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Fools Rush In Part Deux
2008-06-06 15:34:00 Both Jossip and Gawker gleefully jumped the gun when they reported a "Fox News intern" blabbed on her blog: "My head boss, a fairly well-known producer, gave me a Meryl-Streep-in-Devil-Wears-Pra-da long list of things to do one day, 3 hours before I had to leave." Jossip Later he walked in, threw his healthcare card on my desk, and said, "Oh, by the way, figure out my healthcare stuff, would ya? Like the online account." GawkerLet's go on the record with USC junior "Bookworm" blogging on College On The Record: "I actually don't work at Fox News, but a different subdivision at Fox. I don't know anything about O'Reilly, but I will say that everyone here has been extraordinally nice.Jossip snidely retracts: "Bad news, kiddos: The USC student who was said to be interning at FNC is actually just interning at one of the bajillion divisions of Fox (okay, it?s 20th Century Fox in LA). Not that writing about her experience there is any less stupid." "The Foolish Fox News Intern Blogger Do...
By: Chickaboomer
Indian Banks Closed by Technological Incompetence
2008-04-30 08:58:00 Over the last few weeks there have been an alarming increase in the number of disruptions in the Indian Banks due to failure of technology. Most of the Indian Banks are now on a “Core-Banking Software Platform” and the branches are totally dependent on the Central server and also the connectivity. It was observed that recently Indian ...
Southern Workmanship and Incompetence
2008-04-29 03:53:00 http://www.wwltv.com/local/stor-ies/wwl042408tpleveepaper.98095-b74.html ?It blows my mind.? Those are the words St. Bernard parish president Craig Taffaro used to watch videotape Eyewitness News showed him, of floodwalls built to protect his parish. ?That should be criminal,? Taffaro continues. What he’s talking about was witnessed by a St. Bernard Parish resident who didn’t want to be identified, but did have sharp ...
By: coolass.com
Bring em on!
2008-04-21 05:59:00 I have spent the last several years trying figure out if the Bush/Cheney administration and the neocons are stupid and delusional, just plain crazy or if there is some bizarre method to their madness. I'm beginning to think it must be all of the above. They are constantly ranting about Iran but they have and continue to do all of Iran's dirty work in Iraq. They toppled Iran's arch enemy, Saddam, they put the most pro-Iranian elements in Iraq in power and they continue to defend those elements with US blood and treasure. The latest example is this:Iraqi Army Takes Last Basra Areas From Sadr Force But of course they didn't do it alone. BAGHDAD ? Iraqi soldiers took control of the last bastions of the cleric Moktada al-Sadr?s militia in Basra on Saturday, and Iran?s ambassador to Baghdad strongly endorsed the Iraqi government?s monthlong military operation against the fighters.By Saturday evening, Basra was calm, but only after air and artillery strikes by American and British forc...
G Spout
2008-04-09 18:45:00 Heinous gasbag Marty Davis continues her envy-fueled denigration of FNC's Courtney Friel for the third time in four days (and the sixth time in the past nine!) on her painfully wretched blog. Marty, we know your best days are far behind you. We know Courtney has reached heights in this business that you only approached in your misguided dreams. We know that while she spends her days working for the most powerful name in news, you are relegated to blogging in your "adorable" pink bathrobe. How could you not be envious? Why would you not lash out on a daily basis? Can we expect more poison from you the higher she climbs, which seems to be in direct relation to the lower you sink? 'Tis a bitter pill, Ms. Davis, but you best swallow anyway, though it never seemed to help your career advancement. For once the day comes that your little blog no longer spreads hate across the world, our planet will only be all the better for it. And I say all of this not out of hate, but out of sadness, ...
