Summit Journal Chat

CSTerry. I appreciate that. Of course I did see F 9/11. I've been tempted to rent it on DVD, indeed purchase it, but I fear my head will explode if I watch it at this time. Here's another enigma - notice how 2 people can watch it and 2 people will see different things? I come away from F 9/11 thinking Michael Moore made a pretty good case against Bush, while a sister-in-law would see it and think -- lies, lies from the big ol' boogyman!

Magoo, further to your ' passionately advanced arguments ', I , too , have been surprised at what Bush has been able to get away with so little scrutiny. Two cases come to mind. One is highlighted admirably in Fahrenheit 911. It is Bush's nearly 7 minutes of inaction after his Chief of Staff has whispered to him " Mr President, the Nation is under attack ". I find the potential implications of this inaction staggering. While Bush had been told of the first plane hitting the Twin Towers prior to meeting with the students, he wouldn't have known what was the nature of the attack Andrew Card was referring to. Missiles might have been on their way from submarines in the Atlantic, bombers might have been heading toward major cities, and yet, for 7 minutes, he did nothing! Still, the major media has never held his feet to the fire over this, allowing him to say lamely, he didn't want to alarm the children.
The other one that amazes me has to do with his apparent non-service with the Alabama National Guard. I am surprised that no one in the Media has challenged him to produce 5 or 6 people who can say " Oh yeah, I remember George, I served with him in the Guard in 1972 ". I could certainly produce at least twice that number who could attest to my activities in 1972. Admittedly, they'd be mostly bartenders and drug dealers, but I could produce them. Ah, it just occurred to me, maybe, that's the problem.

Hi magoo - I do have trouble accessing this site from work sometimes, but not all of the time. And it's not even when I try to post, but rather when I just try to view the blog. I get some kind of error that crashes my whole browser when I click on the "View Blog" button. Other times I can read the blog and post from work just fine. Doesn't seem like a firewall thing since it is intermittent. BTW, I enjoyed your "rant" as you called it, and I agree whole-heartedly with you.

HI GBS: I have trouble posting sometimes too. Maybe we need to contact the folks at blogger.com.

I don't have an email address for them per se, but you should be able to contact them via one of the links that comes up under www.blogger.com.

Sometimes websites do better on different browsers. Sometimes if IE doesn't work, I'll switch over to Safari. I've noticed that the blog looks different on Safari and that bugs me. Meanwhile, I continue to try to help Jay but he has my email address blocked off his AOL account - or so the message says. So, perhaps Boulder Bob can help Jay get on.

Carrie has trouble posting from work, but not home... I think. So, there could be some firewall-type issues also.

I have been having problems posting. I think that others are also. You might post an email address so we can let the system people know.

Thanks guys for not leaving me hanging after my rant!

In our brave new world disorder, one last bastion of sanity and reason remains--of course I'm referring to Hunter S. Thompson--I found his "Kingdom of Fear" strangely comforting.

Magoo, I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that you're one of those 'undecided voters' everybody's courting.