Kutz, the government investigator, said surplus F-14 parts shouldn't be sold. He believes Iran already has Tomcat parts from Pentagon surplus sales: "The key now is, going forward, to shut that down and not let it happen again."

When the F-14 was flying for the US, it had the well deserved reputation for being either the best, or on an even level with the F-15 and Mig-29 as the best, air to air platform ever built. The Navy retired the Tomcats last September, but the Iranians still fly them, and this sort of thing is an absolute bonanza for them.

The Iranian air force flies both Mig-29s and F-14s, and if we decide to run ops there, we could have a very rude surprise waiting for us. Worse, if that little Israeli nuclear plan goes off, the planes they send, with big fat nukes strapped to them, would be sitting ducks, and at that point all that's needed for an actual nuclear armed Iran is some guys with trucks picking them up out of the wreckage.

AP: Iran gets army gear in Pentagon sale

Mail in early voting undervotes were at 2.6%. In person early voters came to central locations and voted on iVotronic touch screens like those used in the general election. Undervotes by that method ran 17.6%. There is no reason for a difference of 15 points other than the one provided by Coffey in the Jennings case: voting machine malfunction by the iVotronics. As a result, 14,000 Sarasota County voters lost their constitutional rights.

Any more questions about touch screen voting machines and the need for a paper trail? It looks like the correct margin in the House should be 235-200.

Scoop: Wrong Winner Chosen Twice by Same Voting Machine

"There was a guy in Darrel's unit that when Darrel got wounded by the roadside bomb, this guy got so freaked out that every time they went out on a mission they left him there playing video games," Dennis said.

Bad to worse? I'm not a fan of using this sort of one off story to show larger trends, but a couple lines later is

Dennis said her son's commanders refused because giving him treatment would be an admission that things weren't going well.

"So they left him there for three months playing video games," Dennis said.

That tells me something else entirely is going on.

HEALTH-US: Sick, Literally, of Fighting in Iraq

an expansion is already underway in the state-of-the art lobby, where grunting dinosaurs and animatronic humans coexist in a Biblical paradise.

Immediately after the pleasent events shown in the diorama, the velociraptor whirled, killing and devouring young Abdul and D'Mo, showing once and for all, God really does like little christian white kids the best...

Dinosaurs, humans coexist in U.S. creation museum Reuters.com

These measures would lead to an exit from a no exit situation. They would salvage our moral position and actually help the Iraqi people, who so far have been pawns in an immoral military adventure.

I don't normally like Chopra's touchy feely crap, but this one actually makes some sense.

The Blog | Deepak Chopra: Exit and No Exit | The Huffington Post

After the trap doors opened, al-Bandar could be seen dangling from the rope. Ibrahim's body was lying on the floor, chest down, his severed head resting several yards away.

Oops. Rope was too long.

Iraq hanging video shown to reporters - Yahoo! News

He cracked me up when he said his past behavior was not relevant…Hilarious.

For politics junkies this is absolutely hilarious. Barney Frank, who knows his Roberts Rules pretty much backwards and forwards, takes a few guys to the mat and squashes them because they don't know the rules. Brutal, and to steal a Boston idiom, it's wicked pissah.

Crooks and Liars � Barney Frank kicks Patrick McHenry around the House floor

I'm going to guide you to some excerpts of that address -- exactly 40 years ago tonight. See how it compares to some of the excerpts from President Bush's speech that were just released minutes ago:

This is just disturbing.

Attytood: Vietnam vs, Iraq

Ailes, the chairman and CEO of FOX News, will receive the 2006 First Amendment Leadership Award.

Next years nominees are John Adams for the Alien and Sedition Act, Mao Tse Tung for the Cultural Revolution, Papa Doc Duvalier for the Tontons Macoutes and Benito Mussolini for making the trains run on time. Get your votes in early!

RTNDA/F News Releases

These words or phrases are your cues to drink:

* "9/11" - drink once
* "September the 11th" drink twice - is that extra "the" supposed to make the mention more dramatic?
* "Surge" - drink once
* "Escalation" or "escalate" - drink twice.

Tonight's drinking rules! Because no one should have to be sober listening to someone who sounds that drunk.

Bush Iraq War Escalation Speech Drinking Game | The Huffington Post