Got this from the AP .

It seems the insurgents in Iraq are burning money, now. More after the cut.

Me and my little family are heading out west week after next, going to live in an "undisclosed location" far, far away from our northeastern digs.

What a pain in the dick this is. We have no money, I've had to stop taking on big jobs in my programming company so that I can move us, and we've just barely managed to scrape enough together to maybe pay our deposit on the new place.

This is a fucking nightmare. I'm usually more positive in my personal life, but I have to admit to having a real sense of frustration over this. We've been planning this move for two months, but things never go as planned, as we all know.

Now I'm stressing, and I know it will all work out, but I can't see how. To top it off I am having professional problems, but those will work themselves out after the move.

This sucks.

Woe is me, woe is me. ;)

~A!

See, I know I'm the main blogger at this site and all, but I thought it would be nice to have a place to just kick back and have a good time, just shoot the shit however I feel like.

This is that place for me, my own personal diary on my own... personal... um... web diary.

Yeah. Ok, I'm a dork. That's ok, I like me like this. I ain't much, baby, but I'm all I got.

~A!

Via Riverbend, Iraqi blogger (and, therefore, free speech activist) Khalid Jarrar has been abducted by the Mukhabarat, Iraq's intelligence service. The name has an understandably negative connotation, because it served as Saddam's secret police, but Khalid's brother Raed explains why it beats the alternatives.

The Brad Blog has just reported that Congressman John Conyers and Senator Barney Frank sent a letter to the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service to clarify whether or not Karl Rove qualifies as a civil officer who may be impeached.

From the best Gay News Source on the planet, PageOneQ, we learn that Senator Rick Santorum's Director of Communications, Robert Traynham, is gay.

How does a gay man work for the most anti-gay Senator in the United States, a staunch opponent of gay rights issues and a strong supporter of the Federal Marriage Amendment, which seeks to define marriage as only between a man and a woman?

In Mr. Traynham's own words:

"Senator Santorum is a man of principle, he is a man who sticks up for what he believes in, I strongly do support Senator Santorum."

Brad Friedman of The Brad Blog is at it again, pulling up rocks and watching Republicans scurry out from underneath.

In an article this afternoon, Brad takes Rush to task for his comments that a "left wing conspiracy", masterminded by the DNC and Wilson, is responsible for the whole Plame affair:

The "theory" that Rush has been pummelling his Ditto Heads with all day: Joe Wilson has been a part of a double super secret background conspiracy with the DNC since day one, well before he was sent by the CIA to Niger.

Yes, that's right. According to Rush, the entire plan to send George W. Bush's own father's Man in Iraq -- a decades-long expert in African and Middle-Eastern affairs to Niger -- was all just a ploy by Democrats "to undermine the War in Iraq and the Bush Presidency," as Rush repeatedly described it.

We suppose then, that Bush 41's letter sent to Wilson saying that he concurred with much of the article that Wilson wrote prior to the war in the San Jose Mercury News was also part of that conspiracy.

Why is Dubya's own father trying to destroy Dubya's own "Presidency", dammit?!

From the Raw Story:

Two of the Democrats most often mentioned as contenders for the White House in 2008 are currently paying staff to work for local candidates in New Hampshire, home of the nation?s first presidential primary, the paid-restricted Roll Call reports Thursday. Excerpts follow -- Kerry and Edwards spokespersons say it doesn't necessarily indicate a presidential bid, though experts say the move is a "fairly big step."

We've talked about my anger issues before, and I think it might be time to touch on this subject again.

I owe Markos of Daily Kos an apology. I flew off the handle because he banned some users he thought were inappropriate to his site a couple of days ago, and I never stopped to think about why that was an asshole thing to do.

I know I've said Kos has a responsibility to the left, and he does. And he discharges that responsibility the way he sees fit, and it is not for me or anyone else to tell him how to run his blog, his site, or his topics.

He is right about something when he says if you don't like it, start your own blog, build your own thing.

I fell into the trap of taking the blogosphere too seriously, and maligning the biggest one in the fold for no better reason than that he was the biggest.

For that, Kos, I apologize. I would also like to apologize to John Aravosis of AmericaBlog, for being an asshole to him in the email when he called me on it.

After I took a step back, I realized the only thing I was doing was being a dick. So thanks, John, for helping me see that.

And to all the people on the right I have offended, go fuck yourselves, you cheap tricks.

~A!

Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI) is one of my heroes.

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