographer Alan Chin)
I didn't see it but the American advisers told us about it at the end of the day, I can't comment on whether or not it "seems likely" -- they were detaining people, letting some of them...
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Pizza II
The more I thought about it though, the more I, too, have to conclude this photo (supposedly depicting the decision to launch a pre-emptive strike on Saddam) was staged.
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All's War In Vanity Fair
It's beginning to look like yesterday's SCOTUS announcement marked the beginning of a Rovian counteroffensive. If the most obvious first strike involved the base-rallying nomination of Sam Alito, a less noticeable action that got underway involves the undermining of Joseph Wilson. If the cabal couldn't discredit Wilson before, it...
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