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It may be that things will look a little better in the next two months in Iraq.
— Bill Kristol (September 03, 2006)

It’s almost 2 months later, are things any better in Iraq?

Why does anyone even listen to Bill Kristol?

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Key:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

I’ll be the first to admit I overuse tables…

Cardinals win World Series

Not bad for a team with just 83 regular season wins.

We are number one! All others are number two, or lower.
— The Sphinx

Cardinals beat Tigers 5-4, lead World Series 3-1

Still a bit early to celebrate…

Another one of these scams got past gmail’s spam filters…

From: aishat jamal <aishajml@aol.de>
Subject: Good day

Good Day,
My name is Ms Aishat Jamal, …

Hello, Ms Asshat.

… a member of the contract award and monitoring committee of ministry of urban and rural development. My duty as empowered by the Mauritius Government is to provide the basic amenities, social recreational activities in urban and rural areas. These programs include assistance to deprived local communities and to co-ordinate project and development at the national levels.

Isn’t that nice.

In the course of these projects, I was been able to secure some reasonable amount of US$4.5M (Four Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) as commission from various contractors resulting from over invoicing, hence all the necessary approvals has been completed. This approved fund is now packaged and dispatched through diplomatic means to a security vault. The funds were first deposited in a company before I arranged for its movement using decoy purporting that the fund belongs to an expatriate/company.

That’s pretty sloppy bookkeeping, if you ask me.

As a Government official, I am not allowed to operate or open a foreign bank account hence you need to stand as the beneficiary and claim this fund on my behalf from the receiving vault.

That’s so sad.

The sharing ratio will be subject to negotiation. My share of the business will be invested under your recommendations and guide as a joint venture business.

OK — me 100%, you 0% — how about it?

I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Please respond to my private email address aishajml@aol.de for more details on how we go about this.

.de? I thought you said you were from Mauritius. Can’t you do better than a private email address at AOL Germany?

I look forward to hearing from you and be warned that confidentiality is the nature of this business because I would not be happy to loose my job.

Good luck on the new job hunt, Ms Asshat.

Best regards
Ms Aishat Jamal

Ms Asshat, why are you sending email from Germany? Hmmmmmm?

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New Rule, in two parts: A) You can’t call yourself a think tank if all your ideas are stupid. And B), if you’re someone from one of the think tanks that dreamed up the Iraq War, and who predicted that we’d be greeted as liberators, and that we wouldn’t need a lot of troops, and that Iraqi oil would pay for the war, that the WMD’s would be found, that the looting wasn’t problematic, and the mission was accomplished, that the insurgency was in its last throes, that things would get better after the people voted, after the government was formed, after we got Saddam, after we got his kids, after we got Zarqawi, and that the whole bloody mess wouldn’t turn into a civil war…you have to stop making predictions!

You know, there’s a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time: husbands. You know, it’s a shame what happened to think tanks. They used to produce valuable, apolitical analysis. But partisanship crept into many of them. And the Bush Administration doesn’t just come up with something as stupid as “If we leave now, they’ll follow us home.” No, they have someone from a think tank say it first. It’s a way to lend respectability. The same reason a titty bar has food. I hear.

The think tanks that incubated the Iraq war have lofty names like the Heritage Foundation and the Project for a New American Century. Whatever. They’ve been wrong so often, I’m surprised they’re not my broker. Richard Perle thought we could win Iraq with 40,000 troops. Paul Wolfowitz predicted, in 2003, that within a year, the grateful people of Baghdad would name some grand square in their fine city after President Bush. And he was right when he said they’d be waving American flags. They were on fire.

William Kristol pooh-poohed the fears that Sunnis and Shiites would be at each others’ throats, as “the stuff of pop psychology.” Right. And having your head chopped off is just a quick way to drop 11 pounds. Kristol, of course, is revered by much of the right because he was Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, and was known as “Quayle’s Brain.” You know that. Which sounded impressive until I remembered Dan Quayle didn’t have a brain.

And now, Mr. Kristol proposes immediate military action against Iran, predicting the Iranians will thank us for it. Hey, you know what, Nostrodamus? Why don’t you sit this one out?

We’ll get by using the Magic Eight Ball for a while. Because you guys have been so wrong about so much for so long, people are actually turning to the Democrats. So, we can say Iraq was a noble experiment, if that helps you. Our intention was good: to penetrate Iraq and bring it to a glorious, euphoric climax. But it’s clear now that’s just not going to happen. And yet we’re still pounding away.

Causing the whole area to become painfully inflamed. And in that situation, the kindest thing you can do is…just pull out.
— Bill Maher

Baseball: Cardinals take lead in World Series

Wasn’t this supposed to be a cake walk for the Tigers?

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