Scanning The News



Headline: Giuliani child draws attention as Obama supporter.
Comment: The beatings will now commence.

Headline: Bush climate meeting draws doubts about action.
Comment: D'oh!

Story: The coal mine where 6 miners are currently trapped has a record. "Government mine inspectors have issued 325 citations against the mine since January 2004, according to a quick analysis of federal Mine Safety and Health Administration online records. Of those, 116 were what the government considered "significant and substantial," meaning they are likely to cause injury. " The interested reader is referred back to the stories about the MSHA taking pro-industry, anti-enforcement postures which came to light after the last big round of mine fatalities. This has left it to the states to look at and perhaps even regulate the dangerous practice of retreat mining, which was in use at the Utah mine on the news today.

Story: Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that whether he was a practicing Catholic was a personal matter as he declined to answer questions about his religion.
Comment: I seem to remember the Republicans playing the "Not A Good Catholic" card against John Kerry. I wonder if they will take it easier on a pro-choice pro-gun control Republican who suffers from Restless Penis Syndrome.

Flashback: Meet The Press, 7/27/2003, with Tim Russert Speaking with Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz:
"Russert: Senator Lugar said, naivete for those who thought that we would be embraced by the Iraqis. This is what Paul Wolfowitz said in February, and I'll show you and our viewers: It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would to take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine. The fact is, we have just as many troops there now as we did during the war.

When General Shinseki --

Wolfowitz: I believe that's what I said, it's hard to believe it would take more."

Back to the present: "The number of US troops in Iraq has hit its highest level since the beginning of the war, with about 162,000 US forces on the ground there."

Posted: Tue - August 7, 2007 at 11:07 AM        

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