By: Chickaboomer
Complete Incompetence Describes This Session
2008-04-03 04:22:00 I have to rant, again, about the need for recurring revenue in our budget Our budget process has became politicized, but isn't it always, and we have no options for revenue and the most disappointing aspect of this session, besides the fact that virtually NOTHING happened, is the fact the we had choices. Mark Hebert has coined this budget as the "trust me budget" because House leaders are begging members to vote YES for NO projects with the promise they will create a magical bill to give them their projects later and it will magically pass both chambers of the Kentucky General Assembly before session end. Throw casinos to the hungry wolves, its over, with KEEP going after Governor Beshear's throat we might as well declare the possibility dead. And so goes the revenue that would have been generated from the concept. We may experience another disaster in regards to the failure of casino gaming in Kentucky and that disaster is the likely deterioration of Kentucky's horse racing ...
Incompetence
2008-03-22 17:48:00 Incompetence 22 Mar 2008 11:48 am The past week saw a lot of "what did I get wrong"-type articles about Iraq and they frequently put me in the mind of the incompetence dodge. I note that one frequent way in which people argue for the
By: mini wisdom
PW Olbermann Sleeps With The Dishes
2008-03-21 12:22:00 If you can stomach dating MSNBC blowhard Keith Olbermann, the role does have its perks. We hear Olbermann's live-in girlfriend, Katy Tur, 24, just landed a news anchor job on CW11, allegedly with his help. Many are whispering about her qualifications, considering she once professed she didn't go to journalism school and she's simply been referred to as a "freelance cable producer" in New York and LA. We tried to reach Tur for comment but reps at CW didn't return calls." NYP Page SixWhat's Olbermann? 48?
By: Chickaboomer
no end in sight - incompetence in Iraq
2008-03-20 19:45:00 Whatever your feelings about the invasion of Iraq or American foreign policy generally, this movie will shock you. From day one in Iraq the Bush administration has ignored advisors, cut corners, and done everything possible to alienate and anger the Iraqi population. The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq?s descent into ...
Stoned man cleared of stealing vehicle due to mental incompetence
2008-03-19 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}GIFU -- A foreigner accused of stealing a woman's car and injuring her and a passenger was cleared of the crime after a court found that he was under the influence of drugs and was mentally incompetent at the time.However, the 34-year-old defendant, Jamshid Mohammadi, was found guilty of violating illegal drug and immigration laws, and was handed a suspended prison sentence in the ruling at the Gifu District Court on Monday.Presiding Judge Mihoko Tanabe ...
It would be funny if it were not so deadly
2008-03-04 06:59:00 As shocking as the evil of the Bush administration is it takes second to the complete incompetence the administration as demonstrated. The members of the Bush administration would have been at home in Leonard Wibberley's Duchy of Grand Fenwick. The newest example of the deadly incompetence of the Bush/Cheney cabal is documented by David Rose in Vanity Fair;The Gaza BombshellGo read the article but here are the facts in a nutshell: The administration demanded that elections be held in Palestine, the Democracy thing you know.Hamas won 56 percent of the seats in the Legislative Council which took everyone in the administration by surprise. They must not have been listening to Rumsfeld when he said Democracy is messy.The Bush administration told the Abbas to dislove the recently elected government and declare Marshall law.They then armed his party, Fatah.When word of this leaked out the result was a civil war which Hamas won.Hamas confiscated most of the US supplied weapons are are now...
Environ--de-mentalists
2008-03-04 04:08:00 When the term ?environmentalist? comes to mind, I think recycling, water conservation, reusable shopping bags NOT setting fire to luxury homes because the homebuilders claim the homes were built in an environmentally-friendly fashion yet you don?t think so. This seems to be the story behind fires set by a group protesting the environmental-friendliness of a group of luxury homes in a Seattle suburb. read more
By: What the FAK
Unconscious Incompetence?
2008-03-03 07:01:00 A situation where you do not know what you do not know has to be the worst case scenario for anyone who has to get a result. It’s hard enough to accept the fact that you don’t know certain things, which we know will be true for all of us at some point in our life, but not to ...
