Multiple Anticlimaxes

[shereads]

Remember these breaking news stories?

Chalabi suspected of spying for Iran

President Bush expresses outrage over the "outing" of CIA agent Plame by someone in the White House. Justice Department assigned to locate the guilty party.

Saddam Hussein to be tried in Iraq





What happened? I google-searched Chalabi and the most recent headline was dated May 2004. I don't know how this White House does it, but somehow stories with a high potential for embarrassment (or worse) seem to disappear faster than communists at a Klan rally.

 

[Edward Teach]

Remember these breaking news stories?
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seem to disappear faster than communists at a Klan rally.

Your memory continually amazes me. I would lay odds that not a dozen people in the whole country would have thought of that.

My best friend tried that case, by the way. If you are interested, I will tell you about it sometime.


Ed

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Multiple Anticlimaxes

Your memory continually amazes me. I would lay odds that not a dozen people in the whole country would have thought of that.

My best friend tried that case, by the way. If you are interested, I will tell you about it sometime.


Ed

Got hoods?

 

[impressive]

Re: Re: Re: Multiple Anticlimaxes

Got hoods?

*shudder*

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Sneaky ass bush

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I see where the papers are making a big deal over that National Guardsman who had the audacious gall to ask Rummy why they couldn't get the armor they needed before going into Iraq. From the way the papers played it up, you'd think the guardsman had assaulted him with an AK-47 or RPG.

What? You mean someone had the temerity to ask him about REALITY??? You mean none of these reporters had thought before this that maybe we sent our boys into Iraq unprepared? As if they were going on a picnic? You mean we didn't think this one out fully before committing our troops?

As someone else once pointed out, Colin Powell was the only member of this administraion who had any experience of war, and he was dead set against the invasion. It looks now that he was the only one who had any semblance of an idea of what it would be like over there, and now he's gone.

Oh well. The good news is that Rumsfeld says we may be able to bring our troops home as early as 2008. I wonder how many people will be willing to enlist in the Army between now and then?

---dr.M.

 

[rgraham666]

As someone else once pointed out, Colin Powell was the only member of this administraion who had any experience of war, and he was dead set against the invasion. It looks now that he was the only one who had any semblance of an idea of what it would be like over there, and now he's gone.---dr.M.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

Bill Mauldin

 

[BlackShanglan]

The modern political scene seems to be dominated by those who recognize the short attention span of the American public. Let's give credit where it is due; Clinton was very good at this as well. He seemed to realize that the fastest way to get people's attention away from a scandal was to start another one, and it was a practice that served him very well. Now the seems to be SOP for most political figures. There was a time when a disgraced politician would step down; now they deny everything, sue the papers, and hope someone else gets caught at something juicy in the next week or so.

Shanglan

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . The good news is that Rumsfeld says we may be able to bring our troops home as early as 2008. I wonder how many people will be willing to enlist in the Army between now and then? . . .

Between extended tours of duty, stop-loss, and an economy which offers the illusion of earning a living wage only in the military, he should make 2008 with no trouble.

If not, there is always the Draft. I know the Fuckwit-in Chief said positively no Draft, but he didn’t say “Read my lips.”

About Rummy’s answer (finally) to National Guard Spc. Thomas Wilson’s question: "You go to war with the Army you have, not the one you might want or the one you might wish to have at a later time."

This is true in the case of defending against attack, but when you rush to war in an unnecessary unilateral attack, not even Hitler was nutzoid enough to begin without an up-to-date war machine.

All that Rummy and the boys provided our troops with was a modern new theory of Asymmetrical Warfare which had proved its uselessness ninety days after the Pretendident of the United States awarded himself the victory.

 

[Edward Teach]

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Got hoods?

How about tee shirts?

During the second trial, the federal one charging the Klansmen with Civil Rights violations, for which they were also acquitted, one of the Klansmen defendants wore a tee shirt to court every day that said "Please Your Mommie, Kill A Commie."

My buddy told me when he was assigned the case that even though five TV stations had the killings on tape, he would never be able to get a conviction because he would never get a decent jury. He was right. All jurors had to do to be disqualified was say that they could not be impartial to either the KKK, Nazis or communists.

The prosecution's best hope on the jury was a man who had spent half his life killing communists, a former Cuban freedom fighter who had escaped from Castro. He was the jury foreman.

Then the victims refused to testify. They were more interested in making a political statement than in getting a conviction.


Ed

 

[Amy Sweet]

Re: Re: Multiple Anticlimaxes

My best friend tried that case, by the way. If you are interested, I will tell you about it sometime.


Ed

Uh- Yes!









