Mom got a call from CNN this morning and they wanted to "book" me and her on at 8:45 am ( western time 11:45 eastern time) tomorrow Thursday the 29th of Dec. Mom had to explain that I am a terrible car rider. Three hours to LA and I would either be such a squirrel that Mom couldn't talk about me or she would medicate me enough that I would look like a dead cat. None of those seemed like a good options. I am not meant to be on Live TV. Truth be known, Mom hates it too but she can fake it and won't run away.Actually, this really is an interesting story, read more about Henry here. Read More......
The solution they came up with is that they will call Mom and someone named Kaegan will talk to her and their art department will show cool pictures of me. Mom won't be able to see it because she will be blabbing. If any of you can tape it that would be great. Neither of my Moms seemed to have learned that skill. You would think with two front paws each they could figure it out. I don't understand technology.
I hope she does well and people who are listening to CNN will like me and my story. We shall see. They only do about three minutes max. Mom talks fast but a lot depends on what the lady asks. Just wanted to let you all know. Mom says it might by "my break" whatever that means. If it gets my book out this will be a good thing. She sent them the story of how me and my friends are reuniting Dr. Jo with her cats tomorrow.
Take care,
Henry (the cat)
Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23% disagree.I've got news for you. That's an abysmally low number for Bush.
Two of the most powerful moments of political déjà vu I have ever experienced took place recently in the context of the Bush administration's defense of presidentially ordered electronic spying on American citizens.Read More......
First, in the best tradition of former President Bill Clinton's classic, "it-all-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-is-is" defense, President Bush responded to a question at a White House news conference about what now appears to be a clear violation of federal electronic monitoring laws by trying to argue that he had not ordered the National Security Agency to "monitor" phone and e-mail communications of American citizens without court order; he had merely ordered them to "detect" improper communications.
This example of presidential phrase parsing was followed quickly by the president's press secretary, Scott McLellan, dead-panning to reporters that when Bush said a couple of years ago that he would never allow the NSA to monitor Americans without a court order, what he really meant was something different than what he actually said. If McLellan's last name had been McCurry, and the topic an illicit relationship with a White House intern rather than illegal spying on American citizens, I could have easily been listening to a White House news conference at the height of the Clinton impeachment scandal.
A report released Tuesday by 13 members of the House Homeland Security Committee says that nearly three years after the cabinet department's creation, gaps still remain in federal efforts to defend the nation against terrorism - including at ports, borders and chemicals plants.And, we all saw how well the Department functioned during Katrina. I'm sure Secretary Chertoff is doing a heckuva job. Read More......
The department also fails to share alerts and other intelligence quickly with state and local officials, according to the Democrats' report, which analyzes public statements and congressional testimony that outline Bush administration security goals since 2002.
"It's our job in Congress to hold the Department of Homeland Security accountable for the work that it does and doesn't do," Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, the committee's top Democrat, said in a statement accompanying the report.
DeLay has been seeking a quick resolution of the money laundering and conspiracy charges. He had to temporarily give up his majority leader's post after he was indicted on Sept. 28 for allegedly funneling corporate money to Texas legislative candidates in violation of state law. Some House Republicans have called for new leadership elections next month if the case isn't resolved by then.The hoops the GOP leadership is going through to save DeLay are almost unbelievable. They are actually postponing the start of Congress for him. That actually gives another new meaning to the term "delay" which is now also "the GOP accommodation of corrupt and indicted leaders."
One of two groups competing to put a gay marriage ban before California voters in 2006 has bowed out of the fight for now, saying the timing and political climate are not right to get such a measure passed.The other anti-gay group is flailing, too. Read More......
Tuesday was the deadline for ProtectMarriage.com to submit the signatures needed to qualify for the June primary ballot one of two overlapping initiatives that would outlaw same-sex marriage and restrict domestic partnership rights.
Andrew Pugno, the group's legal adviser, said the signature drive had fallen about 200,000 voters short of the requirement for 591,105 signatures.
In addition to his Iraq political work in the U.S., Mr. Russo has an open-ended political-advertising contract with the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq for whom he produces advertisements that run in the U.S. seeking investment in Kurdistan. Some critics accuse him of having a vested financial interest in prolonging the U.S. presence there.... And they say there is no conflict between the organization's advocacy work and Mr. Russo's financial ties to the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq.Hmmm... a guy who runs ads in the US for, and favorable to, the Kurdish government is suddenly running ads favorable to continuing the US war in Iraq, a war that benefits - who? - the Kurdish government (see below). A natural question to ask is whether the Kurds themselves are somehow involved in this pro-war ad campaign.
Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan....Gee, so the longer the war goes on, the longer the training of Iraqi troops goes on, the more the Kurds are able to infiltrate those troops, and the greater the chance the Americans will willingly and unknowingly hand northern Iraq to the Kurds.
The interviews with Kurdish troops, however, suggested that as the American military transfers more bases and areas of control to Iraqi units, it may be handing the nation to militias that are bent more on advancing ethnic and religious interests than on defeating the insurgency and preserving national unity.
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