I’m not sure if it’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi but clearly this person is trying to make it sound like she is and BTW, isn’t illegal to impersonate a Government official???

I’m not so sure this is a parody…there are even tags at the bottom of the page…?

If it isn’t Speaker Pelosi, maybe it is meant to embarrass her! I thought it was her because I thought discussion boards had rules prohibiting impersonation of real people. It is one of Newsweek’s discussion boards!

If you mouseclick the link in that comment, it opens a page of her other comments. She cusses like a sailor and she is vicious.

What are tags? Is it those blue words at the bottom of the page? What do they mean?

Here is a link to one of Speaker Pelosi’s comments. I hope this link works.

If you want to see her other comments, click on her name http://fray.slate.com/discuss/…..36237.aspx.

I’m not sure if it’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi but clearly this person is trying to make it sound like she is and BTW, isn’t illegal to impersonate a Government official???

I’m not so sure this is a parody…there are even tags at the bottom of the page…?

On the Wingnut front…

While being held hostage the other day at my father-in-law’s house, where he plays faux news 24×7, I saw a Hannity report on the Plame-Wilson outing. Supposedly he had “never before seen” docs that supposedly put holes Plame’s account of her role in picking her husband for the Niger trip.

A few minutes in they broke to the mining story.

Anybody see this and have any info on it?

So is somebody leaking Classified CIA documents to Hannity? Because if he is referring to the original SSIC Report all that stuff is a matter of public record…and has been superseded by statements by by CIA and others involved.

This may relate to the date of the “resume” written by Plame at the behest of the Director of Operations stating some of Wilson’s background in Niger. That was “dated”, though not sent, to the US Embassy in Niger, before Wilson was actually selected. The Director of Ops. wanted conditional agreement from the US Ambassador that the trip by Wilson would not be problematical for them. But the meeting by the “selectors” and discussion regarding his trip occurred after THAT.

I suspect that Hannity has simply been given old documents from the Thirdhand report written for Libby by the Office of Intelligence Research in the State Department that was subsequently used by Senator Roberts’ staff to make it appear that Plame was involved in the decision to send her husband.

Fact is…her husband was selected after he was interviewed and briefed by the Director of Operations, the Ass’t Director of Counterproliferation, and the Assistant Director of Operations (Africa) with staff from the NSA and OIR, as well as a number of Intelligence Analysts from the Non-Proliferation Section in Attendance. Plame wasn’t even there except to escort him in.

Quite bluntly, Plame was in no position to select her husband for this trip. And Wilson had already participated in a mission to Niger in 1999 for the CIA in which he exposed IRANIAN efforts to obtain yellowcake Uranium from them (unsuccessfully, BTW). Given his successful track record (and even more direct experience with Iraq) it would have been perfectly reasonable for he to “suggest her husband”. But apparently someone else suggested the mission BEFORE she did. She merely forwarded the “request” to him.

Lastest National Hurricane Center briefing:

” THE OFFICIAL
FORECAST HAS BEEN SHIFTED A LITTLE TO THE SOUTH…BUT STILL LIES TO
THE NORTH OF ALL THE MAJOR MODELS EXCEPT FOR THE HWRF. ALTHOUGH I
CANNOT EXPLAIN WHY…THE DETERMINISTIC RUN OF THE GFS IS ALONG THE
SOUTHERN END OF THE GUIDANCE ENVELOPE…WHILE THE GFS ENSEMBLE
MEMBERS ARE ALMOST UNIFORMLY ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE. BECAUSE MOST
OF THE GUIDANCE MODELS LIE TO THE SOUTH OF THE OFFICIAL FORECAST…
SOME ADDITIONAL SOUTHWARD ADJUSTMENTS TO THE TRACK ARE POSSIBLE.”

Don’t let your guard down.

snark on:

I’m confident we can trust that the Bush administration will get it right. It’s not like they’ve b*ngled anything else or cut funding for anything important like weather/storm/hurricane tracking.

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While being held hostage the other day at my father-in-law’s house, where he plays faux news 24×7, I saw a Hannity report on the Plame-Wilson outing. Supposedly he had “never before seen” docs that supposedly put holes Plame’s account of her role in picking her husband for the Niger trip.

A few minutes in they broke to the mining story.

Anybody see this and have any info on it?

Wow. Sorry about the all caps. That must have translated from their site in the cut and paste. Not intentional.

What did you do, cut, paste, and run? *s*