Politics: J'accuse!

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
I plan to buy a $500 brownie. It better be good.

I think that Bilmore used to make $500 brownies back in the '70's, but I could be wrong.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...7m16zinni.html

Yet again another example of a Rep willing to criticize another Rep.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Not Me
I think that Bilmore used to make $500 brownies back in the '70's, but I could be wrong.

No, but He did make $500 from them one year.
when i was in 8th grade, bilmore was in his sophmore year at State U. he came home for Xmas and sold me and SS 4 brownies, "Michoacan", for $32. I might as well have just eaten my mom's gravy- fucking Oregano.

eta oh. but I trust him now.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Whoever on this board said "popes never critcize other popes publicly" is . . . (crow?)

In other news, representatives of raptors have formally asked the stegasauroses for absolution for eating their ancestors.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by bilmore
Hmmm. Bush said, from the beginning, that it would be a long, hard struggle. He said it repeatedly.

Yeah, but he didn't believe it. In think none of the senior civvies believed it -- except Powell. Flying out to an aicrraft carrier and a "Mission Accomplished" banner on May 8, 2003?

Yeah, a long f-ing slog indeed.

Originally posted by bilmore
Had he put more troops on the ground, the Loyal Opposition would have been sqawking even louder.

Now, that's just close to being silly. (Applies at most only to those who base their opposition to the effect on Afghanistan.)

Originally posted by bilmore
He never called anyone unpatriotic - this is another one of the canards that always end with "well, he implied it, or at least I interpreted it that way."

Or were they thinking of his spokesman - Fleischer, or the GOP Sentors and Congressmen -- and the "aid and comfort to terrorists" remarks? Agency law don't apply?

Originally posted by bilmore
And, he explained fairly carefully how he was going to do this, through taking the land, fixing the place, and turning it over to them to run.

Nice Power Point outline. Now develop a fucking plan to get it done. The clock is ticking, and the GOP Convention approaches.

S_A_M

Aside from that, yeah, it was good.

etft -- T.S.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...7m16zinni.html

"Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni wondered aloud yesterday how Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could be caught off guard by the chaos in Iraq that has killed nearly 100 Americans in recent weeks and led to his announcement that 20,000 U.S. troops would be staying there instead of returning home as planned.

"I'm surprised that he is surprised because there was a lot of us who were telling him that it was going to be thus," said Zinni, a Marine for 39 years and the former commander of the U.S. Central Command. "Anyone could know the problems they were going to see. How could they not?"

Good shit! Just shows how much they love him. Someone earlier this week, I think, was asking about a potential sacrificial lamb if things really turn sour. Bush is, if anything, too loyal -- but f anyone goes it would be Rumsfeld, but only because Wolfowitz isn't senior enough to appease the crowd.

S_A_M

[SlaveNoMore]

Secret_Agent_Man
Good shit! Just shows how much they love him. Someone earlier this week, I think, was asking about a potential sacrificial lamb if things really turn sour. Bush is, if anything, too loyal -- but f anyone goes it would be Rumsfeld, but only because Wolfowitz isn't senior enough to appease the crowd.
S_A_M

You've been around waaaay too long. We expect better*

* See Ty when speaking his mind and not quoting Bloggists, and Atticus before his morning cup o' java

[Say_hello_for_me]

A quote from a breaking-news article regarding today's events involving the UN in Kosovo:

>>Serb and international sources in the city told The Associated Press that the U.N. police officers started shooting at each other and that the shootout lasted for about 10 minutes. The information could not be immediately confirmed. <<

Kerry says we should do what with the UN?

Has the UN ever done anything net-net positive without the US contributing at least 50%?

[Hank Chinaski]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117200,00.html

Another reason to be wary of Frenchy........

FBI Warns of Stolen French Passports

Thursday, April 15, 2004

WASHINGTON — Nearly 10,000 blank French passports were stolen in February, leading the FBI to warn U.S. law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout.

"These stolen passports are of particular concern because France participates in the Visa Waiver Program (search) that allows visitors from 27 nations to enter the United States for pleasure for 90 days without a visa," the FBI said in the warning issued Wednesday.

"Fraudulent or illicitly acquired travel documents, such as passports and visas, compromise the security of U.S. borders by providing means to gain unlawful entry into the country. Fraudulently issued or altered passports can be used by criminals, including terrorists, to adopt false identities, impersonate other citizens or conceal suspicious travel."

French officials notified the U.S. Embassy in Paris (search) that 6,300 blank passports were stolen on Feb. 3 and another 3,000 disappeared on Feb. 10, the bulletin said.

The FBI said that other French passports were stolen in July and September.

French passport numbers, the FBI said, are composed of two digits, followed by two letters and five digits. For example, some of the stolen passports were designated 04 CF 64301 through 04 CF67300.

The Feb. 3 incident, the FBI said, also included the theft of 5,000 blank French driver's licenses, 10,000 blank car ownership certificates, 25 titres de voyages (Geneva Convention travel documents) and 1,000 international driver's licenses without any identification numbers.

"The FBI possesses no information that these stolen identification documents are being used in terrorist activities. However, law enforcement agencies that encounter these documents should immediately advise" the Homeland Security Department's (search) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Law Enforcement Support Center, which operates round-the-clock.

I'm not sure if French slurs are allowed so I'll stop here.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You've been around waaaay too long. We expect better*

* See Ty when speaking his mind and not quoting Bloggists, and Atticus before his morning cup o' java

But I generally don't start posting until 9:30 PDT when I get back from the . . . oh.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You've been around waaaay too long. We expect better*

* See Ty when speaking his mind and not quoting Bloggists, and Atticus before his morning cup o' java

Well, I know it was hardly articulate, but I've been billing like two Republicans this month.

Note the hour of my post, and please cut me some slack.

It is remarkable, though, to hear such criticism of a sitting SecDef from a recently retired 4 star who worked with him. To throw Not me a bone, I'll also note that there are damn few liberal Generals in the Marine Corps, so I doubt this was motivated by partisanship.

S_A_M

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
To throw Not me a bone, I'll also note that there are damn few liberal Generals in the Marine Corps, so I doubt this was motivated by partisanship.

The military used to be more heterogenous, politically speaking, than it is now. It's really not a healthy thing for the military or the country for it to side with one or the other party.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
The military used to be more heterogenous, politically speaking, than it is now. It's really not a healthy thing for the military or the country for it to side with one or the other party.

and you see that as 1 the fault of the military; 2 the fault of a Republican conspiracy or 3.....I forget. what was it Zell was saying afew months back?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
and you see that as 1 the fault of the military; 2 the fault of a Republican conspiracy or 3.....I forget. what was it Zell was saying afew months back?

I didn't say it was anyone's fault. I just said it wasn't a good thing. Stop looking for someone to blame for everything, Hank.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Juan Cole thinks Muqtada is unbalanced:

• Well, I would not want psychiatric medicine to be abused by employing it to deal with Iraqi dissidents. But I do think Muqtada's statements and behavior are so erratic that we may conclude he has some sort of fairly severe personality disorder. This should not be surprising, insofar as he grew up under extreme Baath repression, and his father and older brothers were machine-gunned down only 5 years ago. His wife's father, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, had been hanged in 1980, when both Muqtada and the girl who later became his wife were children. It is hard to know what living with constant terror and the death of loved ones does to a young mind. He is afflicted with grandiosity and a great deal of aggression, and he may think he is the Mahdi or Islamic promised one.

Bad news for the prospects of a deal that will let us avoid fighting the Mahdi Army.