The Rake Magazine

The rest of the world is at war

Everything's ok in America as long as we have our celebrity journalism

Newsweek has a great story on how we are now losing not only in Iraq, but in Afganistan, too. It's the cover story on their international edition.

Here in America, though, we're more interested in someone who photographs Angelina Jolie for a living.

And, bad news for Jesus Fans in the Strib today. The headline read: Wisconsin cheese workers rubbed Buddha statue prior to Powerball win.

Minnesota Republican Watch today has a post detailing the few lines of computer code used to change Mark Kennedy's website to express his phony outrage at Amy Klobuchar.

It's funny how pathetic Kennedy and his people are, and how easy it is to puncture their lies.

When is the Strib going to cover this, btw?

How you can tell Kennedy's lying--his website is down.

We were informed last evening of a serious security breach of sensitive Kennedy campaign information by a senior member of Amy Klobuchar’s campaign.

This was the first sentence on the new front page of Mark Kennedy's website today, as he tries to exploit his own vendor's stupidity to Amy Klobuchar's detriment. He claims he disabled the website because of the "security breach," which, by the way, was not even a breach of his site, but the site of his advertising agency, and were not done by Klobuchar's staff, but by an independent blogger.

Isn't there a law about lying about a political opponent?

At least Kennedy's consistent though. You may remember him as the guy who pictured Patty Wetterling with Osama Bin Laden when he ran against Wetterling for Congress.

According to the Washington Post today, the U.S. Marine officer in charge of military intelligence in Iraq thinks we've already lost a substantial chunk of the country.

Think about why we'd "stay the course" when the course is a path to defeat.

It's not called Cut and Run. It's called Cut Your Losses.

"You mean the Post tortured that guy before we did? That must be how they get their info ahead of the CIA."

As the New Republic points out today, Bush's speech yesterday justifying torture was another in a long series of lies.

According to Bush, "[After being tortured] Zubaydah identified one of KSM's accomplices in the 9/11 attacks--a terrorist named Ramzi bin al Shibh."

Turns out, Zubaydah could have avoided the thumb screws if Bush could just be persuaded to read the newspaper. The Washington Post, between 9/11 and the time Zubaydah was captured, had mentioned Ramzi bin al Shibh 26 times.

The other howler, of course, in Bush's statement was this one: "The Department of Justice reviewed the authorized methods extensively and determined them to be lawful." For those keeping score, that's the same Justice Deparment currently being run by Alberto Gonzales. You may remember him as the guy who wrote the legal justification for torture when he was White House counsel. He's also the guy who thinks its ok to spy on Americans without a warrant.

All I can say is, when I get in trouble, I want Gonzo for my lawyer, because I won't have to worry about whether or not I did the crime. He'll just declare whatever I did not to be a crime.