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[Lisa Denton]

Usually when I have some multiple anti-climaxes I just take some alka seltzer.

 

[The_Darkness]

Personally, I don't have a problem with anti-climaxes either, but on a good night, there's always those fun multiple ones....it's not good sex until she's dehydrated and I've worn out every muscle in my legs, back, and abs. Ahhhhh....


Seriously though, this administration does have a nasty habit of making terribly bad news disappear. Anyone remember the nuke that they found in NYC about 2 years ago? No? That was because the story was on CNN.com for all of 5 minutes before the story was killed....not just censored....killed.

Not that I can blame them, a full-metal panic of New York City would be a fuckin' disaster, bomb or no bomb.

I don't disagree with everything this government does about covering its ass....there's just things that go on in this country that I'm either too uninformed on (by device or design) or just frankly don't want to know about.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Personally, I don't have a problem with anti-climaxes either, but on a good night, there's always those fun multiple ones....it's not good sex until she's dehydrated and I've worn out every muscle in my legs, back, and abs. Ahhhhh....


Seriously though, this administration does have a nasty habit of making terribly bad news disappear. Anyone remember the nuke that they found in NYC about 2 years ago? No? That was because the story was on CNN.com for all of 5 minutes before the story was killed....not just censored....killed.

Not that I can blame them, a full-metal panic of New York City would be a fuckin' disaster, bomb or no bomb.

I don't disagree with everything this government does about covering its ass....there's just things that go on in this country that I'm either too uninformed on (by device or design) or just frankly don't want to know about.

They found a nuclear bomb in NYC? Was it gang related?

Ima sorry, hahahahahhahahhahahhhahahahhahaahhhaaha.

 

[Edward Teach]

~snip~
I don't disagree with everything this government does about covering its ass....there's just things that go on in this country that I'm either too uninformed on (by device or design) or just frankly don't want to know about.

Our Prez feels the same way, Dark, so you're not alone.


Ed

 

[minsue]

Our Prez feels the same way, Dark, so you're not alone.


Ed

(I have to laugh. Otherwise I'll just cry.)

 

[Lisa Denton]

Our Prez feels the same way, Dark, so you're not alone.


Ed

Is that a pun, In the dark, alone, multiple anti-climaxes and G.W.B., I think I'm startin to see how its all tied together, somebody hold me!!!!

 

[The_Darkness]

Lisa, I'd squeeze ya, but I'm all confused over a thread I just commented on about millions and billions and million millions, and.....ugh...

Ever think God invented language just for comedy relief when he looks down on us? I know that when I think about misunderestimating the strategery of our nucular weapons of math destruction, I laugh

 

[Lisa Denton]

Lisa, I'd squeeze ya, but I'm all confused over a thread I just commented on about millions and billions and million millions, and.....ugh...

Ever think God invented language just for comedy relief when he looks down on us? I know that when I think about misunderestimating the strategery of our nucular weapons of math destruction, I laugh

Strategic weapons of math destruction? No wonder we didn't find em.

 

[The_Darkness]

I really do hate G.W. I really do. However, listening to our political satirists rip into him is a never ending string of enjoyment.

The radio station in Grand Forks always played the "Bush-ism of the Day" on the way to work. The man is such a dim-wit that they never had to repeat.

Why can't we have a good moderate run. I'm 25 now....so in the year 2016 I can run for president. I should probably give a shit about politics first.

I can guarantee that that election wouldn't be anti-climactic.

 

[shereads]

I see where the papers are making a big deal over that National Guardsman who had the audacious gall to ask Rummy why they couldn't get the armor they needed before going into Iraq. From the way the papers played it up, you'd think the guardsman had assaulted him with an AK-47 or RPG.

What? You mean someone had the temerity to ask him about REALITY??? You mean none of these reporters had thought before this that maybe we sent our boys into Iraq unprepared? As if they were going on a picnic? You mean we didn't think this one out fully before committing our troops?

As someone else once pointed out, Colin Powell was the only member of this administraion who had any experience of war, and he was dead set against the invasion. It looks now that he was the only one who had any semblance of an idea of what it would be like over there, and now he's gone.

Oh well. The good news is that Rumsfeld says we may be able to bring our troops home as early as 2008. I wonder how many people will be willing to enlist in the Army between now and then?

---dr.M.

Under "No Child Left Behind, Part 2," it won't be called enlisting. It will be called a "field trip," all-expenses paid, for public school kids 16 and over.

