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IRONY SO THICK YOU CAN BATHE IN IT
Council speak 11/10/2006
A few days late and just before the new entries are announced, here are the results of last week's voting. The full results are here. The winning post was Right Wing Nuthouse's Irony so Thick You Can Bathe In It about the revelations that Saddam had ...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 14.11.2006 @ 13:55
Watchers of weasles 11/01/2006
The Watcher of Weasels has this week's nominations up. Here are the Council nominations. AbbaGav considers the depths to which the media sinks to make an issue of torture. The question actually asked here is getting remarkably close to "have you stop...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 1.11.2006 @ 06:05
A LIBERAL MANIFESTO AND OTHER HALLOWEEN FRIGHTS
Council speak 10/27/2006
The Council had spoken on October 27, 2006 and once again there was a tie. But this time between only two entries among the Council Post. This time the Watcher cast his tie breaking vote to A Liberal Manifesto and Other Halloween Frights by Right Wing ...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 31.10.2006 @ 02:32
Watcers of weasels 10/25/2006
Though I haven't posted last week's winners yet, here are this weeks nominations from the Watcher's Council. AbbaGav considers the options we have in dealing with Iran and North Korea. No option is particularly satisfying leading him to conclude At ...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 26.10.2006 @ 04:27
"AS LONG AS WE'RE TALKING, WE'RE NOT SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER"
Watchers of weasels 10/11/06
Council nominations are in, voting is taking place. Here are the entries for the other members of the watcher's council. AbbaGav explains why we need generals prosecuting wars, not lawyers In prosecuting the Global Litigation Against Terror, it is cle...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 12.10.2006 @ 10:32
Unhinged or calculated
I was surprised when I saw last week that President Clinton was set to appear on Fox News Sunday for an exclusive one on one interview. With Fox's reputation as a right wing mouthpiece in some circles, it made no sense that Clinton would agree to appe...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 26.09.2006 @ 04:56
I did not see the diatribe but read the transcript, but I agree "...it certainly angered the ex-President who seemed eager to tee off on the bemused Wallace."
In fact I think that's a bit of an understatment. That diatribe was calculated. If Wallace had asked him two or three questions, one following up on the previous one becoming more insistent, maybe I'd buy Clinton's outrage. But this was a pretty open ended opening question. Clinton was waiting for Wallace to open the door and then unloaded when he did.
My question is about Clarke. Yes, he was not fired, he was undervalued by the Bush administration. But when you read Legacy by Lowry or Losing Bin Laden by Miniter you get the strong impression that Clarke wasn't listened to during the Clinton administration. Certainly it seemed that during the Clinton years he was one of the very people who was serious about fighting terror. Or at least that's the way Clarke tells it through these authors.
The problem is that it appears that Clarke's main job right now is protecting his own legacy; portraying himself as the Cassandra no one took seriously. (Michael Scheuer - Imperial Hubris - has nothing but contempt for Clarke, though they both have nothing but contempt for Bush 43.)
I don't understand why Clarke is harder on the Bush administration than the Clinton administration. Is his ego that fragile?
Comment Posted By soccer dad On 25.09.2006 @ 08:42
Watchers of weasels 10/04/06
Council nominations are in, voting is taking place. Here are the entries for the other members of the watcher's council. AbbaGav confronts his own mortality as he attends crossing guard school The main thing I learned about being a crossing-guard is t...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 5.10.2006 @ 04:22
Watchers of weasels 9/27/06
Council nominations are in, voting is taking place. Here are the entries for the other members of the watcher's council. AbbaGav explains that it's not actually Holocaust denial that President Ahmadinejad suffers from but Holocaust envy. And of cours...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 29.09.2006 @ 01:42
Watchers of weasels 9/13/06
Council nominations are in, voting is taking place. Here are the entries for the other members of the watcher's council. AbbaGav participated in the 2996 project and profiled Angel Pabon who challenged stereotypes to manage international equities at C...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 14.09.2006 @ 16:36
