So While I am Pulling an All-Nighter....

Here's some assorted stuff...

I Told You He Was Going To Blame the Iraquis...

Bush Is Reassuring on Iraq But Says He's 'Not Satisfied'

President Bush declared yesterday that the United States is winning the war in Iraq despite the deadliest month for U.S. troops in a year, but he added that he is not satisfied with the situation and vowed to press Iraqi leaders to do more to stabilize their country on their own.

Of course, he's trying to deny any implication that his developing timeline bears any resembelance to any timeline that has been suggested before.

Rep. Ike Skelton (Mo.), Levin's counterpart in the House, said Bush needs to define his benchmarks for progress. He said he proposed goals to Bush a year ago. "I recommended that for every three Iraqi brigades that were fully capable, that we'd redeploy one American brigade." In response, Skelton said, the president wrote back that his recommendation "was too rigid."

And he just can't get away from that Iraq = 9/11 bulllshit, despite his own denial months ago.

"Absolutely, we're winning," Bush said. "Al-Qaeda is on the run. As a matter of fact, the mastermind, or the people who they think is the mastermind of the September the 11th attacks, is in our custody." He then circled back and seemed to make clear that he meant the United States is winning in Iraq specifically. "We're winning, and we will win unless we leave before the job is done. And the crucial battle right now is Iraq."

Or delusions I see.

Meanwhile the GOP has simply slipped off into the deep end of the disassociatative pool.

Democrat win 'would mean higher taxes and spending'

A Democrat victory in next month's mid-term elections would jeopardise effortsto contain government spending, put upward pressure on taxes and undermine ­America's ability to negotiate free trade agreements, Rob Portman, the White House budget director, claimed on Wednesday.

So says that party who's complete control of both houses of Congress and the Exectuive Branch has resulted in a declining middle class and an 8.5 billion dollar defict.

"If you look at Republicans vs Democrats, there is a very clear delineation now, unfortunately, on trade. The Democrat leadership is against trade agreements. I don't mean Nafta and big agreements – they seem to be against them all."

That's funny, because wasn't it Clinton that pushed through all the Humanitarian concerns to create a trade agreement with China? (It's one of the things I am not happy with him about.) Democrats hate all trade agreements now? Well, this shows that Obama voted in favor of the U.S. Oman Trade bill. Hillary voted for the Oman and the Singapore bills. Kerry voted for the Oman, China and Africa free trade bills.

It seems that the only trade agreement these Deomcrats all had a problem with was CAFTA...

Hmmm.

I guess the idea that CAFTA may just suck isn't something the Bush adminstration is prepared to comtemplate...

I think the perfect rebuttal can be found here. (Tip o' the chapeu to Jade.)

And Now for Something Completely Different.

New James Bond Out in November.

Between my Dad and my brothers I was raised on Clint Eastwood and James Bond. I never saw a romantic comedy until I was 17 and that "When Harry Met Sally" which set the bar so damn high I'm not interested in most "date flicks".

Action and SciFi. That's my movie going game. So the explosions/car wreck-illed commercials look great to me. I do like the rare wry acknowlegement (I think the only other time was Lazenby) that James Bond changes. We, of course, all saw The Rock, so we know what happened to Connery's Bond. I think Moore's Bond retired to be a towel boy at the Playboy mansion and I suspect Lazenby was mugged by a New York teen. Dalton's Bond probably died doing something darkly self-destructive masked as heroism (as the Book Bond would do) and Brosnan's Bond....finally did himself in trying to have sex in a wicked sports car driving through the alps.

So now we have a Blue Collar Bond .

With Craig we're back to England again. Here I was hoping from someone from New Zealand. Connery=Scotland, Moore=England, Lazenby = Australia, Dalton = Wales, Brosnan = Ireland. Just NZ, Canada and a variety of Carribean Islands left are left to complete the Commonwealth.

But it looks like Craig is taking Bond back to the books, which is what Dalton was trying to do. Whether he was successful or not we shall see, but I look forward to it.

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?


Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

What Kind of Funny Are You?

I tested as....

the Prankster (47% dark, 38% spontaneous, 31% vulgar)

your humor style: CLEAN COMPLEX LIGHT Your humor has an intellectual, even conceptual slant to it. You're not pretentious, but you're not into what some would call 'low humor' either. You'll laugh at a good dirty joke, but you definitely prefer something clever to something moist. You probably like well-thought-out pranks and/or spoofs and it's highly likely you've tried one of these things yourself. In a lot of ways, yours is the most entertaining type of humor because it's smart without being mean-spirited. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Conan O'Brian - Ashton Kutcher

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test

Ashton Kutcher??

The Pilot Report

Human Bathing.

It's daily. It's voluntary.
What's up with that?

And...

Cat Attack!

The big grey kitty is SO MEAN!
All I did was sniff!