By: Talent in China
Bush League
2008-02-27 23:58:00 Westwood One's $100 mil cash infusion hires smarmy former DC radio pretty boy Billy Bush. Tom Taylor's Radio InfoAfter announcing on Monday that the Gores Group is investing up to $100 million in the company, the syndicator now adds Billy Bush to its talent roster. The co-star of the syndicated TV entertainment show "Access Hollywood" will host a new weekend talk & music program. "The Billy Bush Show" is expected to start in April, and Radio-Info's T-R-I newsletter rumored this story back on January 22 ("More talent to radio"). Bush is the first-cousin of President George W. Bush, and has roots in radio, back to co-hosting mornings on Washington, DC's WWZZ-FM (formerly Z 104). The Peter Principle lives! Z-104 fired Bush in 2001 for lousy ratings and his big inapppropriate mouth. Bush shamelessly pimped his presidential family connections (his grandfather is George The Elder's brother) and ended up on the celebrity whore Tee Vee suck up show "Access Hollywood." Billy Cry...
By: Chickaboomer
Social Justice in India - Celebrating Incompetence
2008-02-03 01:05:00 So what is “Merit” anyway ? If the CPI-Mafioso were to have its way it would give constitutional sanction to this new perverse definition according this to PTI report. The CPI(M) on Saturday sought withdrawal of the government’s reported decision to set the criteria of 60 per cent marks for scheduled caste and tribe students to get ...
Yet another power play
2007-12-29 17:37:00 This is yet just another tyrannical power play by the Bush/Cheney cabal.In Surprise Step, Bush Is Vetoing a Military Bill CRAWFORD, Tex. ? For months President Bush harangued Democrats in Congress for not moving quickly enough to support the troops and for bogging down military bills with unrelated issues.And then on Friday, with no warning, a vacationing Mr. Bush announced that he was vetoing a sweeping military policy bill because of an obscure provision that could expose Iraq?s new government to billions of dollars in legal claims dating to Saddam Hussein?s rule.[....]In a ?statement of disapproval,? or pocket veto that lets the bill expire on Dec. 31, Mr. Bush said that the provision could result in preliminary injunctions freezing Iraqi assets in American banks ? $20 billion to $30 billion, according to a senior administration official ? and even affect commercial ventures with American businesses.Of course The New York Times fails to mention that since the Senate is officially...
The value of incompetence: Tank the firm, grab the gold
2007-12-19 22:29:00 What do you get if the share price of the company you run topples from $50 to $30 on your watch? What do you get if your principal stockholder bails out, claiming you failed to act to maintain the share price? What do you get if you lay off hundreds of employees over the years to reduce expenses but fail to improve the product sufficiently to invigorate revenues? What you do get? You get rich. Now that Chicago businessman Sam Zell has wheeled himself into ownership of the Tribune Co., current Chairman and Chief Executive Dennis J. FitzSimons is expected to leave at the end of year ? with an estimated $40 million, according to corporate disclosure documents. FitzSimons, a 25-year Tribune veteran who rose through Tribune broadcast management and sales, became CEO in 2003 three years after Tribune bought Times Mirror, owner of the Los Angeles Times. From The Times: That eventually put him in direct conflict with the Los Angeles-based Chandler family, which had controlled Times Mirror...
Just the true facts ma'am
2007-12-12 05:03:00 The latest media buzz surrounding the destruction of recorded CIA interrogations of al-Qaida terror suspects renders some rather comical elements. While there?s nothing funny about torture, I can?t help but laugh to think some people don?t necessarily consider waterboarding a form of torture. How can such a practice be misconstrued as if it?s comparable to a Beverly Hills spa treatment? Forced to feel you?re drowning easily confused with an aquatic read more
By: What the FAK
Just the true facts ma'am
2007-12-12 05:03:00 The latest media buzz surrounding the destruction of recorded CIA interrogations of al-Qaida terror suspects renders some rather comical elements. While there?s nothing funny about torture, I can?t help but laugh to think some people don?t necessarily consider waterboarding a form of torture. How can such a practice be misconstrued as if it?s comparable to a Beverly Hills spa treatment? Forced to feel you?re drowning easily confused with an aquatic read more
By: What the FAK
Boob Tube
2007-12-11 14:07:00 "The perkier they are the easier they are to dress." Puzzled Fox & Friends bonehead Gretchen Carlson on why Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham would take out her grotesque boob implants. Now that the Spice Girls are back on the concert block Victoria avoids flopping wardrobe malfunctions by removing the implants she claims she never had. What puzzles me is the media hand-wringing over whether Miz Posh had implants. You don't need to be a plastic surgeon to SEE the implants (left) pushed up. Real boobs don't "lift and separate" like that. Gretchen, the woman is anorexic with Pamela Anderson implants. It's hard to fit a D cup into a size zero. We report. You decide. Implants in or out? Daily Mail UK Entertainment WiseNow I'd like to turn to a real life news boob on the Fox News payroll hired earlier this year. Courtney Friel.TV Newser's Chris Ariens (ex-MSNBC) sparked this after posting anonymous Fox complaints last week: Most of the reactions were a defense of other Fox News pers...
