One more thing.....

What the fuck is the difference between some early morning or late night talk show host offering up a Paris Hilton or some other no-talent piece of human debris for our entertainment (Jerry! Jerry!) and Twinkle Toes Matthews offering up some so-called expert to discuss, in addition to his latest work of fiction, his views which are generally unsubstantiated by acheivement? (believe it or not, that was one sentence)

What the fuck good is it to the American people to hear some wanna-be Journalist talking to another faux Journalist for entertainment purposes disguised as news.

It's gotten to the point now where formerly decent news organizations are spending more time trying to outdo Fox "News" than they are spending to produce ........the fucking news!!

Hey, Olberman..get off O'Reilly's ass and do some decent reporting! Screw O'Reilly....he's only dragging you down to his level in the sewer. You have one hour per night. Don't waste it on Bill Fucking O'Reilly.

Now, my brain hurts. I need to go spend some money. I think I'll make a couple of pies. Cherry and Rhubarb sound good now.

Not in the same shell.

fab·u·list –noun

1. a person who invents or relates fables.

2. a liar.

[Origin: 1585–95; < MF fabuliste, equiv. to < fābul(a) fable + -iste -ist

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"He's a smart, reliable reporter with a great patriotic spirit and sense of service" - Kathryn Jean Lopez

Ergo, Lopez is also a fabulist.

Ms. Lopez, I know you're reading this. Please define the word "patriotic" as used in the above sentence.

While you're at it, please define "reliable".

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media.

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Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported by The Associated Press.

The captain, whose full name is Jamil Gholaiem Hussein, was one of the sources for an AP story in late November about the burning and shooting of six people during a sectarian attack at a Sunni mosque.

The U.S. military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry raised the doubts about Hussein in questioning the veracity of the AP's initial reporting on the incident, and the Iraqi ministry suggested that many news organization were giving a distorted, exaggerated picture of the conflict in Iraq. Some Internet bloggers spread and amplified these doubts, accusing the AP of having made up Hussein's identity in order to disseminate false news about the war.

Khalaf offered no explanation Thursday for why the ministry had initially denied Hussein's existence, other than to state that its first search of records failed to turn up his full name. He also declined to say how long the ministry had known of its error and why it had made no attempt in the past six weeks to correct the public record.

My source?

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/01/04/jamil-hussein-development-faces-arrest/

Ta Dah! Would Malkin lie about something like this?

Heh

"because I have learned my lesson about blogging-after-the-Ambien"

Do you generally take Ambien at 11:49 in the morning?

Just wondering.

re: Update IV

Done.

Actually, this blog was, until quite recently, practically devoid of "meaningless blather".

Like telephone solicitations, you are free to opt out if you don't care to spend the time and energy reading and understanding my friend and comrade, bebop-o. Trust me, he will grow on you once you understand where he's coming from.

Welcome.

"It certainly smells like an internal political battle in the executive branch to me. Has anyone else had similar thoughts? If I'm not just being stupidly optimistic, maybe we've gotten an early Christmas present. I genuinely hope so."

I agree and I'll add that my take on this, after some consideration, is that the only reason we're able to read this latest Intel Est. is that they've determined that they cannot sustain the domestic political muscle to attack Iran and this release gives them an out with which to save face. They will point to the part of the estimate that says Iran "maintains the ability to develope" nukes, and therefore they must maintain sufficient military strength in the area so they can defend us if Iran makes any movement to "activate" their nuke program.

Of course, they're already hanging their hats on the enrichment issue and most Americans (and others, I believe) have absolutely no idea what enrichment is, how it's done, and to what level must it be accomplished for an effective nuke.

Personally, I would be very surprised if Iran doesn't already have a "store-bought" nuke or two.

Question: Will Bush's intenational isolation (and ours) work for, or aginst a strike on Iran?

Against, on both counts.

One can't help but think that the rash of resignations to spend more time with families of ex-WH aides is starting to take its toll. I don't know how it could have happened, but even with a year's head start, the WH is reacting as though the release of this report was as much a surprise to them as everyone else. They aren't the well-oiled machine they were as little as 6 months ago.