Morning Blue Texan :)
I’ll let downstairs know..
OT, but WTF is going on at Fort Hood??

FORT HOOD, Texas — ‘A soldier has been found dead in his barracks at Fort Hood, the third soldier’s death at the Central Texas Army post in two weeks.’
http://www.news4jax.com/news/17198330/detail.html

So McCain says that he can win wars where pray tell can he find enough troops to win a war on the other side of the world from us, and then find enough troops to fight Russia on their border?
The Logistics of supplying troops are so much easier and cheaper when the fight is on your border.
Also how does McCain plan to fight a war without raising taxes let alone fight another war with Russia?
Wouldn’t going into more debt to China put Taiwan at risk?
Yes! trap McCain, box him in on the competing and impossible to achieveness of 2 or mote issues he wants where the achievement of one issue precludes the possibility of achieving the other issues, its allot like playing GO.

Pearlstein hammers Greenspan in today’s WaPo.

More from the adventures of the Widow Pickleby.

There has been a lot of justified comparison between Russia’s involvement in Georgia and the US invasion of Iraq. I think that we also be comparing it to the US sanctioned throttling of Lebanon by Israel. It seems to me that Hezbollah’s cross border activities were of a far less severity than Georgia’s bombing of S. Osetia

Yikes.

That was great – can we send her to a McCain gathering

I’m tryin’ to round up about 50 of ‘em.

A typical Michael Phelps breakfast:

Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.

And no, that’s not a joke. A boy’s got to keep his strength up. Click through to see his lunch and dinner.

Bush address

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..newsletter

The Army is in serious trouble. Any parent who allows their son or daughter to enlist in today’s Army isn’t paying attention. At the same time a new administration is getting our folks out of the disaster known as Irak the military needs an extreme makeover.

It would take me all day to eat all of that. Sure would satisfy the sugar craving.

You may be right about the army needing a makeover but I think that the military is reflective of the larger society which also needs a extreme makeover

Before breakfast, I’m sure he swims about two miles or so. You know, just to get the blood pumping in the morning.

Once upon a time, I was a swimmer, and two-a-day workouts definitely improved my appetite. Today, let’s just say I could do with a little more exercise in the pool.

CBL if are here please share your encounter of yesterday with Southern Dragon.

I certainly can’t argue with that. Just in my little part of the world I can’t help but notice the meanness and lack of empathy of those I encounter. My biggest complaint about Reagan is his “every man for himself” philosophy. We’ve now got a society filled with self-absorbed people whose biggest concern is appearing richer than their neighbors. A random act of kindness is beyond the understanding of these people.

I worked on a real cattle ranch in Oregon for a summer. Never worked so hard or ate so much in my life. In those days Phelps’ breakfast was an appetizer.

Oh, geez. What did I do now?

And this just in from the wittiest of pundits (a legend in his own mind) Craig Crawford.http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008…..r-gem.html

couldn’t find anything in the Austin paper about the Ft Hood deaths – but anecdotal googling shows there’s a veritable epidemic at installations here and abroad –

my first WAG – to keep the redeployments coming, many of our soldiers and marines are on a regimen of some powerful drugs, and I’m not talking Prozac either – now combine those with some heavy drinking when leave allows. This was the cause of death for 2 of the 3 Central Texan soldiers who died in June – just sayin’

Southern Dragon –

Mr CBL is alluding to an encounter I had yesterday with a big time county republican mover and shaker who happens to be Vietnam Veteran

I pissed the guy off when he happened to hear me remark to another guest that McCain had voted against GI Bill and when he asked me about it I let him know the local congr. (who happens to represent Ft Hood) had done same – and that the their execrable voting record on active and veteran benefits could be verified online

he picked up his cell and had some minion verify – dfh hilarity ensued – we actually heard “don’t give a good GD where he is, get him on the phone !”

then there was lots of rhetorical questioning and swearing

he got back to me and asked for contact info on Dem in cong race which I gladly turned over – mentioning of course our guy would be at a distinct disadvantage what with the incumbent’s money machine and all

his parting shot “well, we’re gonna retire that bastard!”

teehee – pissin’ ‘em off one gooper at a time

Cool Story If I had the power I’d ask you to post it.