Posted on 05/14/2004 3:43:32 AM PDT by calcowgirl
LOL... With my beard and balding-head ponytail, I often get very similar pleasures... Liberals are incredibly strong stereotypers, and they completely reel when they discover how conservative I am...
I get loads of opportunity for this fun around here...
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Ordinarily, "annual sales" would refer to gross revenues of a business before any expenses. When taking into consideration equipment/supplies, travel expenses, payroll taxes, workers comp insurance, other insurance, business licenses, etc., that doesn't leave much left over for "payroll" itself. Even with only one employee, $65,000 in "sales" doesn't sound like a business of any substance whatsoever.
"setting up a lib radio outlet" just doesn't mesh with his dad's statements about his being a "big Bush reporter". That must be exposed as a lie, or there is a huge problem with most of the hypotheses...
Well, he has links to Moussaoui (sp???). How many people would have links to a terrorist?
This is certainly a mystery.
They sound local to PA... don't know.
Ridder/Tribune News Service, May 11, 2004 pK6820
Pennsylvania community shocked by death of `real nice kid'.
(The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.)) Pervaiz Shallwani; Dan Sheehan.(snip)
He was very active in the Science Olympiad team that took home a lot of medals and was placed in both state and national events over those years," said Florence Miller, a spokeswoman for the West Chester Area School District. Berg was a 1996 graduate of Henderson High School.His father, Michael, taught at East High School in the district, retiring in 2002.
I agree with your straight interpretation - the dad said he was an alQueda friend. There are some true anomalies here though: the "Bush supporter", "yamaka-wearing conservative Jew", etc...
Still, I'm not entirely convinced that he was simply trying to be a philantropist in Iraq while making a buck or two, but I'm still having trouble ripping off the tin foil I wrapped around my head when I made my first comments about this a few days ago. I should definitely not have used super-glue for that...
Pete declared in an interview (sorry, it was just a thing I saw Googling around but did not keep the link) that he created his alias to "avoid $10,000 fines" [e.g. for his pirate radio activities]. I tend to believe his claim that he was involved in typical early - mid 1980s Marxist activities as a late teen. He fits the profile and the stuff he's into now really does point to someone who was railing against our favorite President [great handle you've got BTW!] while in his youth. He reminds me of similar folks who were anti Reaganites during Ronnies 1st term when I was in school a few years before that. I sure hope they are investigating this hard, in spite of Ashcroft's statement today about "no connection" to terrorists.
You know, I could see that any guy working in Iraq would want to look more like an average citizen than stand out as an American.
That may be common practice amongst the civis working there.
What I was implying was that the Chi Com reporter got it wrong. That the reporter might have mistakenly wrote that that particular Mike Berg was a teacher from SC when in fact he was from PA. It just seemed like yet another coinkydink, although I do realize Mike Berg is a fairly common name in the US.
I don't remember there being a mosque there either. I've been living here all my life and going to games there since I was a kid. But maybe it's there?
Gotcha... I was just trying to reinforce your conclusion... PA it is! :-)
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One other thing, from what I have seen of the ANSWER crowd here in the SF Bay Area, I could well imagine a retired teacher, when asked by a "glorious" reporter from the PRC to give an interview, neglecting to mention the "retired" part and simply claiming to be a teacher.
On a different thread, there was strong evidence that daddy was a Deaniac... not simply antiwar...
As far as "terrorist connections at Cornell"... I've been no where in the country that is more virulently antiwar than Ithaca is. I've not gotten wind of "terrorist" crackdowns here at all, but in many ways it would be very difficult to tell the difference from the average fringe liberal here.
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Correction `"glorious" reporter from the PRC' should be `"glorious" reporter from Reuters' - truthfully not a great difference there, but I wanted to stay factual.
According to his fellow workers, he would wear a yamaka (sp?) to work, even up on the towers.
I'm not convinced that the "stolen" computer password and other information are not simple "plausible" cover stories, though.
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Had the same passing throught when I found out the roommate that drove Moussaoui to MN was a Math major (junior). Math majors would have access to the super computers here at OU. They were all friends with three Pakistani students who lived next door and one of the was a computer engineering major.
OU is a large research university in many fields. One of the leaders in the world in not only meteorology but in petroleum engineering. Sarkey's energy center is a real draw for the University.
Certainly there are dots crying out to be connected.
I do not think he is a" yalmulke wearing conservative jew". His memorial is at Cogregation Beth Israel of Media. This is a reconstructionist temple. See
http://www.bethisraelmedia.org/WhoWeAre/WhoWeAre.htm
The reconstructionists are an ultra liberal american offshoot of reform Judaism.
Ummmmm, no.
Y'know I've big arms.
They're even bigger now, a virtual pitching machine.
Come here to learn from others, do ya?
Good God man, you're in for some real woe.
BTW before I forget, again.
...Happy Birthday.
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