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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 | Rove Riddle Answer Coming Soon

LET'S see. I once put a quarter in a slot machine and won enough money to buy a Macintosh G4. Later the same day, I was betting in a poker game in a Laundromat (this was in Reno, on the way back from Burning Man 2001) and hit four aces and a queen. On a one penny bet, I won $15! Imagine if I had bet a quarter.

I'm going to bet a whole dollar right now. Karl Rove's goose is cooked. He has done nothing but spew lies for the past five years we've had to endure awareness of the unfortunate fact of his existence. But I guess better to have him in front of the scenes than back in the clockwork. The comments of his lawyers and Republican ringers Monday calling Jason Leopold's article on truthout.org a "disgrace" mean nothing [article posted below]. The press getting shaky because such an explosive story could not be confirmed means nothing -- everybody else has to account for NOT having what will be the biggest story so far in the Bush administration's many scandals.

Either there is (or will be) an indictment, or not. I think that by Tuesday evening, we will have confirmation. Also, the Grand Jury meets Wednesday, and that may provide a turning point. Last night I reached Marc Ash, the executive director of truthout.org, and he said he was confident that Jason Leopold's story would check out.

The way the issue has been skewed is certainly interesting, and typical of Rovian disinfo campaigns of the past. There is some speculation in the blogosphere that the story was "leaked" (falsely, by Rove ringers) in order to damage the reputation of truthout.org, which reaches a quarter million people a day with political news and analysis.

The problem of the mainstream media has been solved by corporatizing it, that is, taking it over by big business. This ensures a constant flow of chaos, violence and trivia, all held up by people struggling to keep their jobs, hence, be good. But the Roves of the world have not solved the problem of the Internet. When your Old Uncle Eric was a lad, there was this thing called the 'alternative press', which meant magazines like In These Times that reached at most 50,000 people a week (maybe it was half that, come to think of it). Now we have many outlets like truthout that can reach five times that many in a single day with much more information.

This IS a problem for those who thrive on lies. And the best way to undermine this whole process in the long-run is to attack the credibility of journalists and news outlets who dare to dig out the truth, or even to try. Then, in their fantasies, we can go back to having only Fox News and CNN.

As for the reality of Rove getting indicted. On one level, it may come as little consolation if the man who engineered the theft of two elections, the Iraq war and, I believe, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, gets fired and prosecuted for much smaller crimes against the people he supposedly represents. But then his absence would leave absolutely no insulation between Bush, Cheney and the truth of what happened.

Remember what is at issue. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons, to convince you, me and conress to go to war. A former ambassador who had been sent to investigate, Joseph Wilson III, after much wrangling behind the scenes, finally went public with the fact that the nuclear program was nonsense; there was no uranium. Then the Bush administration retaliated by exposing that his wife -- Valerie Plame Wilson -- was a deep cover CIA agent (who happened to be working on nuclear weapons issues in Iran of all places). This in turn ruined years of undercover work, and exposed everyone who worked with her to danger or possibly getting killed. This is not chickenshit. This is treason, the real thing.

As for Bush sending 6,000 troops to the Mexican border: the flea is wagging the entire Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. I mean good heavens, acting like Mexico is invading the United States? Defending the border against who? The people who...make your dinner or repair your roof in Southern California?

Bush said tonight, "We do not yet have full control of the border, and I am determined to change that."

He seems to want full control of everything, and fast. But he is right about one thing, they don't control that border; but does anyone have full control of any border? One of my best friends told me about the time he got a motel room in south Texas, crossed over to Mexico, and then successfully, illegally, crossed back over the Rio Grande. He stuck his driver's license in his sock, and, carrying nothing, waded across the river, crossed the field and the berm without being stopped. He said he sat quietly on the bank on the Mexican side studying the patterns of the search lights and the patrols for about three hours, made his plan, and went for it.

He made it, returning to his motel room covered in sweat and mud. The kid is a double Scorpio (Sun and Moon), and he's just as gutsy in his other projects, too.

Anyway, there's my dollar bet.

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PS, check out this link. I'll post an excerpt later, but it's very interesting, courtesy of Pod.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13055.htm