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4/24/2004

 

Photos Do Not Respect US War Dead?
Justincase you can't get into the Memory Hole gallery, take a drive over to Resource.full to see some of the images in thumbnails. There is a file there in text of some of the information the Memory Hole supplies on history of the successful effort to use the FOA to get the images. Now, a few days later, the US government has clamped down on the publication of these images with a lot of spin to their explanation.

BJ 4/24/2004 10:57:00 AM

4/23/2004

 

Solitary Salute: The Memory Hole Images

The Memory Hole is a website devoted to preserving images and files of the US government public record that may disappear from the Net or other published resources. CNN reported today that the webauthor managed to be the first to get FOA on photos of the dead returning soldiers to Dover AFB. This is what our government does NOT want Americans to see. All the 360+ images are there now, and in case the site it suddenly offline, you can get a link and some images at Resource.full.

BJ 4/23/2004 07:58:00 AM

4/21/2004

 

Carnival of Cats Great Fun for Feline Fans

From the Amish Tech Support blog (isn't that a great name!!!) is sponsoring this go-round #5 of the Carnival of Cats. Bloggers post photos of their cats, and sometimes art, slideshows, and short videos and we get to visit all around and see the contributors. This first link will get you to the main host for this week, and the second is a slide show on Cat-Wrassling. There are links there to the previous Carnival of Cats events.
http://amish.blogmosis.com/archives/024366.html#024366

http://foolsblog.com/HarleyIII/index.html

BJ 4/21/2004 08:27:00 PM

 

Review of "Plan of Attack":
Woodward Corroborates Both
Paul O'Neil and Richard A. Clarke

This, from the Sunday NYTimes Review of Books:

""Plan of Attack" ratifies assertions made in two recent controversial books. It corroborates the observation made by the former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill (in Ron Suskind's book "The Price of Loyalty") that Iraq was high on the Bush administration's agenda before 9/11, in fact from its very first days in office. And echoing accusations made by the former counterterrorism czar Richard A. Clarke (in his book "Against All Enemies"), it contends that prior to 9/11 Mr. Bush was focusing on domestic issues and a large tax cut and had "largely ignored the terrorism problem."

In the wake of Mr. Woodward's best-selling 2002 book "Bush at War" — which presented a laudatory portrait of Mr. Bush as a fearless and determined leader after 9/11 — the president agreed to be interviewed in depth by the author about how and why he decided to go to war against Iraq. Mr. Woodward, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, says the president also made it clear that he wanted administration members to talk with him, and that he interviewed more than 75 key players.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/books/19KAKU.html
A Heady Mix of Pride and Prejudice Led to War
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: April 19, 2004

BJ 4/21/2004 06:24:00 AM