Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines, whose criticism of President Bush last spring led to boycotts of the group’s music, still has a lot to say about the war in Iraq.

“I think people were misled and I think people are fighting a war that they didn’t know they were going to be fighting,” Maines said Friday on NBC’s “Today” show. “And I think they were misled by people who should have been asking questions and weren’t.”

One question people were not asking is, “Why is this woman still getting air time?”

Maines said Friday she did not feel vindicated by how the war has unfolded: “I would have liked to have been proven wrong.”

Don’t be too quick to jump to conclusions. You will be proven wrong.

I, for one, love to see journalists covering issues which might be dangerous to themselves, in order for the “truth to be told”.

French weekly magazine, Paris Match, is to publish exclusive pictures of what it says are Iraqi rebels launching a missile attack on a German DHL cargo plane over Baghdad that led to a shutdown of commercial air traffic to the Iraqi capital.

So, when I read the text above, I thought, “Wow, they actually got photographs of the attack. That is awesome.” Then I read more.

The images were taken by one of the magazine’s photographers, Jerome Sessini, who was with the attackers — described in the accompanying article as “Iraqi guerrillas” — at the time of Saturday’s missile strike, editor-in-chief Alain Genestar told AFP on Wednesday.

Excuse me? The photographers were with the attackers?? Exactly how many times will we allow the French to interfere with operations in Iraq? Of course, they try to explain it away…

“We don’t make the perpetrators of this act to be heroes,” he said, adding the correspondent and photographer had been brought back to France “for safety reasons”.

Of course not. Le Worm did not make Saddam out to be a hero either, but we all know where he slithers, err, stands.

The Paris Match photographs were not the first images said to document the attack.

The six-minute video, seen by AFP on Monday, shows one of a group of masked militants firing a missile that hits the DHL cargo jet.

Personally, I think if anyone knows of any insurgent groups in Iraq, and they do not notify coalition forces, then they too, should be shot.

to the following Democrats for finally taking a stand on something:

Baucus (D-MT), Breaux (D-LA), Carper (D-DE), Conrad (D-ND), Dorgan (D-ND), Feinstein (D-CA), Landrieu (D-LA), Lincoln (D-AR), Miller (D-GA), Nelson (D-NE), and Wyden (D-OR).

If every Democrat was like Zell Miller, we would all be better off.

Country music singer Glen Campbell was arrested on Monday on suspicion of extreme drunken driving and hit and run after he crashed into another vehicle in central Phoenix, city police said.

At times, the 67-year-old entertainer was combative and aggressive, congenial and was heard to be singing as he was being processed into jail, Force said.

Hey, even bad publicity is better than no publicity… right? How much you wanna bet that he teams up with Wynonna next year for a duet?

Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is demanding that Republicans stop showing their first television ad of the 2004 presidential race, which he called “repulsive and outrageous.”

The 30-second ad, which aired in Iowa over the weekend, features clips of Bush during his State of the Union address last January. It portrays Bush as a fighter of terrorism and says his opponents “are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists.”

At least the President Bush takes a stand. At least he voices his opinion, and whether it is right or wrong, we all know where he stands. Unlike 4/5 of the Democrats who use filibusters and silence to “voice” their opinions. My wish has still not been fulfilled. I want the Democrats to voice their opinions, allow serious debate on serious issues, and let the American people know where they stand. Once and for all.

“It’s wrong. It’s erroneous, and I think that they ought to pull the ad,” Daschle told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program on Sunday.

“We all want to defeat terrorism,” the South Dakota senator said.

Oh really? We could not have known that by your actions in the Senate.

A North Carolina outbreak of hepatitis A probably came from green onions, which also have been blamed for outbreaks linked to restaurants in Georgia, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, according to a preliminary state health report.

The Georgia outbreak had previously been traced to green onions shipped from Mexico, and the report said a single Atlanta Farmers’ Market distributor provided green onions from California suppliers to three Georgia restaurants where multiple people got the liver infection.

Will I ever be able to eat another green onion (which are one of my favorites)??? sigh…

Jonathan Brandis (news), who from an early age appeared in a string of roles on television, commercials and film, including the starring role in 1991’s “The Neverending Story 2: The Next Chapter” and two seasons on Steven Spielberg (news)’s “SeaQuest DSV,” has died. He was 27.

The county coroner’s office is investigating the Nov. 12 death, which was reported by the Los Angeles Police Department as a possible suicide, Lt. Ed Winter of the coroner’s Investigations Bureau said Thursday.

Rest In Peace, Jonathan.

I see that the mainstream media has begun to inform people that there might be a problem.

Green onions were the likely source of a deadly hepatitis A outbreak at a Mexican restaurant last month, but the origin of the onions and how they were tainted remains unclear, state health officials said Friday.

It is not known whether the green onions behind the Pennsylvania outbreak are linked to those already known to have caused smaller outbreaks of hepatitis A in Tennessee and Georgia in September.

It only took five days this time.

…reminded me of something.

Do you remember years ago, when your parents would say something like “Back in my day we did not have automatic transmission”, etc. etc. etc. , well, the other day, our oldest son (who is 5) asked me a question, which started like this:

“Do you remember that movie we watched that was funny, before we could fast forward the tv?”

It quickly dawned on me that since we got the Dish Network with the Personal Video Recorder I don’t think my kids have seen a full commercial. Imagine that, life as you know it, never having to see another commercial. Wow, I am beginning to sound like one. Anyway, I will quit rambling now.

I saw this over at Melissa’s site, and thought I better do my part to inform the masses:

My favorite one was:

6. Turn On A Television Or Radio
Televisions, strange boxes that sit in your parents’ living rooms, were once used to provide entertainment, long before DVDs and Playstations were invented. Televisions have the capability of broadcasting streaming information similar to the content on multimedia websites. With a “remote control,” a wireless device that is like a small one-handed keyboard, you may be able to surf a limited number of “channels,” while you deal with the loss of your connection. Unfortunately, television is only a one-way media.

In ancient times, radios were also used to entertain. A radio allowed you to listen to news, sports, and music, much the same way that you listen to live streaming audio on a Shoutcast server. Like the television, a radio will only have a limited selection of listening stations, and no video. Hopefully your separation from the Internet will be brief.