Another Brick in the Wall

Apparently whatever the Bush administration can't defeat outright they like to wall in. Bag News Notes reported on walls being erected in Baghdad to keep feuding factions apart and we are fairly familiar with the Administration's interest in putting up a fence from the Pacific to the Gulf to keep our friends from Mexico from coming north. Something about regressing back to the 1940's seems to be going on here...

The war rages on...

This from the New York Times...

Meanwhile we continued to be seemingly completely distracted by our domestic issues...

In the worst of the attacks, a car bomb exploded at an intersection in the Sadriya neighborhood that serves as a station for buses traveling to the Shiite district of Sadr City. The powerful blast killed at least 115 people and wounded 137.

Silly Birds...

Dark-eyed Junco with nesting mustache. This 'mustachioed junco' was taken in northern Maine during last year's American Birding Association convention, held in Bangor."
- Photo by Steve Bass of Altadena, California

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