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Build-A-Meme Project: REMINDER – Scheduled Chat, Saturday 19-JUL-03 For those of you who can make it, we're having our regularly scheduled chat tomorrow, ** Food for thought for tomorrow’s chat ** “Generally, he who occupies the field of battle first and awaits his enemy is at ease, and he who comes later to the scene and rushes into the fight is weary. And, therefore, those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.” – Sun Tzu’s Art of War Are we prepared to wait the battlefield, or will we allow the opposition to wait the battlefield for us?
 comment []Biological Weapons, redux Consider yourself quite lucky you do not live in my neighborhood. You might have been "blessed" with an excess from my biological experiments. Actually, this the fruit of my spouse's bio experiment, his chance to be the Big Bad Gardener. He insisted on having four tomato plants of his own this year (I have another eight of my own). Variety "Early Girl" isn't exactly as early as he would like, I'm sure, but then he chose the spot in the garden with the least amount of sunlight during the day. He still tries to tell me he's waaay ahead of me at this point in the "weapons development" race: Look how BIG my tomato plants are, look how big the fruits are...nyah-nyah-nyahhh!! Nevermind how leggy and pale his plants are, or that his variety is supposed to earlier than the Better Boy or Romas that I'm growing in my own sector of the bio lab. It is rather odd he chose tomatoes; he only eats them cooked, rarely ever fresh. (He refused to touch them when I met him!) I put this down to his incurable competitiveness; he had to compete at something, even if it's against his wife over tomatoes. Hmm, I wonder if he'll learn to can this year? Amazing there are still things to learn, and still things to learn about one's spouse after decades together. Tomatoes. Go figure. 4:27:29 PM comment []
RantsCounterRants: Revisiting History Because so much of the brewing yellowcake scandal jars loose dusty political memories, I thought it time to revisit a couple other political scandals of the past. No, not blowjobs in the White House and subsequent lying about the POTUS’ personal sex life. I’m talking about the kind of scandals where the Constitution was usurped and the President signed off on felonious activities designed to manipulate democracy. Not petty prurience but high crimes against the State. Here’s what’s on my nightstand for reading over the next two weeks: The Commanders by Bob Woodward Bush at War by Bob Woodward The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified Story, edited by Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne Lost Honor: The Rest of the Story by John Dean. I’m sure there’s much more I should be reading, but these books almost jumped off the library shelf at me. I’ll share more as I plow through these texts. (No need for the FBI and CIA to check up on my reading list; I’m sharing it with the public.) I’d like to get my hands on Lawrence Walsh’s Firewall, Dean’s Blind Ambition, Colodny’s Silent Coup and I may revisit All The President’s Men; if you have other suggestions for related reading, I’ll be glad to watch for them in comments here. First, a rather amusing-yet-grim excerpt from Theodore Draper’s forward for The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified Story: “If ever the constitutional democracy of the The Iran-Contra affairs are not a warning for our days alone. If the story of the affairs is not fully known and understood, a similar usurpation of power by a small, strategically placed group within the government may well recur before we are prepared to recognize what is happening. For this reason, I have felt that we cannot know too much about this case history of the thin line that separates the legitimate from the illegitimate exercise of power in our government...” Damn. We’ve driven around in a circle for nearly twenty years and arrived in the same place yet again. That’s not a question, missing the appropriate punctuation; it’s a simple statement of fact. It’s not a cabal of neo-cons. It’s a junta. Again. The Constitution was derailed not by sixteen words iterated in January 2003 in front of television cameras and Congress watching on. The Constitution was derailed when in October 2002, virtually identical words were used to manipulate the Senate into voting to authorize the President of the The President (or his junta) is attempting to maintain a shield of plausible deniability by pushing the blame elsewhere on William Tenet -- just as the trail of evidence stopped with William Casey before it could be traced directly to President Reagan. Our current ruling junta vacated our Constitution because we failed to heed the lessons of history. Will we continue to allow this, or will we hold the junta accountable for this transgression? comment []RantsCounterRants: Hey! Let's play Twister! Check it out, try a little Twister to start your morning! All that's missing are some flavored body oils to make this a lot of fun! Oh yeah, I forgot, we're still missing those WMD and the truth, too...
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