bummer… not sure why i’m surprised… but, oh well…

While making your buddies rich beyond their dreams.

Another Bush Trifecta.

a two faced member of the bush administration?
you don’t say.. ;)

some colorful coloquialism about bears and woods comes to mind..

Chertoff promises cybersecurity Manhattan Project
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3751

So there is enough money for a Matrix style Manhattan Project, but not to curb Global Climate Change, I see.

More than coincidental that Lieberman hasn’t pushed for answers about the missing White House e-mails? Perhaps the Senator relied on some “help,” from RNC techies?

But speaking loud and English isn’t enough aywhere in the world to be obeyed immediately?

Yesterday, on ABC’s Nightline, Gen. Petraeus said of Iraq, “We will need to be there for a while.” Ambassador Crocker described American involvement as a “multi-year project.” “We’re not looking for Jeffersonian Democracy. … Iraq is not there yet right now, and there is certainly more work to be done,” Petraeus added.

Well, guess they prefer their own 3000 year old culture than a scarce 200 years old one. Who could have guessed that?

A congressional investigation has found that Julie Myers, the nation’s top immigration enforcement official, “ordered the destruction of photographs of an office Halloween party” that showed her with “a white agency employee dressed as a black detainee.” Myers had reportedly ordered the photos removed from a digital camera in a “‘coordinated effort to conceal‘ her role in awarding one of the top costume prizes to the employee.”

Too late, the internets 0wnz your butt, Julie!

A federal investigation has concluded that Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site “the day before Connecticut’s heated Aug. 8 Democratic primary.” In Dec. 2006, Lieberman campaign spokesman Dan Gerstein claimed, “Our Web site consultant assured us in the strongest terms possible that we had been attacked,” blaming supporters of challenger Ned Lamont.

Incompetents tend to lie about their incompetence. Prez does so.

“In a major shift of policy,” the Justice Department “has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years.” Instead, the companies “have avoided the cost and stigma of defending themselves against criminal charges with a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, which allows the government to collect fines and appoint an outside monitor to impose internal reforms without going through a trial.”

So all the checks and balances are reduced to bribing the Republican GOP. Full Capitalism in action!

And finally: “Oliver Stone’s new film,W, portrays George Bush as a foul-mouthed, dried-out drunk with a baseball obsession and a difficult relationship with his father.” Bush, played by actor Josh Brolin, is depicted as “as a party animal living in the shadow of his esteemed father before he uses religion to turn his life around.” His new purpose in life? To “achieve the presidency ahead of his brother Jeb, who was being groomed for high office by his father.”

I love Stone’s movies, even the ones I’ve not seen yet!

*********************************************************

Of course, an intelligent person sees that this actually goes beyond merely the decision that Lieberman’s accusations are unfounded — it also says something about Lieberman’s good sense and/or that of those who work for him, or rather their lack thereof. After all, it seems reasonable to assume that the Lieberman campaign would have had technical people working on their website — but wouldn’t one would think that a qualified IT professional have been able to configure the server correctly (since that was judged to be part of the reason for the problem), or at least had the ability to tell the difference between a crash caused by an internal failure vs. external attack?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had this to say after Petraeus’ and Crocker’s testimony yesterday:

Militant Cleric Postpones Big Baghdad Protest
New York Times – 10 hours ago
A Sadr City man negotiated with a taxi driver to take his family to another part of Baghdad. By STEPHEN FARRELL and ERICA GOODE BAGHDAD – The radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr on Tuesday called off a huge demonstration in Baghdad, citing fears for …
Curfew marks fall of Baghdad Aljazeera.net
Baghdad anniversary curfew fails to stop violence Reuters India

In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker announced Tuesday that they would recommend an open-ended freeze of U.S. troop drawdowns from Iraq after July to assess the security situation there.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., said such measures could include a binding version of withdrawal legislation, language that would require further U.S. reconstruction assistance to Iraq to be provided in the form of loans and a new G.I. bill that would significantly expand educational benefits for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

So, the talking heads on Stefanopolous’ show were correct.

This bill will get moderate republican cross-over, since their seats are targets and they will be feelling the most heat, both to restore in voters minds some semblance of “fiscal conservatism,” and to follow the will of their constituents in regard to a timed withdrawl of troops from Iraq.

This isn’t going to help, what only 100,000 homeowners? They know there are 1.4 million homeowners going through or are facing foreclosure by early fall.

Please don’t get too generous… By actually solving the major housing crisis.

I hope my fellow liberals will one day forgive me.

**bowing to the great master toasterhead**