The White House initially would not give details of the 10 plots that Bush mentioned in his morning speech before the National Endowment for Democracy, saying some information remained classified. But in the evening, the White House released a fact sheet with a brief, and vague, description of each.

No. This is not credible in any way shape or form. They have been saying for years that these guys operate on a cell system, so busting one has zero impact on any others. There is NO reason not to try and publicize these as they happen. Saying it happened is not enough.

Bush: U.S. Foiled at Least 10 Terror Plots

Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003.

Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"

God told George to invade Iraq??? Ummmm... Is the Oval Office a padded room now?

BBC - Press Office - George Bush on Elusive Peace

Fine. In the intervening weeks, I've watched Bush speeches regularly, and the twitch has remained a constant, although not in extemporaneous appearances. Now, this week, in his press conference announcing the nomination of Harriet Miers, the President has broken through that barrier

I'd previously linked to the video. The discussion of it is hilarious.

The Blog | Harry Shearer: What's He Doin'? | The Huffington Post

Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th-hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation.

What this means is Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, believes his client is defintely going to be indicted.

Lawrence O'Donnell is such fun. Does this mean when Rove actually is indicted that Bush will can him? Well of course not, he's innocent until proven guilty after all.

And if you believe Rove will be canned I have some prime real estate a few miles west of LA to sell you too.

The Blog | Lawrence O'Donnell: UPDATE: Plamegate: the Next Step | The Huffington Post

When asked why he is supporting President Bush's new nominee to the Supreme Court, Reverend Dobson, founder of the Focus on the Family, said, "I can't reveal it all, because I do know things that I'm privy to that I can't describe, because of confidentiality."

This is after he admitted, "It was leaked to the media that I've had conversations with Karl Rove and the White House, which is true."

James Dobson being anywhere near the top of the political food chain goes beyond wrong. That a Supreme Court nominee has been discussed with him by the White House makes me physically ill.

Cenk Uygur: The Christian Republic of America

The Republican-controlled Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure Wednesday that would set standards for the military's treatment of detainees, a response to the Abu Ghraib scandal and other allegations that U.S. soldiers have abused prisoners.
"Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Conventions," he said, referring to the international agreement on the treatment of prisoners of war. "Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death.
"But every one of us -- every single one of us -- knew and took great
strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were
better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace
ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them."

'Bout god damn time. You cannot chunk the Geneva Convention claiming its quaint without replacing it with a better standard and expect people to "just trust you" while huge abuse scandals are going down.

Senate sets standards on detainees / Lawmakers defy Bush to overwhelmingly OK McCain bill in response to Abu Ghraib

Watch Bush's jaw. What the hell is that?

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"The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia," Bush said.

Isn't this the same thing (from the other side of the fence) that Bush is trying to do? Throw down one country and rally the entire Muslim world to American style democracy? I hate to say this but being a betting man, I'd bet on the Muslims. You can sometimes rally nationalism to fight between countries, but you can always rally God to fight within them.

What's worse is that by now framing the war in this way, the Muslim fundamantalists can use this and say that this is a holy war, and that we've been lying about what it was the entire time. Whether they are right about that is another question, but they can point to it and scream we are against Allah, that everything that has happened is because of that and make that charge stick.

Bush: Radicals Seek to Intimidate World

Previous winners include doctors James Nolan, Thomas Stillwell and John Sands who shared the 1993 Ig for Medicine for their painstakingly researched study: "Acute Management of the Zipper Entrapped Penis."

"Is that the frank or the beans?"

Ig Nobels to honour strange science

This is old, but I hadn't seen it. My respect for Shep Smith and Geraldo Rivera went up dramatically.

IFILM - Viral Videos: Geraldo Rivera & Shepard Smith Unleashed