Saturday Night Moose Dancing

OK, time for some dancing. Seriously, get your moose butt up and dance. But do watch those antlers. Tonight’s theme, dance music. I’ll spin up the victrola with a few to get you started. First of course is Saturday Night Fever: And while we’re dancing with Vinny, how could we forget the dance scene from [...]

Obama’s “bad negotiating” is Neither

Glenn Greewald has a good article out today on Obama’s “bad negotiating”. Glenn get’s it right, mostly. Of course we all know his blind side, like many liberal purists, that the Clinton’s are even worse than most in the GOP. But we’ll let that slide. Mostly. Read the whole thing, but I’ll pull out a [...]

Odyssey Dawn (War in Libya) – Open Thread

You say you want a revolution… It looks like we’ve got a coalition and some extra missiles laying around, so we’re off: The UK, US and France have attacked Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in the first action to enforce a UN-mandated no-fly zone. Pentagon officials say the US and the UK have fired [...]

Obama Formalizes Indefinite Detention at Gitmo

It’s official, Obama has formalized indefinite detention at Gitmo: President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security. The administration also said it will start new [...]

A Little News and Talk

It’s been a busy few weeks down here with the moose heard. Let’s see what’s been happening since I’ve been so busy. Um, so the middle east has completely changed. Did anyone see that happening. The UN seeks access to the Libyan injured and dying: The United Nations is calling on Libya to allow it [...]

Egyptian Protests Continue

It worked. I traded some swamp land for posting with crawdad. He has no idea what sort of trouble a moose can get into. Watch this space for more moose droppings. We’ve all been mesmerized by what’s going on in Egypt and spilling over elsewhere. Newsweek has an account of the scramble and difficulty in [...]