The First Phonies have their personal trainer fly in from Chi-town once a week? Good grief - the next time Michelle is going on about locally grown food, just shoot me. Better yet, fly in from a distant city to shoot me. No, fly me to an exotic locale and shoot me there... ahh, forget it.
As to why this is news now, credit the power of the Times; the CBS Early Show featured the Obama's personal trainer 53 weeks ago, but no one cared:
(CBS) Cornell McClellan can boast that he's got about the biggest celebrities you can as clients - the first couple.
McClellan, a personal trainer who owns a gym called Naturally Fit in President and Michelle Obamas' hometown of Chicago, is still helping them keep in shape - he flies to Washington about once a week, mostly to work with the first lady, but sometimes Mr. Obama, as well.
His suggested workout for ABC News emphasizes leg work, which is great for activating the growth hormones.
Finally - been hoping all morning you would report in, Clarice, before I have to leave for work!!!
Posted by: centralcal | March 01, 2011 at 09:53 AM
Sue, tonight my prayers will be for your friend's son and his family. Whether or not some MSM outlet gives extensive coverage to this, everyone who matters in America mourns this loss and honors the service to their country of the fallen.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 01, 2011 at 09:55 AM
George Friedman has an excellent article explaining why the US should Never Fight a Land War in Asia.
Here's a key paragraph from the lengthy article:
Friedman follows that observation up with this:
Posted by: anduril | March 01, 2011 at 09:58 AM
How terribly sad, Sue. I am sorry to hear this.
Posted by: clarice | March 01, 2011 at 09:59 AM
Mel,
I've been to Paris twice and both times I stayed at the Meurice - something that is way beyond my pay scale at this point.
The first time I went with someone who was pretty famous at the time so I got the most amazing room over looking the Eiffel Tower. Never in my life have I been in a hotel room that rivaled that one.
A few years later I took my niece to France for her January break in college and we spent our last night in Paris. I really wanted her to see a hotel like The Meurice, as she was putting herself through school and never had a penny extra. It was the night of the Superbowl and we woke up at 4:00 AM to see the PATS win with a last minute field goal. At any rate she convinced the people at the front desk to show us the penthouse which had a 3 sided porch over looking the Eiffel Tower.
Thanks for the suggestion. I need to figure out when I am going (hint hint Daddy) before I book anything.
Posted by: Jane (sit on the couch or save your country) | March 01, 2011 at 10:06 AM
He was 25 years old and leaves behind a 3 year old son. I can't find any details online yet. I'm not sure what part of the country he was in and the stories I have found don't have names yet. His uncle just told me he and 2 others were killed yesterday evening. I'm not even sure how he was killed.
Posted by: Sue | March 01, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Clarice,
When you have parties like that do you tell your guests that the people at JOM have their backs?
Posted by: Jane (sit on the couch or save your country) | March 01, 2011 at 10:07 AM
narc, are you the first person alphabetically in Janet's friends list?
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Sue,
I am so so sorry.
Posted by: Jane (sit on the couch or save your country) | March 01, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Sue-
There were 2 incidents in Afghanistan on the 28th, with an IED in Eastern Afg. being the likely one.
I got the info here.
I am so sorry for their loss and my prayers are with those families.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Sue, the MFM became officially uninterested in soldiers's deaths on Asian battlefields on January 20, 2009. I'm sorry for your friends's loss of a hero.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 10:12 AM
See LUN for the latest ramblings of Deval Patrick's Labor Czar. Apparently the Czar wants to go to "war" with the Wisconsin Governor.
I am sure there will be forthcoming a Paul Krugman column decrying the tone of the Labor Czar's remark.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 01, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Thanks guys. Keep the family in your prayers, especially his son. I'm just angry that his death hasn't even rated the front page of any newspaper yet. I wanted this son of bitch we call president to bring them home, since winning is not part of his plan. I feel like John Kerry, eff him, asking who is the last to die for a lost cause?
Posted by: Sue | March 01, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Sue-
NBC just twittered it.
Looking...
