I'm sure this will go over real well with some here. Today is Ecological Debt Day , the day in the calendar year in which the population of earth has used up one year's worth of sustainable natural resources, according to The Global Footprint Network . Everything we use for the rest of the year is "overshoot":

We currently maintain this overshoot by liquidating the planet’s
natural resources. For example we can cut trees faster than they
re-grow, and catch fish at a rate faster than they repopulate. While
this can be done for a short while, overshoot ultimately leads to the
depletion of resources on which our economy depends.

While we are on the subject of smearing the troops, actually smearing them not lying about smearing them, Murtha did a fine job of carrying the Democrat water on that front a while back when he accused those marines of killing civilians in cold blood.

From RedState :

Now that the lead prosecutor has recommended that all murder charges be dropped , Democratic Congressman Jack Murtha those Marines an apology for saying that they killed civilians "in cold blood ". As I wrote here , if there is anyone to blame for this sorry episode, it's our high command for jerking those Marines around in the first place.

Its one thing for political pundits to engage in this type of troop hating behavior, but it is quite another for elected Democrats to be doing it. Censure the bafoon for speaking out before the facts where in. This just demonstrates that Murtha assumes the worst about the troops.

if this has reached the priority list of issues for him to discuss: Flag lapel pins?

Sean Hannity basically called out Senator Ubama for deciding to not wear his Flag lapel pin at all, so now Kos is all bent out of shape because Hannity, who still wears his pin, didn't on a few recent occasions.

Ubama = Not at all.

Hannity = Not in a couple of instances.

Yep, that's important political commentary. If this is on Kos' list of priority topics I'm starting to feel a lot better about the Republican's chances. On the other hand, Kos' record is so poor maybe I should be even MORE worried.

Mark Penn is Hillary Clinton's cheif strategist...... the Karl Rove of Hillary's campaign.

Understanding that you can't win the Presidency without tons of money I still find this enormously unsettling.

This week, Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's top strategist, desperately tried to spin away the reasons Burson-Marsteller, the PR giant he oversees, had taken on Blackwater as a client. It was only a temporary assignment; it was the work of a GOP-friendly subsidiary; Penn "did no work on the Blackwater account," said Team Hillary. But why hasn't Penn been forced to choose between advising Hillary and overseeing a client list that has included Philip Morris, Merck, and Ahmad Chalabi

He is the author of a book 'Microtrends', and has been a pollster since 1975.

He helped Bill Gates tread water and swim out of the anti-trust lawsuit, and turn the Microsoft brand into Most Trusted.

Bio

If you run google search on "obama site:.stormfront.org" it returns about 771 from from stormfront.org for obama

but you get NO results for "ubama site:.stormfront.org"

Isn't it interesting that Limpbrain and his freeper buddies are to the right of the American Nazis on this one.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) -- When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush's surge.

1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this: A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should have earned under the GI bill.

...

Anderson's orders, and the orders of 1,161 other Minnesota guard members, were written for 729 days.

Had they been written for 730 days, just one day more, the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.

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Not surprisingly some on redstate are appaled at this.

Unfortunately they reserve their ire for hypothetical "bean counters" rather than blaming, say, the commander and chief they elected twice. It seems no amount of proof that the bush administration doesn't give a damn about the troops will sway them from their narrow ideological prejudices.
You'd think the blatant disregard at Walter Reed would have been enough to cause some doubts, but apparently not.

Said the Nazi interogater, George Frenkel, who matched wits with enemy combatants from the Third Reich.

"For six decades, they held their silence.

The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt.

“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.

”During the many interrogations, I never laid hands on anyone,” said George Frenkel, 87, of Kensington. “We extracted information in a battle of the wits. I’m proud to say I never compromised my humanity."

Taking the high road

It is stories like this that make me proud of my country. In the face of temptation to exact revenge, and become like the monster you are trying to defeat, you remember that justice requires that you respect human rights, even under the most diffiicult circumstances.