the tairrists are winning

Americans Driving At Historic Lows
Eleven Billion Fewer Vehicle Miles Traveled in March 2008 Over Previous March

WASHINGTON - Americans drove less in March 2008, continuing a trend that began last November, according to estimates released today from the Federal Highway Administration.

"That Americans are driving less underscores the challenges facing the Highway Trust Fund and its reliance on the federal gasoline excise tax," said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Jim Ray.

The FHWA's "Traffic Volume Trends" report, produced monthly since 1942, shows that estimated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on all U.S. public roads for March 2008 fell 4.3 percent as compared with March 2007 travel. This is the first time estimated March travel on public roads fell since 1979. At 11 billion miles less in March 2008 than in the previous March, this is the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history.

who's hating America today? (cont'd)

"Freedom is not on the march in the Middle East. Iran is on the march in the Middle East."

-- Joe Biden (HATES America)

who's hating America today? (cont'd)

Da RezzzzziDUNCE's approval rating is about 35 percent. In Kentucky.

America concedes defeat, civilization grinds to a halt, all is lost, etc. (cont'd)

Temporary change in execution policy in Texas

Texas’ largest county, Harris, in the Houston area, leads the nation in carrying out death sentences, but the county’s chief prosecutor said on Thursday that his office will withdraw all execution dates and seek no more until the Supreme Court rules in a pending case on lethal injections.

Is EVERYBODY wid da tarrists dese days?

Even Republican Senators from South Carolina are jumping on the America-hating bandwagon.

"I don't think you have to have a lot of knowledge about the law to understand this technique violates" the Geneva Convention and other statutes, Graham said.

Since when is knowledge a requirement?

coalition of the mutually antagonistic (part 2)

Hmmm, maybe we shoulda done something about these guys first...

NATO Staggers in Afghanistan as Some Can't Fight On

By James G. Neuger
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Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- NATO's campaign in Afghanistan is under threat from member countries on the front lines clamoring to get out and others on the sidelines refusing to go in.

With military casualties on the increase this year, the Netherlands and Canada are weighing full or partial pullouts within the next 18 months. Meanwhile, leaders in Germany, France, Spain and Italy, mindful of polls showing a majority of Europeans oppose the conflict, are resisting calls to send troops to relieve them.

The European reluctance to fight is making it harder for the 41,000-strong force to consolidate gains against the Taliban, which is battling on in the rugged terrain of southern Afghanistan six years after the U.S. drove it from power in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. It is also endangering the unity of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, raising the stakes for a meeting of defense ministers later this month.

Coalition of the dwindling

Breaking news: Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Britain will cut its troops in Iraq to 2,500 starting in spring.