We’ve been warned that the architect, Karl Rove, thinks that the key to success in the midterm elections is maintaining the link between the War in Iraq and the War on Terror [and, by implication, 911]. Vice President Cheney spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nevada today. The Reuters article on […]
hu·bris (hybrs) n. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance: “There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris” (McGeorge Bundy). hubris. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War hasn’t come yet [release date October 3, 2006] so I’ve only […]
I. The motive for going to War with Iraq had nothing to do with the September 11, 2001 bombing of the World Trade Towers, nothing to do with any real evidence Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction, and nothing to do with the Terrorist Movement of Radical Islamists. The motive for going to War […]
Back in December, I posted the pictures of the principles in the Plame Game: It looks like I we missed a the major player, Richard Armitage.[1][2] Richard Armitage is being identified as the original source for Robert Novak, and before that, Bob Woodward. Who is he? What’s the story? Is it finally all out in […]
It was just a few days ago, the President’s August Press Conference. As usual, I couldn’t watch it live, or even in rerun. I can only take dribbles, little pieces at a time. For example: You know, I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I’m concerned about that, of course, and I’ve talked […]
A Zen saying: to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon… An Existentialist premise: existence precedes essence A news story from today: Pluto loses its status as planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, continue their orbit uninterrupted by the proceedings of the International […]
Read this interview of Katherine Harris if you have the stomach for it. It’s in the Florida Baptist Witness. "We have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is […]
Remember Jean Schmidt, the loudmouth congresswoman from Ohio who got boo’d for slandering John Murtha on the floor of the House. She got reprimanded for claiming to have two college degrees [she has only one] earlier in the year. Now, they’re claiming she’s doctored a photo on her web site showing her placing in a […]
Was it bravery? He stood up in front of the Press Corps and looked like a fool. He didn’t actually say that the War in Iraq was a mistake, but he came close. His "what if" arguments were lame, his admission that 911 and Terrorism had nothing to do with Iraq were surprising. It was […]
Bush: "The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East. They were –" At this point, Bush was asked what Iraq had to do with 911. Bush: "Nothing!" This absurd exchange in his recent press conference may just seem like fuddy-duddy Bush stumbling as […]