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By the way, BaconNinja has an interesting piece up today about why he doesn’t write about politics.
I can’t say I blame him.
Making stupid Back to the Future references just seems like a better use of my time. I appreciate the link though. Might be the highest-profile link I’ve ever gotten.
Now if I can just get Jessica Alba to respond to me on the twitters my life’s journey will be complete.
I miss Mitch Hedberg.
Me too. He looked like my dad circa 1984.
OT: So I was at a restaurant today and had Imperial Bedrooms on the table. Waiter said it looked interesting. (Cover is the silhouette of a horned devil type with the title where the eyes would be.) I said it was from Ellis. Something of a sequel to Less Than Zero. He asked, “What genre is it?”
And I totally blanked. Is it West Coast Gothic, maybe? That’s the closest that I’ve come to now that I’ve thought about it. I just said it was a good read and wasn’t a genre effort. He seemed serious so I recommended some of his earlier novels.
But, if you had to put him in a box, which box?
hey look we found alot of stuff: winning the future NOW
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Here’s a good take on the everchanging narrative.
20.) Obama said today in an interview he taped with Steve Kroft for “60 Minutes” to be broadcast Sunday that it won’t be released. It’s too gruesome, would offend Muslim sensibilities (something he worries about a lot — I personally do not give a warm fart on a wet Wednesday about Muslim sensibilities), and how would Americans feel if Muslims released pictures of dead Americans?
21.) Kroft — who’s not a total idiot — pointed out that ever since “Black Hawk Down” days, Muslims have been doing precisely that, filming American bodies being dragged through the streets, filming Daniel Pearl’s head being cut off, filming any and everything.
22) Obama gets pissed at CBS, the tape gets cleaned up, that question disappears. (Inside info.)
23.) We got a “treasure trove” of stuff from hard drives, etc.
24.) There were no phone lines, and no internet access at the “mansion,” they didn’t even have TV — what “treasure trove?”
25.) There is obviously in the pictures of the place a large satellite dish. I guess they used it for making salads.
LOL.
I should have phrased that differently.
Jeff, as my unpaid and under-appreciated literature advisor, talk some shit on this topic. Does he have some Flannery O’Connor to him? There’s some of that there, right? But, there’s that whole the-surface-equals-the-depth sort of thing that I’m reading as West Coast, I guess. Right?
Where do we place Ellis? What’s his group? Where is he in that group?
Damn, Newrouter… you got the first ones and I got the last. Is salad halal if it’s prepared in a satellite dish?
FTR, that stuff that was slinging around the tweetersphere today looks to be real if the inside info that Bookworm has is really insider stuff.
@10 that’s our baracky over in the corner sucking sumthing.
re: stealth helicopters
I predict it will soon be revealed that “SEAL Team 6” is the code-name for an off-world kick-murder squad of specially trained replicants with mad-ninja skilz. The money to develop these genetically engineered synthetic humans was appropriated through a secret CIA program known as BLACK BRIAR.
I don’t know why I’m telling any of you this because if I’m right I’m as good as de
hey the baracky displayed such fortitude in the annenberg challenge:
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the shake down continues
shit happens in war. Its pretty hard to get the story straight even if youre not a lying pol. We killed Bin Ladin and then got back without any casualties. Good enough for me.
The not releasing photos and the like? Thing is, the Egyptians, the Saudis, even the Syrians..do a LOT of “handy” things for us. Even though their governments are lousy with oil ticks and despots, we still have to work with them.
They called in a favor and we obliged. I’d rather we didnt, but that’s the way it works. Bush would have done it too.
Sorry, Roddy. We ARE the government. We had to witness people leaping from a burning pair of towers. We see soldiers coming home injured. Or dead.
And yet we give our enemy a religious service in burial, and then tell the American people they can’t see the photos so as not to inflame the enemy?
Fuck that. We should be making copies of the photo and dropping them as leaflets over enemy territory.
“They called in a favor and we obliged. I’d rather we didnt, but that’s the way it works. Bush would have done it too.”
assume ass of you and me.
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Ellis has always been considered part of the latter lit brat pack, following McInerney. I think he’s a cultural critic-as-novelist, and frankly, I’d put him closer to Updike and Cheever than O’Connor.
But that’s just me spitballing. I haven’t read enough of him to know for sure.
