Is there any HONOUR left in ANY of your institutions?

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Tuesday January 24, 2006 · 1:06 AM PST

2006/01/24 · 01:06

Officer reprimanded

Welshofer restricted for 60 days in Iraqi's death
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Lewis Welshofer Jr. says, "I deeply apologize".

By Dick Foster, Rocky Mountain News
January 24, 2006

COLORADO SPRINGS - Soldiers erupted in applause in a Fort Carson courtroom Monday night after a court-martial board sentenced Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. to a reprimand, a fine and 60 days' restriction for causing the death of an Iraqi general."

http://rockymountainnews.com/... Read More

Oprah Bin Laden ?

jpwillis

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Sunday January 22, 2006 · 7:29 AM PST

2006/01/22 · 07:29

Looks like Osama has been taking a distance learning "Marketing and Communications" course from his broadband equipped digs in the Tora Bora Adventure Park.

What with his smash hit podcast that masterfully divides your political landscape with the deftness of a brain-surgeon's scalpel, and now this latest and hugely sucessful foray into Oprah's book recommendation territory...... I have to admit... the boy is on a fast track to the executive suite in any global media corporation of his chosing.

Off with the scraggly beard, stick him in an Italian suit and arm him with a wifi enabled Mac Laptop...

His C.V. is awesome. There is nothing at which he doesn't excel.

Admit it. Read More

Pay for the invasion with THEIR oil?

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Friday December 02, 2005 · 4:21 PM PST

2005/12/02 · 16:21

I have NEVER managed to stop myself gagging when I hear this line "The war was supposed to pay for itself out of the proceeeds of the oil". And now it doesn't. etc.

Both sides of the political spectrum have swallowed that one hook line and sinker ignoring its utter immorality completely. IMHO.

Seriously - somebody correct me if I am wrong, but is there a case to be made in international law that the resources of the country to be "liberated" are expected to pay the invader.

Prior to D-Day did the USA speak in terms of selling French wine and cheese to pay for the liberation?

And when the spinmeisters use the "saving the battered wife" analogy in justification for saving her.... do they go further and suggest the rescued wife should lie back and think of England (france.. or Iraq, in this case) and allow her rescuer to gang rape her AND help themselves to the contents of her trust fund for years to come to pay for the honour of having the abusive husband kicked out?

When will your Bush nightmare end? Here's when..

jpwillis

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 4:13 PM PDT

2005/09/07 · 16:13

I applaud the righteous indignation expressed here daily on dailykos - in the hope that somehow the scale and enormity of the tragedy, the crass incompetence of the regime to respond to it, the cynical PhotoOps that followed it, the heartless comments from the right wing (and Queen Babs), and finally the media's complicity in the web of outright lies being spun to divert blame for it and everything else..... would all lead to "change".

You all hope that somehow this will lead to the downfall of the Bush-Cheney regime. Right? A nightmare that began with a stolen election.

I do, too. Fervently.

But in one respect, were Bush-Cheney to fall (and I don't expect for ONE MOMENT they will) - but were they... I think you will have all been complicit in turning a blind eye to a greater crime.

Wouldn't it be nice to find a way to hound them out of office WITHOUT looking directly into the face of the greatest crime EVER committed in US history and see the back of them on a watered down charge of incompetence.

What crime?
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NOW is the time to fire them. WHY? 1 simple reason

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Sunday September 04, 2005 · 5:03 PM PDT

2005/09/04 · 17:03

Because the MEAT of the relief and recovery mission is ONLY JUST NOW beginning. It has months ahead of it.

And what is required is the utmost competence, skill in action, compassion, lateral thinking and MOST IMPORTANTLY...

DISTANCE from the fcukwits who screwed this pathetic effort up in the first place.

Because if you leave them in place their actions going forward will be clouded and conditioned by multiple ass-covering manoeuvres to cover their tracks, freeze out those who rightly pointed the fingers in the first place etc.

This is human nature.

No. They will NOT be able to work together as a functional team. Whatever anybody sez in back-slapping press conferences. There has been too much bad blood amongst the participants. The wounds are too deep.

