PuddingTime!all pudding, all the time"A profound betrayal"- September 28, 2006 Glenn Greenwald, again: Even with the extreme range of abuses the Bush presidency has brought, this is undeniably something different, and worse, by magnitude, not merely by degree. There is a profound and fundamental difference between an Executive engaging in shadowy acts of lawlessness and abuses of power on the one hand, and, on the other, having the American people, through their Congress, endorse, embrace and legalize that behavior out in the open, with barely a peep of real protest. Our..http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/a_profound_betr.php "The president's power to imprison people forever"- September 27, 2006 Glen Greenwald, Salon, Sept. 26: The administration is obviously aware of the transparent, and really quite pitiful, election-based fear that is consuming Democrats and rendering them unwilling to impede (or even object to) the administration's seizure of more and more unchecked power in the name of fighting terrorism. As a result of this abdication by the Democrats, the Washington Post reports, the administration spent the weekend expanding even further the already-extraordinary torture and...http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/the_presidents.php Truth is stranger than friction- September 22, 2006 "You might think that the enormous gulf between Bush's perceptions and reality on such a life-and-death topic would be, well, newsworthy": BLITZER: I'll read to you what Kofi Annan said on Monday. He said, "If current patterns of alienation and violence persist much further, there is a grave danger the Iraqi state will break down, possibly in the midst of a full-scale civil war." Is this what the American people bought into BUSH: You know, it's interesting you quoted Kofi....http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/truth_is_strang.php Executive of all he surveys- September 18, 2006 Glenn Greenwald: Just look at the things we're debating--whether the U.S. Government can abduct and indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens without charges; whether we can use torture to interrogate people; whether our Government can eavesdrop on our private conversations without warrants; whether we can create secret prisons and keep people there out of sight and beyond the reach of any law or oversight; and whether the President can simply disregard long-standing constitutional limitations and...http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/executive_of_al.php September 11th was a Tuesday- September 12, 2006 -----Original Message----- From: Kitchel, Phil Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: welcome to normal My apologies, but I'm sending a blanket reply, given the number of inquiries in my mailbox this morning. I was in the office Thursday, but the e-mail was down, and I didn't come in on Friday. This gets really long. I should've just sent a quick "Hi! We're OK!", but I've had a lot on my mind. Cindy and I are fine, as are nearly all of our closest friends here....http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/september_11th.php Lies, lying, liars- September 8, 2006 Joe Conason, Salon, Sept. 8, 2006: Suspicions of bad faith about the production of "The Path to 911" have less to do with the alleged personal bias of Cyrus Nowrasteh, the conservative writer responsible for the script, and more to do with what he chose to invent on-screen--and what he and the producers chose to omit. Nowrasteh's most egregious fictionalizing occurs in Act 4, which depicts a supposed strike on bin Laden's Afghan redoubt that is called off at the last second by Sandy...http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/lies_lying_liar.php Happy birthday, PuddingTime!- September 7, 2006 Well, what do you know: "On This Day" reminds me again that it's PuddingTime's anniversary--the fourth now. What I said last year pretty much holds: If I'm the editor in chief, Michael Hall is the publisher, so four cheers to him as well. I've been funneling some of my obsessions through this medium for over three of those years, gradually and unofficially assuming responsibility for the content while Mike pursued experiments in more conducive formats, which has now led him here, even.http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/happy_birthday_1.php Demand ABC Correct Their 911 Film- September 7, 2006 Or maybe just shitcan the damn thing: ABC is planning to air a two-part mini-series entitled The Path to 911 this Sunday and Monday. In spite of its claim to be based on the 911 Commission Report, the film reportedly includes numerous inaccuracies and lays the blame for the September 11 tragedy on the Clinton Administration. One scene reportedly depicts a senior Clinton Administration official calling off the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden. This depiction of events has been refuted by...http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/09/demand_abc_corr.php |