So the Seattle Supersonics are off to Oklahoma – what a deal. As far as I’m concerned, it’s for the best.

Pro sports teams are just not a big turn on for me. The way I see it, they’re a bunch of whiny millionaires feeding at the public trough.

In the case of the Sonics, we went through all the whining and the threats of leaving only a little over ten years ago. It went on incessantly for months. All the, Nobody loves us! Refurbish our home or we’re taking our team and leaving! Wah! Nobody loves us!

The whining paid off. At that time, Key Arena was fully renovated at a cost to the public of over $74 million. The NBA execs hailed Key Area as one of the great basketball venues in the country.

Now 10 years later, it’s all of a sudden too old, too small and just plain unfit for an NBA franchise. Yeah, right.

Well fuck them. Let them go – they can become the Oklahoma Okies or whatever. Bunch of losers, anyway.

The way it stands right now, Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen have their budgets stretched to the max. Every month, they wonder if they’re going to be able to make that new, higher mortgage payment. They can just barely afford gas for their cars and to put food on their table, much less buy expensive tickets to a pro basketball game.

Continue reading "Bye Bye Sonics – Good Riddance!" »

I was looking at file sizes of Blu-Ray movies today. The average size of 320 current titles was 27 GB – for just the movie alone. You add in all the extras and what not that usually come with a DVD (deleted scenes, extra content, etc) and the size jumps up to an average of 35 GB per movie.

Looking at Comcast’s proposed threshold of 250 GB before they bill you extra, that translates into viewing just nine Blu-Ray movies before you hit your limit – not to say any other internet activities. Just watch nine movies and you’ve blown your cap for the month.

Present Day

Right now, people might watch 2-3 movies a week – mostly rented and viewed on a TV, not a computer – along with maybe some HD sports and other HD content as well (concerts, news, TV shows or whatever). You can stream video content to your PC (from Amazon or iTunes for example) but it’s all small format and not portable to your HDTV.

I don’t know about you, but I hate watching movies on my computer – I have a small 42” HDTV and a good 7.1 surround system. If I want to watch a movie, that’s what I use. Screw the PC.

Other current uses of bandwidth might also include streaming a few hours of music, or buying some songs at iTunes or Amazon.

Continue reading "Metered Bandwidth Will Kill Movie Downloads and Stifle Other New Technology" »

We’ve all heard the excuses on TV. Oil company executives sitting in front of congress, answering questions about why gas prices are so high, and explaining away their record profits.

“Well we’re really only making pennies on the dollar. The profits aren’t really that high.”

“We don’t have any control over gasoline prices. The prices are all set by market forces”

“We need more refining capacity and we need to drill in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.”

I find it totally amazing that anyone at all would believe the current gasoline prices are not 100% wholly contrived by the oil companies.

The facts are that 2006 and 2007 were the very best years ever for Exxon Mobile: in 2007, Exxon surpassed the 2006 windfall of $39.5 Billion with a record smashing profit of $40.6 Billion.

The number two US oil company, Chevron’s 2007 earnings were up 9% over 2006, with record profits of $18.7 Billion. Put that in with similar profits from Shell and ConocoPhillips, and you have over $100 Billion in profits from the oil industry in the United States in just one year. Click here for the news story from US News and World Reports.

Of course, that $100 Billion in profits really isn’t such a big deal – pennies on the dollar.

What a load of tripe! These guys must use the same accountants as the movie studios – like where you can have a blockbuster movie that does $100 million in the first weekend, but by creative bookkeeping, it doesn’t show a profit. Complete and utter bullshit.

Nope. What we really have here is a Texas oilman for president, and he’s simply paying his buddies back.

The oil companies are jacking up the prices, deliberately, simply because they can – and no one can do a god damned thing about it. They’ve got protection.

Continue reading "Bend Over America…" »

A Sneaky Assault on the Future of the Internet

Comcast recently announced it was considering extra charges for users who consume more than 250 GB of bandwidth per month. After 250 GB, users could purchase additional bandwidth in 10 GB amounts for $15 each.

On its face, this plan sounds very reasonable. I’ve monitored my bandwidth usage before, and I’m what many would consider a fairly heavy user. In a good month, I generally wouldn’t exceed 30 GB of bandwidth. That’s a little peer to peer file sharing, a lot of music streaming, occasional software downloads. Maybe a Linux image here and there.

