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Muck When the restaurant Manager complains about "this mire that we're wallowing in," Larry asks whether they're also in muck; "What about the muck? Are we in any muck?" http://www.hbo.com/larrydavid/episode/seas...keywords30.html

Bumprageous.

Posted: January 5, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan, said a rueful John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush knows today whereof his predecessor spoke. For as he prepares to "surge" 20,000 more U.S. troops into a war even he concedes we "are not winning," his erstwhile acolytes have begun to abandon him to salvage their own tattered reputations. Case in point, the neoconservatives. As the Iraq war heads into its fifth year, more than half a dozen have confessed to Vanity Fair's David Rose their abject despair over how the Bushites mismanaged the war that they, the "Vulcans," so brilliantly conceived. Surveying what appears an impending disaster for Iraq and U.S. foreign policy, the neocons have advanced a new theme. The idea of launching an unprovoked war of liberation, for which they had beaten the drums for half a decade before 9-11, remains a lovely concept. It was Bushite incompetence that fouled it up. "The policy can be absolutely right, and noble, beneficial, but if you can't execute it, it's useless, just useless," wails Ken Adelman, who had famously predicted in the Washington Post that "liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk." Bush's team of Powell, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice, says Adelman, "turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the postwar era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional." Their incompetence, he adds, "means that most everything we ever stood for ... lies in ruins." Professor Eliot Cohen of Johns Hopkins, whose book on war leaders Bush used to carry about, says his mistake was in not knowing "how incredibly incompetent" the Bush team would be. Richard Perle is sickened by the consequences of the war he and his comrades so ardently championed. "The levels of brutality ... are truly horrifying, and, I have to say, I underestimated the depravity." Calling the Bush policy process a "disaster," Perle blames Bush himself: "At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible. ... I don't think he realizes the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty." This is the second fallback position of the War Party. Not only incompetence, but treachery made a nightmare of their vision. Uber-hawk Frank Gaffney also hits hard the theme of sabotage and disloyalty: "This president has tolerated, and the people around him have tolerated, active, ongoing, palpable insubordination and skullduggery that translates into subversion of his policies. ... He doesn't in fact seem to be a man of principle who's steadfastly pursuing what he thinks is the right course." David Frum, the cashiered White House speechwriter who co-authored the "axis-of-evil" phrase, faults the president. While he provided the words, says Frum, Bush "just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of maybe everything." Where Frum, four years ago, accused anti-war conservatives of being "unpatriotic" haters of America and President Bush, he is now saying that that same president either lacked the I.Q. to realize what he was saying or lacked a belief and commitment to follow through. As Rose writes, this is "the most damning assessment of all." Moreover, it is an indictment of Bush's judgment that he could clasp so many such vipers to his bosom. Rose describes James Woolsey, the ex-CIA director who was ubiquitous on the op-ed pages and national TV making the case for war, as "aghast at what he sees as profound American errors that have ignored the lessons learned so painfully, 40 years ago" in Vietnam. Conspicuous by its absence from disparagements of the president by these deserters from his camp and cause is any sense that they were themselves wrong. That they, who accuse everyone else of cutting and running, are themselves cutting and running. That they are themselves but a typical cluster of think-tank incompetents. No neocon concedes that the very idea itself of launching an unprovoked war against a country in the heart of the Arab world – one that had not attacked us, did not threaten us and did not want war with us – might not be wildly welcomed by the "liberated." No neocon has yet conceded that Bismarck may have been right when he warned, "Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death." "Huge mistakes were made," says Perle, "and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives. ... I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war." Almost all the neoconservatives have now departed the seats of power in the Bush administration and retreated to their sinecures at Washington think tanks, to plot the next war – on Iran. Meanwhile, brave young Americans, the true idealists and the casualties of the neocons' war, come home in caskets, 20 a week, to Dover and, at Walter Reed, learn to walk again on steel legs. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=53637

I just checked again: It's world NET daily.

Isn't there a site somewhere that shows these videos or does one have to wait until they come on MTV?

You have a problem with Scarlett Johansson?? Also, Timberlake is pretty talented, I must admit. Still haven't seen it, but I'll prolly pick it up this weekend.

Didn't mean to put the smilie in there (My opera browser is not showing the smilies) IE is working however. Serious Question!

Feeling a little woozy. Prolly, cause it's essentially a fast. But, I know what I'm having as soon as I go off the diet. Chinese Porky BBQ Ribs & Brats made with the Luchow's brown sauce.

It was recommended to me awhile back, but I haven't gotten a chance to see it. Any good? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436078/maindetails http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436078/traile...lay-E24513-10-2

I'll prolly pick it up this week. If only because the person who recommended it usually has good taste. He also mentioned that the joke itself is not very funny, but it's all in the delivery.

http://www.wayofthemaster.com/

Went to the game. A ton of drunk Jets fans were there. Not too many Raiders fans. Go JETS!

rolling over and showing them his gentitals.

Congrats on the big win and thanks to everyone for participating again this year. I made a good run but alas it was not enough. Kudos to FA on the win.

That should be available at any decent cigar shop? Montecristo?

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7719/ "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me." (John 14:6) Jesus Christ

Have a very Merry, Happy and Safe Christmas everybody!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K92OVFeGgIE

Stuck in a Moment Kite Walk On http://www.amazon.com/All-That-Cant-Leave-...d/dp/B00004Z0LW

Listen to the tracks!

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Joe-Turners-Grea...s/dp/B000002IL4

Zonealarm.

What happened to Blackclouds post?

Who, The Pure and Easy There once was a note, pure and easy, Playing so free, like a breath rippling by. The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me, Forever we blend it, forever we die. I listened and I heard music in a word, And words when you played your guitar, The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering, And a child flew past me riding in a star. As people assemble, Civilization is trying to find a new way to die, But killing is really merely scene changer, All men are bored with other men's lies. I listened and I heard music in a word, And words when you played your guitar, The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering, And a child flew past me riding in a star. Gas on the hillside, oil in the teacup, Watch all the chords of life lose their joy, Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness, The note that began all can also destroy. We all know success when we all find our own dreams, And our love is enough to knock down any walls, And the future's been seen as men try to realize, The simple secret of the note in us all. I listened and I heard music in a word, And words when you played your guitar, The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering, And a child flew past me riding in a star. There once was a note, pure and easy, Playing so free, like a breath rippling by. There once was a note, listen (x 18) * Who's Next?