By: Chickaboomer
Friel Of Fortune
2007-12-08 15:00:00 TV Newser's Chris Ariens: "The women at Fox are not happy with Courtney Friel's rise to Multi-shows & Multiface/airtime. Courtney Friel may be making men tune in but she is leaving a bad taste in the mouth's of other Fox women! To go a little further they are being forced to basically work with her and can't say anything cuz they are afraid Courtney will just take their place with their jobs."Fox girls: Who is Miz Courtney boinking? I've written about her since she reared her moronic bonehead on Fox News. The woman is dumb as a brick. Click on the "Courtney Friel" label below. It's all there. After a disasterous brief stint on the weekend Fox & Friends the babe was relegated to a beat suiting her limited abilities: standing around on celebrity red carpets. Miz Courtney appeared once on "Hannity & Colmes" and she was like a deer caught in the headlights. Alan Colmes was so put out having this bonehead on his set that he practically had her for dinner. The bimbo's b...
By: Chickaboomer
What Would Jesus Do?
2007-12-07 01:55:00 About dumb as a brick ABC "The View's" Sherri Shepherd. The bonehead raised eyebrows in September when she insisted the Earth was flat. Later she claimed she really knew the Earth is round but she was flustered. Get yourself out of this one, Sherri. Miz Sherri blurted on the air yesterday that Jesus and Christianity were around before the Greeks. Watch the Huff Post vid here. Jesus would roll the stone himself in front of your tomb.
By: Chickaboomer
Incompetence At The Highest Level- Part 1
2007-11-22 22:46:00 In a business environment, it is imperative for managers and executives to fosterteamwork,facilitate group problem solving and focus the group?s attention and enthusiasm on continuous improvement. Naturally, it is a forgone conclusion to expectthat the federal government is well equipped and prepared to protect the American people,guide them through destructive and tumultuous times and provide hope and optimism,instead of negativity and despair. It has become increasingly evident over the past seven years that through dishonesty, amateur style leadership and unskilled and unprofessional men and women, the American taxpayers have lived through destructive and abominable events that will forever persist. Moreover, incompetence has reigned supreme in Washington.When the war in Iraq was first sanctioned by the 109th Congress back in 2003, our commander and chiefs approval rating skyrocketed to its highest mark ever and democrats and republicans were in agreement about the goal at hand. ...
Big Hips Think Flips
2007-11-14 19:29:00 This is why I admire writer Camille Paglia: Hillary's stonewalling evasions and mercurial, soulless self-positionings have been going on since her first run for the U.S. Senate from New York, a state she had never lived in and knew virtually nothing about. The liberal Northeastern media were criminally complicit in enabling her queenlike, content-free "listening tour," where she took no hard questions and where her staff and security people (including her government-supplied Secret Service detail) staged events stocked with vetted sympathizers, and where they ensured that no protesters would ever come within camera range. That compulsive micromanagement, ultimately emanating from Hillary herself, has come back to haunt her in her dismaying inability to field complex unscripted questions in a public forum. The presidential sweepstakes are too harsh an arena for tenderfoot novices. If Hillary is the Democratic nominee, I will certainly vote for her. But I continue to find it hard to ...
