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Wednesday, July 13, 2005LazybloggingThe recent blog hiatus was planned - to an extent. To tell you the truth, I'm suffering from a bit of the blog burnout at the moment. Nothing was coming freely, and I saw no reason to force more 50-word mini-posts. So the all-star break seemed like a fine time to take a couple days off to recharge the batteries. I wouldn't have much to write about anyway, at least baseball-wise. So last night I found myself "in the mood", so I sat down and launched Firefox with the intention of pounding-out a post on something or other (I can't for the life of me remember what...). I was devastated to discover that everything was gone. My bookmarks, my extensions, my customized toolbar, my settings, and (most importantly) all my passwords - all vanished into thin air. After a futile attempt to find my profile (not a trace, btw) I gave up and headed to bed. I still have no clue what caused Firefox to delete my profile. I don't know if you've every tried it, but using the Internet without your personal browser and bookmarks is akin to driving through a foreign country without a map. I was completely fucking lost (of course a good part of that could have been because I was blinded with rage at the time). I was in no kind of mood to deal with it, so the hiatus lasted a day longer than planned. Anyway, after spending a good hour restoring my settings from memory, I am again comfortable with my environs. Although, I'm still not in much of a blogging mood, so I give you "Lazyblogging" a.k.a. the good ol' link dump:
Comments:I don't think Rove should resign...yet. If it becomes clear he either committed a crime or that he did something in poor judgement without committing a crime, he definitely should. However, it sounds like he has answered all of the questions that the special prosecutor has had and he was the one that told the one guy (can't remember his name) he could be revealed as a source...a year and a half ago. If Rove resigned now, it better because he actually did something wrong and not because the media and Democrats think he should. The Rove thing is nothing. Media is making noise because their guys lost the last few elections and they blame Rove. The media has spent five years whining that this is the most secretive administration and now they are faking outrage that someone talked to the media. Notice the media is avoiding what really happened. Cooper called Rove pretending to want to discuss welfare and switched to Wilson. All Rove did was tell the reporter not to believe a serial liar. Best part of the All Star game was the bar I watched it at was loud enough I didn't hear a thing McCarver said. Well, first of all, it looks as though there was no crime, because in order for there to be one there has to be malicious intent in naming the person WHILE having priveleged knowledge that the person was a secret agent AND you have to know the government was still trying to protect the person's identity AND it has to be within 5 years of the last time that the agent was in the field. From Joe Wilson's own book, they met in 1997 and from that point through today it is fairly clear that she never went back overseas as shown here. The supposed outing occurred in 2003, which would make it a full 6 years since her last overseas assignment. Therefore there is a 99.9% no crime was committed, but I will leave that to the courts. Now, the deal with Rove outing Plame to Cooper...well, he never mentioned her name (he even said he did not know it). Cooper asked him about why Wilson was chosen for the mission to Iraq and Rove said that a person in the CIA recommended him (not Dick Cheney like Wilson said) and that that person was his wife. The purpose behind this is to tell the reporter the truth. As far as Wilson being right, well, which time? In his op-ed where he claimed that Iraq was not going after the yellowcake uranium he was lying. In his report to the government, he said there was evidence that they were. "And in case you didn't notice Wilson was right, the White House was wrong. Iraq did NOT try to by uranium from Niger, and even the White House admitted as much." Ummm... no Puddy. Just no. That could be the most ignorant comment anyone has ever left on this blog. Congrats. You make my head hurt, Puddy. |
