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I was always partial to “Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom”

I think they chose him because he is a good actor and he probably was attracted to what was a very interesting role.

I didn’t think this movie portrayed the RAF as very heroic. My takeaway was that members of the RAF were either highly gullible or violent sociopaths.

What I found most eye-opening was how easily the German legal system was manipulated by these terrorists - Baader manages to escape at one point, one terrorist served only minimal sentences (and ended up blowing up the German embassy in Stockholm) and their group trial was a huge circus.

The left does not like Michael Scheuer. http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/michael_scheuer

Keithy Olberman smokes a pipe... *snicker*

It is indeed near GWU and Foggy Bottom metro and the scumbag has been caught. As usual, he has a rap sheet longer than the Potomac river although police are downplaying the obvious question - why was he out on the street. "Grandmom" as she is known around here is still recovering.

Stories on the arrest and arraignment of said scum bag are at here for a limited time (Post usually archives stuff after a few weeks):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800619.html
and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050900955.html

Current's website will offer editing software and tutorials for viewers to post their videos on the site. A vote will pick the best ones to be shown on TV.

Wow, there's alot of union members who are going to be put out of work by scabs making their own videos. Anyone tell the SAG and Teamsters about this?

So... why did this scandal die? Where was the "internal investigation" like CBS is supposedly doing? Why didn't heads roll?

So silly this Greece-Macedonia thing. Does York England complain about York Pennsylvania?

I went to a book-signing last year at Politics and Prose with Jimmy Carter (it was a Christmas gift for a relative who is a fan of his) and he signed his full name.

Like the Clinton signing, the rule was no personalization but he did so for the lady in front of me and he was signing books other than the one he had on sale (the novel he wrote about the Revolutionary War in Georgia) which I thought was nice considering all the people. I later read he stayed late to get everyone's book signed.

President Carter was pleasant enough and seemed to be surprised to see a well-dressed, somewhat youthful, short-haired single white man there. I decided to leave my politics at the door so I didn't ask him about Iran and whether he screwed the Shah but only how his family was doing ("fine, thank you").

P&P is run by a bunch of failed anarchists and far leftists and as a result the book-signing was disorganized anarchy. They had four different lines with no explanation of which line to get into. The lines snaked through the store and crossed each other at times. People who got into one line early weren't getting to the signing table before latecomers who had gotten into another line. Some were cutting into a line only to find they were worse than they were before. Rumors went back and forth as to which line was moving. There was obviously no one in charge but several P&P personnel were walking around with clipboards yelling to get into such and such line and then another one would come by telling everyone to get into another line. At one point they start handing out color coded cards for each line. It was quite funny although I think I was the only one laughing. It's a tribute to the number of left-wing readers in this town that the store is still in business (they do sell right-wing books but I dare say most conservatives wouldn't be caught dead in this store -- besides B&N, Borders, etc. are more convenient. P&P is located far from any metro station and there's very little parking in the area).

So, I can see why the Clinton organization set down their own rules and organization as it would have been a right mess if they let the P&P people handle it. I wonder if Hillary's signing was anarchic as the Carter signing and she told Bill about it (I can just imagine the conversation: "those f***** idiots don't know how to run anything but their m*****f****** mouths")

Most of the people in line for Carter were mature starstruck ladies ("I have awl his books", one lady declared enthusiastically to me as I managed to duck her spittle), young earnest college girls with glasses & anti-Bush buttons (I got The Look, one who is conservatively dressed often gets from these types) and older obviously AWOL grouchy male federal workers (you can tell them by their security badges) plus a smattering of loud complaining & inappropriately dressed tourists (why in God's name you would go to a book-signing in this town of such wonderful and free museums and monuments is beyond me).

Well... I'll let you guys go back to your regularly scheduled discussions.

He hasn't been very forthcoming about what he actually did to stop Osama bin Laden while he was in a position of power (SACEUR, JCS J-3)....

BTTT - Best wishes to the Irvine family and here's to a speedy recovery for Reed.

Eventually, the truth comes out.

Witness the Australian Doctor who came up with the theory that ulcers are caused by viruses. For years, he was ostracized and now that's considered the first thing to test for when you show symptoms.

We are slowly seeing the dietetic community come around to the low carb diet that Dr. Atkins could only empirically show worked (BTW: did you know George McGovern [D-SD] from a heavy wheat producing state was behind the current food pyramid way back when he was a Senator?).

