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Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth has been formed to counter the deliberate misrepresentation of George W. Bush's drinking record. We seek to portray him as he was, and still is: a "lightweight."
Perhaps the best commentary on the sad state of this political season. (thanks to kellysue.com)
Mr. Bush's comments, in a half-hour interview with The New York Times, undercut a central accusation leveled by the veterans group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, whose unproven attacks on Mr. Kerry have dominated the political debate for more than two weeks.
Mr. Bush also acknowledged for the first time that he made a "miscalculation" of what the conditions would be'' in postwar Iraq. But he insisted that the 17-month-long insurgency that has upended the administration's plans for the country was the unintended by-product of a "swift victory'' against Saddam Hussein's military, which fled and then disappeared into the cities, enabling them to mount a rebellion against the American forces far faster than Mr. Bush and his aides had anticipated.
Does anyone remember CREEP? Not the TLC song but the Committee to Re-elect the President; the folks whose dirty tricks for Richard Nixon gave us Watergate? Why do I feel like we are living through that era all over again?
Lawyer for Bush Quits Over Links to Kerry's Foes By Elisabeth Bumiller / NYT
Bush lawyer quits over ads link.
"A lawyer for the Bush re-election team has resigned after admitting links to a veterans' group that accuses rival John Kerry of lying about his war record." ~ BBC
I am not the best when it comes to responding to email, I still prefer the phone for meaningful communication with my fellow human beings; but an email received a couple of months ago had me stumped as to how to reply - until now.
The email came from a friend who I met several years ago while toiling away in the online world and teaching multimedia to journalists. He is one of those rare souls who has wisdom much beyond his years, resulting in a unique combination of 21st century skills with an early 20th century journalist's sense of mission.
He and his wife recently returned from a trip to visit family and friends in Asia and, in his words;
"after witnessing the poverty in the PI (Phillipines) and Thailand I'm starting to question if what we're doing is really relevant."
I have been unable to answer his email because I have been having similar feelings for a while - like being trapped in the wheels of a machine moving in a direction you don't want to go, grinding you down, and being unable to do anything about it.
A couple of weeks ago, Howie Kurtz provided the material and Geneva Overholser provided the glue to make whole what I have been feeling and to perhaps provide an answer to my friend.
Mydans, Famed Photographer, Dies
"Mydans traveled the world with his cameras, witnessing and recording landmarks of history -- the gaunt faces of 1930s dust-bowl farmers, Frenchwomen having their heads shaved as punishment for "collaboration" with the Nazis, and the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri in 1945."
Just got Anna Netrebko's new album,
Sempre Libera. Wow! She has, what her marketers are calling "the full package"; she sounds great and is way less filling!
You can check out her website here, and get her new album (for the iTunes-challenged among you) also at Amazon, here.
Mays, an Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries after a mortar shell landed outside the family's home in a Najaf residential area and injured her uncle; August 18, 2004. ~ Photograph by Ali Jasim/Reuters
What if Mays were your daughter?
A Major Breakthrough (washingtonpost.com)
"I think my fencing has changed a lot," she said. "I think a year or two ago, I was more of a fighter. I was crazy in my head, and I was fighting physically for everything instead of going and strategically fencing against an opponent, finding their weaknesses and destroying their strengths."~ Mariel Zagunis after winning the gold in women's saber at the Olympics, the first U.S. gold in fencing since 1904 (Photograph by AP)
This picture almost needs no commentary.... Sportswomanship at its best thanks to Yahoo's Olympic Beach Volleyball Photo Gallery!
Brazil's Ana Paula (R) and Sandra Pires celebrate a point during their preliminary round match of the women's beach volleyball against Norway at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, August 15, 2004. Brazil won the match 2-1. Photograph by Sergio Moraes / REUTERS
The Acknowledged Master of the Moment
"Photography is not like painting," he told The Washington Post in 1957. "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera."
He was the best.