But if you look closer, this is nothing more than an insidious attempt to hijack the future of the internet.

Jim Lynch over at ExtremeTech called it:

“I suspect that Comcast is making a preemptive attack to hurt Apple and other downloadable content companies. In effect, Comcast is trying to kill the downloadable content market in its infancy. It sees the future and in that future Comcast may be nothing more than the owner of some dumb pipes that carry everybody else's valuable content.”

ExtremeTech Story

Downloadable movies and other similar sorts of content delivery systems are just right over the horizon. The only thing that’s holding off deployment of downloadable movies is bandwidth.

Continue reading "Comcast Metered Billing Plan:" »

A Puppet Government In Iraq Equals Disaster for the US

"The will of the people... is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waring, 1801. ME 10:236

After five years of trying to impose an artificial democracy onto the people of Iraq, it’s clear the experiment is failing.

Bush’s surge is winding down, and without the American “cops” on every corner, violence is again returning to the streets in Iraq.

Why? Because Nouri al-Maliki’s government is not popularly supported by the Iraqi people. It’s a puppet government set up and maintained by the United States. And puppet governments just don’t work. They didn’t work, for example, in Vietnam, and they won’t work in Iraq.

Why not? Let’s look at some facts:

In Iraq, Shi’a Muslims comprise over 65% of the population; Sunni Muslims about 37%. Christians constitute a much smaller minority.

Through the Ba’ath Party, Sunni Muslims have ruthlessly controlled Iraq, subjugating the Shi’a as well as all the other religious minorities since 1963. Much of that time, the Ba’ath Party worked hand in hand with the CIA, including during most of Saddam’s reign – Saddam really didn’t fall from grace with the CIA or the US generally, until after he invaded Kuwait in 1990. That, of course, precipitated the First Gulf War.

Then came the current war.

Continue reading "The War In Iraq Must End Now" »

I just replaced the firepot on my pellet stove last week. $300.

I’ve heated my home with wood pellets for the last five years. I have a Quadrafire Santa Fe stove.

In a typical year, we’ll use about two tons of pellets in the heating season. When I got the stove, that’d cost about $300, which is a helluva good deal.

Last year, I spent just over $500 – which is still really inexpensive compared to any other form of heat.

For most of that five-year period, I’ve used Manke Clean Burn Pellets, which are produced here locally in Tacoma. They burn really hot, and produce almost no ash. The ash from two tons easily fit into the ash drawer on my stove.

I was cleaning the stove one morning last week and punched a hole in the side of the firepot – it had rusted through in the area by where the starter element was welded on to the pot (area circled in red on photo).

Also, I noted the white deposits on the air holes (arrows). I wet the tip of my finger and touched the white area, then tasted it – it tastes salty.

When I went to the dealer to get the new firepot, I described the damage to the parts guy – who used to work as a repairman. He asked how old the firepot was – I told him four years (it was replaced under warranty when the stove was one year old).

Then the guy asked, “You use Clean Burn, huh?”

Continue reading "Manke Clean Burn Wood Pellets = Shorter Pellet Stove Firepot Life" »

Democratic Party Commits Suicide

I thought it was bad a few weeks ago, but lately the contest between Clinton and Obama has sunk to new depths.

They continue to battle, back and forth, doing serious damage to each other. All while McCain and the republicans sit happily on the sidelines, biding their time.

It seemed clear – at least until a few weeks ago – that Obama was the best nominee, the one who had the best chance of winning the general election.

Now, that appears in doubt, with McCain gaining in the polls. All due to Clinton’s machinations and smears.

This whole thing is just flat wrong. Politics is a team sport, such as it is. And politicians are supposed to be team players.

But what it looks like right now, is that Hillary Clinton figures that if she can’t be the democratic nominee, then nobody will.

Talk about bad attitudes. I mean I always thought Hillary was okay. I liked her politics as well or perhaps even better than her husband’s. But what we’ve got here is that she’s essentially throwing the election to the republicans because she can’t be the nominee. She’s engineering a republican win. Handing the election to McCain.

The arrogance of it all!

I suppose some of the blame should properly be passed to the undeclared super delegates, as well. No one has stepped in to break the fight up. And they could have ended it easily by declaring – and didn’t.