“Twenty of the 23 members of the Collaborative were elected by all Working Group members who had attended two or more of the drafting sessions”
sounds like COLLECTIVE BARGAINING or commie speak. eff commies every where.
This stinks, big time. Let’s hope that the new-found overseas cred of ObaMao can convince the Pakis to give us what’s left of that helo…
Of course, the Chinese will have examined it first.
Am I the only old cold-warrior here that see’s what’s really going on?
The Pakis are China’s SW asian proxy, much like the Norks are their NE asian goons. They give the corrupt Pakis some dough, as well as helped them get nukes in the 90’s; and passed on missile technology that Clinton gave them. In return, they do China’s dirty work in the region; stuff they don’t want their fingerprints on.
Part of that dirty work is to “bleed” us in the AF like we did to the Russians; by supplying the opposition with the weapons, money, and support-it’s no shockah that the Taliban mostly uses Chinese stuff. And the Pakis “run” the Taliban, as well as AQ.
Far fetched? Think about it. Afghanistan is mineral rich in the north. China says to Pakis, get the US to cut and run, then have your boys in the Taliban take over again. You can run them as your vassal state, and we’ll buy the minerals we covet from you. And, BONUS!, in addition to making you rich and allowing you to effectively rule Afghanistan, we’ll also back you up if India get’s froggy…
And in reality, the Chinese get leverage against the Indians, who they fear as military and economic rivals in the region, via another large military that has nukes; possibly more warheads than China!
So China gets to both bleed and humiliate the US, who they also profit off of by financing the war by buying our treasuries, they ultimately get access to the mineral wealth of Afghanistan that they covet, and get to surround their regional competitor, India; all done on the cheap because the Pakis don’t cost much to buy…
And all this will be easier if a weakling like Obama is in power; which is why the Chinese ordered the Pakis to let him take bin Laden. Think of it as China’s contribution to ObaMao’s re-election campaign.
It’s crystal-clear, and think about it before you tell me to take off my tin-foil hat.
Can I have a tin-foil hat too?
Still not buying the stealth helo stuff, though.
Sure Ernst,
But don’t dismiss the existence of stealth helos so quickly. Now, they’re not anywhere near as stealth as fixed-wing birds, but compared to other helos they are, as some more colorful folks might say, the shizzle when it comes to rapid force infiltration/exfiltration in areas covered by integrated air defense systems.
They fly low, and so what signature they have gets lost in the ground clutter. Their rotors have more blades and rotate slower than conventional helos; which in english means that the tips of the rotors get nowhere near sonic velocity, which drastically decreases the characteristic “chopper” sound. And in addition, there are forms of active, directional, sound damping that relies on exotic electromechanical materials that generate noises that when in “synch” with the rotor beat frequency effectively result in an additional reduction in the noise via the superpostiton of the sound wave forms.
The catch is that this technology is directional, like radar stealth, so they have to be careful about their flight path.
And that’s no shit, but I can’t say much more regarding how I know this.
Understood Bob. I wouldn’t want you to have to kill me. I’ve been killed once tonight already.
(I got better!)
A very advanced version of this tech if I read Bob right.
These are things we should probably never talk about.
Some of our “opponents” consider them death ravens. That’s for the best, right?
As they’re goat-fucking primitives.
You have amazing recuperative powers Ernst!
And geoffb, you are correct.
bh, I don’t know about death ravens; is there any demon-like-creature in Islam?
That’s probably not a real thing, Bob.
I can be a bit fanciful when the mood strikes me.
Death raven out,
bh
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Did somebody call for a Demon-Like-Creature ™?
Why not make getting the pieces of the helicopter back a condition for future aid from the U.S.? Why give the Pakis a chance to sell it to the ChiComs?
Stealth helicopters make me want to fire up my old copy of Deus Ex.
These steal helicopters…they wouldn’t happen to be black, would they? I mean, not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Fuck. Stealth.
/Fuck
“Steely stealthy SEALS steal the scene.”
Say that ten times fast.
I thought that was a sure tell that the utterer is either about to tell a whopper, or has just told you one.
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That only counts when telling archetypal Sea Stories; where the raconteur always bests their adversary, or overcomes a herculean obstacle, usually singlehandedly, regardless of the pickle one is in, often while defying the laws of physics, and in some cases direct orders…
Or, you know, fishing stories :)
Coincidentally, I’ve titled my new b*urrrk* “Whopper By The Dozen.”