Continuing cleanup edition

Still removing tabs prior to my hard drive coming in. Yeah, I know, I could probably be doing something else.

Giuliani continues to pimp his "leadership" in the aftermath of 9/11, even as we found out he only spent a total of 29 hours at Ground Zero. Funny, isn't is, that he pretty much bills himself as the guy who single-handedly restored New York City and spent barely over a day at the attack site. No wonder the actual rescue and recovery workers are pissed off.

Bush has declared that you cannot challenge his illegal wiretapping in court. He is invoking the "states secrets privilege", whatever that is. You ever get the feeling he's just making this up as he goes along?

Also, he's close to passing Reagan's record for most vacation days taken by a sitting president. Wow, these Republicans sure are lazy people. Evil, but lazy.

Tired of fighting both us and the Shi'ite militias, the Sunnis in Iraq are joining up with us against a common enemy. Not sure that picking fights in a civil war should be our thing, you know, but it probably means less people shooting at our guys.

NPR reports that minority-majority counties are on the rise. The NYT covers it as well.

Russia is selling new sniper rifles to Venezuela. No word on when Bush is going to challenge Chavez to "bring it on" to start shooting Marines at our embassy in Caracas.

Meanwhile, the World Junior Baseball Championships have been cancelled because Chavez refuses to recognize the Taiwanese team and the tournament was supposed to take place in Venezuela.

Look, keep your damn politics out of sports please.

We're creating a database in Iraq that includes such things as tribal affiliation, address, fingerprints, etc. Basically, something that would make it very easy for you to pick out whoever you want to kill in a random crowd. Helpful of us, isn't it?