Off with their heads is the ONLY intelligent course of action at this juncture if you want to proceed effectively. Read More

Two urgent Katrina searches. Help needed.

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Friday September 02, 2005 · 6:02 AM PDT

2005/09/02 · 06:02

The first?

For some low level scapegoats in the FEMA (dis)Organisation upon whom to pile the blame.

The second?

For a spare Medal of Freedom for Dear Leader to bestow on Michael Brown in time for his promotion to some more lofty position.

For these two urgent appeals we're requesting you please just send cash. (to the GOP) Read More

Heartless. Clueless and Incompetent

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 11:25 AM PDT

2005/09/01 · 11:25

For quite a long time sensible conservatives have IMHO, deep in the tiny little peas they like to call "hearts" wanted a reason to ditch this bum and move on. But for obvious reasons they would mean having to admit a mistake.

Now the evidence is overwhelming. The man's an inept compassionless fool, totally incapable of managing the problem, surrounded by competing voices shouting for his flea-span attention to get a decision for action this way or that. he has NO IDEAS of his own...etc.

(we all know that). Read More

If Dubya finds oil on his "ranch"...?

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Tuesday August 23, 2005 · 2:38 PM PDT

2005/08/23 · 14:38

... down there in in Tejas, can Pat Roberts then legitimately call for his assassination on the usual grounds that he is sitting on a great sea of oil.... and a great danger to america as well.

Go Pat! Read More

Sometimes the English Language doesn't suffice

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Friday August 12, 2005 · 1:49 AM PDT

2005/08/12 · 01:49

...and we turn to new vocabularies to communicate our point.

Anthony Burgess did. And created Nadsat, a teenage vocabulary of the future.

A doctor in the book explains it... "Odd bits of old rhyming slang," he says. "A bit of gypsy talk, too. But most of the roots are Slav. Propaganda. Subliminal penetration."

The following should help those who have never seen the movie (or read the book) decipher Alex's peculiar way of speaking...

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence."

"What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got, say, pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angels' trumpets and devils' trombones. You are invited!" Read More

Maybe the CNN worm has turned.

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Sunday August 07, 2005 · 10:40 AM PDT

2005/08/07 · 10:40

I'm frankly... speechless. Watching Wolf Blitzer interviewing Cindy Sheehan (sp?) - most respectful.

But more to the point - he gave her lots of time to say her thing, "tee'd it up" for her to carry on saying her thing... as if he'd done a bit of homework and wanted her to get to the damning Chimp-in-Chief line "Who we all honoring here today ha ha ha...."

Then? Carried on giving her more time.... to twist the knife!

I thought it would never stop!!!

And now we're following up with a sober discussion about the casualties with a couple of military types.

This is NOT the Wolf Blitzer I have come to hate. Read More

England win 2nd Ashes test! WOW!

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Sunday August 07, 2005 · 4:27 AM PDT

2005/08/07 · 04:27

England completed a two-run win over Australia in the second Test and level the Ashes at 1-1 with three Tests left.

In a thrilling finish Australia, who resumed on 175-8, were on the brink of victory before Michael Kasprowicz gloved Steve Harmison behind.

Last wicket pair Kasprowicz and Brett Lee, who hit 41 not out put on 59 chasing a ground record target of 282.

Shane Warne had begun the day with a defiant 42 before he trod on his wicket playing back to Andrew Flintoff.

LATEST ACTION (all times BST):

ENGLAND WIN BY TWO RUNS

1209: WICKET Australia 279 all out (Kasprowicz 20)
Harmison produces a lifting ball down the leg-side which Kasprowicz gloves behind. Bowden lifts his finger and England celebrate wildly. What a finish to one of the greatest matches in history!

Harmison bowls a wide full-toss which Lee chases and connects with. But it is only a single to deep cover.
Lee is again hit on the fingers but scrambles through for the single and the tourists only need four runs. The margin for error is miniscule now.

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Saturday August 06, 2005 · 11:38 AM PDT

2005/08/06 · 11:38

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4127676.stm

He was a real English gentleman. In the run up to the Iraq Genocide Invasion he was the most senior and vocal opponent.

He gave me hope and a reason to be at least a little proud of my nationality.

May he rest in peace. Read More

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