|
|||
|
UPDATE: AP got Helen’s seat, and Fox got AP’s front row seat. No word yet on who got Fox’s old second-row seat. So that’s settled. ================== I’m a big fan of Helen Thomas, who spent much of her ninth decade being one of a very few reporters in the White House press room . . . → Read More: Who cares who gets Helen Thomas’s chair in the press room? A few months ago at my favorite coffee shop I was looking for something to read and the only option other than a few romance novels and Tom Clancy’s 93rd rendition of his novel was a BoConcept catalog. So I took it outside to my table and was leafing through it and after a . . . → Read More: BoConcept: From the Palace to the Pavement, Style in Any Setting Politico has an item quoting from an Obama interview with Harry Smith that will air today. “I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served– his constituents very well. But these– allegations are very troubling,” Obama told Harry Smith in an interview to be aired on the “Early Show.” and first broadcast . . . → Read More: Obama aims the bus at Charlie Rangel Oh, well, hell, what could possibly go wrong with this? FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau’s policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting . . . → Read More: FBI agents cheat on test of rules for thought crime investigations Evidence to the contrary flushed down the memory hole, top US military and intelligence officials past and present are talking up the threat of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. Despite an open-ended commitment to the war in Afghanistan, victory there is assured; it’s Iran that scares them most. The nominee to replace magical general . . . → Read More: General to Senate: Kabul’s a done deal; on to Tehran! Anyone expecting the WikiLeaks dump of Afghanistan war documents to spur changes in US policy will be disappointed. The buzz may have made voting against the continued funding of the war easier for some among the 114 representatives who did so yesterday, but the administration, abetted and in some instances outpaced by many . . . → Read More: WikiLeaks won’t change anything, but it could change everything Why are some jokes practical and others, not? Physicality? Someone slipped a little joke into the financial regulatory reform package. What the president calls “the most far-reaching reform since the Great Depression” includes an item exempting the SEC from Freedom of Information Act requests. From Fox Business News: Under a little-noticed provision of . . . → Read More: A legislative practical joke For whatever reason, I find that phrase really annoying. The condition is an unfortunate one, the people who suffer from it deserve some sympathy, but one has to subtract sympathy points for the use of the phrase. If it is uttered spontaneously, subtract all the points. And now, I can tell the purveyors of . . . → Read More: “I’m just not in a creative space today” A joint Pentagon/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency satellite system is so far behind schedule that the government’s capacity to track and research weather and climate may be diminished rather than improved. In the 8 years since a contract was awarded, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)—a tri-agency program managed by the . . . → Read More: Things I learned from the government today As you probably have by now heard, someone leaked a massive collection of documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan between 2004-2009 to WikiLeaks, which has become the mother of all whistleblower sites. (The site is loading somewhat slowly at the moment, presumably because everybody and their intelligence service is stopping by for a . . . → Read More: The Afghanistan War Logs |
|
||
|
Copyright © 2012 BTC News: If It Says ‘News,’ It Must Be True - All Rights Reserved |
|||
