Woohoo! Time to go eat sushi!
Not much productive done today. Finished off the roll of C-41 B&W I had loaded and got it developed. Unfortunately, the film was old enough that I think the exposures were off. I took a fair number of texture/abstract shots to use for stock material, so hopefully those are salvagable. We’ll just have to see. Or maybe the film was just ruined by discarded nuclear material.
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for bringing OpenSecrets to my attention. There’s an incredible array of information regarding campaign finances available on this site, including the ability to see major donors in your area.
Robert Nolan, former CIA agent and author of See No Evil, memoir of his time at CIA, gave an interview to the Foreign Policy Association. Here’s an interesting exerpt:
FPA: …Where should the U.S. be focusing its attention?
RN: Saudi Arabia. Fifteen of those bombers came from Saudi Arabia. They were recruiting on Saudi mosques, by Egyptian clerics or Saudi clerics, and paid for by the government. There hasn’t been a single arrest, and I have heard very reliably that the second and third tier police officers are not cooperating in the investigation. We have to bring along Saudi Arabia to do a full investigation of who was behind September 11. We haven’t so far. I understand why we went into Afghanistan first. I understand why we went after Qaeda. It was a problem. But now we have to move to the real targets, which are the Gulf Arabs.
See, I keep telling you people I’m not smoking dope on this issue.