Letters to the Editor
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For what it's worth:
Boylan's email address is public knowledge, since it appears on many military-produced publications in Iraq. See page 2 here:
http://www.dvidshub.net/media/pubs/pdf_0416.pdf
You'd think, this being so, that precautions are in place for no one to steal these public email names, that is, if it was in fact stolen...
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LOL!
@ LWM, re Farrell
In a word: unreadable. Sounds a bit like Pound might have sounded if he'd had access to a captive audience and an armful of crystal meth.
-- William Timberman
How about Harry Hutton?
http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/
I prefer english lit types to be plain and female.
I think Digby is the bomb.
Change Election
by digby
I don't know if anyone's noticed, but George W. Bush is being disappeared from the presidential campaign and everyone's running against incumbent Hillary Clinton. Subtly, but relentlessly, the public psyche is being prepared to deny Junior ever existed. And it could work. For many different reasons, most Americans want nothing more than to forget George W. Bush was ever president. So, we see a very odd subliminal narrative taking shape in which the blame for the nation's failures of the last seven years is being shifted to Clinton (and the "do-nothing" Democratic congress) as if the Codpiece hasn't been running things since 2000. (Not that the radical wingnuts haven't always blamed the Clenis for everything, but the disappearing of Bush is a new element.)
I certainly don't blame the Republicans for trying to do it. It makes sense, since their boy is an epic failure and the original Clinton is still very present in people's minds. It will be quite a trick to pull off, but I can see the press already helping them do it. (Naturally.)
It's an interesting phenomenon and one for which I hope the Democratic strategists are prepared. Their underlying theme seems to be, "If you want change, vote Republican!"
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/change-election-by-digby-i-dont-know-if.html
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Col. Boylan's subsequent emails
GG:
On a different note, John Cole highlights the key point here that should not be lost. Independent of the authenticity of the first email, Col. Boylan's subsequent emails to me were snide, hostile and nonresponsive ("What I am doing about it does not concern you"). Whatever else one might think about the views I have expressed, I don't think anyone can say I was anything but professional and civil in all of my interactions with him, yet his responses today were roughly the same as the ones encountered by The New Republic: arrogant and obstructionist stonewalling (Franklin Foer noted "a months-long pattern by which the Army has leaked information and misinformation to conservative bloggers while failing to help us with simple requests for documents").
This is a major point. The military does not exist to protect individuals engaged in constitutionally protected free speech activities as you are doing. The military exists only to kill people and break things; as Rush Limbaugh pointed out when he railed against Mr. Clinton using the military in Bosnia.
Glenn, the history of the military's support of journalists such as yourself is a sad commentary on a free people in itself. Perhaps someday when you are having a little writer's block you might pick up the topic of how much an American can believe the information coming from the pentagon.
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Welcome to the new Seinfeld. 400 posts about nothing.
Gossip, conjecture, speculation, and gratuitous slurs, it's the most popular subject in quite a while. And you folks wonder why you're not taken seriously? Heh.
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Gossip, conjecture, speculation, and gratuitous slurs
Thanks shooter. That's a perfect description of Boylan's email(s). And thanks for including the "Heh" this time. Otherwise, we might fear that you were starting to think for yourself. How's the golf game coming? Been able to do anything about that slice yet?
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@ 3:33
Black buzzards began the seasonal,
ritual, roost, squawk, in the trees.
sqeaks242
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petraeus the spelling
Do admit that Petraeus is a mispelling of Pétrus.
Americans still gather at the Louis XVI restaurant in the Hotel de Paris (Monte Carlo, Monaco) once a year tasting whatever bottle remains of a divine Petrus of l945. Price of the divine bordeaux as irrelevant as a day in Iraq.
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Gratuitous slurs? Nope, Glenn really does have the cooties...
And speaking of “gratuitous slurs” I love Greater Wingnuttia's response to Glenn’s post. The best they can do is offer up Jules Crittenden who doesn’t refute anything Glenn said, or even address the issue, but attacks the drawing of Glenn that Salon uses:
“which does a remarkable job of capturing his inner wienie.”
John Cole, who has been on an absolute tear this week, responds:
“If the right-wing meltdown continues any faster, I predict that by the end of the week, prominent right-wing bloggers will be standing in public, unshowered, singing re-written verses of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” with silly insults (Glenn has the cooties, Glenn has the cooties) wearing only Hello Kitty diapers, an American Flag, and an Islamofascism Awareness Week sticker all the while balancing orange traffic cones on their heads.”
It’s going to be a long week.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=8941
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@LarryE
There are special blocks of internet addresses assigned for internal use. 10.x.x.x is one of those address spaces. These address spaces reside behind firewalls, if the internal network is connected to the internet. You may well have such a setup at home, if you use broadband with, say, a wifi connection.
Another such address space is 192.168.x.x, which is the internal space that happens to be running in my home network. So the machine I am using is assigned to 192.168.1.104. Many other people have machines with same address assignment. However, nobody else has the IP addressed assigned to my DSL router.
So there is nothing interesting about the ip address assigned to Boylan's machine by his internal network. As the U of Oregon guy points out, the MS Exchange identifiers are much more conclusive.
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Anonymous. and good week of various blends of fermented berries. Some nuts too, as _zack_ states, most likely.
I thought of Babette's feast A General had a change of heart. A little look inside, and then begins to weep.
Babette reveals, Mesdames, the one with great dignity, had uncorked a bottle like cost to much for most of us to afford to drink.
From The Cafe Anglais-
Philippa protest and felt the money should have been wiser spent. "Babette gave her mistress a deep glance, a strange glance. Was there not pity, even scorn, at the bottom of it?"
Philippa, trembling from head to foot, and embraces Babette. She could not speak, She whispered. "Yet this is not the end! I feel, Babette, that this is not the end." Ah! enchanted the angels.
There was a Col. Galliffet, then.
The noblest wine was drank in the world,
and the Col. nodded his head, no more shedding of blood. He agreed.
There was a General Loewenhielm, "frail and foolish"...divine food, wine and grace.
For this reason, tremble.
The wine then was: Veuve Cliquot 1860.
Cheers.
Wow. wee.