Oh, dear. The Bush administration is really going downhill....

[kyrielle]

Though I find what he attempted to accomplish inappropriate in some ways, I find the humor of the result overwhelming. This man is not a good president, he is reprehensible, and I can't wait until we get our shot to vote him out of office, I hope by everything that is dear that we do so.

He would be much more entertaining if I didn't remember the incredible responsibility and trust that he holds right now. And I do not trust him with it.

Anyway, apparently he's really upset about the leaks in the White House. (Side note: I think whoever leaked the agent's identity should be nailed. I also think Bush's reaction is both overkill and impossible to enforce, and if he didn't believe the former he should have realized the latter. He made himself look like an idiot, again, and the result was as predictable as his lack of sufficient thinking to avoid it.)

Favorite quote from the article, hands-down:

Bush told his senior aides Tuesday that he "didn't want to see any stories" quoting unnamed administration officials in the media anymore, and that if he did, there would be consequences, said a senior administration official who asked that his name not be used.

Thanks to rollick for posting this. And thank you to the folks who wrote that article, for delivering a truly glorious statement....

Comments

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear. The quote is fantastic, too.

Is that a new icon? It's very cute!

[kyrielle]

I've had it for a while but don't use it often. It's a faerie ixi from Neopets.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I thought so. It's very sweet.

Is Neopets the time sink I think it might be? I looked at the site a couple of times, but didn't dare get involved.

[kyrielle]

It can be. Depends on the person. Seems to be for a lot of people. I don't use the chat boards or try to advance very quickly, and I just peer curiously at plots and go on. That seems to work pretty well; I just spend 10-15 minutes a day, at most, on it.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

The plots SCARE me now. Was at Borders the other day and saw Neopets: The Official Magazine ... O_o ... half of which was about the Neopets CCG WotC is putting out ... O_o!!! ... but there was a short article about plots.

They said that previous plots, to be solved, required such things as poking through the source code.

[kyrielle]

The current one does, too, in several cases.

Me, I'm just reading the explanations of the people who do this. I got better ways to spend my time. I am curious what happened, but I ain't solvin' it.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Oooo, those explanations sound interesting. Where are they?

[kyrielle]

They gave it its own chat board on the site this time:

http://www.neopets.com/neoboards/boardlist.phtml?board=21

I'm just reading posts there, some of which are inane of course, but some of which you can confirm are real by repeating what they did. Sometimes they link to outside sites that accumulate and keep all the details.

It actually can work

[pheon.livejournal.com]

It seems stupid to make an announcement like that:

Bush told his senior aides Tuesday that he "didn't want to see any stories" quoting unnamed administration officials in the media anymore, and that if he did, there would be consequences, said a senior administration official who asked that his name not be used.

But he did that last year sometime. And it actually worked, at least for a while.

Amazing!

p.s. I agree with you that "...whoever leaked the agent's identity should be nailed." Some recent indications are that it was actually someone in the CIA, which is more than a little anti-Bush.