This is interesting news, coming from a formerly high-placed White House insider who would have to be an utter liar and nincompop if this is not true:
Jan. 10 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a new book that President Bush entered office in January 2001 intent on invading Iraq and was in search of a way to go about it. O'Neill, fired in December 2002 as part of a shake-up of Bush's economic team, has become the first major insider of the Bush administration to launch an attack on the president. He likened Bush at Cabinet meetings to "a blind man in a room full of deaf people," according to excerpts from a CBS interview to promote a book by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, "The Price of Loyalty."
Odder still given the news about
what the Danes found in Iraq.
What is it with dictators and clothes? Does the need to be embraced by expensive textiles always coincide with the call to crush your neighbours' freedom? Anyway, now that DJ Snazzy MG is rejoining the family of nations, I can proclaim my appointment of him as official clothes horse to GX40 HQ - on a strict probationary period, mind you, until we clear up all that WMD stuff. I believe that Portland can learn much from our man of the desert, especially in the area of the tawny cape and black pill box hat (as illustrated).
Message to principals:
when you hope to "make an example" of a smart kid, you prove your own failure.
From Dean's - I don't even like dogs but
this is lovely.
Kingston Harbour 8:30 am
I snuck up to the top of the dome this morning and got this shot of the harbour. To the right is one of a set of Martello towers built to guard the opening of the Rideau Canal from the US navy. The headland across the water to the left is Royal Military College, a military university, with Fort Henry, our historic British army fort, on its own separate point of land behind. Wolfe Island is entirely hidden on the horizon by the lake effect clouds, no doubt getting a dump of snow. Lake effect snow is a conveyor belt picking up moisture out on Lake Ontario, dropping it downwind a few kilometres later at first landfall.
It's been very cold the last few days. When it gets too cold, things happen. People freeze.
Can't snow. The big lake looks like it is coming to the boil. The snow makes a funny noise
when you walk. If you click here you should trigger a 5
megabyte mpeg movie of the sound of snow. It may take a moment to run. This
is for that guy in Belize who checks in every now and then.
A moment later: Seems like the guy in the projection room got into the
rum. This is going to take a minute...
Later still: ok, he is sober now. Should work - but not all at once...get in a line, please.
