WTF Is It Now?!?

Excuses, excuses.

I stayed up late last night to watch "Fargo" ("It's a beautiful day...") and "South Park" (#4 of the most notorius episodes: Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo comes to town, the school's Christmas play includes Mary having labor pains). Woke up late this morning with a mojito headache, watched "My Fair Lady" ("why can't a woman be like me?"), then did some gardening. Found the kittens under the wild rose bush, so I moved them back up to the cat igloo after playing with them for a while.

Still have a headache.



"Mad Hatter may as well run U.S. war"

In 1757, John Byng, having screwed up a naval engagement, was hanged from the yardarm of his flagship. This prompted Voltaire's observation that England believed "it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others."

The sound you hear from Washington, and have heard since Sept. 11, is the sound of no heads rolling. Of course, for a head to roll you have to blame somebody, and nobody in America screwed up anything.

There was the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. There were foiled plots to drive explosive-laden planes into the Eiffel Tower and the Pentagon. There were all those bomb ingredients driven across from Vancouver to flatten the Los Angeles airport in Y2K. There was so much "chatter" of malevolent intent that U.S. intelligence agencies still haven't sifted through it.

But on Aug 6., after George W. Bush was briefed about the increasingly oppressive atmosphere of threat, he went fishing.

Read more at The Toronto Star.




Bush League

The Bunnypants' administration's top anti-terrorism prosecutor said the United States had ample evidence that a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil was likely long before Sept. 11.

Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff cited nearly a decade's worth of hints that foreign terrorists were targeting Americans, though he did not say there was specific information that could have prevented the attacks.

``As of Sept. 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on Sept. 11th,'' Chertoff said Friday during a commencement speech to Seton Hall Law School graduates.

On Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said there may have been missed clues before the attacks and suggested that investigators might have uncovered the plot if they had been more diligent about pursuing leads.

Ya think??? The Guardian has more...





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