Maybe we should put you in charge of the T-Bird?

Til Daddy takes the T-bird away?

No, thank the Lord it's not mine. But I know the owner, and he wants to sell.

If anybody needs a dark, dank, hardly ever used, fiberglass tube equipped with two turbo-charged diesels, send me an e-mail.

Please buy this boat before the interior is consumed by mold.

There is a perfect synergy of ignorance, arrogance and pretension between the current media narrative, which is that of a debased melodrama, and right-wing politics.

The politics is custom made for the media.

Geez, man, stand up for yourself !

When you are in someones's TV studio and it's their hand on the switches and dials, you better stick to the script, and not try and turn it around. Or you better be really something as a speaker and performer.

Or they will make you look like a lunatic. They were both pretty much trapped.

nothing substantive ever comes from "debates."

Lately I've been wondering what a McCain-Obama debate would look like. Or would McCain even do it?

I wonder why there was no Democrats dancing in the streets over this win? Seems like a major victory to me.

-- bucky1

Probably don't want to draw too much attention to their complicity in enacting it in the first place? Just a guess.

10 x 10!

http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html

Try it, as it relentlessly and impartially catalogues and represents our age.

And, it's fun!

Or click my name for a link.

The New York Times finally figures out it's all a big hoax.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Title: Message Machine "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand"

Whaddayuno, all that malarkey about Al Queada and his buddies coming to beat us up was all a co-ordinated misinformation campaign. Co-ordinated between the military, contractors, and the Bush administration. Thus the sudden plethora of "terrorism experts" lending the weight of their chicken salad chests to the discourse.

Maybe someone can explain it. The conduct of these brave warriors is quite equivocal.

Of course, like most officers since time began (who the hell can spell "immemorial"?) they will hide behind enlisted men.

I see you got in before me with a heads-up about the Times article. I should looked.

I shoulda ducked!

Please help us understand what this says about you and what you really are and what you really do.

Dear AlG:

On the internet, no-one knows if you are really a dog, or even a ferret. Is that what you mean?

Your insinuations are, my dear Sir or Madam (as the case may be) quite insidious. Exactly what are you inferring, or implying, as the case might be?

Now, I happen to know that the people ay Salon are not dogs or ferrets, but as to what they really do? Are they do, do, doing that voodoo that (as the song says) "you do so well"?

You have a lot to answer for ALG2008! Start vouschafing, or be gainsaid!

L, I recall that book as an almost unimaginably erotic volume. I was in a state of feverish desire (what they call hereabouts "breakbone fever", I believe) from the moment I picked it up, until I put it down.

Someday, I will read it, too.

as his colleagues perpetrate the same bloggish atrocities he abhors elsewhere.

I'm sorry if I missed it, but do you have an example of what you are talking about? These perpetuated "bloggish atrocities"?

Do "his colleagues" have a name or two?

Like I say, I am sorry if I missed your cogent indictment of these atrocities, but, damn it, I can't catch every little thing.

Ho-kay! I see. I get it. You don't like some of the other stuff on Salon.

Carry on- sorry I bitted in.

Once you get above a certain rank, the military is every bit as political as politics is.

And now that we've dealt with that subject, we can move on to something important.

I guess I'll just have to get used to the new paradigm concerning military honor. Apparently the need for it decreases with rank.

about this whole military-journalism imbroglio is that these same guys will be marching around with "peace" signs as soon as a Democrat, especially Obama, is elected.

They will turn on a dime, don't worry, a quicker reverse than the latest battle tanks.

Every soldier that dies after that will be an indictment of, Oh pick what you want; Obama's indecision, his lack of military experience, you name it.

After all, if you've lost the war, why not use it to do some damage to Democrats on the way out?

Would it be ungracious of me to point out that almost the entirety of our information on the situation over there, and how much of a threat Al Queada is, and especially what its capabilities are, comes through this same exact pipeline?

Gee, not to mention almost all our information about what our military can do over there, and how it does it, is also filtered through this same sieve.

Pretty good racket, what? First, scare everybody with tales of the invincible fanatic armies, than go obliterate a bunch of people, that come home and cry about how tough it was. And collect money all along the way. And no, I am not talking about enlisted men.