By: Chickaboomer
Spy Scam
2007-11-14 17:51:00 While Bush's apoplectic, fear-mongering Homeland Security tears apart your luggage, seizes bottles of liquid over three ounces, frisks you for bombs, X-rays your shoes, snatches your scissors, an Arab illegal immigrant gets jobs at the FBI and CIA by pretending to be a U.S. citizen. How that passed rigorous security vetting is beyond me. Detroit Free Press The woman resigned from the CIA last week but not before running suspected terrorist family members through computers to see if they were targets of government investigations. The woman (right) appears in a Detroit court.
By: Chickaboomer
Yet More Incompetence from Condoleezza Rice
2007-11-13 04:19:00 We all know accountability is not in the Bush administration's vocabulary- especially the currently inept leadership at the State Department. I previously posted on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's attempt to cover up for Blackwater misdeeds, and to obfuscate horrible management problems with wonderfully useless internal investigations. Now the cracks in the near-legendary loyalty of Bush
By: Mike Kuykendall
Teflon Tee Vee T & A
2007-11-08 15:30:00 He showed up late for work missing morning newscasts. Caught zzzzs on the job. Gonad cancer didn't prevent him from a sex harassment lawsuit. Fed-up WABC TV suits finally fired Steve Bartelstein in March. Going to CBS Tee Vee, he says, and blames cancer for his bad habits. Cindy Adams NY PostRoll Julie Durda off the tip of your tongue. S-l-o-w-l-y. You'll be seeing a LOT more of her. The former San Francisco "traffic tart" is the Tila Tequila of Tee Vee News. The ex-NFL (49ers) cheerleader, ABC's "Bachelor" contestant ("I believe in love at first sight," she gushes in her Bachelor bio), keeps falling up. Young Julie was canned from KRON TV for apparently saying the F-word on air. The Sacramento native and "meterologist" just started her weatherbabe gig in Miami. Miami Herald Sacramento Bee These pictures tell her story. Julie ranks #13 on Wanderlust's list of worst Tee Vee talent. The Professional Cheerleader Blog congratulates the meteoric rise of "meterologist" Julie's broadc...
By: Chickaboomer
Government incompetence makes us stronger
2007-11-07 00:00:00 Think of all the experience that our firefighters got from the massive wildfires in southern California. That experience will come in handy one day, such as after the next massive terrorist attack engineered by citizens of an oil-rich nation we?re...
Still more incompetence and another debacle
2007-10-27 19:50:00 Most could see the problems with the PKK coming and many could see a way to avert them. Unfortunately none of those people were in the Bush administration' State Department.A Missed Moment In Iraq The Bush administration has only itself to blame for the quandary it faces with Turkish forces poised to intervene in northern Iraq. The Turks want to retaliate against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose insurgents killed 12 Turkish soldiers Sunday. A massive retaliation would be a major misfortune for Turkey, Iraq and the United States.First, it would undermine the stability of the only part of Iraq where the United States is welcome. Second, it could plunge Turkey into an Iraq quagmire of its own.Sadly, this crisis was predictable and predicted. U.S. officials have long known that a Turkish incursion was just one terrorist event away. As tensions mounted, the administration had numerous opportunities to engage in preventive diplomacy. A combination of lack of imagination, incomp...
Corruption, Incompetence and Iraq
2007-10-21 06:58:00 We can come up with a lot of reasons that the Bush/Cheney cabal invaded and occupied Iraq; oil, middle east hegemony etc. But what if they just wanted to turn the middle east into a temporary cookie jar for their friends - a quick chance to make some big bucks. Frank Rich talks about the Iraq war and the seemingly unending corruption which is even more prevalent the the apparent incompetence. Set against the epic corruption that has defined the war in Iraq, Mr. Riechers?s tragic tale is but a passing anecdote, his infraction at most a misdemeanor. The $26,788 he received for two months in a non-job doesn?t rise even to a rounding error in the Iraq-Afghanistan money pit. So far some $6 billion worth of contracts are being investigated for waste and fraud, however slowly, by the Pentagon and the Justice Department. That doesn?t include the unaccounted-for piles of cash, some $9 billion in Iraqi funds, that vanished during L. Paul Bremer?s short but disastrous reign in the Green Zone. ...