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 10:15 AM
--George Friedman has an excellent article explaining why the US should Never Fight a Land War in Asia.--
Guess that whole "War in the Pacific" thing was an abject failure.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 01, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Jane, I told him that he was a big star on the internet and that the folks at the blog I most frequent are huge supporters of his. I like him more every time I see him and my husband does, too. He is the most straight forward Congressman I have ever known..he is exactly what he appears to be in public.
Posted by: clarice | March 01, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Oh Sue. That is heartbreaking. Please let me know if I can do anything for her.
I mean it.
Posted by: rse | March 01, 2011 at 10:19 AM
He is the most straight forward Congressman I have ever known..he is exactly what he appears to be in public.
Isn't it sad that one person sticks out in a large population as being a genuine person?
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 10:29 AM
New earthquake in NZ, 4.5 near Wellington
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 10:29 AM
Mel,
Thanks.
Posted by: Sue | March 01, 2011 at 10:29 AM
Terribly sad, Sue. God bless the young man's family.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Sue: How tragic for all those who loved him (and his companions who also died.) All soldiers and their families should always be in our prayers.
Posted by: centralcal | March 01, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Sue- I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's son. My heart goes out to his parents and his baby.
Posted by: MayBee | March 01, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Clarice,
It is so nice to hear that someone is as they seem - like all of us!!!
Posted by: Jane (sit on the couch or save your country) | March 01, 2011 at 10:39 AM
Looks like Ohio will get it done first.
I'm not liking the polling I'm seeing on this issue lately, even allowing for the polling flaws and biases. The only thing to do is press on and do what's right, and educate the public as much as possible.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 10:40 AM
For not the first time in my life, I'm proud to be an Ohioan.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 10:43 AM
One of the nice things about George Friedman's articles is that they tend to be very thorough--he pays attention to most variables and addresses them all. Thus, for example, he draws an explicit distinction between "land wars" (the title of the article: Never Fight a Land War in Asia) and the projection of force by sea and/or air power. Geography also comes into play. Such distinctions, of course, are lost on persons who fail to read his articles or whose reading comprehension skills are sub par.
While Friedman no doubt considers such basic distinctions to be understood with regard to the US - Japanese war--i.e., not requiring extended discussion for an intelligent audience--if pressed for further explanation I'm sure he'd point out that the Japanese Empire had violated elementary strategic principals that Friedman addresses in his article, such as overextended supply lines (throughout the Pacific and Indonesia) and--duh!--getting involved in a land war in Asia (China, Indochina, Burma, etc.).
Efficient projection of sea and air power--ultimately including air delivery of nuclear weapons--allowed the US to avoid involvement in a land war in Asia. The results of and lessons learned from US involvement in limited land wars in the Pacific theater--island wars--played directly into the US decision to deploy nuclear weapons in order to force a Japanese surrender and avoid the worst case scenario: a land war in Asia which would have afforded strategic benefits to the Soviet Union.
Posted by: anduril | March 01, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Cap'n-
That'll be brief.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 10:44 AM
I'm not liking the polling I'm seeing on this issue lately, even allowing for the polling flaws and biases.
So ignore it. It's just a freaking poll.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | March 01, 2011 at 10:46 AM
The only thing to do is press on and do what's right, and educate the public as much as possible.
During my 5 seconds of watching MSNBC this morning they came up with a compromise: Prohibit contributions to any one you collective bargain with.
I immediately thought of all the ways the unions would cheat, but if anyone had some integrity, it's not a bad start.
Posted by: Jane (sit on the couch or save your country) | March 01, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Sue, our prayers will include his family and friends.
The LUN may be part of the story.
The LUN is worth reading to show how much of our efforts over there are wasted.
Posted by: Pagar | March 01, 2011 at 10:50 AM
No dice, Jane. The unions would just arrange to "swap" pols and fund each other.
Maybe -- MAYBE -- if the unions were forbidden to be larger than a single employer. No NEA, just lots of little local teacher's unions.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | March 01, 2011 at 10:50 AM
This last PPP poll, they didn't just cook it, they sauteed with lemon butter, in the LUN
Posted by: narciso | March 01, 2011 at 10:54 AM
Hugh Hewitt offers the national GOPers advice:
With the showdown in Madison competing with the battle for Tripoli on the networks, the budget debate in D.C. has slipped from the front pages. You may have missed that the Democrats blinked yesterday on the stopgap measure for the two weeks after this Friday. Not a big deal, but another preliminary signal that the Dems know they have lost the debate over spending. Does the GOP know that it has won? Did the GOP ever want to win?
