FITZ

Fitz?

Fitz the 2nd!

Lamont!

fitz babay

An update from TalkLeft on the Jason Leopold saga.

What would happen if Godot suddenly showed up? How awesome would that be?

And Paul and Heather McCartney are separating… just a bit of Brit news to go with your PG Tips, Christy.

Man the gates! Metaphorical pitchforks and torches at the ready.

Christy - you left one out: Paul McCartney and his wife have separated.

I find the news about Nicole a bombshell. It would have been better if the announcement had been made in Aruba. That way, MSNBC and CNN could send out their SWAT teams into a very daring and exotic sounding location.

I fully expect Frist to announce that, upon viewing video of a cruise ship, that the lost passenger is indeed alive and has been living in the food locker.

Bob Adams - Did you see Google launched a video on demand service to go up against You Tube ? wonder if it will allow pieces longer than 10 min

Absolutely thrilled for Ned and all his backers - the timing of the Weicker endorsement couldn’t be better !

Fitz!

…and dragon cloud jasmine tea. Yum.

Um…after almost biblical murk, flood and deluge for the last week, the sun came out in Boston today.

1:20 EST

CNN had Rove going to the hill to address Congress on immigration. No sign of the tall man.

I’m thinking it’s time for Leapold to out his “sources”

Same here, mayan– but the skies are darkening again… ;(

dragon cloud jasmine tea
pg tips
twinnings russian… (something or other)

any more favorite teas out there?

i’m starting a fdl tea collection.

Ok, color me stupid. Godot?

I too enjoy PG Tips. Let’s not forget about the story about the BBC mix up–the two Guys. One there for a job interview; the other there for an on air interview about the Apple case. Wrong one goes on the air.

Personally, I think Fitz is trying to kill me. My sister who works up by Union Station said last night there were a million cameras pointed on the court house. Surely we would have seen something?

Listening and blog reading, the tension is high. I tend to believe the talkleft analysis of the Leopold Saturday story and am hoping it all came down that way, that Fitz said, “OK, no deal”, and is back seaking an obstruction of justice charge to go along with the perjury, etc. he presented to the Rover pack. And then we will have some Fitzjoicing to do. Waiting …

What WAS the name of the russian something tea that I believe ReddHedd wrote of one birdy Sunday morning?

We’re all tied to the Fitzing post

Is there a 12 step program for Highlighter-heads?

“Hi everyone, my name’s Kyra and I’m a Clairolic”

1:27 PM ET

refreshed FDL…AGAIN.

Decided Jason Leopold’s fate is intertwined with Rove’s. But opposite.

!:29 PM
Hit refresh.

AGAIN.

Busted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

:-)

squirrel hiller at 17 — it was Twining’s Russian Caravan. That’s my all-time fave. Makes a fabulous pot of tea for an afternoon of reading. :)

Bustednuckles– check the link for a synopsis of Waiting for Godot!

http://www.theatrehistory.com/.....tt002.html

I really do believe in the relaxing powers of Chamomile tea–perhaps that is what we all need right now.

You forget the biggest story…plane hits Pentagon vid released.

911

“Oh the whole, I’d rather be in Fitzadelphia!”

I prefer Bewley’s to PG Tips.

Weel a Lockhead Martin employee tried to sell US military secrets to China.
So, Comey whos now their genral counsel (?) will be having a busy and unpleasant day.

Re: tea . Constant Comment Mandarin Orange Spice gets my vote.

In the winter, Stash Christmas Morning tea is a favorite.

In the summer I make iced tea from rasberry leaf and 4 kinds of mint from my herb garden.

cbl - I’m going to look into the Google video option, although today I just found out about a “Director’s” membership in Youtube that allows longer vids; I just signed up (free).

I’m waaaaay behind the curve as far as online video goes, but the pressure’s on to catch up fast!

Yeah, Weicker did good today. He always was a maverick. And I guess that precludes any more talk of anybody drafting him for a run.

Dow plunges 150

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....all_street

:-(

For God’s sake Christy, no white woman in Florida is safe! Alligators are eating ever upwardly mobile female jogger in sight.