Bill Pavelic Book ?Guilty of Incompetence?
2007-10-19 11:04:00 ?Guilty of Incompetence? is a hard hitting book, that will expose the facts instead of fiction, and take you behind the scenes to see how LAPD and LADA helped create the OJ Simpson ?race card?, covered up the existence of suspect ?Charlie?, mismanaged the investigation and botched the ?Trial of the Century?.
By: William Pavelic
Sickos
2007-10-18 14:20:00 A Mexican guy with drug resistant TB puts TB Boy to shame. And our Dudley Do Right Homeland Security. The guy and his highly contagious disease boarded planes into the U.S. and in the aggregate, traveled here 76 times with his germs. [Wash Times] Fox News blabs that Homeland Security people were threatened with firing if they yapped about this embarrassing security breach that happened at the same time as TB Boy last spring.You can make book Diane Sawyer won't be gabbing with this guy behind a mask.
By: Chickaboomer
Matt Lauer Finger F**ks Larry Craig
2007-10-17 14:36:00 I confess I didn't watch the heavily pimped Matt Lauer/Larry Craig EXCLUSIVE last night. I recorded it for later as well as that Sean Hannity suck up to Rudy and "Judith" Guiliani (she was born "Judi"). The Wash Post's brilliant Tee Vee critic Tom Shales watched it for me. Tom's opening line: One thing, at least, was made painfully clear by Matt Lauer's interview with Sen. Larry Craig on NBC last night: Matt Lauer is no Mike Wallace. Lauer was anything but hard-hitting or confrontational with the Idaho Republican, arrested in June for alleged homosexual solicitation in a Minneapolis airport men's room.Lauer danced around Wide Stance with tentative, apologetic questions avoiding the real red meat. He was like an "actor," Shales opined. A journalism "virgin." People won't be talking about Craig's prevarication. You could drive the "Love Boat" through Larry's wide stance piled to his crotch with lies. They'll be blabbing about Matt's lousy performance. Read and transcript and...
By: Chickaboomer
If your kid's unhappy, buy him some guns.......
2007-10-13 03:39:00 That was the thinking of the Pennsylvania mother charged with illegally buying guns for her 14-year old troubled son.read more
By: What the FAK
Profile in Incompetence
2007-09-25 03:40:00 Investor’s Business Daily has a 10-part series on Jimmy Carter and why the editors believe he was the worst president in American history.
The Incompetence of Harry Reid
2007-09-21 18:30:00 It's been another bad week for the Democrats in the Senate. Steve Soto explains that it's largely the result of the incompetence of Majority Leader harry Reid. Steve also has some advice for Reid on what he should do now. If Reid now knows that the Senate GOP will keep playing this game, he needs to cobble together one omnibus alternative that includes Webb-Hagel and whatever mission change proposal from Reed or Salazar or whomever has the whip hand at the time. He needs to try one more time with this as the one and only alternative to the "blank check" rubber stamp. And when McConnell filibusters this, then walk away and let the Senate GOP filibuster until hell freezes over.When Bush begins to bellow about how it is the Senate's job to send him something he can sign, Reid should immediately correct him and say that it is not the Senate's job to be a rubber stamp, but rather to protect American troops and our national security, a responsibility that Bush has abandoned.
