Frankly, my dear... on swivels. From The Naming of Parts, was that?

Reading newest to latest is probably not the best way to catch up. I see my suspicions were correct.

Make that ....newest to oldest... Or ...latest to earliest, or anything that lets me get this egg off my face.

That you could recognize the source from five words taken out of context.

I seem to recall hearing something about terrorist groups either unrelated or tangentially related to the traditional "al-Qaida" structure calling themselves 'affiliates' of the al-Qaida network because nobody cares of some two-bit terrorist in Algeria blows something up, but if al-Qaida is involved, its a major international news story, and isn't that the point of terrorism anyways? Seems like GWB is taking a page right from the terrorist's playbook, one that is sure to fail because calling every insurgent in Iraq an 'al-Qaida' member is only going to increase the stature of the group - something that I'm pretty sure is a sure fire way to lose the so called 'War on Terror.' Shouldn't the goal be to prove al-Qaida's irrelevance to world affairs, not magnify it?

You get the behind-est the firs-test and the last-est is the first. The be hinder we get the wartiest we become? The fastest we go the beholder we went? We harvest what we plant. I liked the way you say it anyway you said it.

The venture into the fog of war is when people here begin to cautiously press the path through the gloom. How far we go in the wrong direction ain't yet been entertained ...As ascertained by 'ole 'lil' fat basted himself...

...We don't wish a compulsory SHITAKE MUSHROOM pot-luck boom! Boom is a verb, vowel, or adjective pronoun with a long O,O,O bOOOm. Kaboom Ubangi.

Instead, let's have a frozen morel mushroom and pea-pod soup with mashed humus and garlic. We need Sonafbastered to grab a broom to help sweep the garbage, wash dishes, compost the scraps, feed the chickens, or we will all be in a tomb? No!

I bethought myself very full of food and drank some sleepy punch.

*The hurrieder we go the behind we get.*

apologies. The Cauliflower Cake was a dog-napper. The unruly youngsters got me whipped. I know I'm being damn silly for rice sanity sake. The issue's that need addressed via the reputable blog media...SERIOUS!

The MSM-Jerks are suffering from scrofulous disease. The only healing for that is *juglandine.*

*That is a juice expressed from crunching the green shell of the black walnut. It is also a black juice you could disguise your identity by dying the hair black. Did you ever crack open a fresh dropped from the tree black walnut? Potent.

*In 1841 the Martha Stewart of her day was was Sara Josepha Hale (1788-1879). Hale was domestic. She had writing skills, and honed them for four decades in 'Ladies Magazine' and 'Godey's Lady Book'... She called it "walnut catsup.":...

Pause: It wasn't the grammar girl that hangs out with William T who has breakfast eggs yoke, bacon, and grits in his teeth.

...*The Recipe: "Thoroughly bruise 120 young walnuts; add a quart of sour vinegar, three pounds of fine salt...stir them, then strain; squeeze the liquor from it, add a whole ground black pepper, strain and bottle it for use."

It is a goofy world? I was gonna go direct to bed. I wish I had. Rest.

It is no surprise that the government is dealing in this sort of mis-direction and outright deception. The bigger surprise is the complicity of the mainstream media in reporting it that way.

National Geographic recently had on a program about the fight in Iraq and basically played the same game of stating that it is Al-Qaida that we are fighting in Iraq.

And why should any of us be surprised. In the Vietnam war every enemy combatant was a Viet Cong.

And of course we have all these Nixon-era dudes running our country right now. When have they ever done what's right?

I hated military instruction methods. Chanting after a guy quoting from some FM.... FM 22-5, the drill manual, was the one I hated the most, although I kinda enjoyed drill. (The things you put up with when you're young.)

At some point, I ran across The Naming of Parts, which quickly became a favorite. I particularly liked ...which in your case, you've not got, another feature of the military experience folks always groaned about. Mind you, I never got as far as being without functional ammunition, or proper body armor, or any of the other things which in combat are a lot worse than annoyances, and thick-headed instructors certainly weren't in a position to get me killed.

As bebop-o has often said, it's the things they don't tell you about, the things you either learn -- or don't learn -- on your own, which make the real difference. Which is why I wish young men in every generation didn't have to learn them, and why the poem still resonates for me long after the time I probably should have forgotten it.

These are just more lies, more offenses against sensibility, by the villians, thieves and scoundrels union.

These are just more lies, more offenses against sensibility, by the villians, thieves and scoundrels union.

-- sinderdj

Ah, good old VTSU Local # 1600 Pennsylvania Ave!

This will help al Qaeda take credit for our Iraqi fiasco.

Once again the Bush Administration is helping our enemies.

They've done it before with rhetoric (i.e. with regard to Iran where the White House has marginalized more moderate factions while strengthening extremists).

The invasion of Iraq itself was the single most counterproductive action in our efforts against terrorists, confirming suspicions of our imperialistic intentions. The clumsy way our invasion was carried out--such as when our forces protected only the oil ministry--further confirmed the worst beliefs about America.

After the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the subsequent Spanish elections, rightwing commentators here and al Qaeda told the same story: al Qaeda had, by this attack, knocked Spain out of Iraq. Poll trends prior to the attacks and the Spanish people's already unfavorable opinion about the war in Iraq were ignored in this analysis, as was the Spanish government's terrible handling of the situation.

The extremists in the Middle East and in the West have achieved a kind of mutual symbiosis or positive feedback loop wherein the actions of one set of extremists is used by the other as confirmation of their claims.