Posted on 03/10/2007 9:22:53 AM PST by Phsstpok
Johnnie EVERY WEEK is the same as last week...they just shuffle the same deck.
Well, if any other Freepers are going to be in Orlando the week of June 4th let's see if we can set up at least one get together during the week, at least for some adult beverages (for those that indulge).
Alas Babylon! and I have the conference we're attending (he's presenting some of the time) so we're tied up in the day, and our own families will be along, so we have to at least acknowledge them in passing ;^> but I'm sure we could find some place that we could get together and put faces to names and toast to our wisdom.
Too bad the gays have probably already taken the red tee shirt theme. Maybe we could all wear cammo and really freak people out.
Now that's informative. Thank you for the link.
Have you sent it to the shows?
Duh! Now I will. *Hits forehead*
That is an interesting take at CQ...but, notice it started by making you feel that the privatization was the problem, and HALLIBURTON (gasp) was mentioned...
However, when you read the whole thing...it wasn't the fault of the civilian contractor at all....it was the donut hole in the middle from the time the contract was awarded, and the work began.
I think you add to that...the BRAC findings that said the Walter Reed would be closing..and there was probably a reluctance on some of the Army people's part to ADD more positions and money to a facility that was slated to not only be taken over by a private company..but ultimately, be closed.
An aside: When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was told that if I went into labor before midnight of Feb. 28th, I was to go to the hospital that I was registered at..(this letter came about a month before her due date)...BUT, if I went into labor AFTER midnight on Feb. 29th...I was to go to a different hospital, in a different city, that I had never even been to.
As it turned out, my water broke on the 27th and so I went to the 1st hospital...but, when I got there (in the middle of the night)...they had NO LABOR rooms available, because since the Ob/Gyn part was closing they used them for storage.
I had to wait a few hours for them to clean one out...and in that time, 3 other women came in, in labor.
As it turned out, my daughter was the LAST ever born in that hospital...but, is just shows what could have been happening to a different extent at Walter Reed.
I saw on Fox New last night...an injured soldier that was at Walter Reed and is now at San Antonio..and San Antonio is a much newer facility...but he said the living conditions were very similar..and that he had no problem with them.
He said, "Hey they are barracks.." LOL
Did you notice that some of the people that Bush added to his Commission with Bob Dole, does have some troops that have been injured in this war...which is a great idea, IMHO>
You are never too old. :)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/03/09/veterans_on_va_get_the_politics_outta_the_system
I just found this one: A bunch of Vets at a bar discussing this...
BTW..Bah, I don't know if you ever watch the Saturday finance shows on Fox, but the one with David Asman this morning had a great debate about how this Walter Reed problem could be indicative of what ALL of our health care would be if it was turned into universal health care.
It was a spirited debate..and for once, I paid a lot of attention.
First class recounting of the TRUTH! Thanks, sleuthie, and thanks for highlighting this piece, phsstpok. I'm still stick to my stomach ............
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http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27278
"Some envision an ever-widening probe, or a back room deal in which Libby rats out his former puppet-master.
Blogger Andrew Sullivan thinks it’s time to consider impeaching Cheney, and Hardball’s Chris Matthews has long believed in the inherent evil of Vice President “Chee-nee.”
The Left’s fantasies aside, Fitzgerald has declared, “the investigation was inactive prior to the trial...I do not expect to file any additional charges.
We’re all going back to our day jobs.”
Leftists, too, have resumed their day jobs, which consist of slandering the president and undermining their nation’s morale during a war."
(snip)
* Wilson claimed Vice President Cheney dispatched him to Niger; Cheney did not even know of his trip.
* Wilson claimed his wife “had nothing to do with the matter. She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip.”; however, Plame wrote a memo successfully advocating her husband be chosen for the assignment (based in part on the fact that he had “lots of French contacts”).
* Wilson dissembled that he wrote a report of his activities; he never laid pen to paper.
* Wilson said his trip uncovered no evidence of Saddam Hussein’s attempt to purchase yellowcake uranium; the CIA agents who debriefed him averred that his testimony “lent more credibility” to the notion Saddam had.
* Wilson claimed he saw the documents the uranium claim was based on, and they were forgeries, because “the dates were wrong and the names were wrong”; however, the CIA did not have these documents until eight months after Wilson left. In this case – in which Wilson, not Libby, remembered things that never occurred – he sheepishly claimed he had “misspoken.”
The difference between Joe Wilson’s proven lies and Libby’s theoretical ones could not be more stark:
Libby’s endangered no one, while Wilson’s undermined the commander-in-chief while U.S. troops were in the midst of a hot war.
Neither could their recompense be any more divergent.
