News – Paul O’Neill Reveals

Paul O’Neill has raised some waves with his new book that recounts his time as Treasury Secretary in the Bush White House. One of the most common tidbits from the book is the note that Iraq was a serious topic from day one. Which only compounds the deceit of the current administration if true.

How shady accounting softens the full impact of Bush’s deficits. Plundering the social security lockbox.

It sounds like CAPPS 2 might be going back into production. This article doesn’t give a name, but the means of differentiating passengers sounds to be similar to how that program was proposed to do it.

Dale Ungerer, a 66-year-old retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa succeeds in getting Dean’s goat.

Mr. Snow is bullish on job growth in the future, despite last month’s lackluster increase on that front “This is an administration committed to fiscal responsibility,” Snow told ABC’s “This Week.” . Planning for a moon base with no discernable practical use or current need is responsible?

The Pentagon is researching means of making battlefield robots out of Segways. Presumably as some means of cheap, expendable reconnaissance. The creator of these devices says he has no problem with it.

Looking into the weakness in the case on Teresa Chambers Was she rightfully fired or wronged?

Wesley Clark buys a sweater.

Whopper: George W Bush

Iraq

Iraq’s most senior Shi’ite Muslim cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warns of increasing tensions of elections are not held within months. He’s been courted for support by US officials, but has refused to give his support to their current plans.

The shooting deaths of six Iraqis in Amara has the people assaulting British troops with thrown stones for the second day in a row. It is said that the Iraqi police who shot the people were under attack and defended themselves.

Saddam gets POW status, but it doesn’t get him to talk. Of course, there is no reason soft treatment should get him to talk. After he talks, he’s a dead man unless someone makes him a deal. Better that he hold his secrets as a shield for now.

Well, they fond some WMD. 36 munitions with a blister agent. Only they’re most likely old munitions left over from the Iran/Iraq war. Oh well.

Israel/Palestine

Israel’s largely ceremonial President Moshe Katsav extended an invitation to Bashar al-Assad of Syria to come for talks. They were rejected as not serious.

An Israeli settler is being charged for unwittingly driving a Palestinian bomber to his destination. His lawyer thinks the state attourney is acting irrationally to bring charges of “aiding manslaughter” against him.

Tens of thousands of settlers gather to protest Sharon’s plans for settlement removal. And I remain amused. I wonder if Sharon will really try to force borders to what he wants them to be. I wonder what our president, whichever one he might be, will do in response.

Why the Greater Israel vision has perished

Tony Blair finally admits WMD may never be found. The topic has moved fully into the realm of ambiguity now. It has only to be generally forgotten by the masses.

General

Good news for the space station crew. The leak that had been noted before has been located. It has been traced to the US lab. It remains a slow, non-threatening leak but pinpointing t for correction will be a boon.

The Internet is growing as a campaign news source. I think the Internet will come to revolutionize much of the structure in how presidential campaigns are run.

Fax.com gets smacked with fine after fine and they have yet to pay a dime and continue to spew their junk faxes.

A supporter of RFID tags shamed when an internal memo about dirt digging is accidentally sent to the very ones they were seeking to compromise. Gotta love it.

The true origins of the Macintosh. Steve Jobs didn’t invent it. He even wanted to kill it initially. But things change, thankfully.

Today’s Papers has the Army War College concluding “war on terror as currently defined and waged is dangerously indiscriminate and ambitious, and accordingly its parameters should be readjusted.” The report calls the invasion of Iraq a “war-of-choice distraction,”. There is also a note of 70 Iranian reformist politicians protesting and threatening to boycott parliamentary elections over a ban of thousands of liberal candidates from running. And more, as always.

Amusements

Mark Fiore: The Stealth Policy Team

Newgrounds: Bonus Stage #7: Cube

Celebration time as the Elvis Presley Church celebrates its first anniversary.

Man released form prison wastes no time in hijacking a car from the jail’s paring lot.

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop famous corporate mascots in their twilight years