how does one measure corruption? does that mean that 95% fewer contracts are corrupt? 95% fewer people? 95% fewer dinar? 5% of the officials get all the moolah?
* sir chris myer tells the story of when Blinky met Blair: "That night, the Blairs watched the film "Meet the Parents" with the Bushes. Meyer wrote that Bush "split his sides" laughing when he heard that the character played by actor Ben Stiller was named "Gay Focker."" (link)
i bet the script writers are cringing today. i bet the blairs are cringing. i bet Blinky is laughing, anew, at how funny that joke is.
* michael scheuer was on lehrer today, and apparently somewhere else last night (hardball?). scheuer is a bit spooky - i never know what to think about him. i dont get hardball here - and i missed most of the lehrer interview - but he was on talking about the amman bombings - and had some scary-sounding things to say. the thing that struck me was that he often referred to the zawahiri-zarqawi 'letter' - and was referring to it as though it was legit - i thought that it had been debunked.
scheuer - or someone else on the show - was saying that there is less democracy in the mid.east now because of iraq - and jordan will have to 'crack down' more so that they dont see repeats of the recent bombings. more of that damn police-state-thing that we saw in lebanon b/c of the damn syrians. im sure it'll be ok now becuase the jordanians are doing it - and they have an excuse.
in any case - it sounded interesting - ill try to chase down the vid if i can - or the transcript - but ive been so effing busy - with some other stuff that im trying to accomplish (sorry for the light posting) - trying to organise the next impeachment poll is *very* time consuming - but i think we've made some good progress - but trying to decide it by committee is kinda painful - thankfully the other people im working with are all great to deal with.
it looks like we have constructed a question that we all agree on - the only question is whether the polling firm will accept it.
"Given the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, the handling of the Iraq war, the CIA leak case, and the torture issue, do you agree or disagree that President Bush and VicePresident Cheney should be impeached"how does that sound? pretty straightfwd, im sure. you wouldnt believe the gyrations we went through to get to this! its a good outcome though, i think.
in other news on my attempts at activism - im still trying to bring attention to the imminent release/challenge to the Darby photos. i cant believe they arent getting any attention - im not having much luck there either. i emailed dan froomkin today - hopefully he'll pick up the issue.
and im also trying to work out how to get sadddam's 8000 pages unredacted - ive asked the National Security Archive for some help. i'll keep you updated. im not confident that ill make any headway - but if we can bring some focus on the fact that they are hiding this report, then it should go someway to undermining their case that they didnt misuse intelligence.
ive also been playing proud daddy to the baby chicks - it occured to me today that they really are proof of Intelligent Design - because they seem to have been the perfect size to fit inside their eggs. only an unintelligent designer would make them a different size.
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