...
That's the upside of the Wisconsin preview of coming attractions. The center-right has rallied to Governor Walker, and despite all the noise and all the wildly biased MSM coverage and all the made-up polls, the clear sense is that the public and especially the grassroots are standing with the Wisconsin governor and that the GOP especially is supporting him. When his "austerity" budget passes and the world doesn't end up north, the whole country will understand that the endless cries of shock, horror and doom are just diversions to keep attention off of the staggering costs of government contracts with public employee unions and of the size of the transfer payments of the various entitlements.
What Paul Ryan needs to do is be as public, as prepared and as bold as Scott Walker, and so too must Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor. The sooner the better for the unveiling of the FY 2012 budget, even as the battles over the CR and the debt ceiling continue.
Posted by: anduril | March 01, 2011 at 10:54 AM
I agree Rob. I couldn't see around the cheating. Of course maybe if the penalty for any attempts to get around the law is the dismantling of the union and the death penalty to the pol who took the money, it might be okay.
Posted by: Jane (sit on the couch or save your country) | March 01, 2011 at 10:55 AM
iggy,
Consider the source! Vinzinni in "The Princess Bride":)
Posted by: Jack is Back! | March 01, 2011 at 10:57 AM
There's also CBS and NY Times polling.
Not good, but wait till we see the polling on how much people like what has to be done to social security, medicare and medicaid.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 11:00 AM
JiB-
Wallace Shawm's greatest role, by far and the only one of two works by Rob Reiner I like.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Some leaks from Walker's budget presentation today.
Joe Scarborough noted today the problem libs face in trying to demonize Paul Ryan and Scott Walker, who he desribes as "dull as dishwater" and as threatening as Fred McMurray in My Three Sons. hehe
Posted by: DebinNC | March 01, 2011 at 11:02 AM
What you don't like 'Spinal Tap', CBS/New Times ugh, it's the credentialed moron's Helms Deep
Posted by: narciso | March 01, 2011 at 11:06 AM
I'm very sorry to hear your sad news, Sue. It is hard not to be angry.
Posted by: Porchlight | March 01, 2011 at 11:08 AM
reputedly advice given by General Douglas MacArthur to President John F. Kennedy, in 1961.
Posted by: anduril | March 01, 2011 at 11:10 AM
as threatening as Fred McMurray in My Three Sons.
What about Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity?
It does scare libs that there aren't any easy angles on these guys.
Posted by: Porchlight | March 01, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Awful news, Sue. Words fail.
Posted by: MarkO | March 01, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Yeah what's the other Meathead movie, Mel? Stand by Me?
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Oh,Sue,that is such sad news. I am so sorry.
Posted by: caro | March 01, 2011 at 11:15 AM
I wish everyone polled about budgets had to study this chart before answering. Even better, given the literacy rate public schools have given us, would be the same chart with pics instead of words.
Posted by: DebinNC | March 01, 2011 at 11:17 AM
--Efficient projection of sea and air power--ultimately including air delivery of nuclear weapons--allowed the US to avoid involvement in a land war in Asia.--
So the Philippines and Okinawa and New Guinea aren't in Asia and the Marines don't fight ground wars? That the Marines ride ships to their ground wars does not mean they do not fight ground wars. You have seen them disembarking on the beach right?
The lessons Friedman and Gates learned are not the lessons of history.
The lessons are, if possible, don't do COIN or nation building in Asia and don't fight any war, including ground wars in Asia, half ass. A half ass strategy is what led to the messes in Korea and Viet Nam. Similarly naive efforts in the ME lately have led to problems after intitial ground, land and sea based overwhelming victories.
Virtually every conventional engagement we have fought on the ground in Asia, as elsewhere, has been a resounding success. It has been the effort to hold, improve and acculturate that ground rather than destroying our enemy that inhabits it that has led to problems.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 01, 2011 at 11:20 AM
Deb just beat me on posting that chart.
