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January 2006
January 30, 2006
New Zawahiri tape shows terror-leader defiant, predicting more US defeats (rough translation from the original; with thanks to Jim Zorn)
January 30, 2006
“Mexico arrests four undocumented, U.S.-bound Iraqis”
From the AP: Mexico says its arrested four Iraqis who were trying to sneak into the United States without the proper documents. Mexico’s Attorney General’s office says police—acting on an anonymous tip—found the four aboard a bus in the northern city of Navajoa (nav-ah-HO-. That’s about 375 miles south of the Arizona border). The statement says the Iraqis were in Mexico illegally. Officials are investigating the background of the four
January 30, 2006
You can’t spell “nuance” without the “dunce.” Or rather, you CAN, but in this case, why even try
Both Gates of Vienna and Neo-neocon finds a great deal of strangly redundant nuance in Guardian Senior correspondent Jonathan Steele’s suggestion that Europeans use the “recent Hamas victory as a chance for Europe to try its more nuanced approach to the Middle East conflict.” I’ve touched a bit on this myself — the idea that Europe has not been heading this “peace process” for years now while relying on a
January 30, 2006
Who are Yoo? Who who, who who? (UPDATED TO ADDRESS THE “UNITARY EXECUTIVE THEORY” CANARD NOW MAKING THE ROUNDS ON THE LEFT AND IN SOME CIVIL LIBERTIES ABSOLUTISTS CIRCLES)
Though to listen to many on the left, John Yoo was never so much “deputy assistant attorney general” under President Bush from 2001-2003 as he was a crazed proto-totalitarian race traitor (who, when he wasn’t butchering the constitution, was sitting naked on the lap of the Lincoln Memorial fetishizing executive power), the legal case he lays out briefly to the WSJ’s Paul Gigot on the “Journal Editor Report” for authorization
January 30, 2006
My first brief conversation with a real estate agent in Firestone, Colorado
Me: ”I’m sorry, how much?” Serena, the real estate agent: “$350 thousand for this particular configuration. Which, do keep in mind that the tiling in the bathroom is included, as are both the dishwasher and the range.” Me: “I see. So, say I let you keep the dishwasher. Can we maybe get it down into the neighborhood of, I dunno, $200 thousand?” Serena, the real estate agent: “Well, that’s possible,
January 29, 2006
Sunday Morning’s Coming Down (and with have the intercepts to prove it)
Here. Today I’ll let Powerline do some of the heavy lifting on the NSA “domestic spy” story so that I can get out of the house for a bit. Here, they raise some interesting points about the rather directed coverage of the story from WaPo , Newsweek, and, naturally NYT. An excerpt: The most deeply misleading aspect of the Times article […] is its treatment of the federal court precedents
January 29, 2006
“Congressman Rewrites the History Books – Literally”
The New Editor’s Paul Geary has a post on a report by the Lowell Sun (MA) that congressional staffers for US Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) altered the congressman’s entry in Wikipedia by eliminating references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest (the largest of any member in the US House): The Lowell Sun reports that over 1,000 changes from congressional IP addresses
January 29, 2006
“Big Google is watching you”
I offer this as a companion article to yesterday’s post on Google and their very public defense of privacy (and trade secrets). Some good background info here for those just now catching up with the story. From The Sunday Times (UK): ‘Don’t be evil.†That’s the motto of Google, which was founded in 1997 and is now worth $129 billion (£72 billion), making it the fastest growing company in the
January 29, 2006
The “Saturday night alone as a thirtysomething” haiku
You know something? When Journey wanted to rock, they really kicked ass, man!
January 29, 2006
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR
No one had better accuse RICHARD GOLDSTEIN of being a PJM shill, that’s for sure. Because let me tell you something: Them’s fighting words, baby! And RICHARD don’t roll like that…* **** correction made. PJM has now correctly identified me by the preferred spelling of my name, “JEFF”. GLORY BE THE SPEED OF THE BLOGOSPHERE!