Month: October 2005

I saw this article in The Salt Lake Tribune and it really chapped by butt.  How there can still be unarmored Humvees being used in Iraq is beyond me.  I did a cartoon when it first came to light that troops were improvising their own armor and suggested that Bush donate his armored limos to the war effort or at least ride in an unarmored vehicle to share the risk with his troops until they have all the protection they need.

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Crossposted on my humble blog, NYBri

It’s much fun to watch Delay, INC. try to squirm out of his indictment mess. Guilt or innocence is irrelevant in this case, as it will be in the Plame/CIA case. The indictment is everything, which is why Delay is fighting so hard to get his thrown out.

To discover the reason one only has to look at what the alternatives are AI (After Indictment). As far as I can see, there are two options and both seem to lead down the same rocky road.

Let’s look at the Plame case AI options.

Are members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or pre-plamegate indictment anxiety?

One person writes a rant about our military and sets off a chain of events that are still rippling the pond. Oh well.

Here’s one piece of advice: One diary doesn’t represent this site or its culture. No one can make you angry unless you let yourself get angry. It takes two people to start a flamewar. And someone, somewhere, said something about turning the other cheek.

In any case, Judy Miller talks to Fitzgerald again tomorrow, “a discrepancy between the grand jury testimony of Karl Rove and Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper is the reason Rove will testify again” and Cheney is cancelling speaking engagements.

And as Daniel Schorr points out:

Sorting out flamewars is sometimes a part of my job, but it is not one of my keen interests.

This is:

There’s an emerging consensus around the liberal blogosphere around a few topics–some Harriet Miers-related, some not:

1. Conservative activists are deeply disappointed by Miers’ nomination, not least because Bush’s second SCOTUS seat was supposed to be the hard right’s opportunity to give a one-fingered salute to moderates and liberals.

2. Despite that disappointment, many conservative evangelicals are falling in line anyway.

3. Despite that, some of those conservative evangelicals may be full of crap concerning the enthusiasm of their endorsement.

4. All of this is the result of a Republican base steadily marching to the right, often a specifically Christian right.

Here are my latest tall tales, photoshops, and limericks. The Satires are posted at UNCONFIRMED SOURCES … hope you’ll check it out… there’s some pretty funny stuff there… much more after the fold!!