LET'S ALL BE NICE: Champaign American proposes a blogging summit to try and avoid what happened with the DJWinfo blog earlier this week. (For those of you who missed it, the blog was hijacked by some lowlife hacker and then returned, sans all the archives). Matt's idea is a nice thought, but totally unenforceable. I totally support civility in the blogosphere. I often try to be civil; you probably do, too. But there are no laws, no method of enforcement and no rules or punishments available to halt others from acting like jackasses if they want. If there was, we'd never need anti-virus and anti-spam software. I can promise to be (relatively) civil. You can too, if you want. Beyond that....
HANGING IN THERE: For those of you who believe blogs and the internet are supplanting the MSM as the source for all news, sorry. The scoops were wrong; Chief Justice Rehnquist isn't retiring. But, damn, he sure looks frail....
START LOOKING CLOSER? The word that the London bombings may have been carried out by home-grown terrorists is definitely not a comforting development. It's a whole lot easier to track aliens in your country than citizens, who, up until you hear the 'boom' appear to be causing no harm. Can't imagine anyone sleeping quite as soundly anywhere in this funked-up world.
ROVE DEATHWATCH DAY 5 On Bush/Rove, a few thoughts.
-- I wonder of the W-imbecile is just keeping Karl Rove around because it's kinda nice to have people throwing shit balls at someone other than W for a change.
-- If I was a Democrat power guy, I think I might like to keep Rove around until the mid-term elections. He's a good target to say: See, here's what the GOP's got for you. Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!
-- At this point, I actually wonder if Rove's lost much/most/all of his political effectiveness. Sounds like he's damaged goods, to me.
-- And speaking of sounds, the GOP's pathetic attempts to paint this as a political witch-hunt is becoming more and more comical by the moment.
MTD-U-M-B: Cute: The Champaign County Board tried to appoint a lawyer from Savoy to the CUMTD Board. Maybe hoping with a little local representation the move into Savoy would be a little smoother, perhaps? Unfortunately, they forgot one critical little detail: Savoy isn't in the CUMTD district. Meaning Savoy lawyer Barbara J. Mann isn't eligible to serve. Oops.
From today's News-Gazette:
After a News-Gazette reporter questioned Thursday whether somebody who does not live within a mass transit district is eligible to serve on the district's board, County Board Chairwoman Barbara Wysocki, D-Urbana, asked her staff to find out.Is it just me, or is this whole MTD situation beginning to resemble a bad Keystone Kops Routine?
"We just goofed," Wysocki said. "We cannot formally approve Ms. Mann to the MTD board. She is not within the district, so she is not eligible. I feel badly about all this."
Wysocki said the county board would re-advertise for the position beginning today. She said the board would likely talk about a replacement in September.
And so it goes
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I think it fairly certain that even if Rove is not convicted, he will be forced to leave the White House. This is just too extreme, the idea that someone made public a CIA agent. It will offend too many on the right, and make those in the Middle who are already skeptical even more so. It will leave the White House with in a very bad spot, but they may be left with little choice.
The question is when? I want you to answer that, folks! come by to http://www.tomjoad.org/rovedeathwatch.htm and play the Karl Rove Political Death Watch Game. All you have to do is submit your guess as to the moment of Rove's political death (by resignation or indictment). The winner will be announced within days of Rove's departure. Submissions can be as anonymous as you wish. Join the fun, limited time only... we hope!
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