Comments on: The Blog-O-Verse And News Round-Up http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:36:47 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Search and Find » The Blog-O-Verse And News Round-Up http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403967 Search and Find » The Blog-O-Verse And News Round-Up Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:50:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403967 <p>[…] Original post by Christy Hardin Smith […]</p> […] Original post by Christy Hardin Smith […]

]]> By: DELBERT MATHANEY http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403886 DELBERT MATHANEY Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:45:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403886 <p>– THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF THE STATE OF VIRGINA HAS A PROUD REASON TO HOLD ITS HEAD HIGH. MODESTY BECOMES HIM, BUT SENATOR ELECT JIM WEBB, IS ENDOWED WITH STEEL BALLS, WHICH CLEARLY RUN IN HIS FAMILY. AND BUSH ONLY HAS VIRGINIA P-NUTS.</p> – THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF THE STATE OF VIRGINA HAS A PROUD REASON TO HOLD ITS HEAD HIGH. MODESTY BECOMES HIM, BUT SENATOR ELECT JIM WEBB, IS ENDOWED WITH STEEL BALLS, WHICH CLEARLY RUN IN HIS FAMILY. AND BUSH ONLY HAS VIRGINIA P-NUTS.

]]> By: Rick B http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403865 Rick B Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:59:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403865 <p><a href="#comment-403376"><em>TeddySanFran @<br /> 68 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Stephen Cambone <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061202/wl_afp/usmilitaryintelligence_061202001351">resigns</a> in Friday’s afternoon news dump.</p></blockquote> <p>So what is going to happen to his fundamentalist deputy with the bigger God, Lt. Gen. Boykin? Anyone know?</p> TeddySanFran @
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Stephen Cambone resigns in Friday’s afternoon news dump.

So what is going to happen to his fundamentalist deputy with the bigger God, Lt. Gen. Boykin? Anyone know?

]]> By: Rick B http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403862 Rick B Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:56:41 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403862 <p><a href="#comment-403375"><em>EvilDrPuma @<br /> 67 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>OT: This should wake up some of the sleepyheads.</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061202/us_nm/rumsfeld_dc_1">Rumsfeld honored for citizenship amid protests</a></p> <p><b>Excerpt:</b> Rumsfeld, whose departure was announced by President George W. Bush the day after the Republican defeat in the November 7 midterm elections, was awarded a gold medal by the Union League, a Philadelphia organization founded in 1862 to support President Abraham Lincoln during the U.S. Civil War.</p></blockquote> <p>What? No Medal of Honor?</p></blockquote> <p>Of course not. After the people Bush has given it to, it it no longer has any value. Have to <strike>debase one</strike> get one from the private sector now.</p> EvilDrPuma @
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OT: This should wake up some of the sleepyheads.

Rumsfeld honored for citizenship amid protests

Excerpt: Rumsfeld, whose departure was announced by President George W. Bush the day after the Republican defeat in the November 7 midterm elections, was awarded a gold medal by the Union League, a Philadelphia organization founded in 1862 to support President Abraham Lincoln during the U.S. Civil War.

What? No Medal of Honor?

Of course not. After the people Bush has given it to, it it no longer has any value. Have to debase one get one from the private sector now.

]]> By: Rick B http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403836 Rick B Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:15:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403836 <p><a href="#comment-403267"><em>Mommybrain @<br /> 8 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p> I’m so bummed I will miss Ambassador Wilson’s guest turn. Dang this working anyway.</p></blockquote> <p>Yeah. As the old saying goes: Work is the curse of the <strike>drinking</strike> blogging man.</p> Mommybrain @
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I’m so bummed I will miss Ambassador Wilson’s guest turn. Dang this working anyway.

Yeah. As the old saying goes: Work is the curse of the drinking blogging man.

]]> By: mrJJ http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403750 mrJJ Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:30:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403750 <p>FBI Activating Cellphone Mics For ‘Roving Wiretaps’ </p> <p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/2/144114/510">http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....144114/510</a></p> FBI Activating Cellphone Mics For ‘Roving Wiretaps’

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..144114/510

]]> By: TeddySanFran http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403686 TeddySanFran Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:35:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403686 <p>thanks for Carnival Booth, JohninSac. Got it bookmarked, will read it soon!</p> thanks for Carnival Booth, JohninSac. Got it bookmarked, will read it soon!

