Oboner

by: brobin

Thu Sep 01, 2011 at 09:20:09 AM EST

The world will little note nor long remember the Great Scheduling Kerfuffle. But the episode speaks volumes - none of them attractive - about the current state of political affairs. The squabble began with President Obama looking petty and partisan and ended with House Speaker John Boehner looking churlish and disrespectful. If the two had gotten together to figure out how to make Americans think even less of Washington politicians, they couldn't have done much better.

Because schedules are made to be broken and jobs are for sissies.

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In other news, Caliginia is experiencing more earthquake aftershocks.

3rd Largest Aftershock Rattles Virginia

One of the largest aftershocks to hit Virginia since the August 23 earthquake rocked the state Thursday morning.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), at 5:09 a.m. Thursday morning, a 3.4 magnitude aftershock struck 4 miles southeast of Mineral, Virginia, the epicenter of the initial quake.

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Good news.

Iraq: US troops' first fatality-free month since 2003

August was the first month since the US-led invasion in 2003 that no US soldiers were killed in Iraq.

An independent group, icasualties.org, has displayed the statistics for August on its website, which tracks US fatalities in Iraq every month.

US Col Douglas Crissman said it showed how far Iraqi security forces had come.

Figures for Iraqi civilian and security forces deaths in August are not yet available, but the month has seen major attacks with substantial loss of life.

So, can they come home now?

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