very, very cynical pool: who's in?

I was chatting with a friend at work about the coming election and the prevalence of, erm, sudden announcements from the Bush administration when a political distraction or advantage was needed. ( Keep reading below for a challenge )

arrgghh!

I'd love to apply for this job, but it ain't going to happen right now. I'd be well suited, I've done some corporate communications work (I did lots of editing and some copywriting for the communications and development offices in my two nonprofit jobs), and that's a sweet salary for a quiet university job in a place like Stirling.

*sigh*

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OK, I've gotten my first spam comment. I hope this is not the start of a trend. In any case, be aware that (a) spammers are now hitting LJ and (b) there's something to do about it.

lies, damned lies, and the Bush Administration

from MSNBC Countdown

RICE: I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center.

DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There wasn’t any way then we could have anticipated what was about to happen, of course, in—-on 9/11.

(1995, Philippines uncovers plot to fly planes into Pentagon and World Trade Center.)

(September 1999, U.S. study: Al Qaeda might crash planes into Pentagon.)

(Spring 2001, New York City trial testimony: Bin Laden sending agents to acquire planes.)

BUSH: These terrorists had burrowed in our country for over two years. They were well organized. They were well planned. They struck in a way that was unimaginable.

(July 2001, FBI told of Zacarias Moussaoui‘s interest in flying jumbo jets.)

(September 2001, FBI memo: Moussaoui could fly something into the World Trade Center.)

[The rest of the article includes details of how the Bush Adminsitration ignored advice from the Clinton Administration on how to deal with AQ, even refusing to study it until after 9/11, and how the Bush Administration ignored a pre-9/11 offer from the Taliban to turn bin Laden over to Saudi Arabia in return for easing of trade sanctions.]

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I buy wine based on labels, I admit it. I rarely pay $10 for a bottle, so it's not as if I'm gong to be getting high quality anyway.

Today I was restocking the Spoor wine cellar and picked up three bottles: Goats Do Roam, Fat Bastard, and Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

The Goats is (are) OK: a little thin and without a huge flavour, but still tasty.