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Come on, Guys, the Gulf is cooling, there are only two weeks left, how about a break.

This morning Bobby and Robert spotted the news of tropical depression 27 in the Caribbean Sea.

While it is currently being suppressed by wind shear, it is expected to become Tropical Storm Г [Gamma] by the end of the week and hit Central America, which is still recovering from Hurricane Beta.

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All too often criminal convictions get thrown out because prosecutors “forgot” to provide the defense with exculpatory evidence that was gathered during the investigation.

Exculpatory evidence covers facts that tend to show that the defendant did not commit the crime, and conflict with the case the prosecutor presented to the jury. If the omission is egregious, the prosecutor could be in trouble for prosecutorial misconduct.

In Kevin Drum’s article Manipulating Intelligence you will see a simple exposition of the “exculpatory evidence” that the Shrubbery hid from the world, when he decided to “prosecute” Saddam Hussein.

The only information that was declassified and presented to the public was information that supported the case for war. The “exculpatory evidence” was redacted and remained classified. Those who knew of its existence could not speak out without violating the law.

Those who criticized the intelligence that was used to support the war didn’t know about all of the doubts the intelligence agencies had about that intelligence.

They lied by omission, and they continue to lie.

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Via Susie and Laura we discover the naïeté of the Wall Street Journal: “…And we know for a fact that information wrung from 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others has helped prevent further attacks on U.S. soil.”

Sorry, but “we” know no such thing, we have been told that this is true by the same group that told us that Saddam had tons of WMDs and the ability to attack the United States with them.

If the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is this gullible after all of the evidence of the past several years, one can understand why they missed all the accounting scandals and the less than stellar performance of their parent company’s “Industrial Average” since they decided that George W. Bush was the man to lead the country to a stronger economy.

This is what happens when you put sandstone in a suit.

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Thanks for the advanced warning guys.

Maintenance on Monday, November 14

We are planning a two hour outage this evening from 9p to 11p (PST). This is to complete the network maintenance we’ve been performing over the last several weeks.
– Jason G. [11/14/2005 10:27:00 AM]

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