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Mumbai, the NYT's revisionism, and lessons not learned The Times' Editorial Page blames the Bush administration for "blessing" the military coup against Hugo Chavez without mentioning that it did the same. Why does that matter?
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  • GoodCelery!

    Hey, hope you had a nice Thanksgiving with family and friends (and, nope, I didn't upchuck at the dining table--Sam Adams is my friend, after all. He and I are both patriots--he, actual; me, rhetorical [and that'll make Adnoto snort in disgust]).

  • Oh!, Oh! BebopO

    All is lost!

    Pedinska has fallen for a sailor who eyes her ponderous things (thongs) and toes.

    The Mad Chezk does the hornpipe at Capt. Tony's Saloon and brassieres fly through the air - photos to follow.

    Meanwhile, back at the ranch...love is probably lost not to be found again.

    Damn those O'dark Hunnert cab rides to meet TSA peoples.

    Rolling Thighs Thunder and the Long Bihn Jail hears mourning.

  • No Spellchezk

    Binh

    sober much?

    Mona, Oh!, Mona....I can't wait.

    Love,

    Cutie

  • Jebbie

    No Spellchezk

    czech. And I say this as a drinker of Bohemian lager.

  • @Smith

    The thing that makes me irrate

    Is that I fist saw Osama's picture in the newspaper

    After the Nairobi and Dar-as-Salam embassy bombings

    Back in 1998!

    Who is this guy?

    An all purpose poster bad boy and penultimate green meany?

    An evil genius, the escape artist Houdini?

  • Oh!, Tim

    Tomorrow morning I shall be sober but you will still be Picky Picky Picky.

    Thanks!

  • Timothy3? O, Well-wishes. Many froth Sam Adams? Maybe Bacchus, or a Dionysus might say: okay! O, `Sanity! No burp? ay, oops. burp. hiccup as a hick. okay, BURP! Ah.

    I forgot what I was gonna say.

    Please help me chew the wire?

    O Jebbie? Pedinska? Timothy3?

  • Jebbie

    Picky, picky, picky not I. That, too, is a region of Bohemia (Pzicky) which I'm all too familiar with and frequent while in a desultory haze. I'm hoisting one for you whether you want me to or not.

  • any bump? okay. @ Timothy3? ugh. yikes. e-gads.

    ~

    Bored near death,

    Jebbie counts sand.

    Jebbie go to Sahara.

    Finds a cactus plant,

    And Jebbie scratches.

    T-3? Gulps Belgium's.

    Pour Laffe bier slowly.

    Ay! A wide-open glass.

    Sip! 'Ay @ soft puffy lips.

  • GoodCelery!

    T-3? Gulps Belgium's. Pour Laffe bier slowly. Ay! A wide-open glass. Sip! 'Ay @ soft puffy lips.

    No fair, spying.

  • Interesting update about Mumbai

    Ajmal Amir Kasab, the terrorist that was captured has been "forthcoming" in questioning by the Indian authorities, and this article provides what he has said:

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Arrested_terrorist_says_gang_hoped_to_get_away/articleshow/3771598.cms

    Interesting how they didn't torture him for several months at a black site first because some lunatic Vice-President and his legal staff was sure in advance it would be needed to get him to talk.

    Even more interesting how he has already been produced in court, and his next court date is December 8th. I guess they must be into coddling terrorists or something, allowing them on their homeland soil and producing them in court like that. BTW, the name he mentions of the hijacked boat coincides with the one found by the Indian Coast Guard abandoned with a body and communications equipment on it.

  • What he say?

    Celery stuffed

    45 pounds 'o John Wayne?

    Celery seek plop plop fizz fizz

    For Good stomach's Wayneful pains

  • To Retired Military Patriot: Thanks so much for the link to the Chomsky speech.

    I agreed with almost everything that he said.

    A couple of quibbles: Obama's Army? -- not going to touch that one. It sounds a bit too organized to me, but there will be debates about that concept for a long time to come.

    (I've caught lots of flack in the past for insisting that his victory was not so much grassroots as Astroturf.)

    Is the populace to the left of the two major parties? That would depend upon how one defines left. For instance, one could take a single issue like abortion and debate endlessly about just where people are actually positioned. Abortion -- scary word. Are they positioned where they think they are or, when actually confronted with tough choices themselves, are they positioned more to the left?

    Lots of things bothered me about the entire election. Early on it was obvious that certain candidates were being marginalized by the media -- Paul, Gravel, Kucinich. They intially tried to do it with Huckabee but he found a way to be too colorful for marginalization.

    The true sexism directed at Senator Clinton disgusted and outraged me. My anger probably made me seem more a partisan for her than I really was.

    Doubts? So many doubts. Disgusted by her Bosnian lie and the word "obliterate." Disgusted by Obama's wimpy health policy and his near substance-less campaign. Unless the average person was paying lots of attention, most of them would have no idea where he stood. He was like Cleopatra, enchanting with his "infinite variety." He seduced more than he persuaded.

    CHANGE -- when I first saw that on a sign it amazed me. What genuis! We ALL wanted change. Uh.... change to what exactly?

    "We are the ones we have been waiting for." We are the people -- yada, yada, yada. What a way to flatter a constituency.

    "Yes, we can!" -- Si, se puede -- borrowed from the United Farmworkers. Obama is a great borrower.

    From the Chomsky speech: the goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices.

    Agree completely. Why do people fall so easily? Why don't we teach our students to be skeptical consumers? Why don't we make that old adage "Question Authority!" mean something besides merely questioning Mom and Dad? The most radical thing a teacher can teach is how to think and it is also the most risky. When a teacher teaches that, her students may question her. Now that's a triumph!

    I have nothing against Obama. I am actually quite glad he won over McCain. I cried after his victory speech election night. Tears of joy!

    But now, he is the authority we must question.

  • Horary Astrology is an ancient art handed down from guru to trusted disciple. The knowledge is whispered, and only a very subtle mind, purified by years of meditation and fasting, can master this.

    This is why most of you will never realize that you are full of shut, shut shut.

    Can you imagine, your latest hero, Hugo Chavez, taking time out from his four hour radio and TV addresses to learn what he must do to secure a good life for his people?

    Can you imagine algore doing the same?

    How about the guy who almost became our first windsurfing President?

    If I gave Vlad Putin a true reading, I'd be shot in the head several times within a month or two.

    I think knee jerk librals were born under bad signs.

    How many of you were born June 6, 1966, or 1976?

    You will always be klueless I must confess, unless you spend months of fasting and give up sex, meat, fish and eggs.

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