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Archive for September 22nd, 2004
Presidential Debate Contract
Posted in Satire on September 22, 2004 | 1 Comment »
What If ….
Posted in Iraq on September 22, 2004 | Comments Off
… America was like Iraq? Link via Steve Gilliard.
Give to the DCCC, Part II
Posted in Politics on September 22, 2004 | 6 Comments »
Joe Trippi provides a concrete example of the kinds of help I was talking about yesterday: Last week we had a conference call with a group of bloggers and I talked about how, I feel, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee gets a bad rap. Of all the DC committees, it covers the most ground and [...]
For My Wife
Posted in I do too have a life on September 22, 2004 | 4 Comments »
The dawn shines her light To scare off the night And the sun from his slumber is woken The bells are ringing out As the town crier shouts Words too strong to be spoken There’s a rumble in the ground And the air fills with sound Trumpets in the wind are a’ blowing The townsfolk [...]
The Tangled Bank
Posted in Bloggin on September 22, 2004 | 4 Comments »
This week, we are hosting The Tangled Bank, a collection of scientific writing from around the blogoshpere. There is quite a bit of variety this week, and all of it is interesting. First, and these are in no particular order, syaffolee has a look at a New Robert Hooke biography: Anyone familiar with science history [...]
No Iraqi / Al Qaeda Connection, Said State Dept. 11/2001
Posted in Iraq, Politics, Terrorism on September 22, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The Village Voice makes a good catch this week: a US State Department Web page, marked “posted November 10, 2001″, that lists “Countries Where Al Qaeda Has Operated”. Iraq is not on the list. The main page contains links to a speech by Bush, statements and other evidence connecting Al Qaeda to 9/11, pictures of [...]
DeLay Corruption
Posted in Politics on September 22, 2004 | Comments Off
Charles Kuffner has the latest run down of the investigations into corruption swirling around Tom DeLay.
The Different Meanings of Intelligence
Posted in Politics on September 22, 2004 | 1 Comment »
So, when Bush wants to go to war, then intelligence that the CIA hands him — regardless of its relative credibility — is to be treated as Gospel truth and acted upon immediately. But after the war, when Bush and his staff should be finding ways out of the mess their own incompetence has created, [...]
I am going to second Pandagon’s recomendation of Blogbites. It is essentially a site that takes “sound bites” of blogs. They do a good job of finding interesting bites, and in a couple of days, it has lead me to several interesting posts that I would not have seen otherwise. Such as this rumination on [...]