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When the press finally got around to visiting the deteriorating Walter Reed Army Medical center, I predicted wait til they "discover" the problems with the VA...
So they did, and the NYTIMES puts a political spin on it of course...

However, no mention that thanks to Bush funded commission that decided Gulf war syndrome more disability claims will have to be processed...

One of these days, they will figure the slowness is mainly the system...And if you think the VA is slow, wait till Hillary nationalizes all health care.

US State Department at work, supporting dictators.Charles Taylor is being prosecuted for war crimes, both in Liberia and Sierra Leone. ..in defense of the state department, the choice was between bad and worse, but this time the bad turned out to be almost as bad as anarchy that he stopped.

Porn industry going broke? Blogfather explains...

President of Iran gives another speech saying Israel will be destroyed...
His supporters have argued Ahmadinejad's words were mistranslated and should have been better translated as "vanish from the pages of time" — implying Israel would vanish on its own rather be destroyed.
Yes, like the six million European Jews who just vanished somehow...

Despite violence, more still think it's better or the same as when under Sadam? Polls here.

Pajamas media has a link to the "bee die off"expert...but I remember when Brother Karl
died...he became interested in finding hybrid bees to restock his beehives after the 1916 die off.

And if you think living together is sinful, why don't we just legalize "temporary unions"...an old Shiite custom being revived in Iran...

And did you know about the two German tourists kidnapped in the Philippines? Well, seems the MILF guys were freelancing, and their leaders got them released already...and if you scroll down you will see how Australia and China is helping the Phil. military