http://www.martinirevolution.com "Does your wife know you blog?" Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:54:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Ben Smith. While the Bush Administration hurriedly pushed out a statement through Centcom claiming that Maliki's endorsement of Obama's 16-month timeline for withdrawal which appeared in Der Spiegel was the result of a "mistranslation," there's one wee little problem: Der Spiegel has a policy of issuing ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/more-on-the-putative-mistranslation/ "For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/military-announces-teh-surge-is-over/ Both Kevin Drum and Spencer Ackerman point out that various ninnies on the Right are attacking Obama for noting that many of the positive developments now attributed to teh Surge by McCain and other Iraq War enthusiasts in fact appear to have occurred not only separately and independently from the ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/teh-surge-brings-on-magick-era-of-time-travel/ The White House calls Maliki and tells him to retract the third statement by an Iraqi official which essentially concurs with Obama's time frame for withdrawal? Senator Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday, meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi politicians, as an Iraqi spokesman said ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/how-long-until/ Is Michael Mukasey as nutty as Alberto Gonzalez is dishonest? Congress should explicitly declare war against al Qaeda to make clear the United States can detain suspected members as long as the conflict lasts, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Monday. Mukasey urged Congress to make the declaration in ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/president-mukasey-asks-congress-to-declare-war/ I'm pretty sure that FDR didn't tell a bunch of campaign contributors on June 4, 1944 that we were going to give the Germans hell in Normandy in a couple days. Did McCain just tell al Qaeda where to find Barack Obama and other US Senators over the weekend? ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/mccains-lips-sink-ships/ or a "Time Horizon" or a "Aspirational Goal." Bush, Maliki Agree on 'Time Horizon' for U.S. Troop Withdrawals President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "time horizon" for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq as security conditions in the war-ravaged nation continue to improve, White House ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/call-it-macaroni/ John McCain has his own Mission Accomplished Moment: The comments come a day after the Arizona senator appeared to make a rhetorical shift in how he described conditions the war-torn country, telling reporters aboard his campaign bus that "we have succeeded in Iraq." "I repeat my statement that we have succeeded in ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/mcsame-sans-codpiece/ Or, attention Kathryn Lopez. Pricing for infallible text messages starts at just 49 cents. http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/a-penny-or-so-for-your-thoughts/ With staff and space reductions, the paper will not publish handicap charts and results. Horse racing Because of ongoing reductions to The Times Sports staff and space for news in the Sports section, the handicap charts and results from Del Mar will not be included in the daily sports report. There will ... http://www.martinirevolution.com/2008/07/sign-of-the-times/