Crap Throwing Monkey

And that was uncalled for. You're not as stupid as meazza21...you're just a normal kind of stupid. Frankly, I think you're too lazy to put out the effort it takes to hit meazza's level of stupidity.

I thought about that...because if I needed care for bipolar disorder, and I ran the considerable risk of my employer finding out about it and firing me, I probably wouldn't seek care. (And yeah, I know about the ADA. I've invoked it against a previous employer. Didn't stop them.) Which is certainly one way to keep costs down...but not, I think, what Massachusetts had in mind.

That doesn't make it much more palatable. There's some very ugly HIPAA issues wrapped up in that. Very ugly. And if there's no legal protections that prohibit companies from firing uninsured employees who seek medical care, it'll get even uglier.

Grenade for a M-19, probably. At least some of those rounds are base-fused...and I have a very hard time believing anyone would be dumb enough to try to squash a bug with the business end of a shell.

It's almost too bad he survived; he'd be a shoe-in for a Darwin award.

Of course, in the remake the son's name is actually Tom Donahoe.

I love it. It's still everyone else's fault you got banned, and has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you can't control your own behavior.

Thought it was a flightsuit/Halliburton/nose pick board...

But they're white homeowners. That's not even newsworthy anyway...

In other words: "It's just too bad that neither party is really trying to enact meaningful reform of the system that keeps them in power."

Who the !@#$ cares what Ken's done. It's not true unless Bernsten writes about it.

I wouldn't be surprised. Moran's just about as big a scum bag as Delay. The difference is: Delay was investigated and caught, Moran wasn't. And Delay's getting what he deserves. Hopefully someday, so will Moran.

I wasn't disagreeing with you. I just thought you were babbling.

Mostly, we think it means EII's been drinking the water from the locks again, and we ignore it.

No, I'm calling Scraps functionally illiterate. Once again, he reads but doesn't comprehend.

They were in Franks' original plan because Zinni says so? Is this anotoher one of these "Making sh-- up that other people didn't say" things you're indulging?

Knowing VABills personally as I do, I have to believe that was a typo, and he meant to say "I scored 1 387"...as in he only took it once, and that was his score.

From his point of view, it probably did. The things that CENTCOM was supposed to do, they generally did well. But certain aspects of operations - regime change in Iraq, for example - are arguably not in CENTCOM's purview. Should Franks and CENTCOM be held responsible for the !@#$ed up post-war occupation plan that had? Or just for the excellent invasion plan? Open question, I think. I feel CENTCOM shouldn't take too much blame, if any, for post-war conditions (though I reserve the right to change my mind. ) Others would obviously disagree with me...which is fine, if they can do so intelligently with an understanding of issues that runs deeper than "Well, Bernstein told me so..."

Uh, no, we really are. Because once again, you can't discuss US command and control issues within the theater of operations without blowing it off with "Well, the theater's !@#$ed up."

My point being, though, that if Armadillos saw Franks last weekend and thought he was being Rumsfeld's mouthpiece and wanted to quit...he's badly mistaken, as Franks doesn't "want to" quit, he has. But on the subject of pulling the wagons together...how many people are going to notice that the retired generals during the mid-term elections are going to be divided precisely down partisan lines? Good thing generals are unbiased, apolitical creatures...

Different states started at different times. I believe Arizona still doesn't follow DST.

Tommy Franks retired about two or three years ago.

That makes sense. Ergo, you're a Bush apologist.

And once again...we're back to the "CIA field commander" didn't get Army resources because the Afghanis - er, the entire region now - is !@#$ed up.

No, if it makes ME laugh, it's funny. If it makes YOU laugh, you need to develop a better sense of humor.