selise @ 299

appeal request.

jane started blogging as firedoglake on daily kos and then moved to blogspot (and then to wordpress).

please see my previous link for Friday, December 3, 2004.

But that is on kos.

Well, let the historians battle it out.

were not the early posts on blogspot transferred from daily kos at a later date?

egregious @ 298

Ah, here we go. “Saturday, December 04, 2004″ taken from the top of the first post. Ah blogspot, we hardly knew ye.

appeal request.

jane started blogging as firedoglake on daily kos and then moved to blogspot (and then to wordpress).

please see my previous link for Friday, December 3, 2004.

But that is on kos.

Well, let the historians battle it out.

newtonusr @ 184

This old, katymine

Ah, here we go. “Saturday, December 04, 2004″ taken from the top of the first post. Ah blogspot, we hardly knew ye.

appeal request.

jane started blogging as firedoglake on daily kos and then moved to blogspot (and then to wordpress).

please see my previous link for Friday, December 3, 2004.

katymine @ 178

Question… how old is FDL?
I started on the old blog but not sure how old the blog is

This old, katymine

Ah, here we go. “Saturday, December 04, 2004″ taken from the top of the first post. Ah blogspot, we hardly knew ye.

BlueStateRedHead @ 286

G’Morning.
December 2004 according to Wikipedia. Birthday coming up.Any suggestions.

don’t know when jane considers fld’s bd to be, but i’d guess dec 3, 2004.

I thot the first post here was the Dec 4. Referee?

Sunday Talking Head Thread

JPL @ 275

I live in GA and we are having a few water problems as I’m sure that you are aware of. Is it safe to use washing machine water for house plants? Some how the idea of dirty Tide water on my plants seems harmful.

just guessing here –

mild soap that is sufficiently diluted with water i would expect to be fine… after all, a diluted dishwashing liquid spray is used as a gentle insecticide.

but it might depend on what detergent you use. and i’d use the rinse water – not the wash water.

Stop using Tide and switch to a milder and perfume and dye free type of detergent(there are several on the market). What cleans your clothes more than the detergent or water temp is the agitation of the washer itself.

You can also use your dishwater(again,same detergent rules apply) and left over cooking water(from pasta,etc)for plants.

Katie Couric to Interview Valerie Plame Wilson on ‘60 Minutes’ Sunday

k, I found a link. holy moly omigod

Already the wingnuts are howling that Operation Merlin backfired. But I think that it’s just a little bit bizarre that Operation Merlin was disclosed to James Risen in 2006…just as the evidence that Plame WAS an active covert agent working on Iranian non-proliferation was being disclosed.

And that leak wasn’t just of the raw program…it included the so-called Russian-Iranian exposure of the “flaws”.

Seems that the leak was intentional to me. Someone wanted to denigrate her activities. So who would have known about the Russian-Iranian link…or was that simply bogus spin. I suspect that if the CIA did this they would only have placed a “gimmick” in the system that could only have been detected at the field testing level.

The goal would be to screw up the test so that the trigger would detonate at a detectable level, while at the same time failing to initiate the chain reaction. Unfissioned nuclear material would be released after the test and a seismic signature. That would tell the US that the Irabnians had attempted a test but that the Merlin triggers had screwed it up. Since manufacturing weapons-grade uranium is such a time consuming process the Iranians would likely require another year to sufficiently build up for another test…and without an appropriate trigger.

If what I mention above sounds at all familiar…recall the mysterious nuclear test by the North Koreans that clearly didn’t produce a detonation of a substantial nuclear device…yet apparently did release unfissioned material into the atmosphere or ground water from the explosion.

Then suddenly, despite everyone concerned saying that North Korea was likely to undertake a second test “soon”…it never happened. WHY? I suspect it was because there was a successful Operation Merlin pulled by the CIA’s counterproliferation group that screwed up the triggers. And once everyone KNEW that North Korea was THAT close it led everyone, including Russia and China, to put great pressure on the North Koreans. The failed test triggered this increased pressure…while the North Koreans knew that they had “blown their wad” and they lacked operational triggers. A second test would have produced a similarly anemic outcome.

In addition, puzzle me this, if Iran had the imput of someone so adept at detecting disguised technological flaws of nuclear triggers to be able to them in the design…then why did they need the schematics in the first place. THAT individual could have designed the triggers for them!

And why would a Russian do this? Russia and it’s erstwhile Southern Republics are just as much threatened by a nuclear Iran as are the Persian Gulf regimes. He could have said…”yeah these are great” and collect his consultancy fee. But what if “Boris” didn’t actually detect the flaws, but was tasked to introduce his own flaw into the system. The way to do that would be to assert…”This won’t work…something is wrong here…and here is how you fix it.”

BUT if someone in the Bush Administration leaked the information to Risen last year to undercut Plame’s credibility…and there actually was NO Soviet Scientist (Boris) that blew the operation…then that leak sacrificed a still viable program that could have seriously impeded the Iranians using these for weapons. It also undercut the CIA/NSA’s ability to monitor WHEN the Iranians reached the point where they had enough fissionable material to test a weapon. The Iranians certainly won’t use those triggers and seek out others. Such a leak would be treasonable… just like the original Plame exposure… and set back our defenses from rogue states and terrorists obtaining these weapons by decades.

katymine @ 181

Question… how old is FDL?
I started on the old blog but not sure how old the blog is

G’Morning.
December 2004 according to Wikipedia. Birthday coming up.Any suggestions.

don’t know when jane considers fld’s bd to be, but i’d guess dec 3, 2004.