The Next Open Thread
by DemFromCT
While one Texan collapses into a pile of mediocrity (amazing how a single week and a single defeat can deflate the artificial image of Bush As Leader), another Texan at least keeps us amused and informed. If you haven't seen it, check out Kinky Friedman's website .
Featuring the Kinky talking action figures and Kinkytoons, we (at last) have a politician who knows how to use the web the way the web was meant to be used. Kinky doesn't employ the crooks and liars that Bush does. So let's enjoy the Texas humor, and celebrate the return of warm weather to the northeast.
Your turn.
Has anyone noticed the amazing bit of news in today's NYT article on Ali Shalal Qaissi, the guy in the hood in the famous Abu Ghraib photo. No doubt there are skeletons in his closet, but what stuck out for me was this allegation:
He was forced to strip off all his clothes, then tied with his hands up high. A guard began writing on his chest and forehead, what someone later read to him as, "Colin Powell."
I'm not sure what that means, but I'm thinking it is not a compliment. These are soldiers brainwashed by FOX News and Rush Limbaugh. Perhaps this explains the timing and no-holds-barred nature of Larry Wilkerson's emergence. His boss (Powell) as the butt of one of the sick and abusive jokes that fueled the Abu Ghraib photos?
Is this old news? This is the first I've heard of it.
Or am I way off base here? If not, then I think this is something Kos should consider writing about. Unless I'm mistaken, he served under Powell. I wonder how he feels about it?
Posted by: rasmus | March 11, 2006 at 09:41
Bush IS NOT from Texas. Remember that. As James McMurtry and The Heartless Bastards sing:
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I'm not from here
I just live here
can't see that it matters much
I read the papers and I watch the nightly news
who's to say I'm out of touch
.
.
.
I'm not from here
but people tell me
it's not like it used to be
they say I should have been here
back about ten years
before it got ruined by folks like me
Posted by: Texan in California | March 11, 2006 at 12:54
Well, I won't acknowledge him being from CT just 'cause he was accidently born here.
Posted by: DemFromCT | March 11, 2006 at 12:57
Another great Texan -- Molly Ivins.
Posted by: Pilgrim | March 11, 2006 at 13:14
Also Ann Richards
Posted by: Pilgrim | March 11, 2006 at 13:26
Hi ! Your site is very interesting. Thank you.
Posted by: Nelly | April 03, 2006 at 17:40