Becuase Everything Else Sucks

The Daily Connect: 05/16/07

By Manila Ryce
Published Wednesday, May 16th, 2007, 8:49 am
Filed under: The Daily Connect

  • Our poo-flinging friends over at Monkey Muck were able to get Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman to give his commentary on the second Republican Debate. Ron Paul and the Pineapple of Forgiveness never had it so good. Perhaps the Great Pumpkin will make an appearance at the last debate of the year. Now is not the season. Also, feel free to rant along with their displeasure over Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute becoming the first human shield to take the “war czar” job position.
  • Wolfowitz is being charged with breaking the rules of the World Bank by a committee of 7 of the bank’s 24 board members. The committee said that breaking the bank’s policy of conflicting interests was “a manifestation of an attitude in which Mr. Wolfowitz saw himself as the outsider to whom the established rules and standards did not apply.” Oh snap! If they’re hoping this pressure will force The Wolfster to leave on his own they obviously don’t know Bush’s friends very well. I once invited Condi over to a cocktail party and she was the very last to leave. Well, I’m going to bed now so uh… turn down the volume on the television and uh… I guess I’ll see you later.
  • They say the first casualty of war is the truth. In keeping with that statement, the Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced that news cameramen and photographers will no longer be permitted at the site of bomb attacks. The ministry is justifying this infringement on freedom of the press as a matter of security. My God, we’ve taught them well. They insist that the ban is to prevent those responsible for the bombings from learning how successful they were, to prevent evidence being disturbed, and out of respect for the victims and families. Iraq has previously banned journalists from parliamentary sessions so that contradictory statements could not be reported, and threatened to sue journalists who do not modify their stories when ordered to do so.
  • The Democratic Party is the party that cares about the struggling lower class of America. In fact, the people of Denver will be able to verify that personally with Hillary Clinton as she bolts through their city in her diamond-studded rickshaw. The city is opening an emergency shelter to hide the homeless while the Democratic National Convention is in town in 2008. Of course, Denver’s manager of human services claims that the effort is not being done to present a better image of the city, but done to… wait for it… lessen security concerns! I guess the homeless haven’t been a problem ever since “9/11 changed everything.”
  • Retired AT&T technician Mark Klein is in a legal battle between his old employer and privacy rights group EFF. Klein is responsible for blowing the whistle on the US government’s attempts to spy on Internet traffic without court authorization. 5 master complaints are currently going through the federal court system with an appeal from AT&T to be heard this summer. In an interview, Klein told how AT&T built a network that split fiber-optic backbones into a secret room with monitoring equipment, and provided internal documentation that corroborated his claims. Me thinks someone is going to have an unfortunate accident. Too bad his wife isn’t a CIA agent too.
  • Operation Ore, a program designed to identify people downloading child pornography, has falsely accused people who were the victims of identity theft. Victim Simon Bunce said, “Thirty-nine people committed suicide after being accused of what I was accused of. I reacted in a different way. I investigated it diligently and I established I was the victim of credit card fraud,” he said. Oops. We only wanted the real pedophiles to commit suicide. Who would’ve though that this could backfire?
  • Gap has unveiled their new line of clothing sewn “for kids, by kids“. It’s amazing to see what such little fingers can accomplish. Simply adorable.

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