During Presidential announcement of the newly nominated Judge Roberts to replace Sandra Day OConner on the Supreme Court. Well, Hil, he's got that Alfred E. Newman look on his face again. Shrub is so over awed by his own importance, it strikes me absurd - again and again -! that this guy is actually a two term president. In 2002 when I was in Ireland, I was talking to a taxi driver about Bush and his ilk. This was during the run up to Iraq. My constant mental picture of Shrub was Alfred E. I was explaining to the cab driver about this US centric cartoon icon. He'd never heard of it/him. I promised him that one day he would encounter Mad Mag, and/or Alfred E. and he would then have a "I get it!!" moment as he remembered this conversation.
I was checking prices to Ireland this afternoon. miles of smiles heh heh. More plastic bravado, though.

Khalid Jarrar has been taken prisoner by the newly reconstituted Iraqi Secret Police. Much comment on them being a wholely owned CIA subsidiary right now. I googled (G) Khalid's name and got over a hundred hits. The blogosphere is in an uproar. Some pointed out that the child is being punished for the Mother's outspokenness. I'm afraid that Faiza thinks that, as well, as she was reportedly removing all the 'in Arabic' posts on her blog. Funny this happened right after she returned from U.S. conference.

Raed's blog 'comments' gave an email for this entity. Someone mentioned that the email bounced. I sent one, bcc to Faiza (possibly against her wishes - sorry) and it bounced; tried again the next day and it stayed put.

There are several petitions, legions of bloggers poised to take action - SOME kind of action, only awaiting the signal from the family. No update today.

Drat, the spell checker doesn't work. Usually, I'd past it into a Netscape Mail msg. and check it there. Now that I've changed HDs I thought I''d geek out and just use Firefox and Thunderbird, which does not seem to have one. Drat !!