Didn’t the removal of Saddam make us safer?
If we are safer than why would Bush want to make us safer?
Unless he is finally acknowledging that we aren’t safer since the removal of the Iraqi dictator.
Stewart zings Blitzer – film at 11
I was watching The Daily Show tonight and Jon Stewart had on Wolf Blitzer from CNN. Stewart just hammered Blitzer about the 9/11 Senate Report released today.
The following exchange is from memory so the exact wording is iffy:
Stewart: So do you think that this Senate report should be the biggest political scandal ever?
Blitzer: You never made a mistake?
Stewart: So did the media go over what went wrong?
Blitzer: Yes we had meetings.
Stewart: I’m not talking about deciding what to put on the crawl (at the bottom of CNN’s picture) but did you look at what you could have done differently?
[funny bit about the crawl here]
Stewart: What could have the media done differently?
Blitzer: We should have been more skeptical.
[Stewart has a large facial reaction as if he was going to say “Isn’t that your job.”]
Stewart: So is it that the Republicans and Bush intimidated you guys not to ask the questions?
Blitzer: No. It wasn’t that. I’m not sure what happened. Look i went to Kuwait I got all the briefings the CIA, Defense Department, FBI, Congress, and everybody said he had huge stock piles of biological, chemical weapons and it was only a short time before he had a nuclear bomb….
Stewart: Right….
Blitzer: Condoleeza Rice said on my show ‘Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer’ [audience laughs at obvious plug] before the war, that she didn’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud….
Stewart: Right but we have since learned that Pakistan sold ‘mushroom’ material to every country in the area BUT Iraq. This is a crazy world…. whoooo….hoooooo. [then Stewart twirlls in his chair and waves his arms crazily]
Wonder Woman on DVD
At last now I can die (not really but close).
Wonder Woman with the sexy Lynda Carter was one of my favorite shows in the mid 70’s.
Seeing her transform into her super hero outfit each episode made me feel all warm and tingly (if you know what I mean).
It was campy but fun and the theme music was bitchin’.
Now if they would just put out Square Pegs on DVD then I could die.
Amazon.com: DVD: Wonder Woman – The Complete First Season (1976)
A Look At the Uber Fan
Music, like all forms of art, allows us to express ourselves to others. Music can convey the full rage of human emotions. Music we love is any that touches us in whatever way we are feeling or want to feel.
It is a given that not all of us feel the same way or enjoy music in the same way.
Some of us love lyrics. We are thrilled by the combination or words and stanzas drawing pictures in our heads like poetry can if done well.
Some of us, like myself, love the music itself. We like the use of instruments and voices into a compact container of sound. I love music with strings, horns, and good percussion.
I can’t fathom how anyone could enjoy rap music yet my family shakes their heads at my fondness for female rock singers.
The joy of music is finding that song or album that ripples through your entire being and it seems when we do we have a mission to spread that music to every corner of our world.
Interesting Quote from the funeral of Ronald Reagan
While browsing some of the news sites about the funeral of President Ronald Reagan, I came across the following quote contained in the transcript of the remarks from his son Ron Reagan Jr. The remarks were part of the interment ceremony held in California on Friday evening June 11th.
“Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. True, after he was shot and nearly killed early in his presidency, he came to believe that God had spared him in order that he might do good. But he accepted that as a responsibility, not a mandate. And there is a profound difference.”
Mayhaps Bush Jr. will get the message, but I doubt it.