Libby faces 30 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine. Meanwhile, the Plame-Wilsons will proceed with their lawsuit against the Bush administration for “outing” Plame, field an offer from Hollywood heavyweight Jerry Zucker to make a biopic (which I believe is tentatively titled, “The Protocols of Learned Scooter Libby”),
and Valerie Plame will follow her husband’s bestseller with a $2 million book deal of her own. The disgraced ambassador said his wife “wept” – tears of joy – “when she heard the news” of Libby’s conviction.
The status-driven social climbers are crying all the way to the bank.
Patriotic Americans, dedicated to winning the War on Terror – or who simply believe in the ideals of truth and decency – cry, too.
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Thomas Sowell - Memory Problems
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTc5MWEyM2ZlN2Q4ZTY5ZWQ4ODQyYWU3ZDMxNDI5OWU=
"A man's life has been ruined because his memories differed from that of others — whose memories also differed among themselves — and media liberals are exulting as if their conspiracy theories had been vindicated.
More important, how are we to expect highly qualified people, with far better options than a government job, to risk being put through the Washington meatgrinder because of politics, media hype and special prosecutors who can create crimes in the course of an investigation, when there was none to begin with?"
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Charles Krauthammer - Fitzgerald's Folly
http://www.scooterlibby.com/news/Read.aspx?ID=288
"There is a second instance of Russert innocently misremembering.
He stated under oath that he did not know that one may not be accompanied by a lawyer to a grand jury hearing. This fact, in and of itself, is irrelevant to the case, except that, as former prosecutor Victoria Toensing points out, the defense had tapes showing Russert saying on television three times that lawyers are barred from grand jury proceedings.
This demonstration of Russert's fallibility was never shown to the jury.
The judge did not allow it. He was upset with the defense because it would not put Libby on the stand -- his perfect Fifth Amendment right -- after hinting in the opening statement that it might.
He therefore denied the defense a straightforward demonstration of the fallibility of the witness whose testimony was most decisive.
Toensing thinks this might be the basis for overturning the verdict upon appeal.
I hope so. This is a case that never should have been brought, originating in the scandal that never was, in search of a crime -- violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act -- that even the prosecutor never alleged.
That's the basis for a presidential pardon. It should have been granted long before this egregious case came to trial.
It should be granted now without any further delay."
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Fitz's overblown, crimefighter Cheney obsession .. his daydream of some dark and sinister conspiracy, it's just outrageous. What an egotistical, blasphemous, fantastical and flimsy premise for the national tumult and personal damage he engineered.
Any future judicial engagement by him is now completely suspect in my mind. He exhibited a profound lack of judicial and even common sense discretion.
Who watches the "watcher?"
I wonder if he's been reading all the dissident opinion pieces about him and clipping for his scrapbook.
God bless the grownups in this time of war:
Vice President Cheney, President Bush and our awesome troops ... doing their job 24/7 throughout this shameful debacle, as they will and with honor, till their terms are over.
God bless Scooter Libby and his family.
Fitz:
You could have used your time to hunt and destroy the "gold bars" of real corruption and national security risks; instead, you were pathetically bent over ... picking up "pennies" off the floor.
http://scooterlibby.com/
It's too beautiful here today to watch much tv at all so I didn't see that discussion, but I personally think it need to be repeated over and over that the government, even with the best intenions, is not an efficient means of delivering certain services, maybe most.
And Hillary! Care would be even worse. It would not be long before it went broke and they would have to decide who got care and who did not. As far as I know, the VA has not yet taken to telling old vets to just go home and die. They certainly took care of my father until the very end through a long and difficult illness.
Have you heard the latest idea? They are saying that the elderly are costing too much money with all of the chronic diseases they develop and this can all be changed if they will just adopt "healthier" lifestyles. I have news for them. Very few elderly escape one chronic illness or another, no matter how they live their lives. So what are they planning to do...monitor everyone's "life style" and if you were a good little dobee, you get treatment, and if you weren't, you don't.
So the whole idea will be that everyone "deserves" health care but there have to be exceptions due to costs. Oh, I could go on and on.
Thanks for posting those remarks from others...especially the one from Krauthammer that points out what Toensing said re: Russert.
I remember reading that the jurors based a lot of their verdict on Russert's testimony and felt he was "truthful"...more than Libbty.
That is ridiculous that Krauthammer's column points that out.
Don't forget that next week Plame and maybe Fitzy will be in front of a FRIENDLY democrat run hearing in the House.
I think we need to contact anyone necessary to make sure they HAVE to be under oath.
Oh..dear, that is SCARY...
This is goes lock step with the trans-fat monitors, non-smoking monitors...
This is WAY to scary to contemplate.
I SAY that we should do the opposite.
Sell health insurance like car insurance, or a car even.
YOU pick what coverage YOU want covered. There is no reason that I need to pick Ob/Gyn coverage...I have had a complete hysterectomy....I go once a year for a PAP and my Premarin prescription..I can pay CASH for that.
