Faux News Does It Again

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Fox once again publishes what they desperately want to be true, not what actually happened.

Yes, in all fairness, Fox is technically correct (by the slimmest of semantics): of the 5 indictments against him, Libby was found guilty on only 4. The one he was acquitted of was indeed a charge that he gave false statements to the FBI about his conversation with Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper. However, he was found guilty on count #2: he intentionally gave FBI agents false information about a conversation he had with NBC’s Tim Russert regarding Valerie Plame Wilson.

So, he was found not guilty of lying to the FBI on one count, but was guilty of lying to the FBI on another count. But you wouldn't know this from Fox's breathless breaking news crawl.

It really doesn't matter though. No matter what Fox says, we have yet another convicted felon in the Bush administration.

Grow A Set Already

First it was Obama, who felt he had to apologize for saying American troop lives were wasted in Iraq. Now it's McCain. Last night on Letterman he said:

"Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives."

Yet today, he found it necessary to release this statement:

"Last evening, I referred to American casualties in Iraq as wasted. I should have used the word sacrificed, as I have in the past. No one appreciates and honors more than I do the selfless patriotism of American servicemen and women in the Iraq War. We owe them a debt we can never fully repay."

Hey! Politicians! Get a clue and grow a set of balls already! Have the nerve to tell the truth. Bush has done exactly that with his fabricated, illegal war - he's wasted the lives of over 3000 American troops and 100000 Iraqis needlessly. McCain doesn't realize that pointless sacrifice = wasted.

On a related note....Obama's quote about wasted lives creates a firestorm as the "liberal media" breathlessly reports it in every nook and cranny of the country and the right wing noise machine goes into blustery overdrive. McCain says the same thing and it's barely mentioned by any of the major media. Where the hell is the outrage from Beck, Hannity, Malkin, Limbo, and the other asshats?

Spam Generators Are Fun

We all know about spambots using random dictionary words in an attempt to get past Bayesian spam filters. Two recent ones are notable. First, from the subject line, we have a new sport for quantum physicists: Eigenspace Baseball
Then there's a perfect headline for a news story waiting to be written: Laptop being tossed, balcony furious.

Ironic

As we all are well aware, Fox (aka Faux) "News" is a heavily biased, Republican/conservative propaganda organization, especially their "commentators" (radical right cheerleaders and Bush apologists all). But every now and then, even slimeballs like Dick Morris get in a good shot and cogent comment.

Dick Morris listed the four top Republican presidential contenders: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani and pointed out that "The only one of these guys who hasn't had multiple wives is the Mormon."

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MS Vista

Haven't touched Vista yet - don't intend to for the foreseeable future. However, based on what I've read and screen shots, isn't MS Vista basically Mac OS 6 or 7?

Things to Save

A friend just wrote in an IM: : "Bad Valentine's Day pig card juju."
Something tells me I should save this...I don't know why.

The New Blog Format

So after monkeying around with templates, layout, html, css, xml, new Blogger vs old Blogger, and a few other choice buzz words, we now have the web 2.0-ified Thinking Sand Blog.

Yawn.

Just watched the video clip of Prince's big stupid bowl half-time show. If you care, watch or get it now over at You Tube before the NFL legal goons force a take-down. Inexplicably, some folks are all kinds of excited about this same-old boring, overproduced, over-hyped, bloated, half-time show we've come to expect from the asshats at the NFL. But this one had Prince! Whoopie f-ing doo. And a word to supposedly cutting edge musical acts: marching bands don't augment, improve, provide a counterpoint to, or even gracefully coexist with any kind of music. Ever. See Fleetwood Mac and "Tusk" for further proof.

Owwww! My Ears! My Eyes!

This is just so wrong on so many levels. I don't even like the original that much, but this is just offensive. If ever an excuse was needed to never see or hear gawky toothpick Celine Dion again, this would be it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONt47Z0KZg

A Plea

To all the folks who post videos to YouTube, Google Video, et al........
Buy a freaking tripod and use the damned thing!!!

The Dumbest Representative Sweepstakes

In the past, Utah had a solid lock on having the dumbest representative(s) in the House and Senate. Who can forget the moronic insanity of former rep. Jim Hansen or the current punishingly stupid Chris Cannon? Looks like another state may be giving us a run for the money:

The House passed, 430-1, a package of rules aimed at demonstrating Democrats' commitment to cleaning up Congress. Tomorrow, the House will vote on rules designed to end the anonymous sponsorship of pet projects, or earmarks, that have been quietly tucked into spending measures.

``The culture of the last Congress came to be defined by a phrase now common to Americans throughout the country: it was a culture of corruption,'' said House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat. ``The American people stated loud and clear that they were ready for a new culture to take hold in Washington: a culture of commitment.''

As the Democrats won control of the House and Senate for the first time in 12 years, exit polls from the November election showed the issue resonated with voters. In a CNN exit poll, 42 percent of respondents said the issue was ``extremely important.''

``This is legislation I wish we had done,'' said Representative Christopher Shays (news, bio, voting record), a Connecticut Republican. ``I'm sorry it took a Democratic majority to do it.'' Jonathan D. Salant, Bloomberg, http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070105/pl_bloomberg/adc7z497fqsa

So what idiot was the lone dissenting vote? Republican Dan Burton of Indiana.