All this collective stupidity just knocks me out. The demo’s ship is sinking, going down fast, but they’re all still running around fighting about who the captain is gonna be! Insane.

I really wanted to see a democratic victory in 2008. After all this, I’m wondering if I really even want to be identified with a bunch of retards like these people.

Maybe I’ll vote for Nader? Hmmm…. Now there’s a thought!

Movie Downloads Are the Killer App for the Internet

There was a good discussion over on AV Science Forums a few days ago on whether downloads would ever replace Blu-Ray discs. All the Blu-Ray people were talking as if BR was the be-all end-all format. “We’ll never ever need anything else!”

Right.

Continue reading "More Musings - The Hillary vs. Barack War & Movie Downloads Coming Soon?" »

Hillary vs. Barack

The past few weeks, it’s really been getting to me how much the different candidates – from the same party – beat each other up.

I have to admit that when the republicans do it, I tend to think it’s cute. Gee, let’s watch the stupid conservatives self-destruct… It’s a great spectator sport. I think any democrat (like me) feels that way.

But by the same token, when your own (democratic) candidates are doing it, it takes on a slightly different light.

My point is that the past few weeks, the fights between Clinton and Obama have been getting kinda out of control and you have to wonder if they’re going to quit before one does irreparable damage to the other.

I really want to see the demos win this coming election. But my nightmare scenario: Clinton and Obama both sling so much mud at each other in their desperate bids to become the president that they are both successfully excluded from the race.

Talk about big burning bummers.

Continue reading "Sunday Musings" »

An open letter to Ralph (Spolier) Nader:

Still my beating heart! It can't be so!

OMG! I was just swept away with emotion when I that heard you - Ralph Nader - were going to step into the 2008 presidential race.

We are so damned lucky!

Just what we need, another spoiler in the race.

You were absolutely instrumental in getting George Bush elected in the 2000 election! Great job! Without you, Gore would have certainly won.

Now, I suppose this announcement means you've decided to throw your weight behind McCain or whoever the republicans put up? Great.

Thanks entirely to you, Ralph, and your 2000 presidential bid, George Bush has:

• gotten us hopelessly involved in a war in Iraq


• gotten us hopelessly involved in a war in Afghanistan


• alienated many of our former allies


• taken away many of our civil liberties in the name of national security


• run-up an historic national debt to finance the wars


• completely screwed-up the economy of our country

And you Ralph, are personally responsible for:

• The deaths of nearly 4,000 US servicemen in Iraq
• The wounding of over 29,000 US servicemen in Iraq
• The deaths of as many as 89,000 Iraqi civilians from the war
• The deaths of 479 US soldiers in Afghanistan
• The wounding of almost 1,900 soldiers in Afghanistan

Ralph Nader: Your a disaster for this nation. You've disgraced yourself and your country. You're directly responsible for the deaths and injury of thousands of innocent people.

If you had any class at all, you'd commit Seppuku right now!

But you don't have any class, do you?

It'd be hard to out-do the devastation that George Bush has wrought on this nation. But if you do run this time, I'm wondering what new and wonderful things we have to look forward to now? Famine? Floods? Nuclear war? Pestilence?

I can't wait...

Ralph Nader: You wouldn't even have my vote for dog-catcher!

Sincerely,

Michael Pellegrini

Statewide Prop One – Roads and Transit – Vote Yes

Prop One is one of the most important ballot measures we’ve seen in recent years. In addition to funding the expansion of mass transit, it provides funds for key infrastructure improvements.

After the disappointing and untimely demise of the Seattle Monorail, the region is getting a second chance at mass transit with light rail.

If the Seattle metropolitan area is to succeed in becoming a world-class city, we have to start building mass-transit systems.

Our current freeway system is maxed out. It can’t handle the traffic that currently exists, much less handle the anticipated growth we’re likely to experience in the coming years.

Mass transit is one of the answers.

I was in San Francisco while they were building BART in the early 70’s. The disruptions were terrible. Market Street, downtown was torn up for several years. It was a real mess. And the expense to taxpayers? Horrible. People bitched and moaned for years. It really was terrible.

But now 30 years later, on an average weekday BART has over 340,000 riders. That’s 340,00 people who did not have to take the freeway.

