Chicago Tribune: Karl Rove Got It From Novak Okay. He’s technically off the hook, according to the way Floyd Abrams laid it out the other day on Al Franken’s AAR show. . So who gave it to Novak, and did they have security clearance, or was this the biggest open secret in Washington history since JFK snuck wimmin in and out of the White House? And why isn’t Novak in jail, or is the grand jury just trying to confirm his testimony? It’s still highly dubious that Plame’s identity was deliberately used to deflect Wilson’s criticism. By Rove, of course.…
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I was looking for some video to watch yesterday while waiting for incoming calls and checked out the CBS News site, since they’ve been touting an increased “24/7 online news” presence lately. Also, it had to be free newsvid, and I wanted to watch the 2-minutes’ silence observance on a delay, which their site made available in RAW video (not edited, full length). I picked some other videos using their handy “select for playlist” and listened idly. One choice was to watch Ground Force’s Charlie Dimmock explain how to select plants for and design a Mediterranean garden. Now, if you…
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Before Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Taken from a similar POV as Against Racism Against Poverty Against War
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Against Terrorism Against Racism Against War Originally uploaded by Beatnic. Original Title: Against Terrorism Against Racism Against War
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On my way in to work this morning, I saw a car whip around a turn just in front of me, then come to a screeching halt. Why? Because a large gaggle of geese was waddling slowly across the street (several breeding pairs and their progeny). Traffic backed up. People got impatient. “Honk! Honk!” said the cars. “Honk! Honk!” said the geese. It was pretty pointless, like much of the debate to come in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Somebody’s going to get mowed down eventually, once the honking stops.
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BBC NEWS | In Depth | london explosions Watching the vigil at Trafalgar Square right now. UPDATE: The speakers have been impressive, the theme is the same – diversity is strength. The variety of religious and secular leaders calling for unity is inspiring. And a really cool thing that may interest ginmar: Anthony Stewart Head seems to be the MC. Text will probably be available at the Beeb news site later. For now, I’m listening with half an ear while I get tickets issued and fix stuff that didn’t get issued yesterday, and take calls, and help people with changes…
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A vigil will be held in Trafalgar Square (that’s in London, y’all) tonight at 6pm GST, which I think works out to be about 10 or 11am my time (argh, it’s not Eastern Standard Confusing Time here, but it’s something like that). I’ll be there in spirit, and I expect there will be webcams running feeds at various news sites. Oops, gotta go to work. I’ll check in later with more information and maybe some pictures of Trafalgar to aid in visualizing a world without terrorism. Oh, to be in London in August: We Are Not Afraid – Tube Challenge…
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My husband David's been getting a lot of spam emails, and so have I. The trickiness is that we can't just mark the emails "spam" and forget it, because they're spoofed to appear to come from our domain. They're getting stopped, but we need to figure out some filters to refuse them completely. It's still amusing to continue to get emails from our "staff" telling us our computers are "zombies." In light of the preceding link, does this mean that we're bound to get all medieval on the zombies' decaying asses? For the first time Blogula had a lot of…
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Photos from Saturday’s car show: don’t know if this Gallery plugin still works… Okay, really it was a fun day but also it was a grueling one; I was scheduled to switch back and forth on tasks and I just couldn’t do it because the other task was much more in the sun. So I made change and tried not to think of how my brain was slowly frying. At one point I misplaced an important list and totally forgot that I’d put it away – no one was more surprised than me when I got home, after figuring out…
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BBC NEWS | UK | ‘Ordinary’ lives of bomb suspects My God, they came from an ordinary British city, they were ordinary British subjects. But then Timothy McVeigh and Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski were ordinary people from ordinary places. What made them become extraordinary? The British will be debating the root causes of these attacks – whether it’s religious mania, hatred of “people not like us,” alienation, mental illness, and so on. Just as we did with our home-grown “mad bombers” – and we’ve never found the answers, either. My husband David and I have been to Leeds, and we’ve taken…