Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Reports from Afghanistan

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 7th, 2010 4:51 am by HL

Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Reports from Afghanistan
It’s all going so well.

It’s all going so well.

In a devastating case of “friendly fire,” NATO pilots who apparently did not know that Afghan soldiers had laid a trap for Taliban militants on the ground beneath them bombed the soldiers as they lay in wait, killing at least five, Afghan officials said.

The attack in Andor district of Ghazni Province, about 100 miles southwest of Kabul, suggested a horrific miscommunication between NATO officers giving orders to their warplanes and Afghan forces on the ground who were trying to capture or kill militants who hold sway in part of the district known as Rahim Khiel.

Still want to know what we’re going to accomplish in another year.

Truth moves slowly, while bullshit travels at the speed of sound
If you can’t beat ’em, threaten to beat ’em.

The Hockey Stick of Noted Climatologist Bobby Orr via Astro Guy at Flickr

All the bullshit tossed out about the so-called Climate-Gate emails turned out to be exposed as, well bullshit. But not before FoxNews, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh tossed out lies and threats as fast as they could. (Rush’s latest bs line btw, Islam didn’t do crap for science & math — and who are you going to believe, Rush or your lying arabic numeral seeing eyes?)

Eventually, as any rational person knew, there was no scandal at all, except for the theft of property utilized by the spewers of bullshit.

Nevertheless and completely unsurprisingly, this has led to the ignorant and classy listening audience of the bloviators to send a constant stream of death-threats to scientist. Perhaps this is a course at Glenn Beck University?

Nobody could have anticipated, etc.

Oh, and now that the non-scandal has been exposed as not a scandal, we conveniently have a new reason not to do anything about climate-change because Al Gore allegedly wanted a rub and tug, thus disproving all science forever.

Late Late Night FDL: Zoot Suit Riot
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies — Zoot Suit Riot.

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies — Zoot Suit Riot.

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