This thug Sadr is not well respected by Iraqi Shiites, specifically because he is not an Ayatollah. He is way too young and hasn’t completed the study neccessary for the honored title of Ayatollah. The most powerful Ayatollah in Iraq is the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani. Sistani, interestingly enough has a website. It’s [...]

Al-lah : God Al-djebr : Algebra Al-khimiya : Chemistry Al-Qaeda : Foundation / Base Abu Ghraib Father of The Raven

Apparently Photo Mosaics are a new form of satire. The first is a photo mosaic of George Bush’s face from American Leftist, this blogger. He’s pretty well reasoned. The choice of images is controversial, so I should let him explain himself: Given this image’s inflammatory nature, I posted it with a great deal of trepidation. [...]

Defiling a body is a hateful. In the Iliad Achilles was so consumed with hatred for Hector that he defiled his body for days, dragging it three times around the walls of Troy as Hector’s parents wept. All because Hector had killed Achilles’ friend Patroclus. He dragged Hector’s body around Patroclus’ tomb every day until [...]

Palestinian women demonstrate behind a burning mock Israeli prison during a protest demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners in Hebron. (New York Times) A British Army soldier runs in flames from a petrol bomb thrown during a violent protest by job seekers, who say they were promised employment in the security services, in the southern [...]

i don’t mean to, uh, scare anybody… but i’m just a fiscal conservative. Unlike some people I know (re: Whitehouse Budget Charts, via Slate). Barry Goldwater, the original conservative, must be rolling over in his grave. The solution to the Iraq thing is to get UN Support, vis-a-vie, money. And, of course, telling those making [...]

“To keep this economy growing, we will have fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. To keep this economy going, the tax cuts must be permanent.” George W. Bush And Bush is giving Tax Cuts to the Top 10%… the wealthiest Americans (who are good people, shit, give me a minute, this isn’t Class Warfare) This breakdown [...]

Original Army Document document source: http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/document.htm “The story emerged in 2000 when the Boston Globe’s Walter Robinson, after combing through 160 pages of military documents and interviewing Bush’s former commanders, reported that Bush’s flying career came to an abrupt and unexplained end in the spring of 1972 when he asked for, and was inexplicably granted, [...]