Pass the duct tape.

[Plane]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_go_co/democrats_homeland_security

[Lanya]

I notice a whole bunch of people are leaving the White House/admin/etc.

Harriet Miers, Negroponte;  Linton Brooks, the head of the U.S. nuclear weapons program resigned under pressure on Thursday following repeated security lapses at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Gen. Casey is leaving, as is Gen. Abizaid. 
 
Rehnquist had been taking Placidyl for years and years, the FBI disclosed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_go_su_co/rehnquist_files

[Xavier_Onassis]

The Supreme Court Chief Justice was a junkie. That's a hoot, isn't it?

They said that all Negroponte did was spend an hour in his office and then spend the next four hours in a sauna near his office. I have always been both unimpressed and very suspicious of Negroponte. He was ambassador to several countries in Central America during the period when people were constantly being 'disappeared'.

[Lanya]

So why is he being moved over to Condi's area?  You're right, he's one to watch. 
Speaking of disappearing people...

"Justice Department Internment Camps"
For non-citizens which included Buddhist ministers, newspaper people and other community leaders.2 27 U.S. Department of Justice Camps (most at Crystal City, Texas, but also Seagoville, Texas; Kooskia, Idaho; Santa Fe, NM; and Ft. Missoula, Montana) were used to incarcerate 2260 "dangerous persons" of Japanese ancestry taken from 12 Latin American countries by the US State and Justice Departments. Approximately 1800 were Japanese Peruvians. The U.S. government wanted them for potential hostage exchanges with Japan. After the war, 1400 were not allowed to return to their former countries (ie. Peru). Over 900 Japanese Peruvians were "voluntarily" deported to Japan. 300 fought it in the courts and were allowed to settle in Seabrook NJ.1
Santa Fe, NM
Bismarck, ND
Crystal City, TX
Missoula, MT
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/camps.html

[Xavier_Onassis]

The NPR story this morning suggested that Negroponte was a diplomat most of his career and wanted to get back into his field. But he was Director of all 16 National Security agencies, a Cabinet-level post, and here he's being shoveled back under Condi. They implied that perhaps he was being pushed aside. I suppose that this would not diminish his doubtlessly gargantuan government pension.

I think I read something about Peruvian Japanese sent by the govt of Peru to the
States a long time ago in an article by Vargas-Llosa, who thought it was funny, probably because Fujimori made it so hard for him to get things published.

 Peru was dominated from the colonial period until the 1960's by a small Spanish elite that was married into smaller English and German elites. Indians were not allowed to vote for several centuries in the land of the Incas.

[hnumpah]

[Xavier_Onassis]

Great toon! The Return of the Condi-bird!

[hnumpah]

Duct tape is so useful. Comes in handy for restraining nutjobs.

Intruder Tries To Exorcise Devil From Actor
Oregon Man Pleads No Contest

LOS ANGELES -- An Oregon man has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and entering private property without permission after bursting into the Malibu backyard of "Days of Our Lives" star Drake Hogestyn.

A judge also granted Hogestyn a restraining order against Carl Raymond Cheney.

Hogestyn, who plays John Black on the popular soap opera, said he was on a ladder on New Year's Eve when Cheney ran at his daughter screaming, "Where is he? I will cast him out." Court documents said Cheney was clutching a a bible and was trying to exorcise the devil from the actor. He was recalling an episode of the soap about demonic possession, the documents state, adding that the intruder also grabbed Hogestyn's wife and pushed her backward.
 
Hogestyn intercepted the intruder and he and his son restrained the man with duct tape until police arrived.

"I grabbed him by the hair, spun him around, delivered a right cross to the chin that sent him down the stairs," the actor said.

"This sick person Carl Raymond Cheney believed that Satan was in me and that he was the Christ," he wrote.

Cheney was released on his own recognizance and ordered to stay with his father. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 6.