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Nosedive
Bush's job approval rating now stands at 33 percent, down five percentage points in barely a month and a new low for him in Post-ABC polls. His current standing with the public is identical to his father's worst showing in the Post-ABC poll before he lost his reelection bid to Bill Clinton in 1992. Bush's father fell below 30 percent in some other [...]
Just Between You and Me, Who You Going to Call?
Now things really are getting strange. Brian Ross reports that: A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. "It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation. I just want to set the [...]
Free Falling
The Wall Street Journal reports:President Bush's job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an "excellent or pretty good" job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in [...]
Now, That’s Planning!
"We did not predict early on that we would have the number of electronic jammers that we've got. We did not predict we'd have as many armored vehicles that we have, nor did we have a good prediction about what our battle losses would be," Army Chief of Staff Peter J. Schoomaker recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Lucky for those [...]
So Long Michael Mallery, See You on Down the Road
This entry by Fufkin Vollmayer of San Francisco is in memory of one of my very best friends, Michael Mallery, who lived a good life, a generous life and a brilliant life. He was a creative inspiration to many who went on to things of great accomplishment. His spiritual DNA lives on with those whose lives he cheered, encouraged and [...]
Poker Games
The way I hear the poker games work between defense contractors and government officials with big purchasing power is that the contractors first lose big at the table and then win even bigger on the contracts. Man at CIA Resigns Amid Growing Corruption Allegations
Hola, Let Us All Speak Muddled English
President Bush wants all US citizens to speak English. Let us remember his own fabled interpretation of the mother tongue when he flew to Tampa, Fla., last year to flog his agenda for Social Security changes.... Mr. Prez made as much sense as flying from NYC to LA with a change of planes in Hong Kong: THE PRESIDENT: Because the -- all which is [...]
I Hate Kaiser
I first visited my Kaiser doctor a month ago for a bad knee. He put me on Iburprophen, then tylenol.... The knee has not gotten better. I went to a chiropractor in Virginia for a second opinion yesterday. He recommended an MRI and suggested I was misdiagnosed. The soonest I can get an MRI is June 3.
‘Young Americans Shaky on Geographic Smarts’
Oh, no! "Study finds that many fare poorly at finding Louisiana." We're talking Americans, of course. Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 could't find Iraq. That's because they probably get everything they want at Walmart -- not to mention that the teachers may have something to do with [...]
I am Beginning to Hate Kaiser
Okay, so my knee has been out of commission for the better part of four weeks. I stepped into a hole in Marion Park. Narrow and deep, it obviously was dug by one of the many overachieving dogs that populate my Capitol Hill neighborhod. (The dog shall remain nameless to protect the innocent.) The knee is supposed to go forward when it bends. This [...]