Please for the love of God do something.

Get Katherine Harris and an armed vigilante squad posted near every bog, ravine and swamp in the Sunshine State.

The life of our very Republic demands action.

-GSD

cbl– ROTFL– just WHAT is her hairdresser thinking? They must both be blinded and high from the peroxide fumes.

mayan -

While I was down in Florida the past 4 days, I read Tim Flannery’s frightening and depressing book on global warming “The Weather Makers” (http://www.theweathermakers.com). The Pretend President can pretend all he wants to that we aren’t certain whether humans are a/the cause of global warming (and therefore we shouldn’t take any countermeasures), but after reading this book (and triangulating with other credible scientific sources), I have to conclude that humanity is on the threshold of MAJOR deep shit. Absent forceful and sustained action, people 100 years from now are gonna be in a literal World of Hurt. If you have kids (who will mostly have kids), you need to read this book and give it long, hard thought.

clbrune wrote: “Decided Jason Leopold’s fate is intertwined with Rove’s. But opposite.”

Well put.

Maybe it’s the afore-mentioned murk that we’ve been living in for the last 7 or 8 days but I’ve begun to sour on the possibility of a Rove indictment. I know -on the strength of the “evidence” that we’ve pieced together- that it is counter-intuitive and heretical to doubt BUT, the paucity of information and the numerous public appearances lead me to believe that they know he’s emerging unscathed.

Maybe I need to go out and kissed by long-forgotten sunshine but IF Rove was really going down, I think Luskin and ROve would have some idea and the WH response would be to distance itself from Rove as soon as possible. To the contrary, he’s popping up like an outbreak of a bad skin disease every time I check a news source. Boy…I hope this is really just dypesia after the Leopold thang and that Friday will be the day. If not, I guess there’s always Dead-eye Dick.

Extra Points ReddHedd if you’ve actually read the play…

Russian Caravan? Is that like the Russian Tea I loved so much back in the day—lots of orange and spice?

GSD - Think if I send Katherine Harris a new pair of Nikes she’ll take the hint?

GSD says:
May 17th, 2006 at 10:32 am

“Get Katherine Harris and an armed vigilante squad posted near every bog, ravine and swamp in the Sunshine State.”
_____

She’s too busy, getting her tattoos revised:

http://www.bgladd.com/Katherine_Harris_tattoos.jpg

Blank Kluge at 28

I have looked at those pictures several times. I see the explosion, but where is the plane?

I saw one version with a highlighted oval where they claim the front tip of the plane is, but I still don’t see it. And where was the rest of the plane? In the first frame of the explosion, you should see the tail sticking out b/c from other shots of hte damage, the plane did not penatrate very far into the building (unlike the WTC where the planes went all the way through level a hollow silloette).

I’m not seeing any evidence of a plane at all. Am I blind?

Yeah, Weicker did good today. He always was a maverick. And I guess that precludes any more talk of anybody drafting him for a run.

What did I miss about Weicker? I’m from CT, too.

Geez, and I thought I was all on top of the news, too, considering I’m doing the same damn thing waiting around to see if the Rover goes down today.

It’s nice to know I’m not alone in my obsessions. :)

My ears just popped.

Dow Jones down 200.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EDJI

-GSD

My money says leapold has been sucker punched.

Mayan at 37: I am beginning to have serious doubts as well.

looseheadprop at 42: The plane hit the ground initially before hitting the Pentagon and basically disintegrated on impact. The film you are seeing is not the usual 30 frames/sec that you’re used to seeing. I believe it is 2-3 frames/sec that is standard in surveillance video cameras.

Mayan 37–
Keep the faith. Rove is literally half the man he was–what with the dramatic weight loss. I think it is possible that they just don’t know. And the WH didn’t disassociate itself from Libby; he resigned after the indictment and Bush praised him. We mustn’t forget that they are arrogant bastards who smirk in the face of adversity.

DJ — I’ve not only read the play, I’ve seen it performed. :) Good stuff.

