‘When Black Friday comes … gonna do just what I please’

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And he looks anemic.

ewwwwwww

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I think the entire Steely Dan catalog has been linked here ten times over, but the name is fitting.

I’m concerned about whether Alabama left too many points laying on the field in the first half. What say you SoCo?

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RW
@ 4:36
Give their ad people a hat tip…that was well done…!

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Okay, GM, here’s one for you…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_pjb5_fgA

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After all it’s the spirit that counts,
warm or cold!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpyQ7Sak1g

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GM, since 1908, and some would have liked to have seen it down for the count.

Do you prefer this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGZvQoPxhNs

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Steely Dan’s core was made up of two very eccentric, very talented musicians. To “fill in” their music they used some really, really good studio musicians. From this, one can surmise that they were way, way of ahead of their time but they actually were the song writers and they were the real talent behind their music. I mean the majority of today’s talentless musicians rely upon electronic trickery and “sampling” and other peoples talent to make their living. And the public buys it, for whatever that is worth. Fagen and Becker are excellent and they knew what it took to make good music. They also realized their limitations and they brought in the right people to do the job. It may not have been a consistant line-up for their “band” but make no mistake, they are great. If this mean that their music was “cold”, so be it.

And socialism/progressivism is dying a quick death in Europe. Socialism/progressism’s tentacles are starting to eat away at the European model like a cancer. And, if we continue to pursue it here, we will die a quick death to. We can all argue that the rich must pay more but when it comes down to it, we either live in a communistic world or in a capitalistic one and we all know how the socialistic/communistic scenario plays out. China hasn’t quite got there yet but their people are suffering on because of their leaders pseudo-Marxist/Capitalist amalgom ideology.

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DAMMIT BAMA

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For the Republicans and the upcoming House of Representatives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Fs5GrUBwI

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Can’t say I don’t disagree with ya Del. They bad thing is what to do if they call in the debt.

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yep kinda like a loan shark that way.

But hey it’s going to come sooner or later and has been building since the 50’s anyway.

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Wonder what the hell we do if China tells us to back off from S. Korea. Geesh what a mess

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Common Sense,

I don’t think they would tell us to because first of all they know we couldn’t and secondly they like our discomfort. It wouldn’t surprise me if China is using the N.K. crises and our need for them to contain the regime as an eventual bargaining chip on the Taiwan issue.

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Tomorrow is punch out a auburn grad day for all the Bama fans. Like we used to say we may have lost the game but the score ain’t settled yet LOL

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Oh well to much doom and gloom from me on this Thanksgiving holiday. On a much brighter note this country from our beginning has gone through severe crises and has always risen above it, so whats to think we won’t solve the issues of today. Enjoy the weekend y’all.

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I’m back for the nifht, kickin’ off my…and makin’t me a…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0udnQHG2W8

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RW

It’s hard to win the game when you don’t come out of the locker room for the 2nd half.

Tomorrow is punch out a auburn grad day for all the Bama fans. Like we used to say we may have lost the game but the score ain’t settled yet

I’ll have to keep that in mind.

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To Del @ 6:54 PM

No man. This is a more appropriate song for the incoming Republicans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1mqbwcvnQA

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TNgelding, we didn’t want it GM to die, we wanted GM to file for bankruptcy and redo the union contracts that are still running them into the ground. Why should the UAW pocket millions off the deal while bondholders were left holding the bag. It was a union give away from the ACORN president.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/26/acorn-workers-convicted-admitted-guilt-election-fraud/?test=latestnews

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You read the headlines about the car accident in the driveway where an uncle runs over his 19 month old nephew. Tragedies don’t get any worse than that. Like a schoolbus running over the student reaching for a dropped pencil.

My father knew a guy who ran over his own child backing out of the driveway. The poor man saw his child behind the car, and got out, picked the child up, and put him yards away in the yard, but by the time the man got to backing his car out of the driveway again, the child had returned to the rear wheel’s path and…..

it’s too horrible to imagine. But it happens every day, because we are human and distracted to a fault, and only prayer and the angels can save any of us.

