7 Replies to “Clue”

1. Steve Skubinna says:

   April 18, 2004 at 7:40 pm

   You want conspiracy theories?  She invented the threats, to give her a plausible reason to step down without admitting her egregious conflict of interest (that she’s sitting on the commission instead of testifying before it is still inexplicable).

   No, I don’t really believe that.  Uh, maybe I do… ummm… But if she resigned for the right reason it’d look like a cave to the VRWC, and nobody is stupid enough to take the “to spend more time with my family” explanation without a snicker.  So this way she gets credit for standing firm before she knuckles under.

2. Jeff G says:

   April 18, 2004 at 11:57 pm

   Steve?  Didn’t you go overseas for a while?  If so, welcome back!  If not, ignore me, I’m on medication.

3. Steve Skubinna says:

   April 19, 2004 at 12:18 am

   Hi, Jeff, yep.  I’m back home on leave, and happy to have a few weeks where I won’t be handling ammunition – well, other than personal stuff for my own firearms.  But it’s been a real kick in the ass the past year and a half, moving ordnance around, transferring it to carriers, and later watching CNN and knowing that was your stuff making the camera shake.

   Sympathize with you on the meds, dude.  Last week I did stage one of a root canal.  Broke a tooth a few months ago and kept quiet about, since it would be an instant nonfit for duty.  So now I’m paying for my stoic foolishness with great inconvenience, and a temporarily screwed up body chemistry.

   I thought drugs were supposed to be more fun!  This sucks, maaaaan!  At least I am eagerly anticipating having a full set of functional choppers by the end of next week.

4. Jeff G says:

   April 19, 2004 at 12:25 am

   One of my favorite lines from “Peggy Sue Got Married”—“if I had it to do all over again, I’d have taken better care of my teeth.” Feel better.

   Yeah, the Zestril I was prescribed was brutal so I stopped taking it.  I just won’t listen to NPR anymore—that oughtta lower the blood pressure.

   Glad to have you back—if only for a bit.  It’s like 2002 in here all over again.  Which reminds me, I was just banned from commenting on Uppity-Negro.com.  So the more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?

5. Andrea Harris says:

   April 19, 2004 at 4:03 am

   Being banned by Uppity is like having your humanity reasserted.

6. Jeff G says:

   April 19, 2004 at 4:10 am

   …Or like being scolded by the UN:  it tickles a little, and the irony smells a bit like hummus.

7. Robin Roberts says:

   April 19, 2004 at 8:55 pm

   Death threats?  Sheesh, who does Gorelick think she is? Jodie Foster?

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