Spies In The White House::::More Trouble For The President?

This story is still breaking. I could well be wrong, but it seems like just the right kindling for a political firestorn. The FBI and CIA admit this as what amounts to the first case of spying in the White House in modern history.

Leandro Aragoncillo, the purported spy, worked at the White House for three years, most recently on Vice President Dick Cheney's staff. He apparently worked for Al Gore for s time, as well. Investigators say Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers.



The story seems to have some legs and legitimacy...it's coming from ABC News. Maybe this news will fade away. However, with the White House's plummeting polling numbers, a general sense of bumbling, Hurricane Katrina fallout, war problems, and fuel cost issues, not to mention churning over Harriet Miers's nomination as Associate Justice, this news seems more likely to grow in importance than just fade away. . .

The New York Times has the story buried on page 30 this morning. Last night, The Drudge Report had it as the headline; this morning. . .nary a mention. It will be interesting to see where the story goes from here.
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Index Of Poems In All This Is That

Links to the original poems appearing over the last year in All This Is That:

Poem: The Dream
Poem: Dogpaddling
Poem: The Prostethic Head & The Absence Of Blood
poem: Tetuan - "No Paranoia, My Friend"
Poem: The Grey Visitors & Painting: The Grey Ambassador
Poem: The Bad Movie
Poem: The Bucket
Poem: The Man In The Mirror
Poem: Liftoff
Poem: Optimism
Poem: Perspective
Poem: A Flight Of Swallows
Audioblog - Poem: The Prevaricator
Poem: Weather Report
Poem: Your Wooden Leg
Poem: The Revelations Sermon At The First Church Of The Mojo Apocalypse
Poem: Dosvidaniya, Ivan Ivanovitch
Poem: The Late Excavation (Text And Audio)
Poem: Jack Kerouac, Meet John Barleycorn
Poem: The Gideon Bible In My Nightstand
Poem: At The Acropolis
Poem: When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
Painting & A Poem In The Painting [detail from I Read The News Today]
Poem: The sous-chef is a sociopath]
Poem: James Wright
Poem: Falling
Poem: [Life Is Not A Hardy Novel]
Poem: Seven
Poem: Coyote Comes Home Like A Salmon
Poem: Shorts For Jerry Melin ca. about 1988
Poem: Bird Poem: Monism
Poem: The Golden Rule Poem: The Countdown
Poem: When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
Poem: AT HILLCREST CEMETARY IN KENT, WASHINGTON, I WALK BY THE GRAVE OF SAM THE GRASSEATER
Poem: Notes On Flying
Poem: Daybreak
Poem: Explosions
poem: Not Past Tense Yet
poem: the glass is not half-full
Poem: It's Getting Crowded Here
Poem: Li Po In Disgrace
Poem: The Clock
A Poem: Love Song
Poem: Bad Timing
Poem: The Killer
Poem: The Absence of Footprints
Poem: Growing Up
Poem: Gone Fishing
Poem: The M.D.s
A Poem - Acrylic
poem: The Marriage
Poem: Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer Drinking from the Skookumchuck River
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Poem: The Dream

1.
There is no verisimilitude
No character development
Or contrapuntal plotting
Only shadowy acts and intentions

2.
What the wind whispers
The taste of metal in my mouth
The riptide around Cold Island

3.
I look for money
I need the coins of the realm
And hide as many
As fast as I can

4.
This goat's entrails
Are ready for the turkey buzzards
The sacrifice is off

5.
In the murk of the dream
I want just one thing from life--
Seconds.

6.
I hear footsteps
In unison
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125,000 Killed In Buffalo Nuclear Attack?

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In 1956, the editors and Civil Defense authorities cooked up a special edition of the Buffalo evening paper to graphically demonstrate the impact of a direct hit on this upstate New York city.

"The News is to be commended for this further expression of leadership in publishing a special edition in conjunction of with 'Operation Alert,'" said Maj. Edwin G. Zeigler, director of the Erie County Civil Defense program.
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Painting: Flag No. 9

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Testimonials

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In Case Of Nuclear Attack, Tune To 640 or 1240 On Your AM Radio Dial!

