This is another example of the type of government we can expect from Bush, Cheney and the Republican Party.

I could see this coming from the tone of the 2000 elections. Bush was campaigning as a parrot, probably not fully understanding what he was told to say. Cheney and his army of ultra-right wing war-defectors were busy in the background engineering smear campaigns and possibly even voting fraud and writing scripts for the mentally-challenged Bush.

The Democrats can break the back of the Republican Party merely by presenting a cohesive picture including the scandals, criminal convictions, lies, smear campaigns, and the hypocrisy of Republicans persuing the "Christian vote".

This "picture", if properly and consistently presented to voters, should ensure that they have a very clear idea as to what (or whom) they should not vote for.

Then, the Democrats should decide what they are for, and to get busy selling that to the voters.

The guy is howling:

You neurons will go down the swirling sewer drain,. Yes you are swirling down the sewer's commode drain everyday. Now: Mr. Rodger, whom my family has a personal letter from...No bother writing poor deceased, Mr Rodger. He was "corny" with torn hand-knit sweater, and foot socks-walker child's show. He grew up tho...

Ask: Lady Ilene (sp). shoo-coo-chew.

Ask. O, Mr. Green Jeans! O, ask him?

Glenn, I don't know if your headline was concocted by your editor or by you, but it says "...bizarre...email". That itself indicates that this is not what your previous interactions with Col. Boylan would lead you to expect.

It doesn't hurt to verify more. As someone who only has professional awareness, but not professional competence in Internet security, and as a well-wisher of yours who does not want to see you have to back down on even a single word of yours, I make this last request - please verify.

Perhaps you could send the msg. around to the people RMP mentions in the interests of verifying its authenticity?

In any case, you've clearly gotten under somebody's skin. Be careful w/ this.

Typical Army BS. He must have a boil on his brain.

LWM? You and 'ole FEMA Brownie, just take Col. Boylan by the hand, and do a kitchen scub pans chore, of K.P duty. Feed them the secret brownie recipes to End war.

Check your email box for secrets.

I've emailed you. I share a nonalcoholic remedy.

For one thing, he called Alan Colmes a journalist.

Alan Colmes is a cock-sucking punk, a shill for Fox.

If Alan Colmes was really what he holds himself out to be, a progressive, we would see him at Democratic Party events, at fund-raisers, and at venues where he would come in contact with ordinary Americans who lean Left. But we won't see him at any such places because he knows he is a fake and we know he's a fake and he'd be lucky to run for his limousine with his skin intact.

If Alan Colmes was a real journalist, he wouldn't accept a dime from Murdock. He's a whore and a complete asshole.

OR: a sore big boil,

on the dupe' penis.

Oozes, ain't 'um?

The politicization of everything is extraordinary. We should have known from Private Lynch onward that there is corruption in the military as well.

The best way to verify is for you to write to Col. Boylan and request that he quote back in its entirety your request in his response as a proof of authenticity. While anyone can hack a mail server to send a email as Col. Boylan, it would take much more to intercept your email to him.

-- macgupta

This blog post of Glenn's has been on display now for long enough for Boylan to dispute. He hasn't done so. What's with your ongoing chatter about it being fake? It's more than apparent that it was genuine Boylan's childish MO.

Check out the link someone provided of Democracy Now with Amy Goodman. Boylan is a boy in a man's body. Total simp.

Someone pointed out on the first page that there have always been military officers with attitudes that betray an ignorance of what they're supposed to be sworn to defend.

In the late 80's, I was on the division staff of the 9th Infantry Division (Motorized) at Fort Lewis, Washingtong. Two events took place while I was there; one, a LTC proposed that commanders should be able to "inspect" the off-post residences of their soldiers just as they could conduct "Health and Welfare Inspections" of the troops in the barracks. These inspections were basically warrantless searches of the personal effects of soldiers in the barracks. The problem was that the Army's authority to conduct such searches ran out at the borders of the military reservation. When informed of this, the LTC said (in writing, mind you) that it was a damn shame that the 4th Amendment got in the way of enforcing "necessary military discipline" off the military reservation.

Then there was the wife of the division's provost marshall (ranking military police officer) who was on a one woman crusade against Playboy and Penthouse being sold in the PX, and was petitioning the division and corps commanders (I Corps was stationed at Lewis and the I Corps Commander was also the Post Commander) to implement her little censorship scheme.

I don't know what the provost marshall himself though of this, but the fact that this woman's proposal hit my office (and my boss was laughing his head over it...it was clearly something that the division commander would not touch with a ten foot pole) indicated that his wife was acting in such a way that he'd be at least counselled on it. The notion that military wives have rank is an old one that has never quite gone away, no matter how ludicrious it is in the first place.

So, attitudes that had been kept tamped down with only occasional flareups in the open seem to be, under the regime of the petulant three year old, cropping up more often.