Upton Upchuck
2007-08-29 15:56:00 Miss Teen South Carolina breathily barfs up head-scratching BS on NBC's Today Show in futile attempts to prove she didn't sleep her way to that 3.5 high school GPA. Miz Teen's clearly got a future as a Tee Vee anchorbabe! Laurens (Jones & Upton) Rule! Lauren Caitlin Upton blew the second take after the void between her ears short-circuited on the live Miss Teen USA pageant. Fox reports, you decide on her reworked answer negates her first answer as to why some Americans can't find the U.S. on a map. Watch the Today Show and the torturous Miss Teen USA video here. Previously: [Map Quest]Let's revisit that bizarre little Tee Vee station in Tyler, Texas (market #111) where the Fox unreality show "Anchorwoman" starring the clueless Lauren Jones flamed out last week after one episode. Here's a new sports guy awkwardly wending his way through a live shot. [YouTube]
By: Chickaboomer
The incompetence of the Bush Administration
2007-08-29 06:17:00 Dan Balz has an interesting article on how the descent of the Bush administration began with the catastrophic incompetence following Katrina. Bush's presidency took a fateful turn during Katrina and reminders of the damage inflicted from that storm were resurrected again this week with the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. What linked the two events -- and what has left the president permanently weakened -- were perceptions of incompetence within the Bush administration.Certainly Bush suffered from other problems as Katrina began to make its way through the Gulf of Mexico. By then, public support for the war in Iraq had begun to significantly erode. By then the president's audacious plan to restructure Social Security was on life support on Capitol Hill. His approval rating had fallen into negative territory.But the storyline of a bungling administration was far from fully realized before Katrina hit the coast. Democrats had lost too many elections to Bush to concl...
Flashback: Chertoff?s Incompetence At DHS Prompted Repeated Calls For Resig
2007-08-27 20:49:00 by- Suzie-Q @ 11:50 AM MST One of the most repeated criticisms of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales?s tenure was that he continued to serve as Bush?s lawyer, rather than the nation?s lawyer. ?He lacked independence, he lacked judgment, and he lacked the spine to say no to Karl Rove,? said Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-NV) ...
By: Suzie-Q
Flightus Interuptus
2007-08-13 18:42:00 LA Mayor Antonio Villaigarosa interrupts probe of girlfriend to probe terrorism czar Michael Chertoff after 20,000 airline travelers were stranded at LAX customs over a computer "glitch." [ABC7]
By: Chickaboomer
Postponing the inevitable
2007-08-07 17:06:00 AP's Robert Burns has just returned from Iraq and reports there are some military gains. In two weeks of observing the U.S. military on the ground and interviewing commanders, strategists and intelligence officers, it's apparent that the war has entered a new phase in its fifth year.It is a phase with fresh promise yet the same old worry: Iraq may be too fractured to make whole.No matter how well or how long the U.S. military carries out its counterinsurgency mission, it cannot guarantee victory.Only the Iraqis can. And to do so they probably need many more months of heavy U.S. military involvement. Even then, it is far from certain that they are capable of putting this shattered country together again.It's been an uphill struggle from the start to build Iraqi security forces that are able to fight and?more importantly at this juncture?able to divorce themselves from deep-rooted sectarian loyalties. It is the latter requirement?evenhandedness and reliability?that is furthest from...
Falling Apart
2007-08-01 16:08:00 While we hear about supposed military success as a result of the surge what we don't hear about is that the government is about to fall.Sunni Arab bloc quits Iraqi government BAGHDAD - Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government Wednesday, undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's efforts to seek reconciliation among the country's rival factions.Violence continued unabated, with 50 people killed and 60 wounded when a suicide attacker exploded a fuel truck near a gas station in western Baghdad. Another 17 died in a separate car bomb attack in a central region of the capital. The U.S. military announced the deaths of three American soldiers killed by a sophisticated, armor-piercing bomb.Rafaa al-Issawi, a leading member of the Front, said at a news conference in the capital that the bloc's six Cabinet ministers would submit their resignations later in the day.Al-Issawi said the decision to pull out from the government followed what he ...
It's Miller Time!