Pray this holiday season.

Just pray.

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Fox News disparaging ACORN?

I’m shocked—shocked, I say.

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larry

Be careful, lest ye wish to be tagged with the wealth envy label. If the evil union gets $1, then it’s $1 too much. The CEO’s earned every dollar they get paid. It doesn’t matter if the CEO pulls a Nardelli either. They earned it.

Kam

I’m shocked as well…

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Jay, that’s it…I have endured the trolls here that insist that UP is DOWN, BLACK is WHITE and wild bears DO NOT SHIITE in the woods…BUT, I will not stand for any disparaging of the greatest band of all time!!

‘chilly and removed…’

My mother in law is ‘chilly and removed.’

Steely Dan is the best…ever.

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Southern Comfort

Tough loss yesterday, bummer.

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Kam

Tough my ass. They deserved to lose that game. You can’t play 2 quarters and expect to win a game. Until they play 4 solid quarters of football, they will keep losing the big ones.

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Jay said: “But I can’t say I’ve ever been a huge fan of Steely Dan. To my taste, there’s something chilly and a little removed about their music that makes it hard to fully embrace.”

Yes Jay, the chilly removal thing probably accounts for the fact that they’re still going after 30+ years. I see you as more of a Barry Manilow guy.

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When the Pension Protection Act was passed in 2006, the spread between the corporate bond rate and the 30-year Treasury rate was approximately 1.1 percentage points. It ballooned to an average of 2.5 points in 2008, and is about 1.35 now. “The spreads between Treasurys and corporate bonds are greatest in times of economic uncertainty,” says Ms. Pickenpaugh.

Ouch! That could hurt… someone.

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TaxPayer:

No …. He will be angry with the zoo for violating their rights !

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If you’re a CEO of a major company you probably have a lot to be thankful for on Turkey Day. The government reported Tuesday that corporate earnings hit a record in the third quarter.

Too bad these vultures are still unable to hire. Perhaps another tax cut would help.

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Taxpayer:

I guess this gives new meaning to “Bird of a Feather ‘Flock’ together!”

Where is the ACLU when the vultures need them. Oh, I forgot. The ACLU ‘are’ the vulures so they’re on their own!

Have to run for the day. Be nice.

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Name one company paying the “repressive corporate tax rate.” Granted, they are paying a pretty penny to keep from it.

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dang it… I can’t get me slantees right for nothing!!!!

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You know, it really is all in your mind

Hit control plus sign a couple of times to see enlarged.

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It’s a Blue Saturday around here. Let’s all get out and do something for those less fortunate and burn a little of those extra calories off Thanksgiving brings!

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Most importantly the UAW agreed to a plan to shift responsibility for retiree health care costs away from the companies to union-controlled trust funds.

As the son of a retired Ford employee, I know that Ford no longer has anything to do with retiree health care costs, of hourly workers. They haven’t since January. That is now handled by the UAW and it’s less than what they were promised, in all those decades, when they were working.

And the UAW has been making concessions since the late ’70s. Nobody ever mentions that.

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another “isolated” terror attempt in Portland at a Christmas Tree lighting by Mohammed Muhamed, a Somali born teenager.. he said he wanted to go to Pakistan to learn more and wage jihad against the US.. my question is, what is jihad? Obama never really answered that and now he has me more confused than ever..

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Kamchak

If you get this soon, I just got the scoop on a series of soccer matches that are going to be played around Kennesaw this weekend. I just talked to one of the coaches of the Mexican National Team (I presume). They’re playing a team from British Columbia today. The US team plays tomorrow. They’re playing a few friendly games to prepare for the next World’s Cup.

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Obama answered the jihad question. He said it meant whatever you wanted it to mean.

