In case you need to be reminded why the guy oughta be in jail.
Pardon me . . . where’s the vomitorium?
Paula Abdul says she didn’t figure out her purpose in life until she became a judge on Fox network’s “American Idol.” “I knew since I was a little girl that I had this profound way of touching people. My purpose is bringing out everybody’s best and being that cheerleader to other people’s success,” the 44-year-old singer-dancer tells OK! magazine in its latest issue.
Dr Leakey suggested “biodiversity credits” could be a possible solution.
“Being paid for not cutting down indigenous forests and getting credit for that is a further step that builds on the idea of getting paid for planting new forests,” he explained.
Okay, so what do I get for not cutting down Paula Abdul?
Rick’s post on Johnson is spot on. How he has any credibility is beyond me, but apparently a healthy dose of BDS gives some added cred in some circles.
I think Rick is incredibly charitable in his view of Wilson and Plame, but reasonable people can disagree.
The thing that bothers me about this whole “CIA says Plame was covert” ‘revelation’ is that the CIA doesn’t really have the final word on this, the courts do.
If she was so fucking all-fired covert, then why the fuck isn’t Fitzgerald prosecuting the goddam leakers – initial leaker Armitage, and confirming leakers Rove and CIA official Hadley? Why the fuck won’t he take this case to court?
In the end, we have what we have before this gi-normous revelation. The CIA says (as it has maintained from the date they decided they wanted a prosecution) that she was covert, even at a time 6 years after the Turkish government and media blew her cover, even several weeks after her public figure husband revealed himself to be a non-proliferation worker of some sort.
If she was covert, Fitzgerald should make the case in court and prosecute the bejeezus out of the leakers, that’s all I’m asking for here. Otherwise, Fitzgerald and the CIA are just playing coy with the truth again, or still – kinda like the Libby jurors, who decided to make Libby pay for the lies of this Administration and the horrible leak (which he apparently wasn’t the source of). What the fuck. This stinks to high heaven. Libby is a complete POS, as far as I can tell, but nobody deserves this kind of non-justice. Not a fucking dog. What an embarassment of a sham of a show trial.
Dr. Leakey, paging Dr. Leakey: I’ve got 1.5 acres I’ll plant with water maples for $1.5 million. Ya got subsidy?
In the interest of building their self-esteem, could I please be paid for NOT grading my students’ essays?
The problem, Al, revolves around the elements of the crime. The elements can’t be met, so that law was not violated. Yet to justify having spent all of that time the prosecutor had to prove something, and this perjury was what it fell on. And in continued justification, this sentencing recommendation is brought before the court, containing much the court can’t actually use.
It makes for a good press release, though, and for Washington press releases seem to be all.
So, bust Libby not for the underlying leak of her status but for comments that failed to square with others’ recollections (think he oversold his “surprised to hear” stance, the jury didn’t buy it, and his defense fell apart); then reveal her covert status in bombshell fashion to add years to his sentence notwithstanding the fact that he wasn’t charged with the leak?
If you want to nail him for an IIPA violation, how about convicting him of one? Is it just me, or does that seem wrong?
As for Johnson, if I’d been as spectacularly wrong about anything as he was about the threat of Islamic terrorism, I’d have had Robert Barron cook me up a good disguise and lived the rest of my days as a shoe salesman.
You and I might know that, but unfortunately if you are a semi-literate pinhead like john or heet or upyernoz, esq., it looks like real justification.
Dr Steve – That is as concise of a synopsis of this entire clusterfuck that I have seen. Well done.
WAY OT…Happyfeet,thank you for your kind comment on the last post we were on. Almost kinda makes me think I belong here!! And yes,somebody’s gotta do it,so why NOT me?
TW;Except16 yr old kids who ould do it a lot better than me!!
getting paid for doing nothing?
My life/career plan just might come to fruition!
Question. If, as tbogg is now saying, Dan is “mini-Godlstein,” would that make tbogg:
a. An Eschatette
b. Firedogpuddleofstandingwater
c. a cinch to win the upcoming “blogger who most looks like a slightly older Kenny Rogers—or at least, the blogger who most looks like a slightly older Kenny Rogers AND who also happens to work setting up cash register software”
d. tqquagmire
e. Who?
tbogg is just a mini.
