Month: September 2004
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Howard Dean on the Coming Draft
Won’t it be a strange turn of events when they reverse don’t ask, don’t tell just so they can meet their quotas? Bullets from Howard Dean’s essay. The U.S. Army recently place 300 new recruiters in the field. To meet this year’s quota for enlistees, the Army has sped up the induction of “delayed entry” […]
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U.S. Harbors Terrorists
Remember all the get tough crap about going after terrorists and those that harbor them? Chew on this: (via Mefi and others) Three anti-Castro Cuban exiles flew to Miami from Panama after serving four years in prison for “endangering public safety.” They were arrested in 2000 for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro by planting explosives […]
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Registration
I’ve often written how Ron says stuff to see if he can make me laugh – usually come faux-FOB-ism. In this case it drifted to my impending adoption of some kittens. I was saying how we have to get the numbered collar tags to help track the kitties. Ron: Yes – we have to register […]
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FUBAR
Yeah you may have seen the three posts I had here a bit ago – but I had some cookie problems that made everything blow up and I’m trying to get things restored. Please standby.
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Bible-Thumping Versus Showtunes
If you all don’t lower your voices and cease calling me Satan, I will have to sing show tunes.
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Off to the Mountains
I’m going off to Colorado tomorrow through early Monday morning. I’m sorta excited. It’s a business retreat. This guy I met at a conference said: ‘I’m inviting all the visionary people I know to give me feedback on my latest business idea – would you come play with us?’ Hell yeah! In other news you […]
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From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Seymour Hersy, interviewed on Democracy Now: He goes to the base, goes and takes a look. He sees two men easily 80 years old, living in their own excrement bound in a jail, in a pen. There’s absolutely no differentiation among those who are people who wanted to do something, conspired against America or were […]
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Putin Calls for Elimination of Elections for Key Posts
When the terrorist attack in Russia happened last week, I kept wondering if Putin would use this as an opportunity to clamp down Ashcroft-style. This was a quick turn around: Portraying it as a means of combating terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday outlined a plan to eliminate popular elections of governors and individual members […]
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American Helicopters Launch Missile into Crowd on Live Television
A reporter for Al-Arabiya, was broadcasting live from the scene of a carbombed Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which had attracted a crowd of locals. While making his report, a sudden noise came from behind Mazen. Two Apache helicopters flew in overhead, and one of them started attacking the crowd, with their guns. The crowd, which included […]
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Great Posts
Sam on his past party days: Don’t get me wrong – I had fun. But it stopped being fun when I realized that I was still lonely in the morning. And it started being hurtful, even if it was only self-inflicted, when we would finish our “play time” and he would ask me to stay […]