Archive for 2007

Senate and Prez ‘Over the Top’ with Slaps at MoveOn

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Republican leaders and news outlets whipped up a little furor over MoveOn.org’s ad headlined “General Petraeus or General Betray Us? — Cooking the books for the White House.“x01 A common comment was that the ad was “over the top.“x02. The ad came out in the New York Times September 10th, the day of Petraeus’s testimony […]

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White Hurricane of 1913 was Deadliest Great Lakes Storm

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

31 cargo ships and barges stranded, twelve ships sunk with crew, 253 sailors drowned — that was the the toll of the most disastrous storm ever to hit the Great Lakes. The first November gale of 1913 started on western Lake Superior when warm southwest winds sped up on Thursday the 6th. On Friday morning […]

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Bin Laden’s Reverse Psychology Missed by Prez and Pundits

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader wanted for murder of U.S. citizens overseas and suspected of running the September 11, 2001, airliner attacks that killed 3000 people, issued a new video addressed to Americans, just days before Congress returns to again consider the course of the Iraq occupation90×91. In the video he knocked Democrats for […]

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Will Bushies Sell Iran War ‘Product’?

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

In September 2002 a reporter asked President Bush’s Chief of Staff Andy Card why the administration was suddenly pushing for an invasion of Iraq70×71. Card replied: “From a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.” Shortly before that push, Vice President Dick Cheney, in a speech to the V.F.W., had laid […]

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The Great Black Swamp

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

“Water! Water! Water!” wrote an early surveyor of northwestern Ohio, “tall timber! deep water! Not a blade of grass growing or a bird to be seen50.” The surveyor was traveling in the Great Black Swamp, a forty mile (64 km) swath stretching from the western end of Lake Erie nearly to Fort Wayne – an […]

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