Brushfires of Freedom

Fox News Photoshops Rival Reporters.

NEW YORK, July 2 (UPI) — A New York Times (NYSE:NYT) editor Wednesday said a Fox News Channel graphic in which images of two Times reporters were altered was “beneath comment.” Fox aired photographs of Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and television editor Steven Reddicliffe on its morning show, “Fox & Friends,” […]

Personally, there would be no good excuse I could give my own wife that would fly if this were me.  Bill Clinton holding hands with mystery woman?  It does not appear to be photoshopped, but it’s hard to tell sometimes.

[Story at TMZ.com]

 
These things happen when government bureaucrats are maintaining our Global Empire.  Between us and the former Soviet Union, I wonder how many nuclear parts are missing that we have not heard about.  If this is the “tip of the iceberg”, I shudder to think of what they are NOT admitting to.

The US military cannot locate […]

 
“Operation Malicious Mortgage” is in full swing.  Who comes up with these names?  There is probably a government department somewhere for catchy operation names.

6 in Seattle area indicted in “Malicious Mortgage” crackdown - by Mike Carter; Seattle Times
Six Seattle-area people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with “Operation Malicious Mortgage,” a […]

The screen door slams
Mary’ dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that’s me and I want you only
Don’t turn me home again
I just can’t face myself alone again
Don’t run back inside
Darling you know just what I’m here for
So you’re scared and you’re thinking
That maybe we […]

The Supreme Court once again ruled that Guantanamo detainees have rights under the constitution. I get the distinct impression that President Bush is trying to run out the clock on this one. Are there some innocent folks stuck in Gitmo? Probably, who knows. By releasing any of these guys, you run […]

William Edgar Borah (National Statuary Hall Collection statue)
 
The quote that President Bush resurrected this week, “Lord if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided” is attributed to longtime Republican Senator William E. Borah from Idaho.  The 8 time senator actually ran for president himself in 1936.  Here’s […]