six months after robert novak spotlighted valerie plame, our justice department--charged with determining who told whom when and why--launched its investigation. while wowin the yokels at a press conference, shortly thereafter, ol honest george told us exactly what he planned to do: "If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of." truer words was never spoke. i'm all for this k...
finally--after years of concerted effort and outrageous cash outlays to no apparent avail--some results! without having to do anything out of the ordinary (for, like, keith richards), i'm increasingly able to forget shit. pragmatist that i am, i'm not at all bothered by the possibility it may be nothing more than post-pre-early-onset senility. whatever works. thus it was doubly cool seeing former senator bill bradley last night (3/13/07) on bill maher's 'real time'.&n...
on monday (11/20/060) the national park service announced its intention to continue perrmiting use of yellowstone national park by as many as 720 snowmobiles per day. nearly four years of ongoing intensive studies of snowmobile impact on yellowstone's ecosystem by the agency's own scientists have so far cost us $8 million dollars and generated three reports, all of which have concluded snowmobiles produce unacceptable levels of air pollution and noise. other federal a...
samsung and korea university have moved forward into the past and built one of those things only ever seen previously in asian sci-fi movies: a robot sentry armed with a 5.5 machinegun for deployment along the dmz. it sees with two zooming cameras (regular for daytime, infrared for nite), issues commands through a speaker system and is claimed to be able to tell the difference between humans and like trees n stuff (a talent which still eludes some live domestic security guards). ...
would she have the same appeal if her name was condaleeza noodles? Link on an almost totally dissimilar note, can anyone explain why this article Link has been place in the politics > democrat category?
near the end of the first bush-kerry presidential debate, the following question was posed to both candidates: LEHRER: New question, two minutes, Senator Kerry. If you are elected president, what will you take to that office thinking is the single most serious threat to the national security to the United States? kerry responded thusly: KERRY : Nuclear proliferation. Nuclear proliferation. There's some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Un...
in a thread of another article by the very astute Sean Conners, a.k.a. SConn1 Link there's been an ongoing sidebar discussion turning on the question of what constitutes a bonafide plan. i found an article that seems germane to that conversation located here: Link rather than dump what's turned into a lotta text onto mr. conners excellent post, i'll overload my own blog. the article in question was published on 9/12/0...
how horrible is this: little physically and mentally abused two-year-old conjoined iraqi quadruplets forced by demonic mullahs to rip pelts off cute lil live bunnies every 2 seconds for 14 hours a day using only their teeth. if that ain't bad enuff, if even just one american won't publicly praise every homosexual whenever passing them in the halls, a new law will permit howard dean to double taxes of the 1000 richest americans ...
to: all supporters of our president's counter-revolutionary determination to assume to his office and himself monarchist powers against which--and from which to free us forever--this nation's founders fought and died. re: the absurd incongruity of officially abrogating all relations with terrorist state syria while simultaneously utilizing syria as a backchannel instrument with which to perpetrate our own brand of s...
talk about irony. since assuming office as 'determinator of even the most crypto anti-semiticism' and being granted the power to view into all mens' hearts and see the moral rot therein, moderateman has been unrelenting in sniffing out and denouncing as 'jew haters' anyone who dares criticize policy implemented by the civil government of israel. so it is that his most recent screed (featuring introductory actual anti-semitic quotes attributed to h...
altho i can't recall ever feeling anything but creeped out by george hw bush, his wife, barbara, always seemed to me a pleasant, down-to-earth very likeable woman. i could never imagine what she could have seen in her husband nor how much alcohol she musta had to imbibe in order to mother his children. speaking of which, i never...ever...thought badly of her for bringing them into the world. after all, that was something she's hadda live with for over half century.&...
sadly, for as long as it remains standing, iraq's infamous abu ghraib prison is gonna be an haunting reminder about how combining hubris, executive incompetence and ideology can very easily and swiftly wrest defeat from the heart of impending victory. contemplate for a moment or two this report about abu ghraib's current status compiled and distributed by the associated press. The sprawling facility on the western outskirts of Baghdad wi...
perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the dubai port world deal--so far anyway--is the president's public position. he aggressively supported something with which he then claimed to be barely familiar. if he's lying about his limited knowledge, it's pretty scary. if he's not, scary ain't nearly strong enuff. i tend to go with the former possibility. as i've tried to point out several times in the past, he may be dumb as he often seems, but not nearly as dumb as he thinks...
christina applegate and jennifer tilly are two very smart, sexy, funny women who share a very unique talent. both are able to conjure up characters who say and do such incredibly stupid things with such finesse, it is sometimes difficult not to confuse christina with kelly bundy or jennifer with damn near a sorority of goofy sounding ditzy bimbos. brilliant as they may be, they have nothin on george w. bush. i may seem gullible and naive but i've done seed da light.&nbs...
day before yesterday i began--but then abandoned--a piece about generalissimo gonzales' attempt to strongarm google with a subpeona demanding a week's worth of user search queries as well as a random list of website urls from google's database. like the tools they are, yahoo, aol and msn appear to have already caved to government demands. gonzales--who seems at times to believe his job title is attorney tsar rather than attorney general--claims the information is needed to persuade ...