Ah, I missed posting yesterday. By the way I saw the movie Crash a couple of weeks ago. Not the 1996 movie, but the new movie with Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Ryan Phillippe, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Esposito, and many others. If you like movies that make you think, and that don't hold anything back, then you may like this movie. Its about present day race relations in L.A. after September 11th 2001. Its an interesting dissection of our culture indeed.

Now on to some politics. The Newsweek story. If you haven't heard Newsweek had reported that in Guantanamo Bay the Koran had been thrown in a toilet to anger prisoners, apparently in interrogations. Well the Whitehouse vehemently denied this account and demanded that Newsweek retract the claim. They did just that yesterday.

White House: Newsweek Story Did Great Harm

Now the Whitehouse claims that this story caused killings and other damage in Afghanistan, apparently in retaliation, and seeks to have Newsweek somehow work to repair the damage. Problem is I smell a rat. First of all, this story was reported before, in other media channels. Why is Newsweek singled out now that they have also reported it?

And further, where was the outrage in the administration and acceptance of responsibility when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke last year?

And the Whitehouse claims that Newsweek should never have relied on one source to report this story.

OK so tell me, which is a bigger injustice, and danger? A nationally published magazine reporting on a story based on information from a single source, or a government relying on a single source codenamed "Curveball" for nearly all of their intelligence on Iraq's supposed WMD weapons programs?

Which caused the most harm? Wake up!

Oh how about shrub's poll numbers?

"Pew. 5/11-15. MoE 4%. (March '05 results)

Bush approval ratings

Approve 43 (49)
Disapprove 50 (46)

Congressional Republicans

Approve 35 (39)
Disapprove 50 (44)

Congressional Democrats

Approve 39 (37)
Disapprove 41 (44)"