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let the sniffing begin…

Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of […]

Thumbs Down…

I’m still not able to spend much time on the computer, but a friend called my attention to Maureen Dowd’s take on John Edwards: Maureen Dowd: Keeping it Rielle So a narcissist walks into a New York bar and meets a legendarily wacky former Gotham party girl – whose ’80s exploits were chronicled in a […]

trivialization

In my last post, I was lamenting the dyssynchrony between the MSM [Main Stream Media] and the blogs after watching the tit for tat baloney going on between McCain and Obama these last few weeks. In the terms of Drew Wesson’s The Political Brain, McCain has captured the narrative for the moment, dwelling in the […]

cognitive dissonance…

In early June, my chronic back troubles of 30 years turned into a front page problem. So by early July, I found myself in an operating room getting a clean-up-the-old-mess and two-level-fusion. I’ve been flat on my back since then watching more television than I’ve seen [since my last back operation 25 years ago]. The […]