Blackwater liscense being pulled in Iraq

Interesting.

Tens of thousands of foreign private security contractors work in Iraq — some with automatic weapons, body armor, helicopters and bulletproof vehicles — to provide protection for Westerners and dignitaries in Iraq as the country has plummeted toward anarchy and civil war.

Monday's action against Blackwater was likely to give the unpopular government a boost, given the contractors' widespread unpopularity.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government said Monday that it was pulling the license of an American security firm allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of civilians during an attack on a U.S. State Department motorcade in Baghda.

I would guess that there will be pushback against this move by the US, specifically in regards to prosecuting members of Blackwater.

.. come back, and everything's changed around. You guys just felt like changing it, are there upgrades and new features, or is this some kind of feng shui thing?

Rudy Guliani trashing Hillary over the MoveOn/Patreaus/Betray US ad . Of course Rudy essentially says Hillary is a traitor and he's the only American capable of leading the US to WAR with every other nation on earth.....Oh? What? He doesn't want to attack every other nation on earth? Well, he hasn't announced it yet. that is. As soon as that tin foil hat of his cuts off the oxygen to his piddling little brain (his ego takes up so much room, something had to go), UK look out! You'll be on one of the short "To nuke today" lists.

It was previously a site for some pirate game but it looks like they let it expire.

Dunno if we wanna buy that and redirect it here.

I'm glad to see some of today's students taking an active role in championing the 2nd Amendment:

Students Aim To Form Club That Promotes Gun Ownership

No Hillary in 2008!

That was the theme I just saw on an ad for a right-wing tee-shirt.  Once again the conservatives out there can spot a communist in sheep's clothing (note reference to Democrat Leadership from DailyKos ad a while back)!

Seems that her anti-nuke crusade may have had unintended consequences:

'NYT' Sunday Preview: Jane Fonda to Blame for Global Warming?

By E&P Staff

Published: September 14, 2007 1:50 PM ET

NEW YORK In their regular "Freakanomics" column which will appear in this Sunday's edition of The New York Times Magazine, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, pose this question: "If you were asked to name the biggest global warming villains of the past 30 years, here's one name that probably wouldn't spring to mind: Jane Fonda. But should it?"

The authors observe that Fonda's antinuclear thriller "The China Syndrome," which opened just 12 days before the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, helped stoke "a widespread panic." Fonda became a high-profile anti-nuke activist in an already-strong movement. The nuclear industry halted plans for expansion. "And so," they continue, "instead of becoming a nation with clean and cheap nuclear energy, as once seemed inevitable, the United States kept building power plants that burned coal and other fossil fuels. Today such plants account for 40 percent of the country's energy-related carbon-dioxide emissions.

"Anyone hunting for a global-warming villain can't help blaming those power plants -- and can't help wondering too about the unintended consequences of Jane Fonda."

Of course, there were many other factors in the nuclear industry decline, including cost over-runs, disposal of nuclear waste, the threat of terrorism and numerous other accidents beyond TMI. Then there was, ahem, Chernobyl. But the columnists cite the "big news" that with global warming fears mounting, "nuclear power may be making a comeback in the United States," with plans for two dozen reactors on the drawing boards.

Will they get built? The authors conclude that "it may all depend on what kind of thrillers Hollywood has in the pipeline."