Rosie O’Donnell writes on her blog that Britain engineered the capture of its service personnel as a pretext for a US-led war on Iran:

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities.

the british did it on purpose
into iranian waters
as
US MILITARY BUILD UP ON THE IRANIAN BORDER

we will be in iran
before summer
as planned

Perhaps Rosie can explain the latest warmongering statement from the British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett:

I think everyone regrets that this position has arisen. What we want is a way out of it – we want it peacefully and we want it as soon as possible.

[...]We continue to express our willingness to engage in dialogue and discussion, to come to a resolution of this issue.

Before you write off the seriousness of Rosie’s opinion, remember she is co-host of one of America’s most popular daytime talk shows, the View—a program upon which she repeated the conspiracy theory last week.

Conservative attack dog Bill O’Reilly and satanic shock rock singer Marilyn Manson have a sensible discussion on The O’Reilly Factor. (Via Metafilter.)

A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice-president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol’ days.

Full story.

Sorry. Caught up in other projects all day. More soon.

John, if you’re reading this please excuse the errors but I broke the cardinal rule: I never took notes.

John is from Michigan. He’s been in New York for about two years. Some time in the past year the apartment building where he and his girlfriend lived and worked burned down. They’ve been sleeping rough ever since. John says he has no parents to turn to and his sister has her own problems.

Once, when John and his girlfriend were sleeping a block from the Empire State Building some men tried to rape John’s girlfriend. John intervened and has the knife marks to prove it.

John and his girlfriend are trying to get out of the city. They have a dog so they can’t take public transportation easily.

John spends most days on 14th Street between 5th Avenue and Union Square. His girlfriend is a block over. Her grandmother, who lives on the West Coast, died recently and she hopes she may have a small inheritance waiting for her if she can make it there. Someone has offered to give them a lift but it’s not definite.

John says he doesn’t care whether passersby give him money. He just hope his sign makes them laugh.