I guess William the Bloody knows all too well about this tried and true campaign strategy from the GOP. Here he is with Chris Wallace giving us his best advice to Hillary.

KRISTOL: [Obama’s] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria is reality, or to be more blunt, fear. I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear.

As Think Progress notes, Kristol very much would like to bomb the heck out of Iran.

Via CNN:

Pakistan's Interior Ministry backtracked Tuesday on its statement that Benazir Bhutto died because she hit her head on a sunroof latch during a shooting and bomb attack.

The government also published a reward offer in several national newspapers to anyone who could identify two suspects from the killing.

Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema told CNN the ministry will wait for the findings from forensic investigators before making a conclusion about her cause of death.

Cheema said he based his statement Friday about the sunroof latch "on the initial investigations and the reports by the medical doctors" who treated her at Rawalpindi General Hospital. Read on...

I won't begin to offer a theory or explanation, but it is significant that the Pakistani government has made this move. The release of the latest video of Bhutto's assassination has raised many more questions and it appears that pressure from the international community and media, as well as from Bhutto supporters has put the Pakistani Interior Ministry back on its heels.

What a wild story. The guy looks like a pretty sick individual:

A mentally unstable man wearing what appeared to be a bomb strapped to his chest was arrested hours after he walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday, took hostages and demanded to speak to the candidate in a standoff that dragged into the night, authorities said.

Eisenberg made local headlines in March when he held a news conference on the steps of Rochester City Hall to complain about a police policy of placing fliers in unlocked cars warning motorists to lock their doors. "This is nothing more than a gimmick to get around the Constitution and go around in the middle of the night upon unsuspecting citizens in their own yard and search their vehicles," Eisenberg said.

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Good god, have they no decency at all?

The Carpetbagger Report:

The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.

Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.

Jordan Fox's case is appalling:

In Jordan Fox’s case, he was seriously injured when a roadside bomb blew up his vehicle, causing back injuries and blindness in his right eye. He was sent home, unable to complete the final three months of his military commitment. Last week, the Pentagon sent him a bill: Fox owed the government nearly $3,000 of his signing bonus.

“I tried to do my best and serve my country. I was unfortunately hurt in the process. Now they’re telling me they want their money back,” Fox said.

Updated: John Amato: Jordan is now getting a chance to speak out.

OK, so who really supports the troops? Actually, I hate to talk about the troops this way, use them to further a discussion, but these warmongering freaks (Kristol and his ilk) only make more money talking about war and more war and then attack us as anti-military because we want to get the troops out of Iraq and make sure they get the care they need when they return home. This example illustrates how little the BushCo. team values their service. I wonder how much you'll hear from the nutosphere about this story since the military uses them to spread their war propaganda around...

TP has a quote from Rep. Jason Altmire:

I am heartened by Brigadier General Michael S. Tucker’s announcement of the Army’s policy that it will not ask for repayment of bonuses paid to those soldiers who are injured in the line of duty. However, I am disappointed that the policy does not go further by stating that wounded soldiers will also receive the remaining balance of future bonus payments. It is preposterous for our government to have a policy that says that a soldier who has sustained serious injuries in the field of battle has not fulfilled his or her service obligation.

Hey kids, it's SteveAudio back again, and it Friday! What kind of sounds do we have today?
Torture chambers where John Doe's remain nameless, hear me?. . . Right-wingers keep on quibbling smugly over the definition of torture. And you can send a letter to your Senator about torture, if you think they'll listen. And If waterboarding isn’t used, why can’t anyone comment on it?

Got no human grace, your eyes without a face. . . My crime? Violating Facebook's Terms of Service by not using my "real name." It was just about the worst thing that I could do. . . Kevin Drum saves us all the most unpleasantest task of all, documenting the Worst Blog Posts Evah!

He's all of 31 and he's only 17, he's been a soldier for a thousand years. . . On a serious note, the man who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima died.

I'm gonna get ya', get ya' ,get ya', get ya'. . . GWBush says we should be real scared of some Bin Laden dude. And he's a real happenin' dude cuz he's all about the bloggerz. But remember, he once read a book called "Bin Laden Determined to Strike In US," except, well, he can't read.

