Friday Eve here in the SoFla blogosphere. Here's your getting-ready-for-the-weekend evening Sift...
A- People who don't say, "Hi, Val!" and have Obama bumper stickers on their car are really rotten folks, says babalu. Jim Adkisson wasn't available for comment.
B- The name does not fit the doggy, from Matt's Photo Blog.
C- Eye on Miami likes Joe Garcia's chances.
[W]hat would make a Garcia victory significant, should it occur, would be the nature of the victory, with a campaign focused on domestic and pocket book issues. He is essentially seeking to use his own extensive background dealing with US-Cuban relations to neutralize the Cuba issues, and drag Diaz-Balart into a race fought on terrain where he hopes to have the upper hand – in the domestic and social issues where votes are leaning democrat.
D- Miami, bro is saving herself for Stephen Colbert.
E- Discourse's travel misfortunes continue...unbelievably.
The lady at the ticket counter was not wearing a name tag, just an Air France pin, so I cannot alas report her name, but she wasted little time in getting to the point: we didn’t have tickets. Or, rather, my 14 year old son had a ticket, but the other three e-tickets we were relying on to fly home with had been refunded. They were gone.
F- I shot the chef makes a wonderful-looking cake without a kitchen. Some gorgeous cake photography [as usual] here.
G- The Tropic of Mom household is considering a boat purchase.
Almost everyone here has a boat. If you don't have a boat, then you make friends with someone who does, so you can go out on the water. At the very least you have a Jetski or Waverunner. After all, you have a rep to protect. You live in Florida! What will your relatives/friends/college roommates think of you if you live in Florida and don't even have a boat? Don't they just hand you a boat the moment you get a Florida driver's license?
H- Reidblog has the latest dumbing down from the McCain campaign.
I'm almost sad for the right. They were turned into a neocon cult, worshipping the person of George W. Bush after 9/11, and then when that went sour, they've been forced to kiss the very old bottom of John McCain. Pitiful.
I- The Cuban Triangle discusses Chris Simmons appearance on a local Miami television station tonight and links to a Washington Times article written in October 2007, that says that Simmons works for the Defense Intelligence Agency. And he also has a private consulting business that uses information that he has privy to during his employment at DIA? Something isn't right here. Hopefully, he'll clear that mess up on the show.
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I - I ended up watching the Haza show in parts, and most of the last 20 or so minutes. (It'll be on YouTube soon I'm sure.)
BOY, did Oscar Haza look nervous and serious throughout the whole show, or what! Simmons looked a bit more calm, but his sense of nervousness showed when at one point you could see this one large bead of sweat slowly going down the side of his face.
Anyway, I don't think Simmons ever mentioned how many people are on his list, I don't even think Haza asked. Haza was more like "The show's all yours Simmons!" and they immediately started going one-by-one. I never saw Haza try to ask tough questions or play devil's advocate or anything that good journalists do. That's Haza for you.
So, there was NOTHING of value from what I saw of the show. (Simmons did warn that his revelations would be of little interest to authorities.) Instead, Simmons just unearthed long buried speculations of those he called "agents of influence." (That's the magic word to avoid lawsuits.)
I was able to fully catch Simmons repeat the old allegations (without new hard evidence) on Marifeli Perez Stable and Gilberto Abascal.
The allegations about Abascal have been reported (and laid to rest) in the Miami Herald in 2006. There's no smoking gun here.
http://www.newcubacoalition.org/
English/Articles/articles_en_Spy.htm
And, the allegations on Perez-Stable are not even worth mentioning, it's so old and weak. I've written about it on my blog before.
According to what I saw, Simmons, with the blessing of Oscar Haza and his producers, was allowed to use his status as an "intelligence analyst" to further provoke slander on people who have already been stigmatized, and already denounced said allegations.
In a serious tone, Haza kept repeating that all those named by Simmons are invited on his show to defend themselves.
I wouldn't waste my time. I'm sure someone is calling their lawyer.
Great wrap up, Mambi. Did Simmons ever say whether he was still employed by the DIA?
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Unfortunately, I was away for some parts in the beginning of the show. So I didn't notice if Haza properly introduced Simmons as a current employee of the US government, or not. BUT, the caption below Simmons described him to viewers as an intelligence analyst for the US.
It didn't say "former" or "ex".
I think Simmons only got to about 5 names from his list I think. Haza invited him to return, so "to be continued."
And, Haza became so silent (unlike other times on his program). Simmons just spoke from his notes almost uninterrupted for minutes. It was a sad example of a so-called "journalist."
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