THE FLIP/FLOP WORLD SERIES -- PART 3 OF 10

Here are some more Flip/Flops for McSAME.

Military Policy

14. McCain recently claimed that he was the "greatest critic" of Rumsfeld's failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as "a mission accomplished." In March 2004, he said, "I'm confident we're on the right course." In December 2005, he said, "Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course."

15. McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions, concluding, on multiple occasions, that a Korea-like presence is both a good and a bad idea.

16. McCain said before the war in Iraq, "We will win this conflict. We will win it easily." Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was "probably going to be long and hard and tough."

17. McCain has repeatedly said it's a dangerous mistake to tell the "enemy" when U.S. troops would be out of Iraq. In May, McCain announced that most American troops would be home from Iraq by 2013.

18. McCain was against expanding the GI Bill before he was for it.

BILL MOYERS ON TORTURE 1 OF 10

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL goes inside last week's hearings on torture in Congress and gets perspective from journalist Jane Mayer on the debate over whether the U.S. sanctioned torture to prosecute the war on terror. Mayer's recent book, THE DARK SIDE: THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THE WAR ON TERROR TURNED INTO A WAR ON AMERICAN IDEALS, documents the war on terror and the struggle over whether the president should have limitless power to wage it.

Jane Mayer is a staff writer for THE NEW YORKER and the coauthor of two bestselling books, LANDSLIDE and STRANGE JUSTICE. Based in Washington, D.C., she writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagon's secret torture policy, how the United States outsources torture (rendition), the prison at Guantñnamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, Karl Rove, and the television show "24."

This is a 10 part series.

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LION LOVE

In 1969, John Rendall & Ace Berg saw a lion cub for sale in Harrods.

Cramped & lonely in a small cage, they decided to bring it home.

A local vicar allowed them to exercise the cub, now named Christian, in the church grounds but he very quickly became too big for their flat.

The only thing they could do was to try and reintroduce him to Africa, which they managed to do.

A year later they wanted to visit him but were told that he was now the head of his own pride and as such was completely wild and would not remember them.

Undaunted, they went anyway.

After many hours of looking for the pride, this is what happened when they finally found the WILD LION . . .

Watch this video . . . and have a Kleenex handy.

Tip of the hat to Karen for this video.

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CAN THEY GET ANY MORE PETTY???

Barack Obama began his speech saying he's an American citizen and a citizen of the world. The McCain camp highlighted that phrase in its dismissal of Obama as did many others on the right.

Turns out John McCain himself has used the phrase "Citizen of the World" in a speech on May 27th of this year at the University of Denver.

There is such a thing as good international citizenship, and America must be a good citizen of the world-leading the way to address the danger of global warming and preserve our environment. . .

Many past Presidents (and the current one, too!) used "citizen of the world" in their remarks. Here's a collection of them. . .

Thomas Paine

Calvin Coolidge

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard M. Nixon

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George Herbert Walker Bush

William J. Clinton

George W. Bush

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BACK IN BLACK

From time to time The Daily Show has Lewis Black on to give his take on the the world.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.

Bill-O and Laura Ingraham deny torture

Earning a rare two-person Worst-in-the-world honor, Bill-O "the clown" O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham exert some strenuous denial in order to avoid accepting the fact that the United States uses torture as a method of interrogation.

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DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE

THEY NEED YOUR HELP

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* CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-776-0111 and give what you can.

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PRETTY GOOD JOKES

BUMPER STICKERS FOR LIFE

GREAT QUOTE

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. -- Author Unknown

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

Posted by thebscorner at July 28, 2008 02:34 AM