Condoleezza Rice’s Credibility Gap - - Center for American Progress A point-by-point analysis of how one of America’s top national security officials has a severe problem with the truth
… but Clarke has some stones, don’t he? Okay Frist, your sh|t just got called. What are you going to do now? And hey - where’s Condi? I love that exec priv crap when it comes to testifying on the Hill, but not smearing someone in the press. Extra props to Fox for releasing background information - there’s a free press for ya. (Note - I thought the Clinton WH “nuts and sluts” smear on Monica was disgusting as well.) Ex-Bush Aide Calls for Testimony on Terrorism to Be Opened Richard A. Clarke, the former White House terrorism chief, said on the NBC News program “Meet the Press” that he favored the declassification of his testimony two years ago at a Congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks, along with such other materials as memos and e-mail messages. Republicans in Congress had been pressing for the declassification of Mr. Clarke’s testimony to examine whether the claims in his book and in more recent, public testimony are in sync.
Encounter: The Birth of the Meta-Protest Rally? The crowd of 200 or so activists carried the usual placards denouncing war, oil and environmental policies. One Sierra Club member wore a doormat decorated with tufts of glued fuzz to resemble, she said, ”Mothra, the giant moth that defeated Godzilla.” Across a vast artery of screaming traffic stood the Bush supporters, maybe 50 people. A small blond girl waved a big flag. Then a new group of Bush supporters tumbled out of a van on the wrong side of the street. The men handsome in tuxedos and top hats and the women stunning in ball gowns with elbow-length gloves, they marched boldly past the protesters. They shouted, ”We want Bush!” One placard they held up read, ”Because He’s Just Like Us.” Hisses traveled through the body of the mob, as a policeman stopped traffic so they could cross. Applause erupted from the ranks of the flag-wavers at the arrival of such beautiful people. Pro-Bush people happily backed up, ceding the most prime piece of their ”free speech zone.” Then it happened. Halfway across the street — in that moment of eerie suspension as the bare flick of a police officer’s hand caused the dragon of traffic to pause — you could see the epiphany. The newcomers unfurled their giant banner: ”Billionaires for Bush.” The revelation — is this somebody’s idea of joke? — moved across the faces of the crowd like a wave undulating through a sports arena. Amid the hand-drawn placards, the Billionaires unsheathed their professionally printed, brightly colored laminated posters. ”Leave No Billionaire Behind.” ”Corporations Are People Too.”
Anybody seen Liddy and a bunch of Cubans hanging out around DNC headquarters? CNN.com - Documents on FBI’s surveillance of Kerry stolen - Mar 27, 2004 “Was it a thrill-seeker who wanted a piece of history? It could be,” Nicosia said. “You’d think there was a very strong political motivation for taking those files. The odds are in favor of that.” Nicosia reported the theft Friday to the Twin Cities Police Department, which covers Larkspur and Corte Madera in Marin County, where he lives. The police report found no sign of forced entry. Nicosia, author of “Home At War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement,” had obtained about 20,000 pages of FBI documents through Freedom of Information Act requests. The documents center on FBI surveillance of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), which Kerry represented as national spokesman. In April 1971, the decorated veteran testified in televised hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and led a large protest of veterans in the capital. Nicosia estimated that 20 percent of his documents are missing. “It’s heartbreaking, after 11 years trying to get them,” he said. Kerry’s antiwar efforts drew the attention of President Nixon, as revealed in recordings of White House conversations obtained by CNN from the National Archives, and of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, as the documents revealed. “I hadn’t gotten a chance to review them all. I am sure there were some things about John Kerry that weren’t known,” Nicosia said. “These files would also cast a bad light on the … Republican Party. This surveillance happened under the Nixon White House and Nixon FBI.
If they decide to declassify the testimony, the administration will need to do the declassification as they own the data. This is a bad precedent to set (kinda like bringing an impeachment against the last guy). And wasn’t this the administration that won’t let Condi, Cheney or Bushie talk on the record because of the sensitivity of the data and what they would say? Ah, the irony. Kerry is right, if Clarke perjured himself, prosecute him. Since Johnboy got pressured into stopping some of the privacy invasions implemented by the DOJ, he needs soemthing to do. Yahoo! News - GOP Leaders Seek Release of Clarke’s 2002 Testimony “My challenge to the Bush administration would be, if he’s not believable and they have reason to show it, then prosecute him for perjury, because he is under oath.”
Cause these days I am just too stupid to get the now dead FreeS/Wan to work correctly. OpenVPN - An Open Source VPN Solution by James Yonan
He’s a funny guy. On second thought, not really. [To all my rightward leaning friends, if you think I should lighten up, I gotta ask - would you think this same joke is funny if Clinton said it? Didn't think so. Move along.]
If I stop eating now, I may just be able to sample it all when I go on Sunday. [Strange but true fact - I've actually lost weight since I have moved down here.] Welcome to Louisiana Crawfish Festival! Fried Crawfish Tall Po-boys
Creole Crawfish Twisted Pasta
Crawfish & Spinach Dip
Crawfish on a Stick
Seafood on a Stick
Crawfish and Sausage gumbo
Fried Shrimp Kabobs
Shrimp Fettuccine
Crawfish Etouffee
Smoke Ribs
Onion Mums
Sausage on Bun w/Saute Onions
Beef Fried Rice
Crawfish Boudin
Boneless Rib PoBoy
Cracklings
BBQ Pork Sandwich
Crawfish Bread
Bread Pudding
Crab and Corn Soup
Crawfish Balls
Fried Corn on the Cob
Chill Deserts
Crawfish Stew
Fried Alligator Legs
Stuffed Shrimp
Crawfish Sushi Rolls
Hurricane Tators
Eggplant Pirogue W/Crawfish Sauce
Fried Green Tomatoes
Crab cakes w/Crawfish Sauce
Fried Shrimp
Fried Soft-shell Crabs
Crawfish Potatoes
Grilled Catfish w/Crawfish Sauce
Crawfish and Sausage jambalaya
Crawfish Pies
Shell Noodles w/crawfish Sauce
Crawfish Beignets
Crawfish Stuffed Pistolets
Crawfish Egg Rolls
Alligator Sausage w/Onion Gravy on Bun
Crawfish and Catfish Tasso over Rice
Crawfish Pizza
Fried Sweet Potatoes
Spinach and Artichoke Bread
Crawfish Fried Rice
Chicken on a Stick
Colorado Cracklings w/Crawfish Sauce
Cheese Fries
Corn Dogs
Crawfish Sausage
Cinnamon Glazed Nuts
Crawfish Stuffed Artichoke
And more often than not, failure with this stuff stems from scope creep, misguided expectations and going cheap on your consulants, but man, am I happy not to be on this assignment. I feel for the people flying into work on Monday. Gonna be one hell of a meeting waiting for them.
University hits PeopleSoft with $510M lawsuit - Computerworld Ohio’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against PeopleSoft Inc. seeking $510 million in damages stemming from an allegedly faulty installation of the company’s ERP and student administration applications at Cleveland State University. The lawsuit, filed Jan. 30 in an Ohio state court, claims that the student administration applications were “vaporware” when the project began in 1997 and that the module for managing financial aid remains unusable even now. Through the attorney general, Cleveland State is charging PeopleSoft with fraud, breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation and four other counts.
Ten years. Thanks baby.