August 4th, 2005
The national media is obsessed with TO, but Eagles fans are more worried about Brian Westbrook, who has yet to show up at training camp.
How tough is the Eagles management when it comes to handling personnel issue? This tough:
0 commentsJust yesterday, quarterback Donovan McNabb called Westbrook “our ultimate weapon.” You had to be there to hear it, though, because the complimentary quote from McNabb’s news conference was the only one not included in the transcript handed out by the team’s media services and posted on the official Web site for thoughtful digestion by you, the fans.
The Greatest Film of All Time?
August 4th, 2005
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Wonderfalls on TV! Right Now!
August 4th, 2005
Reader CC writes in with great news: Tim Minear’s Wonderfalls–the best TV show in recent memory–is airing on the LOGO channel right now (11:00 a.m., est). Set your TiVos accordingly.
0 commentsHunting Horcruxes
August 4th, 2005
The incomparable Janet Batchler has a long, excellent post on Horcruxes.
0 commentsJust how far off the deep end?
August 4th, 2005
Why do I get these emails and why do I bother to read them rather than just delete them? This particularly sad and unhealthy one (not to mention delusional) just came into my mailbox:
Hi,
I’m not sure whether this is true, but hope springs eternal.
Terri
Joined: Sep 18, 2003
Posts: 197
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject: BUSH AND CHENEY INDICTED!
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TOMFLOCCO.COM
BUSH AND CHENEY INDICTED
A Chicago grand jury has indicted the President and Vice-President of the United States along with multiple high officials in the Bush administration
Chicago — August 2, 2005 — TomFlocco.com — U.S. federal prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald’s Chicago grand jury has issued perjury and obstruction of justice indictments to the following members of the Bush Administration: President George W. Bush, Vice-President Richard Cheney, Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, imprisoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller and former Senior Cheney advisor Mary Matalin.
There were no indications given as to whether the President and his top staff members would appear publicly before cameras at the grand jury proceedings, given the gravity of the charges.
Besides the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, the Fitzgerald probe is reportedly far-reaching and expanding much deeper into past White House criminal acts involving Bush-Clinton drug money laundering in Mena, Arkansas to White House involvement in 9.11; but also for sending America’s young people to their deaths or to be maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan under false pretenses.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was indicted for obstruction of justice and is reportedly consulting with members of Parliament and legal aides regarding how to avoid appearing in the U.S.A. for interrogation before Fitzgerald in Chicago.
The revelations emanated from sources close to the grand jury who spoke with federal whistleblower Thomas Heneghen in California who said White House Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove was also indicted for perjury and was reportedly involved with Mary Matalin in a major Bush administration document shredding operation to cover-up evidence.
Heneghen had reported over ten days ago on a TruthRadio.com broadcast [Every Monday and Tuesday evening from 8-9 pm EST–www.truthradio.com–special briefing on Wednesday evening August 3 at 8 pm EST]] that his sources close to the grand jury said former Secretary of State Colin Powell had been subpoenaed and had testified against President Bush, telling the citizen panel that the President had taken the United States to war based upon lies–a capital crime involving treason under the United States Code.
Heneghen also reported a week ago that Gonzalez and Card had been subpoened and that Tony Blair had defied his subpoena after the response time limit had expired.
Sources close to the investigation report that members of the House, Senate, 9.11 Commission and other members of the media are also under investigation as potential targets by a grand jury regarding obstruction of justice and other oversight failures linked to the 9.11 attacks–indicating that citizen panelists working with Fitzgerald may be seeking a wholesale cleansing of what many have said is a crime-wracked White House and Congress.
Also last Monday, the whistleblower reported that Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts was planning to obstruct justice by calling Fitzgerald for Senate hearings to question the prosecutor’s motives for the far-reaching investigation.
This, giving rise to questions as to whether Roberts and other Republican legislators–some now under secret investigation–would join President Bush in seeking to fire Fitzgerald in the same manner that President Nixon had fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in order to obstruct justice and cut off further investigations into White House crimes.
Two weeks ago Heneghen said he had talked to sources just ten minutes prior to French and U.S. intelligence agents intercepting British intelligence agents who were attempting to bomb the subway underneath the Dirksen Federal Building where Fitzgerald was presiding over grand jury hearings.
