Sing it out! Bye Bye Johnny...formerly convicted felon RADM John "Moonface" Poindexter (ret...yet again) is doing the patented Donnie and the Neocons banana-peel slide out the door of the Pentagram. Seems he had one too many good ideas about trying to work with Snake-Handler Johnny on the curtailment of Civil Liberties, (silly man, didn't he remember it's all about Turf inside the Beltway?).

John M. Poindexter, a retired rear admiral who was President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser, is stepping down "in the next few weeks," the official said, following disclosure of a proposal that outraged lawmakers and embarrassed senior Pentagon officials. The plan was to create in essence an online betting parlor that would have rewarded investors who forecast terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups.

While Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did not personally dismiss Admiral Poindexter, the defense official said, Mr. Rumsfeld agreed that the admiral's credibility was shot and it was time for him to go.

In other news, I hear Tennessee is looking for a director for their state lottery. Experience in surveillance not required, but I don't know if you can have a felony conviction, even one that was set-aside, overturned, whatever...