Archive for December, 2005
Happy New Year!
Here’s to a great 2006!
A Little Green
Congratulations Steve and Melissa.
The Traitors in the CIA
What’s the biggest risk facing the US today? Rogue members of the CIA who insist on leaking national security secrets to members of the media who’s primary focus is a Pulitzer prize.
Captains Quarters has more about the exposure of another key counterterrorism program.
Domestic Spy Leak Probe Underway
Hopefully, this is more than just an end of the year bone being thrown.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush’s secret domestic spying program.
The inquiry focuses on disclosures to The New York Times about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency since the Sept. [...]
I’d Blog More But…
There’s precious little to blog about. The week between Christmas and New Years day is filled with more fabricated news than any other week of the year. There’s also plenty of ‘top list of 2005’ like news, which is always boring. Weird news, like the wildfires in Oklahoma, which seem pretty strange to me (unless you’re from [...]
Surviving Libya
Michael J. Totten writes:
“When you visit another country, it’s hard to get a feel for what it’s actually like until you leave your hotel room, go for a walk, take a look around, and hang out while soaking it in. Not so in Libya. All you have to do there is show up. It will [...]
Apple Movie Trailers
Hey, how long have these things been available in high definition? I just saw a few tonight and noticed the alternate option. The larger viewing window and the higher quality is how I like to watch movie trailers. The small windows embedded in the HTML were weak, at best.
Beware of Hippies
Prime Minister Harold Wilson discussed whether there were too many “hippies” in the BBC in 1975 in talks with the corporation’s chairman, it has emerged.
BBC chairman Sir Michael Swann discussed “hippie influences” when he met Wilson at a dinner party.
He said he would not say the BBC was clear of such problems but [...]
Panic at 30,000 Feet
This is what I like most about blogs. They’re real life. And this is as real as it gets.
The Flip Flop Quote ‘o the Day
After reading the Reuters story about the Pope’s stance on the sanctity of life, I found this. Read the following quote. Can you guess who the speaker is?
“That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us by calling us ‘niggers’. It was part of the dehumanizing process. The first [...]
In France, It’s Pay to Play
It figures.
French President Jacques Chirac offered to help makers of “The Da Vinci Code” film in the Louvre, and suggested they cast his daughter’s best friend in the leading female role, Newsweek magazine said. “We thought it was going to be a five-minute thing, like a trip to the Oval Office — a photo and [...]
Will the Terrorists Walk?
Now that everyone has gotten all uppity over the news that the Bush administrations used unique surveillance tactics to weed out post-9/11 terror suspects, lawyers for the convicts now want to go back and look at aspects of cases where convictions occurred. If the eavesdropping was illegal, and the lawyers can prove that key evidence was withheld to gain a favorable [...]