Serious questions can also be raised as to whether intelligence forces linked to President Bush and Tony Blair had participated in a failed attempt to scuttle the Fitzgerald probe by literally blowing it up–at a time when UK reports reveal that military-grade explosives were used to blow up the London subway on July 7.
Sources say the alleged Chicago subway bombing attempt has been attributed to an underground and closeted enmity involving warring intelligence and military factions within the United States government.
Moreover, reports indicate that the disturbance occurred at the same time that the Chicago Tribune and local web blogs had reported that the subway had been evacuated for 45-50 minutes regarding a “suspicious package” late on Monday afternoon, July 18.
Also confirming the under-the-radar-screen hostilities involving agents loyal to the administration and others who are disturbed about the cover-up of government involvement in the 9.11 attacks was a recent contact made with this writer by a major New York media outlet which called seeking “names of those who could confirm its own reports of warring factions within the government which were threatening the safety of U.S. citizens.”
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0 commentsDeath at the Amusement Park
August 4th, 2005
New York’s Playland is have a bad summer with it’s second death in three months.
Reminds me of the old Great Adventure.
0 commentsIs Hitch the new Andrew?
August 4th, 2005
Ramesh Ponnuru delivers a DDT, a piledriver, and a Stone Cold stunner to Christopher Hitchen’s feeble –yet magisterial!–grasp of Catholicism:
Let’s review: Hitchens wrote a confused rant about Catholics and the Supreme Court; I noted its sloppiness and illogic; he claimed that my description of him as “invincibly ignorant” was itself ignorant of “the meaning” of the phrase. He now allows, without noting the concession, that there are multiple meanings of the phrase and therefore that I made no error. Indeed, this appears to be his method in this conversation: He drops every point on which he’s been called and brings up new irrelevancies.
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape.
0 commentsBrooks on BoJis
August 4th, 2005
I’m going to go out on a limb and claim BoJi (Bohemain-Jihadist) as the term of art should David Brooks’s column on the roots of Islamic terrorism prove to be correct. Brooks writes:
In other words, the conflict between the jihadists and the West is a conflict within the modern, globalized world. The extremists are the sort of utopian rebels modern societies have long produced.
In his book “Globalized Islam,” the French scholar Olivier Roy points out that today’s jihadists have a lot in common with the left-wing extremists of the 1930’s and 1960’s. Ideologically, Islamic neofundamentalism occupies the same militant space that was once occupied by Marxism. It draws the same sorts of recruits (educated second-generation immigrants, for example), uses some of the same symbols and vilifies some of the same enemies (imperialism and capitalism).
Roy emphasizes that the jihadists are the products of globalization, and its enemies. They are detached from any specific country or culture, he says, and take up jihad because it attaches them to something. They are generally not politically active before they take up jihad. They are looking to strike a vague blow against the system and so give their lives (and deaths) shape and meaning.
In short, the Arab world is maintaining its nearly perfect record of absorbing every bad idea coming from the West. . . .
The first implication, clearly, is that democratizing the Middle East, while worthy in itself, may not stem terrorism. Terrorists are bred in London and Paris as much as anywhere else.
Second, the jihadists’ weakness is that they do not spring organically from the Arab or Muslim world. They claim to speak for the Muslim masses, as earlier radicals claimed to speak for the proletariat. But they don’t. Surely a key goal for U.S. policy should be to isolate the nationalists from the jihadists.
Third, terrorism is an immigration problem. Terrorists are spawned when educated, successful Muslims still have trouble sinking roots into their adopted homelands. Countries that do not encourage assimilation are not only causing themselves trouble, but endangering others around the world as well.
In many ways, this is a more comforting picture of modern terrorism, if only because it gives us a sense of familiarity. But I have to admit that I’m not entirely convinced.
If the BoJis are the real problem, then it means the rich Saudi potentates who have been bankrolling al Qaeda have misjudged the constituency they’re trying to placate. The BoJis may be Islam’s right fist of fury, but surely the data we’ve seen from opinion polls in the Middle East suggest that great masses of people either support or are sympathetic to their terrorism. I don’t think there was a similar level of unspoken, grass-roots support for the Weathermen.
Which would suggest that there is something peculiar about Islam as practiced in large swaths of the Middle East that lends itself to terrorism, something that isn’t strictly comparable to Marxist radicalism.
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