That's all I got.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go buy some more duct tape.

I heard it too. Mr Negroponte broke the news. Those gops will have more than "burning feet" soon if they believe what the funky-neocon-preacher speaks.

Burning Feet. No worry. If you lie, you make a hellish bed.

If you are true, the bed bugs tickle you, you'll sleep well.

Yes. You'll never be able to find the invisible scotch tape. So- Use Geese Tape, Duck Tape, or use black electrical tape?

Use it to flop smack across the fake neoconservative hypocrites's Fat-Lips!

In one of your citations, that of what McConnell is up to, one Brian Knowlton, seemingly an up and comer on the International Affairs desk, has contributed the following doozies (since 2006) in his top 20 articles:

Iranian Boats Confront U.S. In Persian Gulf;

Top U.S. Official Asks Congress Not to Put Limits on Iraq Mission;

THE REACH OF WAR; Rice Rebuts Tenet's Assertion That '01 Warning Was Ignored;

U.S. Wants North Korea to Return to Talks.

I'm with you. Yesterday, Froomkin over at the Washington Post had a recap of just how many times Rice was told BEFORE 9/11. They knew full well that we would be hit and they did nothing. I still think they said: "Let them take their best shot, as it will free us to do what we've wanted to do for years, ever since we got our wrists slapped for Iran-Contra. We'll use this as an excuse to enact our Project for a New American Century Revolution and Coup d'Etat."

IS THAT NOT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE?

Now- I think this most recent trip to the middle-east by W and Cheney was to finalize the plans for whatever is to come next. I suspect it will be a hit on the Democrat (sic) Party convention, which will be blamed on the Democrat congress, and used as an excuse to declare a state-of-emergency, and postpone the elections "until further notice"...

Am I paranoid?

But then again, maybe I do.

America whines and moans and p!sses about taxes, but America is totally mum about the fact that trilllllllllions (Stephan Hawking take note), I mean trillllllions of YOUR dollars are p!ssed away on . . .

wave the flag here, stand up, put your hand on your heart (after you make sure your little flag-pin-thingy is still on your lapel) the military. Yep, the military. That big mighty force out there DEFENDING DEMOCRACY, FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM and . . . . whatever. Actually, just a colossal Wackenhutts keeping an eye out that nobody, and I mean nobody, gets in the way of 'Murican buziness interests and our gol'dang right to wring a dollar outta folks that spit in our eye for not respecting the fact that we are the boss. Eisenhower, the last decent man to sit in the big leather chair, had it right. Every dime we spend to pay someone to say "Sir, yes Sir" and send them off to spread the word that "America's business is business" (Soprano-style) is another rut in the freeway that we can't afford to fix. It all goes to hell in a hand-basket, and the rich folks bitch that they need more parking spaces for their private airplanes at your federally-funded airport. And that the hoi-polloi are blocking access to their private booths at the Super-bowl.

Aaargh!! Rant over . . .

I watched the entire summer of 2001, as Ashcroft, among others, decided to take government transport only and the last half of August, airport security loosened up (no longer turning on computers, many magnetometer alerts deliberately ignored and over largely clad individuals - for Aug. - passed through without - as formerly - thorough screening, all documented by me, an airline pilot) I would not be surprised that Bush, et.al. deliberately told security people to back off, and this was before we found out about the stovepiping of information, the lack of security concerns, even to the Bushster telling the intel folks that "they had CYA", and Condi stating that ".... but we didn't know that they would fly aircraft into buildings". You'd think the head of the NSA would have known about the 1994 Air France 767 terrorists tried to fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower.

Looking back, it is so obvious to me that at least they knew something was going to happen. The hard part would have been for them to act surprised and not laugh.

Glenn hates rice. He don't belive rice taste too good.

If Rice stands up at the State Dept. Press soapbox,

and briefs the public with only socks,

and a feminist necktie.

Lifer. Lie. Shame on her!

If she'd wear boxer shorts,

they'd catch a flame-a-fire!

With strong encryption available to any organization that can afford to spend a day or two figuring it out, it seems clear that any professional terrorist organization is not going to communicate in clear text.

The only thing NSA can be doing is link analysis. Who is communicating with whom. If I'm Al-Qaida, I'm going to to use an intermediary between Pakistan and USA to foil any link analysis. A simple walk across the street in Amsterdam will foil link analysis.

The only possible use of this program is to catch amateurs, or to control society in general. The amateurs are in all likelihood domestic.

Best case scenario, this is simply a way to enrich some defense contractor. Worst case scenario it is to analyze the post I put here and find a way to penalize me for it.

This has nothing to do with catching the terrorists. If it were, we'd simply send a few brigades into Pakistan and end this silly conflict.

...that Al Gore has the same first name as Al Quaida?

Coincidence?

Maybe if Glenn 'hits' bedtime at the Las Vegas slots, Glenn can make restitution by putting a few pennies in the garter belt?

Prunes... Well, there was the anthrax... and that anthrax was traced back to a US base...

The Ames strain's DNA sequence identical but it could have come from anywhere. The Ames strain was developed at Fort Detrick but shipped to many labs around the world for research.

On 9 May 2002, New Scientist published an article that reported:

The DNA sequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has been revealed and confirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came from a US military laboratory. The data released uses codenames for the reference strains against which the attack strain was compared. The two reference strains that appear identical to the attack strain most likely originated at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick (USAMRIID), Maryland.

The new work also shows that substantial genetic differences can emerge in two samples of an anthrax culture separated for only three years. This means the attacker's anthrax was not separated from its ancestors at USAMRIID for many generations...

However, the new work does not prove irrefutably that the attacker got his anthrax directly from USAMRIID because it is possible that untested Ames cultures from other labs might also be identical. Those tests are now underway.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2265

There are no reports that the investigators have identified the lab used to make the anthrax powders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#Investigation