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[SlaveNoMore]

Only 24 more days to shop.

May I suggest this as a stocking stuffer:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Only 24 more days to shop.

May I suggest this as a stocking stuffer:

Who are you, Sasquatch?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Only 24 more days to shop.

May I suggest this as a stocking stuffer:

All I see are those sweet, sweet french tits, and all is forgiven.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
All I see are those sweet, sweet french tits, and all is forgiven.

Well you know the French guys advancing with guns are a fake image, so why trust the boobs?

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Well you know the French guys advancing with guns are a fake image, so why trust the boobs?

You mean that's a dealbreaker for you? If so, please avoid Southern California at all costs.

On an unrelated note, the European Union is apparently set to take over peacekeeping duties in Bosnia. One less foreign entanglement for US troops, one more "multinational" force predestined to fail miserably. We'll be back in Bosnia before 2007.

[sgtclub]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan

Overall, it's a flattering and honest piece, which is expected given that he gave her her start.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan

Overall, it's a flattering and honest piece, which is expected given that he gave her her start.

The business in the last few paragraphs in which she suggests that Rather's political views were not really his, but were urged on a simple-minded Texas boy by the pinstriped East Coast Establishment, is just a little odd.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The business in the last few paragraphs in which she suggests that Rather's political views were not really his, but were urged on a simple-minded Texas boy by the pinstriped East Coast Establishment, is just a little odd.

I agree, but I've heard Bernie Goldberg say the same thing, so there may be something to it.

[dtb]

This article from NY Magazine suggests that perhaps France has been more helpful to the US's counter-terrorism efforts (albeit behind-the-scenes) than it lets on.

Check out Reason Number 3.

I've copied the pertinent part of the article below. I don't know if it's BS or not, but it sure has ruined my day, as I love France-bashing as much as the next jeune fille, uh, I mean gal.

• 3. The French Have Saved Us.
  
  
  “Don’t think because nothing hit New York, nothing was tried,” says Swetnam, who used to be a CIA officer and a special consultant to the first President Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. “Plenty was tried, but everything was thwarted. And this might surprise you, but French intelligence was key.”
  
  
  There have been at least four attempts uncovered in the past two years to strike the U.S., he says, including specific attacks on New York, but the plans were intercepted and the operations preempted. “The last one was a big attempt to strike our financial centers. A year before that, they were putting together a ricin attack. Both attacks were planned and staged from Great Britain,” says Swetnam. Also, adds Redlener, “attacks on American and international schools overseas have been detected in advance and prevented.”
  
  
  How is that possible, when the CIA’s intelligence-gathering is supposedly in a shambles? Because of good friends in shadowy places. “The French intelligence services have been just phenomenal,” says Swetnam. “We wouldn’t have captured those cells in Great Britain if it wasn’t for the French, as well as the British and Germans.” Even the ISI—Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, which once used drug money to help finance the Taliban in Afghanistan—has become a crucial U.S. partner in the spy game. “They’re really a bad intelligence service, in terms of morals, but really effective,” says Swetnam.
  
  
  For a while, it looked like the CIA was hopelessly unprepared to infiltrate Al Qaeda. The agency had spent decades developing satellite and radio-intercept technology, because that was how secrets were transmitted during the Cold War. “It was right to do that at the time,” says Johnson. “But we didn’t transition quickly enough when the nerve center of the enemy changed from the halls of the Kremlin to mountain caves in Afghanistan. All of a sudden, we have to figure out how to intercept messages transmitted from mouth to ear.”
  
  
  That requires a formidable Arabic-speaking spy force, which would take years to build from scratch. But the French already have one, retained from their days as colonial masters of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, not to mention their mandates over Syria and Lebanon. French intelligence knows how to root out Arabic-speaking insurgents. And while Jacques Chirac may not lend us any French soldiers, he’s apparently been generous with the French spy network.

PS -- Ty, your GD mailbox is full.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I agree, but I've heard Bernie Goldberg say the same thing, so there may be something to it.

I can't speak for Goldberg, but Noonan appears to think she's being charitable to Rather by suggesting that he has been brainwashed (or something) and doesn't really believe what he says he believes. Not to mention that it runs completely counter to what she said at the start of the piece about Rather's experiences reporting on the civil rights movement and in Vietnam.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by dtb
And while Jacques Chirac may not lend us any French soldiers, he’s apparently been generous with the French spy network.

Um .... but dtb, look at the picture on Slave's book! That nekkid French bitch is stepping on the American flag!

Lies! All lies. No way the Frenchies help us.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Well you know the French guys advancing with guns are a fake image, so why trust the boobs?

I thought they were running away.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by dtb
French intelligence knows how to root out Arabic-speaking insurgents. And while Jacques Chirac may not lend us any French soldiers, he’s apparently been generous with the French spy network.

Wow, tought choice. Do we want the assistance of a competent intelligence service that has spies who speak Arabic and experience dealing with Arabic-speaking insurgents? Or do we want some French soldiers on the front lines?

Decisions, decisions.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

If you don't clear out your PM box, the dino gets it in the tail.

And you'll lose all your risque PMs too.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Um .... but dtb, look at the picture on Slave's book! That nekkid French bitch is stepping on the American flag!

Lies! All lies. No way the Frenchies help us.

do we pay them for information? Sadaam said if you pay the French they'd do what he wanted them to. Maybe that's how we do it.