Before I run off, mucho thanks to C. Dodd Harris (IV, I think), for the continuous and non-stop link-love and support. It really was a rough month, but I should be back in form in no time (meaning consistent posts every day- some of them may even be relevant and interesting).
John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
No more blogging for me
No more blogging for me tonight. Rock shrimp quesadillas, 4 bottles of chilled white wine, a bottle of Laphroiag, and a tall hot blonde in my future. Cya tomorrow.
Jane Galt has a great
Jane Galt has a great macro-economic primer for everyone…
3 soldiers are unaccounted for
3 soldiers are unaccounted for and 7 were injured in a plane crash in Afhganistan.
Remember, although we are sipping (in my case gulping) margaritas and enjoying our summer, our best and brightest are still fighting a war.
BTW- I guess there is no reason to keep this a secret anymore. If you ever read Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Briefing, I was Sgt. Schultz. I wonder how many people that will surprise…. It was fun blogging in relative anonymity, particularly because I was able to focus on military issues. If you have not been there yet, I would recommend hitting Stryker’s personal blog, Beers Across America.
Paul McCartney disproves his old
Paul McCartney disproves his old song, and shows that money can buy love.
Anthony Weiner, (D., NY), come
Anthony Weiner, (D., NY), come eat your crow:
Last summer, in Salon, an obnoxious and obtuse Anthony Wenier and crew hit every media outlet, including Salon, and demanded an apology from the White House for (can you believe this), besmirching the character of the Clinton White House staff:
“I believe that the responsibility for this largely lies with the White House,” said Weiner. “They fed this story, they nurtured this story, they spread this story.” This was, in Weiner’s estimation, part of a “strategy by the nascent Bush administration to toss up as much dust and smoke about the Clinton administration to give themselves a soft landing. It makes good copy to say ‘Well, there’s a new sheriff in town, and we don’t vandalize offices.’ Well, neither did the preceding administration.”
According to the WaPo today, it did happen:
A government investigation, prompted by Bush administration charges that aides to President Bill Clinton vandalized the White House as they left, found at least $19,000 in damage but concluded it may have been typical of recent outgoing administrations.
The 217-page report was released yesterday by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, capping a dispute that began in the first few days of the Bush administration when officials found evidence of pranks and vandalism.
Don’t expect Weiner to retract his faux outrage. He is onto something else, I am sure. Like Enron. Or ANWR. Or what Bush knew pre 9/11. Anything that will get a headline and obfuscate the truth and smear the Bush White House.
Obstinate, Ironic, or merely anti-American?
Obstinate, Ironic, or merely anti-American?
The country that has never really come to grips with its culpability in the murder of 6 million jews in now refusing to supply information to the United States in the case against Zacarias Moussaoui. Apparently, it is against the law for German authorities to provide ev idence in capital punishment cases. Amusing that the nation responsible for essentially polishing off European Jews is now helping the legal defense of an accused member of Al Qaeda, a group whose stated mission is the destruction of the Western World and Israel. Actually, if you look at how they ran the countries they manage to get control of (see Afghanistan), they really want to destroy the entire world. Regardless, the Germans continue to kill jews, just through a proxy agent in the year 2002.