Right Here, Right Now 3.0

ABC News: "'When I look at the number of men and women who have been killed it's almost 1,700 now, in addition to close to 12,000 have been severely wounded and I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that's all been proven that it was never there,' Jones said on ABC's 'This Week.'"

Wow. This is apparently one of the guys who drove the Freedom Fries French bashing in Congress.

Yea, the team is really working hard.... I'd be jealous, but I'm too old to share a hotel room with anyone other than family. I will rue the day I have to make a company trip.

John advises: "You know, when you're a bull, you should stop looking for red flags."

Chicago Tribune: Old South racism lives in Texas town

"They picked up Billy Ray Johnson outside a convenience store in this East Texas bayou town, a place where Confederate flags fly in some front yards and a mural of barefoot slaves picking cotton greets patrons inside the local post office.

On a cool September night in 2003, they drove the 42-year-old mentally retarded black man to a cow pasture where a crowd of white youths was having a party. They got Johnson drunk, they made him dance, they jeered at him with racial epithets.

Then, according to court testimony, one of Johnson's assailants punched him in the face, knocking him out cold. They tossed his unconscious body into the back of a pickup and dumped him by the side of a dirt road, on top of a mound of stinging fire ants."

You're not gonna believe the sentence those good-old boys got. (click the link, read the article.)

Addendum: I'm told you have to register with the Tribune to see the article. Sorry about that; I must have done that a while ago and forgotten. The bottom line is, the 'boys' got off, it was decided, since the victim was retarded, not just black, that the Feds couldn't come after them with civil rights charges and the local town folk, interrupted during their banjo lessons, don't understand what the fuss is about.

CNN.com - Kerry, Bush had similar grades: "Sen. John F. Kerry's grade average at Yale University was virtually identical to President Bush's record there, despite repeated portrayals of Kerry as the more intellectual candidate during the 2004 presidential campaign."

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Ken Duberstein was a Reagan Chief of Staff and currently runs (we must assume) a conservative leaning Washington lobbying firm.

The Huffington Post: "Duberstein said that, in reading all the media reports of the last few days, he put himself back in his shoes as White House chief of staff. He thought, with the information Felt had in front of him, 'What options did he have?' 'He couldn't go to the White House Chief of Staff (Haldeman or Ehrlichman); he couldn't go to the Justice Department (John Mitchell); he couldn't go to the White House Counsel (John Dean). He did something responsible. The congressional committees hadn't been formed yet. What do you do? Felt put America first.'"

In case you are new to Watergate, all of the President's men mentioned in that paragraph went to prison for their various Watergate related deeds.

I don't watch news on TV (unless there is a natural disaster to learn up on), so this is second hand, but apparently the Nixon apologists are hard at Mark Felt, accusing him of traitorous behavior. Wait, I found a link.

It is just incredible.

This is the Vanity Fair article that broke the Deep Throat story.

via New Media Musings: "The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was 'Deep Throat,' the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon."

As someone who, as a teenager, watched the hearings and followed Watergate fairly closely, this is huge.