2007-07-31 18:15:00 Why did ABC News hire the late ABC movie critic Joel Siegel's bonehead guest booker they had to TRAIN as an anchorbabe? Answer: It was Siegel's dying wish. Former Miss Dallas Merry Miller now blames the TelePrompTer for her nightmare interview of actress Holly Hunter. [TV Newser]
By: Chickaboomer
Of Incompetence, Delusions Of Grandeur And Monomania
2007-07-24 04:48:00 by- Mentarch … 22:50 EDT Monomania (mon-o-ma-ni-a): n. 1. Pathological obsession with one idea or subject. 2. Intent concentration on or exaggerated enthusiasm for a single subject or idea. “The marketing of personality is changing from a cottage to a growth industry (…) The trend coincides with a current journalistic emphasis, even in the respectables, on what is interesting, against ...
By: Suzie-Q
Enabling Incompetence
2007-07-18 18:34:00 The National Intelligence Estimate released in part yesterday makes it clear that the Bush strategy for fighting the war on terror is a failure and that Even Bush's intelligence report says the war in Iraq is making us less safe at home. But as Harold Meyerson points out the Republicans continue to support him even risking political suicide to do so.Spineless SagesTop GOP Senators Only Talk Against the War Anyone searching for the highest forms of invertebrate life need look no further than the floor of the U.S. Senate last week and this. These spineless specimens go by various names -- Republican moderates; respected senior Republicans; Dick Lugar, John Warner, Pete Domenici, George Voinovich.They have seen the folly of our course in Iraq. The mission, they understand, cannot be accomplished. The Iraqi government, they discern, is hopelessly sectarian.In wisdom, they are paragons. In action, they are nullities.Perhaps they are simply farsighted. They have seen the problem with Nou...
Professional Incompetence?
2007-07-16 14:58:00 At the end of last week it was announced that the new £30 million extension to the Royal Yacht Hotel has been built a metre and a half higher than their planning application permitted. There is a vague possibilty that Planning Minister Freddie Cohen could order the owners to tear down the roof of the building....but let's be honest, that's a highly unlikely scenario. No doubt
By: a dead blog
6 Years of Bush: Lawlessness, Waste and Incompetence
2007-07-14 20:05:00 Ralph Nader writes (Counterpunch.org):Thursday, July 12, 2007's Washington Post was another day of well-supported headlines chronicling the lawless, incompetent, wasteful, negligent, bumbling and multiple perils to our nation's security and safety caused by the Bush-Cheney regime.One headline reads: "U.S. Warns of Stronger Al-Qaeda." The report by the Bush Administration's National Counterterrorism Center was titled "Al-Qaida Better Positioned to Strike the West." Safe havens are being established in remote tribal areas of western Pakistan.In recent days, George W. Bush has told audiences of the growing menace of Al-Qaeda inside Iraq.There was no Al-Qaeda in Iraq before Bush's invasion.Five hundred billion dollars (and vast bloodshed) later and we are left with the Bush government's own assessment of Al-Qaeda's resurgence and spread!Officials inside and retired generals, diplomats and intelligence specialists outside the Bush government have warned before and after the Iraq in...
Lieberman: Another Portrait Of Utter Incompetence
2007-07-01 19:33:00 by- Mentarch … 13:35 EDT Dixit Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT): “I hope these terrorist attacks in London wake us up here in America to stop the petty partisan fighting going on about electronic surveillance (…) We?re at a partisan gridlock over the question of whether the American government can listen into conversations or follow email trails ...
By: Suzie-Q
Incompetence at $1.2 million a year
2007-06-28 13:12:00 I have tried to hold back. God knows I've tried. But this has gone too far. Earlier this year, the University of Florida announced that it would add women's lacrosse to its array of varsity sports by the end of the decade. This came after a lengthy study by the University Athletic Association to
By: A Wikia Wiki
The Eight Principles Of Incompetence
2007-06-23 00:36:00 by- Mentarch … 18:38 EDT It is no secret that the two recurring themes in my entries are A) intellectual sloth; and B) the day-to-day expression, or symptom, of intellectual sloth - incompetence. Throughout my writings and explorations of these two themes, I have come to realize that there are actually general principles, or laws, which govern human ...
By: Suzie-Q
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