Police
“Tea In The Sahara”

My sisters and i
Have the wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don’t ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

Tea in the sahara with you
Tea in the sahara with you

Oh… and courtesy of FauxNooz: Teen Gambling on the rise.

No linky

I just read a yahoo story (AP) stating that Rove was in Congress trying to woo (errr - hammer) rethuglicans regarding Bush’s immigration policy.

Seems to me that its one of two things:

1. Rove is confident he is not being indicted and therefore its business as usual for him (i.e. threatening members of the GOP into accepting Bush policy)

OR

2. Rove is pulling a Kobe (remember him at that hollywood awards show a day or two before he was indicted in Colorado?) and pretending all is well in Roverland.

I am absolutely dying…..c’mon Fitz!!!

Also, FWIW, I heard the Schultz interview on my way home from work last night. Boy, if THAT didn’t grab my attention.

Schultz really believes in him and he sounded pretty convincing to me.

Thank you very kindly, Dr. Bong and Angie.
Nice to have my level of culture upgraded regularly here. That is one thing I love about FDL, everyone jumps in to help the uninformed without prejudice or scorn. Just nice, friendly folks. That is way cool in my book. And btw, I can’t wait to try one of my Fitz Hammers. I just need to make sure my pillow is handy. *g*

Bob Adams,

How about some Nikes and a sports bra made from roast-beef?

-GSD

Damn! Is there a pesky gremlin that resides between my keyboard and FDL that changes my proof-read poetry into typo-filled, word-ommitted, sentences? Sorry. I’ll be better. Promise!

Sharon W,

Lowell endorsed Ned in a Hartford Courant Op Ed today

link for it from *ilson towards end of last thread

Go Ned!

GSD - Not only was that funny, but it made me throw up into my mouth a little bit.

SharonW - Today’s Hartford Courant
http://www.courant.com/news/op.....2888.story

Bustedknuckles,

Joe Klein said that blogs offer noise but no facts.

Get with it.

-GSD

last night I watched a really depressing “Frontline” on PBS about the collapse of the American pension system — how the 401k system isnt working out and large corporations are shedding defined benefit systems. Really depressing! I am a recently retired government drone with a low but sufficient pension but I worry about so many other folk! Scary !

Margot at 39 — no, it’s a type of black tea that has ben fermented in the processing in such a way that it is slightly smoky — but not as smoky as, say, Lapsang-Souchong. The Russian Tea you are talking about is one of my mom’s favorites. Here’s her recipe for it, in case you don’t have one:

RUSSIAN TEA
2 c. dry Tang
1 1/4 c. sugar
3/4 c. instant tea
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves

Combine all ingredients and store in airtight containers. Use 2 teaspoon of Russian tea mix to one cup of boiling water.

The Pentagon 9/11 video may raise more questions than it answers, I see zero evidence of a large aircraft, fwiw. The eye-opener to me is that every M$M talking head I’ve seen since yesterday afternoon is propagating the “this should put all of the conspiracy theories to rest”. Uh-huh….

lhp @42– thank goodness I am not alone on that! I watched and can’t see it! and why, exactly did they not release it until the Moussaoui trial was over– was it so the families of the victims of the Pentagon crash would be spared or that the jury would not be prejudiced? CNN already had some of the film and published it eons ago…

Fitz-watching is not for the faint of heart. I’m trying to remember to breathe.

Presumably the Weicker endorsement opens the money gates for Lamont. I also imagine that Weicker all along has been the only thing that scares Joementum.

Big news.

Jane S. at 47 -> thanks, I needed that. I realize anything can happen - and probably will. I think that l’affaire Leopold over the weekend didn’t so much as sucker me in -couldn’t bring myself to make his story sensical - but it did get my juices flowing with all of the other bits and pieces that we’ve been receiving about how the Rove thang is coming to a head.

BobbyG @ 41 - tea and hey!

LOL Christy. So you’re compulsively checking TV, and we’re compulsively checking with you. Hmmm, d’you suppose someone’s compulsively checking on us (Hamshers of the Left)? NSA anyone?

