Difficulty of a Perjury Conviction

Look at this analysis by a former prosecutor on Libby's situation.

Big Brother is Watching

The digital imaging revolution has created some attendant side problems - like counterfeiting. To combat this it appears that the Sercret Service in cooperation with several of the main printer suppliers has a covert printing sub-routine run on every digital image, which captures the serial number of the printer as well as time and date printed as a bunch of small dispersed yellow dots. You can read more about this here in the WaPo.

I printed on an HP printer this afternoon and found the little yellow buggers. It requires good lighting and a 10x scope (jeweler's scope).

More Kelo Shennanigans

More eminent domain abuses surfacing.  And here.  The Supremes created a monster here.

I reiterate my point on why this SCOTUS pick is important.  The Kelo decision has allowed the legal taking of one person's property to give to another.  This decision is a gross distortion of eminent domain and the reason why we need originalists on the court.  Is Hariett up to the challenge?

I think Mr. Bush has blown this one

Look at the sampling of grassroots conservative frustration that Michele Malkin has picked up with the Harriet Miers nomination.  Here is a sample…

You have lost my support, President Bush. You have failed to deliver the type of judicial nominees that social conservatives prayed you would appoint. If your choices of John Roberts and Harriet Miers turn out to be good picks, we won’t know it for many months, if not years. In the meantime you have proven to me that Republicans treat social conservatives exactly the same way that Democrats treat blacks. Sucker them in long enough to get their vote and then ignore them.

Maybe Harriet is OK.  But there is too much at stake for us to trust “I know her heart.”  Remember he said the same thing about Putin.  I think we are in for a long 3 years…or more.

Looks like George Will is in agreement. More here.   Professor Bainbridge has his take on what little conservative support exists. Hugh Hewitt continues to be a lone voice in the wilderness supporting the prez.

My take?  I think the President missed a huge opportunity.  SCOTUS is the big leagues and you need a big league gun at the battle.  Miers may turn out to be OK.  But if you had the first round pick in the draft would you choose Peyton Manning or some unknown NCAA Div 3 College quarterback?  Bush is taking too big a gamble.  It also gives me some pause to some of the other decisions he has made.  What other gambles are we taking?

This is why the next SCOTUS nominee is important

Read what has happened to the eminent domain ruling now.  No one’s home is safe!

Check Out Google Earth

What a fascinating tool.  I have already traced a few routes and looked at some of our mill sites.  Great transportation tool.  Also, an excellent way to look at a road trip before you take it.  You can download it here.

I guess the watch out is what this odes to put detailed info in the hands of our enemy.  Not sure how you would stop it without significant curtailment of public info.

Historical Perspective on Iraq

Good run-down of the history of this region, its people’s perceptions and the difficulties currently faced.

Weekly Reader

Links to article to read…

In War, Appeasement is Surrender Written by Lee Ellis

An Interview With Katharine DeBrecht, Author of Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! Written by A.M. Siriano

Know Thy Place Federalism is a good strategy, even, if not especially, in disasters. By Chris Edwards

Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans, by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

More Hurricane Katrina: Folklore vs. Fact from Gateway Pundit

The Man in the Mirror by Edward Morrissey

 Rough Road by Fred Barnes

The Atrocities that never happened in NOLA

All we heard non-stop was mass deaths, murder, rape, mayhem.

Four weeks after the storm, few of the widely reported atrocities have been backed with evidence. The piles of murdered bodies never materialized, and soldiers, police officers and rescue personnel on the front lines assert that, while anarchy reigned at times and people suffered indignities, most of the worst crimes reported at the time never happened.

Somehow the truth always comes out.

How the MSM Creates Perception

Good analysis of how the media create a perception and then report it as fact.  Unless you are sceptical about your sources and use a variety of them to gain perspective, you’re just drinking the Koolaid.

Memphis makes War on Terror front page

Even here in Memphis, we are not immune to the GWT.  To think I fly out of that airport regularly too.  One thing interesting to note.  His e-mail address had 747–200 in it.  I know this is a stretch but there are no commercial 747’s flying out of Memphis (NW hub with mostly Airbus, 757’s and MD-80’s).  We do have a significant air freight presence here (Fedex hub and UPS mini-hub).  International flights loaded with lot of fuel.  Too scary to think about.  Glad they caught this creep.

Maybe we had a good Katrina response?

Despite the MSM and liberal scaramongers would have you believe, much heroism and surprisingly good coordinated evacuations of NOLA did happen.  This view could be an emerging alternative view of what happened.  Stay tuned.

Just the Facts

Here is a time line of the Katrina response put together by FactCheck.org.  You can make your own judgments.  I am sure more facts will come to light.

Could the Feds have evacuated NOLA?

Good basic time and distance analysis.  Obvious answer is no.

You Go Condi

Sometimes the most profound and best responses to sniping are simple statements.

Letter from the CNO

Moving letter from the CNO to admirals in command.  Says it all about the spirit and willingness of our armed forces.

Closer to the truth

Read this analysis of some displaced folks from New Orleans.  We have seen the same thing here in Memphis.  Why isn’t this story being told?  What about the amazing outpouring of care and affection for our fellow citizens that has happened as a result of this storm?

Where is the outrage at the media for ignoring the good?  Maybe we should start a boycott of every company that advertises on MSM.  It works for the hate mongers.  Why not put this tool to good use for a change?

Katrina Commision Results

DJ Drummond nails this one.  I am sure the MSM will make note of his appointment by a Republican (look at comment section).

Talk about incompetence on top of incompetence.

This is damning

Disgusting

…but W is to blame, right????

As busy as a cat covering s*** on concrete

Gotta read the string of comments after the post. I wonder what Blanco is really up to? This is getting fun watching the donks, the liberal wingnuts and their wacko media friends paint themselves into a corner.