I’m still kind of in shock [in a good way] at the magnificence of Paul’s voice.

“Love life, truth, and beauty” —egr

I was also stunned by his performance.
What a huge talent posessed by such a
humble person.

Frank33 @ 86

Just by accident I found a quote from Condi Rice, the Worst Secretary of State ever.

“It’s possible today to live in an echo chamber that serves only to reinforce your own high opinion of yourself and what you think,” Rice said. “That is a temptation that educated people have a responsibility to reject.”

A responsibility she has never taken to heart in any way that’s discernable.

EPUville here, but just wanted to say that I know folks from her time @ Stanford who worked alongside Dr. Rice. To paraphrase a couple of them- Condi should resign from BushCo & return to the halls of academia, where the most damage she can do is attempting to shove her opinions down the throats of hapless undergrads…

I don’t want her anywhere near my kids in college! She belongs in a prison cell for all her lies and incompetency.

late to the Lake yet again.

summer’s a bear, heh, but the garden’s showing promise of fantastic salads to come ;->

Thank You for another terrific post. Wonderful format for sharing widely, which I plan to do.

I hope you are doing well.

Just by accident I found a quote from Condi Rice, the Worst Secretary of State ever.

“It’s possible today to live in an echo chamber that serves only to reinforce your own high opinion of yourself and what you think,” Rice said. “That is a temptation that educated people have a responsibility to reject.”

A responsibility she has never taken to heart in any way that’s discernable.

EPUville here, but just wanted to say that I know folks from her time @ Stanford who worked alongside Dr. Rice. To paraphrase a couple of them- Condi should resign from BushCo & return to the halls of academia, where the most damage she can do is attempting to shove her opinions down the throats of hapless undergrads…

On Paul Potts (who, you’re all right, was great) — the last line of Nessun Dorma is vincero (”I will win!”) not vincera (which would mean “she will win” –presumably the incredibly cute little 6-year-old who was the other leading contender in the contest). Just to be pedantic about it.

Well, that’s important, and I will change it. Thanks.

Rayne @ 58

GS — they really did expect to walk in and walk out. They really ate up that crap that Chalabi fed them, believed that the Iraqis would greet them with flowers and call them victors. Hence the termination of Shinseki who actually knew what he was talking about when he asked for 300K plus in troop level to do the job correctly.

More importantly, they really believed this would be the PERFECT reelection campaign photo-op. Check your gut for a second and ask yourself if this is not the truth, that they believed they would be fully drawn down by January 2004 in time for the primary season, so that it wouldn’t be a topic for any of the Democrats to use.

Rove’s math failed then, too, and we forgot to jump his ass about it.

not the way I read it. George learned the lessons of the father – never peak too soon. He knew damn well he needed to be at war when the election rolled around. “can’t change horses in midstream.” and it worked! even against a bona fide VN war vet.

I agree with TiredFed. They needed war powers that the abstract War on Terror just weren’t going to justify. Also, it’s impossible for me to think that money wasn’t involved. The plan before the war was to contract out the rebuilding to US companies, including companies that Cheney still had stock in, and then they went in and bombed the shit out the country so they would have plenty of work.

Plus, they might have thought Democracy would spread and all that, I don’t know. One thing for sure is that they did not do it to protect the US.

Looks like there will be hearings this a.m. on a Fair Elections bill. Here’s a link to the hearing.

oh fer crying out loud… difi complaining about how easy it is to get signatures… blegh. i wonder if she’s ever stood in front of the supermarket to signatures in order to get someone on the ballot?

“it is immoral for taxpayers to pay for the destruction of life”

yep, he really said that.

guess this war might be immoral.