Pat isn't with God. He's fucking dead

* "And Pat (Tillman) said, ‘You know, this war is so f— illegal.’ And we all said, ‘Yeah.’ That’s who he was. He totally was against Bush.”" (link)

* flashback: "Rich Tillman (at the funeral) said: “Pat isn't with God. He's fucking dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's fucking dead.”" (link)

* theres something surreal about the media criticising blinky's fuel expenditure. i cant quite tell if the media has turned, or if they are just chasing their tales, pretending to point out some little corner of the world-of-hipocrisy... of all the problems we have, the cost of the fuel of blinky's photo-ops surely ranks near the bottom. the free advertising space he gets is at least 10,000 times more than that. and everyone still hates him.

* Soj at Flogging the Simian is gone (more here) damn. i had a blog crush on her. happy travels, soj.

* "In 1994, the district attorney in New Jersey was Michael Chertoff, now the head of Homeland Security. One of the funders of Rahman's mosque was a mysterious man named Magdy El-Amir -- who has also been accused of funding Al Qaeda. When Chertoff returned to private practice, he took El-Amir as a client. Many have wondered why Bush picked the lawyer for an accused Al Qaida moneyman to head Homeland Security." (link)

* jack welch was on bbc's Hardtalk - it was kinda interesting - but one thing i'll highlight - he doesnt believe in global warning (he's also a psycho)

* galloway responds to palast's nonsense: "Crawl back under your rock, Mr Palast!" (link)

* Cynthia McKinney: "These ill winds have brought us high crimes and more than misdemeanors." (link)
that sounds like impeachment talk :-)

* "In May, an estimated 90 suicide bombings were carried out in (iraq) -- nearly as many as the Israeli government has documented in the conflict with Palestinians since 1993." (link)
3 suiciders per day?. a lot of people are grumpy. can we leave yet?

* joke:
"Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing.
He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the president exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head in hands.
Finally, the president looks up and asks, "Just how many is a brazillion?"" (link)
that made me snort.

* "Senator Frist made between between $2 and $6 million by selling his HCA holdings just before stocks plummeted in the face of a bad earnings report... since the founding of his trust, Senator Frist directed trustees not to sell his HCA stock. Each of the Senator’s trust agreements acknowledged their high concentration in HCA stock, and specifically relieved trustees ‘from any obligation the Trustee might otherwise have to diversify the investments.’" (link)

* "The NYT/CBS (iraq) poll breaks responses down along party lines, and the results are pretty astounding:

• Republicans who want to increase the troops level: 12 percent – Democrats, 8 percent. The super hawks are (1) a tiny minority, and (2) not noticeably partisan one way or the other.
• Republicans who want troop levels to remain the same: 41 percent – Democrats, 15 percent. This shows how out of touch with their base the Democrats are: most Democratic members of Congress would take the majority Republican position.
• Republicans who want to decrease the number of U.S. troops in Iraq: 29 percent – Democrats, 29 percent." (link)