The world has to hang on another 12 months...

If you visited any news sites or watched it last week, you know about the story of Iranian boats confronting a US Navy ship. What may not have been as clear depending on your sources is that the story was manufactured by the Pentagon and planted with CBS and CNN.

Say it with me now, 12 months...

As to what we have so far survived, the White House has now stated that the only copies of the missing emails were recycled.

The deletion of millions of email beginning in March 2003 coupled with the White House’s destruction of back-up copies of those deleted email mean that there are no back-up copies of emails deleted during the period March 2003 through October 2003. The significance of this time-period cannot be overstated: the U.S. went to war with Iraq, top White House officials leaked the covert identity of Valerie Plame Wilson and the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into their actions.

As to what is to come, there's this excellent column about the economy: A different recession

As for FISA, we may have something much more pressing to worry about. National Intelligence Director is drawing up plans for cyperspace spying.

As to presidential candidates, I repeat my vow to go SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE else if Huckabee is in any way inaugarated come next January. He is advocating that the constitution be changed to reflect "God's standards". Even the Republican conservative diehards are scared of this guy!

I've been following the story of the pregnant marine that was killed. This is the most recent update.. I really wish I'd saved copies of all the CNN stories on this (mostly just updated), but I didn't. It has really pissed me off. ( thoughts. )

Is it any wonder I'd rather be looking at the Daily Coyote than doing news round up posts....