Mr. President

Pink’s song made an impact concerning the Iraq War. Here’s a version with some photos edited over the music. Powerful Stuff.

I’ll Be Watching

It might be DVR’d, but I’ll be watching. It is, after all, my generation. Consider this a preview..

Boom! It’s 1968, Brokaw-Style

Last month, former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw published his latest book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the Sixties and Today, and on Sunday night at 9 p.m. the History Channel will run Brokaw’s accompanying 2-hour television companion program, “1968 With Tom Brokaw” about that tumultuous decade. Below is a [...]

Catching Up

Here’s one from yesterday that somehow slipped right by me.  Pretty dramatic example of the skulduggery going on in the White House.  The sarcastic references to “King George” might be uncomfortably close to reality…

Sen. Whitehouse Reveals Secret DoJ Legal Memos: Bush Determines What Is Constitutional

This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Whitehouse said he has “spent hours poring over” secret opinions issued by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — and he took [...]

Patriotism

Willing to go to jail to stand up for what they believe.  They believed that strongly. I’m impressed.

CIA analysts willing to ‘go to jail’ to ensure NIE’s release.

Retired Col. W. Patrick Lang, a former official in the Defense Intelligence Agency, reveals that senior CIA analysts pushed for the NIE’s key judgments on Iran to be released, threatening to speak to the media if they weren’t: The “jungle telegraph” in Washington is booming with news of the Iran NIE. I am told [...]

Not For Only The Movies

In case you didn’t know, this stuff is for real. It’s not simply something Hollywood cooked up. And it’s spreading.

Panic spreads as Uganda reports 101 Ebola cases

 Uganda has 101 suspected cases of Ebola fever and hundreds more people being closely monitored, officials said on Friday, as fear grew in Uganda and neighbouring countries that the deadly virus might spread. Twenty two people have [...]

Super Saturday

I am SOOOO ready for this weekend!  My dad returned home after surgery and a 10 day stay in the hospital.  And getting our dog back on her feet improved the work week immensely.  Looks like today will be the final trip to the Farmers’ Market in 2007.  We’ll be graduating our daughter next weekend! There’s not much at the market this time of year, except for handicrafts and the indoor meat and seafood people.  So, I’ll be stocking up a bit, on top of what I brought home last week.  I’ll try to stop by with a few posts, but much of my day will be occupied with searching for a Christmas tree and beginning the long process of digging the decorations out of storage.  Remind me to count how many boxes of Christmas decorations we’ve accumulated during 30+ years of marriage.

Now, off to the linkage.  Read this headline carefully and then follow the link. It means what it says.

Perino: Congress Knew More About CIA Activities Than Bush, President Not ‘Aware’ Of Torture Tapes

During the White House press briefing today, reporters bore into White House Press Secretary Dana Perino over when President Bush was first informed about the CIA’s destruction of videotapes in 2005 that featured agency officials using harsh interrogation tactics. Perino said that Bush had “no recollection of being made aware of the tapes or their [...]