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It’s so sad there are people out there full of hate. No, I am not talking about the KKK, Nazi skinheads, nor any other group of naturally stupid people. This type of tripe can only come from some form of dementia! I mean you really have to work at it to be this whacked!
The far left in this country are totally consumed with hate for Bush. No where is this more evident then this "book" from Mr. Griffen. From reading the reviews of the book you get a sense that Griffen lays a case that Bush is somehow behind the 911 attack.



The quote you see from Co-Founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows is the first clue that this book is a joke. This group gets some funding from foundations chaired by Kerry’s wife. Check out this opinion piece for more info.

What we have, instead, are politically motivated activists standing willingly as a front organization for the Democratic Party. They've traded on the press's reluctance to question their motives, hoping for a free run to impugn Mr. Bush every time he discusses terrorism from now until the election. Peaceful Tomorrows is hardly alone; scratch the surface and many of the other groups and individuals making a fuss have similar ties.

Big thanks to David Lee Beowulf for the heads up on "New Pearl Harbor"

What ever your opinion of Rush Limbaugh, its now apparent this prosecution by Krischer is personal and not warranted. Limbaugh's attorney (ROY BLACK) has an op-ed in today's WSJ laying out his case to that effect.

Rush's situation should trouble everyone who believes in the principle of equal treatment under the law. Even if you subscribe to the dubious notion that public figures should be made an example of, contrast the way Rush's case is being handled with treatment similarly afflicted celebrities have received at the hands of law enforcement. Do you recall Ozzy Osbourne or Elizabeth Taylor ever being singled out for criminal investigation after they publicly acknowledged their drug dependencies? You don't, because they weren't. Nor should they have been.

The improper seizure of Rush's medical records is now before an appeals court. And the Florida Bar is conducting an inquiry into why a Krischer deputy falsely claimed in a memo, initialed by Mr. Krischer himself, that ethics experts at the Bar and in the state attorney general's office had advised prosecutors that they had no choice but to make copies of our confidential correspondence available to the press. The Bar and the attorney general's office have publicly stated that they never gave this advice to Mr. Krischer or his deputy.

Undeterred, Mr. Krischer and his staff, who have yet to charge Rush with anything, continue to mutter darkly that Rush is a "suspect" for this or that crime. First it was drug trafficking, then money laundering; most recently, it's doctor shopping. For his part, Rush tries to get on with his life. But he, and I, worry about the precedent that's being set in this case. So should you.

I almost fell out of my chair reading this article from the on-line edition of Time. It details the differences between what Clarke wrote in his book and what is being said on TV. It goes on to show Clarke's venom toward Bush.



This bit at the end of the article should quite any claim that Clarke is nonpartisan:

".....As for the President, Clarke doesn't even try to read Bush's body language; he just makes the encounters up. "I have a disturbing image of him sitting by a warm White House fireplace drawing a dozen red Xs on the faces of the former al-Qaeda corporate board.....while the new clones of al-Qaeda....are recruiting thousands whose names we will never know, whose faces will never be on President Bush's little charts, not until it is again too late." Clarke conjured up this chilling scene again on 60 Minutes. Only in this version he also manages to read Bush's mind, and "he's thinking that he's got most of them and therefore he's taken care of the problem." The only things missing are the black winged chair and white cat.

Leaving aside the fact that Bush never fails to insist that the terror threat is as great today as it was on 9/11, these passages reveal the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness that lies at the heart of Clarke's book, and to an even greater degree, his television appearances flacking it. That's a shame, since many of his contentions — about the years of political and intelligence missteps that led to 9/11, the failure of two Administrations to destroy al-Qaeda and the potentially disastrous consequences of the U.S. invasion of Iraq — deserve a wide and serious airing. From now on, the country would be best served if Clarke lets the facts speak for themselves."

The handshake of death....

Its been over 20 years since those Atari 2600 days. Pitfall was clearly a classic we all remember playing. It has transcended past gamedom and entered our popular culture -- as South Park demostrated in Red Hot Catholic Love

Well the good folks at Activision have released the latest (last?) edition of the Pitfall series.

Reuters got a good story on the history of the game.

Heres a quick then and now look:





For those of you really interested I found a good inteview with the creator of the game, David Crane.

Surfing the web last night and came across this collection of Calvin and Hobbes

These got me:





and please Bill Watterson dont sue me...

This guy has too much recorded history to start making up stuff. Looks like he's getting caught in a contradiction



WASHINGTON — The following transcript documents a background briefing in early August 2002 by President Bush's former counterterrorism coordinator Richard A. Clarke to a handful of reporters, including Fox News' Jim Angle. In the conversation, cleared by the White House on Wednesday for distribution, Clarke describes the handover of intelligence from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration and the latter's decision to revise the U.S. approach to Al Qaeda. Clarke was named special adviser to the president for cyberspace security in October 2001. He resigned from his post in January 2003.

Heres the transcipt

With Night Vision becoming more common place around the world its nice to learn the Army is researching future enhancements to keep our advantage in place. The key word for the next generation? Sensor-Fusion!



National Defense has a good article detailing the concepts

The essence of these new goggles is "sensor-fusion", which combines conventional night-vision technology (called image intensification or I2) and thermal sensors (forward-looking infrared).

The I2 wavelength offers a clearer image and can see through glass windows. However, image intensification requires that there be sufficient light to intensify, which makes it ineffective in an Afghan cave. For example, "there was an immediate interest in IR [infrared] on the head when we went to Afghanistan, because of the caves," said A. Fenner Milton, director of the Army's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate.

I went and checked out the U.S. Army Night Vision And Electronic Sensors Directorate's (NVESD) web site for more info.

The site offers some good history on the progression of this technology but theres no real meat -- probably for obvious reasons.

This past weekend was the first anniversary of the Iraq war. I expected to see posters of Bush as Hitler and the typical senseless slogans, but this post from Chelan Bleat really disturbed me:



The Movement to Reinstall Saddam commemorated the first anniversary of the Iraq campaign by expressing their outrage at the loss of an ally in the war against America. These people are the fringe of the left; yes. They are the Klan with out the sheets. Worse: they don’t have the inbred moonshine-addled mah-pappy-hated-nigras-an-I-hate-‘em-too dense-as-a-neutron-star stupidity of your average Kluxer. They didn’t come to this level of stupidity naturally. They had to work at it. I’m sure you’ll find in these pictures people who have cool jobs in San Francisco, people who get grants, write code, run the coffee-frother at a funky bookstore, and have no problem marching alongside someone who spells Israel with swastika instead of an S.

Im really not sure what I would do if I saw this sign at a protest. I hope I would discard any sense of civility and start beating the crap out of this guy.

Want more examples then go check out this video of a pro-Palestinian protest at Brain Terminal

This whole Richard Clarke thing smells funny. He either wants to generate books sales and/or is looking for a spot on Kerry's Team should the "french looking" bastard win.



Condi responded to the charges made by Clarke in todays Washington Post.

I liked the response. This kind of "leaning forward" stance on the whole 911 story is the right approach!

I checked Amazon on his book: Against All Enemies

what was funny was the list in the So You'd Like To... section

See the truth for yourself: by flamingliberal, Rabble-rouser
Converse with bright, witty intellectuals: by Monday Amaze, kewpon.com - ___ is to ____ what spandex is to Gucci (fill in the blank)
Be An Informed Liberal: by jasonborneman, News Junkie/Pundit