I hate to sound like I’m from Cambridge, Massachusetts, but subsidizing biodiversity doesn’t strike me as the worst idea in the world (and, seeing as I actually am a 13-year resident of Cambridge, I like to think I know a little about the worst ideas in the world). Biodiversity is better than lack of biodiversity, malaria notwithstanding, and a rigid mandate would be an excessive use of force; a subsidy strikes me as about the right level of encouragement.
Not that there aren’t problems. Quantifying biodiversity, and setting a price on it, for example. Then there’s the question of who pays for it – I’d be willing to see the U.S. take that out of our foreign aid budget, but if the U.N. told us to do so, as seems likely, we’d have to tell the U.N. to go to hell; maybe George Soros and Al Gore can pitch in. Aside from measuring what we’re subsidizing, coming up with a remotely rational price, and paying for it, though, it’s a fine idea.
So, it’s totally unworkable, like much that comes out of Cambridge. But it’s not as bad as, to pick an example from our city’s web site, Rachel Carson day, which we apparently celebrated a few days ago.
Incidentally, for box wine, this Box Star wine is pretty good. Particularly the Cabernet. Not that I need to drink in order to show up in comment sections at two in the morning on a worknight with a gratuitous display of city pride.
I smell sitcom pitch!
Picture it: Fitzgerald and Mike Nifong set up a practice together. They crack tough cases by using a Ouija board to consult the ghost of Captain Ahab.
Hilarity ensues when the team finds itself lurking outside the Rosie O’Donnell compound with a harpoon, a pair of flensing knives, and semi trailer full of trypots.
Stop all this jibber jabber! Gutfeld read my email on the air tonight. Jesse was right, I am somebody.
Late night, low ratings validation. How sweet it is!
Thank you for that. I haven’t done a nose job over my keyboard for weeks.
Moving on, I had never heard of this Larry Johnson goon before. What a prize anal fistula! What a paragon of loutish, bone-headed, knuckle-dragging hairy-backed Boer imbecility.
I wonder what Larry is short for. I know what Johnson means.
Actually, Larry Johnson is is <A HREF=”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/quotes”the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life</A>.
(Okay, so I haven’t actually been brainwashed, but I really don’t need “the guys who killed Pablo Escobar” or a bunch of Interpol goons harshing my mellow, so you’ll excuse me if I keep my bases covered.)
Yeah, but now you’ve republished my libel, Sean.
Yee’re doooomed, ah tell yee..
Crap. I really should click on the preview button. If I had done so, it would have looked like this:
Actually, Larry Johnson is is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
I still believe all of those things to be true. There’s no need to send INTERPOL after me. Good call on the Escobar thing, too. Since you know those people, I won’t call you an idiot who downplayed the threat of terrorism before 9/11. Nor will I point out that you were wrong about the whole Rove indictment thing. Nope.
You’re a badass, Larry. Please don’t forget my compliments when your international covert strike forces carry out the ultimate justice against the BushCo wrongdoers
That is a great link. I have never read or seen The Manchurian Candidate. I will get it this weekend.
I think yee’re still doooomed though.
Sorry.
My favorite Larry picture, thanks to PeterUK at JOM.
I love this place, especially the alliteration.
What in the name of God is that? The Trustees of the Langley Retirement Fund on a weekend break?
Which one is Larrikin?
tw congress98. aka the Congress of the Ant.
I love Leakey’s idea! There are so many things I’ve never done I should be paid for not doing!
I’ve never rammed a car through a crowded pedestrian mall.
I’ve never tried to cut up scrap metal with an acetylene torch in the California hills during fire season.
I’ve never gone to New York with a softball bat and a promise to whup on daytime talk show hosts until they either get smarter or shut up.
I’ve never spiked Rosie’s morning slops with Ex-Lax.
Dammit, somebody owes me!
Seeing as Larry has never been an operator, seems
to washed out of Camp Peary, worked under Mary
McCarthy at the Central American desk,(not at all
like the same desk in the Steven Segal conspiracy
tale, ‘Above the Law” complete with the guy who
played the evil genie and Kang in Buck Rogers) He
worked with William Wagner, “the man who…yadda,
yadda.” by essentially contracting with a death…
urban paramilitary organization, and a rival, ahem
pharmaceutical marketing consortium, to the Escobars, which obviously employed ‘enhanced interrogation’ procedures, (props to you, Andrew)