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

A real enough person in Taiwan with a website (in chinese).

I'm going with the sister is a nutbar on this one. You get pretty good at this after awhile.

This is an excellent article from CounterPunch

A CounterPunch Special Investigation

Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus's Counterinsurgency Manual

* Core Chapter a Morass of "Borrowed" Quotes

* University of Chicago Press Badly Compromised

* Counterinsurgency Anthropologist Montgomery McFate's Role Under Attack

By DAVID PRICE

http://www.counterpunch.org/price10302007.html

But who read it? Wild CIA conspiracies generate hits, like Brittany's crotch shots.

I think that Bush's (s)elections in 2000 and 2004 told us what we were about, as a nation.

It was sad, and we had to wear the pointy cap for 8 years, but we have a chance to either show the world that we've learned from our mistakes, or that we've got the IQ of a Fox News anchor.

McCain has never been a "maverick". He, like 99 others in the Senate, have their moments in the spotlight for the folks back home. Then they sit down and do as they're told.

His handlers played his 'moments' up, gave him a nickname, a theme song, ("...every hero has a theme song")and a talking point. ("I'm a maverick")

What he and his people do is mainly image changing, depending on what's popular at the moment.

So ... Maverick. McBush. CinJohn. Master Mac. Whatever.

You're just the geriatric P.Diddy.

Having happened across this post again, I just realized...

I'm kinda creeped-out by the use of the word "transcendent" to describe the issues.

The issue of whether we should be rounding up thousands of people, keeping in the black prisons, torturing them...I dunno, I don't much like the application of the word "transcendent" to that.