Bush Administration
CFIUS and foreign investment in the US
Brad Feld recently wrote about the US government’s recent scotching of a merger between Sourcefire and CheckPoint, apparently over concerns about certain technology being owned by an Israeli company. This reminded me of something I wrote a little over four years ago, namely, that 9/11 was used as a cover for the government getting a […]
Cheney’s Got a Gun…
OK, dear readers… time to collaborate. Let’s rewrite the lyrics to Aerosmith’s “Janie’s got a gun” to “Cheney’s got a gun”.
Original lyrics here.
Update: Not only am I not original on this go-around, it turns out someone did this years ago. Details here. Heh.
Cartoon violence
I’ve been traveling the last few days, so the media coverage surrounding the escalating violence over the editorial cartoons depicting Mohammed had largely gone by me. In between meetings in Manhattan yesterday, I stopped in a Starbucks to catch up on email, and caught this headline at CNN.com which (for me at least) seemed to […]
First they wiretap us, now they look at our search history
At what point does the Bush Administration outlaw front doors, window blinds, and curtains? I mean, if you’re not doing anything illegal, why wouldn’t you want the government looking through your window, right?
Right?
Unreal. Today comes word that the Bush Administration wants Google to turn over:
A broad range of material from its databases, including a request […]
Letter to the editor
My letter to the editor of The Naperville Sun, in response to columnist Tim West’s support of President Bush’s wiretaps. Hopefully it’ll get published soon.
Bush lies regarding wiretaps
DNC blog, giving us the President’s quote on April 20, 2004:
Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way.New York Times article that broke the story on Friday about the Bush Administration wiretaps:
Months after […]
Patriot Act infinite loop
Brad Feld posts about the latest odd Patriot Act foolishness: the requirement for a non-PO Box mailing address. In Brad’s case, that’s impossible since he doesn’t have a physical mailing address. And, as he notes, it’s rather ironic, since the government won’t let you use a government-provided mailing address as your official mailing address. Seems […]
FEMA is on the line: what kind of trailer would you like?
Ernie shares his latest New Orleans adventure, this time dealing with FEMA:
Yesterday I got a call from FEMA. The representative asked if I was still displaced from my home. I told her that I had been back in my house for about a month (I guess the house call that FEMA rep Chloe made hadn’t […]
Caption contest
OK, this picture has stunned me into abject horror. As I type this, I’m curled into a fetal position, wondering how in the world this can possibly be real. And yet, there it is:
Source: Reuters. Really. The Reuters caption, for the record:
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice […]
Mike McCurry wonders about the real story
Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s press secretary for four years (including the ever-eventful Lewinsky days), wonders whether the current focus on Rove is, well, beside the point. After expressing some sympathy for Scott McClellan, McCurry asks:
Unless conversations go well beyond what has been reported, there has to be some other explanation for the zeal with which […]
