what an idiot!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072501649.html

I'm goign to write to the station and tell them what I think of such behavior. I'll also write to anyone I can find who advertises with them. This is unacceptable.

gameage

OK, I had to get some bases for the two Warhammer Ancient Battles armies I'm building for an upcoming campaign, so I headed out to the Game Parlor last night.

Since I was there, I finally gave in and bought the Icehouse rules book and two sets of pieces. And, so as to be as cool as the other kids on the block, I got the Warmaster Ancients rule book.

Now, if only I could paint like Jeff Jonas...

thanks to kmusser for the link

from testimony by James Marcinkowski, a former CIA case officer

Understandable to all Americans is a simple, incontrovertible, but damning truth: the United States government exposed the identity of a clandestine officer working for the CIA. This is not just another partisan "dust-up" between political parties. This unprecedented act will have far-reaching consequences for covert operations around the world. Equally disastrous is that from the time of that first damning act, we have continued on a course of self-inflicted wounds by government officials who have refused to take any responsibility, have played hide-and-seek with the truth and engaged in semantic parlor games for more than two years, all at the expense of the safety of the American people. No government official has that right.

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When this unprecedented act first occurred, the president could have immediately demanded the resignation of all persons even tangentially involved. Or, at a minimum, he could have suspended the security clearances of these persons and placed them on administrative leave. Such methods are routine with police forces throughout the country. That would have at least sent the right message around the globe, that we take the security of those risking their lives on behalf of the United States seriously. Instead, we have flooded the foreign airwaves with two years of inaction, political rhetoric, ignorance, and partisan bickering. That's the wrong message. In doing so we have not lessened, but increased the threat to the security and safety of the people of the United States.

from http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=7948