The Seattle area needs something like that – soon. If the Monorail wasn’t the answer, then apparently light rail is.

Mass transit is a must for this area.

Continue reading "November Election Endorsements" »

Dino Rossi made it official yesterday: he's running for Governor of Washington state again, against his perennial nemisis, Christine Gregoire.

Pictured yesterday at the right with his head up his ass, Rossi commented, "I'm gonna smoke that bitch this time."

I'm sure we all can't wait.

Well I for one was completely surprised when George Bush came out publically in support of General Petraeus’s plan for Iraq.

Yeah, right.

Petraeus’s plan is nothing more than Bush administration propaganda designed to justify prolonging the war in Iraq. And Petraeus himself is nothing more than a figurehead, a puppet doing Bush’s bidding.

The 30,000 troop “drawdown” Petraeus proposes is a meaningless gesture designed to appease critics of the war. It’s not in any way a genuine move to end American involvement in Iraq.

The only words you will consistently hear from Bush and his cronies are, “more time.” The idea is that if the US has more time in Iraq to stabilize the situation, then everything will be roses. They’ll embrace the democratic form of government, and we’ll have a new stable ally in the mid-east.

This is a futile dream. It’s no more achievable than the goals we had in Viet Nam,

The French colonized Viet Nam in the late 1800’s. They were there 67 years, only giving it up as a lost cause finally in 1954. The US became involved at that time, and spent another 21 years and over 58,000 American lives in pursuit of the hopeless dream of turning South Viet Nam into a democratic nation.

Continue reading "Petraeus Plan is Good Fiction" »

He who burns brightest burns quickest.

Chris Lapenski died in a motorcycle accident on the morning of Monday, August 13.

He was 36 years old, a longshoreman, riding his Suzuki Hayabusa – the fastest production bike in the world, capable of speeds close to 200 MPH.

He was on his way to work at TOTE that morning, and according to reports, might have been racing another bike (the other rider denies this) at speeds around one hundred miles an hour. Supposedly, the other bike briefly lost control swerving into his path, which in turn caused Chris to lose control. He came off the bike and impacted a wooden post.

This is a tragic loss.

Chris lived more in his 36 years than most people will ever live in double or even triple that period of time.

I worked with Chris at Evergreen for the last seven or so years. Chris was a good friend. I’m really going to miss him.

Chris was so vibrantly alive, I’m having problems accepting that I’ll never see him again. It’s hard to believe that he won’t come bursting into the room in a just a few minutes, wide-eyed, with some new story to tell.

He really was a great storyteller. He must be particularly upset that he won’t be able to tell the story of his last ride – I know he’d make the story a good one. “Man, you gotta hear this…”

Everything he did was larger than life. He was the consummate sportsman. He took no small bites.

Chris knew more about the Evergreen terminal’s operation than just about anyone else. He was an expert at any and every job on the terminal. When you had a problem with something on the terminal, Chris was the person you went to for a solution.

Chris occasionally displayed what some interpreted as arrogance and impatience, but the truth of the matter was that he was smarter and quicker and often more knowledgeable than most all of those around him. Even so, he was always eager to share his knowledge with anyone who asked.

Chris lived and breathed his Hayabusa. His cycle magazines are lying all around the office here. In his off moments while working, he’d almost always be on some website or internet forum dedicated to Haybusas. He’d always be calling you over to look at some new video or web page about a Hayabusa.

No one wants to die, but I’m sure if Chris had been offered a chance to pick the manner of his own departure, it would have come down pretty much as it did – doing something he truly loved.

It’ll never be the same here at Evergreen without him. His loss leaves a giant hole in all our lives. We’ll all miss him terribly.

My condolences to his family.

Our prayers are with you Chris.

Al Qaeda are coming!!!

I was watching Meet The Press this morning – Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was on, pushing the company line for the Bush administration. What a shit-for-brains idiot!

It’s all, al Qaeda, al Qaeda, al Qaeda! The surge is working! We must stand firm! Our national security is at stake. If we leave, al Qaeda will win. Blah, blah, blah. al Qaeda. He must have said “al Qaeda” 10 times in maybe a minute.

It’s like Bush and his cronies figure that if they say the magic words – “al Qaeda” – then everyone will stand at attention and go along with anything they say.

And then if Bush and his buddies really want to get our attention, they’ll invoke the ghosts of “9/11.”

