Destiny’s Child - Bootylicious
I don’t think that you are ready for this jam. My body is too Bootylicious. Destiny’s Child. A sweet jam.
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Champ Holyfield in housing trouble
I have no idea how you can make so much money and lose it. First of all, I’m pretty sure that you don’t need a 56,000 sq foot house. Evander Holyfield’s house is being foreclosed. It seems the bank wants its money. 3 wives. 11 children. Add up to quite a cash burden. I’m sure that there were many people with their hands out. There are tons of get richer schemes. I just hope that he doesn’t end up like Joe Louis who was greeting folks at one of the Las Vegas Casinos for money.
The Tale of Lies by the Vice President and President
We have known about the President and Vice President’s web of lies which led up the war in Iraq for some time. The book Hubris, by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, does an excellent job of documenting what was wrong and why we knew them to be wrong. The Los Angeles Times runs a story today about the findings of the Senate intelligence committee. The article had to do with the difference between what the president and vice president said and what was actually known. These facts are in Hubris but it is the first time that a government committee has come to the same conclusion.
From LAT: Statements in dozens of prewar speeches and interviews created the impression that Baghdad and Al Qaeda had forged a partnership. But the report concludes that such assertions “were not substantiated by the intelligence” being shown to senior officials at the time.
Claims that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta had met with an Iraqi agent in Prague, for example, were dubious from the beginning and subsequently discounted. The idea that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had provided chemical and biological weapons training to Al Qaeda hinged on intelligence from a source who soon was discredited.
Bush officials strayed even further from the evidence in suggesting that Hussein was prepared to provide weapons of mass destruction to Al Qaeda terrorist groups — a linchpin in the case for war.
In October 2002, for example, Bush warned in a key speech in Cincinnati that “secretly, and without fingerprints, [Hussein] could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.” The threat was repeated frequently in the run-up to war but was “contradicted by available intelligence information,” the committee says.
On post-war prospects, the report contrasts the rosy scenarios conjured by Cheney and others with more sober intelligence warnings that were being presented to senior officials.
Cheney’s prediction that U.S. forces would “be greeted as liberators” was at odds with reports from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, which warned nearly a year earlier that invading U.S. forces would face serious resistance from “the Baathists, the jihadists and Arab nationalists who oppose any U.S. occupation of Iraq.”
I interview Michael Isikoff about the Scooter Libby trial. I chat with David Corn about this important book. also.
Oil prices have largest single day hike
There are times when I feel that I’m blogging about the same things day after day. Then there are days like today. News galore.
I think that we will find out in the next 2 - 4 years that this was nothing. Just like the 70’s. This is artificial. These high oil prices are high just because greedy men want to make more money. That’s my guess but what do I know.
From NYT:
Oil jumped more than $10 a barrel today to a new record above $139, sending financial markets tumbling. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down nearly 400 points.
Further jolting the economic and political landscape just as the general election season begins, the nation’s unemployment rate shot skyward last month to 5.5 percent, the biggest leap in more than two decades. (more…)
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
