from the Agence France-Presse, US troops from 9th Cavalry Regiment are not reacting too well to the extension of their tours:
“Bush can come fight here. He can take my 1,000 dollars a month and I’ll go home.”
How is this different from American companies (general motors, IBM) supplying Nazi germany with materials prior to the declaration of war?
catching up on feeds, came across this gem from mr adams: The Things I Say. I think it would be less funny if I were single.
W3C Supporters Program: This page is a delicious potpourri of earnest standards supporters and craven self-promoters, with the craven promoters winning out in the number of listings (this list is –I think– refreshed annually, so this is just the recent round of contributors).
What this latter group of fools don’t seem to realize is that the links to their hideous websites are explicitly excluded from (most?) search engine traffic, as stated at the bottom of the page
why am I looking at that page? cause I was wondering about how one joins the w3c and found actual membership to be a bit pricey, even for the huge institution I work for. Maybe we’ll manage being “supporters”, though I am rather unwilling to show up on the same page of links as “online casino news” and “san francisco plastic surgery”.
as for you guys at w3c: get that wishlist updated, there’s probably stuff people can send you!
I recall her from the judith miller affair; this is a good summary of her, courtesy of media matters.
just watched her now on pbs’s news hour and she was breath-taking in her incoherence. I mean, need-the-transcript incoherent. its all she can do to shill for libby & co. ‘no crime has been committed’, almost like a chant she repeated it half-a-dozen times.
her main contention appears to be that prosecutors have to be very careful about what they consider ‘lying’ in a grand jury.
also, she thought bizarre the notion that a juror would ask ‘where’s karl rove?’. the level of her discourse is the same as her buddy bob novak, and really just a hair above that of convicted narcotics felon rush limbaugh.
I’m sure it’s not the last we’ll hear of him, and it is unimaginable to me that he would get any kind of prison sentence. but not since the days of iran-contra have I felt so simultaneously cheered and nonplussed. I expect he will get to do broadcasting for Fox & co like his fellow felon (and traitor) Mr North. Link
Next six months critical to US’s effort in Iraq… again?: it reminds me of winston smith and the memory hole. Christian Science Monitor has a nice run-down of all the different times the Iraq war has seen “critical months”.
(Via The Morning News.)
It’s a nice preliminary read to this gem, about how even options are not an option for the A-Team in charge of our foreign policy, from today’s Post, and is also courtesy of TMN.
He’s 19, shot through the head. he and the petty officer who saved him both took bullets through their helmets, detailed in a very nice nytimes article.
Corporal Smith, sitting in that wheelchair next to his mom, looks about 12.
On the hitler channel the other day I saw some beer documentary; Fritz Maytag appeared, and said something like beer, among other things, “promotes a certain cheerfulness”.
I must say that my habitual visits to our local brewery have made me really appreciate what he means. The other day I had buffalo wings and 2 1/2 pints of local brew. Yum.
I have some of Anchor’s uncharred rye, which I’ve just had, which prompted me to note this here, and which I must say … is a bit strong.
oh right, the video that was the genesis of this post is here: http://www.anchorbrewing.com/about_us/anchordistilling_video_lg.htm.
wrong about enron, wrong about energy market manipulation, wrong about iraq, wrong about bin laden. wrong wrong wrong. or, as very well said by Mr Marshall:
Why complain about anything Dick Cheney says? The man is simply too big a fool to hold any job of responsibility in the national government. Think of his history of failure, terrible judgment, reckless endangerment of the country. It’s hard to imagine that there’s anyone in this country not under active federal surveillance who has done more to advance the al Qaeda agenda than Dick Cheney.
I hope pelosi just starts hitting back rather than complaining; forget about calling Mr President, just start swinging for god’s sake!