SoCo,

I still think Alabama blew that game in the first half with those two red zone fumbles. You can’t keep Auburn contained all day and everybody knew the D was going to be better in second half when the two Auburn lineman got through serving their first half suspension.

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Better get out to the yard. I tried using Hillbilly D’s line about God putting those leaves on the ground, but she insists that He hadn’t done our landscaping in the first place.

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I’m assuming you don’t know what he was talking about either..

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Cam Newton reminds me a bit of Herschel Walker, in the way that he can be seemingly loping along and then just instantly turn on the speed.

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WAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR EAGLE!!!!! (Just sayin’.)

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Matti@1:41 pm

WAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR EAGLE!!!!! (Just sayin’.)
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Southern Comfort

November 27th, 2010
7:26 am

RW

It’s hard to win the game when you don’t come out of the locker room for the 2nd half.

Tomorrow is punch out a auburn grad day for all the Bama fans. Like we used to say we may have lost the game but the score ain’t settled yet

I’ll have to keep that in mind.

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Matti

be careful around SoCo. He is still peeved about how Bama played yesterday and I can’t say I blame him.

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Southern Comfort

Those are the U-20(under 20) national teams of the U.S., Mexico and Columbia playing the Torneo de las Americas in the nearly new stadium at KSU. As an Atlanta Beat season ticket holder, I had first opportunity for tickets a couple of months ago but declined because I wasn’t sure when I would be heading back up to a small hamlet in the N.C. Mtns. this weekend.

Would have been a great opportunity to see the future stars of the U.S. national team, though….

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European socialism is collapsing. Enough said about socialism.

Closer to home, Jay, can you actually defend the fact that the UAW is making out like a bandit on the backs of taxpayers? I will walk before I would drive a GM vehicle. To hell with GM.

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my question is, what is jihad?

Jay covered that earlier this week.

our children sure isn’t learning.

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and thus:

RW’s right. The teeny comment box appears to have become smallened.

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Jay@4:10 pm

I don’t have the gene that automatically equates union with evil.
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You along with many of us must be genetically flawed then.

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I see Jay is suffering from wealth envy. There. Now, most of the compassionate conservatives will have nothing to say that we have not heard already today. As for leftovers, leftover GRAVY! Ewwwww! We make it fresh for each meal of leftover turkey and stuffing.

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And the jean that automatically equates union with evil is made in either China or India or one of those other places with the real cheap labor and imported by Levi or Wrangler or just about any of those designer names.

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stands for decibels@4:25 pm

RW’s right. The teeny comment box appears to have become smallened.

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Must be male and a member of the polar bear club

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male and a member of the polar bear club

that’s always my story, and I’m sticking to it.

later, gators. Be excellent to one another.

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RW’s right. The teeny comment box appears to have become smallened.

I think it’s an optical illusion. The up and down arrows on the right aren’t there when you open the page using either Firefox or Safari until you type enough to fill the comment box. It looks normal in IE as soon as you open the page.

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Today is November 27.

BONER, WHERE ARE THE JOBS CREATED FROM THE BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY?

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Southern Comfort@5:40 pm

As I learned in physics, for every action there is a reaction. Like you, I’d rather keep that money circulating here in the US. If I can achieve my ultimate dream, I’ll have to ask Jay to blog live so y’all can see me drive my Corvette off the factory line in Bowling Green, KY.
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Make sure you turn south instead of north them sports car don’t do good on snow LOL

