Good paragraph LOL - at bottom of last entry - having posting difficulties.
Hmm, it looks like it was Karl Rove that leaked the name of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative - and the White House has suddenly gone quiet on the whole full force of the law being applied to whoever leaked the thing. The White House press spokesman said Rove didn't actually leak any name, but to say Ambassador Wilson's wife, the one with the agency - oh, of course, you mean the travel agency that booked the Niger trip LOL. How stupid does the Administration think the general public are? Oh, but that's right, we can gag the media by arresting them instead of whomever is putting CIA operatives and their contacts at risk. Grrr.
Just saw Bush on SBS news before, doing a speech to someone in Virginia (think it was an FBI graduation or something), and he was saying we have to stand toe to toe with the terrorists, we can't back down, not on my watch blah blah blah. The thing that irked me specifically from that story (as Dubya generally irks me) was the whole 'not on my watch' thing. Not only is it one of the stupidest of cliches, but umm 9/11 didn't happen on Clinton's watch, may I remind anyone. And all the world's goodwill that America had on September 12, and even during the first months/years of the Afghan war (since it is another campaign that goes on and on and on), has just been pissed almost completely away.
And don't even get me started on the whole WMD to democracy and freedom ringing to fighting terrorists there instead of at home morphing justification for the whole Operation Iraqi Freedom thing. Don't even.
Had a good convo with SGR at work today, highlight of the day - I was basically feeling like a stormcloud all morning about the whole V thing of last night, and had to eventually vent a bit. Had a nice chat with SGR all up, and hmm, maybe humanised myself a bit (by talking of my actual personal life I mean).
Oh, that was another thing I was going to write last night, LHO was reading my blog the other day and said that with my 'reporting' on Thursday night, in the hours immediately after the London bombings, that it was a pity I had never done a journalism course. I said was it good, or even potential rough diamond, and she said I have told you you have a good writing style before. And I still am surprised by it, it's not fishing for compliments or anything. I would LOVE to be a journalist :)
Okies, enough for now methinks
Pauly
Hmm, it looks like it was Karl Rove that leaked the name of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative - and the White House has suddenly gone quiet on the whole full force of the law being applied to whoever leaked the thing. The White House press spokesman said Rove didn't actually leak any name, but to say Ambassador Wilson's wife, the one with the agency - oh, of course, you mean the travel agency that booked the Niger trip LOL. How stupid does the Administration think the general public are? Oh, but that's right, we can gag the media by arresting them instead of whomever is putting CIA operatives and their contacts at risk. Grrr.
Just saw Bush on SBS news before, doing a speech to someone in Virginia (think it was an FBI graduation or something), and he was saying we have to stand toe to toe with the terrorists, we can't back down, not on my watch blah blah blah. The thing that irked me specifically from that story (as Dubya generally irks me) was the whole 'not on my watch' thing. Not only is it one of the stupidest of cliches, but umm 9/11 didn't happen on Clinton's watch, may I remind anyone. And all the world's goodwill that America had on September 12, and even during the first months/years of the Afghan war (since it is another campaign that goes on and on and on), has just been pissed almost completely away.
And don't even get me started on the whole WMD to democracy and freedom ringing to fighting terrorists there instead of at home morphing justification for the whole Operation Iraqi Freedom thing. Don't even.
Had a good convo with SGR at work today, highlight of the day - I was basically feeling like a stormcloud all morning about the whole V thing of last night, and had to eventually vent a bit. Had a nice chat with SGR all up, and hmm, maybe humanised myself a bit (by talking of my actual personal life I mean).
Oh, that was another thing I was going to write last night, LHO was reading my blog the other day and said that with my 'reporting' on Thursday night, in the hours immediately after the London bombings, that it was a pity I had never done a journalism course. I said was it good, or even potential rough diamond, and she said I have told you you have a good writing style before. And I still am surprised by it, it's not fishing for compliments or anything. I would LOVE to be a journalist :)
Okies, enough for now methinks
Pauly
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