I can’t begin to express my dissapointment in the spurious arguements coming from this individual. Delusional comes to mind, like his fearless leader.

CORPOCRATICREPUGS AKA ASSELEPHANTS!!!!

Screw them all……………

PW or anyone else, can you tell me if anyone on the blog has i.d’d the source of those stats. Petr. was using for his charts?

Things were bizzy here tonight, & I was trying to – heh – multi-task, sigh. Don’t remember where I heard it, but someone (KeithO?) mentioned the stat. source/basis for the charts was suspect.

I think a few of the congresscritters tried to get at that also. not sure.

Sounded important at the time.

Gotta go get some zzz & hope to be in better shape on the morrow.

nite pups ;->

OT and not- but a thought. Randi Rhodes had a segment on the lack of protest songs now (and threats to those who do, a la Dixie Chicks now playing on my IPOD). I would love it if every now and then our wonderful pup posters would put up links to contemporary protest songsters so we could listen – and support them. Maybe even a special Protest song linki at the top of the site. We could also blast these numbers from small speakers as we walk our dogs around the dog and pony shows, as we poster the neighborhoods with Out of Iraq signs, and other public actions.

HI guys, late to the party but here’s a protest song from Canada called “Friendly Fire” by Friendly Rich on YouTube.

10 September 2007 – More than 7,000 cases of acute diarrhoea have so far been reported in the cholera epidemic in northern Iraq, putting over 2.8 million people at risk from exposure to the infectious and sometimes fatal disease, according to the United Nations health agency.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is taking emergency measures to help the Kurdistan authorities in Sulemaniya, Kirkuk and Erbil provinces contain the epidemic. Ten people are so far reported to have died.

“We still need different materials to control this pandemic such as drugs and medical supplies, diagnostic and enteric disease bacteriology kits, water testing kits, awareness and communications tools and equipment,” WHO Technical officer Omer Mekki said. “We are doing our best effort to lead the UN emergency aid in north Iraq.”

All evidence suggests that transmission is still circulating. It is unclear what caused the outbreak, but initial investigation show some evidence that, in Sulemaniya, polluted water that residents were forced to rely on due to a shortage of drinking water may have been to blame. In Kirkuk, cracked water pipes allowed contamination by sewage, and because of the close geographic proximity the outbreak spread to Erbil, Dr. Mekki said.

WHO is providing technical assistance to the health authorities for risk assessment, strengthening surveillance system and improving coordination through a multi-sectoral operations room in health, water and environment in the provincial ministry of health.

The agency has also helped in standardizing case management, mobilizing medical and other essential supplies as well as in organizing social mobilization and health education campaigns where more than 10,000 posters distributed.

The continuous movement of people and cargo, bad sanitary conditions and high temperatures may increase the possibility of spreading the disease rapidly to other areas such as Baghdad and the central provinces, Dr. Al- Gasseer warned.

The WHO-Iraq office has ordered 10 emergency diarrhoea disease kits to pre-position adequate quantities of essential drugs as well as other medical and laboratory supplies in all hospitals and health centres. In addition, two truck loads of intravenous fluids and antibiotics are to be sent Erbil.

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It causes watery diarrhoea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not promptly given. About 80 to 90 per cent of cases are mild or moderate and are difficult to distinguish clinically from other types of acute diarrhoea. Less than 20 per cent of ill people develop typical cholera with signs of moderate or severe dehydration.s this:

Jonathan @ 105

The Dems need a fighter. A boxer.

Kucinich.

Wasn’t Harry Reid a boxer? A year ago weren’t they describing him as a fighter, citing his background as a boxer?

Bob in HI

Evening Bob. Harry even invoked his “Boxer Cred” at yKos last year – look at me, I’m a tough guy…

The Dems need a fighter. A boxer.

Kucinich.

Wasn’t Harry Reid a boxer? A year ago weren’t they describing him as a fighter, citing his background as a boxer?

Bob in HI

QuakerGirl @ 64

We deserted the Hmong people of Laos after they helps the US during Vietnam. We just said, sorry, after promising them protection for their assistance. It amazes me that anyone would ever trust this country again. After they paid a terrible price we allowed them in during the Boat People exodus. Many of them reside in Oakland, California.

QG, we did it in Iraq in 91 too

In April 1991, after Saddam lost control of Kuwait in the Gulf War, he cracked down ruthlessly against several uprisings in the Kurdish north and the Shia south. His forces committed wholesale massacres and other gross human rights violations against both groups similar to the violations mentioned before. Estimates of deaths during that time range from 20,000 to 100,000 for Kurds, and 60,000 to 130,000 for Shi’ites.[3]

This was after we encouraged them to rise up.

And it looks like we’re about to do it again, what with kissing up to the Sunni in Anbar & all. Remember when we came rolling down the highway towards Baghdad, announcing the liberation of the Shi’a from the terrible clutches of Saddam and his Sunni army? Someone forgot to tell the neo-cons (or the neo-cons had their hands over their ears, shouting “I can’t hear you! La-la-la-la”) that the Iraqi Shi’a had connections with Iran, aka axis of evil.

Didn’t we promise the Shi’a that since they were the majority, that in our shining new city on an Iraqi hill, the Shi’a would have a majority vote? Hello?

Oh, well.

A few months ago, weren’t we fighting tooth and nail with those same Sunni “insurgents” that we have now made an alliance with?

Oh, well.

I guess being a Neo-con means never having to say you’re sorry.

Bob in HI