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Posted by tgl on 2005-01-20 05:20:18 +0000

I might have to speak with your <b>fourth</b> grade teacher.

Posted by rladew on 2005-01-20 14:25:56 +0000

Just for fun, if dawnBixtler was omniscient and he could get anyone he wanted into this post, for the good of the country, who would he pick?

Just curious....

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Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-01-20 14:55:04 +0000

Ahh, Mrs. Feinberg, great class... it's when I learned to blow off my homework. I may attribute all of my slackability to the lessons learned from her overabundance of homework...

Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-01-20 14:56:16 +0000

No contest, Mrs. Feinberg... Girl would lay the smack down.

Posted by tgl on 2005-01-20 15:35:34 +0000

Even if I was not omniscient, I'd still pick myself.

Posted by tgl on 2005-01-20 15:55:36 +0000

Alas, Mr. Croteau cannot be found in the Concord School District.

I'd like to think my education was better than the <a href="http://www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/chs/">high school webpage</a>.

Posted by tgl on 2005-01-20 17:02:42 +0000

An all seriousness, Gonzales is the egregious "thumbing the nose" nomination. Here is the legal mind that has provided cover for the U.S. to classify foreigners and citizens as "enemy combatants" and opened the door for indefinite imprisonment without probable cause or judicial review, additionally O.K.ing the use of torture against suspects held in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay (and the U.S.? we can't really know the answer, is everyone comfortable with that?). Nevermind that "suspect" can be anyone the US deems might have information, regardless of merit. Nevermind that roughly 90% of the detainees at Abu Ghraib where innocent Iraqi civilians. Nevermind that apart from the pictures of leashes and human pyramids and degrading acts we _did_ see, are the photos of ~50 dead Iraqis we _did_not_ see.

Gonzales isn't the mastermind behind torture and abuses by the US military/intelligence/justice communities, but he is the enabler.

Rice merely overlook Richard Clarke's hysteria (much like everyone in the Clinton Administration), and approved of the use of force in Iraq without sufficient cause (much like nearly every other foreign war the U.S. has gotten into). Small potatoes.

Posted by rladew on 2005-01-20 17:06:48 +0000

Maybe this is another argument for private school vouchers ;0 )

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Posted by tgl on 2005-01-20 17:12:27 +0000

What?! ...and have <a href="http://www.choate.edu/home/">all that money spent on the website</a>? Nevermind.

Honar might disagree.

<a href="http://www.fenn.org/">This school</a> can't even figure out how to get their website to work on a standard browser.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-01-20 22:21:41 +0000

How about Colin Powell posting? I think he'd agree with me, enforcing my sentiment.

Or do you mean who would I nominate for Sec. 'o State? How about Wesley Clark? McCain? Richard Lugar? Joe Biden? Bill Maher? Bill Belichik? Anyone who has shown competence.

Yes, it's cool that Bush nominated a gay, black woman to be the face of our country, but that Sept. 11th thing makes it downright awkward. Yes, she's a Bush friend, but shouldn't ability be factored in? Talk to my mom about Rice's stint as Provost of Stanford; it wasn't pretty.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-01-20 22:27:06 +0000

Let's privatize the Army!!! Then maybe we could capture the terrorist who organized the death of 3,000 Americans...
Osama Bin Forgotten?

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-01-20 22:33:00 +0000

Ah, Ms. Feinberg... when Walrod, tendiamonds, Taylor Doughty, Paul Dormer, and I started our first band: "Kids Unemployed" or "K.U." Yes, we ripped of Men at Work songs...

Posted by tgl on 2005-01-20 23:16:18 +0000

I thought the Army was already full of privates.

Posted by frame609 on 2005-01-21 00:51:19 +0000

Don't ask, don't tell, pal.

Posted by rladew on 2005-01-21 03:26:56 +0000

Now yr crackin' dawn!

A private army Not regulated by the govt probably would have done a better job pursuing / capturing OBL....

There might have been many competent firms COMPETING for the business...

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Posted by rladew on 2005-01-21 03:28:56 +0000

Now yr crackin' dawn!

A private army Not regulated by the govt probably would have done a better job pursuing / capturing OBL....

There might have been many competent firms COMPETING for the business...

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Posted by tgl on 2005-01-21 05:11:18 +0000

...and those nekkid Ear-rackies would stay stacked!

How many private security contractors are the "face" of the United States in Iraq right now? I'm not too comfortable with the thought that the people with the most contact with Iraqi civilians are more likely to be paid mercenaries than professional soldiers.

Posted by on 2005-01-21 05:17:00 +0000

If you're in "Threaded list" mode you would have seen my previous post hoping for the professionalism of our soldiers winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis nestled up against an earlier post berating the use of torture by said professionals. Ugh.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-01-21 14:16:07 +0000

do you have a fixed width set for the threaded list? it's only using half my screen...

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-01-21 19:20:01 +0000

Great. Let's do it!

Cut the Defense budget by 70%, and give out bidded contracts to any Military company not already convicted of multiple counts of fraud. Sorry Haliburton and Brown & Root. No more $$Billions$$ for your ass.

How do get this started?

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-01-24 18:52:15 +0000

Congrats to the Washington Times for printing this piece discussing Rice's silly accusations at her confirmation hearing. Granted the WashTimes couldn't resist the some neo-con slant by running the headline "Sen. Boxer takes victim role," when neither Boxer or Rice say any such thing (read the article), but it does show just how lost and unco-operative Rice is.

"Impugning my credibility or my integrity." Please, Ms. Rice, you're an world reknown liar. Can you just answer the questions?

Final vote Wednesday...

Posted by rladew on 2005-01-25 15:34:14 +0000

Did you see SNL this weekend? The parody of the hearing was LOL funny....

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Posted by frame609 on 2005-01-25 18:07:23 +0000

Saturday Night Live has been good both times I've seen it in 2005. I liked the hearing skit.

Posted by rladew on 2005-01-25 21:05:57 +0000

what?


(sorry I couldn't resist)

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