Quoted: What the US press did not do is look at the evidence, the email in the magic laptop.

nice little WORD segment from the colbert show, continuing on with religious fundamentalist themed faves (see last fave)

big brother you can count on...

on the same day he vetoes a ban on waterboarding. brilliant.

i wonder if he has a good singing voice? perhaps there a little dance routine to go with it?

Quoted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush donned a cowboy hat and sang an early goodbye to Washington on Saturday night with a performance that lampooned White House journalists and Vice President

fucking fantastic.

Quoted: "The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast yesterday. "So today I vetoed it."

though i don't think that campaign rhetoric necessarily has any bearing on the policy realities of the candidate (should they be nominated and eventually elected into office), the source of the categories a nominee weaves into their rhetoric is nonetheless decisive (just look at edwards' mimicry of bush's faith-based militarism and with its articulate, slightly more diplomatic spin and you'll see what i mean). i think this article rightly points out that there is a difference between a campaign that deploys a rhetoric of hope and one that mobilizes a rhetoric of fear and security. while i wouldn't put my chips down on hope at the end of the day, it definitely doesn't mechanistically cause the bowel-spasms effected by the discourse of national security. hopefully, if obama is elected, that difference consisting of the attitude and cosmopolitanism of hope can be translated into concrete policies. (at least contemporary state politics would lessen its anachronisticity by stepping up to the level of Kant). but for now, i agree with the author here that clinton has already done the worst thing she could do, which is to couch the debate on leadership in terms of national security.

Terrorists: using the simulacral technologies of the infidels against themselves.

Quoted: In virtual worlds, does it take two terrorists to tango? And how much should we worry about those secret stockpiles of cartoon weapons?

so, why are these telecoms cooperating again?

Quoted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Saturday U.S. telecommunications companies have agreed to cooperate for the time being with spy agencies' wiretaps, despite an ongoing battle between

huh...bush seems to know a good counter-strategy when he sees one...and veto it.