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Scandalous
Scandalous: " What's this, John Kerry forgot about Poland even though he had notes. For shame. Maybe if he'd stared off blankly into space more often or hunched like a little gnome behind his podium he wouldn't have these problems. "
(Via matthew.)
Man, this is pathetic. Now the wingnuts are trying to say Kerry cheated somehow. I guess the way Ronald Reagan and George Will cheated in the 1980 debates by using stolen notes from Carter? But have a look at Dubya's debate notes.
4:10:24 PM Permalink
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Bush: No Mas?
Bush: No Mas?: "I'm hearing that its possible Bush may duck out of the second debate?! Supposedly they want friendlier questions from the town hall audience (they aren't handpicked and prescreened like Bush's "town halls").
If this is remotely true, we have won a major victory, and should hammer this till the dogs come home."
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
3:09:16 PM Permalink
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fact check
fact check: "Josh Marshall points out that there are fewer Iraqi soldiers and police than Our Fearless Leader said there were in the debates, and most of them aren't trained.
You'd also want to keep in mind that some of them don't, technically, show up for work, and quite a few are in the process of being paid off to go away
Anthony H. Cordesman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, released a study Friday showing that the Iraqi Police Service payroll list "includes large numbers of pensions and 'non-performing' police" known not to be serving. He also said the overall police numbers were dropping "in part because of desertions and purging of low-grade personnel."
Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, who has taken charge of all Iraqi security training, has tried to purge the rolls of unqualified or unfit officers even as he works to recruit and train new ones. In June he received $20 million in Iraqi oil money to provide severance pay. At that time, 120,000 people were on the police payroll, but the force was authorized to have only 90,000. "
(Via Sisyphus Shrugged.)
2:45:46 PM Permalink
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Not a bloody bit like the man
I can't believe how much I've enjoyed Botheration's Ulysses: One Page Every Day. I'm at page 115 now, and staying with it pretty well. One of the highlights for me is the Hades chapter, whererin Bloom attends Paddy Dignam's funeral. Joyce packs a lot of character study and a lot of pathos into this chapter. I've always thought it was one of the best in the book.
Certainly it contains the funniest joke in the book:
-They tell the story, he said, that two drunks came out here one foggy evening to look for the grave of a friend of theirs. They asked for Mulcahy from the Coombe and were told where he was buried. After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough. One of the drunks spelt out the name: Terence Mulcahy. The other drunk was blinking up at a statue of Our Saviour the widow had got put up.
The caretaker blinked up at one of the sepulchres they passed. He resumed:
--And, after blinking up at the sacred figure, NOT A BLOODY BIT LIKE THE MAN, says he. THAT'S NOT MULCAHY, says he, WHOEVER DONE IT.
11:46:38 AM Permalink
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Recalling Memories
Recalling Memories: ""Probably my generation will be the first one where our children and grandchildren will Google us to recall memories after our death."
-- John Baeyens, We are all museums (Baeyens.net), 02, October 2004"
(Via Google Blogoscoped.)
"Probably?" But you gotta wonder how long some of this stuff is going to last. Will radio.weblogs.com be around for a century? Will Google's caches? Internet Archive? I have more faith in the last one, but even there, it seems built around a particular person (who, fair to say, has thought more about this stuff than I have and most certainly already steps to solve some of the problems of long term storage).
11:34:58 AM Permalink
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