Kicking The Can

Vice President Cheney today:

Now, the year 2018 may seem like a long way off, and in politics there is always a temptation to kick the can down the road — hoping that long-term problems might simply disappear, or leaving them for someone else to worry about. That is not how President Bush views his job. As he’s said many times, he ran for the presidency to confront big challenges, not to pass them along to future Presidents and future Congresses.

Yes indeed. We wouldn’t want leaders who passed long-term problems off for someone else to fix, would we?

Juneuary

Conditions are about to make a dramatic change, but currently it’s 72 degrees at Resonance world headquarters.
Thus far January has been a month that even I’m hard pressed to complain about. I’ve already gotten over 80 miles of bicycling in, and it could have been even more. Daylight has been more of a limiting factor than the thermometer.
This is the way winter should be.

A: Way Too Much

Q: How much air time have the news channels given to that rescue of the guy with no pants dangling from a bridge over a swollen California river?

Bogus Story Fallouts

The Poor Man has an informative comparison of the fallouts from the forged 60 Minutes documents and the phony claims regarding Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. A couple more:

RatherGate Iraq WMD
Apologies offered 2+ 0
Presidential Medals of Freedom Awarded 0 3

War On Long Hair

Alert: a new weapon of mass intelligence destruction has been discovered:

North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch enemy – the wrong haircut.
A campaign exhorting men to get a proper short-back-and-sides has been aired by state-run Pyongyang television.
The series is entitled Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle.
. . .
It stressed the “negative effects” of long hair on “human intelligence development”, noting that long hair “consumes a great deal of nutrition” and could thus rob the brain of energy.

Just another example of how a government can fool the masses into believing stupid stuff if it has the assistance of a compliant media.