Joe & Valerie Wilson on Libby Verdict... GBDK

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Tuesday March 06, 2007 · 12:29 PM PST

2007/03/06 · 12:29

Here is the statement of Joe & Valerie Wilson on today's Libby verdict:

March 6, 2007

Washington, DC – First, Valerie and Joseph Wilson would like to express their appreciation to Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald and the entire team of federal prosecutors for their professionalism and hard work. Their prosecution of a senior White House official illustrates that we are a nation of laws and that no man is above the law. The Wilsons respect the jury’s verdict and thank the jurors for their service. The entire Wilson team is pleased by today’s verdict and believes that justice has been served in this case.

cont'd.

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Monday March 05, 2007 · 1:11 PM PST

2007/03/05 · 13:11

First of all, what I did find. The White House has a mirrored site to whitehouse.gov and it is run by FEMA. While whitehouse.gov has been completely redesigned in the last year, this mirrored site and its archives have not. If there were any files scrubbed by whitehouse.gov this would be the place to find proof of it. I have looked for a week and found nary a one. It can be found here: crispexi.net

On the 25th of February there was a spectacular diary by smintheus called "The White House website is getting scrubbed." (original) (diary with four updates) It starts with the claim that a 2003 interview with Dick Cheney by Tim Russert had been removed. Problem is, the interview was never there to begin with.

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Sunday March 04, 2007 · 9:48 AM PST

2007/03/04 · 09:48

On the 25th of February there was a spectacular diary here called "The White House website is getting scrubbed." (original) (diary with four updates) It starts with the claim that a 2003 interview with Dick Cheney by Tim Russert had been removed. Problem is, the interview was never there to begin with.

Updates are not the same as retractions. The author, in four updates concedes that the basis for his diary is undone; the author says:
"So far I've located no evidence that the foregoing interviews were ever linked at the WH website." But this was not in time for it to be linked to all over la Blogosphera.

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Monday February 19, 2007 · 1:11 PM PST

2007/02/19 · 13:11

Just in time for President's Day, Congressman Don Young of Alaska expressed his wish during the House debate that Democrats who oppose the Bush administration's troop surge in Iraq are saboteurs and should be exiled or hanged. Then he attributed the quote to Lincoln, when really it is the work of a right wing columnist J. Michael Waller.

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged."

The misquote ran in a 2003 issue of Insight Magazine in an article "Democrats Usher in An Age of Treason." In August of 2006, there were 18,000 web references to the misquote. The day after Young said it on the House floor (Feb 16) there were 20,000 references. Today there are 30,200 web references on a Google search.

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 10:52 AM PST

2007/02/13 · 10:52

Sen. Barack Obama was quoted on Saturday:

"We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."

On Sunday he apologized, and again today.

"Even as I said it, I realized I had misspoken," Obama said. "It is not at all what I intended to say, and I would absolutely apologize if any (military families) felt that in some ways it had diminished the enormous courage and sacrifice that they'd shown." IHT

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Wednesday January 31, 2007 · 11:02 AM PST

2007/01/31 · 11:02

As you know from this diary the beloved columnist Molly Ivins is critically ill. In Molly Ivins' second to last column she declared herself on a campaign:

an "old-fashioned newspaper campaign" and vowed to use every column she had to "write about this war until we find some way to end it."

The Berkeley Daily Planet has taken up the pledge and will accept all submissions of 600-800 words, aiming to publish at least one a day online while Molly is sick. The editors will pick two to run in their print editions Tuesday and Friday. The Berkeley Daily Planet is doing this as a tribute to Molly Ivins, calling it a "festschrift."

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Saturday January 20, 2007 · 5:18 PM PST

2007/01/20 · 17:18

This Image is Copyrighted ©

This image is copyrighted, to me. It's called "Her Welcome to Him"© It started out in Indian Red, Raw Umber, and Hooker's Green. This is the third version of the painting, and it measures about 38 x 42"

I have two stories about copyrights, one depressing and one uplifting. This is to follow up to yesterday's "This Image Is Copyrighted ©" and in the comments I'll show you what yesterday's painting looks like today.

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Friday January 19, 2007 · 4:33 PM PST

2007/01/19 · 16:33

This Image is Copyrighted ©

This image is copyrighted, to me. It’s called "Ancient Glass" © although the only glass is the bottle in the center. These jugs and vases and bottle were dug up in an ancient site in Italy in the 70’s. They had lain there under volcanic ash for 1900 years. Some unknown archaelogist arranged them, laid out a centimeter ruler for scale at the bottom, and photographed them. The photograph belongs to some university library, but the painting she belongs to me.

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Thursday January 18, 2007 · 12:12 PM PST

2007/01/18 · 12:12

Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard !!

No, it’s not these Three Stooges I need... what I really need is all those 1,065 blogerros who recommended Mike Stark’s January 3rd diary

You see, today is the last day to write letters to the editor to the New York Times and the San Francisco Chroncicle in response to the two articles covering Spocko vs KSFO Hate Speech Radio

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Wednesday January 17, 2007 · 10:58 AM PST

2007/01/17 · 10:58

I have had a stinkin feeling for quite a long time about Melanie Morgan talkshow host of KSFO Hate Speech Radio. She’s made quite a few statements in the last week or so that just can’t be backed up.

She claimed, for example, that there was a Gallup poll last year where more than 80% of those polled supported prosecuting the executive editor of the New York Times for treason. Well, Ripley couldn’t find any such poll, and neither could I.

I did find this one, however, by CNN.

Created: Tuesday, June 27, 2006, at 01:49:21 EDT

Is the U.S. media justified in publishing reports of how bank records are being tracked by Washington in the hunt for terrorists?

Yes 55%
53339
votes

No 45%
43782 votes
Total: 97121 votes

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Tuesday January 16, 2007 · 3:30 PM PST

2007/01/16 · 15:30

This case is tragic:

Radio station fires 10 in wake of contestant's death
By Christina Jewett - Sacramento Bee Staff Writer
Published 1:42 pm PST Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Ten employees of The End (KDND, 107.9 FM) were fired Tuesday and the "Morning Rave" morning radio show has been cancelled in wake of a water-drinking contest Friday that left a Rancho Cordova woman ill hours before she died, apparently of water intoxication.

Jennifer Lea Strange, 28, drank one and three-quarters of a gallon of water - according to another contestant - Friday morning during a "Hold your Wee for a Wii" contest in which competitors had to drink as much water as they could without going to the bathroom for a Nintendo game system.

...Coroner's officials said Saturday that Strange's autopsy revealed no life-threatening medical conditions and appeared "consistent with a water intoxication death." It added, however, "the final cause of death will not be available for several months."

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Monday January 15, 2007 · 1:35 PM PST

2007/01/15 · 13:35

Today's New York Times gives some good coverage to the Spocko vs KSFO Hate Speech Radio issue.

Also, coincidentally, today's NYT reports on the US military & intelligence expanding its scope in gathering financial data on US citizens.

Military Expands Intelligence Role in U.S.
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: January 14, 2007

Lichtblau is the very reporter who investigated the NSA story in October 2004, when NYT executive editor Bill Keller and publisher Arthur Sulzberger were hauled in on the carpet of the Oval Office and ordered by President Bush "Do not print that story." Had they printed the story it would have effected the outcome of that 2004 presidential election.

Before they ran the story in December of 2005 again they were hauled in to the Oval Office. Again they were ordered not to print. But this second time they ran it:

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