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They Don’t Have to Walk, So Long As They Can Shoot

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

AP05110804162.jpgWhat do you when the Army is running out of soldiers to send (back) to war and having a time recruiting more? Send the wounded ones back to the front, obviously. This time-honored tradition, as old as war itself, is alive and well here as battalion commanders scrape the bottoms of their available barrels in an effort to meet deployment requirements. Why they’ll eventually try to bring back the draft, after the jump. MORE »


Rudy to Retire in Florida

Friday, January 11th, 2008

She's 10 different kinds of crazyLittle did Giuliani donors know, but their millions in campaign donations aren’t really going to fund an actual campaign! No, it turns out that it’s just a really, really easy way for Rudi and Judi to fund their search for the retirement community of their dreams. Otherwise, there’s no really good explanation for why Rudy’s planning on putting damn near every last cent into winning Florida. Florida’s January 29th primary is one short week before Super Tuesday, when many of the other big states an actual candidate would have to win will be voting, but since Giuliani’s campaign is more a vanity project, what does he care? [ABC News]


FEMA Figures Out a Way to Help Katrina Survivors

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Because, you know, they want to live like thisIt’s been more than two years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and left a shitload of people (many of them poor) without homes and belongings and even some family members. Since then, FEMA and a variety of government agencies have done everything in their power to make things worse for those that couldn’t leave or wanted to come back. But, now they totally have a plan!

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