He’s probably already seen it, but here it is.
Why Star Trek is best when it reflects Neo-Con values.
Will this revisionist bullshit never end?
yeah.
The Greatest Con Man in the World
It’s no secret that I adore Penn & Teller, but the first magician I ever saw, the one who made me want to be a magician all my life, was this man.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Greatest Con Man in the World. Ricky Jay.
The Fever Breaks
It is September 20, and it looks like I survived my first Arizona summer.
When folks told me the temperature would rank up near 115 in the shade, they weren’t kidding. I had to completely re-format my car. New tires, different oil, window shades.
I left a CD in there once. Once.
And the water bottle that exploded. Yeah.
God’s Tastybake Oven, indeed.
But now, the temperature is down to about 100 with a slight cool breeze. It dips down to the high 90s (like 99 or 98) at night.
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While watching Fargo, I remember MN. I remember the cold. My fillings aching. The ice on everything. Numb toes. The wind that stings. Burning ears and nose. Flesh sticking to metal.
But when I watched TV or saw movies with heat, I never knew what that meant.
Now, when I see heat on the TV or in movies, I’ll know what that means. Heat so bad it burns the inside of your nose. Your back is as wet as the sea when you get up from the chair. The air so thick, you just want to sleeeeeeep…
But I survived. We’re nearing the other end. I’m expecting an Indian Summer any time now. Something that makes the temperature zip back up above 100 just before the welcome warm of winter.
In honor o’tha day
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
— Mark Twain
Ar.
Fact Checking the President, Part 2
(from FactCheck.org)
President Bush played loose with the facts in his address to the nation Thursday night as he tried to convince the American public that the surge in U.S. troops in Iraq has made the country more stable.
- He said “36 nations … have troops on the ground in Iraq.” In fact, his own State Department puts the number at 25.
- He said “ordinary life” was returning to Baghdad. Perhaps. In fact, news reports describe the city as starkly segregated with Shiites and Sunnis living in separate neighborhoods, which are walled off from one another with huge concrete barricades.
- He said Baqubah in Diyala province was “cleared.” But the Washington Post quotes a State Department official as saying the security situation there was not stable.
- He said that “the Iraqi Army is becoming more capable,” which may be true. But the Iraqi defense minister says it’ll be 2012 before the army will be even 60 percent capable of protecting the nation from external threats.
There’s more.
Dropping troop levels: this was already scheduled to happen and has nothing to do with the “progress made.”
Dropping expectations: Praising Iraqi government “progress” he was condemning a month ago.
Dodging expections: Not being straight with the American people just how little progress has been made and how much is left. Possibly as much as a decade by most of his own departments’ estimations.
You can read it all for yourself here.
A lot of the bloggers I read have been doing it, so I thought I would give it a try. The instructions are simple:
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
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Fact Checking the President
Last night, the President said a lot of things. He also forgot to say a lot of things.
He said “Iraq’s national leaders are getting some things done,” such as “sharing oil revenues with the provinces” and allowing “former Baathists to rejoin Iraq’s military or receive government pensions.”
A month earlier, on August 18th, in a public address, he said, “The Iraqi government in Baghdad has many important measures left to address, such as reforming the de-Baathification laws, organizing provincial elections and passing a law to formalize the sharing of oil revenues.”
Sharing oil revenues is not a law and the local governments will not make it a law. They’re doing it until we leave, then they’re going to put the oil in their pockets. The President forgot to report that to the American people.
He said Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province “is cleared” of terrorists.
But in a press conference on Aug. 27, he said the province was unstable, with terrorists cutting off food and supplies. The President forgot to report that to the American people.
He said 36 nations are assisting us.
That’s true. All 36 nations have a grand total of 11,685 troops on the ground. Less than 7 percent of the total fighting force. The President forgot to report that to the American people.
The President quoted a report by Marine Gen. James Jones saying, “the Iraqi army is becoming more capable, although there is still a great deal of work to be done to improve the national police.”
Yes. That work is 2 years away. At least. And that’s a good estimate. According to her report. Her report also said the police force was corrupt beyond redemption and that it be completely dismanted. The President forgot to report that to the American people.
The President said a lot of things last night. He also forgot to say a lot of things.
As President, he has a duty to be honest to the people who elected him. The last President who wasn’t honest with the people who elected him got impeached. For lying about a blowjob.
This President lied at least four times last night. And his lies weren’t about a consensual sexual act. His lies were about the lives of thousands of American citizens and even more thousands of Iraqi citizens.
In short, his lies cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of human beings.
If lying about a blowjob is worthy of impeachment, perhaps lying about war is, too.
(Somehow, I find fault with the argument blowjob > thousands of human beings.)
Happy Birthday, Pratt
55 years old.
And doing shit like this.
Another happy 55 to you, sir.
Gobbos in Russia
“Skip Work, Make Babies,” Governor Says.
Thanks to Jessie.