Yes, Alex, I’ll take “Suicide Bomber” for $500 please… wow, some people are really tone-deaf. I mean, on one hand a brilliant idea. But wrapped in stupidity and clumsiness.

This is amusing…

“you need a license for that…”

“well, how do we get a license?”

“SHUT UPPPP!!!”

Mist Mistle Thrush last night, sorry boys and girls… I actually am going to try to make the Rock & Roll Library Summer Reception because if I don’t get plugged into the scene around here, I’m going to go crazy.

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I really enjoyed this fun and interesting piece by Rob Britt at Space.com. As we continue to explore the outer regions of the solar system, and even our galaxy and universe, I think it’s important to remain awed by our favorite planet.

Interesting blurb out of Watauga County in North Carolina… I wonder if the sheriff and DA plan to go after pharmaceutical companies next?

Rumsfeld’s personal spy ring shows us that Rumsfeld et al. were “cherry picking” — they could not get what they wanted from the pros at State and CIA, so they tried to get it from their dumbly-named “Office of Special Plans”….

Charley Reese, I think, has it mostly right here. One of the most irritating parts about this entire Bush/Cheney/Intel/Iraq flap is that it seems so partisan. This should not be a partisan issue — the Bush team had a desired outcome, and pressured intelligence agencies to deliver that outcome. Americans died because of it. People of all political persuasions should be outraged and demand the truth.

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