Posted on 09/10/2004 11:09:40 AM PDT by aft_lizard
"you know how easy it would be to pick up an old typewriter at a flea market, garage sale or estate sale."
Oh, I don't know. I've been trying to corner the market on eight track tapes and eight track players for some time now. :-)
You'd be surprised how few of them there are in playing condition.
No, if you remember eight track tapes and players you wouldn't be surprised.
Let's ask the first question: Did CBS check to see if this came from the Onion? This is all too good to be true.
Red Storm Rising reference?
Think about it. For the last month, Kerry was taking Swiftee fire and presumably thinking up a plan to respond. And now we see what it was.
Remember that couple of news cycles when Kerry was supposedly being "urged" (like he needed it) by sundry Dems to fight fire with fire? And Dem spin (they left reality about three exits back, they only try to remain consistent with their own spin, as an easier task) is that Swiftee charges are lies. So, fire with fire means their own lies about Bush service.
OK, so they made them up. But Bush "deserves" it because Swiftees did "it" too (in their spin).
If they could have rebutted the Swiftees they would have. If there were a tenth as many legitimate questions about anything they said, they would have used direct rebuttal. Since they couldn't, they used reversal rather than rebuttal - trying to put Bush in the "same" spot, attacked by "lies" about his service record.
Then they want to hide in moral equivalence. OK, so Bush wasn't AWOL. And Kerry was a genuine war hero. Let "us" drop "all of these unfounded" attacks.
TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT
WHO DID WE EXTERMINATE?
RATHER, RATHER, RATHER
Responding Chorus:
Two, Four, Six, Eight Who will CBS extracate? Dan, Dan, Dan
Yes, this is the really hilarious part.
BAD BAD AWFUL forgeries. Proven bad in 50 ways in under two hours in the Blogoshpere. And NOBODY in the MSM caught it.
I was just at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago with 8 tracks and a working player, 3 typewriters. Each of them went for under $5 bucks.
Why even sign a memo to yourself? A date: certainly, but sign it? I have never signed a memo to myself, maybe I should start.
"Why even sign a memo to yourself? "
a formal MFR, I can see signed; in case you have to use it to document something later on, you can show it to your boss, e.g., and it has the date and your signature on it to show that it was contemporaneous with the event.
the signed, dated MFR just gives you more credibility that, yes, you realized it was a serious matter at the time, and took the time to record it for future reference, should it be needed.
a note to yourself for your own recollection: a date, yes. Why sign or initial it? Don't know -- other than to verify to yourself later, when you no longer remember having written it, that, yes, I did write this. You wouldn't need a signature block, esp. an unofficial one.
Yes, this stuff is curiouser and curiouser if you try to come up with a believable scenario. I originally left open the possibility that the commander wrote these notes to himself, and were informal and he did not take the time to follow memo format, etc., because it was just to himself. BUT the widow's testimony that he did not type --- which I believe -- knocked out that provisional support.
I was joking--but the ones you found may be worth a fortune on Antique Roadshow in about 50 years. Beter go back.
personally, I never got an eight track to work for more than a few weeks before it started eating the tapes.
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