What do you make of this? (Via TPM)

http://tinyurl.com/2mm5ee

In his new book on the Justice Department under George Bush, New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau, who, along with James Risen, broke the warrantless wiretapping story, sheds more light on this episode (while leaving plenty unexplained). But putting Lichtblau's telling together with recently reported details about the National Security Agency's data driftnet, it's possible to come to a fuller understanding of what was going on.

Laphroig might be a little too "peaty"?

You 'n Walt

McCain's simple-minded militarism, his ignorance about national security, and his moronic view that the U.S. should run the world through endless wars ought to be one of the most intensely debated issues in the campaign. But it won't be because -- as Marcus said -- the media has already decided that McCain is a Serious Expert in these matters and that national security is his strength, and evidence to the contrary won't be reported.

Discuss.

I'm sure you'll catch this and clean it up on the next read-through:

The disastrous and moronic equivalence between militarism and "toughness" should be a principal issue in the election because. But it won't be because, in Media Land, John McCain is deemed the National Security Tough Guy who keeps us safe despite everything we've seen over the last seven years and despite espousing views on war that the vast majority of Americans reject.

N/T

I'd pay good money I tell ya, to see GG, on some MSM platform, deliver the sentiments expressed in this post directly to [insert "pundit" here].

McCain '08

The white vote!

Horton said something that really struck me. He said we should all thank Glenn Greenwald for (paraphrasing) supplying the liberal grass-roots with the "intellectual ammunition" needed to defeat (at least temporarily) retroactive telecom amnesty...

So, thanks Glenn. And pass the ammunition!

Now, is McCain stupider than George Bush, or simply more disingenuous?

And when is Lewis Black going to do a face-off between Politicians and The MSM on "Root of All Evil"?

Apropos of the "Winter Soldiers" testimony

Check this alternet story

http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/80461/?page=entire

Oh, and aych, way back when - I think that was Bong Soo Han you wanted to see kick Chuck Norris' ass.

BTW.

Go ahead and talk amongst yourselves...

I know what you mean about tinyurl.

GG might've warned us that THIS

"absurd and obvious straw man"

was really THIS

http://instapundit.com/archives2/016893.php

Blech... 8')

You just spoiled my appetite for "pigs in a blanket".

Some huge ice-shelf collapsed into the Antarctic yesterday. And 90+% of the bats are dying. And I'm gonna go eat some Toad in the Hole.

Goodbye, cruel world. Mean bloggers. Whatever.

I saw about 15 min.

Which included all the snippets you excerpted.

Don't have any waying of knowing if that was all the way through to the end.

Human beings, by and large, do not like being occupied by foreigners."

-Sinan Antoon

But I think he strongly overstates the degree of cultural indoctrination that goes on in a healthy university environment.

Cornell, in the 80's anyway, was ACLU-like in their promotion of free speech.

I wouldn't worry about the vid. On the Charlie Rose site, I listened to the entire interview w/ the Iraqis. Everything I saw there I'd seen previously via your embed.

Aych, I agree about Chomsky being more correct than incorrect. I suppose an argument might be made that I've yet to have the scales fall from my eyes so that I can "view the frame". I'd argue the contrary, however.

My time in Ithaca apparently overlapped that of Keith Olbermann's AND Ann Coulter's. I haven't been back since a reunion in 2002.

Dunno what's going on there now, so I can't argue w/ Berry, but man, CU was a helluva place. I mean that in a good way.

My psyche could maybe use a few bandages, though, after a few self-inflicted wounds it took while there. 8')

Funny how teachers can affect you.

I had a ("subversive", I realize now) 8th-grade English teacher introduce me to Noam Chomsky. Then my (CU) Freshman English teacher assigned me a term-long project on George Orwell. (She let everbody else get away with a project of their choosing. Me? I was starting with "Shooting an Elephant". No ifs, ands, or buts.)

I haven't been fit for polite company ever since.

But will somebody please explain to me how the hell THIS works?

"Bush waives law to give millions to Pakistan's anti-terror fight"

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_waives_law_to_give_millions_to_03252008.html

...now I are one, at [inset your fave here] University.

And Paul Dirks, don't be dissing Jerry's kids, now. I'll slap you upside the head w/ one my Pig-Pen tapes.

No offense intended. That was a quote from a poster I bought at the campus store, way back when. The image was an intricate line drawing of the classic village idiot, perched on a stool w/ a dunce cap. Had the Cornell logo on it in place of [] University. I always thought it was pretty funny.

Didn't translate too well, obviously. And looking at your previous comment I can see how you might have interpreted mine. My bad.

President Bush: Iraq violence is a 'positive moment'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3628928.ece

H/T Raw Story

Too good not to share.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/74800

From Paul Dirks' McClatchy linky

Mortar rounds crashed into the heavily fortified Green Zone for the third straight day, injuring three U.S. government employees, all U.S. citizens, said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo.

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2008/03/24/tomo/index.html?source=rss

'bop, about the news - it was satire, pretty well done. Too bad yer connections slow. Damn tubes.

Particularly good one.

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/26/iraq_debate/permalink/423d57c50da55f2c97cb88d9779fe823.html