OK, anyone who cares to read a semi-rational conceptual version of what the Wiretapping thing actually was might want to read this.? I could be way off, but I don’t think so, and there are a number of very dangerous possiblities presented if I’m right.
TweetAnd of course, who else would know better than Lindsay Graham? His performance in this and all other hearings I have seen him in is just certifiable. The man just talks and asks questions in ways so far irrelevent to the issue as to suggest that he’s been huffing every time he walks away.
Which, by the way, is really pathetic. He’s going out into the hallway so he can have people far more intelligent than he give him things to walk back in with and promptly blunder.? I’ve seen him leave three times in at most an hour, and every time, there comes a point at the end of his five minutes where his eyes glaze over and the witness stares at him with absolute misapprehension.? Then he goes back out again.
His five minutes are kind of like commercials.? They don’t mean anything, they’re funny only to a very limited degree, and they make for an excellent time to pee.
TweetI’m watching C-SPAN and recording it now, but when I heard Feingold throw the word “Coverup” into the mix just now, I was sitting on the damned couch like a moron.
This is an excellent investigation.
TweetAh, what a lovely image of solidarity Senator Lindsay Graham paints for us in the Senate censure hearings:
Nixon Aide Urges Censure Of Bush – CBS News
“Censure is destructive,” Graham said. “Censure breaks us apart at a time when we need to be brought together.”
Would that it were true.
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I got very lucky in finding my Domain name for the site: I had an unusual request in DragonFlyEye.Net. But as this very interesting post reveals, the Domain Name Service of the WWW is getting at least as crowded as the IP Address market has.
It’s funny how these things work out.? I’ve actually had people pinging my site through Whois.net, so I know people have been checking it out, though for what purpose I cannot imagine.? A few years ago, before I was blogging and promoting my site like I do now, I searched for dragonflyeye in Google, and did find one person who coincedentally had an email address with that username, but that was it.
What makes the above-linked article so interesting is the numbers and the specific combinations that he used.? He must have put rather a lot of time in to the research for this article.? In particular, the Domain Name gripe sites with clever names such as microsoftsucks.com.
The former address, by the way, does not work.? It has been registered by a group called The Secaucus Group, who apparently maintains a DNS Server on Sucks500.com.? We may presume that this is a company in the business of registering unfortunate DNS names for the benefit of the offended company, presumably for a fee.? Still, damned entertaining stuff. . .
TweetOK, so perhaps the headline was overly snarky, but I mean, why is this even a story anymore? They lied, they cheated and they continue to steal. I am sorry, but there is no other way of looking at the Bush Administration that is sincere at all.
A few months ago, I tried my best to walk through a logical examination of the evidence at hand, trying to eschew such pronouncements as I’ve made above, even though I believed them as much as I do now. My point then, which still stands, is that even if you believe that Bush was swayed by flawed intelligence, the CIA is a part of his Administration and therefore his responsiblity either way. Also, the major thrust of this article was to argue against the Patriot Act by arguing that the last thing we need is more intelligence gathering capabilities, but that point got kinda lost.
But all of this seems meaningless in a nation where niether the media nor Congress seems willing to do anything right by the American People. I hate to harp on the media, if only because I spent so many years deriding the whining Right for thier complaints against the supposed “liberal media,” but I really do think that history will show this as the single most irresponsible era in American media.
John Conyers is, as always, willing to at least write a letter seeking the release of the Hadley Memo. And really, what else can he do? But of course that won’t happen without some sort of pressure from elsewhere, and there’s none to be found right now.
Guess we’ll have to wait until the Mid-Terms. . .
TweetWired News seems to have missed the obvious:
Wired News: Is Google Gunning for EBay?
When Base leaves its testing phase, Google executives say, AdWords advertisers will be able to direct customers to the online marketplace, where the products they advertise will be available for purchase.
What they don’t say is that the largest online retailer, the one company that allows companies to have thier own websites but still use thier tested interfaces, is none other than Yahoo! eBay may well be in trouble if Google can capitalize on this latest invention, but it’s Yahoo!, with it’s Overstock.com and multitudes of hardware and software companies currently using it’s services, that could be the biggest loser in all of this.
TweetLet this be a warning to all who read:
VXers add rootkit tech to MyDoom and Bagle | The Register
For example, Bagle-GE incorporates rootkit features designed to hide the processes and registry keys of another Trojan of the same family, Bagle-GF. The development has raised particular concerns because of strong links between Bagle and the operations of numerous botnets, networks of compromised Windows PCs that are often used to either distribute spam or attack other systems.Tweet
Interesting post by Lew Rockwell, who is obviously a libertarian, contrasting what he sees as the two contradicting premises that make up the Left and the Right of this nation’s body politic:
The Blog | Lew Rockwell: Are Conservatives Crazy? | The Huffington Post
The problem is this: in the first paragraph, the government is rightly presumed to be the coercive enemy that takes from the people and saps their productivity. . .
. . . But when it comes to foreign policy, the analysis is entirely reversed. The presumption that the American people and the government are unified is integral to the analysis, as summed up in the plural pronouns “our” and “we,” as if the people have direct control over the foreign-policy decisions of the political leadership. . .
. . . I don’t mean to pick on the right exclusively. The left often offers the inverse of this recommendation. They believe that the government can’t but unleash Hell when it is waging war and spending on military machinery. But when it comes to domestic policy, they believe the same government can cure the sick, comfort the afflicted, teach the unlearned, and bring hope and happiness to all.
An interesting concept, and one that begs a bit of reflective blogging.
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