Thank you pgm01 once again for covering. Sometimes real life sneaks up on you.
Gates was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense after the 2006 election, replacing Donald Rumsfeld. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. In a 2007 profile written by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Time named Gates one of the year's most influential people. In 2008, Gates was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He retired in 2011. “He’ll be remembered for making us aware of the danger of over-reliance on military intervention as an instrument of American foreign policy,” said former Senator David L. Boren. Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Obama during his retirement ceremony. According to a Washington Post book review, he is "widely considered the best defense secretary of the post-World War II era.
Really?
Really?
And they couldn't find a single neolib Democrat.
Gabriel Sherman-
A few years ago, we found ourselves with a new neighbor. Roger Ailes, the chief executive of Fox News, seemed to be looking for something different when he moved to Garrison: not an escape, but a new arena for conflict. He bought the soothing local weekly, The Putnam County News & Recorder; named his wife, Elizabeth, publisher; and set about transforming it into The New York Post with field hockey scores. He fortified his hilltop property by buying up surrounding homes and installing an underground bunker with six months of survival rations. He began appearing at local meetings, Gabriel Sherman writes in his new book, with bodyguard and lawyer in tow, demanding to be heard in opposition to a zoning plan intended to limit future development. He drafted Republican candidates to run for town offices.
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Garrison is the key to understanding Ailes because it’s a microcosm of what he’s spent his career doing to the country. He could have moved there to live and let live. Instead, in a way that seems to have been almost involuntary, he recapitulated the culture war he was already busily inciting at a national level. Within a short time of his arrival, town meetings turned ugly. Issues of patriotism, religion and political correctness overtook the normal debates about road paving and property taxes. Single-handedly and almost instantaneously, he injected a peaceable civic space with an aggression and unpleasantness that weren’t there before.
Tomorrow
Steven Brill and
Naquasia LeGrand.
Folks, this is not really that deep. It's something anyone can do, at least one night a week. Most of it is Wikipedia and the rest YouTube. My Doctors imply I'll be free to inflict myself on you for a long, loooooong time.
Why subject yourself to that torture?
Any day is fair game. I can run the show in comments (though I prefer Mondays and Thursdays for setups).
See? That's 2 days a week you don't even have to worry about!
I have all the mojo I need and I've 2 sites to run. So far I don't have a single volunteer for the Sausage Grinder of Snark group to even goose my content when I screw up the auto publish. Shame on you slackers? I am sooo not above playing that card.