On June 15, 2004, CNN bannered a headline saying "Bush: Afghanistan is a victory over terrorism," with a subhead "Hamid Karzai thanks U.S. for aiding his country."

Not the first time he's declared victory at the earliest possible opportunity, and not the first time he's been dead wrong in a deadly way.

Just in case he doesn't bother to follow an event after he declares it over, please, Mr. President, "read on, McShmuck."

Recent piece in USA Today claims "runways were too slick to land planes safely...."

Hey, Missorans! Ready to change your state motto on your license plates?....

This falls into the "You gotta be pulling my leg" stuff. Seems a nice man decided to pay down his credit card balance. Guess who paid attention?

An AP report today reveals that a U.S. Geological Survey study found that Pesticides were identified in almost all U.S. rivers and streams tested between 1992 and 2001.

Sounds bad but, yup, you guessed it, although "Most of the nation's rivers and streams - and the fish in them - are contaminated with pesticides linked to cancer, birth defects and neurological disorders," the contamination is said to be, in the first sentence of the story, "not at levels that can harm humans."

Seems the FCC wants to change the cable rules again, and this time, well, it may work out pretty well for the customers...

Is the government really this corrupt? Yes, it is. Despite the fact that privatizing debt collection for our nation's taxes will cost much more, pose a grave threat to privacy, and be far less efficient than governmental collection, the IRS is set to sign contracts with private companies to do their dirty work.

The rightwingers love to soften the impact of the trouble in our occupation of Iraq by resorting to the "it's too soon to tell" excuse. One analogy that several have used is that "if you had looked at our position early in WW II, you'd have thought for sure we were going to lose.

Well, that sounds pretty good on the surface. But how far along are we in Iraq, now? What point in time of WWII is analogous to this point in Iraq?

When does a "clarification" simply make things more ambiguous?  When it's offered up for political reasons by a member of this White House's loyal crew of semantic warriors.

Yesterday's Washington Post reports that Alberio Gonzales recently "clarified" his early February testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Now it's so clear that Vermont Senatory Pat Leahy said:

Gonzales's letter falls "far short of helping us focus this picture. Instead, they blur it further with vague responses about their shifting legal analysis for this illegal domestic spying and with unclear clarifications on the scope of the program over the last four years."

Raw story this morning offers up the text of the brief thank you note that Alito sent to Ralph Dobson.

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