Grats on the new digs, guys.
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Things I Wish I Had Written
Every now and then I stumble across something I wish I had written. This is one of them:
Ordinarily, this is the sort of association that might be disastrous for a presidential campaign, but I’m given to understand that Barack Obama consorts with Angry, Crazed Negroes, so I expect there will be other things for the press to discuss while they’re eating Butterfingers on the Straight Talk Express.
Awesome.
Threats
Matt Yglesias spends entirely too much time worrying about the threat from robots, pirates and (presumably) robot pirate zombies. The real threat, as everyone knows, is me.
Before anyone complains, all I have to ask is whether any of you can sing eight octaves. Can you even find three people who collectively cover eight octaves? No? Then pipe down and enjoy.
***Update***
Stupid Snopes. Still, “possibly close to six octaves” is better than your average Hannukah cantor.
Open Thread
Late night with Beatallica.
Great Moments In National Security
The government that insists you have your phone conversations snooped to keep us safe can not tie its own shoes. Consider:
Court documents show an armed man arrested in January near the Capitol allegedly had explosives in his truck and was trying to make and set off a large bomb.
Michael Gorbey, 38, of Rapidan, Virginia, was arrested January 18th for carrying a shotgun outside the Capitol. No one was injured in the incident that caused gridlock for hours on Capitol Hill. Police searched his truck and said at the time there were propane tanks and wires but no immediate danger.
Terrance Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms, tells The Washington Post that police searched the vehicle again several weeks later and found “explosive material.”
The Defense Department mistakenly shipped nuclear-missile fuses to Taiwan more than 18 months ago and did not learn the items were missing until last week, Pentagon officials said Tuesday, deepening concerns about the security of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
While the shipment did not include nuclear materials, the error is particularly sensitive because China opposes U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a breakaway province.
Officials with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) sent four nose-cone fuse assemblies to Taiwan in August 2006 instead of four replacement battery packs for use in its UH-1 Huey helicopters. The fuses help trigger nuclear warheads on Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles as they near their point of impact.
I am moving to Montana with Tunch and a goat, some tools, some seeds, and some “How-To” books and going off the grid.
Open Thread
Deep thought of the day: any honest discussion of race will inevitably reveal that some people are honestly racist morons. This is not a bad thing.
Open Thread
Apparently someone snooped into Obama’s passport file, and the State Dept. never informed Obama. The discussion has taken up the entire hour of Countdown. We will see what comes of it, but I suspect no one will hone in on the real scandal- that our government has something other than simply where we have been recorded in our secret passport files. Why the hell there are notes and the like in there is beyond me and kind of creepy.
Consider this an open thread.
*** Update ***
Here is the CNN story:
On three occasions since January, Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file was looked at by three different contract workers, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
The contractors accessed information in the file in an unauthorized way, he said.
Two contractors were fired and one was disciplined by the contractor’s company, McCormack said.
He said the contractors are not linked.
Next few days will be interesting.