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Turd Blossom is starting to really feel the heat now. MSNBC reports Rove believes he is in legal jeopardy

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 04:34 PM) Don't take me out of context. These people (our current administration) ain't no saints, that's for sure, but no one in the government is. They all have their political motivation. So people against the administration take these so-called "patriotic whistleblowers" like Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Wilson (gee they worked together on some of the same projects, ain't that nice??????), and put these people on a pedistal like they are s***ting gold bricks or something for "upholding their duty to rat out the (current) administration". You know what? Their insides are made of fool's gold. Maybe that's why they s*** (fake) gold bricks. I wouldn't characterize Joe Wilson as a whistleblower, per se. He wrote an op ed that strongly questioned the administration contention that nukes from Niger was reliable intel, based on the fact finding trip he had taken. He wasn't an agency insider, so I don't think the whistleblower description is appropriate.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 02:20 PM) And i'm asking Priest, Risen and Lichtblau to tell me who leaked classified material to the Toast and Slimes respectively. You want to thank them for doing their patriotic duty too, eh? CIA, NSA, and similar agency employees take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, not to stick their heads in the sand when the actions of the administration controvert the Constitution. The people with questionable morals are the agency officials who knew about rendition with intent to torture and domestic warrrentless spying and didn't think it was their place to question it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 01:57 PM) So do you still get the $ if you don't own a car? Yep, as long as you are a US taxpayer. If you are 14 and don't drive you'd still get the bucks. If you are 90 years old and blind you'd still get the bucks. If you make 6 or 7 figures you'd still get the bucks because you need it so badly.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 01:26 PM) Now I understand why you use a MAC OK, maybe moderate was to strong a word. How about marginally challenging? Now you're going to make fun of the helmet my parents make me wear so I don't hurt myself, eren't you. Well . . . YOU'RE AN ANAL RETENTIVE EGG BOY, SO THERE!!!

Ah, thank heavens the GOP Senators are rushing to the rescue. The big plan from the brain trust: Give us a hundred bucks for gas money. Tell me again, is it an election year?? Of course that will buy about one tank of gas for an SUV. Oh, yeah, and if the bill goes through it'll also mean opening up some of ANWR. . . But what the hell do you want, it is a hundred bucks after all. :rolly

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 11:19 AM) f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f*** I just found a copy of an essay that was worth 20% of my grade. I don't recall printing off two drafts, but I did hand in an essay.....so I think it may have been the wrong one. This really could f*** up my four point. f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f*** ***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f***f **f***f***f*** Well f*** it now, get drunk and blow off the final.

I unconsciously stick my tongue out when I do various moderately challenging tasks. Jordan got away with it and didn't catch any grief, but when my wife points out that I'm sticking my tongue out when I'm tying my shoes or something equally stupid she definately sees it as more of a Charlie Brown thing than a Jordan thing. The worst thisng is that I guess I do it sometimes playing music in front of an audience. After a set I'm ready to hear my wife say something complementary, and instead she'll point out that I looked like a short bus candidate with my tongue sticking out half the time.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 08:45 AM) I'm more than happy with my 15" Powerbook.....but do you have a recent laptop? The computer runs fine and everything.....I've really only had 4 major issues....starting from the least worrisome. 1. The paint has chipped off below the fn key.....I'm trying to decide whether I should live with it or not. Probably easier to. 2. Thing is a b**** to clean.....I'm never eating around it again. 3. The bottom seems to run a little hot. It may be my fault from using it all the time, but it still seems a little warm, and that seems to be an issue for some. 4. The power adapter has to be the worst design ever. I've already used the warranty once to get a new one, but it seems that if you dont twist the plug into the computer just right, it won't recieve the power. The first adapter I had just frayed through in 3 months. Now I have it reiniforced with electrical tape, but it'll probably be just a matter of time before I need to get a new one. I'm still plugging along on the first gen 15" Titanium G4, and it is even more battlescarred than yours. My combo drive went bad a few months ago and I vultured one out of another old Titanium, but it turns out the boards on the two computers - manufactured just 3 months apart - are substantially different. I had to cut the chassis away from the CD slot with a dremmel because the slots were misalligned by about 5mm. The back of the chassis around the IR sensor is also busted away and the close clasp has gone. My biggest frustration with the unit is that the AirPort range on it sucks balls. Always has. And you can't fit an Extreme card into that original 15" case so I'm stuck. I think the problem is a woefully inadequate antenna on that model. My kid's legacy iBook (Santa got it for $125 and vultured an Airport card and some RAM for it) has wi-fi range throughout the whole house, and most times I can't even get a room away from my transmitter before I lose signal. I need work to upgrade my PowerBook something fierce, but the popped for a beefy dual-chip G5 tower for me just a couple years ago so I probably need to hobble along with the old unit a while longer.

Thanks, Irish! And I agree, it's a shame the poor kid has the cheap iron. But he's all about the ames, and there's a lot of titles that aren't available for OSX. My daughter has seen the light though, she's my Mac kid and is still humming along on an old tengerine clamshell iBook.

Curiously enough, I also put RAM into a compuer tonight (my kid's cheap iron Wintel, not one of the mighty Macs) and ran intto an odd thing. On going out to the web, I all of a sudden started getting redirects to porn sites, porn and Brazilian soccer popups, etc., pretty much no matter where I tried to go. This is obviously an issue since this is a six-year-old's computer! I did a few spyware sweeps and I think found the ooffending software. Now my question is, is there anyway the budget RAM I installed somehow has the spyware burned into it in a ROM or something?? I really have no idea, but we never had anything like this happen until I put in the new RAM. Very strange.

I think Lawrence O'Donnell's assessment of Rove's situation is on the money. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odo...rn_b_19858.html And most sources are indeed now saying that Rove volunteered to testify to the Grand Jury today. I'm finally smelling a pergury indictment for Karl in the not too distant future.

