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December 26, 2005
Meet the Press 12.25.05 Tom Brokaw & Ted Koppel
when the president and his top people tell you, as they did, "Here's our perception of what exists. Here's our perception of the danger to the United States. Here's our perception of a relationship between this guy who has weapons of mass destruction and the group that just blew up the Pentagon and the World Trade Center," I don't know that reporters as a whole can sit there and say, "Oh, hokum. You know, it's just not true." We can raise questions, and I...
MR. BROKAW: Given the absence of hard evidence.
MR. KOPPEL: Hard evidence. Right.
MR. BROKAW: There was not--you know, the French intelligence were sharing the same conclusions with the administration. I thought--I agree with you that I don't think that we pushed hard enough for vigorous debate. I think that on Capitol Hill that the debate was anemic, at best. You had--Ted Kennedy and Senator Byrd, really, were the only ones speaking out with any kind of passion in the Senate, the people who...
MR. RUSSERT: And they were not questioning whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
MR. BROKAW: No. No. No.
MR. RUSSERT: That seemed to be a uniformly held belief.
MR. BROKAW: Right. Yeah.
MR. KOPPEL: Nor did the Clinton administration beforehand.
MR. BROKAW: No.
MR. KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.
MR. BROKAW: Right.
MR. KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.
MR. BROKAW: Yeah. Yeah.
MR. RUSSERT: Let me continue on Iraq and show you pictures from December 15. These are 11 million Iraqis voting, proudly holding up their fingers, having dipped it in ink as evidence that they had cast their vote; even on their hospital beds, making their vote and their views known. The president then embarked on a series of speeches. Some were vintage Bush--tough, draw the line, "stay the course"--and others were a bit contrite.
PRES. BUSH: We will never back down, we will never give in, and we will never accept anything less than complete victory.
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MR. BROKAW: Given the absence of hard evidence.
MR. KOPPEL: Hard evidence. Right.
MR. BROKAW: There was not--you know, the French intelligence were sharing the same conclusions with the administration. I thought--I agree with you that I don't think that we pushed hard enough for vigorous debate. I think that on Capitol Hill that the debate was anemic, at best. You had--Ted Kennedy and Senator Byrd, really, were the only ones speaking out with any kind of passion in the Senate, the people who...
MR. RUSSERT: And they were not questioning whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
MR. BROKAW: No. No. No.
MR. RUSSERT: That seemed to be a uniformly held belief.
MR. BROKAW: Right. Yeah.
MR. KOPPEL: Nor did the Clinton administration beforehand.
MR. BROKAW: No.
MR. KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.
MR. BROKAW: Right.
MR. KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.
MR. BROKAW: Yeah. Yeah.
MR. RUSSERT: Let me continue on Iraq and show you pictures from December 15. These are 11 million Iraqis voting, proudly holding up their fingers, having dipped it in ink as evidence that they had cast their vote; even on their hospital beds, making their vote and their views known. The president then embarked on a series of speeches. Some were vintage Bush--tough, draw the line, "stay the course"--and others were a bit contrite.
PRES. BUSH: We will never back down, we will never give in, and we will never accept anything less than complete victory.
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Hurricane Katrina overwhelming choice for 2005's top story
NEW YORK The onslaught of Gulf Coast hurricanes has been chosen as the top Associated Press story of 2005 in a vote of U-S editors and news directors.
Katrina made landfall August 29th -- leading to the swamping of New Orleans.
Tens of thousands of Louisiana evacuees headed for Texas.
Rita came ashore September 24th near Sabine (suh-BEEN') Pass.
The hurricanes received 242 first-place votes out of 288 ballots cast.
No other A-P story received more than 18 first-place votes.
The death of Pope John Paul the second and the election of Joseph Ratzinger to succeed him as Pope was the number two pick, followed by the situation in Iraq.
Iraq was voted the top story in 2002 and 2003, and was runner-up in 2004 to the U-S election in which President Bush won a second term.
Here are 2005's top 10 stories, as voted by A-P members:
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Katrina made landfall August 29th -- leading to the swamping of New Orleans.
Tens of thousands of Louisiana evacuees headed for Texas.
Rita came ashore September 24th near Sabine (suh-BEEN') Pass.
The hurricanes received 242 first-place votes out of 288 ballots cast.
No other A-P story received more than 18 first-place votes.
The death of Pope John Paul the second and the election of Joseph Ratzinger to succeed him as Pope was the number two pick, followed by the situation in Iraq.
Iraq was voted the top story in 2002 and 2003, and was runner-up in 2004 to the U-S election in which President Bush won a second term.
Here are 2005's top 10 stories, as voted by A-P members:
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Start of New Year to be delayed -- by a second
2005 will last a little longer than usual -- one second to be precise.
