…is to make minor, common spelling errors or use slightly incorrect quotes. When other people type the misspelled words or incorrect quotes, ta-da, you’re up at the top because most bloggers can spell! Examples “cacaus” instead of “caucus” or “weapons of mass destruction program related activities” instead of “weapons of mass destruction related program activities.”
Interview with David Kay, stolen from Calpundit.
Q: What happened to the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that everyone expected to be there?
A: “I don’t think they existed.
“I think there were stockpiles at the end of the first Gulf War and those were a combination of U.N. inspectors and unilateral Iraqi action got rid of them. I think the best evidence is that they did not resume large-scale production, and that’s what we’re really talking about, is large stockpiles, not the small. Large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the period after ‘95.”
Q. After ‘95?
A. “We’re really talking about from the mid-90s, when people thought they had resumed production.”
Q. What about the nuclear program?
A. “The nuclear program was as we said in the interim report, I think that will be a final conclusion. There had been some restart of activities, but they were rudimentary.
“It really wasn’t dormant because there were a few little things going on, but it had not resumed in anything meaningful.”
Well, there you have it. There were some nuclear program related activities, confirming Bush’s SOTU speech the other night. Since Bush has always been completely consistent in saying what WMD capabilities Saddam had, this vindicates his case for war completely.
Infiltration of files seen as extensive
WASHINGTON — Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.
From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight — and with what tactics.
The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website last November.
With the help of forensic computer experts from General Dynamics and the US Secret Service, his office has interviewed about 120 people to date and seized more than half a dozen computers — including four Judiciary servers, one server from the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, and several desktop hard drives.
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As the extent to which Democratic communications were monitored came into sharper focus, Republicans yesterday offered a new defense. They said that in the summer of 2002, their computer technician informed his Democratic counterpart of the glitch, but Democrats did nothing to fix the problem.
Other staffers, however, denied that the Democrats were told anything about it before November 2003.
Calpundit said it best:
So they read hundreds of memos over the course of a year and their defense is that they supposedly warned the Democrats they could do this? That’s pathetic.
And even if it’s true, try this on for size instead: “My window cleaner told your gardener a year ago that you had a loose window in your backyard. You didn’t do anything about it, so we figured it was OK to sneak in and take your stuff.”
Is this not basically the cyberspace version of Watergate? I mean, I doubt Bush knew or anything, but sheesh. Aren’t these people supposed to be upstanding family values types?
From The Hamster:
Sen. John F. Kerry has catapulted into a 10-point New Hampshire lead six days before the nation’s first primary, bouncing out of Iowa and over longtime frontrunner Howard Dean, according to a new Boston Herald poll.
The Massachusetts senator leads Dean 31 percent to 21 percent, with a slipping Wesley K. Clark at 16 percent after skipping the Iowa caucuses.
Sen. John Edwards is in fourth place with 11 percent, followed by Sen. Joseph Lieberman with 4 percent. Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. Dennis Kucinich continue to barely register.
Wow. Quite the jump. As The Hamster notes, this campaign was written off not long ago. I thought it completely dead, and the nomination was Dean’s. But hey, this is more interesting. I do think Clark should be higher up, considering he’s been campaigning in NH for a while now. I’m still having trouble deciding who I like best. I’ve said it before, I like Kucinich, but there’s not really much of a point to considering him at this point. I’ll take anyone, I guess.
One more thing: Conan really tore up Dean and Kucinich last night on Late Night. Hilarious. The most attention Kucinich gets is from jokes about him on Late Night.
On right now.
They’ve cut to Kennedy twice now. Let’s just say he didn’t look pleased.
And then there was the applause after Bush said parts of the Patriot Act were going to expire. That had better make it into the transcript.
“Weapons of Mass Destruction program-related activities.” Oh how far we’ve come. 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent to Weapons of Mass Destruction program-related activities.
“High skeeled fields.”
Jobs for the 21st Century proposal sounds decent. We’ll see what actually happens with it.
Confusion on the sound to make when Bush announced American’s will face a tax increase unless the tax cuts are made permanent. Boo, Cheer, what do we do!?!?!?
We’ll cut the deficit in half in the next five years, and still make the tax cuts permanent!
You’re getting gay marriage forced on you! Apparently the Mass. ruling means straight people have to marry a homosexual. Learn something new every day.
Wow, they just showed a soldier who was not looking impressed. Not for very long, though.
And, it’s over. Another thing I just saw pointed out, no mention of Osama bin Laden.
Interesting posts about Maureen Dowd and an art exhibit dealing with Israel in Sweden.
More quizzes. It will never end!
Scout posts on the GOP blog about Clark
Trish Wilson has a transcript for the Bush vs. Bush segment from The Daily Show.
cloneclone wasn’t happy with the Dean supporters in Iowa.
Alex has a commentary on MLK.
The beginning of a series on euthanasia by Rivka
This obviously isn’t part of Goldberg’s thesis
edwardpig is on the Katherine Gun story
The Invisible Library on trolls
Collective Sigh points out an interesting looking Howard Zinn article
CNN is calling Iowa for Kerry, with 87% precincts reporting:
Kerry: 38%
Edwards: 32%
Dean: 18%
Gephardt: 11%
Kucinich: 1%
Kinda surprising that Kucinich eeked in there. But sheesh, Dean was blown away. And Gephardt did terribly; CNN’s reporting that he’s dropping out.
Not sure what I think about this. I like Kucinich, but after that it’s probably Clark. Though, I’d take just about any of them. Interesting to see what happens to Dean next.
…on Bush’s 1.5 billion “Healthy Marriage” proposal. Of course, it’s only heterosexual marriage (compassionate only towards people who fit our ideology). And 1.5 billion? Drawn from the TANF budget (1 billion of it)?
From an article in the NY Times:
Ronald T. Haskins, a Republican who has previously worked on Capitol Hill and at the White House under Mr. Bush, said, “A lot of conservatives are very pleased with the healthy marriage initiative.”
I’m sure they are. And in a way, I’m happy they are. It takes a lot of guts to face up to your problems. After all, divorce rates are highest in the conservative Bible belt. It’s high time conservatives stood up for traditional family values.
Moving away from sarcasm, I wonder how much longer the open bigotry of anti-homosexual conservatives will be tolerated. And I still don’t get how these people can go on about freedom and liberty while holding that stance. Your religion says it’s wrong, fine (though, it’s not exactly something that’s railed against in the Bible; it’s scarcely mentioned), but don’t impose it on others. That’s something that should be a pretty basic belief.
…these are the numbers I’ve come up with to predict the Iowa Caucus numbers, as per the Daily Kos contest:
Dean: 29%
Kerry: 26%
Gephardt: 25%
Edwards: 20%
Turnout: 12%
When I am proven exactly right tomorrow, I expect to be showered with donations and praise.
Or you can see it as blind luck, which would probably be the correct view.
[EDIT: Fixed "Caucus." Though, the misspelling did garner a lot of hits]
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