What is to be done? I am not an optimist...
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 11:21 AM
So sorry also Sue. Ditto what TC said - Sue, tonight my prayers will be for your friend's son and his family. Whether or not some MSM outlet gives extensive coverage to this, everyone who matters in America mourns this loss and honors the service to their country of the fallen.
Captain,
narc, are you the first person alphabetically in Janet's friends list?
No, narciso doesn't have a picture...mystery man.
Posted by: Janet | March 01, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Cap'n-
"When Harry Met Sally", for the restaurant and the grape seed scenes, alone. The late Bruno Kirby was great in that, as well.
DoT-
Here's the skew story at Hot Air, not one of the Cap'n's favorites, but they did the math, so I don't have to...
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 11:33 AM
Sue - my condolences and prayers to your friend on her loss.
Posted by: BumperStickerist | March 01, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Iggy, my understanding of what MacArthur said was that he was excluding Asian wars where control of the sea could determine the outcome, as it did from Guadacanal (ultimately, and barely) to Okinawa, with the Phillipines, Marshalls, Gilberts and Marianas along the way. It was also determinative in Korea (see Inchon) until he got up to the Yalu and encountered the Chinese hordes.
It was not particularly important in Iraq, and even less so in Afghanistan.
Alfred Thayer Mahan and The Influence of Sea Power Upon HIstory could have told Dugout Doug all he needed to know. He learned the hard way.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 11:34 AM
When did it become neutral language to refer to what unions have as collective bargaining "rights"?
Posted by: MayBee | March 01, 2011 at 11:40 AM
If you don't like Tepid Air, this link works just as well, in the LUN
Posted by: narciso | March 01, 2011 at 11:45 AM
We're all aliens... how humans began life in outer space
Now you know I don't believe THAT, but I was wondering about this from the article -
"The early Earth was a very violent place. It was hot and did not have the oxygen we have now so it was not conducive for the presence of molecules needed for life," Dr Smith said."
I wonder if that is the correct temperature for earth. (Why do they capitalize earth?) Maybe we aren't suppose to have oxygen either? Someone call algore. Perhaps life itself is what ruined earth...or Earth.
Posted by: Janet | March 01, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Just another example of the Bizarro World we're now living in, and a reminder of the worthlessness of the UN:
UN set to adopt report praising Libya's record
Bloodshed continues but world body hails human rights
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/world/adopt+report+praising+Libya+record/4363104/story.html
Posted by: fdcol63 | March 01, 2011 at 11:47 AM
end bold
Posted by: fdcol63 | March 01, 2011 at 11:48 AM
MacArthur's advice on land wars in Asia has repeatedly been taken out of context from what I can tell. It bugs me when people use broad brush strokes. So I looked up and found what I think is the tape Kennedy made of the conversation, which was about strategy.It's on my blog a few days ago.
The old soldier's advice was based as much upon his experience with the Chinese in Korea as anything else, and his greatest fear was being overrun with hordes of the enemy as had happened in Korea.
MacArthur's recommendation was blockade first, and that air power would be a standoff. Slugging it out was the last recourse.
This was then transliterated by staffers after the fact into a much broader statement.
Then the GD Secretary of Defense had the nerve to use the phrase flippantly last week to bolster his political views frosted me. That and the moronic policy in Afghanistan these days. There is no policy. There is no plan. Even the senior personnel over there are wondering WTF.
Armies are not raised to accomplish such tasks. They are raised to fight and win.Instead they have no real defined mission except to walk around and get shot at.
They are the best in the world, but when given an impossible mission, they just suck it up and say "yes sir".It's a crying shame. Sue, I am very sorry for your friend's family's loss.
Posted by: matt | March 01, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Bold is okay...better bold than italics.
Posted by: Janet | March 01, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Thanks DoT.
As you note, I am not responding to MacArthur's point so much as flawed interpretations of it by others.
I suspect, considering MacArthur's recently concluded experience in Korea, his main point was don't get involved in a land war in Asia with the Chinese or the Russians, a point with which I readily agree and the equally cogent reciprocal of which is don't get involved in a land war with Americans in North America.