Continue reading "Sunday Morning Musings…" »

If a “pay-by-the-byte” pricing scheme is necessary for the economic survival of US ISPs, then how on earth are the ISP's in Asia and elsewhere making it? Here are some current prices from Asia:

Japan:

100 mb/s symmetrical FTTH - $51/ month US
47 mb/s down, 5 mb/s up ADSL - $6.00 / month

https://asahi-net.jp/en/

Korea:

100 mb/s symmetrical FTTH - $36.63 / month

50 mb/s symmetrical FTTH - $30.22 / month

10 mb/s symmetrical FTTH - $27.40 / month

http://www.megapass.net/service/megapass/IN_PImegftth02W.php

Then Hong Kong Broadband Network offers FTTH with symmetrical speeds ranging from 10 mb/s all the way to 1 gb/s (1000 mb/s), with prices topping out at about $258 per month for the symmetrical gigabit FTTH.

www.hkbn.net/bb1000/index.html

If these companies are making money at those prices - with no bit caps - then why can't American companies offer the same packages at equivalent rates?

Continue reading "Pay-By-The-Byte Ressurected?" »

At right, Laura Ellen With Jay Boy Adams at KFAT.

On Memorial Day, Laura Ellen Hopper passed away due to complications from cancer.

Laura Ellen was the Program Director of KPIG radio - 107 oink 5, in Freedom, California. Before that, she was the Program Director of the legendary and infamous KFAT radio, located in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world, from 1975 through 1983.

I didn’t find out Laura Ellen had passed away until today, because in a fit of nostalgia, I’d been listening to the KFAT stream for the past few days.

Laura Ellen has been in my life for over 30 years.

I started listening to her in the mid-70’s on KFAT. I was staying in Aptos, living a counter-culture lifestyle.

One of my friends suggested I ditch KLRB and try listening to this strange new hippie station that’d started-up in Gilroy (Garlic capital of the world!). The station played all sorts of weird shit – country and western, blues, rock, bluegrass, zydeco, reggae, folk – they played damned near everything, except top-40.

I tried it.

I loved KFAT. It was completely unpredictable. In one half-hour, you might hear Randy Newman, Frank Wakefield, Jimi Hendrix, Merle Haggard, Joan Baez, Clifton Chenier, Larry Hosford, and The Allman Brothers Band. All chased with some Hawaiian Cowboy music.

From that point on, KFAT was all I listened to.

Through KFAT and Laura Ellen, my musical vistas were expanded greatly. I broke out of the rock and roll mode I’d been in for too many years, and started listening to country and to bluegrass and all sorts of the other music that she and KFAT played.

There were the Fat Frys and Le Club Fat. KFAT became an institution in the Monterey Bay area.

In 1982, I moved up to the city, so I actually missed the very end.

But for the years afterwards, I remained a Fat Head to the bone. It was hard being Fat Free – I hadn’t had the foresight to record any KFAT off the air. But I existed.

Then in the late 90’s living up in the Seattle area, I found KPIG online, and rejoiced! Because the Fat One was reborn!

I’ve been a faithful listener ever since (minus a couple years when Real Player was the only stream option). I don’t know what I would do without the Pig.

I think it’s only been in the last year or so that I came to understand exactly how important Laura Ellen was to KPIG and KFAT; came to understand how much of the stations were her.

It’s against all odds that KPIG lives. In this era of Satellite Radio and Clear Channel, KPIG should not be allowed to exist. It’s an anachronism; but more than that, it’s seditious – the last true free-form radio that exists, at least in this country. It shows exactly how good radio can be.

And with the advent of the web stream, KPIG has oinked its way into the lives of people all over the world – reaching a tremendous audience. An audience far beyond anything she ever envisioned, I’m sure, when she started out with KFAT.

My sincere hope is that KPIG will live long and prosper in Laura Ellen’s absence. That more than anything would be a wonderful monument to her – a fitting tribute to the enormous 30-year musical legacy she has left us.

She affected my life greatly. She made me a better, more well-rounded person.

Thanks, Laura Ellen.

We’ll miss you a helluva lot.

Sincerely,

Mike Pellegrini
Tacoma, Washington
A Fattie Forever

Peace.

Scratch one religious bigot. It was certainly high time. Let the celebrations start at once!

