Archive for March, 2007
Evil Corporate Empires
If you ever find yourself with time to spend at the airport in Albuquerque, NM, and you have the misfortune to wish to make a long-distance call using a calling card that requires dialing a toll-free number, you will discover that Qwest is the most evil of the large US telcos. All the pay-phones in [...]
Wimps! Wussies! Pussies!
I can’t believe they never asked Kyle Sampson about the February 23 letter. I kept telling myself, they’re holding that till the very end. Apparently not, unless it’s the very end of time. Does anyone know if legal jeopardy issues would preclude them from questioning him about this? *** Update, March 30, 7:40 am *** [...]
Kyle Sampson: The Hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was to begin at 10 am. Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff of the future ex-Attorney General, was the only scheduled witness for the day. The committee clearly was looking forward to having a nice long all-day chat with him. Hasn’t quite happened yet. The hearing got off to [...]
Freudian Slip
AP tells us that President Bush this morning “invited all House Republicans to the White House to appear with him in a sort of pep rally to bolster his position in the continuing war policy fight”. And here’s what it quotes him as saying: We stand united in saying loud and clear that when we’ve [...]
Paranoia
Where has embattled GSA chief Lurita Doan been putting her hands? Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted this catch from Nitpicker from the House hearing with Government Services Administration head Lurita Doan: Listening into the live webcast of the GSA hearings just now, the camera was down, but the audio was still up and you could here GSA [...]
Bastard-In-Chief?
Yesterday, at the Arab League summit in Riyadh, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia produced this sound bite: In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war. Always nice to know what your best friends think of you. And what they say [...]
She Must Be Related to Kenneth Starr
Last month, I wrote about the media’s inability/unwillingness to learn from their mistakes before and during the Iraq war as we race headlong into the Iran war. The main reason I wrote the post was CNN‘s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr‘s report on a military briefing in Iraq that blamed the Iranian government for IEDs: Starr: [...]
Kyle Sampson: The Preview
The preview of the testimony Kyle Sampson will give before the Senate Judiciary Committee today has him saying several things that should lead to fireworks. For starters: Eight federal prosecutors were fired last year because they did not sufficiently support President Bush‘s priorities, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales‘ former chief of staff says in remarks prepared [...]
You Can Only Take A Horse To Water
Oh, dear. These people never learn. Just two and a half weeks ago I gave them the best free advice they ever got. Namely, not “to take loyal Republicans, who have been fired without cause and publicly branded as incompetent and who are loyal nevertheless, (and get) them riled up enough that they go ahead [...]
Arresting Unrest In Iraq
WaPo: Policemen who took part in the reprisal shootings of scores of men in northwest Iraq this week were arrested but then freed again to prevent unrest, the provincial governor said on Thursday. Hours after truck bombs killed 85 people on Tuesday in a Shi’ite area of Tal Afar, up to 70 Sunni Arab men [...]