“Bribes and lies our speciality”

Morning all, anybody.
Your inside track to private armies with considerable foreign people intimidation skills and torture capabilities.

Dr. Turk, “The Aristocrats” link should be linked to this.

“[Condi's] private goals and aspirations are private at this stage.” So Hadley must have bought the domain name.

Surety of failure on all fronts is a rare offering, sure to be much in demand in this era – perhaps most particularly in the burgeoning inspirational lecture field.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins and Kristof today. Ms. Collins urges us to “Take a Deep Breath,” and says right now we citizens have quite a lot on our plate and there is no reason to go completely crazy about the least little thing. In “America’s Defining Choice” Mr. Herbert asks what is the best way to spend $100 billion per year? On health care reform or the surge in Afghanistan? Simple. One pays for itself, the other doesn’t.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got a selection of bagels with your favorite jam. The rain we’ve had for the past 2 days seems to have stopped, and the radar is clear. The temperature also dropped like a rock — it’s 20 degrees cooler this morning than it was yesterday morning. The lettuces are thriving in the rain, even if I’m not all that knocked out about it, though. Have a great day.

Mr. Herbert asks what is the best way to spend $100 billion per year?

Surely $100Bill would be enough to bribe the entire “leadership” of both parties to fuck off to the Caymans or somewhere out of our lives.

Thanks, fixed it. Goddammit that’s two days in a row I did something like this.

Hmmm… sounds like a plan!

No worries, attaturk, you got onto the right blog anyway.

that $100 bil could be why we lag behind the rest of the world?

All Rice and Hadley need to do is sign up Douglas Feith,
and world domination is theirs.

I guess Condi didn’t like being asked Qs by students.

They could hire Liz Cheney for press secretary.

Nah, Not Joe the Not Plumber and Carrie Prejean have the appropriate chops to be press secretary

I’m pretty sure they wanted to, but just couldn’t come up with the best strategy to sign him. And he probably couldn’t figure out which end of the pen to use if he did try to sign up…

Not Joe the Not Plumber and Carrie Prejean

Didn’t they make a sex tape together? Now all they need is Condi the Dom and they could maybe even get an Emmy or something.

Okay, I just have to say, I think that is the best headline I’ve ever seen on a political blog. Seriously, no snark. Comic genius!

Good work.

condi is going to get some action, they beleive (and are correct) that she has some influence

it’s also part of the neo con welfare program

Given that “strategic consulting firms” are really just ways to make inside connections for setting up bloated government contracts and for providing politicians with talking points for the positions they already had, I think RightHardly — sorry, RiceHadley — will fit the bill admirably.

OK, Ataturk, you’ve covered your ass. Now outta here.

–Respectfully
W

thanx for the links marion!

Good Morning, Thank God for Richard Clarke…;))

Plus, OT: Morning news that the Pres. starting over on troops and Afghan. strategy. Apparently, not going with the current rec. Any details?

Remind me again, what did “Darling Condi” ever do that ever had any sort of success?!?!
I think my biggest “Wu-u-uh?” moment with her was when she got some reporter to refer to her as a “rock star diplomat.”

Amen.

She found out that as Provost she’s not allowed to torture or kill student miscreants.

Lou Dobbs coverage on NPR…blurring lines on immigration issues, distorting the records, no references….Unqualified. Dobbs undermines responsible reporting….birth certificate story. CNN wanting “independent” reporting. Ummmmmmm

Nor do extraordinary renditions.

Good Morning…How are the kids? Angela has pawed my face, waked me up, eaten her breakfast, and is sleeping happily at my feet…And why am I up already?

Re Soviet-Afghan War. Ya gotta be into military strategy and tactics for this one. Very dry, like most military writing. Not for the general reader.

Kids be fine. Ptah’s got a lump where neck meets shoulder. Been there all his life but is now growing. Gonna take him to vet next week. Vet says bumps on cats ain’t good. Last thing I need is another with cancer.

Methinks it’s time to get tough with Angela. You might not get any more sleep but refuse to get up and feed her. Make her wait until you’re up on your schedule and have done a couple things before feeding her.

What’s the short version, though? My null hypothesis is Charlie Wilson’s War, i.e., the Soviets were winning until the Stingers. Did the Soviets view it that way? (BTW, in late 1985 the NYT declared the Soviet victory and Dan Rather did so in early 1986.)

Each chapter was written by different officer, all Colonels. I’ve yet to come across a reference to Stingers. The last 5 chapters deal with actual combat operations but only as seen from a Soviet analyst POV, using one or two operations as examples.

Chap 5. Combined Arms Tactics
Chap 6. Combat Arms Branch Tactics
Chap 7. Combat Support
Chap 8. Combat Service Support
Chap 9. Conclusion

I’m gonna bet that Stingers won’t be mentioned until Chap 9, if at all. We’ll see.

Thanks for the tips…and Im sorry about Ptah. No, lumps not good. But doesn’t have to be cancer…let us know. I hope it’s not bad.

Their business model depends on there being a Rethug in the White House. Otherwise it is just going to be RReich Thinktank welfare gigs for them. Kissinger had gravitas, Ms Rice is so light weight she has to wear weighted shoes to keep from flying off in a light breeze. Who the hell will pay for this crap, when it won’t get them anything they want?

Remind me again, what did “Darling Condi” ever do that ever had any sort of success?!?!

As I recall, she successfully negotiated a bathroom break for Dubya during one of his rare appearances at the United Nations.

Great “chops” when it comes to shopping…

Here ya go … and here … and here … from huffpo, dkos & wapo

Attaturk, the Headline is pure Gold … very well done, indeed !

Colin Powell on the ‘terrorist industrial complex’:

We’re spending an enormous amount of money on homeland security…but I think we have to be careful that we don’t get so caught up in trying to throw money at the terrorist and counterterrorist problem that we’re essentially creating an industry that will only exist as long as you keep the terrorist threat pumped up….We have needs to deal with the poverty of some of our people, education, the environment. There are lots of things America needs to do, and we have to make sure we only spend that which is absolutely essential on our military, on our police forces, and on our [anti-]terrorist activities.

george:

I think the Condi enterprise above fits into this somewhere. Like, say, the Peter Galbraith adventures in Iraq?

Hopefully Condi is using this SMALL window of time to prepare her minions and her personal staff for their trip in a military plane to eh Hague for their trial – WAR CRIMES THEY USED BLACKWATER TO COMMITT….

Condi & Hadley Determined to Strike in U.S.

great headline, but I doubt they’re a union shop.

so, do we have the condiliar’s client list ???

so we could BOYCOTT THE FUCK OUT OF THESE COMPANIES

you know, something like that ???

jes to let the common people know which companies would associate with these WAR CRIMINAL FUCKERS

nobody could have anticipated that the condiliar would become a social and commercial pariah

Or perhaps you simply need help arranging the creepy photos of your boss’s hands that you collect compulsively and display in your office?

Maybe you need guidance in how to refer to your husba– sorry, your BOSS! — when dining with journalists who are unlikely not to leak your error?

These two utterly corrupt and rather dim courtiers are the ticket, then.

Thanks…the Hersh piece esp. is fascinating.