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When I was a kid, a message often appeared on the radio and television, along with the all too familiar Conelrad logo. The message was "In the event of a nuclear attack, you will be instructed by your local authorities to tune to 640 or 1240 on your AM radio dial."
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Reactions To The Harriet Miers Nomination

"This is a pick that was made from weakness. There was an opportunity here to show strength and confidence, and I don't think this is it." Rush Limbaugh

"The President's nomination of Miers is a betrayal of the conservative, pro-family voters whose support put Bush in the White House..." Public Advocate President Eugene Delgaudio

"President Bush showed exceptional judgment in naming Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court to replace Justice O’Connor." Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ

"In a decision deeply disheartening to those who invested such hopes in him, Bush may have tossed away his and our last chance to roll back the social revolution imposed upon us by our judicial dictatorship since the days of Earl Warren." Patrick Buchanan


"I like Harriet Miers." Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid

"It could have been a lot worse." Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Democrat

"If he wants to give her judicial experience why doesn't he nominate her to the Fifth Circuit (Court of Appeals)?" John Eastman, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
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POTUS Names Friend Harriet Miers Associate::::The Right Shrieks Like A Wounded Swamp Sow::::Buchanan Wigs::::What Will Ann Coulter Say??

The President today named White House Counsel Harriet Miers--a member of the inner circle and his one-time personal lawyer--as his choice for Associate Justice. Miers was the first woman to head her Dallas law firm, the first woman president of the Dallas Bar and the Texas State Bar. This is going to be a fascinating nomination!

The selection of Miers was announced right before Chief Justice John Roberts took his seat on the court this morning (after sailing through his nomination). Miers helped steer that nomination through the Senate.

Bush's choice to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is a lawyer who has never been a judge, which makes it tough for both liberals and conservatives to suss out where she might stand on hot button issues like abortion.

From early press reports, some of the staunch right are shrieking like wounded swamp sows.

The Democrats--not so much. The right is more up in arms than the Democrats. After all, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid had her on his suggestion list. He said today that “the Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer.”

On his blog today, Pat Buchanan began hucking brickbats at The President:

"Handed a once-in-a-generation opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalism, George W. Bush passed over a dozen of the finest jurists of his day -- to name his personal lawyer. In a decision deeply disheartening to those who invested such hopes in him, Bush may have tossed away his and our last chance to roll back the social revolution imposed upon us by our judicial dictatorship since the days of Earl Warren."

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Del Brummet's Seatle Sledgehammer Murders Online

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Del Brummet's movie "based on the tragic events of Summer 2004 and HOW they impact the lives of a group of comical citizens."

Click here to go to archive.org, where you can either stream and watch or download both the movie and the trailer. . .
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Boeing Steps In It Again

Boeing and its partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad showing Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey chopper onto the roof of a mosque. The ad recently ran in several military-oriented publications.

"It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell."

The ad appears as the U.S. tries to improve its image in the Muslim world and Boeing seeks to sell its airplanes to Islamic countries. Nice work fellas! This ought to soften up those customers. . .
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Bill Bennett Often Makes Me Wonder About The First Amendment

I didn't write about it Wednesday, when Bill Bennett said "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"

Yesterday on his web site, he wrote, not a mea culpa, but an explanation. He didn't get on his knees and apologize, or even squeeze out a few tears.

"A caller to my radio show proposed the idea that one good argument for the pro-life position would be that if we didn't have abortions, Social Security would be solvent. I stated my doubts about such a thesis, as well as my opposition to such a form of argument.

"I then stated that such extrapolations of this argument can cut both ways, and cited the current bestseller, Freakonomics, which discusses the authors' thesis that abortion reduces crime. "

And you, outraged American public, were supposed to know that! He was merely using this in his sophistry! You weren't supposed to actually believe he was actually postulating the "impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible. . ." solution to all our ills.

Is anyone is still listening to this P.O.S. , this degenerate gambler who flushed millions down the toilet while lecturing us in the media and in his books about "virtue?" He lost around eight million dollars gambling but claims he "came out about even" (as all gamblers claim!). The self-delusion and lying never stops. Ollie North, Rush Limbaugh, or Gordon Liddy. . .are all convicted criminals and serial prevaricators who regularly lecture us about morality. We not only allow them to spew their invective, but we make them rich for doing it, and beg for more! ("Please Sir, may I have another?").

What happened to the old ways? When someone like Senator Harrison Williams, Billy Sol Estes or Dan Rostenknowski got caught with their hand in the till or (in the case of LBJ's aide) busted for a men's room sex act. . .well, that was it. They would instantly fade into the woodwork, never to be heard from again? If the gambling revelations didn't do it, maybe this new imbroglio will marginalize Bennett for good.

I don't really wish ill to William Bennett. I'd just like the next thing I hear about him to be his obituary. Many, many years from now, of course.
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