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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
Published Letters: 70 Editor's Choice: 19
If Scott McClellan is going out of his way to say that today's Plamegate story in the Daily News is inaccurate, then we must conclude that all of the recent stories that he HASN'T disputed are essentially accurate.
Sounds like Fitzgerald must be waiting to move until FedEx delivers the crate of handcuffs he'll be using to perp-walk Rove and Co. out of the White House.
Will Frist, DeLay, Rove, Libby, and Cheney all be sent to decay in the same Yucca Mountain-type federal prison, or will they be foisted like highly toxic waste on penitentiaries around the country? Does the federal prison system have enough beds for all the corrupt Republicons running the government these days?
It sounds like Wilkerson is paving the way for Colin Powell to recant on his support for the Bush foreign policy. If Wilkerson is Powell's sword, then Powell is trying to re-write the books so that he can end up on the right side of history. Is it coincidental that Powell would want to divorce himself from the Iraq war just at the moment that support for Bush's adventurism has tanked, and a mere 12 1/2 months before the launch of the Republicon free-for-all grab for the 2008 presidential nomination?
Sorry, Colin, the time for you to stand tall against this fiasco was in August, 2002. Instead you went before the UN Security Council and lied to the nation and the world. Now you are 3 years late, 2000 American soldiers' lives and tens of thousands of dead Iraqis short. You may recant, but we will not forgive.
Fortunately, the press is no longer in a mood to be played the way the White House is used to. If they take more than about 16 hours from now to dump Miers, the press will be all over the story of the orchestration of the withdrawal. And it will take them much more than one more news cycle to stir up a critical mass of Republicon Senatebots "requesting" documents that might be covered by executive privilege. They will end up looking as incompetent in their efforts to drop this nomination as they have been in their efforts to promote it - for good reason, since the only thing they are clearly good at is demonstrating their own incompetence.
Look for them to flush Miers within hours of Fitzgerald releasing his indictments. At some point, even this White House has got to figure out that one no-good-very-bad day is better than two.
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Well, I just spent a little while composing a brilliant letter explaining why the Republicons didn't even field a candidate for mayor in today's election in New Haven, where Dubya was born. The Cons are only even contesting five alderman seats out of 30, and they only have one incumbent alderman. New Haven loathes Bush, and wishes that the rest of this country would realize what we learned when we had to bury his diapers in our landfill.
However, the letter that I wrote was erased by Salon's submission system. This is the second time I've lost a post. What happens is that you log in, write your letter, and then if you've taken too much time you have to log in again. And voila, your original letter has been lost, and the back arrow can't recover it. This is a dumb-ass system. At the very least, someone who clicks on "Publish my letter" should have their work automatically saved before having to log in again. Until this fix is made (which should take your programmer about 30 minutes), the system is user-unfriendly. Please repair it, Salon.
Yes, Pyrian is right, anyone who posts should probably make a habit of copying their text to their clipboard before hitting the submit button, just to be safe. Of course, sometimes even the most savvy of us forget, and stuff happens. What I'm saying, though, is that the Salon message board exacerbates the problem through bad programming, and could easily be fixed. (I didn't spell it out before, because I was afraid of getting timed-out again if I spent too much time writing. Here's the dime version.)
1) The person is asked for a username/ password.
2) The person writes a message in the text box.
Current version of Salon's message board:
3) When the person is done and hits "Publish my letter," the program checks to see if the person's session has expired. If not, they move on to step 5. If the session has expired, they move on to
4) The person is asked for a password. Upon providing the password, they are returned to step 2.
5) The letter is published. Notice the flaw in this flow chart?
Proposed version to improve Salon's message board.
3) When the person is done and hits "Publish my letter," the data in the form is saved to a variable - call it "saved_message". Then the program checks to see if the person's session has expired. If not, they move on to step 5.
4) The person is asked for a password. Upon providing the password, the computer checks the content of the variable "saved_message" and passes that information to the Salon server.
5) The letter is published. Notice how one simple fix has greatly improved the likelihood that the writer's data will not be lost?
Please, Salon, don't assume that all your users practice the virtuous habit of saving all our work all the time. It's a minor fix.
Ok, now I'll copy, save, and publish...
Have you ever seen a man leaving the restroom with toilet paper dragging out of the back of his pants? Given the fecal policies that are dragging this administration's ratings into the sewer, I think tp-tails (or bog-roll tails) about sums it up.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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