Too bad they don’t have anyone with legal training or an understanding of the Internet in the group…

[It is extremely difficult to type while laughing this hard.]

Murtha offered a resolution that would force the president to withdraw the nearly 160,000 troops in Iraq “at the earliest practicable date.” It would establish a quick-reaction force and a nearby presence of Marines in the region. It also said the U.S. must pursue stability in Iraq through diplomacy.

But House Republicans planned to put to a vote – and reject – their own resolution that simply said: “It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.”

At some point in the future historians will wonder:

How the Busheviki can justify not killing or capturing Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi any of the three times he and his group were located in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq prior to the start of the war?

How they can justify not closing the trap on Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri when they were in Tora Bora?

How they can justify protecting the Mujahedin-e Khalq [MEK] when Iran is willing to swap Al Qaeda and Taliban captives for the MEK?

It isn’t the end of this conflict that is going to make the Shrubbery the worst President in US history; it is the beginning and conduct of the war.

[And, as my Mother noted yesterday, an economy worse than Hoover, corruption worse than Harding, and less honor than Nixon.]

The Reverend George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was “wrong” and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.

So, what we should do is schedule a debate between Father Coyne and Pat Robertson on the issue. Stonehenge at the Summer Solstice would be neutral ground. No written or recorded memory aids, and no voice amplification.

The storm is predicted to follow the same general path as hurricane Wilma.

™ ^{[Kevin Drum]}

Cluster of Cold Cats

Turn up the blanket!

[Editor: Ringo, Dot, and Sox call a truce as a cold front moves through and drops temperatures to around 40°.]

Friday Ark