We have another new song for you today, all about Friday. And we have an extra credit quiz: Who in this band has more famous younger brothers, and what band are they in? As always, send any tips or song requests to steveaudio at earthlink dot net, with Blog Round Up as the title

Back tomorrow, for the last time, we'll blow the roof off the joint. Oh, and get here early, 'cause the manager forgot to order the extra case of Guinness. Slacker.

You'd have thought MoveOn sold a copy of "how to make a nuclear bomb in two simple steps" to undesirables the way the media has treated them, but when the "Kristol Conservative"---Michael Ledeen attacks Gen. Abizaid on the pages of the NRO because he had the audacity to say that we could live with a nuclear Iran because we survived the Soviet Union and...he topped it off by saying that war with Iran would be devastating to everybody but that's just fine by the media...

Digby has the details....

This is why the pearl clutching among the right wingers and their media allies is so laughable. On the right, they treat all Generals and troops who disagree with them like garbage, in the most despicable terms possible. Look what they did to John Kerry. Why any DC liberal takes their little "patriotic" game seriously is beyond me.

Anything They Say - how to blow up hearts and minds in Afghanistan.

And here's a clue for the clueless on another way the Bush administration has thrown away America's goodwill around the world - Gitmo.

The latest good news from Iraq - the most efficient government service in Iraq is bomb clean-up.

Experts admit it without saying so outright - Shinseki was right all along.

It's OK if U.S. soldiers die as long as Bush doesn't look bad. But does Godwin's Law still apply if the right are being so blatant about taking tips from the Nazis?

If the current U.S. force in Iraq can't deter a larger regional conflict who the hell is dumb enough to believe a residual force could?

Another set of Los Alamos nuclear secrets goes AWOL and almost no-one notices.

Guest round up by Cernig @ The Newshoggers (newshog AT gmail DOT com).

FaBlog:  A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Sensen no sen:  Save your outrage for those who need it....

DC's:  Don't tell the manager of the Whole Foods on the Bowery that we used to sleep where the olive bar is now....

Words of Power:  The long hot summer of reason or madness?

Holy Crap!  Didja know there's a sleezy side to the abstinence industry?  h/t to the amazing writers at The Revealer.  God, Gays, and the sanctity of marriage . 

Between 20 March 2007 and 20 March 2008 (the fifth year of the war)  this group will work to sign up One Million Blogs for Peace.

Guest round up by Blue Gal, bluegalsblog AT gmail DOT com.

This is whacked:

A small group of protesters gathered near the funeral services to criticize the man who mobilized Christian evangelicals and made them a major force in American politics -- often by playing on social prejudices. And Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for having several homemade bombs in his car.

The student, 19-year-old Mark D. Uhl of Amissville, Va., reportedly told authorities that he was making the bombs to stop protesters from disrupting the funeral service. The devices were made of a combination of gasoline and detergent, a law enforcement official told ABC News' Pierre Thomas. They were "slow burn," according to the official, and would not have been very destructive.

"There were indications that there were others involved in the manufacturing of these devices and we are still investigating these individuals with the assistance of ATF [Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms], Virginia State Police and FBI.

Usually law enforcement just hauls off protesters or clubs them senseless, but now Liberty University has a new system of dealing with it. Blow em all to hell! When the authorities say the bombs were not very destructive---what does that mean? A cherry bomb can take off your hand. Will they just blow off a few limbs? Is bomb making part of the new curriculum at Regent and Liberty Universities? And many of these students have been hired by the hundreds to run our government by the Bushies.

The American front on the "War on Terror" has taken some interesting turns this week, especially if you're the trainwreck that is Debbie Schlussel, who you may remember sees Muslim terrorists around every corner.

Knowing that to most of us, a grasp on reality is important, she invokes Godwin's law over being called out over her incredibly ignorant and blind bigotry. Yet, as petrified as Debbie is over a couple of teenagers with cherry bombs, she remains blithely indifferent to the advocation of domestic terrorism by the leader of the Southern Baptist Convention or worse, an actual BOMB left at a women's clinic in Austin. Obviously, for Debbie, the amount of melanin she suspects is in your skin dictates whether it's considered terrorist activities.

Sadly, Cliff Schecter suspects that Michael Chertoff may actually be getting his Homeland Security ideas from the same shallow pool as Schlussel. Yes, it's that disturbing...