Here’s a lovely little parable from the wonderful world of Wollf.
Lesson: bureaucratic inertia is almost infinite.
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...to an enemy who is trying to slaughter you and everyone like you.
Remember, there are Americans and allies out there, today, who have had to train themselves to overcome their basic instincts in order to defend your freedom and security. This is a form of sacrifice that doesn’t show up on a Purple Heart license plate.
Oh, okay…
Here’s a long adrenaline hit for the grunts, too.
An al-Qaida in Iraq leader blamed in the 2004 abduction and murder of an Army reservist and other deadly attacks over several years was killed in an American raid in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday. U.S. forces acting on a tip carried out the raid Nov. 11 in Baghdad’s Mansour neighborhood, killing Hajji Hammadi and another armed insurgent, the military statement.
The Iraqi was accused in the abduction and killing of Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin, a 20-year-old private first class who was seized when his fuel convoy was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on April 19, 2004, as the insurgency was gaining strength. Al-Jazeera aired a videotape later that month showing the Batavia, Ohio, native wearing camouflage and a floppy desert hat, sitting on a floor surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles.
Maupin’s remains were found in March on the outskirts of Baghdad, about 12 miles from where the convoy was ambushed.
CNN, quoting “multiple sources,” is reporting this evening that Penny Pritzker* is the top choice of President-elect Barack Obama to become his secretary of Commerce.............
Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker, national campaign finance chairwoman for the Obama campaign, has taken herself out of the running to be secretary of Commerce because of vetting issues, a Democratic official said.
She fears problems with her confirmation based on past business dealings, the official said.
More than three decades after he first appeared before the panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester [lying traitor], Senator John F. Kerry will be named chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, giving him enormous influence over President-elect Barack Obama’s foreign policy, according to congressional officials.
Damn Massachusetts voters. Damn you all to hell.
Al Franken campaign wants the state Canvassing Board to rule on whether it should count...........
The American Spectator via Ace
TedC
Victory in Iraq Day—11.22.08
It is up to the American people to declare victory. Which is exactly what we are doing right now.
There never will be an “official” announcement from the government or the media, so you can stop waiting for it.
Makes sense to me. As do his arguments.
Nominations for the 2008 Weblog Awards have been extended until Friday Nov. 21.
I think a few more nominations could really help insure we get into the finals!
(cover all the bases......... paste this url: http://www.sondrak.com/ ;)
Republican John McCain appeared to have picked up the consolation prize of Missouri Wednesday after the heartland state became the last to tot up all of its ballots in the US presidential election.
With all of Missouri’s 3,533 precincts now reporting their results from the November 4 election, McCain had won 1,445,812 votes to 1,442,180 for president-elect Barack Obama—a wafer-thin margin of 49.4 percent to 49.3.
The result will stand unless Democrat Obama contests the count........
[Alas, even the tonguemeister’s presence failed to rally the troops.]
California’s highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state’s new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.
The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that overruled the court’s decision in May that legalized gay marriage.
All three cases claim the measure abridges the civil rights of a vulnerable minority group. They argue that voters alone did not have the authority to enact such a significant constitutional change.
6,434312 people can’t but 5 can…
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Michelle Obama’s fashion savvy may earn her a spot on a future cover of Vogue magazine.
But her political influence has already won over Bellingham, Washington based publishing company Bluewater Productions, which plans to feature the future first lady in the third book of its Female Force comic book series...............
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Michelle Obama joins female forces Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, whose biographical comic books will be released early next year as part of the series.
A Syrian site bombed by Israel last year had features resembling those of a nuclear reactor site, the UN nuclear watchdog says in a report.
But the International Atomic Energy Agency did not exclude the possibility the site was being used for purposes unrelated to nuclear activity.
In the first report on its findings in Syria, the IAEA said “significant” quantities of uranium were also found.
Syria has always maintained the site was a disused military building.
Israeli warplanes flattened the facility in the Syrian desert in September 2007 on suspicion that it was part of a covert nuclear weapons programme.
IAEA inspectors visited the bombed al-Kibar site in June, where they took samples that appear to have contained the radioactive material, but Damascus has blocked any follow-up trips.
According to the confidential report, a copy of which was obtained by the BBC, Syria says the uranium found there was residue from the Israeli missiles used in the air-raid.
I sit in solidarity
Participants from sanitation and hygiene groups sit on toilets in the German capital’s central railway station on World Toilet Day.
