Wow, the hurricane hunters grounded

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Thursday February 08, 2007 · 3:54 PM PST

2007/02/08 · 15:54

This is depressing. Bush's budget cuts funding for hurricane research flights. Living in SoFla the hurricane information has been very important and useful.

From Jeff Masters:

For the first time since NOAA began flying research aircraft into hurricane in the 1950's, there is no money to fund airborne hurricane research for an upcoming hurricane season. NOAA's state-of-the-art flying weather research laboratories, the two P-3 Orion hurricane hunter aircraft, may sit idle this hurricane season due to a lack of funding. NOAA's Hurricane Research Division (HRD) usually receives several million dollars each year to perform hurricane research using the P-3's. However, funding for HRD has steadily declined over the past decade, forcing HRD to reduce staff and cut back on hurricane research.

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Saturday January 27, 2007 · 7:54 AM PST

2007/01/27 · 07:54

I picked this up via a link at TPM and it's so logical and so in line with my perceptions that I think it deserves a wide audience.

Strategic Errors of Monumental Proportions
What Can Be Done in Iraq?

It's hard to excerpt so I'll just quote the first part and encourage you to follow the link to the rest.

Strategic Overview

The role that US military forces can play in that conflict is seriously limited by all the political decisions the US government has already taken. The most fundamental decision was setting as its larger strategic purpose the stabilization of the region by building a democracy in Iraq and encouraging its spread. This, of course, was to risk destabilizing the region by starting a war.

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 7:17 AM PST

2006/12/22 · 07:17

This is for people who may have seen the post about aide Todd Shriber to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) over at TPM but can’t access the server with the emails. The server is slammed and will probably get worse but I managed to get in early.

Here's part of the TPM post:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/...

According to Network World’s Paul McNamara, the communications director for U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), Todd Shriber, hired two ‘hackers’ to break into the computer of his alma mater, Texas Christian University, and change his college grades.

[...]

But the correspondence is just too good in comedy terms and shows that not only does Shriber probably lack the ethical fiber to serve in Congress (I guess that can mean more than one thing) but may also be the stupidest person on the planet.

The complete correspondence follows after the jump.

Again... I'm only doing this because many people will have difficulty accessing the server.

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 9:11 AM PDT

2006/07/05 · 09:11

Working my way backwards from an Eschaton post to Max Boot...

Most of our resources aren't going to fight terrorists but to maintain a smattering of mini-Americas in the Middle East. As one Special Forces officer pungently put it to me: "The only function that thousands of people are performing out here is to turn food into shit."
How to explain this seemingly counterproductive behavior? My theory is that any organization prefers to focus on what it does well. In the case of the Pentagon, that's logistics. Our ability to move supplies is unparalleled in military history. Fighting guerrillas, on the other hand, has never been a mission that has found much favor with the armed forces. So logistics trumps strategy. Which may help explain why we're not having greater success in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Max Boot: Our enemies aren't drinking lattes Read More

The Taliban has expressed its thanks to the U.S. Air Force

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Friday June 23, 2006 · 9:59 PM PDT

2006/06/23 · 21:59

Billmon linked this and it's too insightful (and funny) not to pass on. I post it for those who may have missed it.

This Sunday's sacred ritual of Mass, bagels and tea with the Grumpy Old Men's Club was rudely disrupted by the headline of the day's Washington Post: "U.S. Airstrikes Rise In Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies." Great, I thought; it's probably cheaper than funding a recruiting campaign for the Taliban and lots more effective at creating new guerrillas.
Getting into the story just made the picture worse:

more follows... Read More

Tabasco - some hypocrisy?

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Tuesday May 23, 2006 · 9:37 PM PDT

2006/05/23 · 21:37

I just opened up a new bottle of Tabasco Sauce and instead of just tossing the enclosed paper in the trash I had a look at it.

Nice thought I thought. The back is a solicitation for funds. We're all supposed to chip in and send money to http://www.americaswetland.com .

Out of curiosity I went to opensecrets.org to see if the McIlhenny family made any political donations. Have a look for yourselves...

http://opensecrets.org/...

Yep, you guessed it, all republicans. Why are they sending money to the guys who want to destroy our environment?

