When I started writing on blogs, like many others, I used a pseudonym in order to protect my identity.  Living in South Carolina, and having an anti-Republican mindset, my opinions could have opened my family up for retribution from employers, neighbors, and the occasional psychotic.

I “outed” myself for two main reasons; first, I really stopped caring if people knew who I was or not, and second, if I was going to change anything, than it had to come from me, not from an internet moniker.

We have seen over the years how the media went from being our friend to being our foe.  What used to be the public “watchdog” against government evolved into a force requiring its own watchdog; the public.  At Media Matters, there is an endless display of inaccuracy and dishonesty.  The internet blog rose to prominence because of this dishonesty by our “traditional” media sources.  But, did the rules of media actually change?  I had thought so until I read this:

Cindy Sheehan to RAW STORY on Their Coverage of Her Upcoming Bush/Dallas Protest: ‘Eff’ You!

The article that Cindy Sheehan is responding, found here, was authored by Stephen Webster and David Edwards.

I don’t know what is worse, having politicians who spout this crap, or, having a part of our populace stupid enough to believe it.

The Big Dick speaks:

CHENEY: The problem we were faced with in the aftermath of 9/11 was the possibility of another 9/11-style attack, only with much deadlier technology, a 9/11 with nukes or biological agents of some kind. That concern drove a lot of our thinking in that period, in those months after 9/11. … I think it was a sound decision to make. I think it was an important part of our overall strategy in the Global War on Terror. I think it saved lives.

There are times that I simply feel like I’m shooting GOP fish in a barrel, but, here we go…

No doubt by now, you’ve heard about Dr. Tiller that was assassinated while attending church today.  He was an abortion doctor who found himself regularly on FOX News due to Bill O’Reilly.

So, what exactly does it take for a person to get it into their heads that killing someone is better way?

Gen. Taguba hath spoken:

“The photographs in that lawsuit, I have not seen,” Taguba told Salon Friday night. The actual quote in the Telegraph was accurate, Taguba said — but he was referring to the hundreds of images he reviewed as an investigator of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq — not the photos of abuse that Obama is seeking to suppress.

So, too, hath President Obama spoken:

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration insists it has no obligation to provide access to a top secret document in a wiretapping case, setting up a showdown next week with the judge who ordered it released.

Justice Department lawyers, in a response Friday with the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, also argued that Judge Vaughn Walker had no cause to penalize the government over its refusal to turn over the document.

The Sotomayor nomination.  Conservative radio host asks, “what happened to the TRUTH?”  General Petreaus says, “We violated the Geneva Conventions.”  A black off-duty NYPD officer is killed by another NYPD officer.

I didn’t “break” the story, I merely posted it.  The Telegraph didn’t break it either, they reiterated what was already on the record.

The story has been out there since 2004.  But, let’s give credit to Raw Story for drawing together the relevant facts.

Now, could the Pentagon response be accurate?  Yes…