WMD Report is Out

And here’s your link to it.

The response is predictable… the left is ticked because they didn’t get their pound of Bush. Screw them; I’ve never expected them to accept the truth of the matter.

That mewling Kitten Harry Reid is complaining that the report didn’t address how Bush Administtaion officials USED the data given them. Perhaps it just slipped his mind that wasn’t the stated purpose of the commission?

There are other comments of the like from the usual suspects, but we’ve been over those lies before; I won’t bother wasting my time quoting them. The bottom line here is that the report shows President Bush and his administration acted corectly… and the Democrats can’t deal with it.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans’ incomes, bolstered by strong gains in hiring, rose by 0.3 percent in February while consumer spending climbed at an even faster pace of 0.5 percent, the government reported Thursday.

Damn those Bush tax cuts, anyway. They’re making it so hard for us.

Yeah, I know, it’s April Fools day.
Forgive me; after the events of the last week, I’m not in the mood.

Another example of the kind of lies coming from the Canadian government of late:

Stockholm — Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was savagely beaten, tortured and raped while in Iranian custody in 2003, according to an emergency-room doctor who examined her before she died.

The doctor has recently received political asylum in Canada.

It’s time Canada figured out that ass kissing is not diplomacy.

NY TIMES; WASHINGTON, March 31 – Samuel R. Berger, a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and give up his security clearance for three years for removing classified material from a government archive, the Justice Department and associates of Mr. Berger’s said Thursday.

A respected figure in foreign policy circles for years, Mr. Berger has also agreed to pay a $10,000 fine as part of an agreement reached recently with the Justice Department after months of quiet negotiations, the associates said.

Respected by whom?

Oh… uh… yeah… the New York Times.

And they have the audacity to act shocked, as if this cirminal garbage is something new among Democrats in general, and Clintonites in particular?

Clearly, the Times hasn’t chnaged at all, much less for the better.

Update:
Bill at INDC has more as do many others. Bill seems to have it best so far…

So, let me get this straight: Sandy Berger intentionally destroyed the only copies of top secret documents about this country’s knowledge of looming terrorism threats for clearly political purposes, even though a bipartisan Congressional commission was requesting and utilizing all such documents in an effort to make recommendations about how to protect America from another terrorist attack.

In my world, that’s not a “$10,000 fine … three-year suspension of his national security clearance” offense, it’s in the parking lot of the ballpark of treason.

But you’ll notes that none of that leaks through the NYT.

By the way, here’s a little background…. something I wrote last July

Hitachi has the 500 gig drive… and the details…. (PDF)

At a buck a gig, it’s a little rich, but then again, the leading edge generally is.
I’ll tell ya this; if I’m going THAT being, I’m going for the RAID card and a few of these drives. The idea of losing that much data at a clip is too much to contemplate.

Sigh….

James Ridgeway argues that the Shaivo case may not be the political negative the Democrats were hoping. He notes that…

…Daniel Henninger wrote in Friday’s Wall Street Journal: “Democrats and others have accused Republicans and President Bush of playing politics with the Schiavo case. Let’s hope so. Unlike most, this is a necessary politics that ought to draw the whole country into the argument. . . . Republicans are said to have a pro-life litmus test for judicial nominations. Does this mean that President Hillary Clinton’s litmus test would require her judicial nominees to be: pro-abortion, pro partial birth abortion, pro right-to-suicide, and pro pull the plug on medical cases deemed hopeless?”

Hennenger is quite correct.  Within this is an important, if slightly tagental aspect of this whole Shaivo matter; the charge that one side or the other is “Simply playing politics” with a particular issue, or another.  I grow weary with such charges being used as a defense.

Usually, when Senator Smith makes the charge against Senator Jones that Senator Jones is ‘playing politics’, it translates to “I’d really rather that Senator Jones hadn’t brought that matter up.” Politics is how the interests of the people are dealt with in a representative republic.  This is not a matter of mere salesmanship, usually… Senator Jones is bringing up the subject… whatever it is… because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that the topic carries some weight with the voter.

Politics is the tool free societies use to examine, discuss and decide issues that are important to the personal and cultural values of the people within those societies.

Politics, itself, is not the issue. Politics are a purely reactive entity.

