http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:28:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/23/dont-panic-tell-me-more-about-corruption-please/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/23/dont-panic-tell-me-more-about-corruption-please/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:15 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=27879 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/23/dont-panic-tell-me-more-about-corruption-please/feed/ 0 The overwhelming majority of Americans don’t experience corruption the way people in poorer countries do http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/dont-panic-hows-that-iraq-war-going-these-days/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/dont-panic-hows-that-iraq-war-going-these-days/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 20:53:30 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=19379 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/dont-panic-hows-that-iraq-war-going-these-days/feed/ 0 'Iraq is damned if we stay and damned if we leave. Damn.' http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/23/dont-panic-five-people-who-also-should-have-had-shoes-thrown-at-them-in-2008/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/23/dont-panic-five-people-who-also-should-have-had-shoes-thrown-at-them-in-2008/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:23:35 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=11479 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/23/dont-panic-five-people-who-also-should-have-had-shoes-thrown-at-them-in-2008/feed/ 0 Colin Powell knew the Pentagon was lying about Iraq in 2003, but he's only now telling us. Someone please shoe this man. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/morning-headlines-97/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/morning-headlines-97/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:54:52 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/morning-headlines-97/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/morning-headlines-97/feed/ 0 BARACK IN IRAQ: Obama visits Basra and meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad’s Green Zone today as part of a three-senator congressional delegation. DON’T SHIVER ME TIMBERS: The Christian Science Monitor reports on former pirate community in South Florida and how it’s keeping out big development. NEST EGGS: Researchers are cracking open sea-turtle eggs [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/award-winning-georgia-war-correspondent-and-son-off-to-iraq-and-afghanistan/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/award-winning-georgia-war-correspondent-and-son-off-to-iraq-and-afghanistan/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:35:29 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/award-winning-georgia-war-correspondent-and-son-off-to-iraq-and-afghanistan/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/award-winning-georgia-war-correspondent-and-son-off-to-iraq-and-afghanistan/feed/ 5 Mike Boettcher, a Peabody Award-winning journalist who’s covered conflicts in the Middle East and Africa for NBC News and CNN, is launching a Web venture called NoIgnoring. He’s channeling the ghost of Ernie Pyle and venturing off to Iraq and Afghanistan to tell soldiers’ stories from the warzones. “We have 200,000 U.S. men and women in [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/11/another-mission-accomplished/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/11/another-mission-accomplished/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:09:57 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/11/another-mission-accomplished/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/11/another-mission-accomplished/feed/ 0 From Healing Iraq: During the five years the United States has occupied Iraq, the Bush administration has created a new state with a number of notable features: A venal, dysfunctional government. A terrorist haven and training ground. A nation so violent and dangerous that 10 percent of the population has fled. Add to that a new hallmark: [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/bush-sacrifices-for-the-troops/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/bush-sacrifices-for-the-troops/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 23:29:36 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/bush-sacrifices-for-the-troops/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/bush-sacrifices-for-the-troops/feed/ 3 No one can say President Bush isn’t making personal sacrifices for U.S. troops. From Politico: Q Mr. President, you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq? THE PRESIDENT: Yes, it really is. I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/bald-georgian-not-named-andisheh-will-fix-iraq/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/bald-georgian-not-named-andisheh-will-fix-iraq/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 16:02:40 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/bald-georgian-not-named-andisheh-will-fix-iraq/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/bald-georgian-not-named-andisheh-will-fix-iraq/feed/ 1 Doug Teper, the prankster with a cue-ball cranium renowned for the passion he brought to the Georgia General Assembly as a state representative from DeKalb County, is in the belly of the beast and bringing the message of freedom, Jaw-juh style, to the people of northern Iraq. From the rabblerousers at InsiderAdvantage (scroll down): It’s OK: [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/morning-headlines-42/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/morning-headlines-42/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:47:57 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/morning-headlines-42/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/morning-headlines-42/feed/ 0 DOUG COLLINS: State rep from Gainesville, who’s also an Air Force Reserve chaplain, to be deployed to Iraq in September. ONE FOR THE ROAD: Hawks play one in Boston tonight before returning to Philips Friday. SHAD STATE OF AFFAIRS: Because lock valves on a Savannah River dam have failed, leaving the gates stuck shut, biologists on Tuesday [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/yoo-hoo-america/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/yoo-hoo-america/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:46:17 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/yoo-hoo-america/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/30/yoo-hoo-america/feed/ 7 Yo, America. American casualties in Iraq are up for the third straight month. If you insist on focusing your attention on the idiotic ramblings of a narcissistic, ill-tempered religious figure, how about focusing it on one whose ramblings mean life-or-death for thousands of Americans and Iraqis. Bookmark It