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Archive for June 2004
Bring Back Bill
Posted by on 06/23/04 at 9:29 am
Category: PoliticsFrom the BBC interview:
One of the reasons he [Ken Starr] got away with it is because people like you only ask people like me the questions. You gave him a complete free ride. Any abuse they wanted to do, they indicted all these little people from Arkansas, what did you care about them, they’re not famous, who cares that their lives were trampled. Who cares if their children were humiliated?
Can we have Bill back? Please?
Chicken S**t
Posted by on 06/22/04 at 11:14 am Category: PoliticsHow could I have missed this article in the Los Angeles Times on the shamefully pathetic intelligence failures prior to our invasion of Iraq? Here’s the best bit:
U.S. analysts also erred in their analysis of high-altitude satellite photos, repeatedly confusing Scud missile storage places with the short, half-cylindrical sheds typically used to house poultry in Iraq. As a result, as the war neared, two teams of U.N. weapons experts acting on U.S. intelligence scrambled to search chicken coops for missiles that were not there.“We inspected a lot of chicken farms,” said a former inspector who asked not to be identified because he now works with U.S. intelligence. His U.N. team printed “Ballistic Chicken Farm Inspection Team” on 20 gray T-shirts to mark the futile hunt.
I wonder if I can find any of those T-shirts on eBay?
And When Republicanists Do Tell the Truth . . .
Posted by on 06/21/04 at 9:22 am Category: Politics. . . it’s not pretty, as in this assertion by Hastert’s office that the GOP controls “all three branches of government.” Including, of course, the Supreme Court, which I always thought was supposed to be independent. My bad.
Loonie Tunes
Posted by on 06/20/04 at 11:54 am Category: PoliticsA little gem from Trent Lott on Saint Ronnie:
I am an advocate of having a gold dollar with Reagan’s picture on it, and calling it the Ronnie. The Canadians have the Loonie, and we can have the Ronnie.
No, actually, with people like Lott in the Senate, we will have both the Loonie and the Ronnie.
What the Bush Administration (Actually) Said
Posted by on 06/20/04 at 11:46 am Category: PoliticsA piece in today’s print edition of the New York Times, but not posted on its web site, entitled “What the Bush Administration Said” endorses the administration’s claim that it never said that Iraq was behind 9/11.
Critics of the Bush Administration argue that it falsely created a link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks to help justify the war. Last week, the administration countered that it had never made such an assertion. . . . A survey of the past public comments seems to bear that out
The only explanation for this conclusion is that the Times staff must have had its Internet access cut off. Otherwise it would have found this statement sent to Congress justifying the invasion of Iraq as part of the President’s authority
to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those organizations or persons who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
Looks like a direct link to me.
If you weren’t scared before . . .
Posted by on 06/19/04 at 2:15 pm Category: Politics. . . you will be very scared now.
Something Smelly This Way Comes
Posted by on 06/19/04 at 1:56 pm Category: PoliticsI thought Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, was dead, but apparently he’s alive and he’s pissed. He thinks that he owns the word Fahrenheit and that Michael Moore shouldn’t have called his movie Fahrenheit 9/11, at least that’s what he said to the AP yesterday.
Newsflash, Ray. You don’t own the word Fahrenheit, or are you going to soon be asking for royalties on thermometer sales? And another thing: who are you to complain about lifting titles? Are you claiming that “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “I Sing the Body Electric,” and “The Women” are original?
Ray also claims that this isn’t political. He claims to be a political independent. I think he hopes that we can’t use Google to find this interview, where, when asked about W, he said:
He’s wonderful. We needed him. Clinton is a shithead and we’re glad to be rid of him.
So, Ray, go ahead and sue! I’m sure you’ll have the same success that Bill O’Reilly — another “independent” — had when he sued Franken for using the phrase “Fair and Balanced.” And while you’re at it, sue me for the title of this post.
Lame Retreat of the Week
Posted by on 06/19/04 at 1:16 pm Category: PoliticsFrom Anderson Cooper 360 on Thursday, Big Jim Thompson, former Illinois Governor and Big Republican shill, had a Condi Rice moment until he was corrected by Anderson and made a lame retreat:
GOV. JIM THOMPSON, 9/11 COMMISSION MEMBER: Well, I think there was an institutional failure here. . . . Something unprecedented in United States history. The problem is, nobody ever saw an attack within the United States using U.S. airliners as weapons. All our forces were trained to direct outwards against bombers coming in from overseas.COOPER: And yet, I had read that in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics they had to prepare for that very thing, for planes being used as weapons.
THOMPSON: No. What they had done was to — Richard Clarke said that he thought about planes being used as weapons, but there you had a defined event at a specific time in a specific location known ahead of time. And so you protected the air space.
Huh? What was that? Oh, I see. You meant: “We hadn’t envisioned passenger planes being used for weapons except for the specific times when we envisioned them being used as weapons.” Real slick, Jim.
Maybe Big Jim’s distracted because he was on the audit committee that let Conrad Black loot Hollinger as reported here.
Or maybe he’s just clueless unless he gets a briefing paper from Faux News, like the one he tried to use unsuccesfully to discredit Richard Clarke, as described here.