Nor is this Shaivo matter as some have called it, a “Trumped up culure war”. This is a cultural discussion that’s been a long time in coming. Both changes, and perceived changes are driving it, not politics. Not only has our ability to preserve life changed, but our culture has been threatened with change, as well.  It’s logical, than that these matters become public discussion.

One point I hope we’ve learned so far, is that the judiciary is not the place to be deciding such weighty matters.

Mark Noonan at GOP Bloggers

According to this news report, the human race has used up 2/3 of the world’s natural resources.  The prescription offered, of course, is greater environmental controls, yadda, yadda, yadda…whatever.  If we’ve really used up 2/3 of the resources, then nothing we are likely to do, other than commit mass suicide, will tip things back the other way.

Just another gloom and doom bit of enviro-whacko nonsense…those of us who are old enough to remember The Population Bomb and Global 2000 know precisely how much stock to put into environmentalist predictions of looming global catastrophe: zero.

You’d think they’d have learned this stuff doesn’t fly.
I guess perhaps the problem is it flies too often.

Update:
WELCOME SLATE READERS

Link to the main page is just below this post.

Ann Coulter: :

“On the bright side, after two weeks of TV coverage of the Terri Schiavo case, I think we have almost all liberals in America on record saying we can pull the plug on them. Of course, if my only means of entertainment were Air America radio, Barbra Streisand albums and reruns of ‘The West Wing,’ I too would be asking: ‘What kind of quality of life is this?’ “

Then things turn serious:

And that re-raises an interesting point I brought up the other day. After all the intrusion into our lives fostered by Democrats, that most certainly goes well outside of original intent, suddenly this case comes along and the Democrats are screaming foaming ‘strict constructionists’.

Why, it’s almost enough to cause doubt about their true motives.

As a PC support professional, I find stories of reactions to breakdowns interesting… such as this one from MSNBC

The Ontrack study results parallel a study conducted recently by the University of Maryland’s Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes. A full 10 percent of respondents to that poll indicated that had committed violence against the computers in frustration, said Dr. Kent L. Norman.

“There was one restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer,” Norman said.  “That destroyed the laptop … and deep fryer, too.”

That might sound extreme, but few computer users haven’t considered tossing a misbehaving PC out an office window at one time or another. One respondent in Norman’s study did just that, but left out an important step.

“His mistake was he forgot to open the window,” Norman said.

Ummmm… yeah.
In my own experience a oodly portion of th user’s problems in that area are the user’s FAULT.  Like spilling a 64oz Vat-O-Soda onto (and into) the CPU case. Putting their ashtray in front of the cooling inlets, is another.

I actually had one guy who apparently ran over his laptop with his van…. as it happened, I was able to recover in that case, given I had another computer of the same model and the hard drive wasn’t damaged, though I had a hellofa time getting it OUT of the mess that laptop became under the 2 tons of van.

Left Behind says there’s a huge story going on in the middle east you’re not being told about.

Scores of Muslims are converting to evangelical Christianity and will be celebrating their first Easter this year, even amidst widespread persecution and the very real threat of death.

Interesting and encouraging, if true… and at the moment, I don’t have great cause to doubt it.

I have recieved many, many notes in E-mail, passing along sympathies over the passing of my mother-in-law from BitsBlog readers.

For both Donna and myself, I thank you.  Your support means a great deal to us.

Jane Ann Galt over at Asymmetrical Information notes a post over at Crooked TImber which advocates a European-style paid parental leave system CT defends this nonsense by making light of the percentage of the financial impact:

The experience of parental leave in other countries offers some lessons about its possible effects on the economy, employers, and women’s employment. Parental leave programs generally are not very expensive, amounting to at most one or two percent of GDP.

Jane responds, correctly, that the 1 to 2 percent comes out to…

…..$140 billion dollars a year, at the outside. That would make paid parental leave a top 10, possibly a top 5, programme in terms of budget authority.

A point Jane doesn’t address is that the financial strain on the EU to support such programs is what’s keeping the EU as a whole, in such financial problems.

Sorry, guys. Events in my personal life, have pushed blogging off the map for Monday and most of Tuesday, though I expect I’ll have comments on the day’s events on Tuesday afternoon and evening.