Pins and needles going around.

Something to chew on while you sip your tea, Christy?
(sorry if it’s already been posted)

Libby Judge Is Allowed To View Reporters’ Notes
R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....t/asection

DROJ at 46 -

plane disintegrated on impact?!?!? you have got to be kidding me. (not sure if you were being sarcastic)

I just watched the video several times. I don’t see anything that remotely looks like a plane. In addition, the plane disintegrated?

looseheadprop says:
May 17th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Blank Kluge at 28

I have looked at those pictures several times. I see the explosion, but where is the plane?

I saw one version with a highlighted oval where they claim the front tip of the plane is, but I still don’t see it. And where was the rest of the plane? In the first frame of the explosion, you should see the tail sticking out b/c from other shots of hte damage, the plane did not penatrate very far into the building (unlike the WTC where the planes went all the way through level a hollow silloette).

I’m not seeing any evidence of a plane at all. Am I blind?
———————————————————-
It’s moving at more that 400 mph, so you shouldn’t see anything more than a blur on the video. And the plane went through several rings of the Pentagon. That’s pretty far. The section that was hit had just been renovated, and the feeling was that if the plane had hit an unrenovated part of the Pentagon, it would have gone all the way through.

There were several hundred eyewitnesses (including my father) to the Pentagon crash, as that part of the building faces the highway. I’m usually pretty open-minded on conspiracy theories, but I’m not buying any of the ones on the Pentagon.

We are merely in the 21st business hour. (8 on Mon, 8 on Tues, 4+ down, 3+ business hours to go). That would make tomorrow the day, duh!

Rove has a lot of business men to call to tell that he’ll be out of the office for a few minutes and unreachable while he posts bail. And those business men don’t take calls outside of business hours.

lhp 42-
I must confess some ‘ignorance’. I clicked in the last week or so a ‘F911′ -style kinda cyberpunk/underground treatment. That piece left me with the same thing you say today. I’ve avoided today’s release, although I think some major online oulet (maybe BBC) headline indicates opposite - ie, release DEBUNKS conspiracy theory.

So, You’re saying what you see RELEASED TODAY ‘leaves holes’ in the ‘official’ story? If so, I can’t imagine…it would be a simple matter to Photoshop if necessary. This has been withheld since the event, no?

I’ve only fairly lately come to suspicious conclusions about the whole enchelada, so I’m no expert.

What do you think?
(OR is you pulling me chain?)

Thanks cbl and Bob. That was a really great endorsement. I really think Lamont is gathering up steam here. I’ve read two positive editorials in the Hartford Courant this week.

Oh and there was some mention of a recent Rasmussen poll that showed Lamont in a much better position than the Quinnipiac Poll. Have any of you seen it?

Mayan 65–are you the one who left a comment on a Kos diary yesterday about Rove suffering? I wrote that diary, it was my first ever and almost no one read it.

Since we are jawboning a bit:

Something that made me laugh: An ad appeared on some website that stated: Confuse Bush - Use Big words.

Made me smile: A special election for state house in Chester County PA was won by a DEM for the first time in many years. Praise be the political gods…

Made me frown: I read “Waiting for Godot” in highschool. Did not understand it then and I felt really left out. Does one need a great deal of life experiences to understand it? Because in highschool there were only 2 things that mattered to me — my horses, and, well my horses. The play flew right over my head..

Made me cry outright: Hearing from a friend whose son has had 3 tours of Afghanistan and Iraq. He is home but is unhappy with civilian life. Has been offered mucho bucks to work with Blackwell — and many of his marine buddies are going. Wants to go but his fiance is saying no. I cried with the mother. I mentioned the history of Blackwell but she reports he is not listening.

There’s an interesting item up on the War Room page at Salon. Bush wrote himself a little memorandum that appears to have given the phone companies permission to hand over information and accept money for it, without having to disclose either.