Sadly, many more still exist. We can only hope and dream they will follow Falwell, soon

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It never fails to amaze me how the telcos shills populate user forums.

There was a story on broadbandreports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/81287

5% of ISP Users Generate 45.3% of Traffic
On the flip side, 40% generate just 3.8%...

Posted on 2007-01-29 15:44:04 by Karl · tags: [stats] [networking] [business] [bandwidth]
Ellacoya is a supplier of network hardware that can monitor and shape network traffic, and they recently shared some of their findings with ISP Planet. The company notes that 5% of users (aka "bandwidth hogs") generate 45.3% of traffic, whereas at the other end of the spectrum 40% of users (aka "barely users") generate just 3.8% of traffic. VoIP use spiked in 2006 for those light users, but online gaming exploded, with 22.3% gaming in August jumping to 66% in December (of course, it got cold, too). Meanwhile, 41.9% of bandwidth hogs use VoIP, whereas 95% play online games.

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Now we’ve heard it all.

Today Vice President Dick Cheney told America that the threat of terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb in an American city: “It’s a very real threat ... something that we have to worry about and defeat every single day.”

And then he went on to warn that if the United States withdraws from Iraq, then basically we’re just paving the way for terrorists to plant such a bomb in some US city.

So let’s get this straight. According to Reichsmarschall Von Cheney:

US stays in Iraq = US safe from nuclear terrorism

US leaves Iraq = American cities go boom!

What a bunch of unmitigated bullshit!

Cheney actually expects anyone to buy this kind of tripe? And this coming from the people who brought you Iraq’s wonderful “Weapons Of Mass Destruction” and Saddam Hussein’s much vaunted nuclear program.

Yeah, right!

This is obviously a last desperate card being played by the Bush administration. An empty attempt to salvage their position on the Iraq war-funding bill.

They figure if they can scare the holy living shit out of people, then the voters will play along with their program.

Now this approach did work rather well for the first few years of the war. All the orange, yellow, purple and mauve terror alerts. People were on edge, off balance. Suspicious and distrustful. Let’s buy some duct tape and tape up all our doors and windows in case of a chemical or biological attack. Right now!

And Bush and his buddies kept America that way – all to their advantage.

The bitch is, eventually people have come to see through the farce.

All the justifications for the Iraq war have been proved to be false – there were no WMD, no nukes, no ties between Saddam and al Qaeda – no nothing. No rational or practical basis for invading Iraq. None. Saddam as it turns out, wasn’t a menace to anyone outside the borders of his country.

Continue reading "Cheney Plays Nuclear Card" »

The controversy over the firing of the eight US Attorneys continues to percolate in Washington DC, amid new charges by President Bush of partisan politics and democrats leveraging for political “show trials.”

House and Senate Judiciary committees are now preparing subpoenas for senior Bush administration officials, including Karl Rove and Harriet Miers.

President Bush has counter offered to have Rove and Miers testify “informally” in closed door sessions with the committees, where they would not be under oath, and no transcripts would be kept.

If Bush is worried about having them testify under oath, and have a transcript kept of the testimony, there’s only one thing he could possibly be worried about: being caught in a lie – where later, Rove and Miers might face perjury charges is the truth does prevail.

That’s it, pure and simple: Bush is hedging his bets. He’ll let Rove and Miers come and tell their lies to support the current administration line. But he doesn’t want the testimony made under oath with a transcript, just in case the truth does come out, later. Bush is trying to protect them, and himself from future legal problems. Perhaps criminal legal problems.

Without a transcript, it’d be much harder to prove exactly what was said, at a later date. Impossible actually, at least in a legal sense – at best you’d have a he said, she said situation – hearsay. And if the testimony wasn’t under oath, then what the hell? They can say anything they want and not be held accountable.

The questions involved are fairly simple: were the eight US Attorneys fired for political reasons? And if so, who ordered it? There are no national security issues involved. There is no good reason at all that the top administration aides cannot testify under oath.

Except of course, that the whole thing is most embarrassing for George Bush.

This is just dead wrong.

The President and his aides are not above the law. They cannot be. This is not an Imperial Presidency. Bush and his aides must be held accountable under the law.

Well earth calling George Bush: Tough shit! Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

If Bush or his aides broke the law, they must be held accountable.