In conventional military engagements we have never been conclusively defeated in Asia and even when temporarily set on our heels have recovered, but we have suffered under terrible strategy and policy which have led to some pretty egregious blunders, including what I consider to be the current one in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 01, 2011 at 11:54 AM
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Posted by: Ranger | March 01, 2011 at 11:55 AM
I see matt pretty much wrote my post for me and, as usual, better than I did. :)
Posted by: Ignatz | March 01, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Sorry for the bold problem
Posted by: fdcol63 | March 01, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Again I urge a reading of Gen. Krulak's letter to George Will re Afghanistan. I can't find a linkable one but you can readily find it with Google.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Janet-
Planets are capitalized, therefore "earth" is what you stick your fingers in for gardening.
As far as where humans came from, I have no idea. I wasn't there.
I know you smoke, but here's a piece on a different type of smoker, which may, or may not, have been a cradle of microscopic life.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Oh Foul Air has its uses; they're very fast on posting vids for example. And one of their posters doesn't annoy me. It'll take a lot of time and compromising to come up with a third positive.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 12:04 PM
/b> off?
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 12:05 PM
See LUN for a link to a page of the Small Wars Journal web site, which page has a link to the email to which DoT refers in his 11:57 AM post.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | March 01, 2011 at 12:05 PM
DoT-
Do you mean this letter?
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 12:10 PM
And one of their posters doesn't annoy me.
Posters or commenters? There may be one or two of their commenters who doesn't annoy me.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | March 01, 2011 at 12:12 PM
There are some good posters like JE Dyer, on foreign policy, former naval intelligence officer, and some others on cultural/
political issues, but they have earned their sobriquet
Posted by: narciso | March 01, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Fred McMurrays greatest role was in The Caine Mutiny. The unmentioned but obvious tension between him, Van Johnson and Bogey was the greatest piece of ensemble acting I have seen. My favorite movie of all time.
[Heads up: Posting funny vid of Penguins at Otway Sound at YouTube. Will send url when processing completed]
Posted by: Jack is Back! | March 01, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Their commenters range from slightly amusing to sub-trolls. It used to be a lot better but I think AllahEeyore annoyed or banned enough people to make it fairly worthless (about the time that I enrolled there). Sometimes their commenters talk about AoS as if they're Little Red Riding Hood and the moron home is the dark woods
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 12:21 PM
narc is right on JE Dyer; I wish he commented here
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Jane,
I sent you an email. I hope it escaped the spam filter.
Posted by: Elliott | March 01, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Speaking of cutting back: "Frank Rich, the New York Times’s longtime theater critic who rose to become its most prominent and powerful opinion columist, is leaving the newspaper to join New York Magazine"
Does that mean we can cut back talking about the little dork?
Posted by: MarkO | March 01, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Hi Elliot!
(And there go my Paris suggestions...)
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Allen West, telling it like it is again.
LUN
"Allen West Calls Wisconsin Fleebaggers “Cowards,” Akin to Army Deserters"
Posted by: Pagar | March 01, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Let me just add--for those who are looking for a basic understanding of the strategic military issues involved in our current Asian land wars, Friedman's article (linked above) is a handy reference to the issues. Ignore the trolls on this thread who are clumsily seeking to somehow score points against me and read Friedman. No, his article isn't a complete treatise, but it will acquaint you with basic concepts and may enable you to sort through some of the chaff in discussions on the choices we face as a nation. It may also help you decide re which candidates have a clue on these matters and which don't.
Posted by: anduril | March 01, 2011 at 12:37 PM
OT, but what the heck:
(based on this old classic.)
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | March 01, 2011 at 12:37 PM
You know, maybe. I don't know.
Posted by: Jim Ryan | March 01, 2011 at 12:45 PM
I just spoke with his uncle again. He was an ordinance specialist out of Fort Polk LA. His unit was hit a couple of weeks ago and he was wounded, but only slightly. Yesterday, he was put with a new unit to go out and do what bomb specialists do. Something went wrong and he was killed. He leaves behind a wife, 2 daughters, ages 3 and 1 (his brother has the 3 year old son, I confused them). He was on his 3rd tour. He called his wife yesterday morning (around 3 our time) and talked to her. Yesterday evening, the military is at her door advising her he is dead. God, this really sucks.
