If you look carefully at what the Colonel said he didn't deny sending the email. He was asked if he could confirm the email came from him, to which he said "no". This isn't stating he didn't send the email, it is stating he cannot confirm sending the email.

game playing.

I'm struck by the reporting that Iran gave up its covert program in 2003 - Iran made a serious attempt to engage the US diplomatically in 2003 -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700727.html

This confluence of dates gives me pause. Did Iran go ahead and unilaterally suspend their bomb development? Why?

It is well worth noting that during the early 20th century Indiana had a KKK controlled Democratic legislature. At the same time Eugene Debs was promoting socialist ideas. in the 19th century hoosiers were quite active in underground railroad activities - somehow the KKK gained strength without carpetbaggers and reconstruction.

So it is wrong to dismiss Indiana as a simple place. There are a lot of contradictory currents in hoosier politics.

I'm voting for Obama next week. i've got my passport so the ID law won't be a problem.

I believe that a candidate cannot have ads refused. So someone running for office in any political subdivision of Carney's congressional district could conceivably run the ads.

I was involved in trying to get local cable to run anti war on drugs ads back in the 90s - See this posting from usenet/dejaNews:

http://groups.google.com/group/misc.activism.progressive/browse_thread/thread/a88d200dc484796e/fd62097783d03c43?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#fd62097783d03c43

We need to start painting defense companies as welfare queens.

I got a bit under the skin of a friend that works as a program manager at Lockheed - he'd been carping about how he'd like to pay no taxes. I asked about Lockheed's commercial aviation business, what happened to the L1011 jet. He responded the company isn't able to do commercial work because they don't know how to profit in the marketplace, that what they do well is defense contracts. I pointed out that he was effectively getting welfare from the taxpayers, and that his not knowing the US spends more than the rest of the world combined on military was evidence of having ideological blinders on.

I think the "blinders" comment was more difficult for him than being told he was sucking on the taxpayer's tit... But reframing it as Welfare Queen being driven around in a taxpayer paid limousine has some resonance, a nice ironic pay back for the Reagan mythological ghetto welfare queen. wordsmiths are welcome to expand this idea.

I wonder what Dawn Johnson will do when she's confirmed in OLC. I certainly hope she'll push back strongly.

Writ of Mandamus to compel AG holder to prosecute.

Screw the petitions.

It seems to me that the US needs intelligence information from MI6 and MI5 as much as they need intelligence from CIA/FBI.

If Britain wants to uphold the rule of law they can call our bluff. Is the US prepared to protect law breakers to the point of no longer having intelligence sharing with Britain? Would we risk not knowing about the liquid explosives plot that now limits carry on to 3 oz of liquids?