Differing Recollections of Different People

The water-carriers for the administration have adopted a rather silly meme to try to sweep I. Lewis Libby's indictment under the rug. The tools are using the defense that persons charged with perjury have traditionally employed. This is the old "my client didn't lie, the misunderstanding arose from the differing recollections of different people."

Libby's defenders must have no idea how ridiculous this defense is in this case. Libby's conduct does not involve telling one or two incidental lies to the grand jury. Libby concocted an elaborate fiction about how he learned of Mrs. Wilson's identity from Tim Russert. He spun a vast web of lies to support this story, and repeated the tale to both FBI agents and the grand jury. This is not simply a matter of a busy man making a little mistake.

Yet, all Sunday morning the political talk shows wheeled out partisan hack after hack to repeat the clever talking point.

Make no mistake, a federal court will not be buying this load of horsehockey.

While we are still on the subject of "Plamegate", I have seen dire speculation on the internets involving the threat to justice should something untoward happen to prosecutor Fitzgerald. These people are off base. Mr. Fitzgerald has all relevent files backed up in order to proceed with an even more vigorous prosecution if this scenario comes into play. The assassination of Judge John Wood in El Paso back in 1979 shows what can be assumed to be the standard operating procedure. The Feds will take no quarter.

A more likely miscarriage of justice given this bunch would be for something to happen to Lewis Libby. Lets hope he stays around to squeal on his co-conspirators.

Link Between Star Wars and Aleister Crowley?

Here is an amusing essay on the supposed connection between the Star Wars mythology and the Magick of Aleister Crowley.

Excerpt:

"Crowley makes references in his writings to 'the dwarf insane yet crafty'
who is the
source of true Wisdom, and that sounds very like Yoda, who lives on the
planet Dagobah,"

"In his Book of the Law, Crowley: wrote; 'the obeah and the wanga, the work
of the wand and the work of the sword, these he shall learn and teach.'

"Substitute Obi for Obeah and Wan for Wanga and you get Obi-Wan.

"And what device is a wand one moment and a sword the next? A lightsaber, of
course; and the relevance of 'learn and teach' is obvious, since Obi-Wan is
the teacher.

"Darth Vader's sabre is red, the colour of the sphere of Geburah, or
Severity, in Crowley's work:

"Obi-Wan's is blue, the colour of its opposing sphere, Chesed or Mercy.

"The doctrine of the Aeon of Horus maintains that a new era has arisen,
presided over by the Egyptian God of freedom, light, vengeance and
liberation.

"It forms a critical part of Crowley's teaching,

"When one considers that an Aeon is a span of time, akin to the term
'millennium', and that Horus is often depicted as a falcon, it does compel
one to look at the Millenium Falcon in a slightly
different light.

"The greatest ordeal in Crowley's system is the 'crossing of the abyss'. One
reaches the brink of a great gulf and must either surrender everything one
is and jump, or remain behind to become a 'black brother' or 'brother of the
left hand path'.

"The 'crossing of the abyss' is foreshadowed in Star Wars: A New Hope, when
Luke and Leia swing over the chasm, and it is actually repeated and achieved
in full in Empire Strikes Back, at the climax of the film.

"At the climax of Empire, Luke's right hand is severed at the wrist,
implying that he must take the left hand path and turn to the Dark Side,
becoming a 'black brother.' "

Good Morning

From the best Kubrick site on the web:

                             POOLE
                         Good morning.

                         BOWMAN
                         Good morning. How's it going?

                         POOLE
                         Are you reasonably awake?

                         BOWMAN
                         Oh, I'm fine, I'm wide awake.
                         What's up?

                         POOLE
                         Well... Hal's reported the
                         AO-unit about to fail again.

                         BOWMAN
                         You're kidding.

                         POOLE
                         No.

                             BOWMAN
                        (softly) What the hell is going on?

                        POOLE
                        I don't know. Hal said he thought
                        it might be the assembly procedure.

                        BOWMAN
                        Two units in four days. How many
                        spares do we have?

                        POOLE
                        Two more.

                        BOWMAN
                        Well, I hope there's nothing wrong
                        with the assembly on those. Other-
                        wise we're out of business.

                             BOWMAN
                        (after long silence) Well, as far as
                        I'm concerned, there isn't a damn
                        thing wrong with these units. I
                        think we've got a much more serious
                        problem.

                        POOLE
                        Hal?

                        BOWMAN
                        Yes.

                             MISSION CONTROL
                        I wouldn't worry too much about
                        the computer. First of all,
                        there is still a chance that he
                        is right, despite your tests,
                        and if it should happen again,
                        we suggest eliminating this
                        possibility by allowing the unit
                        to remain in place and seeing
                        whether or not it actually fails.

                        If the computer should turn out
                        to be wrong, the situation is
                        still not alarming. The type
                        of obsessional error he may be
                        guilty of is not unknown among
                        the latest generation of HAL
                        9000 computers.

                        It has almost always revolved
                        around a single detail, such as
                        the one you have described, and
                        it has never interfered with the
                        integrity or reliability of the
                        computer's performance in
                        other areas.

                             No one is certain of the cause
                        of this kind of malfunctioning.
                        It may be over-programming,
                        but it could also be any number
                        of reasons.

                        In any event, it is somewhat
                        analogous to human neurotic
                        behavior. Does this answer
                        your query?  Zero-five-three-
                        Zero, MC, transmission concluded.