Plamegate: Worse than Watergate, But not as bad as MonicaGate

Kay Baily Hutchison's Press Secretary, apparently with insight on future indictments, says Plamegate isn't as bad as Monicagate.

Arianna Huffington says (and documents) that Cheney, Rove, Bush and Libby (in order of importance to the administration) have clearly lied to the American public, if not under oath.

Plamegate: Worse than Watergate: "But what they were covering up was much more than the outing of Valerie Plame. They were covering up the way the White House had used lies and deception to lead us into a war that was reckless and unnecessary -- what Lt. Gen. William Odom, National Security Agency director under Reagan, has called 'the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.'"

But wait, aren't all nominees entitled to an up or down vote?

Forbes.com: "Conservative outrage over President George Bush's controversial pick of Texas lawyer Harriet Miers to fill a vacancy on the US Supreme Court was unabated Sunday as activists called on the White House to withdraw her nomination."

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Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter, to Kay

Kay Bailey Hutchison, putting principle above all else.

Quoted, in the NYT:

Ms. Hutchison said she hoped "that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars."

A simple Google search for "Kay Bailey Hutchison Clinton Perjury" leads us to:

In 1999, however, she stood with Republicans in voting to remove President Clinton for grand jury perjury and obstruction of justice in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Yeesh; does he think he's posing for a prom picture?

(Tom Delay's booking photo.)

Everything you need to say to anyone

Thanks, Napoleon

Kill the television, keep the shows

Creating Passionate Users.

The first thing you notice is the reduced stress level. The second thing you notice is...you're reading more. The third thing you notice is...you get out more, and you lose a little weight.

There's one more thing you'll notice....

I Missed These

Here are some pictures that should have been in the slideshow on Saturday.

Top Magazine Covers of the past 40 years

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If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History.

Why I'm glad I'm an employee (sometimes).

Joel on Software - Set Your Priorities: "Custom development is that murky world where a customer tells you what to build, and you say, 'are you sure?' and they say yes, and you make an absolutely beautiful spec, and say, 'is this what you want?' and they say yes, and you make them sign the spec in indelible ink, nay, blood, and they do, and then you build that thing they signed off on, promptly, precisely and exactly, and they see it and they are horrified and shocked, and you spend the rest of the week reading up on whether your E&O insurance is going to cover the legal fees for the lawsuit you've gotten yourself into or merely the settlement cost. Or, if you're really lucky, the customer will smile wanly and put your code in a drawer and never use it again and never call you back."

Service Info

We're 90% sure the service will be Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Hinde Auditorium in the University Union at Sac State.

Update: The (slightly edited) text of the obituary that was sent to the Bee and information about the Memorial are here.

It all started in a small town in Ohio.

My dad, Don Hinde, was born January 4th, 1933. His family lived in Huron Ohio. He was an only child. His mother doted on him. His father modeled the value of hard work. Together, his parents demonstrated the importance of family. Huron was a small, primarily agricultural town, and there was lots of family around.

Dad had four kids and 7 grandkids who adored him. Growing up, I though he knew everything and never thought him a know-it-all.

Since college, dad had two employers. He worked his way up at the University Union in Bowling Green, OH to become the assistant director. In 1973 he became director of the Union at Sac State. Upon his retirement they named the auditorium after him. The regional professional association he belonged to named an annual award after him and mom. He basically had one job, a career, an anachronism these days.

It is important to document that the buildings he worked in were not "Student Unions". In both cases they were University Unions. They were resources for the entire University community.

He and mom celebrated their 50th anniversary August 28th this year. There was a family dinner here and mom and dad went back to Bowling Green to celebrate. They both went to college at BGSU and were married on campus. This summer they re-visited Prout Chapel (In fact a friend hosted a reception for them.) and dad took mom back to the store where they purchased their wedding set and he presented her with a new ring.

This last Saturday Molly and I went over so that I could help dad remove and clean the 'summer' pool cover (insulated and, I assume more expensive) and put on the 'winter' pool cover (not insulated, it just keeps the leaves out). It went fine. I then pitched a project for my house, some bookshelves in the downstairs bedroom/den/office/study. He wasn't enthusiastic, but on Monday he emailed me and said if I'd send him the measurements he'd think on it.

Lee,

!. Thanks for the help on Saturday. Appreciate the assistance, and the
scrubbing too. Hope the shoes dried out OK.

2. Give me the measurements of the wall that you want to cover with
bookcases..Length and height. I'll cogitate on the project and think
about buildability and options.

Dod

Dod wasn't a typo, it's for Dear Old Dad. The exclamation point instead of a '1' may have been a typo. :-)

I will chose to think that he got that it wasn't just the bookshelves, but that it was something for us to do together.

Dad died yesterday afternoon, quite unexpectedly, at the age of 72. He was cleaning up after doing some lawn work and collapsed. Every indication is that he went quickly; I hope painlessly.

I miss him already.

A Class Divided.

An interview with Jane Elliot:

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assasination, a thrid grade teacher in Iowa created an exercise to explain racism to her all-white students. She divided them by eye color and then took turns favoring one group over the other. The next day those that were last became first.

The teacher now runs presentations on the topic all over the world.

"Invariably, when I do a presentation anywhere in this country, the issue of affirmative action comes up. People say that white males are the ones who are being discriminated against in this country today. So I say, 'Fine. OK. Will every white person in this room who would like to spend the rest of his or her life being treated, discussed, and looked upon as we treat, discuss, and look upon people of color, generally speaking, in this society, please stand?' And I watch. And wait. And the only sounds in the room are those made by people of color as they turn in their seats to see how many white folks are standing. Not one white person stands. And I just let them sit there. Then I say, 'Do you know what you just admitted? You just admitted that you know that it's happening, you know that it's ugly, and you know that you don't want it for you. So why are you so willing to accept it for others? The ultimate obscenity is that you deny that it's happening.'"

Like everywhere, race is a fundamental issue in this country. I wish there was a model for a way out.