the simple life

AMDOM STUFF
* "In California, a jury has found that police in Humboldt County used excessive force against non-violent anti-logging protesters in 1997. During a series of protests, police applied pepper spray directly to the eyes of the demonstrators by swabbing their eyes with Q-tips covered in pepper spray." LINK
wtf??????? "The jury awarded the protesters one dollar each..."

* "Interestingly, the president neglected to mention one concrete suggestion he had floated in a speech the previous day: the slick idea of turning military bases into refineries.Perhaps, as CNN reported, the Pentagon itself was blindsided by the trial balloon. Or maybe because White House advisers just concluded the idea was just too off the wall." LINK

* "How effective was last night's news conference? A sign of potential trouble for the president is that three of the four networks cut him off and resumed normal programming before he had finished. Even Bush-friendly Fox abruptly cut into Bush's answer of the final question to shift away to Paris Hilton and The Simple Life: Interns." LINK
haha haha. times they are a'changing.

* "A well-placed source tells me that when the NSA intercepts are read in full, they will demonstrate something unsurprising to those familiar with Bolton's record. The source says that what will be clear is an ongoing-pattern of very poor judgment by John Bolton who was driven by "personal vanity" and "blustery crusades" while "delinquent in his real, assigned responsibilities within his portfolio."" LINK

* "The federal probe into whether local Republican fund-raiser Tom Noe was illegally funneling money to the Bush campaign had been ongoing for months. It reached a turning point Wednesday night.FBI agents swept into Mr. Noe’s Maumee condo.. looking for evidence of violations of federal campaign contribution laws." LINK
Noe is the coin dealer who somehow convinced the state's retirement fund to invest $50m in coins...

* "A former U.S. law-enforcement official familiar with Ressam’s case said that the foreign intelligence service reporting was typical of the kind of “cyclical reporting” that was rampant in the intelligence world in which other services would simply rereport to the CIA what it had originally learned from the FBI through separate channels. “We used to get a kick out of that,” said the former official." LINK
yeah of course. and yet they are happy to brag (validate themselves) that 'every country thought that saddam had wmd'. bastards.