Good news, not only are attacks down, coalition forces are getting the bitter enders:
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces said they shot dead a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq on Friday who was the mastermind behind a series of deadly recent bombings in Baghdad.
A spokesman for coalition forces said Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Judu' al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, had been al Qaeda in Iraq's "emir" of the Rusafa neighborhood of the capital.
Troops surrounded a building in the Adhamiya area of Baghdad after intelligence reports that Abu Rami was inside, and called on the occupants to surrender, the spokesman said.
Coalition forces were shot at from the building and returned fire, killing Abu Rami and a female, spokesman Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll said in a statement.
Who wants to bet Olbermann has got extra grump about him tomorrow? I'm not watching Obama TV tonight because I know they'll try to harsh my buzz. Tomorrow I may watch though, just to see the spin.
Well, Photoshop changes you, prison just gives me the excuse to use it. (and really, in my heart I know that I shouldn't be making fun of this woman. Look, her expression says it: "when I explain what I was doing, we're all going to laugh about this.")
This just keeps getting scarier. I'm racking my brain but I can't imagine this group being formed around any other candidate from either party, past or present. OK, well maybe Vermin Supreme, but he would have been kidding.
Just Yikes, the brown shirts are blue this time.
h/t: nimos
I think you might have to be an economist to completely understand the particular pickle we've been gotten into regarding this credit crisis. I say 'been gotten into' because we didn't do it, we didn't get into the pickle, it was done for us. As for getting out, I can understand how the whole Jenga can come down if credit dries up.
I can't say I'm happy to see the start we got off to: adding pork just because, well hey, it's lots of money, we should take some of it. I mean, if this is dire, if it's important, why can't our representatives just fix it? Not use the fix as a vehicle to fund projects, not use it to bash republicans, just freaking fix.
So I don't know. It would seem intervention is called for. But it also seems that the majority of our interveners are monkeys with hand grenades. If I could even trust their intent to do good, I'd feel OK with this mess.
So, more diversion:
