He's currently playing an audiotape that shows the analyst's sucking up to their leader, Rumsfeld, that they need to go and and crush the opposition on O'Reilly.

Jebbie, I see you have shooter's m.o. Next he'll quote some other liberal that said something he disagrees with to try and get a rise out of us without ever discussing the issue at hand.

Maybe he'll suprise us and actually try and defend the topic on hand with arguments in support of it, rather than a dismissive sweep of the hand or an attack on the previous Clinton administration. I won't hold my breath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaheen_missile

A hospice patient in the future may ask for a soothing bottle of seltzer water.

A dying idea, or movement, or any fixed ideology will die at the right moment.

A fact of Life. As true as taxes. A human 'kicks a bucket' or a bubble burst. OY!

And then what?

No befuddlement. no wool.

A drunken goat kicks shins.

A drunken goat sticks a foot,

in a milk bucket? Oh, just skim it out.

Cheers. Drink Goat milk and say `a goo.

Shooter... On the other hand the Lebanon situation is a good excercise of what can happen when we don't interfere in national politics.

Shooter, we would need scientific notation to write the number of angels that can dance on the top your empty pinhead.

Can someone explain to me why this isn't garden variety theft of government services?

If the Congress has forbidden the expenditure of funds on publicity campaigns of this kind except where specifically authorized by the Congress, and this campaign wasn't authorized, why don't these sections of the US code apply?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000641----000-.html

641. Public money, property or records

Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or agency thereof; or

Whoever receives, conceals, or retains the same with intent to convert it to his use or gain, knowing it to have been embezzled, stolen, purloined or converted—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the value of such property in the aggregate, combining amounts from all the counts for which the defendant is convicted in a single case, does not exceed the sum of $1,000, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000653----000-.html

653. Disbursing officer misusing public funds

Whoever, being a disbursing officer of the United States, or any department or agency thereof, or a person acting as such, in any manner converts to his own use, or loans with or without interest, or deposits in any place or in any manner, except as authorized by law, any public money intrusted to him; or, for any purpose not prescribed by law, withdraws from the Treasury or any authorized depositary, or transfers, or applies, any portion of the public money intrusted to him, is guilty of embezzlement of the money so converted, loaned, deposited, withdrawn, transferred, or applied, and shall be fined under this title or not more than the amount embezzled, whichever is greater, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the amount embezzled is $1,000 or less, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

It seems to me that any government official who planned or conducted this campaign using government resources of any kind - the toner in the printers that printed the briefings, the paper they were printed on, the electricity in the rooms the briefings were held in, etc., have violated these sections and should be indictable. That goes right up to Rumsfeld, if not to the President.

And since the military analysts in this case can be construed to be "receivers" under Section 641 if they accepted free travel, research material produced using public funds - hell, even if they got free donuts during the briefings - then the analysts can be indicted, too.

Lebanon situation is a good excercise of what can happen when we don't interfere in national politics

There are 6,602,224,175 people in the world. The US contains 301,139,947 of them or 4.5 percent of the total. So where did the notion that it is our responibilty to control the outcome of every conflict on the planet come into being? And having decided that it is our responsibility to control the outcome of every conflict on the planet, the question then becomes how to go about that. An examination of our toolkit reveals that we have 2,885,105 Soldiers and a significant amount of hardware designed to blow things up and kill people mostly from a significant distance from the target.

So which hammer do you suggest we apply to Lebanon?

Sucks to not be in control huh?

I wonder if shooter has similar issues in his personal life.

242 must be paid by Opus the comic penguin. If Opus ever goes to a hospice, I bet Opus's fans will wear rolled-up Bermuda shorts and visit the penguin. Possums can wear a orange conical roadside hat on the noggin.

Maybe YKW can perform by blowing a brass trombone at the wake? It's best to ride our tricycle and save gas wind. Right?

Who wants to be very forlorn?

People who know everything!

He/She must know : If you comment on one thread many times you can-can get sent to the Salon Barn Yard.

If my Mother was alive, I'd take her a Mothers Day gift of poached quail eggs, and wholesome toasted, rye bread.

If I was a 18-wheel trucker, and saw a possum on a tricycle, I'd Not give the gas-saver the middle finger bird.

That's not so kind.

YKW must watch,

O, Meet The Main,

Steam Depressed?