Apr. 22nd, 2003

sigh

Apr. 22nd, 2003 06:45 am
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Procrustes (because he's the Procrustiest!), who is one of those tea perverts (HM learned to say coffee right after boomboom (a song she liked), cat, wubbwubb (Sesame Street video), dada, uhdor (Procrustes), debenture (don't ask) and mommy (in that order, of course, 43 weeks carrying the young elephant and 36 hours of unmedicated labor meant nothing to her (you try and pop out almost ten pounds of baby while simultaneously making valiant efforts to get your hands on that evil cow the labor nurse sometime). How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have within that vale of tears that is my life an ungrateful child (I didn't exactly make that part up.).). mommy. toffee. she would say, reprovingly, when I tried to sleep in...) would like me to point out that not only does tea apparently help with heart attack risk, osteoporosis, healthy teeth (green only) and talking like you have a mouthful of plums (that could be something in the british water, but I definitely see a link based on my viewing of Masterpiece Theater), it also strengthens the immune system and creates resistance against, it appears, cancer.

Tea cappuccino, however, is still yucky.
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The Washington Post makes the rather astonishing oblique suggestion that speaking out against the war when their livelihoods and their professional futures and sometimes their lives were threatened was a calculated strategy by progressive public figures to make them more popular with the american people.

Apparently the Washington Post has not yet worked out the ramifications of this, and should review the pictures they didn't print to remind them how many people were at those anti-war rallies they didn't cover.

The Washington Post sucks big pointy rocks.


Janeane Garofalo sounds energized about her whole antiwar thing: "I knew when I started speaking out that it was going to be unpleasant," says the actress-comedian, "and I've taken my punches. But the positives have far outweighed the negatives."

Such as? Such as all the unsolicited offers Garofalo has received -- speaking engagements, stand-up gigs, stage roles -- in the weeks since she proffered her antiwar opinions on news programs. Such as the bundles of attagirl letters and the hearty congratulations of strangers in the street. Such as the sitcom pilot she's making for ABC. The other day, after a decade and a half of doing comedy, she made America Online's "Comedians to Watch" list.

"Before this I was a moderately well-known character actress," she says. "Now I'm almost famous."

Not to be too cynical about it -- Garofalo and other celebrities say they've been speaking from the heart -- but dissent, it seems, can be a pretty good career move...
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Hunt for Iraqi Arms Erodes Assumptions

With little to show after 30 days, the Bush administration is losing confidence in its prewar belief that it had strong clues pointing to the whereabouts of weapons of mass destruction concealed in Iraq, according to planners and participants in the hunt.

After testing some -- though by no means all -- of their best leads, analysts here and in Washington are increasingly doubtful that they will find what they are looking for in the places described on a five-tiered target list drawn up before fighting began. Their strategy is shifting from the rapid "exploitation" of known suspect sites to a vast survey that will rely on unexpected discoveries and leads.

Late last week, the U.S. Central Command began moving urgently to expand security around a wider range of facilities in an effort to preserve evidence that defense officials fear is melting away. That imperative grew from intelligence suggesting that Iraqi insiders have stolen files, electronic data and equipment from nonconventional arms programs under the cover of recent looting. Analysts said they believe that former Iraqi officials hope to conceal their culpability, barter for status with the U.S. military government or sell the technology for private gain.

If such weapons or the means of making them have been removed from the centralized control of former Iraqi officials, high-ranking U.S. officials acknowledged, then the war may prove to aggravate the proliferation threat that President Bush said he fought to forestall.
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What the fuck? I mean, what the fucking fuck?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich blasted the State Department Tuesday for a series of what he described as diplomatic failures leading up to the war with Iraq, and warned that the pattern is poised to repeat itself.

In a speech delivered at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington, Gingrich contrasted the experience of the State Department with the Defense Department. He said the State Department had failed in its efforts to apply diplomatic pressure to persuade Iraq to disarm and comply with U.N. resolutions, and it is time for "bold, dramatic change" at the department.

"The last seven months have involved six months of diplomatic failure and one month of military success," said Gingrich, who sits on a Pentagon advisory committee. "The first days after military victory indicate the pattern of diplomatic failure is beginning once again and threatens to undo the effects of military victory...



Could this be a little more desperate?

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