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Powerline is reviewing today’s Washington Post article, which is very similar to a number of stories in other papers, about how CBS showed the documents to the White House and when the President’s men didn’t steer them off the story, they took that as “authentication” of the documents. The White House denies this, but it will certainly provide fodder for the conspiracy theorists who find sinister motives behind anything that doesn’t back up their point of view (aka closed-minded gits). Journalists love to think of themselves as front line investigators uncovering things through hard work, luck and their own intelligence. In fact, they are just spoon-fed most of their stories by people with agendas. Reminds me of US counterintelligence efforts where most spies are simply found by leaks within the home country’s intel community rather than by gumshoe detective work. ]]>

Helicopters all in a row in preparation for Hurricane Ivan. These Fort Rucker trainers were moved inland and in to a hanger to ride out the storm.]]>

Moscow News reports The committee of information politics of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, will consider amendments forbidding electronic media to spread information on hostage-taking. It won’t apply to newspapers, just the Internet. ]]>

Joi Ito is talking about when I was on Capitol Hill, buying and selling election victories (and mainly defeats). I remember buying 100s of shares in the 1994 House of Representatives market in the Summer before law school, and then watching the polls shift from Likely Democratic (as it had been for 40 years) to GOP Victory. Man, I literally could have made $1,000s of dollars if I bought up all the GOP votes early. What a bummer. ]]>

Powerline is reporting on some pro-Kerry Union (IUPAT it looks like) thugs in a soon to be infamous photo of a three-year-old girl crying because these mental midgets tore up her sign. Unfortunately, with the Democratic candidate stuck in a rut, we can expect more of this desparation activity from the rank-and-file supporters upset about the campaign. And you wonder who is the face of the 27% who believe Dan Rather? Look at the idiot in the IUPAT(?) (Painters Union) t-shirt. Drop over to the thugs’ website to leave them a note. Here is the Union President’s e-mail ]]>