Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
After Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld both gave sharply partisan political speeches in front of veterans groups, President Bush today began a series of speeches about the war on terrorism. Here's my favorite part, where Mr. Bush describes the nature of this series of speeches:
"They're speeches to ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Calling someone a "liar" is quite inflammatory, but it's to the point in this country where the gloves have to be taken off and people have to be called what they are. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a liar. Plain and simple.
Mr. Rumsfeld spoke to a group of veterans ...
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
I just finished watching Tiger Woods win his fourth consecutive tournament. I'm really not a big fan of all the hyperbole that is commonly found in sports analysis today, but I'll go ahead and wade into this territory: does Tiger Woods play golf as well as we will ever ...
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
I popped over to CNN.com this morning for a quick news update, and one of the linked articles had an interesting title: "Depression on verge of becoming Ernesto".
Before I clicked on the link, I thought I had an idea what the article was about. I thought, stupidly, that the medical ...
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Ariele and I went to the Red Sox/Angels game in Anaheim last night with several friends. The game was great. Very compelling baseball. The Angels ended up winning 4-3, with Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez surviving a ninth inning home run scare from pinch hitter Manny Ramirez which died at the ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
The president held a press conference this morning, and he said something that I found particularly surprising. Here it is:
Q What did Iraq have to do with that?
THE PRESIDENT: What did Iraq have to do with what?
Q The attack on the World Trade Center?
THE PRESIDENT: Nothing...
Now, the president backtracked a ...
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