“It is the same sort of twisted logic that makes you an elitist by voting for candidates who want to broadly redistribute wealth or expand civil rights and liberties. Or, more crudely, the same sort of twisted logic that currently makes you an elitist because you voted for the black guy.”
—Open Left:: Minorities As Elites
April 2008
“Among the group’s approximately 24 members is Larry Niven, the bestselling and award-winning author of such books as “Ringworld”. Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.”
—Sadly, No! » Neutron Stooge
“The AP article lede reads: “The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.” So, as you can see, the AP begins by stating as fact the McCain camp’s claim that the ad is false. Then it actually directly misstates what the ad says.
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If there is an unfair supposition at work here, there is a simple way to find out. Someone should ask McCain how long he’s willing to have us stay in Iraq even if we are sustaining casualties.” —Talking Points Memo | Hook, Line & Sinker
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If there is an unfair supposition at work here, there is a simple way to find out. Someone should ask McCain how long he’s willing to have us stay in Iraq even if we are sustaining casualties.” —Talking Points Memo | Hook, Line & Sinker
“You think, why would a landlord do that? Why would a landlord cut open his floor? It was a big hole.”
—S.F. landlords charged with tenant terror
RSpec "should" API changes →
creativedeletion.com
Then:
lambda { do_something_dangerous }.should_raise
Now:
lambda { do_something_dangerous }.should raise_error
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These officials did not have the time or the foresight to plan for the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq or the tenacity to complete the hunt for Osama bin Laden. But they managed to squeeze in dozens of meetings in the White House Situation Room to organize and give legal cover to prisoner abuse, including brutal methods that civilized nations consider to be torture.
Mr. Bush told ABC News this month that he knew of these meetings and approved of the result.
” —The Torture Sessions - New York Times Editorial
“When ordinary citizens have a chance to pose questions to political leaders, they rarely ask about the game of politics. They want to know how the reality of politics will affect them—through taxes, programs, scholarship funds, wars. Journalists justify their intrusiveness and excesses by claiming that they are the public’s representatives, asking the questions their fellow citizens would ask if they had the privilege of meeting with Presidents and senators. In fact they ask questions that only their fellow political professionals care about…. The subtle but sure result is a stream of daily messages that the real meaning of public life is the struggle of Bob Dole against Newt Gingrich against Bill Clinton, rather than our collective efforts to solve collective problems.”
—Why Americans Hate the Media - 1996
Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House | Philadelphia Daily News | 04/14/2008 →
philly.com
Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to “immediately review the information that’s already there” and determine if an inquiry is warranted — but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as “a partisan witch hunt.” However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because “nobody is above the law.”
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“I don’t know if the government should do it or not,” Hudgens said. “But I can tell you firsthand, because it happened to me, it definitely works. They didn’t tell me it was going to happen, but if they did, holy cow, I would’ve told them whatever they wanted me to tell them.”
Alex adds: This, of course, is evidence that it *doesn’t* work, since “whatever they wanted me to tell them” is not the same as “the truth.” One of many objections to torture is that it produces unreliable intelligence.
” —Team-Building or Torture? Court Will Decide.
“We’re not the mean waterboarding company that people think we are.”
—Team-Building or Torture? Court Will Decide.
Oil Qaeda? →
crooksandliars.com
After Bush’s comments, a White House reporter asked Dana Perino, “I don’t understand how a fragmented, clandestine, non-Iraqi terrorist organization could produce and sell Iraqi oil on the global market, especially when the majority of Iraqis have turned against al-Qaida. Could you describe a plausible scenario?” As it turns out, she couldn’t.
"You don't transfer loyalty to a dynasty." →
latimes.com
There was that “3 a.m.” TV ad, in which Clinton questioned Obama’s personal mettle. “That upset me,” Richardson said.
There were some ham-fisted phone calls from Clinton backers, who questioned Richardson’s honor and suggested that the governor, who served in President Clinton’s Cabinet, owed Hillary Clinton his support. “That really ticked me off,” Richardson said.
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“I was loyal,” Richardson said during an extended conversation over breakfast this week at the governor’s mansion in Santa Fe. “But I don’t think that loyalty is transferable to his wife… . You don’t transfer loyalty to a dynasty.”
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Obama preferred the soft sell, calling Richardson every three days or so — “dialing the phone himself, no operator” — for long discussions about policy and campaign issues. The two developed a bantering relationship, building on the camaraderie they shared off-camera during debates, when they would roll their eyes at some of their rivals’ statements.
Clinton was more persistent and tactical. There were eight or more phone calls a day, Richardson said: “Bill calling, Hillary calling, friends of mine that were in the Clinton administration, Clinton operatives, Clinton Hispanic operatives, New Mexico Clinton Hispanic operatives.”
Some callers, who suggested Richardson had an obligation to back Clinton, did more harm than good. “I think the Clintons have a feeling of entitlement … that the presidency was theirs,” Richardson said, and the persistent lobbying from “Washington establishment types” convinced him of a need for some fresher faces on the scene.
A 'West Wing' Writer Imagines the Showdown at the Democratic National Convention -- New York Magazine →
nymag.com
Five pages of political pleasure…
RubyAMP →
code.leadmediapartners.com
RubyAMP is a TextMate bundle that makes you more productive in editing, navigating, and debugging Ruby code. Now you can easily:
- auto-complete from all open tabs
- jump to a method, class, or fixture named under the cursor
- start the debugger on a series of RSpec examples and break at the current line
- inspect by highlighting to evaluate to tooltip or clipboard
- fire up a Merb/Rails server or console for your current app
- tail development.log
He Didn't Mean What He Meant (Hullabaloo) →
digbysblog.blogspot.com
Once again, McCain is excused for saying something completely shocking because his scribbling sycophants are sure he “didn’t really mean it.”
COBOL ON COGS →
coboloncogs.org
LOL2K
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“Bush has been reduced to sheer irrelevancy: al-Sadr and Iran clearly are in control of the situation. Think about that. Four thousand plus American lives have been sacrificed, countless Iraqis have also died, at a financial cost in the multiple trillions and the upshot is not democracy but the spread of radical Shiite islamism. There aren’t words in the English language ominous enough to describe how profound a catastrophe this is.”
— And Again, The Winner Is Iran (Hullabaloo)
