The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Gemini Cricket]

Seriously. (But I don't think she's alone.)

C'mon let's all go out and punch a cop.
Oy!

[BarTopDancer]

Support Our Troops! Bring Them Home!

[BarTopDancer]

You can support our military without supporting the administration or the war.

[Gemini Cricket]

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
~ Winston Churchill

[Alex]

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
~Mason Cooley

(not that I disagree with the use of the Churchill quote in this context)

[SacTown Chronic]

Does this dress make my ass look fat?
~ Gemini Cricket

[BarTopDancer]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. I have the munchies
~ sactown chronic

[Gemini Cricket]

:derail:

Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

Does this dress make my ass look fat?
~ Gemini Cricket

Did I say that? If so, I need to find that frock and toss it. Just had my physical yesterday. I lost 8 pounds! 10 more and I'll be 160 lbs again! Woo hoo!
:derail:

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." ~ Gandhi

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Someone on the radio this morning was saying she looks like Ben Wallace of the Detroit Pistons. Separated at birth?

[Gemini Cricket]

Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.

Before his indictment, I. Lewis Libby testified to the grand jury investigating the CIA leak that Cheney told him to pass on information and that it was Bush who authorized the disclosure, the court papers say. According to the documents, the authorization led to the July 8, 2003, conversation between Libby and New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

There was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to disclose Valerie Plame's CIA identity.

But the disclosure in documents filed Wednesday means that the president and the vice president put Libby in play as a secret provider of information to reporters about prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Source

Secret provider to the press about prewar intelligence... Why?

Edit: Here's CNN's take on it.