it's very interesting. may not be so bad. keeps them in the spotlight. generates interest and excitement. might make for a much more relevant convention.

this is not a drunk post but might as well be. Got home a few hours ago and I just got up cause there is no clock in my room and I have no clue what hour it is - the room is just DARK. So I get up and wander down to the lobby thinking it's noon or something and it's only 7am, 3 hours after I passed out. No hangover, so I don't know if last night was just not as good as I remember or if my late night instincts saved me from a horrid morning.

Note to self: bathroom attendants sometimes just feel like you giving you a massage when you wash your hands and you have to live with it (and tip if it makes you feel good); don't know what my reaction will be if the massage starts a bit too early in my restroom routine. Also, public urination for dudes is acceptable behavior; you gotta go, RIGHT HERE is as good a spot as any, just make sure there is not any backsplash if you are too close to a wall.

My one buddy and I got a kick out of playing the 'dude or chick' game last night. prolly not as fun and more towards the disgusting end if we were sober.

Gonna try to create my own version of 'Thrilla in Manila' tomorrow night

Posted by martin:

this is not a drunk post but might as well be. Got home a few hours ago and I just got up cause there is no clock in my room and I have no clue what hour it is - the room is just DARK. So I get up and wander down to the lobby thinking it's noon or something and it's only 7am, 3 hours after I passed out. No hangover, so I don't know if last night was just not as good as I remember or if my late night instincts saved me from a horrid morning.

Note to self: bathroom attendants sometimes just feel like you giving you a massage when you wash your hands and you have to live with it (and tip if it makes you feel good); don't know what my reaction will be if the massage starts a bit too early in my restroom routine. Also, public urination for dudes is acceptable behavior; you gotta go, RIGHT HERE is as good a spot as any, just make sure there is not any backsplash if you are too close to a wall.

My one buddy and I got a kick out of playing the 'dude or chick' game last night. prolly not as fun and more towards the disgusting end if we were sober.

Gonna try to create my own version of 'Thrilla in Manila' tomorrow night

and the loser gets. . . . . first dibs on the mouthwash??

HAHHAAHA!! Thats an awesome story. God I wish I could take vacations like that. Corporate America sucks !

240

Don't know where I missed a day, but it's Tuesday. Should be 238.

Posted by Silverfuel:

238 it is! 8 months!

one small step for man . . .

Bush Debt - $7.7 trillion!
http://worldwide-sawdust.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2364

236

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/bushs-surprise-serenade-hits-youtube/index.html?hp

Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda not linked, Pentagon says

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military's first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon.

The report released by the Joint Forces Command five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq said it found no "smoking gun" after reviewing about 600,000 Iraqi documents captured in the invasion and looking at interviews of key Iraqi leadership held by the United States, Pentagon officials said.

The assessment of the al Qaeda connection and the insistence that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction were two primary elements in the Bush administration's arguments in favor of going to war with Iraq.

The Pentagon's report also contradicts then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who said in September 2002 that the CIA provided "bulletproof" evidence demonstrating "that there are, in fact, al Qaeda in Iraq."


Although other groups, like the September 11 commission, have concluded that there was no link between Hussein and al Qaeda, the Pentagon was able to analyze much more information.

The documents cited in the report do reveal that Hussein supported a number of terrorists and terrorist activities inside and outside Iraq.

"The Iraqi regime was involved in regional and international terrorist operations prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The predominant targets of Iraqi state terror operations were Iraqi citizens, both inside and outside of Iraq," according to the report.

Most of the terrorism was aimed at keeping Hussein and his Baath party in power, according to Pentagon officials.


"State sponsorship of terrorism became such a routine tool of state power that Iraq developed elaborate bureaucratic processes to monitor progress and accountability in the recruiting, training and resourcing of terrorists," according to the report.

The report cited such examples as training for car bombs and suicide bombings in 1999 and 2000, both of which U.S. and Iraqi forces have struggled to contain since the rise of the insurgency in summer 2003.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/alqaeda.saddam/index.html