One point related to comments above that bothers me. I lived for quite a few years in south Louisiana where there a LOTS of alligators and LOTS of people in, on, and around the water. The only people I knew who ever got bitten there were rangers trying to capture large alligators (They jump out of a boat on to the gator’s back and hold his mouth shut, while a partner duct tapes the mouth. You can see the room for error there.) and people who work at gator farms and handle them regularly. Problem gators (coming up in yards, lurking around docks, etc) tended to be ones that people fed. Why is it that gators and people seem to co-exist a bit better in Louisiana than in Florida? Are my former Cajun neighbors just better acquainted with gator behavior or something? Are Louisiana gators rightfully frightened of ending up in a cook pot (alligator sauce piquante! yum!)?

On Waiting for Godot.

mr. emptywheel is Irish, from the midlands, the middle of the bogs (its most redeeming feature is that it’s the one place in the country with no American tourists). So there are two lines from the play that made me crack up hysterically, when watching it in the states.

The one, as the characters look out over the audidence and talk about the bogs.

And the second–they make a joke, “I guess we should just sit here and be caam” (pronounced as the Irish do, with a really open A). “Well, if we were British, we could be cahlm.”

Its one mr. emptywheel’s pronounciations I make fun of. They nearly carted me out of the theater, I was making such a ruckus. All by myself.

Sometimes I feel that way when I obsess about the Plame case.

karelroc at 69:

Actually, airplane structure is not that beefy. The whole thing is done with minimim weight and maximum strenth IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY. Otherwise, they become really big gas guzzlers. So, when they are hit with stresses I(like hitting the ground, a building, or water) that they are not designed to withstand, airplanes do tend to come apart and sometimes in very tiny pieces. The ValueJet crash in the Everglades is a case in point. Hardly anything left at all.

(Does this make me a grand jury junkie?)
Yes, it does. You are sacrificing yourself so others don’t have to. Keep up the good work

I am taking Jason Leopold with a barrel of salt. I mean, Karl Rove being given 24 hours to get his affairs in order?? Sounds SO bogus. It ain’t like he would be dragged to the clink! And an entire floor of a law firm being locked down doesn’t pass the smell test. And Secret Service being there is farfetched. And why is it that Jason has so many sources? Hasn’t he claimed to have about five sources? Read MSM news stories; they never quote that many sources. And with a story like this where information (apart from Luskin) is so closely held, are there even five people who would know the details Leopold claims he’s been told? Why is one of his sources from the State Department? That doesn’t even make sense. The story just smells!

There were several hundred eyewitnesses (including my father) to the Pentagon crash, as that part of the building faces the highway. I’m usually pretty open-minded on conspiracy theories, but I’m not buying any of the ones on the Pentagon.
—————————————-

Thank you for saying that Frank. Living in the area I sometimes feel like I live in a parallel universe when people talk about this conspiracy. Real people saw the plane hit the Pentagon. Not nutjobs, but ordinary people who were driving by on their way to work, and also some guys who were working on the road. I saw them numerous times on television. There were phone calls from people on the plane, voice mails. There was a plane.

From John Conyers’ blog:

“Thanks to Armando of Kos for responding to Joe Klein’s attack against me and my good friends and colleagues Charlie Rangel and Alcee Hastings. I will tell you personally, the increasing shrillness of the attacks simply means our message is getting through and the GOP is running scared. I expect far more mud to be slung before November.”

-GSD

You know, I’ve posted before that some media intern needs to be spending all of his or her days on Wednesdays and Fridays sitting in a lawn chair outside the courthouse to see if Fitz shows up. I’d like to amend the idea. Memo to the media, from an avid Fitzwatcher: On Wednesdays and Fridays, please tell us if the grand jury is in session, and if so, which US Attorney is in session with them. If some other US Attorney is in there filing a whole bunch of indictments against the mafia, I’ll be able to get on with my afternoon. If the grand jury is there, and there aren’t any US Attorneys in sight, I’ll need to keep refreshing my computer. Thanks!

Yesterday’s story on cnn.com about the airplane video indicated there were several videos of the pentagon event, and they didn’t know in advance which one would be released to the public. Figures that it would be the one with the least information.

