It takes a Village

or in this case, the entire world.

I'm making a general plea here on humanitarian grounds for us to do whatever we are able to do, in whatever form you choose, to help the victims of the tsunami this week.

Unfortunately, I have no skills to add to the relief effort, all I've got is money and my voice. To that end, google has a nice summary page of some places where you can make contributions to the relief effort. FWIW, I'm a Medecins sans Frontieres guy, myself.

Now that the initial wave is past, the entire region is going to be a massive disease epidemic, combined with a lack of drinking water, food, shelter, and all sorts of other miseries. The human cost is already staggering in scale and it is going to get worse. So if you can help, please do.

Thank you.

still here, still working

just have to coordinate the blogging locations and such. lawterati.com's still got the most recent.

lots of life changes going on right now. it's a very confucian time, i must say.

umm... hokay

i actually had some recent postage, but... hmm. disappeared down the memory hole. visited the bit bucket in the sky.

in the news: active blogging should resume shortly. just need to synchronize and script some of my new/old school sites so i can propagate properly. and such. and so forth.

oh, and if you're reading this... stop now, dammit and get to work on GOTV.

sorry been away for a while

main site got h4x0r3d, and i realized that my hand-rolled software was better... but it took the wind out of my sales. just moved on to other things. i'll be back shortly, with the relaunch of the cmoore/lawterati sites.

Condoleezzzzaaa Lies Under Oath

Center for American Progress has the details. Indict her for perjury!

Another Bush Gaffe

Bush Compares a Guest to His Mother. He just doesn't handle this spotlight thing very well at all, does he?

The Onion Captures it all once again

With their Point-Counterpoint: The War On Iraq. Great stuff, and deadly accurate.

Nader falls short in first bid for Oregon ballot

Too bad, so sad. Get off the stage, fucker.

GMail: it's Panopterrific

If this isn't going to get people to use GnuPG, I don't know what will. Programs scanning your inbox for ads? Use encryption and it won't work at all. C'mon people! Use G n u P G already!

Well that Settles That

Microsoft and Sun settled today. At first I thought it was April Fool's. But it's the second. May I actually be finally getting some sweet, sweet relief from this purgatory?

Fallujah's Lost, but we shall "retake" it

Is Fallujah the Iraqi version of the Tet Offensive? Discuss.

Kautilyan: Treasury Used to Attack Kerry

The Bush administration keeps having civil servants violate the law by having them work on explicitly political projects. I hate these people.

Senate passes the Unborn Victims of Violence Bill

Make no mistake, this is a direct assault on a woman's right to choose, and if there's a second term for Bush, I can guarantee you that you'll have seen the end of Roe v. Wade.

You can't turn your backs on these assholes for a second.

Just When You Think Bush Can't Get Any Lower

He goes and makes fun of the missing WMDs. You know, those things we were supposed to be finding? Those things that formed the foundation for the entire justification of the war on Iraq? Those things that have led to the deaths of 585 US soldiers and over 10,000 Iraqis (not to mention the wounded and other casualties)?

This is supposed to be presidential?

And to think, Dean was excoriated in the press for giving a pep rally cry.

Oh, THAT Burn!

I'd compartmentalized the humilation, shame, and other negative aspects to working my current job. Then I got put on a new assignment this week. In sum, the task goes something like this: you know that job that solely through our own incompetence you didn't get considered for? yeah, that job that solely through our own sloth and disdain we would not accomodate an interview for you, even though you notified us immediately and acted vigorously to further your candidacy after we had totally screwed you through our own incompetence? Yeah, that job that hired three other people who are all less qualified than you in every way imaginable? Well, guess what?! You get to do exactly what they are doing - and what you would have been doing if you had been hired - for approximately half the money, 1/3rd the office, and an infinte amount less of respect.

Aren't you excited? Aren't you just so happy to be given this opportunity? Aren't you just looking forward to really helping the team out?

I fucking hate this job.

Condi Rice's Negligence Finally an Open Issue

By Richard Clarke, of course. We already knew she didn't read her daily briefings or any of the policy pieces prepared for her, as evidenced by the Nigerian yellowcake deception in the State of the Union address. She refuses to openly testify and she refuses to testify under oath to the 9/11 Commission, yet she hurls slanderous insults and disinformation from behind the protection of her adminstration (what a coward!).

Last night on Larry King, Clarke said:

Clarke said the Clinton administration's approach to a similar threat before the turn of the millennium -- on which top officials held daily interagency meetings and actively sought information from within their own agencies -- shows that a similar approach might have worked to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks.

He said that prior to 9/11, people within the FBI knew that two of the 19 hijackers were in the country, but that information never made its way up to the highest levels of power.

If Condi Rice had been doing her job and holding those daily meetings the way Sandy Berger did, if she had a hands-on attitude to being national security adviser when she had information that there was a threat against the United States ... [the information] would have been shaken out in the summer of 2001.

No wonder she's looking so pissed.

Her named-by-the-media-but-not-actual "rebuttals" so far have been 1) she did so tell people to be on the lookout for more terrorist activity. Once, on 5 July 2001; and 2) Clarke didn't attend enough meetings.

Tom Delay About to Be Indicted

For tax and finance wrongs. He'll also have to relinquish his post as Speaker. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Why isn't the so-called liberal media discussing this?

Apparently Nixon-esque Tapes Available

As reported on counterspin, there's an interesting revelation that every CSG meeting was taped and transcribed.

Which means we could have perfect knowledge of who said what, when.

Which means that it's going to take years and some court action, but the truth will be known. I'd rather it be sooner than later.

Why are the Bushies so afraid of an open government? Oh yeah, they've got lots to hide.

So, Which is It?

Are we supposed to believe Condi's version:

Ms. Rice painted a distinctly different picture of the involvement of Mr. Clarke, who has prompted furious responses since he asserted in a new book and in testimony on Capitol Hill that President Bush did not heed warnings before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"He was in every meeting that was held on terrorism," Ms. Rice said. "All the deputies' meetings, the principals' meeting that was held and so forth, the early meetings after Sept. 11."

or Scott McClellan's version:

"Dr. Rice, early on in the administration," McClellan said yesterday, "started holding daily briefings with the senior directors of the National Security Council, of which he was one. But he refused to attend those meetings, and he was later asked to attend those meetings and he continued to refuse to attend those meetings." Apparently, some meetings are more important than others.

?

I'm so confused.

Watch Condi Lie, Lie, Lie

and then lie some more. Is their any question that this is the most dishonest administration ever? I think they've surpassed even Nixon at this point.