Not all scientists are evil liberals... the truth comes out eventually.

This is big news but has only been reported in either English newspapers like the Telegraph, FT and the Economist online and conservative American newspapers like the Washington Times.

Given that Bjorn was, in effect, defamed in some leading Science journals, I hope to see some crow being eaten, people fired, if not a lawsuit on Mr. Lomborg's part (and I'm not a pro-lawsuit kind of person but in this case where his character was attacked with malice, there are some lessons that ought to be given).

See: http://news.google.com/news?q=bjorn+lomborg&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&edition=us&scoring=d

For the latest reports. The National Post (Canada) story is among the best of them.

Krups makes a great nose-hair trimmer.

Goodbye Vieques. Goodbye Rosey Roads.

Helllllllo, Eglin, Hurburt, Tyndall and Panama City.

There is some good news in all of this. Some true JOINT training opportunities will certainly be had.

And just think of alllll those military voters!



Navy identifies Florida ranges to replace Vieques

Saturday, January 11, 2003

By ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press



WASHINGTON — The Navy formalized plans Friday to move training exercises from Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico, to bombing ranges and other facilities in Florida and elsewhere on the U.S. mainland.

Gov. Jeb Bush hailed the Navy's decision to certify its new training plans to Congress as a boost for Florida's military installations, and communities that depend on them. It would help make the bases too militarily valuable to close or downsize, he said.

"Such joint use will be important to Florida's military presence as our nation enters a new round of base realignment and closure considerations and decisions in 2005," Bush said in a statement issued by his office.

"The economic impact of the new training missions will be enjoyed statewide, as the Navy opts to utilize existing Florida-based assets from Pensacola to Jacksonville to Avon Park and Key West."

Florida installations that Navy Secretary Gordon England certified as "equivalent or superior" to Vieques:


Pinecastle naval bombing range in the Ocala National Forest near Jacksonville Naval Air Station. The Navy has used nearly 6,000 acres of the 382,000-acre forest for target practice for decades under a special-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service. It received a 20-year permit extension last year.

Avon Park Air Force range in south-central Florida. It is a 106,000-acre bombing and gunnery range about 10 miles southeast of the city of Avon Park, northwest of the Lake Okeechobee area.

Eglin Air Force Base, about seven miles from Fort Walton Beach in the Florida Panhandle. Eglin has 464,000 acres of ranges and other facilities and two major air fields: Eglin Main and Duke Field. In recent years the Navy has done live bombing on Eglin's test ranges.

Hurlburt Field, adjacent to Eglin and home of the Air Force Special Operations Command.

Tyndall Air Force Base, about 12 miles east of Panama City.

At-sea Navy ranges off Key West and Pensacola.

http://www.naplesnews.com/03/01/florida/d886289a.htm

Base Words Are Uttered


Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood,
But noble platitudes:--ah, there's a case
Where the most careful scrutiny is needed
To tell a voice that's genuinely good
From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

WH Auden

The Coalition Against Tyrants would be my name. Bumper sticker is "either your with us, against us, or not in the club, so go f**k off, France..." When we finally wipe the tyrants off the face of the earth, the coalition goes away just as our Founding Fathers intended...

I heard at one point she was so frustrated spittle emerged from her rather ugly mouth.

They were wrong about Vietnam and they are wrong about this.

To quote Max Boot in Thursday's LA Times editorial:

Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, by contrast, still evoke pride among many veterans of the barricades. Indeed, the graying hair and sagging bellies of many of today's protesters suggest that quite a few are 1960s stalwarts bent, like the Rolling Stones, on recapturing the lost glory of youth.

The Vietnam rallies are usually judged to have been successful because they stopped the killing of Americans in Southeast Asia. The killing of local people is another matter. The U.S. pullout led directly to the communist conquest of Saigon and Phnom Penh in 1975. The results were a human rights disaster. Tens of thousands of South Vietnamese were executed, hundreds of thousands wound up in brutal "reeducation camps" and more than a million sought to escape in leaky boats. It was even worse in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge slaughtered more than a million "class enemies."

There's an old phrase (well, not so old, I guess):

Intellectuals are the shoeshine boys of the ruling elite.

For Garofolo, it should be changed:

Intellectuals are the shoeshine GIRLS of the out-of-work elite.