Archives for May 2007
More “things are improving” for the denialists. Maybe they will claim that it is important to wean people away from centralized government monopolies, and to empower small businesses.
Iraq power shortages spur black market
Abdul-Mahdi said Iraq’s 27 million people need 9,000 megawatts of power daily to meet their minimum requirements. In the United States, that’s enough […]
Scarsdale, NY 10583 - Google Maps
Check out the latest from Google Maps. This is the Middle Eastern grocery store where I buy flatbread, dates, figs, peanut brittle, and assorted goodies.
Sorry, the link doesn’t bring you to my detailed view. Click on Google Maps, then click on “Street View” and play around.
Then find something in your […]
What I Think About Evolution - New York Times editorial
While the whole thing boils down to “I believe in my faith,” a few bits were noteworthy:
Early on, he lays down his maker, … his marker:
The scientific method, based on reason, seeks to discover truths about the nature of the created order and how it operates, […]
The architects’ rendering of the new Baghdad US Embassy have reduced me to sputtering incoherence, or even more incoherent sputtering than usual.
It’s a fortress, a walled-off, isolated, impregnable, air-conditioned palace. Not gaudy and ostentatious like Saddam’s palaces, but an American palace of blast walls and swimming pools, self-contained with its own power generation, water purification, […]
How long have we been reading about the Iraqi Army? It is “just getting started.” It “needs more training.” Here’s what Daveed Gartenstein-Ross wrote last week in Featured Report from Iraq: A look at the surge from Baghdad (The Fourth Rail) - not exactly a leftie Moonbat site -
The Iraqi Security Forces: There are […]
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
He just knows better. He’s in a bubble, and he knows better.
Bloodspite writes at Techography - Americans don’t know what’s right for themselves
“If you want to kill the bill, if you don’t want to do what’s right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it, you can use it to frighten people, […]
Does anyone recall the Annie Jacobson, Flight 327 story from 2004? A woman reported suspicious activity by some Muslims on the flight. I said she was “jumping at shadows.”
Oops. Bad call. Looks like there was something to her story.
Captain’s Quarters - Dry Run Confirmed (?)
A declassified report confirms that Annie Jacobsen accurately recounted suspicious […]
Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation
As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies argue that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable. The psychologists and other specialists, commissioned by the Intelligence Science Board, make the case that more […]
The Daily Dish: “Verschärfte Vernehmung”
The phrase “Verschärfte Vernehmung” is German for “enhanced interrogation”. Other translations include “intensified interrogation” or “sharpened interrogation”. It’s a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their […]
Politicization at DOJ
For all of the posturing by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during the testimony of former Department of Justice political appointee Monica Goodling, they and their Democrat colleagues in the Clinton administration went to far greater lengths to identify and track the political activities of career and politically appointed lawyers in the […]
Any comments on this graph and the following?
In mid-2003, the bad guys in Iraq could only stage a couple hundred attacks per month. Now their capabilities have multiplied ten-fold. By virtue of our own adaption, and ever-improving force protection, our casualties have remained relatively stable.
I submit two propositions:
1. The growth of terrorist capability in Iraq […]
The denialists, the twenty-eight percenters, the hard-core war supporters should not surprise or interest me, but they do.
Most generally, most broadly, their fierce determination is just what one should expect from such a minority. Recall that, at one time, Bush’s policies had wide support. As the realities & consequences of his administration and his policies […]
Seixon replied to my previous request for postwar planning in Iraq. He cited:
DoD’s Operation Polo Step - Iraq War Plan — 15 pages in all of Tab K - Planning for Phase IV
and a recent Senate Intelligence Committee Report, which after some current introduction, offers these four appendices of 2002-03 planning:
Appendix A - Regional Implications […]
Jeff Goldstein, in this classic post, Hey, anybody feel like going over to Mahablog to engage in a constructive argument over her post alleging that the Administration didn’t plan for post-war Iraq, and that the CIA ominously warned of impending disaster?, maintains that “yes, indeed, the Bush administration did have plans for administering postwar Iraq.” […]
