Ezra Klein over at Pandagon is organizing a group of people to write letters to journalists who are misled by the Bushies and the wingnut slime machine. I volunteered. He is also looking for someone who can put together a website for it. Check out the whole story here:
http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/001499.html
….and think about your part in beating back a second Bush term.
Powell Reassures India on Technology Jobs
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: March 17, 2004
NEW DELHI, March 16 - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, encountering the other side of a tempestuous debate in the United States, sought to assure Indians on Tuesday that the Bush administration would not try to halt the outsourcing of high-technology jobs to their country.
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This figures.
How about a little reassurance for the folks in our country who are out of work? I thought the administration was working to create AMERICAN jobs not Indian jobs.
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by Thomas Schaller, Executive Editor
3.16.04
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Buzzsaw, my weekly column for The Gadflyer.
A professor by training, I thought it would be appropriate to dedicate my first column to a pop quiz. The format is multiple choice, and there’s no penalty for guessing (or, in the president’s case, copying your answers from Jim Baker’s exam).
So clear your desks, good luck, and have fun with it – oh, and no peeking at the answers at the bottom.
For each of the following 10 statements, identify the source of the quote.
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Fun from World O’ Crap:
The Legendary National Review Bermuda Triangle Cruise
Just added to the roster of speakers:
Perle will be joining such conservative luminaries as Rich Lowry, Bill Bennett, and William F. Buckley, Jr.
In my telling of the tale, everyone on board picks up one of those GI tract infections that so are common on cruises, and dies. But obviously heaven won’t admit them, and Satan doesn’t want them either (since the last thing that hell needs is more hot air), so the ship is doomed to sail the seas forever, having to listen to Buckley droning on and on without ever getting to a point, and Bennett lecturing everyone about virtue, morality, and loose slots.
And whenever a storm brews in the islands, if you look into the eye of the storm, you will be able to see the ship and it’s hellish passenger - The Lying Neocon. Don’t look too carefully, for the legend claims that whoever sights the cursed Perle will die a terrible death, or will at least want to wage war on somebody.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/
is looking out for good Bush photo-ops.
“Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open for opportunities to pose the President in settings that might highlight the Administration’s efforts to make the nation safer. The goal, they are being told, is to provide Bush with one homeland-security photo-op a month.”
Willis tells abut it here:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/entries/0304/homeland_security_is_a_photo_op_for_bush.html
http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/2004_03_14_atrios_archive.html#107940244165707735
For a good laugh read read Atrios on Pete the Porno Puppet and then check out the links n his post. Not quite Mr. Rogers…
“…our traveling troupe of show folk included musicians, composers, an actor, a writer, a comedian, singers, and dancers. My wife said to me before I left, “You don’t see Bill O’Reilly doing a USO Tour.”
“That’s not fair, honey. O’Reilly has no talent.”
No news flash there…
Read about Franken’s sex life and his USO tour here: http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/02_400.html
Wonder how the Pentagon’s going to get the job done in Iraq with a force that is too small for the job?
The Seattle P-I tells us:
By Eric Rosenberg, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
WASHINGTON — The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is adamant that he will not ask Congress to authorize a draft, and officials at the Selective Service System, the independent federal agency that would organize any conscription, stress that the possibility of a so-called “special skills draft” is remote.
Nonetheless, the agency has begun the process of creating the procedures and policies to conduct such a targeted draft in case military officials ask Congress to authorize it and the lawmakers agree to such a request.
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Hear the theme to Gilligan’s Island sung to the tune of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.”
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~pennywiz/Funhouse/gilliganE.html
The above link seems to have crapped out. Here’s one that is working:
http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/media/mp3/StairwaytoGilligan%2Emp3
Like you’d want to.
from kevin drum:
DISTRACTED BY IRAQ?….As far as I know, we still don’t know for sure whether the Zarqawi memo is real. But one thing everyone agrees on is that Abu Musab Zarqawi is a nasty character indeed, the mastermind behind a long series of terrorist attacks - possibly including today’s bloody attacks on Shiite shrines in Baghdad and Karbala.
Today, in an ironic reprise of all those urban legends about how Clinton could have taken out Osama bin Laden if only he’d been serious about terrorism, NBC reports that we’ve passed up several chances to kill Zarqawi:
In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.
The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.
….Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.
“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.
In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq.
The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.
Odd behavior from an administration supposedly focused like a laser on removing terrorist threats, isn’t it?