Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said if diplomacy doesn’t work in getting Iran to give up their nuclear capabilities the only other option would be Iran bombing someone or someone bombing Iran.
Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and that major powers should continue their policy of incrementally increasing sanctions against Tehran [...]

Michael Yon has posted part two of “The Ghosts of Anbar.”
Another interesting read for those keeping up with the series. Great facts about conditions on the ground and terrific pictures again.
Just a snippet which I found to be very revealing.
Dealing with the press is just a reality, like the weather. We would [...]

WOW! What is going on in the Republican Party.
Breaking news from Roll Call:
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom, according to an arrest report obtained by Roll Call Monday afternoon.
Craig’s arrest occurred just after noon on [...]

Confirmed as of now The NY Times is reporting Alberto Gonzales has telephoned in his resignation.
WACO, Tex., Aug. 27 — ­ Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in [...]

This is amazing, Why hasn’t someone thought of this before? There are still geniuses in government.
Undocumented immigrants are starting to leave Arizona because of the new employer-sanctions law.
The state’s strong economy has been a magnet for illegal immigrants for years. But a growing number are pulling up stakes out of fear they will [...]

Barack Obama is the latest of the Democratic presidential candidates to attend a Sunday worship service and give a campaign speech.
When is the IRS going to crack down on churches that allow this?
I guess when a Republican tries it.

It appears the Iraqi government has accomplished more while in recess than our Congress has accomplished all year.
Iraq’s top Shi’ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish political leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key measures seen as vital to fostering national reconciliation.
The agreement by the five leaders was one of the most [...]

If this wasn’t so sad it would be funny.
In a nation called the world’s superpower, only 17 percent of young adults in the United States could find Afghanistan on a map, according to a new worldwide survey released today.
The young U.S. citizens received poor marks generally in geography. But then, as results showed, their [...]

I wonder if it will taste as good.
Dunkin’ Donuts, the food-on-the-go chain whose name celebrates a treat that’s symbolic of unhealthy eating, is trying to refresh its image by largely eliminating trans fat across its menu, Homer Simpson be damned.
Dunkin’ planned to announce Monday that it has developed an alternative cooking oil and reformulated [...]

Let’s stop kidding ourselves. These people don’t want peace. Let’s pull out and let them have at it.
A new political accord between Iraq’s main Sunni Arab, Shi’ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday.
In [...]

I didn’t think that Karl was out. I can’t prove it but I think that he still has his nasty little fingers in the pie.
K arl Rove may be leaving the Bush administration, but at least one aspect of Rovism — the effort to try to pivot off a perceived political liability and turn it [...]

If someone has an active case of tuberculosis he or she has to be isolated for the sake of the public’s health.
A young man in Georgia was told Friday he has tuberculosis and didn’t believe it, so he started to walk out to go back to his house and then to Mexico.
Friday evening the young [...]

It’s too bad they can’t get everything in his bank account.
The Falcons will try to recoup $22 million already paid to suspended quarterback Michael Vick, a person with knowledge of the team’s plans told the Journal-Constitution on Saturday.
Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Friday after he pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges in [...]

Hillary Clinton held a fund-raiser at her favorite vacation spot, Martha’s Vineyard, Saturday.
She was cheered by the adoring praise and pandering of some has-been stars.
Clinton—accompanied by her husband and their daughter Chelsea—smiled broadly and swayed to the music as singer Carly Simon and her two children, Ben and Sally Taylor, sang “Devoted to You” for [...]

Martin Lewis has written a piece at HuffPo, calling for General Pace as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to arrest President Bush and relieve him of his duties of Commander in Chief.
General Pace - you have the power to fulfill your responsibility to protect the troops under your command. Indeed you have an [...]

Hillary Clinton is being criticized by other Democratic presidential candidates for a statement she made regarding a possible new terrorist attack on the United States.
Fellow democrats blasted Hillary Clinton yesterday for speculating about the political fallout of a potential terrorist attack before the 2008 election, accusing her of exploiting voters’ fears to bolster her campaign.
“Frankly, [...]

With every state party wanting to be one of the first and deciding states, the DNC has decided to disenfranchise the Florida delegates to the national convention in Denver next year if Florida doesn’t go back to its original primary date.
The Democratic Party has taken a swipe at the nation’s fourth biggest state, stripping Florida [...]

As regular readers know, Guss and I are Native Americans who grew up on an Indian Reservation in Maine.
This will be a long post, but most of it will be photos of people and places special to both of us. I hope you enjoy.

We grew up on an island isolated from the mainland except [...]

Much has been written and said about the Michael Vick situation so I will not post on the well known details. I am pleased however, to see that the Commissioner of the NFL has done what I believe to be not only correct but admirable.
The NFL indefinitely suspended Michael Vick without pay Friday just [...]

Can you believe this? I wonder if she is wearing a diaper to court.
– Former astronaut Lisa Nowak, accused of attacking a romantic rival, asked a judge Friday to let her remove her electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, saying that it causes abrasions and gets in the way of her military boots laces.
She promised [...]

Speaks for itself.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to advise President Bush to reduce the U.S. force in Iraq next year by almost half, potentially creating a rift with top White House officials and other military commanders over the course of the war.
Administration and military officials say Marine Gen. Peter [...]

Full story here.
The queen of vampire Goth lit — check.
Hollywood’s favorite she-pimp — right on.
The list of new celebrity endorsements continues to mount for the Democratic presidential run of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who leads the pack in election polls, all the while picking up an ever-more interesting cadre of announced political admirers.
“I’m a big [...]

Dear Guss,
I’ve been thinking about this for some time now and I need to ask you a question.
Do I need to start my own blog so I can write? Please let me know.
Sincerely,
Your favorite cousin/sister ~J~

I hope that this doesn’t offend anyone.
To many, he was “Bush’s Brain,” the master tactician who would stop at nothing to advance the political agenda of George W. Bush.
But to a growing number of experts within the Beltway and beyond, a more sinister portrait is emerging of former White House political adviser Karl Rove: [...]

Here’s one for ya.
The government has issued a rare written apology in a case involving an Iraqi refugee who was improperly imprisoned and pushed toward deportation by federal agents in Montana, the American Civil Liberties Union branch in Seattle announced yesterday.
The A.C.L.U. said the case should make clear to the Customs and Border Protection [...]

Speaks for itself.
the United Nations Security Council slapped economic sanctions on Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group for its role in weapons proliferation as Iran’s maker of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles.
Known as SHIG, the Iranian firm produces the Shahab III rocket, which has a range of at least 800 miles, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. That [...]

I’m not going to pretend that I know anything about this so I’m going to let the story speak for itself.
Mariya Aman is looking forward to her sixth birthday party next week. Her face lights up when her father, Hamdi, promises her a clown and lots of balloons at the party, and she whizzes up [...]

I’ll take one.
Susan Burke’s left knee was humbling her. At 54, she wanted to hike and whitewater raft through the national parks or, at the very least, to stroll around the block with her husband at night, as she’d always done. Instead, she could barely walk from her desk to her office parking lot [...]

This is so outrageous that I can’t find the words to describe my anger.
father said he asked his son to give up dogfighting, or to at least put property used in the venture in the names of others to avoid being implicated, according to a report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Also Thursday night, a report on [...]

I don’t understand it. Republicans had better be careful what they wish for.
Washington–From the K Street lobbyist corridor to the major gay and lesbian organizations to the city’s kingpin consultants and fundraisers to the big feminist groups, Hillary Clinton has acquired a near-lock on the Democratic establishment in the nation’s capital.
The level of support here [...]