You think Turd Blossom is starting to sweat a litttle? Met with his lawyer and then Fitz this morning, after Fitz met with the new Grand Jury for just the second time since it was convened. I read that the meeting was an atttemptt to address some "serious inconsistencies" in his earlier testimonies based on what is now known. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12388079/ Looks like the new Press Secretary is going to have to hit the ground running.

Instant Classic!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 26, 2006 -> 07:28 AM) I couldnt get the foam covers to stay on the earbuds, so I left them off. When I left them off, they stopped falling out of my ears. Yeah, the foam pads are not worth bothering with.

Here's a fun game, courtesy of ThinkProgress. Try to guess who said each of these mean, nasty things about our Commander-In-Chief. Done? Now, if your answers were: Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow and Tony Snow, then give yourself full marks! It will be refreshing to see this kind of candor coming from Tony once he assumes his new duties as White House Press Secretary. :rolly

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 10:55 AM) SHE ADMITTED IT! WTF? What did she admit, where, and how? Her lawyer says she wasn't the source for the story, and a former coworker says she wasn't privy to the information that ran in the story. She was involved in internal investigations of the accusations of CIA prisoner abuse in Iraq and and she did contribite to the Kerry campaign. Knowing this administration this may very well be a retaliatory dismissal. If she was the source of information on illegal prisons and renditions, I'm sure she would be availing herself to the various whistleblower protection, both legal and in the public eye. Hopefully whoever is the source is doing that. In more cases than not, career intelligence program employees who do turn whistleblower have probably been beating their heads against the wall trying to go through proper channels to bring concerns to the attention of superiors. These are by-the-book kind ogf people. Fortunately, some of them also have moral integrity as well, and realize their allegience is to the country and not to an administration in controversion of international law and convention. Hiding an illegal program through classification is not morally justifiable, nor is going after the whistleblowers in retaliation. And the bit that you are trying hard not to acknowledge. The difference between the unidentified leaker here and the "legal" leaking of BushCo, is that in the BushCo case the leak amounts to a selective declassification of information they KNEW was wrong (see Tyler Drumheller bombshell), in order to allow the media to propagate and perpetuate this bad information as evidence of the grave and gathering Iraqi threat, to mislead Congress and the nation into war. In the CIA case, the leaker was exposing the existence of an administration-approved program of extraordinary rendition and subsequent black site torture that seems clearly in violation of our international convention obligations.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 09:41 AM) GMAB people. She gets fired for leaking. . . Yeah, that was the official version of the story on Friday anyway. Now, however. . . Fabricate. Lie. Repeat – The BushCo Way® John Avarosis:

Most importantly, hope the Sox don't go into extra innings out on the west coast again so you can get some sleep! I agree with everybody that said, sleep, good breakfast, relax. I don't know what the difference was between the ACT and SAT when I took them, but I did pretty well on the ACT (29) but pretty subpar on the SAT (~1200 or so). I've never figured out what I did differently on each test, so I did the smart thing and picked a school thet only needed the ACTs.

Happy Belated B-Day, Good Captain!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 07:25 AM) So what is the URL for your blog chronicling the lies of the evening news? The irony is while the left is fixated on Fox News, you never hear them questioning the "MSM" do you? Do you see liberal blogs that talk about the truth in the evening news? Nope guess what, they accept what they want to hear as fact, and don't question it either. The difference is that once again, the focus isn't there, its only the latest thing that Fox News, or Rush Limbaugh said. That characterization is just flat out wrong. Lots of liveral blogs regularly give the MSM whatfor when they drop the ball in their coverage, either by not picking up on stories, not investigating issues in anything other but a superficial way, or by accepting the administrations enfeebled official versions of things instteade of challenging them on it. In 5 minutes this morning on a couple of blogs (DKos, ThinkProgress, and C&L) I saw that there were three entries critical of the MSM and their parent outlets. One was critical the MSM in general for not taking up the charge in the wake of the 60 Minutes Tyler Drumheller bombswhell story, and never seriously asking why despite three separate interviews of Drumheller by the Robb-Silverman Commission it has never been reported that the administration was absolutely made aware of the lack of Iraqi WMDs by fall 2002, basically said they didn't care, and then continued to use cherrrypicked bad intel to sell the war to Congress and the public. Another journal related Nickolas Kristof's complaint with the CBS Evening News last year for devoting all of two minutes all year long to the issue of genocide in Darfur, but spending 28 minutes on the stupid Michale jackson trial. Finally, there was a journal critical of Viacom's decision not to air the Change to Win "Make Work Pay" campaign ads because it is an "issue ad." Yeah, this is more a gripe witth the parennt company than with the news content, but still an example of the blogosphere pointing out a shortcoming of a major mainstream media outlet. Again, that is just 5 minutes of lookinng this morning after reading your post. But the liberal blogs are in no way giving the MSM a free ride for shoddy investiative reporting.

QUOTE(soxhawks @ Apr 22, 2006 -> 06:26 PM) You cannot say that any president is the worst ever, because I do not believe anyone is still alive from the Van Buren era, so there is no way to compare And by extension, nobody can say the famine years in Ireland were all that bad, or the plague years of Europe were that bed because nobody is alive now to compare, right?? That line of reasoning is all kinds of stupid, don't you think?

Party on Gageman!

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 10:27 PM) There is a place called Samba which is one of those Brazillian steakhouses with all you can eat meat. And it is good stuff, too, not Denny's-type meat. About $40 a person, but worth it. I can't remember which one it is in, I want to say Ceasars, but can't remember. And I was just there last month! Man, I drank alot. It's in the Mirage. Rodizio and sangria . . . Mmmmm, good eats!