http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1186820Oh my.
We're coming up on Fitzmas again.
You know, I always held a grudge against the Bostonian Drunkard, who was so sure Karl Rove was going to be indicted on May 12, 2006, that on that day, I cancelled all other affairs and sat at the computer all day long, from circa 7:00 a.m. central time, 6:00 a.m. mountain time, until early evening, "refreshing" all the news web-sites very five minutes or so, to learn of the indictment.
I wasted a whole day of my life, because of the richboy Bostonian Drunkard.
I had forgotten that the Bostonian Drunkard had pulled a similar stunt about a year and a half earlier, which is to be found at
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=5589.0, in which the Bostonian Drunkard had predicted something, and the primitives exulted in jubilation and joy, only to be let down.
(My thanks to Mr. Wiggum for finding the original primitive bonfire.)
Anyway, in the spirit of the Fitzmas season:
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 02:42 PM
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I just got off the phone with Jason Leopold who clarified something for me that is pretty damned important. In his article, he said:
"During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning."
In point of fact, those 24 hours are "business hours," i.e. starting on Monday.
"Jeez, Jason," I said, "we might want to put that into the essay. Half the planet thought 24 hours was 24 hours. They thought the deal would go down today."
To be fair, a dozen eyes looked at that article yesterday before we published it, mine included, and none of us caught that. The word "business" has been inserted into the story after "hours" where it belongs:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051306W.shtml
So. Monday at the very earliest, but more like Tuesday or Wednesday.
I'm going to go take a nap and then go get drunk with some friends tonight. Dan's brother Ken, the airline pilot and all-around wild-man, is in town for the weekend. Gonna be the Linwood Cafe, and their Mojo from the nitrogen tap, and then around again to our usual gathering spot.
I'd repeat everything I've said about Jason's multiple independent sources, about how the MSMs failure to pick this up sounds more like more of the same old shit than anything ominous, about how no hard paper or announcements or anything will come until, at a minimum, the government re-opens for business on Monday...but I've written it all already.
The truth will out. It always does.
Later, gators.
By the way, if one googles "24+business+hours," this is the very first thing that pops up on the screen, of more than 12,400,000 "results." The Bostonian Drunkard is the top of the page, the very first one.
It's a very large bonfire (but only one of many about the subject), and the whole entire massive bonfire is worth observing in its entirety, at the link above.
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 02:48 PM
Response to Reply #6
11. He's relaxed
Waiting like the rest of us, confident, solid, good to go.
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 02:49 PM
Response to Reply #15
17. I figured but on something like this, it is important to nail it to the floor. There were a shitload of posts today from people who did think 24 hours was 24 hours. A lot of angst got released when it didn't happen that way. People are charged up, which is understandable, which is wht "business" was a word that should have been in there in the first place.
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 03:03 PM
Response to Reply #40
42. Absolutely no apologies necessary.
Doubt is good.
alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 05:00 PM
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76. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing....
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 07:00 PM
Response to Reply #76
103. You seem to have an awful lot invested in the idea that this story is wrong.
alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 07:05 PM
Response to Reply #103
107. I do! I'll have to call myself a dimbulb in my signature line if it's true
The bet, remember?
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 07:18 PM
Response to Reply #107
110. And that's a good reason to post insulting messages to your fellow DUers? Really? You must live a crucifyingly dull life. You're actually rooting against a Rove indictment so you don't have to update your sig line.
Wow.
alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 07:19 PM
Response to Reply #110
111. Isn't it amazing?
Oh, were you insulted? I was just musing, you know? Isuddenly remembered my Charlemagne and all that.
The fact is, at this point, you have much more invested in it being true than I have in it being false. For me, it'll be a sig line, some good natured embarrassment. For you, if this turns out false, it's the whole game, isn't it?
There's just so much there, one really should read the whole thing; it's hilarious.
