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Archive for March, 2007
Sphere: Related ContentThe Democratic-controlled Senate ignored a veto threat and voted Thursday for a bill requiring President Bush to start withdrawing combat troops from Iraq within four months, dealing a sharp rebuke to a wartime commander in chief.
In a mostly party line 51-47 vote, the Senate signed off on a bill providing $122 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also orders Bush to begin withdrawing troops within 120 days of passage while setting a nonbinding goal of ending combat operations by March 31, 2008. (Read More)
Sphere: Related ContentAttorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush’s former counsel approved the firings of eight federal prosecutors, Gonzales’ one-time chief of staff told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.
“I and others made staff recommendations but they were approved and signed off on by the principals,” Kyle Sampson said, referring to Gonzales and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers.
Responding to questions from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sampson rejected the notion that the dismissals were ordered by young or inexperienced Justice Department officials.
“The decision makers in this case were the attorney general and the counsel to the president,” he told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Gonzales and Miers were deeply involved for two years in discussions about which prosecutors to fire, according to Sampson’s testimony and e-mails released by the Justice Department. · (Read More)
Sphere: Related ContentFacing almost certain defeat in the Senate, the White House on Wednesday withdrew the ambassadorial nomination of Sam Fox, who contributed $50,000 to the Swift Boat veterans’ controversial campaign against Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in the 2004 presidential race. · (Read More)
Kind of harrowing. Not because it’s particularly difficult but because I am losing my tolerance for paying attention to silly fiddly shit like file owners and permissions.
The only thing I haven’t fully fixed is the mini loop on my front page—it’s not grabbing the latest posts. Internets imply it may have something to do with Ultimate Tag Warrior, but here’s where we get into more fiddly shit that I don’t want to deal with. Anything that requires me backing up a database just irritates me right now.
Next up: Upgrade php, then migrate my look and feel to a more modern theme that supports widgets.
Sphere: Related ContentWanna know how to depress a bulimic. Let them know that laxatives actually have calories. (From Willam)
I love me some cross dressing tranny postop preop wtfever boygirlboys. And I just got a *really* gay assymetrical haircut with eye-of-sauron-red highlights on black. Despite that, I am pretty much a boy.
Here’s my recollection of my recent amazon behavior: I browsed some very soft-porn, vintage beefcake pinup compilation coffee table books. Then in a previous post I wanted to link to a favorite movie called “Dick” (as in Richard Nixon)… so I looked that up on amazon.
Between my search for “dick” and browsing through what honestly amounts to art books (shut up), Amazon has decided that I put the T in LGBT (and I now know what a “gaff” is and how it helps a boy look more like a girl):
It would seem that even a very mature recommendation engine needs to pay a little closer to sensitive subjects—particularly when working with a very small amount of data.
Sphere: Related ContentSphere: Related ContentThe House voted Friday for the first time to clamp a cutoff deadline on the Iraq war, agreeing by a thin margin to pull combat troops out by next year and pushing the new Democratic-led Congress ever closer to a showdown with President Bush.
The 218-212 vote, mostly along party lines, was a hard-fought victory for Democrats, who faced divisions within their own ranks on the rancorous issue. Passage marked their most brazen challenge yet to Bush on a war that has killed more than 3,200 troops and lost favor with the American public. (Read more)
And lied about it.
Sphere: Related ContentAttorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in an hourlong meeting last fall, according to documents released Friday that indicate he was more involved in the dismissals than he has claimed.
Last week, Gonzales said he “was not involved in any discussions about what was going on” in the firings of eight prosecutors that has since led to a political firestorm and calls for his ouster.
A Nov. 27 meeting, in which the attorney general and at least five top Justice Department officials participated, focused on a five-step plan for carrying out the firings of the prosecutors, Gonzales’ aides said late Friday.
There, Gonzales signed off on the plan, which was drafted by his chief of staff, Kyle Sampson. Sampson resigned last week. Another Justice aide closely involved in the dismissals, White House liaison Monica Goodling, has also taken a leave of absence, two officials said. (Read More)