I saw the clip of Rumsfeld and his uppity questioner. It was a beautiful moment. Rumsfeld was so stunned that he pretended he hadn't understood the question and asked to have it repeated - as you'd do if you needed time to recover your cool and pull an answer out of your posterior - which made it even better, because a few scofflaws in the crowd actually snickered!

Most poignant was the way the question was phrased: "Why do we have to pick through the local junk-yards" looking for ways to strengthen their vehicles. Rumsfeld's claim that it's not a matter of money, but a shortage of Humvees and other armored vehicles caused by production issues, rang a little false. There are enough Republicans driving Hummers in Coral Gables, Florida, to transport a small army.

Perhaps they'll donate them to the war effort. A little camouflage paint, and you're good to go - with the added plus of glove-leather upholstery and an 8-speaker stereo system. It's not as if there's that much need for a Hummer in South Florida, except for that one stretch of Majorca Avenue with the 2% incline and the pothole.

It's a good thing, for this Guardsman's sake, that the media are devoting a lot of air time to his confrontation with the Sec. of Defense. If he hadn't become a minor celebrity, he'd be in charge of locating land mines with his feet.

 

[shereads]

About Rummy’s answer (finally) to National Guard Spc. Thomas Wilson’s question: "You go to war with the Army you have, not the one you might want or the one you might wish to have at a later time."

This is true in the case of defending against attack, but when you rush to war in an unnecessary unilateral attack, not even Hitler was nutzoid enough to begin without an up-to-date war machine.

Ah, yes. The army that won Shock & Awe was Rummy's army. The army that's sifting through landfill rubble for spare supplies is the army he wishes he had.

In other words, he was half a sneer away from saying, "It's Bill Clinton's fault." At some point, as we prepare to enter the second term of the post-Clinton administration, something will have to be not Clinton's fault.

Maybe this could be Chalabi's fault!

No, that won't work; Rumsfeld gave us Chalabi. It'll have to be Clinton's fault.

 

[The_Darkness]

Okay, I've been good tonight, but I gotta say it.

The draft deal that's being proposed is more or less what's been rattling around in Congress (which is, of course, the opposite of Progress) for the last 20 years, just under different authors and the ilk.

It is not a MILITARY draft. It is a federal service draft. All it says is that Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 have to take 2 years out of their lives to work for the government in some manner; some may choose to serve in the military, some might be digging ditches along new highways. Either way, the whole country comes out ahead.

Now, after saying that, I hate Bush, Rumsfeld is the Anti-Christ and Chenny is either Satan or something worse. But THEY didn't propose the bill.....this is simply when it's being introduced. Again. This is also when it's being discuessed....at length....again. The only difference is now we're at war and people have their panties in a twist about the "draft."

 

[shereads]

Okay, I've been good tonight, but I gotta say it.

The draft deal that's being proposed is more or less what's been rattling around in Congress (which is, of course, the opposite of Progress) for the last 20 years, just under different authors and the ilk.

It is not a MILITARY draft. It is a federal service draft. All it says is that Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 have to take 2 years out of their lives to work for the government in some manner; some may choose to serve in the military, some might be digging ditches along new highways. Either way, the whole country comes out ahead.

Now, after saying that, I hate Bush, Rumsfeld is the Anti-Christ and Chenny is either Satan or something worse. But THEY didn't propose the bill.....this is simply when it's being introduced. Again. This is also when it's being discuessed....at length....again. The only difference is now we're at war and people have their panties in a twist about the "draft."

Doesn't matter that they didnt' propose it. What matters is that Bush won't admit that this was a war of choice by which he has overextended our troops. While he continues to call this a volunteer army, despite the fact that troops are being denied the right to know when - or if - their tours of duty will end, we're pulling troops out of Korea. Where the local dictator is wearing a sign that says, "I AM MAKING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION." Iran is an issue, and Syria, and any of of them is probably more of a danger to us than Iraq was, and we're stuck in a war that wasn't necessary, one that we can't walk away from because we've created the terrorist haven we said we were going to prevent, and we can't keep up with the basic safety needs of the people whose lives we're putting on the line, year after year, despite a military budget that dwarfs the combined budgets of our dozen closest competitors, combined.

It would take courage to propose a draft. It would be honest. It should not have been necessary, but it's inevitable because of Bush/Cheney's arrogance. I predict they'll let this "all volunteer" army stay in Iraq until they rot, rather than risk losing any congressional seats in 2006 by admitting that a draft is the only solution. They'll wait until after the midterms, at the very least, and probably not even then. They're so pro-military. But they're willing to weaken us rather than take a political risk.

 

[Somme]

Strategic weapons of math destruction? No wonder we didn't find em.

Pisa (I think) education report.