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The unions ARE making out like bandits on our taxpayer dollars Jay. Even the liberal NYT’s said that today. What about all of the investors that lost billions in GM in their 401′S? What about all of us out here having to pay a grotesque amount of our taxpayer dollars to save what is really just a few jobs to the Democrat’s historical favorite cause-de-celeb, the unions and socialism they represent? What about all of the bad decisions made by both GM’s management and the UAW’s management of the pension plans? I know; the Grapes of Wrath liberal/progressive romantics like yourself (and the hack Krugman) want to believe that that government intervention into the private economy in the form of taxpayer dollars to support the unions and bad company management is the answer to all our problems. But the undeniable truth is that without private sector funding through the revenues that only the private sector can generate, government spending is a bigtime loser. Europe is a prime and a real example of this. And there just aren’t enough taxpayers in this country Jay, rich or middle class, to pay the bills that liberal spending has created. If you can look at your your children and say with any grain of truth that the way to prosperity for this country is through government spending then I feel sorry for you. Something is going to have to give and it is about to and your children and my children are going to pay. They will be enslaved to a government beaurcracy who will tell them how to live without a semblance of freedom because they will have the weight of all the debt that those that came before them created and they will pretty much have no say into how they live their own lives. The all-providing government will tell them how to live. I really do feel sorry for the children of tomorrow.

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In 2009, the union membership rate–the percent of wage and salary
workers who were members of a union–was 12.3 percent, essentially
unchanged from 12.4 percent a year earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today.

It’s amazing that 12.3% of the workforce can somehow be to blame for all our economic woes. If 12% of the workforce can wield so much power, I guess it stands to reason that 12% of the population is all the support Obama needs to get re-elected.

Some more info on unions according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Industry and Occupation of Union Members

Among occupational groups, education, training, and library occupa-
tions (38.1 percent) and protective service occupations (35.6 percent)
had the highest unionization rates in 2009. Farming, fishing, and fores-
try occupations (2.8 percent) and sales and related occupations (3.1
percent) had the lowest unionization rates. (See table 3.)

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It doen’t[sic] get any simpler than that.

Simple thoughts for simple minds.

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I read that FOX has now started presenting select segments from The Onion in their “news” shows. Then again, those segments may actually be a step forward for FOX — one step closer to becoming the joke that they are. It might even be funny if it were not so sad.

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Are we back to whining about the investors getting wiped out, and the rank and file keeping their jobs? If it makes you feel better, please remember that the CEO’s kept their jobs AND their golden parachutes, so maybe they’ll indulge us by trickling down on us… Don’t worry, president Delay will fix all this in 2013…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg

sunday black

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Black September @ the Munich Olympics.

The battle continued sporadically for another hour before five guerrillas, including the leader, were killed and three surrendered. In that interval the hostages died too. One group of four burned to death when a terrorist tossed a grenade and set fire to the helicopter in which they were being held. The rest were machine-gunned by the Arabs.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906384-7,00.html#ixzz16bnwOUcm

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What the halibut? Palin ’snuff film’ outrages animal rights advocates

Snuff film!!??!! schnirt.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/what-the-halibut-palin-snuff-film-outrages-animal-rights-advocates-20101124-186bw.html?from=smh_sb

I couldn’t do it, but I’m sho ’nuff glad somebody can.

I LUV grilled halibut.

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When you get right down to it, there’s no nice way to kill something. Would they rather we eat the fish alive?

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Wow Sarah, You are tough. I would like to see her tie into one of those big catfish at the Alatoona Dam though. Those things could eat her whole. LOL

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regarding jihad: i’ve looked it up, thank you. but he said it had many different definitions to the Islam faith. just wondering what he was talking about..

Jihad is a holy war, one that usually is attribnuted by those of more simple-mindedness about their own faith into a holy war against some person or group of people. Usually a religion, or country, or basically any entity that can be sufficiently demonized. Sounds an awful lot like what we’re doing in this country; no wonder we want to BAN Sharia law!

But for those high-minded individuals who actually STUDY the faith (read – not most American Christians and not most Middle Eastern Muslims) you can find in Mohammed’s teachings that a jihad is a holy war against the ego, the part of us that seeks to destroy and make things worse for other people, the part of us that doesn’t recognize the holiness and godliness of every creature and human being. According to the teachings, that is what you should wage war against – hate, war, fear, and intolerance. In so doing, you will find the opposite to be healthy for you and everyone else.