]]> By: JamesA http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403598 JamesA Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:34:11 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403598 <p>I was a fan of Eleanor Cliff in the old days, when Newsweek editorials and the McLaufflin Group were the only things available. Then came the blogs, which sort of made a lot of MSM talking heads irrelevalant to me. So I sort of lost interest in the ideas of mainstream pundits. Ms. Cliff, however, was spot-on, with her recent post. However, are these professional editorialists simply tacking for survival in the prevailing winds?</p> I was a fan of Eleanor Cliff in the old days, when Newsweek editorials and the McLaufflin Group were the only things available. Then came the blogs, which sort of made a lot of MSM talking heads irrelevalant to me. So I sort of lost interest in the ideas of mainstream pundits. Ms. Cliff, however, was spot-on, with her recent post. However, are these professional editorialists simply tacking for survival in the prevailing winds?

]]> By: EvilDrPuma http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403574 EvilDrPuma Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:17:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403574 <p><a href="#comment-403438"><em>BobbyG @ 120 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>CAPPSII was gonna quickly “score” your terror potential at the point of sale (air travel purchase), and code you Green/Yellow/Red. Greens, go right ahead please, Yellows, please step aside for further detailed screening, Reds — no flying allowed (why they wouldn’t immediately arrest the “Reds” was left unaddressed).</p></blockquote> <p>Most likely because they knew their scoring system couldn’t actually prove a goddamned thing (other than, maybe, a surprising correlation between Reds and their own political opposition).</p> BobbyG @ 120

CAPPSII was gonna quickly “score” your terror potential at the point of sale (air travel purchase), and code you Green/Yellow/Red. Greens, go right ahead please, Yellows, please step aside for further detailed screening, Reds — no flying allowed (why they wouldn’t immediately arrest the “Reds” was left unaddressed).

Most likely because they knew their scoring system couldn’t actually prove a goddamned thing (other than, maybe, a surprising correlation between Reds and their own political opposition).

]]> By: john in sacramento http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403570 john in sacramento Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:16:08 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/02/the-blog-o-verse-and-news-round-up/#comment-403570 <p><a href="#comment-403438"><em>BobbyG @<br /> 120 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-403434"><em>rumi @ 117</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Excellent comments on the TIA reincarnations. I guess it’s going to take wooden stakes and silver bullets all coated with DU to put those programs to rest.</p></blockquote> <p><b>The new “Travel Terrorist Score” thing, BTW, is simply a reincarnation of CAPPSII.</b> The dopey thingy they proposed that would be the equivalent of Insta-Credit, like where you go into OfficeMax and within 30 seconds, if your Bureau is OK, you get approved for a $3,000 computer system.</p> <p>CAPPSII was gonna quickly “score” your terror potential at the point of sale (air travel purchase), and code you Green/Yellow/Red. Greens, go right ahead please, Yellows, please step aside for further detailed screening, Reds — no flying allowed (why they wouldn’t immediately arrest the “Reds” was left unaddressed).</p> <p>Another mendacious bit of federal stupidity.<br /> _</p></blockquote> <p>As usual, you’re right Bobby.</p> <p>Check out <i><a href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/student-papers/spring02-papers/caps.htm">Carnival Booth</a></i></p> <p>I know this so far in EPU land maybe no one will see it, but, c’est la vie</p> BobbyG @
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rumi @ 117

Excellent comments on the TIA reincarnations. I guess it’s going to take wooden stakes and silver bullets all coated with DU to put those programs to rest.

The new “Travel Terrorist Score” thing, BTW, is simply a reincarnation of CAPPSII. The dopey thingy they proposed that would be the equivalent of Insta-Credit, like where you go into OfficeMax and within 30 seconds, if your Bureau is OK, you get approved for a $3,000 computer system.

CAPPSII was gonna quickly “score” your terror potential at the point of sale (air travel purchase), and code you Green/Yellow/Red. Greens, go right ahead please, Yellows, please step aside for further detailed screening, Reds — no flying allowed (why they wouldn’t immediately arrest the “Reds” was left unaddressed).

Another mendacious bit of federal stupidity.
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As usual, you’re right Bobby.

Check out Carnival Booth

I know this so far in EPU land maybe no one will see it, but, c’est la vie

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