Please see Ken’s comments here. Money quote: “I do not say the VA system is perfect but it is certainly being run better on a $39B budget than the Pentagon is running on $494B.” If you’re interested in the real inside view of issues affecting the military, his blog is a good resource. There’s a link there to his SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) website as well.
February 26, 2007
February 26, 2007
variations on a theme: The “an ordinary clock glimpsed in its moment of brief Sandy Berger awakening” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
tic tic tic tic tic tic tic
February 26, 2007
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST peers into the future and predicts the winner of the 2008 Presidential Election
Kerry and Gore? Done. Ditto Edwards. And I don’t think Obama has enough depth to last even a few layers of media peeling. Early Favorite? USA! Developing…
February 26, 2007
Lieberman the Apostate / Infidel (UPDATED)
From the bloodthirsty faux-Democrat’s covertly Zionist-flavored editorial in the WSJ: Congress […] faces a choice in the weeks and months ahead. Will we allow our actions to be driven by the changing conditions on the ground in Iraq—or by the unchanging political and ideological positions long ago staked out in Washington? What ultimately matters more to us: the real fight over there, or the political fight over here? Uh, asked
February 26, 2007
Homunculus [Dan Collins]
From Crooks and Liars, this headline: Al Gore Takes Home the Statue! Mini Me.
February 26, 2007
To Add or Detract [Dan Collins]
My dad tells the story of my mother and her parents going to visit Gettysburg when he and mom were engaged. My grandfather was a Civil War and Lincoln buff. They’re standing on a hill overlooking the battlefield, and Dad says, “What a tragic waste of lives.” My grandfather looks at him and says, “What makes you think they were wasted?” I bring this story up because of something that
February 26, 2007
The Oscars, Demystified [Karl]
Joe Queenan sums up the Academy Awards in Sunday’s L.A. Times: It’s not so much a case of the industry presenting itself the way it would like to be seen; it’s the night when the industry gets tanked up and forgets what it does for a living. But that’s one of the nicer things he wrote, so you’ll want to RTWT.
February 26, 2007
my third glass of Glenkinchie Edinburgh lowland Scotch addresses the Academy Award-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”
third glass of Glenkinchie: “No offense, but I think your boy Al’s ‘concern’ can probably be traced back to something relatively unremarkable, like, say, a high-wattage bulb in a low-wattage lamp, or maybe a busted water hose in his freezer. Because me? I’ve got plenty of ice. And there’s lots more where this came from, too, believe you me…” **** update: “Hell, I’m practically swimming in the stuff!”