Drudge Retort: Reinheitsgebot's blog

Bush To Go To Beijing

reinheitsgebot — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:15:19 -0400

In the time-honored Washington tradition of waiting until the last minute before a weekend or holiday to drop controversial news, the White House waited until the eve of the Independence Day holiday to announce that President Bush will attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.

Bush Stimulates Porn Industry

reinheitsgebot — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:59:22 -0400

An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans mailboxes across the country.

McCain's Strategery Worries GOP Insiders

reinheitsgebot — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:34:30 -0400

Top GOP officials are growing increasingly uneasy about the direction of the McCain presidential campaign. "McCain's campaign seems not to have a game plan. I don't see a consistent message," said Ed Rollins, a veteran of Republican presidential campaigns.

A Blind Eye on Soldiers� Suicides

reinheitsgebot — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:39:47 -0400

Support the troops is an American lie. This nation is grievously and knowingly failing the young men and women who wear the uniform of its military services, and nothing demonstrates that more powerfully than the suicides of soldiers. According to the Armys own figures, the rate of suicide among active duty personnel nearly doubled between 2001 and 2006.

How the "Dear Leader" Blackmailed Bush

reinheitsgebot — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:06:07 -0400

There's no doubt that Tehran is watching Bush's backpedaling with great amusement or that the Mullahs have figured out that the only way to stop the relentless hectoring of the US is by building a nuclear weapon. The only difference between North Korea and the last-remaining member of the "axis of evil" (Iran) is five or six 15 megaton nuclear warheads.

Englehardt: The Urge to Surge

reinheitsgebot — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:37:45 -0400

Tom Engelhardt: Now, more than five years after the U.S. "prevailed" with such "precision," a more modest version of the same success story has once again taken the beaches of the mainstream media, if not by storm, then by siege. When it comes to Iraq, the good news is unavoidable. It's in the air. Not victory exactly, but a slow-motion movement toward a "stable" Iraq, a country with which we might be moderately content. ... Wherever you might have looked over the last year or more, a surge-athon was under way. It was meant to solidify the American position in Iraq for the long term as an occupying power.

House of Cards

reinheitsgebot — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:09:26 -0400

The coupling of home equity debt and credit card debt has gone hand in glove for years. The homeowners at risk can no longer use their homes as ATM machines, thanks to their prior re-financings and equity loans, often used in the past to pay off their credit cards. Indeed, homeowners cashed out $1.2 trillion from their home equity from 2002 to 2007 to pay down credit card debts and to cover other costs of living, according to the public policy research organization Demos.

Das Blow

reinheitsgebot — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:35:53 -0400

The Columbian drug cartels have acquired a new weapon in their arsenal. They are now using small, submarine-like semi-submersibles assembled deep in the jungle to outmaneuver drug agents and traffic cocaine to North America.

Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up

reinheitsgebot — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:14:27 -0400

More and more U.S. soldiers and Marines, at great cost to their own careers and reputations, are speaking publicly about U.S. atrocities in Iraq, even about the cowardice of their own commanders, who send youth into atrocity-producing situations only to hide from the consequences of their own orders.

Vitter, Craig Sponsor Marriage Protection Bill

reinheitsgebot — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:17:28 -0400

David Vitter (R-La.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), two senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity, are co-sponsors of the Marriage Protection Amendment. If ratified, the bill would amend the United States Constitution to state that marriage "shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."

The War and the Yellow Press

reinheitsgebot — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:17:38 -0400

But that is now what they all seem to do, especially in covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Forgetting that the phrase "to lie like a bulletin" is military in origin the reference is to bulletins issued by Napoleon's grande arme -- they print verbatim the happy talk the U.S. military is obliged by the Bush administration to spew.