I like lapsang souchong as sun tea - much more delicate flavor: the smoke is easier to take. Leaves (leaves.com) has several nice blends also: try ‘Morning Blend’.

Before going on and on and on and on about what is not seen in the Pentagon video, learn something about airplane speeds, the number of frames per second of the camera, camera resolution, etc.

Please.

Jane S -> I think so. Kos is the Great Barbaric Yawp. Thousands of minds giving voice at once. Diaries arise and fall with rapidity…of course, I try to snag and read all things Rovian and/or Fitzgerald-ian.

Darling TeaHeads,

not that I’m the least superstitous, but everytime I take a nap this early in the day - all hell breaks loose (Delay, Goss, 5th GJ for Rovespierre, etc.) so I’m off for an early one -
just promise if the fit hits the shan, someone will fitz loudly for me . . .

have I told you lately, that I Fitz you ?

omg– cnn– is tha Katherine behind dubya !!?

Actually I did walk past Fitz’s office building and saw two photographers sitting by their curb with their big giant cameras. But no truck. They looked really young. And bored.

77: www.mr.emptywheel.bogspot.caam

the Preznit is doing a photo-op about tax cuts and Katherine Harris is standing right behind him - the bright sun is making both frown real bad — ugly, ugly, ugly !

SharonW - “…Oh and there was some mention of a recent Rasmussen poll that showed Lamont in a much better position than the Quinnipiac Poll. Have any of you seen it?”

Yeah, I’ve seen that also, I think, but I can’t remember where to find it.

Basically, all those polls are null and void with the convention coming up this weekend; I’m sure next week there will be new polls taken, and they’ll reflect all the recent positive press Lamont has gotten just recently.

Bush is just signing the $70B Tax Bill. Everything is hunky dory and
wonderful in this country- didn’t you know.

Rob @ 85, please enlighten us.

If I am right– she looks absotively evil and definately in need of some sunglasses.

whoops, nevermind. my bad.

…recent and recently in one sentence. I’m a graduate of the “School of Redundancy School”.

It is Katharine Harris standing behind Bush–bad stagecraft by the Bushies! She appears to have had a gallon of botox injected into her forehead. Not attractive.

looseheadprop @ 10:36 am (#42) - Haven’t been able to find a good copy of the video yet. Most of the pages I google are the various conspiracy theory sites, none of which I’d trust to leave the film unaltered. CNN seems unwilling to share the URL of the video itself.

Many security cameras have low frame rates compared to normal video or film. This may explain why you can’t see anything. If the plane was traveling at 200+ MPH it wouldn’t be in view for long. Just a brief blur, I suspect, and then an explosion.

Hey Christy,

As a fellow tea lover and an Irish gal myself, I recommend Barry’s tea. My mother used to bring back a suitcase full (along with Paddy’s Irish whiskey) when she returned from her annual trip home. You can find it in many major Supermarkets now though. It makes a stout satisfying cup.

In other news:
(All kinds of hell could break loose this afternoon.)
1. Enron jury is deliberating.
2. Dow is down 200.
3. New Froomkin is up. Haven’t read it yet.
4. Bush and Katherine Harris? Looks like girl knows how to play hardball. “Hi, George! I just found 2,000 misplaced Gore votes from the 2000 election. What do you want me to do with them?”

punaise

linky no worky

Katherine Harris keeps scratching herself–bedbugs at the Watergate? Alas, the meat bikini is not in evidence. Sigh.

Terry in Maryland @76– could it be the plethora of wingnuts in FL as GSD proposed? heh.

really, this trib article sums it up nicely and most is related to the impact of humans:

>>>>>>>>>

Floridians on edge after recent attacks

By Jamie Malernee
Tribune Newspapers: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Published May 16, 2006

FT. LAUDERDALE — Dry weather has pushed them out of the Everglades and into back-yard canals, where they concentrate in greater numbers.

Mating season has made the males more territorial.

And then there are the people–hundreds moving into Florida each day, who have taken over what was once wildlife territory and, in some cases, are feeding the dangerous reptiles like pets.

