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Watchers of weasels 9/13/06
AbbaGav participated in the 2996 project and profiled Angel Pabon who challenged stereotypes to manage international equities at Cantor-Fitzgerald. Done with Mirrors describes Pronoun Trouble in describing a transgendered man. The Education Wonks cite ...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 14.09.2006 @ 08:13
When my wife called me that morning hysterical that the north tower was on fire and that her brother worked there, it didn't fully register with me. (I had forgotten about that.) I suspect the horror of the day didn't hit me until the south tower fell.
My reaction to my wife's concerns was that Jon worked 30 stories below the fire; he should be fine. And I remained optimistic that most people would be saved and that the twin towers would be restored ... until the south tower fell.
My brother in law survived. My optimism was correct in his case. But I never really grasped the danger at first. (Had he gotten down the stairs 10 minutes later, when the south tower fell, then our family might not have had a happy ending.
Comment Posted By soccer dad On 13.09.2006 @ 08:48
"PATH TO 9/11:" BLAME BUSH HARDER!
Hopefully I'll blog about this later. I've read parts of Why America Slept, Legacy and Losing Bin Laden. One thing that occurs to me isn't that the Clinton administration didn't get; it's that no one got it. If Dole had been President 1996-2000 Richard Clarke's warning likely would have gone unheeded too.
Where Bush differs of course is that he looked at what had been done before and said that he wanted to stop swatting at flies and wanted a comprehensive approach to fighting terror. IIRC, he got his report, Sept 10, 2001.
While Bush can be faulted for not following through adequately, he deserves credit, at least for noticing what was wrong.
( I still can't figure out why Clarke has been harder on Bush than on Clinton. My best guess is that he takes his failure to get a promotion on the president. That means is that he was a good man who became petty.)
Finally, when discussion the might have beens it's important to consider Terrorism on Trial by Pipes and Emerson.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/381It might have been possible to prevent 9/11 even starting late. But no one thought to look at resources available to the government at the time.
Comment Posted By soccer dad On 5.09.2006 @ 10:29
9/11 TIN FOIL HATS ARE MELTING
Of the council and carnivals 09/17/06
Last week I was unable to record Watcher's councils results for September 8, 2006. They are available in their entirety at the Watcher of Weasels. The result was a 3-way tie and the Watcher himself had to settle the tie and chose It's not a war it's...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 18.09.2006 @ 04:03
Watchers of weasels 9/06/06
This week's nominations are in ... AbbaGav moderates the moderate Ayatollah Khatami's moderate words so we don't have to. It makes it all the more understandable why moderate moonbat, former President Carter would honor moderate former President Kha...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 6.09.2006 @ 08:03
Watchers of weasels 8/30/06
The nominations are in. Here is a rundown of this week's Council posts ... In Cutting the Biased Some Slack, Sundries Shack notes that all journalists appear to be on the same team. It just may not be the team of freeedom and democracy. Done with Mirr...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 30.08.2006 @ 23:29
I'd point out in Maryland that a Democrat can win the state by winning only three out of 24 jurisdictions. If there were an electoral college like system in Maryland it would force the Democrat to seek broader appeal for his/her agenda.
One interesting consequence of going to majority rule according to your assessment is that we'd likely go back to something the founders anticipated. The founders figured that politicians would represent the interests of their states and looked down upon political parties as being crude. It would seem, ironically, that an implication of getting rid of the electoral system would be to re-emphasize the primacy of state interests. A secondary effect would be to weaken party ties.
Comment Posted By soccer dad On 30.08.2006 @ 04:32
Krauthammer: Commit
A few weeks ago the winning entry of the Watcher's Council was Right Wing Nuthouse's Iraq: Quit or Commit. The argument (in a nutshell) presented was that the war in Iraq is not going well and therefore the Bush administration is obligated to do one ...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 8.09.2006 @ 05:58
Of the council and carnivals 08/28/06
The Council has spoken. Top Council Pick - Right Wing Nuthouse's Iraq: Quit or commit in which he argues that the Bush administration hasn't been doing enough to win the war and has thus called the whole enterprise into question. He wants the adminis...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 28.08.2006 @ 04:57
Watching the weasels and other stuff
This week's Watcher's Council nominations are out: The Sundries Shack demands the release of Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and his cameraman Olaf Wiig who were kidnapped in Lebanon nearly two weeks ago by parties unknown? The PA can't or won't d...
Comment Posted By Soccer Dad On 23.08.2006 @ 04:57
