I saw Mad Hot Ballroom (check out all the trailers, not just the new one.) yesterday. What a wonderful, wonderful movie. Easily one of the best of the year and it should get an Oscar nomination for best documentary.
You don’t just follow these kids on their dancing journey, you grow with them. A really uplifting movie. If you don’t get a chance to see it in the movies, then this is the type of movie you’ll want to own when it comes out on DVD because this film will capture your heart.
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and read Bob Herbert’s Column entitled “Oil and Blood.”
In other words, if Rove’s failure was merely that he didn’t care enough to check on Plame’s status, then he did nothing wrong. If he knew she was covert but didn’t realize that the CIA prefers its covert agents to stay covert, then he did nothing wrong. If he knew that too, but outed Plame in a conversation that someone else initiated, then he did nothing wrong. And finally, even if he knew all those things, but his motivation was merely to score points against Joe Wilson, rather than to ruin Valerie Plame’s career, then he did nothing wrong. These criteria essentially justify in advance virtually anything that Rove might plausibly have done.
(Via The Washington Monthly.)
Political party over country no matter what the facts. Basically what Rove has done is treason. Check out the non-disclosure agreement he signed summarized over at Daily Kos.
Some good questions over at Seeing the Forest from the NY Times:
For starters, did Mr. Bush know in the fall of 2003, when he was telling the public that no one wanted to get to the bottom of the case more than he did, that Mr. Rove, his longtime strategist and senior adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, had touched on the C.I.A. officer’s identity in conversations with journalists before the officer’s name became public? If not, when did they tell him, and what would the delay say in particular about his relationship with Mr. Rove, whose career and Mr. Bush’s have been intertwined for decades?
Rove committed treason. Everybody knows it. Everybody. The point is what will bush do about it. I believe he’ll do nothing. He’ll keep rove in place and defend him.
This is easily the most corrupt administration in this nation’s history, and it is causing damage to the country.
It’s sickening!
You can bet dollars to doughnuts that the CC media will lose focus as soon as bush announces a candidate for Supreme Court and this outrageous scandal will be put aside just like the Downing Street Memo, Guckert/Gannon, voting fraud in Ohio, stolen election in Florida etc. And that’s not counting the day to day assaults on the enviroment and the economy (from surplus to deficit) and personal freedoms.
He and his flying monkeys have to be removed before they destroy everything.
A co-worker sent me this plainsong chant of the weather in England. Though I’m sure it’s old weather, you may find it enjoyable anyway. Don’t forget to turn your sound on. If you’re patient, you’ll hear the rain and wind.
The CCM seems to have finally found a spine. You can view the video of Scott McClellan at the Crooks and Liars site.
From a non-blogging friend:
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the
country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run
the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the
country but don’t really understand The New York Times. They do, however,
like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running
the country — if they could find the time — and if they didn’t have to
leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the
country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who
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I know,… I know… I said I wasn’t going to be making the Huffington Post a regular read, but this first sentence from Larisa Alexandrovna just sucked me right in:
Pardon me while I intrude on the whorish theater of martyrdom now assigned to the likes of Judith Miller.
Larisa writes (out loud!), about the corporate conservative media in general and Judith Miller in particular.
Protecting sources is not the same thing as protecting criminals working against the public interest. Or is the public interest no longer part of the equation either?
(Quotes Via The Huffington Post.)
It has become obvious that the CCM has shirked it’s responsibilities to the public and I’ll probably record my thoughts on this at a later date, but go read the article, including the links. You won’t be sorry.
I’ve gotten a few comment spams lately (just enough to be annoying). Typepad offers an option to require a typekey before being allowed to comment. If you have a typekey account, then you simply enter your username and password. If you don’t have a typekey, you would need to get one.
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I’d really be interested in what people think about this (either comment or email). I’m considering using typekey, but will not if most responders object. Right now, comments is set to optional use of typekey if you want to try it out.
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