Oh. Ouch. That Hurts… Stop…
Well, the police reports on the Cheney hunting accident are in. The victim insists nobody was drinking. That means… Lawrence O’Donnell, who insisted Cheney must be drunk because Republicans drink, you know, is an idiot.
Don’t take it from me. Take it from Cathy Seipp.
CAVEAT: Don’t go there unless you want to see a serious rhetorical ass-whuppin’. It’s really just sort of personal, mindless abuse. Very funny, personal, mindless abuse. Quite good, really… but still just mindless abuse. Consider it my gift to you, a cherry on top of the sherbert of the Senate adding some bits to FISA to make sure that the “NSA FISA scandal domestic spying program” is covered and permissible under FISA. It seems that the more the senators know, the less they really want to put a stop to this program. What is it they’ve found out in the last week of closed door briefings? I don’t know, but if a politician has something to capitalize on, he or she will do so, without question. That many of our Senatorial solons have gotten off their high horse in the last week, tells you something. What it is, I’m not sure – other than the Kossacks lose, again.
Once again, Chimperor Shrubitler wins, his enemies flee the battlefield in headlong retreat, screaming that they aren’t retreating, they’re just attacking in another direction…
- Entries
The big boys of the press ended up getting scooped by a small paper, which is mortifying to highly developed egos. What was also mortifying was the blast of reality they received. The administration does not consider it important to inform them or suck up to them. They could stand being hated by the administration - heck it seems most of them work to get the title of "person the government fears/hates". What they can't stand is being treated with indifference.
It isn't containment. It isn't detente. They're being ignored, and like any prissy prima donna, they will not be ignored, attention must be paid to me me me! or they will throw the hissy fit to end all hissy fits.
And so the hissy fit was thrown. And so they reaped the reaction any adult gets when he acts like a two year old. Utter contempt.
Enjoy fellas. You earned it.
No, you had a duty to the American People, and to the readers of this blog, to tell us this sooner. Why did you delay?
It's not that the media was angry about this, that is the problem. It's that you didn't tell us about it sooner.
Frankly, I'm experiencing a real loss of faith in you as a blog commenter, as a result of your withholding this information. As usual, it's not the story about the coverup of the non-coverup that is the story, rather it's the story about the non-coverup of the coverup story about the coverup of the non-coverup that gets you into trouble.
Ooops, pardon me for making that squelching noise. It was the sound of several meta-narratives imploding at once.
;-D
Look! A three-headed man on a donkey!
(MikeyNTH turns and dashes out of the room).
Ummmm...wait, don't answer that question. Sun Tzu would turn over in his grave.
Anyway, I would worry less about Sun Tzu rolling in his grave and worry more about Chesty rearing up out of his and getting you.
See? I'm always forgetting the little details like that.
The marine was then court-martialed.
Lt.Puller won high praise from Nimitz. "The work of Lieutenant Puller on board this vessel has been excellent."
Puller was the third marine commander, the other two being deemed by Nimitz to be unsatisfactory.*
*Nimitz, E.B. Potter, Naval Institute Press, 1976, p. 160.
I went to the Naval War College in 1998 and this was the first time I had ever heard about the book. Lessons from that 1939 draft are still applicable today. (OK, maybe not the chapter on how to pack a mule for mountain fighting. No kiddin' it's in there.)