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Sunday June 27, 2010 · 9:57 AM PDT

2010/06/27 · 09:57

CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Sunday there may be less than 50 al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan, with "no question" that most of the terrorist network is operating from the western tribal region of Pakistan.

Panetta's remarks came as President Barack Obama builds up U.S. forces in Afghanistan to prop up the government and, in his words, "disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda." About U.S. 98,000 troops will be in Afghanistan by fall.

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So I say, if our original reason for getting involved in that goat farking hellhole was to get rid of alQaeda. And alQaeda is down to their last 50 dead-enders, why can't that be the "win" we need to get the hell out of there?

Mission Accomplished!

Carbon

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Tuesday June 22, 2010 · 11:53 AM PDT

2010/06/22 · 11:53

What if these recent Facebook pages, that seemingly advocates the murder of President Obama are actually Secret Service attempts to identify, and track certain type of threats to the President that they might not otherwise know about until it was too late?

Potential threats to the President, that come in the form of notes, or people screaming obscene threats at Teabagger/Rand Paul rallies, are easy enough to mark, and track, by traditional means. But how do you find the psychotic loners who don't go to rallies, or join militia groups? How do you find the hair-triggered wingnut whose first hint of being dangerous is to open fire on a crowd, or motorcade?

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an overactive imagination

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BP is Drilling in an Ammunition Dump

Carbon

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Tuesday June 08, 2010 · 9:12 AM PDT

2010/06/08 · 09:12

In the heady days at the end of WWII, the United States was flush with national pride born from victory in Europe and the Pacific. Unfortunately, we were also loaded with tons of unused bombs, warhead and other exciting explosives that were piled up on the nations loading docks with nowhere to explode.

The U.S. Government, in 1946, didn't want to store ordnance for the next war, because who knows when that could be? And besides, whenever the next war starts, you've just got to buy all fresh bombs, otherwise why even have a Military Industrial Complex? So the solution was obvious! Dump it all in the ocean. In this case, dump it in the Gulf of Mexico right off the coast of Louisiana. Much of this dumping was charted. Some was not charted. It could be anywhere down there.

So why am I bringing this up now? Drill (BOOM!) Baby, DRILL (kaBLAM!)

Carbon

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Wednesday June 02, 2010 · 9:35 PM PDT

2010/06/02 · 21:35

Below is a disturbing video I've just stumbled upon, where the former Prime Minister of Argentina is being interviewed by American filmmaker, Oliver Stone, about a sit-down meeting he had with George W. Bush in 2004.

I don't know if this has already made the rounds. It's the first time I've seen it. I'll try to soften my outrage with a silly pie poll at the end.

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Can we get out now?

An alternative take on the "Murder Obama" FB page

BP is Drilling in an Ammunition Dump

The fix for America's economy is war.