Miserable Failure‘s biography is the number 2 result when searching for “miserable failure” with Google. You can also check this page to keep track of the the status of the Miserable Failure Project.
Damn Liberal Media
(from CNN)
Ummmm, Bill Janklow is a Republican.
Update: Looks like CNN corrected their error (11 November 2003). The Moonie Rag Washington Times, on the other hand, has yet to correct the same error in their initial August 17, 2003 report:
Polygraph: Green River Killer Passed a 1984 Lie Detector Test
(via APS – What’s New by Bob Park – November 7, 2003)
DOE will subject all 4,500 employees with top-secret clearance to polygraph tests (WN 5 Sep 03). How likely is it that a polygraph test will uncover a spy, assuming there is one? In 1984, with the Green River body count at 46, Gary Ridgway, who has since confessed to 48 murders, was cleared after denying he knew the most recent victim. Actually, he didn’t know any of his victims. He passed a polygraph test. If the sheriff’s office had used a coin toss instead of a polygraph (WN 18 Apr 03), it’s even odds they would have wrapped up the Green River murders 19 years ago.
See also: Polygraph Testing Less than Worthless
Micro Focus Moves Mainframe Apps to .Net
(from eWeek)
… enables developers to easily migrate COBOL applications to Windows and the .Net Framework …
Finally we have a technology that gives us the stability of Microsoft combined with the elegance of COBOL.
23.86588% – Geek
Yet another goody from Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener…
The Geek Test:Here’s the scale:
- Geekish Tendencies
- Geek
- Total Geek
- Major Geek
- Super Geek
- Extreme Geek
- Geek God
- Dysfunctional Geek
I guess not learning Klingon and not being a serious gamer hurt my score. I think I should get extra credit for questioning the need to calculate the score to five decimal places.
US version of _UFO_?
I view the potential return of UFO about the same as the return of Battlestar Galactica.
I suppose it won’t be too long before someone tries to bring back Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Fox News, your voice for evil
(via Eschaton)
Fox’s bias directed by a daily memo from management:
But the roots of FNC’s day-to-day on-air bias are actual and direct. They come in the form of an executive memo distributed electronically each morning, addressing what stories will be covered and, often, suggesting how they should be covered. To the newsroom personnel responsible for the channel’s daytime programming, The Memo is the bible. If, on any given day, you notice that the Fox anchors seem to be trying to drive a particular point home, you can bet The Memo is behind it.
The Memo was born with the Bush administration, early in 2001, and, intentionally or not, has ensured that the administration’s point of view consistently comes across on FNC. This year, of course, the war in Iraq became a constant subject of The Memo. But along with the obvious – information on who is where and what they’ll be covering – there have been subtle hints as to the tone of the anchors’ copy. For instance, from the March 20th memo: “There is something utterly incomprehensible about Kofi Annan’s remarks in which he allows that his thoughts are ‘with the Iraqi people.’ One could ask where those thoughts were during the 23 years Saddam Hussein was brutalizing those same Iraqis. Food for thought.” Can there be any doubt that the memo was offering not only “food for thought,” but a direction for the FNC writers and anchors to go? Especially after describing the U.N. Secretary General’s remarks as “utterly incomprehensible”?
How can anyone think Fox News is Fair and Balanced?
Donald Luskin is a whiny, hypocritical crybaby
(Thanks to Cup O’ Joe for inspiring the headline)
Donald Luskin is threatening Atrios with a libel suit.
Luskin has problems with comments in response to Diary of a Stalker.
Aren’t conservatives supposed to be against bogging down the legal system with frivolous lawsuits?
George W. Bush’s Mission Accomplished Lie Revisited
Yesterday, George W. Bush (aka Miserable Failure) blamed the “Mission Accomplish” fiasco on the crew of the USS Lincoln:
THE PRESIDENT: Nora, I think you ought to look at my speech. I said, Iraq is a dangerous place and we’ve still got hard work to do, there’s still more to be done. And we had just come off a very successful military operation. I was there to thank the troops.
The “Mission Accomplished” sign, of course, was put up by the members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying that their mission was accomplished. I know it was attributed some how to some ingenious advance man from my staff — they weren’t that ingenious, by the way.
From Media Whores Online:
MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press…
BILL PRESS: Bush said…the crew of the ship put that sign up. Now we find out the White House has just confirmed, we just got this handed to us…Senior Navy officials now confirm the sign was in fact produced by the White House.
–Bush to troops in Qatar, 6/05/03
I suppose it’s the troops’ fault that Bush said “that mission has been accomplished.”
Bush’s Press Conference
I’m listening to Miserable Failure‘s press conference. He sounds completely disinterested and disengaged (even more so than usual).
His doctors must be messing with is meds…
Apparently Iraq is a dangerous place.
New Bush word: Suiciders
Update: here’s the transcript.
Here’s an “interesting” exchange:
Q Thank you, Mr. President. You recently put Condoleezza Rice, your National Security Advisor, in charge of the management of the administration’s Iraq policy. What has effectively changed since she’s been in charge? And the second question, can you promise a year from now that you will have reduced the number of troops in Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: The second question is a trick question, so I won’t answer it.
Let’s not forget his attempt to blame the whole “Mission Accomplished” fiasco on the crew of the USS Lincoln.
Q Mr. President, if I may take you back to May 1st when you stood on the USS Lincoln under a huge banner that said, “Mission Accomplished.” At that time you declared major combat operations were over, but since that time there have been over 1,000 wounded, many of them amputees who are recovering at Walter Reed, 217 killed in action since that date. Will you acknowledge now that you were premature in making those remarks?
THE PRESIDENT: Nora, I think you ought to look at my speech. I said, Iraq is a dangerous place and we’ve still got hard work to do, there’s still more to be done. And we had just come off a very successful military operation. I was there to thank the troops.
The “Mission Accomplished” sign, of course, was put up by the members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying that their mission was accomplished. I know it was attributed some how to some ingenious advance man from my staff — they weren’t that ingenious, by the way.