As for news of the new Iraqi army...

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Tuesday May 02, 2006 · 9:21 AM PDT

2006/05/02 · 09:21

From RiverBend, Baghdad Burning

it isn't going as smoothly as Bush and his crew portray. Today we watched footage of Iraqi soldiers in Anbar graduating. The whole ceremony was quite ordinary up until nearly the end- their commander announced they would be deployed to various areas and suddenly it was chaos. The soldiers began stripping their fatigues and throwing them around, verbally attacking their seniors and yelling and shoving. They were promised, when they signed up for the army in their areas, that they would be deployed inside of their own areas- which does make sense. There is news that they are currently on strike- refusing to be deployed outside of their own provinces.

I'm sure other people keep a watch for new posts by River but in case anyone's missed it this one is not to be missed. Read More

Opera's having a party, free registration...

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Tuesday August 30, 2005 · 9:29 AM PDT

2005/08/30 · 09:29

SURPRISE!!! Free registration codes
Get it from CNET Download.com
Party favors: Get a free Opera registration code by clicking the "go free" button below. We're giving away registration codes for as long as the party lasts!

Here's the link: http://my.opera.com/community/party/

Hmm, 300 characters? So consider this to be a public service for the dKos community and every damn word counts.

Did I get there yet? Ok, some people don't know what Opera is. It's a browser and usually not a free one like FireFox or IE.

Firefox, Sahara, Opera, and Internet Explorer are just some of the many web browsers jostling for user attention. People are praising RSS, tabbed browsing and better security, but are any of the browsers new or old going to see off Microsoft?

What's it take to win a Republican Congressional Committee Gold Medal?

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Friday April 29, 2005 · 11:55 PM PDT

2005/04/29 · 23:55

It looks like all it might take is a $250 campaign contribution. Never mind that the winner has been convicted and served time for stealing $600K.

Despite his admissions at the time, Stern said Wednesday he was pressured into a plea bargain.
"I didn't do what they say I did," Stern said. "I was wrongly accused, but I didn't have the money . . . to continue with good representation."

Stern was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in prison and ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to felony theft charges in 1996 in Hillsborough County Superior Court.

Stern admitted to bilking 14 local businesses and individuals out of a total of more than $600,000 through an "advance fee loan scam." Stern admitted at the time he took the money as fees, claiming he would arrange venture capital loans, but never made any loans.

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Sunday March 27, 2005 · 10:37 AM PST

2005/03/27 · 10:37

Now that I have your attention...

Some people will remember that I posted a diary some months ago with an editorial from Body Magazine, an industry trade journal.

I this is another good and timely one, it touches on several areas we're thinking about these days.

The best bit is at the end.

Publishers Statement
Nick Monjo

I write this on the day that Federated announced it will buy May Company. It is an unsettling announcement for manufacturers an wholesalers who have long complained about consolidation in the retail market.

This, and other troubling events of recent months, have set apparel makers to wondering how, and sometimes if, they will survive. All over the market there is talk of change and challenge. And here, in abbreviated form is some of what I've heard.

more after the break...
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The Worst Job I Ever Had. Part II

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Saturday February 05, 2005 · 4:44 PM PST

2005/02/05 · 16:44

I'm not even going to mention the worst job I ever had because the worst I ever had was a cream puff compared to some of the stories in last week's thread.

http://jotter.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/29/151522/437

But I found that thread hugely entertaining for a Saturday night so I'm going to post this diary looking for more fun reading.

Here's only one goodie from last week:

I rode shotgun with a guy for a week where we drove the waste extraction truck from construction site to construction site, emptying the porta-potties.

"What do you do for a living?"

"I suck shit."

"No, I know that. But what's your job?"

Swift Boat Post by pollyusa in Diary Form

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Wednesday August 04, 2004 · 7:50 AM PDT

2004/08/04 · 07:50

This is the post from pollyusa which appeared in the "Overnight Open Thread" 8/3/04

One or two readers suggested that it be formatted and placed into a diary for future reference. So that's what I did.

If I goofed on the formatting I'll go back and fix it (I used a coding editor). If someone has a suggestion for making it more clear feel free to offer one.

None of this content is mine, it's just a copy and paste + format job. Read More

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