Also, I could afford to pay for a regular check up if necessary, if I could pick the doctor..by price and how I like him/her....not having the GOV. pick my doctor.
They did say on that show that a lot of young people are NOT going into medical school right now...because they feel if the Dems get their way for universal health care...they don't want to be beholden to the govt. and become a "partner" with the Fed. govt.
Jerry Zucker? Brother of David Zucker, who gave us the hilarious viral ads last year on Mad Maddy Halfbright's love affair with Lil Kim Jong Il and Taxman?
And with a title like “The Protocols of Learned Scooter Libby” there are definite possibilities lurking under the surface. Remembering the Zucker brother's earlier films there is the distinct possibility that no one's reputation will survive such a film but that Wilson/Plame might be the least pleased with the results in the long run.
I can see totally over the top (and therefore not to be believed) portrayals of Bush, Cheney and the rest of the White House players, but totally anal retentiive and straight portrayals of Wilson/Plame that would slit their throats with flattery.
Starwise, I've copied those on your To: list that were visible to me. If you consider this notion worthy please ping anyone I've missed. Thanks for the whole post, by the way. Great analysis.
Admin mods - consider if this is a case of "loose lips" and remove it if you think that is necessary.
That whole movie idea makes me sick.
Did you read the article on last week sometime on FR about how these two guys were making a documentary about Michael Moore's documentaries...and they were on HIS SIDE, until they found out how BOGUS his documentaries are???
Funny!!!
I am sure that this movie will be truthful to 10 on a scale of 1 - 100.
The Walter Reed "scandal" is this year's media offensive against the American military, cleverly disguised as "we care about the troops."
They had so much success in tar-and-feathering our military forces with the insinuations that every military prison guard and interrogator was a sadistic pervert, and thus our efforts in the War against Jihadis are bad, that they had been looking for a new 'issue' that could continue the slams.
Members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Democrats
Henry A. Waxman, California, Chairman
Rep. Tom Lantos, California
Rep. Edolphus Towns, New York
Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, Pennsylvania
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, New York
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio
Rep. Danny K. Davis, Illinois
Rep. John F. Tierney, Massachusetts
Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay, Missouri
Rep. Diane E. Watson, California
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts
Rep. Brian Higgins, New York
Rep. John A. Yarmuth, Kentucky
Rep. Bruce L. Braley, Iowa
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia
Rep. Betty McCollum, Minnesota
Rep. Jim Cooper, Tennessee
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland
Rep. Paul W. Hodes, New Hampshire
Rep. Christopher S. Murphy, Connecticut
Rep. John P. Sarbanes, Maryland
Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont
Republicans
Rep. Tom Davis, Virginia, Ranking Minority Member
Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana
Rep. Christopher Shays, Connecticut
Rep. John M. McHugh, New York
Rep. John L. Mica, Florida
Rep. Mark E. Souder, Indiana
Rep. Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Rep. Michael Turner, Ohio
Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California
Rep. Kenny Marchant, Texas
Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia
Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina
Rep. Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
Rep. Brian Bilbray, California
Rep. Bill Sali, Idaho
Vacancy
If any of these folks represent a FReeper who sees this please contact them and ask them to take the gloves off during "Waxman's Witch Hunt" hearings into Plamegate. Even if it's a Dhimmicrat, they respond to constituents.
I'm also going to contact the House Republican leadership and scream bloody murder that they've left a vacancy open on this committee. That's just ridiculous.
Boy, you nailed this one. I like Fred Thompson too, but this is a "Stop Giuliani" effort by the DBM. We will know the ones they most fear by their efforts to undo them.
I think we all realize that what we see isn't just Bush Derangement Syndrome. They don't like any of us and they would do the same things to any Republican, whether arch-conservative or not. They particularly would not want a Republican who might just tell them to go stuff it and who has a history of recognizing who the enemy is and not giving any quarter.
President Bush is a truly decent human being and quite NOT conservative in a number of ways. He genuinely wanted a "new tone" in DC, and look what they have done to him. They fiercely do not want a Republican who might actually fight back, who can speak directly to people about what he is doing and why. These are qualities that I find attractive in Giuliani (with whom I disagree on a number of social issues).
Hey .. I just realized that I was "stick" to my stomach .. ohlord .. LOL. I AM THAT SICK!
I know Patrick McHenry is a firedbrand...and I think he would definitely insist that all panelists be under oath.
I don't trust Tom Davis...he voted with the dems on the war resolution...and was VERY with the dems in the hearing about Walter Reed.
Chris Shays is like Lindsey Graham...you never know which person will show up.
There are a LOT of true lefties on the Dems roster.
LOL. You should have seen one of my posts last week. You would think English is my second or even third language.
I am sorry you are not feeling well. Tell them to take that stick out right now :O)
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