The ingratitude of the Iraqis

* jeralyn on that insightrag article: "I can only speak from a legal angle, but here's what I see: Libby's team is getting ready to throw Marc Grossman under the bus...
That says to me that Grossman is cooperating with the Government and going to be a prosecution witness, and that Libby's lawyers are publicly laying out how they intend to impeach him: by claiming he is not to be believed"
can o' pandoras...

* " NRCC just bought $360,665 worth of ads in CA-50. 925 points, meaning the average targeted voter will see their ad 9-10 times before election day." (link)
that's Dukestir/Kaloogian/Busby's district. go francine! (calipendence emailed me something really useful about the district as well - but i can't remember it. apparently there's a big armenian population there or something? and an armenian (?) candidate? Uke? sorry calipendence!)
update from calipendence in the comments:

"It was that Alan Uke (who's another Republican candidate in that race is half Turkish) and that makes it interesting running against the now defamed Armenian Kaloogian, with the relatively large local Armenian population here. I think they are more loyal to their own "family" of folks than they are to certain political views, since someone I know is both a big Kaloogian fan as well as a System of a Down fan! Go figure! Maybe we should root for Uke to win, to get the Armenian vote away from Kaloogian to Busby! Normally I wouldn't expect that to happen, but who knows!"

* desi: friend of unhappy workers, fan of frozen coffee

* "The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities said." (link)
i wonder if/why they set him up. the press accounts indicate that he initiated the contact.

* daniel pipe-dream:

"Q: What is the biggest lesson you have learned from the Iraq war?

Daniel Pipes: The ingratitude of the Iraqis for the extraordinary favor we gave them — to release them from the bondage of Saddam Hussein’s tyranny. They have rapidly interpreted it as something they did and that we were incidental to it. They’ve more or less written us out of the picture." (link)