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When you get lowlifes like Nixon, Bush and Cheney and the kind of people that join there sick team, it becomes monumentally more difficult for subordinate military members to hold on to your integrity and loyalty to the ideals that founded our nation. That in no way is meant to excuse the terrible damage that the Cheney propagandist have done to our nation.

-- Retired Military Patriot Sunday, May 11, 2008 01:50 PM

On one hand, I'm from a military family. On the other, I'm a pacifist who has no sympathy with militaries. However, the damage done to the military by such contemptible chickenhawks as Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney and his fellow Neo-Con[artists] does command my sympathy for those in the military who are not the moral cowards, etc. (Among the moral cowards: Graham Lindsey, especially as he is allegedly JAG.)

Most especially for the kids who in good faith believed, and are now dead, or permanently maimed -- mentally, physically, and spiritually.

I didn't read the article, but there was a piece in the Washington Post reporting that the remains of some of the dead were cremated in a pet incinerator. Bushit, et al., ordered us to "Support the troops" because they aren't about to.

Are you sure it wasn't you who spilt a bowl of sour cream and Tacos at DC's 17th Street Cafe? Take the 5th? Drink a 5th of goat milk and go to sleep.

At closing arguments tomorrow,my concern is legitimate.

The # 2 juror may need to bang you in the ribs with a elbow?

Have you been doing bongs non-stop since Wednesday? 8') Republican Superfriends?

You'd think, huh?

Morels do taste best if wet from natures blessed rain drops.

Well, we found quite a few today. Big ones. I found the biggest at almost 5 inches. We'll find out tomorrow if the rain makes them taste better. It was a gentle rain, good for mushroom hunting, so I suspect they will taste wonderful!

You all were busy today while I was out visiting and strolling in the woods!

"@ retired military patriot

"I used to feel like saluting when I read Karen Kwiatkowski. I thought she was marvellous, really, when she came out with the original "In Rumsfeld's Shop" essays, and for a while thereafter. I think by now she has become a bit of a fixture in a libertarian small publishing niche, and her writing has lost its freshness, but that doesn't negate my admiration for her early stuff, at all.

"-- Rowan Berkeley Sunday, May 11, 2008 01:57 PM"

I used to exchange emails with her. Until as you note, she became a closed-minded ideologue. A constant among "Libertarians": they are experts in philosophy without (1) having studied philosophy, and while (2) rejecting philosophy.

But she did much good in being the first to break open the Pentagon as it was under Rumsfeld.

Are you sure it wasn't you who spilt a bowl of sour cream and Tacos at DC's 17th Street Cafe? Take the 5th? Drink a 5th of goat milk and go to sleep.

No sir, I wasn't at that table. I was at the bar. Mwahahaha! (Guy in the tan suit, shhhhh!)

That was a fun night, despite the horrible ABC News debate that transpired.

Now, as you have taken to saying, I must "hit" the hay...

"Retired military Patriot. My sincere regrets.

"I never met my mother-in law. The mother of my three children was 12-years old when her mom died of ovarian cancer. Her father died two months before her mothers death. My grandmother on the James side, died in a car accident going to West Point in New York State. The family was traveling to gather personal possessions @ West Point. I can't remember my Uncle Bernard James. I do have the family archive memories. Officer Uncle Bernard died in a airplane accident at Andrews Air Field in 1948. I was there, but can't remember the sad tragedy. I was one month old. My father was holding me when the airplane accident happened, on a rainy Thanksgiving Day.

"It's a rainy Mothers Day."

-- GoodCelery! Sunday, May 11, 2008 02:27 PM

My son is drying morels at the moment. Pedinska. If you ever visit I promise to pick up the banana peel on the welcome mat.

I'd hate to carry you to the 'sack'...

I mean... No break a sacroiliac...

I almost smell those French lilacs.

For Wendell and bop and the blessed rain; 'O men! if ye doubt as to the resurrection ...thou hast seen the earth dried up and barren: but when We send down the rain upon it, it stirreth and swelleth, and groweth every kind of luxuriant herb.' (Quran, 22:5)

That was lovely. The garden does, indeed, grow lush from the spring rain. Richard's hoof is better, though it still wasn't up to slip-slidin' away in the rainy woods today.

The woods ferns and bugbane were above knee-high and the May apples and trilliums are in full bloom. Morels were springing up at the edge of the pine glade, hidden in the ancient and heavy wild grape vines and needles. Last week they were just peeking out. This week they are heads and shoulders above the leaves.

And I swear I heard that big one holler my name as I walked past. ;-}

L.W.M. --

Propaganda is by definition covert --"

No. It is not.

Propaganda is a sales pitch; it is about selling a particular view while pretending it is about objective truth.

Propaganda is by definition covert.

It's as hard as teaching a box turtle to roll over.

I come here to just fret. Some come to just rant.

I pop off a thought and it's crooked or straight.

It may end up as a flower seed? Maybe a morel.

Can you email Glenn and ask him to forward it to me so I can email you? (I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to comment with this request at your blog, or ask if you had an email addy you made public.)

...and here I've been wanting to give Powell some kind of slack, attributing to him the desire to try and change things from within, and also thinking (my POV) that at least there would be a witness to report later. I'm really not a GOP sympathizer, either, but apparently, I also bought into the PR image of his reputation. [sigh] Well, thanks for the reality check.

Also, I was wondering if you read Harper's, too... It's really good most of the time. May was especially good.

[p.s. I'm a bit late welcoming to you to the thread... just keeping up with the reading for a few weeks, but I have appreciated your posts.]