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...that I had been in a room like this before - at Foxwoods Resort Casino. During a brief foray into high-stakes gambling, a friend and I got comped and dove into a mountain of shrimp and lobster tails before stepping out into the casino jacked up on seafood and self-loathing. Well, the Legends Suite is just like that. So many bankers and so much excess that I felt kind of gross for enjoying myself so much...
...those looking for similarities between the Newburgh 4 and other failed plotters won't get very far. Heritage lists Newburgh as the 22nd known plot since Sept. 11, "and so far, the pattern is that there's no pattern," he says. Some plotters went to terrorism camps, others were "self-radicalized"; some hooked up through mosques, others through the Internet...
Todd, Chuck •the word "credible" is applied to Cheney by - really, "credible," he actually said it - as part of the contemptible media effort to portray the immediate following of a presidential speech about national security by Cheney's self-serving defense of the beyond-disastrous policies he was the architect of as some kind of battle of equals...
...some studies show a correlation between fatigue and mistakes, not all reach the same conclusion. What's more, Nuckols says, studies aimed at determining the cause of a mistake are inherently complicated: they require highly skilled researchers to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and when, and many rely on self-reporting from residents who, for obvious reasons, would sooner attribute a mistake to exhaustion than to other factors...
Axelrod points out that the Obama Administration has no vested interest in holding back an inquiry. "Obviously this is a look-back that doesn't relate to stuff that we did but stuff that the last Administration did. So it's not a self-interested decision to say we want to look forward and not back. But it really is ... what the President thinks is best for the country." (See pictures of Pelosi throughout her career...