A leap second will be added into the world's clocks just before midnight to match up the clocks with the earth's rotation.
This will be the first leap second in seven years and the 23rd since 1972 when an international timekeeping agreement was signed.
Leap seconds are necessary because modern atomic clocks are extremely accurate while the earth's rotation has been slowing down because of tides.
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Sexy Bin Laden
Wafah Dufour wants to be a pop star. So what if she's the niece of Osama bin Laden?
GQ mag
It Isn’t Easy Being the Sexy Bin Laden
What’s in a name? Plenty. Especially if you’re trying to become a sultry little pop star and you just happen to be the niece of public enemy number one By George Gurley
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December 24, 2005
People drink more alcohol when using shorter glasses
The research suggests you should break out highball glasses if you're planning a party where alcohol will be served.
The study said most people unwittingly pour too much alcohol into short, wide glasses. Experts call it a portion distortion illusion.
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December 21, 2005
December 20, 2005
Fart Frequency Chart
Bush Wiretap OK by me
I think he did the right thing for the security of this nation. If we heard about this right after the 911 attacks it would have been ok by everyone. But since it's four years later the minds of plenty are not the same as they were 9/12/01. Here's one example of why it was a excellent move...and those that should be investigated is those that leaked this secret and critical to our security information to the public...(aaastudio)
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Equally irresponsible is the criticism Democrats are leveling at President Bush for his use of National Security Agency wiretaps to catch terrorists. Before Clinton and Schumer criticize this policy, they'd do well to reflect on the fact that the Brooklyn Bridge might well be rubble, with thousands dead, if Bush did not use these wiretaps.
In 2002, the feds (presumably the NSA) picked up random cellphone chatter using the words "Brooklyn Bridge" (which apparently didn't translate well into Arabic). They notified the New York Police Department, which flooded the bridge with cops. Then the feds overheard a phone call in which a man said things were "too hot" on the bridge to pull off an operation. Later, an interrogation of a terrorist allowed by the Patriot Act led cops to the doorstep of this would-be bridge bomber. (His plans would definitely have brought down the bridge, NYPD sources told me.)
Dick Morris NYPost
Why didn't Bush get a warrant? On who? For what? The NSA wasn't looking for a man who might blow up the bridge. It had no idea what it was looking for. It just intercepted random phone calls from people in the United States to those outside — and so heard the allusions to the bridge that tipped them off.
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Equally irresponsible is the criticism Democrats are leveling at President Bush for his use of National Security Agency wiretaps to catch terrorists. Before Clinton and Schumer criticize this policy, they'd do well to reflect on the fact that the Brooklyn Bridge might well be rubble, with thousands dead, if Bush did not use these wiretaps.
In 2002, the feds (presumably the NSA) picked up random cellphone chatter using the words "Brooklyn Bridge" (which apparently didn't translate well into Arabic). They notified the New York Police Department, which flooded the bridge with cops. Then the feds overheard a phone call in which a man said things were "too hot" on the bridge to pull off an operation. Later, an interrogation of a terrorist allowed by the Patriot Act led cops to the doorstep of this would-be bridge bomber. (His plans would definitely have brought down the bridge, NYPD sources told me.)
Dick Morris NYPost
Why didn't Bush get a warrant? On who? For what? The NSA wasn't looking for a man who might blow up the bridge. It had no idea what it was looking for. It just intercepted random phone calls from people in the United States to those outside — and so heard the allusions to the bridge that tipped them off.
column
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New York Blog
Mayor Bloomberg Quoted
"So you've got people making $50,000 or $60,000 a year [preventing] people making $20,000 to $30,000 a year from being able to earn a living," he said. "That's just not acceptable."
Mayor Bloomberg Quoted
"So you've got people making $50,000 or $60,000 a year [preventing] people making $20,000 to $30,000 a year from being able to earn a living," he said. "That's just not acceptable."
New York City Transit Workers Strike
December 14, 2005
375,500 HIGH TECH Workers being IMPORTED to USA
Thanks to so-called REPUBLICAN SENATOR SPENCER ABRAHAM of
MICHIGAN and the ZOG White House, your "government" is fast
tracking the importation of 375,500 HIGH TECH Workers to the
USA. Highly coveted computer industry, skilled and specialty
jobs that would have otherwise gone to American's will go to
IMPORTED FOREIGNERS.
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MICHIGAN and the ZOG White House, your "government" is fast
tracking the importation of 375,500 HIGH TECH Workers to the
USA. Highly coveted computer industry, skilled and specialty
jobs that would have otherwise gone to American's will go to
IMPORTED FOREIGNERS.
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