the otherwhirled

The Zen Cabin is a place I visit from time to time. I have a weird approach to things: I don’t have the site bookmarked, because the ones I bookmark (or have fed), I’ll admit to to taking for granted a bit. There are always posts at these places, and the posting is very much [...]

This day has more history to it than just Bush’s inability to take anything that happened before he ascended to the throne seriously, as distributorcap NY reminds us in ‘Of Mushroom Clouds, Hiroshima and Princess Ferragamo’ over at the self-titled distributorcap NY. yes Condi, who’d a thought they would crash planes into buildings or that a [...]

Dave at The Galloping Beaver had an excellent post regarding that ignored PDB we’ve been blogging about all day: Seventeen days later George Tenet was briefed on the report by the FBI Minnesota field office that Zacarias Moussaoui had been taking flying lessons - in a 747 trainer. According to Tenet, he didn’t brief Bush because [...]

Tengrain got lazy for his second post on the PDB blogswarm. But actually, the fact that he can simply reprise a fabulous post from yore as a follow-up to his earlier post today simply stands as testimony to the greatness we normally refer to as “Tengrain”. A great, and appropriate, revisit of an awesome [...]

Yep, you got it, that’s the same memo they disregarded because the intel behind it was from someone in the Clinton administration. Yep, it’s the same memo the terrorist fighters did nothing about. It’s the same memo that Condi tried to brush off reading about in the 9/11 hearings. It’s the memo that shows you [...]

Oh, just go there. Tengrain is the coolest of the cool, and his PDB Blogswarm contribution (we’re waiting on Part 2, ‘Grain!) is an instant classic. pdb blogswarm

Oh, yes I DID go there! “This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park,” [Florida State Representative and John McCain presidential campaign co-chairman Bob] Allen, who is white, told police in a taped statement after his arrest. Allen said he feared he “was about [...]