Do Afghan detainees make us stupid?
Earlier:
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,”/Update: “On PowerPoint rangers”
Quite:…
A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan certainly succeeded in that aim.
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Now:
Via Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs.
Pity. And when’s the last time you heard our prime minister support an extension of privately provided and insured health care?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
NYT headline, Oct.18th – “Decision on Afghan Troops May Wait “
FoxNews headline, Oct. 19th – “White House Escalates War on Fox News”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
My Fox Boston, 2009
Others at Tuesday’s meeting were more supportive of reform.
Dr. Sheila Leavitt, a physician from Newton, said she hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who aren’t paid as much as specialists. She said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday’s meeting appeared to be using the same “talking points” as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.
You could call Sheila Leavitt a nutty, annoying, unrelenting Newton leftie who home-schools the kids and raises chickens to share eggs with neighbors, not to eat. She is, of course, a vegetarian. I see her as one of those rare people who puts their convictions on parade, then faces uneasy consequences. Like the beefy, mad, middle-aged guy who followed her around the Esplanade yesterday, before dawn, tearing down her “Impeach Bush” posters as fast as she put them up. Or the trucker she said rear-ended her at a Mass Pike toll booth, sending her head into the steering wheel of her ’88 Toyota Corolla with bumper stickers saying “War is barbaric” and “Support our troops . . . Draft Jenna & Barbara,” as in Bush. […] She worked for John Kerry’s election, driving Ohio voters to polls. One was an 80-year-old, black double amputee who’d spoiled his mail-in ballot. She said getting another one, on Election Day, took three hours. She also said she saw hours-long lines at black precincts and none at white precincts. Now she’s convinced GOP operatives stole the election and that the press has ignored it.
Bloggers – running the Google searches journalists won’t do!
I just received this message from one of our “Nash-ional” conference attendees (Dr. Sheila Leavitt, MD). She has already done the critical groundwork today to get everything that you have to document the 2004 election theft in front of Jimmy Carter, both directly through his assistant on the newly formed election commission AND through Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Please — EVERYONE OF YOU — take a half day (or more or less) to flood President Carter’s office with documents and charts and graphs and reports and testimony and legal motions and web-links and, and …
The only thing I can’t find is evidence of is a practice.
Update: Gateway Pundit noticed, too. As did Bucks Right. (Correction – Bucks Right noticed first.)
Second Update: I just got off the phone with an Associated Press contact in Massachusetts, informed her of the questions arising on the blogosphere about Sheila Leavitt, and was told they’d check into it.
I suggested they try Google.
Update: A commentor purporting to be Leavitt’s son at Bucks Right states Leavitt received the required medical training but has not practiced in 26 years. Other sources suggest she hasn’t practiced medicine at all.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Hon. Jim Flaherty, March 2007 – “I would hope that cities – and I include Toronto here – … would reflect on their own budget exercises and try to be prudent in their budgeting and budget within their means,”
CFRA, August 2009 – “Federal Government stimulus cash is being used to bring Bill Clinton to the Central[sic] National Exhibition in Toronto.”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
NBC, July 19th – “5-Legged Pup Rescued From Coney Island Freak Show”
TLC TV Special , July 15th – “Conjoined Twins: Sister Bond”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
July 6th – “San Ramon, California-based Chevron has dismissed 100 construction workers and other contractors since July 2 and plans to send another 900 home by the end of August after Contra Costa County Superior Judge Barbara Zuniga last month ruled the environmental permit covering the project was inadequate. “
July 17th – “On Wednesday, authorities shut down most of the operations of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the largest court system in the country […] Presiding Judge Charles McCoy said he was forced to take the step in anticipation of a 138-million-dollar funding shortfall for the fiscal year that began this month. “
h/t Adam B.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
San Francisco Chronicle – California will report its June job totals later this month. Thursday’s bleak federal numbers suggest that the state unemployment rate, already at 11.5 percent, could head higher.
Business Wire – “A new study released today found that small businesses in California will pay an additional $49,691 as a result of the California Air Resources Board’s implementation of AB 32.”
It’s not a recession. It’s suicide.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Al Gore, climate nazi fighter – …. said sceptics who refused to believe dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the NASA team which put a man on the moon on 1969.
Buzz Aldrin, (who walked on the moon in 1969) – “If it’s warming now, it may cool off later. I’m not in favour of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
Peggy Joseph – “I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage.”
GOP.gov – “The bill (H.R. 2454) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide monthly cash payments, or “energy stamps”, to low-income households for their estimated “loss in their purchasing power” resulting from the Democrats’ national energy tax. The bill establishes a national standard of eligibility (covering everyone under 150% of the poverty line). Energy stamps would reach an estimated 65 million individuals (about 20 percent of all US residents) – making it a larger program than welfare, food stamps, or even Medicaid. (H.R. 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Sec. 431, p. 1193)”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Google News – search news for “climate change”
Conservation Halton – “I Can Change Climate Change”
h/t Shaken
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Toronto Star, March 2008: “Obama would win in Canada: Poll”
Macleans, June 2009: “The new President’s ambitions could have a devastating effect on our economy”
(Admittedly, for those of us who told you so, it’s less a “juxtapose!” than a “no shit, Sherlock”.)
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
LA Times, June 23rd – “Out of cash and understaffed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has suspended its faltering effort to analyze DNA evidence from thousands of rape and sexual assault cases.”
The Trumpet, June 23rd – “The state of California says the [Mount Slover limestone cement facility] must reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent per ton of cement. The company estimates that to retrofit its operations will cost in excess of $220 million—for just one plant. But there is not nearly enough limestone in its quarry to justify such an expense.”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Sunbridge Wind Farm near Gull Lake, Saskatchewan on the evening of June 20th. There are over 80 giant fans towering over the oil fields at this location just west of Swift Current. Not a single blade was moving.
Financial Post, 2009 – “In 12 years we see 30% of all cars being electric.”
Toronto Star, 2005 – “Electricity shortage sees power cut 5 per cent in Ontario”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
May 21: President Obama Gives Major National Security Speech – “Guantanamo became a symbol that helped al-Qaida recruit terrorists to its cause. Indeed, the existence of Guantanamo likely created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained.”
May 21: New York Terror Plot Foiled: “The suspects […] were said to be motivated by anger about Muslim casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan because of U.S.-led military operations there.”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Winnipeg Free Press – The university said the race-based bursary proposal would violate university policy and provincial human rights law.
University of Saskatchewan – Search for Awards – Results: Aboriginal Students – 36 Listings
