“A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”
President Reagan walking back a lie, March 4, 1987
“You are witnessing something quite unique—a man who’s about to talk to you while he has his foot in his mouth. I made a serious mistake yesterday. I was quoted correctly. I wasn’t thinking when I said it—in fact, I was discussing foreign policy, and this was in that context. And I was just plain stupid.”
Lawrence Eagleburger
(ht balloon juice)
“I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”
Alan Greenspan, Former Chief of the Federal Reserve
TheSeed had to post to his more hoighty-toighty blog that my comments are disabled. I did nothing to change my layout and/or setup on blogger. So I check out BloggerBuzz for anything new.
Guess what? They updated the commenting functionality for blogger. They added some kind of drop-down menu or embedded comment form. It’s on by default. They say it works for all types of templates. I’m using a custom old style layout. The new commenting system didn’t work out of the box. I have had to reset to using the old, full page style. Thanks, a lot, blogger! I had to spend some time figuring out what happened. They should’ve just notified us of the new style rather than going ahead and executing the change immediately. Do they even regression test this stuff? SHEESH. I wonder what the new commenting forms look like.
Anyway, you can now harass me in the comments. But remember, this site is for kids.
"Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow
prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be
applied to my opponent." Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)(Yes we're incarcerated with this bunch of loons running the country)
"Charlie has hit every major military target In Vietnam, and hit 'em
hard. In Saigon, the United States Embassy has been overrun by suicide
squads. Khe Sahn is standing by to be overrun. We also have reports that
a division of N.V.A. has occupied all of the city of Hue south of the
Perfume River. In strategic terms, Charlie's cut the country in half…
the civilian press are about to wet their pants and we've heard even
Cronkite's going to say the war is now unwinnable. In other words, it's
a huge shit sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite."Lt. Lockhart (John Terry), "Full Metal Jacket"
“I believe in this party and all it stands for. I have been a lifelong Democrat. And I will work my heart out to make sure that our values — Democratic values — are restored to our government again.”
Joe Lieberman
"I owe the American people an apology. If I had beaten the old man you'd
of never heard of the kid and you wouldn't be in this mess. So it's all
my fault and I feel that very, very strongly. So this is an important
election for us."Michael Dukakis(h/t Kevin Drum @ MotherJones)
If you’re reading this, then it’s probably too late. Still, run to your TV sets and turn on TCM, they’re hosting a Summer Under the Stars and Miss Barbara Stanwyck is today’s classic movie star. It’s got a wonderful set of her films — lots of rarities that haven’t been shown in a long while. Also, I have to eat my words from a week ago, when I said that there was no movie by the name of You Belong to Me starring Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. There is. Oops, my bad. I read imdb before posting that and must’ve glossed over it completely. Oops, my bad, again.
Anyhow, I set my tivo to do some extra recording, dumping all Olympic coverage. I suggest you do the same.
I saw this a few days back, but posting it now because its hilarious.
I caught both Bamboo Blade and Kimikiss Pure Rouge on Veoh by watching a fansub. A fansub is an amateur translation. They makes it easy to watch the latest anime from Japan. It also makes it easy to watch what may not make it to the States. Kimikiss just doesn’t seem to be for the American market which just wants Naruto, Bleach, or more DragonBall. The fansubbers try their best, but at times they just get things so wrong. It happens because they want to get it out quick. These are some classic unintentional (maybe) mistakes.
