Jebbie, Shooter's gonna wind up where he winds up without us wishing him any harm. Compared to the harm he's wished upon himself already, how much more could we add anyway?

As for myself, liberal that I am, I've no objection to folks turning a profit, provided the rest of civilization's interests are served. Honda is okay in my book, but Enron, well...and don't get me started on Lockheed-Martin. A horse-blowing LLC might actually be an interesting addition to the sexual gratification industry, one which, properly developed, could provide some much-needed competition to the Congressional intern conglomerate. ;-)

Shooter, I sometimes believe that if you and your asshole buddies who worship at the altar of the MBA could turn a profit blowing horsecocks, that you would find a way to do it and then blame liberals for whatever diseases you gave the poor horses.

I hope you end your days here, living in a used refrigerator box, under a bridge on the New Jersey turnpike, downwind of a refinery.

-- Jebbie

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To quote Chris Tucker:

DAMN!!

Why don't you tell us how you really feel about Sh**ter, Jebbie ;-)

Honda is okay in my book

The new CBR1000RR is amazing! IIRC a quarter in just over ten seconds! Stock.

get cut so much slack...

Somebody said:

"Stealth Goats

My apologies to any Iranian readers. I was not thinking about Iranians in my earlier post, knowing full well that Iran is nowhere near being a nomadic society. It's a shame that more Americans don't know diddly squat about the country their leadership wants to bomb back to the stoneage.

If more Americans would Google some visuals Iranian society, perhaps they would change their view toward what us a very advanced society."

I mean really.

I prefer the four-wheeled kind myself, where acceleration is less the issue than durability -- I'm working on my second Accord, and couldn't be happier, although the present one is roughly the size of a Buick, and takes some getting used to. (I've taken to calling it my coupe de grace.)

I'd just thought I would mention it. But I'

m telling you- one day America will build a motorcycle, and then watch out, world! Anyway, don't let me interrupt.

In response to the controversy over the use of compromised military analysts on television news programs, today The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer will broadcast a discussion including Johan Stauber from the Center for Media and Democracy and Robert Zelnick, a journalism professor at Boston University. The piece will refer to the New York Times article, and cover the NewsHour's own use of retired generals. This could be the only broadcast tv segment to deal with this issue. Be sure to tune in or check out the piece after it's posted online in the next few days at www.pbs.org/newshour

I think more and more junior officers see the kind of political and moral compromise that seems to come hand-in-glove with the attainment of senior rank, and want no part of it.

Thank you for confirming that I'm basically correct in my analysis of the characteristics of the majority of those who attain senior rank.

I can imagine that it is at least somewhat painful for you to make this admission.

and cover the NewsHour's own use of retired generals.

As I remember, PBS fell right into line. Accepted what they were given, and never posed questions outside of the parameters tacitly (as far as I know) imposed by the military "experts".

Geez, it was in the run-up to the War On Iraq that I stopped watching the News Hour, of which I was formerly a pretty steady customer.

"I mean really."

Was there something in that post to which you find objectionable?

If so, why not let others in on your little secret.

Do you believe that the population of Iran consists of primarily nomadic goat herders? Do you not believe that much of Iran is an advanced modern society?

What's your problem with that post, Oooomie?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303249.html?hpid=moreheadlines

or click sig

If I had asked you a question, your name would have been in the subject headline.

...but my name also wasn't in the subject line.

I guess we can only speak when spoken to.

The War rest on four pillars of amnesiac Neo-Imperial Hubris: Israel, the dollar, corporate oil companies, and in your face anti-historical radicalism. The purpose of the corporate media is to never let anyone think about any of these essentials. It is achieved by focusing on tactics, much as a Hollywood's obsessive diversion to the personal experiences of grunts for its war movies of the last 60 years, in which we are fanatically prevented from examining history.

Its ok, I know a lot of stuff goes over people's heads here.

Thanks for the heads up, though I do agree that NPR and PBS have traditionally pretty much gone t's up whenever the Pentagon comes around. Still, it'll be interesting to see how they handle it.

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/22/asb.00.html

Brown had Scott Ritter, one of the strongest anti-Iraq War voices at the time, on his show not to allow Ritter to talk about his reasons for standing against the war, but in order to grill him about a Class B misdemeanor which had been dismissed and the record of which had been sealed. And to tell Ritter in no uncertain terms that, regardless of his viewpoints on the war, until he talked openly about this sealed case he would be "radioactive" and wouldn't be allowed to speak about what he felt "passionately about."

Ritter calls it "a dead issue" but Brown demands that Ritter talk about this misdemeanor telling him; "You are radioactive until this is cleared up." and "I submit to you that it is in your interests to explain what happened. Otherwise, lord only knows what people will say."

And later:"Let's talk about the ramifications of it. It is my view, and, certainly I think as far as this program is concerned, and I think others, that you are, in a sense, radioactive, that these charges, I would submit, until they're responded to, will keep it that way. But, in any case, in this moment, for the moment, nobody cares what you think about Iraq."

The conflict of interests that the television Generals had with the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex just doesn't seem to move Aaron Brown to the same extent as Ritter's arrest record did.