This N' That Thursday

Well, that didn't last long. Here we go again, two more years of campaigning, we barely had twenty four hours of peace. Sheesh.

Sixteen female Senators. Wow, nine more and we'll be equals. Oh well, better late than never.

Modo was in fine form (TimeSelect is free this week) today. Come to daddy, what a riot.

In a scene that might be called “Murder on the Oval Express,” Rummy turned up dead with so many knives in him that it’s impossible to say who actually finished off the man billed as Washington’s most skilled infighter. (Poppy? Scowcroft? Baker? Laura? Condi? The Silver Fox? Retired generals? Serving generals? Future generals? Troops returning to Iraq for the umpteenth time without a decent strategy? Democrats? Republicans? Joe Lieberman?)

The defense chief got hung out to dry before Saddam got hung. The president and Karl Rove, underestimating the public’s hunger for change or overestimating the loyalty of a fed-up base, did not ice Rummy in time to save the Senate from teetering Democratic. But once Sonny managed to heedlessly dynamite the Republican majority — as well as the Middle East, the Atlantic alliance and the U.S. Army — then Bush Inc., the family firm that snatched the presidency for W. in 2000, had to step in. Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Robert Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from the mother of all messes.

Mr. Gates, already on Mr. Baker’s “How Do We Get Sonny Out of Deep Doo Doo in Iraq?” study group, left his job protecting 41’s papers at Texas A&M to return to Washington and pry the fingers of Poppy’s old nemesis, Rummy, off the Pentagon. In a scene that might be called “Murder on the Oval Express,” Rummy turned up dead with so many knives in him that it’s impossible to say who actually finished off the man billed as Washington’s most skilled infighter. (Poppy? Scowcroft? Baker? Laura? Condi? The Silver Fox? Retired generals? Serving generals? Future generals? Troops returning to Iraq for the umpteenth time without a decent strategy? Democrats? Republicans? Joe Lieberman?)

The defense chief got hung out to dry before Saddam got hung. The president and Karl Rove, underestimating the public’s hunger for change or overestimating the loyalty of a fed-up base, did not ice Rummy in time to save the Senate from teetering Democratic. But once Sonny managed to heedlessly dynamite the Republican majority — as well as the Middle East, the Atlantic alliance and the U.S. Army — then Bush Inc., the family firm that snatched the presidency for W. in 2000, had to step in. Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Robert Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from the mother of all messes.

Mr. Gates, already on Mr. Baker’s “How Do We Get Sonny Out of Deep Doo Doo in Iraq?” study group, left his job protecting 41’s papers at Texas A&M to return to Washington and pry the fingers of Poppy’s old nemesis, Rummy, off the Pentagon.

Priceless.

Somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for these guys, they should have saved their money and prepared for the future. At least that's what they told me when I was put in the same position. I had skills to fall back on, what do they have? Bullying people will only go so far in the real world.

Pat Tillman is back in the news and it isn't pretty. The more we find out about his death, the worse the command structure looks. In the final analysis nobody will ever be punished and the really sad part is how many times has this type of friendly fire happened since the cover up started? How many of our troops paid the ultimate price because we were too stupid to do the job right? The motto used to be "we do more before 9am than most people do all day" but we couldn't do it for months at a time without food, rest and working equipment. Who was it that said an army marches on its stomach? Both Hitler and Napoleon discovered that long supply lines are detrimental to the cause. But, I guess you lose the war with the army you abuse. What a waste of our national treasure.

I'll never win because I don't eat there but this line is really funny.

"In other words, you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning while on your way home from purchasing a winning Lotto ticket with your wife, Jessica Alba, the first lady of the United States," Richard Roeper wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Somebody was watching Numb3rs and decided to embellish. Whatever, I have as much of a chance of landing on the moon tonight than I do of winning the Lotto. Plus, I'd have to purchase a ticket.

What to do, what to do and why didn't they think of it before it took off?


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