So, now you know what he meant by that. Assuming you understood what I said.

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Some things never change ………

Does anyone remember the scene in “Pork Chop Hill” (starring Gregory Peck) where during negotiations the North Korean officer (smoking a cigarette) sitting across the table from the American officers takes his earphones off ?

You can’t negotiate with the insane. Get ready.

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Adam
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re: jihad really a war against ego etc This is after all what Christ also taught and yet we have had the CRUSADES by ‘alleged’ Christians in the past who claimed that they were carrying out the word of God in attacking “infidels’ —in essence meaning all those who were not Catholic !
Excellent post with info for those who have not really had the opportunity to research the topic!

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Pfc. Bradley Manning, who leaked all the documents to Wikileaks should be tried for treason and he (or she, or whatever) should be executed. Because of “it’s” actions, other people are going to die. For that matter, this fools commanding officers who put a person like this in a position to be able to record and download sensitive information in the first place should be tried as well. Makes one have a lot of faith in the LEADERSHIP of the American Armed Forces and their screening of people who occupy such positions doesn’t it? God help the soldiers on the front because their leaders are apparently fools. But, I guess it pretty much goes along with the decline of everything else in this country we are all seeing nowadays.

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I don’t think Adam really understood what he said.

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SoCo,

I don’t think Pogo was laying this issue at Obama’s feet. If he was than I’d disagree as well. Having said that, PFC. Manning’s command does stand a accountable for this breach and those who were responsible for overseeing his activities should be punished.

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I don’t think Pogo was laying this issue at Obama’s feet.

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But, I guess it pretty much goes along with the decline of everything else in this country we are all seeing nowadays.

Education continues to decline at a rapid pace, even as we type. Maybe it’s something in the water.

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The state department knew of the leak several months ago and had ample time to alert staff in sensitive locations. Its pre-emptive scaremongering over the weekend stupidly contrived to hint at material not in fact being published. Nor is the material classified top secret, being at a level that more than 3 million US government employees are cleared to see, and available on the defence department’s internal Siprnet. Such dissemination of “secrets” might be thought reckless, suggesting a diplomatic outreach that makes the British empire seem minuscule.

Oooh! The Horror of it all! I’m simply aghast!

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My comparison of the military to other areas of the government is to the effect that politics plays in decision making in the field vs the HQ levels. Those at the bottom of the hiearchy are less inclined to play politics because politics is not what makes them function at their respective jobs. Once you get to senior levels, that’s where the politics come into play when it’s decision time.

The only reason that military culture clashes with civilian government is because you have many that don’t have clue #1 about the inner workings of our military. It doesn’t matter what the issue is, the military has always been at the forefront of our cultural changes, and it’s usually been the rest of society that has caught up with the military.

I don’t have a dog in the DADT debate. Personally, I’m more worried that we’re just now putting armor on the ground in Afghanistan after 9 years. In a firefight, I don’t think rounds care about race, gender or sexual orientation. The easy way to solve the DADT issue is for all citizens to perform compulsory service for a period of time. That way, there’s no discrimination at all because everyone has to do some time. You have millions who would have an understanding of our military culture, and at the same time, you have many with the training needed to help out at home for things like border security and stuff.

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On this Wikileaks thing why doesn’t the government just say that to protect ourselves against just this sort of thing we have to put considerable misinformation into our computer records? Then they could just refuse to confirm or deny anything.

That would probably work with the public but the enemy probably would have a pretty good idea of what info was the real thing.

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Southern Comfort

November 28th, 2010
9:34 pm

Is there a more bureaucratic or political animal than the Pentagon? It was pure lunacy to put troops on the ground in Afghanistan, especially when you consider the other options. But since they’re there…

Get bin Laden and get out of the entire region! Let the homicidal and suicidal maniacs kill each other.

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Here is the kicker!

for the first time, imported foods would be subject to the same standards as those made in the United States.

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