A Visit To Landstuhl Regional Medical Hospital
Wed Mar 01, 2006 at 10:43:56 AM PDT
Kaiserslautern, Germany by the United States Mens National Soccer Team. They are playing a World Cup tune up match against Poland today at 2pm Eastern in Germany. As part of the presser tour they did a stop at the
hospital. (Click the visit video and then again in the dropdown. If the start button doesn't work hit the stop button first- also the servers will be getting hammered during the game.) I found the video pretty moving. YMMV. I know alot of this work by celebrities, athletes and everyday citizens never gets past a press release so shame on the media and good on US Soccer's press guys.
CIA's bungled Italy job
Mon Dec 26, 2005 at 02:00:48 PM PDT
The
Chicago Tribune did an expose on the Milan snatch and run in yesterdays paper. The Trib puts together a narrative that makes a Maxwell Smart operation preferrable.
The trick is known to just about every two-bit crook in the cellular age: If you don't want the cops to know where you are, take the battery out of your cell phone when it's not in use.
Had that trick been taught at the CIA's rural Virginia training school for covert operatives, the Bush administration might have avoided much of the current crisis in Europe over the practice the CIA calls "rendition," and CIA Director Porter Goss might not have ordered a sweeping review of the agency's field operations.
But when CIA operatives assembled here nearly three years ago to abduct an Egyptian-born Muslim preacher named Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, more familiarly known as Abu Omar, and "render" him to Cairo, they left their cell phone batteries in.
New Orleans & Iraqi Bound Equipment
Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 07:48:24 PM PDT
The Armored Security Vehicle-150 (ASV-150) is an armored wheeled vehicle equipped with a turret and armament system designed to meet the security mission requirements of the Military Police Corps.
ASV is neo military speak for an armoured car. Generally the US Army has little use for such vehicles in peacetime for the usual reasons: MP work is not sexy and neither is the counter insurgency war in which vehicles like the ASV are used. DoD ordered 94 in 1999 but "Fewer than 50 ASVs had been produced by early 2002".
Illinois House Updates
Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 06:42:49 PM PDT
IL-8
33% of precincts reporting
Melissa Bean, Dem 42,643 53.9%
Philip Crane, Rep 36,445 46.1%
IL-6
17% of precincts reporting
Henry Hyde, Rep 15,651 51.7%
Christine Cegelis, Dem 14,647 48.3%
IL-11
1% of precincts reporting
Tari Renner, Dem 1,463 57.4%
Jerry Weller, Rep 1,084 42.6%
OBL Video -- Where is the outrage??!!
Fri Oct 29, 2004 at 10:06:21 PM PDT
YEARRRRGH!!!!
Good God! OBL just admitted he is responsible for the death of 3000 persons. For three years the Bush administration has done nothing about it. (Well OK, they did invade the wrong country.)
Forget the knee jerk reaction about how this reflects on John Kerry-- IT DOESN'T.
Letting Osama slip away is George Bush's fault.
Commander Codpiece continues to do his Eeyore imitation; "Oh bother...."
Leadership. I want the man who jumped off the boat and ran down the VC.
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as President.
Compare to the other guy who couldn't make one weekend a month FFS.
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No Free Ride For The Speaker
Tue May 25, 2004 at 09:26:19 PM PDT
I hadn't seen this posted.
Speaker Denny Hastert is not getting a free ride. When there was no Democrat on the primary ballot I assumed the seat was going un-contested.
Imagine my suprise when I went to the Kane County Democrats meeting tonight to catch a phone-in from Barack Obama and there was a candidate.
I was very happy to hear and meet Ruben K. Zamora the Democratic Candidate for the 14th district of Illinois.
Bring on Johnny Sunshine
Wed May 19, 2004 at 06:52:26 AM PDT
According to the
Charlotte Observer.
If he puts NC in play it is a no brainer. Nobody else in the VP sweepstakes can bring as many electoral votes. The SW/Hispanic notion is the right idea but a couple of cycles early. I say forget eeking out a Gore style blue state special and go for the sweeping mandate.
Conflicting Views of Iraq
Tue Apr 27, 2004 at 07:47:25 PM PDT
Chicago's NPR station is
WBEZ. They produce a program called
Worldview, an international issues and events program hosted by Jerome McDonnell. I believe it's carried nationally but I don't know in which markets.
The program has the cognitive dissonance ringing in my head from interviews done the last couple of days about Iraq.
The first is Thomas Donnelly an AEI mucky muck spouting the same BS from a year ago irregardless of the reality on the ground in Iraq.
The second is with Sheila Provencher a volunteer working with Christian Peacemaker Teams trying to help detainees until they left due to the security situation.
Real Player files-- 22 and 11 minutes long respectively.
The Exile: Punish the Pundits, Round Two
Tue Apr 20, 2004 at 08:49:33 PM PDT
John Dolan continues to slam the idiots who pimped this miserable war. I heard Freidman still trying today on NPR, "we don't know how the Iraqi story ends". Just STFU bozo. I think it's important that the warfloggers continue to get called out. Whether a pundit, a neighbor or spouse. There can be no walking away and ignoring this one or blaming it on those darn liberals. They pimped and now folks are paying with their lives and Iraq is headed for worse.
the eXile
The eXile has never bought that forgive-and-forget stuff--our creed is remember-and-avenge. So we've begun sifting through the mass of lies America's pundits were spilling last year to convince the country we needed to invade Iraq, to identify and punish the swine who got us into this mess.
Our first nominees, outed in our last issue, were typical small-time war cheerleaders. This time we go after bigger game: William Safire and George Will. These two are a classic duo of American oppression, doing the good-cop/bad-cop routine on editorial pages every day.