Posted by: Sue | March 01, 2011 at 12:47 PM
Sue, my thoughts are with you. I know how painful it is to lose a son. Strange that we saw the faces of those who died in Iraq. Now, the sacrifices are almost anonymous.
Posted by: Frau Mitleid | March 01, 2011 at 12:48 PM
"Holder said that a "committee" would decide how Bin Laden would be handled, if captured."
I can't imagine this bunch will be given another term, but I couldn't believe they'd get the first one.
Posted by: DebinNC | March 01, 2011 at 12:48 PM
I am so sorry Sue, that is terrible.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | March 01, 2011 at 12:53 PM
How ignorant can people be to misunderstand Ferguson's point, in the LUN.
Posted by: narciso | March 01, 2011 at 12:54 PM
I'm not liking the polling I'm seeing on this issue lately, even allowing for the polling flaws and biases.
I'll bet most people aren't aware that CB for public employees is not the norm, and where it exists is of recent vintage. (I was going to say that even Obama seems unaware of it, but that's weak evidence since he's less informed than the average man on the street.)
These poll questions that refer to CB as a "right" automatically bias ignoramuses toward supporting it.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 01, 2011 at 12:55 PM
That's the one, Mel.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Rush was referring to "Waiting for Superman" today, and while he was talking it occurred to me (duh) that the local library system might have it.
Turns out there are 16 copies in the country libraries and I am now 335th in the queue waiting to check out a copy. Looks like there is a fair amount of interest in these parts.
Posted by: PD | March 01, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Breaking Fleebagger news:
I agree, JimmyK. I also suspect they are unaware the federal employees have no such "rights."
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 01:00 PM
Suppose the pollsters described them as "collective bargaining privileges?"
Posted by: Danube of Thought | March 01, 2011 at 01:01 PM
I think J E Dyer is a she, Cap'n. She has dropped by here once or twice that I can remember, but not nearly often enough.
I have a different name over at HotAir. I really like some of the commenters there, but there's a lot to wade through for sure.
Posted by: Porchlight | March 01, 2011 at 01:07 PM
Elliott,
I didn't get it. Did you send it to fwdaj@live.com?
Posted by: Jane (sit on the couch or save your country) | March 01, 2011 at 01:08 PM
Wasn't it Barbara Stanwyck who was threatening in the film? I remember Fred as a victim of her noir charms.
Posted by: Frau Mitleid | March 01, 2011 at 01:09 PM
Suppose pollsters mentioned there is currently no right to not give your own money to the union.
Posted by: MayBee | March 01, 2011 at 01:11 PM
From Friedman's article;
Again he draws the wrong conclusion, to the extent his conclusions are coherent.
That a country must be occupied and pacified is a fairly recent and erroneous concept. It's not fighting the ground war that has been our stumbling block, but occupation and pseudo-westernization, which in our naivete we seem to think we are bound to provide.
Were we to simply do what we are good at our Asian adventures would have been quite successful because, contrary to Friedman, we are quite capable of providing more than enough devastation in a distant ground war, against anything we've encountered, short of the PLA or the Russian Army on their home turf.
Posted by: Ignatz | March 01, 2011 at 01:13 PM
State Sen. Julie Lassa (D) is pregnant and "extremely unhappy" about being on the run. State Sen.
Sounds like a genius, this Lassa.
Posted by: Jim Ryan | March 01, 2011 at 01:16 PM
Okay, I'm listening to Donald Trump bloviate, and you know what? I could vote for that after a few belts.
Posted by: Jim Ryan | March 01, 2011 at 01:18 PM
I think J E Dyer is a she, Cap'n. She has dropped by here once or twice that I can remember, but not nearly often enough.
I'm sure you're correct.
"Allen West Calls Wisconsin Fleebaggers “Cowards,” Akin to Army Deserters"
Another term of praise to the libs and a swath of organized labor.
Posted by: Captain Hate | March 01, 2011 at 01:21 PM