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Bush: Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

President Bush once again has not allowed mere facts to stand in the way of his foreign policy. Stating, "Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," the president continues to push for sanctions against Iran for not having a nuclear, sorry-nucular, weapons program, despite the new National Intelligence Estimate which reports that Iran's nuclear weapons program was halted in 2003. The good news, apparently bombing is off the table.

"Democratic presidential candidates, meanwhile, ridicule the president's stance in the latest Iowa debate, reports CNN . In other news, Delaware senator and candidate Joe Biden is too busy to get a hair cut, or wants to look like Billy Graham.

$50 Blog Challlenge Mired In Controversy

A Blog About Nothing has stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy with the announcement of the winner of it's $50 Blog Challenge. Reader comments have been highly critical as A Blog About Nothing accused ROTUS of being both sarcastic and humorous.

Award winning blogger, ROTUS, was unavailable for comment at the time of this publication.

Humble Thanks For An Unexpected Award

Demonstrating my perfect comedic timing yesterday, I posted a very serious, unfunny piece about the National Intelligence Estimate, of all things, just as atlindas.com was awarding me the "ROTUS Award: You Make Me Laugh."

It was awfully sweet of her to do that, even if I don't deserve it. In fact everything I write here is deadly serious. I don't understand why anyone is laughing. This is intended, anyway, to be a dull, boring, series of self absorbed ramblings about whatever is on my mind, which is mostly, of course, me.

Tenkyou berrymuch as my friend Latke used to say. And now I will do the Elvis Presley. . .

Ok, So You Didn't Hear It Here First

But you heard it here.

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb.

The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released on Monday could undermine U.S. efforts to convince other world powers to agree on a third package of U.N. sanctions against Iran for defying demands to halt uranium enrichment activities."

I was in a university lecture hall in 2003 to hear former UN weapons inspector tell the audience that o weapons of mass destruction wold be fond in Iraq. I was in the same hall when Joe Wilson explained how he knew that the yellow cake uranium story in the 2004 State of the Union Address was false.

In recent months there have been several statements from the Bush White House that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon. I am here to tell you that, at least for the next decade, that is false.

Although the intentions of the government, or the mullahs, in Iran are unclear and although some of their public statements are troubling, Iran does not have the capability to refine uranium to the level needed and is not now trying to build such weapon.

Remember you heard it here.

Update: What's My Other Blog Doing On The Front Page?

With all my whining, begging and sly attempts to bribe people to give this blog fuel on fuelmyblog , suddenly my other blog , which I haven't even posted on since Thanksgiving, has suddenly catapulted to the number two spot in the Books/Writers section on the fuelmyblog homepage. Sometimes I wonder if this whole thing isn't rigged.

The reading public will be happy to know that my review of "Schulz and Peanuts" by David Michaelis will be coming soon on that blog.



I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz

I Have A Confession To Make

Yes, It's true. I have been fueling my own blog. It makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, as tough I am doing something vaguely unethical or likely to give me hairy palms. But for the past two days I have given each of my blogs one "fuel" each day.

All these blogging websites - TechnoWhizBang, MyBloggingBuddies, ZigZag, WonderWidgets, BloggingFrenzy - there are just too many of them and I can't keep up with them all. But I am determined to make it onto the homepage of fuelmyblog just once before I run out of things to write about - and some have said that I am already running a bit thin on good ideas.

Fortunately the "snuff" feature doesn't seem to be used very much. How horrible to have your blog "snuffed" by some heartless Tony Soprano wannabe. Fuel, though, is hard to come by. Fuel is a scarce commodity. Fuelmyblog is a Darwinian struggle to gather the most fuel in whatever category you signed your blog up for. Those that are fueled the most gain a fleeting moment of fame on the felmyblog homepage, there to bask in a heavenly shower of readers, and of course, more fuel.

By the way, do you see that kind of orange thing over there on the sidebar with all the little teeny tiny pictures on it? The one that says "My Blogroll" and "Click below to . . . fuelmyblog? Go ahead and click it once, you know you want to.

Editors Note:

I just spent the last 20 minutes fueling every blog of every person on my growing friends list. What a suck up. Maybe I should click the little "Report Abuse" button on myself.