All these factors, plus a heavy dose of coincidence, are likely to blame in the recent string of deadly alligator attacks across the state, wildlife biologists said Monday.

There have been three alligator-related fatalities in the past week; before that, there had been only 17 since 1948.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....nworld-hed

GrandmaJ #75

It’s about alienation and the pointlessness of existence in a brutish and spiritually empty universe. You can think of it as a world without horses. Or as the first sitcom.

Is that a mini gator ’round Kathy’s neck?

Bush and that Republican Congress look just like the old Nuremburg Dock photos.

Creepy.

-GSD

Just thanks for being on this.

larry 102 - sorry, it wasn’t meant to be a link - just an imagined web address based on #77. never mind.

Okay, I decided to hunt the Rasmussen poll down. Shoot, weren’t hard. Goggle: rasmussen poll lamont. :)

Lead by Lieberman in primary as of May 5th now down to 20 points.

http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....0April.htm

I prefer Dewar’s White Label tea.

so they are reveling in their economic boom tax cuts as the dow tanks. sweet synchronicity.

Thanks Hugh for the brief overfly of the play. In high school I was absolutely in my own world. The first 10 years of life everyone thought I was ’slow’ or outright retarded. Thats what happens when born late in life to 2 40-somethings and being the one and only.

HOWEVER, my fantasy life was on overdrive. Godot just did not fit well into current mindframe.

that nice Jeralyn lady at TalkLeft is telling folk to come here for the Rove Indictment Watch. That’s so sweet!

New Froomkin …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00879.html

Re Weicker’s endorsement of Lamont -

Happy Sam Ervin Day, indeed. Weicker was one of the principled Republicans on the Senate Watergate committee willing to hold a Republican adminstration accountable for its actions.

Now (some would say) Weicker’s holding another Republican accountable - Joe Liebermann.

Just to defend Leopold a little bit, 24 business hours means Thursday. Press conference Thursday morning maybe?

I’m all for conspiracy theories. It was one of their bunker busters that hit the Pentagon. Small hole. They wanted to see how well it would work and they wanted to see how tough their new building was. LOL, maybe

Fancy Ceylon Tea here.

when asked when Rove would be indicted, calvin replied, “Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon….”

Bubba to Karl: “Karl, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Re: The Big Moment:

As I recall, Fitz scheduled a *press conference* for just after his meeting with the Grand Jury when he indicted Scooter. Plus, there were lots of rumors in the air about how many indictments, etc. flying around.

I would not get too excited until we hear that a press conference has been scheduled. Even if he decides not to indict Rove (God forbid) I believe he has said the decision will be very public.

Here’s something to depress and motivate us at the same time– seems world opinion is tanking with respect to the US and Americans– Thanks Dubya et al and the fraidy cats who voted against their own interests in order to follow the non-leader:

>>>>>>>>>

Analysts say America’s image problem is pervasive, deep and perhaps permanent, an inevitable outcome of being the world’s only superpower.

But there is worse news. In the past, while Europeans, Asians and Arabs might have disliked American policies or specific U.S. leaders, they liked and admired Americans themselves.

Polls now show an ominous turn. Majorities around the world think Americans are greedy, violent and rude, and fewer than half in countries like Poland, Spain, Canada, China and Russia think Americans are honest.

“We found a rising antipathy toward Americans,” said Bruce Stokes of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, which interviewed 93,000 people in 50 countries over a four-year span.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/f.....160150.xml

9/11 video at Pentagon website (both), far right under Special Interests:

http://www.defenselink.mil/

It’s not standard video which is why you can only see the nose of the plane entering. It’s less frames per second than actual film so with a plane flying like 200 mph, it’s moving at over 3 miles per minute, which, if my math is right, is about 264 feet per second. The slow film can’t follow the fast plane.

Just like the explosion itself has gaps.

Old Sow #118

It was a UFO attack on the Pentagon in retaliation for the alien autopsies performed at area 51. The attack on the Twin Towers was as we all know Mossad. That the two happened on the same day was just one of those weird coincidences unless . . .?!?