Between Jennifer Lopez and KKG? Could Ivins have made a mistake if not?

because at the time of the attack, he was a very conspicuous non-pro-life Catholic. He must have been really sweating when he learned that that was one of the motives of the anthrax attacker. Maybe that is why he wised up ( or caved in ). By the way, Rudy Guliani also must have been sweating bullets.

NOT

Ivins himself was a Catholic Democrat. Everyone seemed to know instinctively that political party, not religion was the motive for the attack. None the less, I really feel appreciative when the FBI wipes its ass on the public like this.

So now we known Ivins had no motive, no opportunity to commit the crime and according to an expert on anthrax, the anthrax in the envelopes was not made at Fort Detrick so he had no weapon either. These are the three things you need to make a convincing case: motive, opportunity and a weapon. The FBI does, of course, have a body. The only trouble is, it's the body of an innocent man they either killed or hounded to his death. What a farce. His family must be absolutely devastated and I don't imagine any of them will be voting Republican- if they ever did. Bruce Ivins, of course had more sense than to vote Republican which is why he was expendable. Dick Cheney, on the other hand, had at least two motives,(getting the Patriot Act passed and the planned invasion of Iraq) endless opportunity (since he has others to do his dirty work) and a veritable smorgasbord of weapons to choose from. The case against Cheney is far more compelling than the case against Ivins but the FBI doesn't work for Ivins.

...has money for commodities trading! From Hullabaloo:

You knew somehow it would come to this. John McCain's campaign is offering their supporters redeemable points to troll websites and write pro-McCain comments. It's the professionalization of astroturfing. Because it's a conservative effort, they give them the exact words and invite them to cut and paste them onto the sites.

Activists and political operatives have used volunteers or paid staff to seed radio call-in shows or letters-to-the-editor pages for years, typically without disclosing the caller or letter writer's connection to a candidate or cause. Like the fake grass for which the practice is named, such AstroTurf messages look as though they come from the grass roots but are ersatz.

McCain's campaign has taken the same idea and given it an Internet-era twist. It also has taken the concept one step further.

People who sign up for McCain's program receive reward points each time they place a favorable comment on one of the listed Web sites (subject to verification by McCain's webmasters). The points can be traded for prizes, such as books autographed by McCain, preferred seating at campaign events, even a ride with the candidate on his bus, known as the Straight Talk Express, according to campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.

And how deadly were the traveling spores? Not very..

"Planes cannot Dust a City.

A scenario which is often mentioned is that someone might use a plane to dust a large city with anthrax during the night. It's unrealistic. First, no one in buildings would be harmed by anthrax. The few spores that entered buildings would settle on surfaces, and few would enter the air, and even fewer would be inhaled. At most, someone might inhale a few dozen spores per hour. That's not the ten thousand that are needed.

Secondly, anthrax spores would not diffuse uniformly through the air like a gas. They will either drop too fast or blow away. A few dozen persons might be killed, but that's not the terror that is being hyped in the media. And more than anything, nobody is producing the spores in powder form but the U.S. and Russia.

Journalists seem to assume that an anthrax cell anywhere will kill someone someplace. Putting words alongside each other on a page is not the same thing as getting cells into humans on the ground. There are millions of square miles of space on the ground which do not show up with the words.

Iraq did not Weaponize Anthrax.

Saddam Hussein is said to have produced anthrax. If so, the reason is because it is stable and easy to handle, not because it is effective when used. Iraq is unsophisticated to a point of ineptness in its approach to biological weapons.

It is said that Iraq uses anthrax in liquid form and puts it in missiles in liquid form. In liquid form, anthrax is almost as safe as cotton candy. Therefore, Iraq poses no anthrax threat."

Oil prices are a problem, but I've made money in the market from oil going up, and currently with oil going down.

You wanna substantiate that? Didn't you tell us earlier you worked at Red Lobster? Dishwasher is, I know from experience, an honorable profession, but it doesn't usually leave much money for commodities speculation.

So your a rich investor, who chooses to spend his days, and nights, submitting sarcastic and inconsistent (your letters are archived, you know) letters to Salon, a place you hate and are contemptuous of? Sure, that makes perfect sense.

Or do you think the force of your rhetoric and your record of being correct speaks for itself.

And the flood of people writing in to agree with you is sure overwhelming, too.

I would like to see a point out of you; but "don't worry, be happy?" Please!

Lordy. You must be Danny Downer at family gahterings. Confident optimism is not "don't worry, be happy." Brooding pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Oil prices are a problem, but I've made money in the market from oil going up, and currently with oil going down. If I went to each trade expecting to have the worst happen, it will.

So you say you're fed up with Republicans. Fine, it seems that the Dems will control all of government by the end of the year. Shouldn't that make you happy about something?

You don't really have to worry about your SS for instance, soon enough it will be turned into a welfare program supported by general revenues rather than the other way around. Happy yet?

As for the rest of it, I'll stick by my original thesis that we should shut down all the overseas bases, and bring the troops home. (Except for Iraq) It will let us pay off all debt, eliminate combat deaths, and the world will love us for staying out of the way in places like Georgia. Now that should make you really happy.