The long-delayed National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq is out. It’s a Friday so it must suck. More at WaPo.
Archives for February 2007
Congrats, Glenn
Greenwald joins Salon. In response to some reader complaints Glenn wrote: But there is a more nefarious sentiment underlying some of these complaints, and it is pervasive and significant. There is a strain of belief, found among some on the left (and again, I think it’s a very small minority), which perceives issues like funding …
Fair Weather Friends
Unlike Dick Cheney most of us are having a hard time finding signs of progress in Iraq. Al Qaeda is stirring the pot as enthusiastically as ever, reconstruction has basically ended while violence makes building unfeasible. Bloody civil war, reprisals and counter-reprisals and even the safety of our own troops (how many helicopters have we …
Throw These Guys in Jail…
Because we are too stupid to know the difference between an ad campaign and a terrorist attack: Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges they created panic by placing electronic light boards that caused a bomb scare Wednesday in Boston. The boards depicted a cartoon character making an obscene gesture at passing motorists. Assistant …
Robbing Earth To Pay Mars, Redux
From the online news service of the journal Nature: ‘The vision’, as it is often referred to within the agency, was first outlined by President George W. Bush on 14 January 2004. It marks a radical new direction for America’s human spaceflight programme. For the past two decades, NASA has been preoccupied with shuttling people …
The Biden Bomb
Tim has already linked to the Biden issue, but it is just sooo juicy and soo delicious I felt the need to break out of my hibernation and talk about it. Let;s frist clear some things up- Biden will never be the President. Never ever ever. So maybe this disastrous performance this early has saved …