MONDAY

Dean Campaign the Last of the .Bombs?

Think about it: a sudden shift back to old-school organizational and financial management after an unsuccessful advertising binge

Whoops. Too late. Dean? Done. Dayyyymn, is about all there is to say.

The Revenge of the Missle Gap

Looking ahead to November, interestin' to note that W. finally (and unfortunately) listened to folks urging him to take the WMD ball out of play by appointing an independent commission; it's rumored that said commission will be holed up in an undisclosed location observing CIA operatives playing the board game Clue, sometimes with and sometimes without piped-in suggestions to "find evidence that it was Colonel Mustard Gas with the candlestick in the drawing room."

Interesting, of course, for Dems this time around to re-read this description from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of the two-score-and-four-years-ago JFK missle gap: swap out "dictator-with-a-moustache" for "Soviet" and it's disturbing how close it reads.

"...the product of misinterpreted intelligence, over-reliance on worst-case scenarios, anti-Soviet hysteria, and cynical domestic political calculation."

All of our Presidential Dems have been Hawks, even Carter. And if Hillary does become our first Mrs. President, she sure won't be a Dove. But hopefully we'll get a military-force doctrine a bit less lunatic than the current Whenever We Damn Well Please Doctrine.

The Journal of Atomic Scientists is a fun read - I went there to check out what the latest reading on the Doomsday Clock is (7 minutes to midnight, since last year, the same as it was back in '47, which should not encourage anyone). In all the beating of the red-white-and-blue drums, no one seems to be hearing their reminders that our nuclear power plants are far from secure.

Unlike the Germans' serious efforts to protect their populace, our own NRC seems to have opted for a "well, the Libyans in the VW bus shouldn't be able to get in" policy.

Could be an interesting tack for Kerry to take, pointing out how soft on terror-prevention this Misadministration has really been, for all its bluster, goofy Big Brotherhood patches, and Wrathcroft wackiness.

(And hey: if you wanna indulge that spooks-will-rule-the-world streak, knock yourself out here; pick up hats, mugs, ... even thongs with the DARPA logo that had even the Cigarette-Smoking Man shaking his head. For the backstory on the shop, read this.)

Comments

[オンラインカジノ]

"The Revenge of the Missle Gap" - I completely agree with this part.

[Glass]

Nice link to the DARPA site, I had that idea once I saw the logo. It's an attractive logo btw. We're watching you!

[オンラインカジノ]

I like your site. Hello from Japan.