Ramblings

"How little do they see what really is, who form their hasty judgments upon that which seems."

      - Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)

Yasser Arafat is ill, maybe seriously, and some Palestinians think the Israelis have found a way to secretly poison him.  Maybe they have, or maybe the old fart's time is simply up. 

Polish soldiers have found French missiles in Iraq, but the French say they can't be theirs.  If they say they can't be theirs I guess they can't be theirs.  They'd never lie, would they?

Bill Hobbs over at Hobbs Online says we're in a bull market.  Could Bush's tax cuts be kicking in or is there an underground plan by the Democratic Party that is making this happen?

The CounterRevolutionary thinks maybe the CIA has developed its own political agenda and is trying to subvert Bush with the "LeakGate" events.  I will admit that something seems fishy about this whole thing.

And David Warren, in another of his excellent essays, opines about how the Pentagon may stop talking to the media about its operations.  The money quote:

"The media have been discovered to be an enemy, pure and simple, and no attempt to brief or include them in operations makes any sense."

I can't disagree.  You decide.