Downhill To The Weekend

I don't know about you, but the past few weeks seem to have been incredibly long.  I don't know if it was the heat (which has, thankfully, diminished the past couple of days) or just the overall stress of life.  Whatever it is, waking up is rougher and it seems there just aren't enough hours in the day. Maybe, just maybe, this weekend will be one to allow some "catching up".  Switching gears completely - I'm seriously believing that there is one huge database somewhere that aggregates names and addresses for everybody.  Otherwise, how would a piece of junk mail arrive at our house, addresed to our daughter-in-law, under her maiden name?  She's never used our address for anything, although our son did.  Did they somehow link marriage records and his address to ours?  Who's responsible for pulling all of that together?  When I mentioned that to them, they pointed out that they frequently get junk mail addressed to us at THEIR house, which isn't even in the same city and we've NEVER listed it as an address.  Nowhere. No how.  Somebody 'splain it to me, please!

On to the good stuff of the evening....as the P.R. train rolls on...

Petraeus will say violence is down in Iraq because he's not counting the violence in Iraq

Read the article about the "Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq: Military Statistics Called Into Question" in today's Washington Post, which confirms a very important point: General Petraeus and his toadies are lying about the level of violence in Iraq. It's incredibly craven, but that's what is happening.  Basically, in the Petraeus view, to count the amount of violence means excluding from that count many incidents and forms of violence. For example, [...]

UPDATE: Break out the popcorn!! It's movie time! Starring bin Laden! Specially-made for the 9/11 anniversary.   Don't  you feel special?!

Tags: Patraeus, Iraq War, Violence in Iraq

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