Ghost of BiB

In a related story... Damn, they sure are sensitive...

Belgium is a suburb of France. Netherlands are pretty cool, though.

I know a few folks who work there. One's an accountant, a few are "admin specialists" (secretaries), a d-base administrator and a PR person. I don't think they've even been to the spy museum.

That is a given.

FWIW, we'd be sucking the hind one in a lot of areas with this war on terror thingy if it weren't for an excellent relationship with French intelligence. They have been working side by side with us since shortly after 9/11, and have been a LOT of help.

In a related story, Scott's tomato of the year state fair awards were stripped when two of his entered competitors were found to have traces of tomatobolic steroids in their system. Congress is convening.

I'm getting laid in about an hour. What do I care?

My neighbor is coming over to split a bottle of wine. She's a libertard. I'll certainly ask all of these questions tonight.

I'd post some pictures, but the mods would delete me. Bad old mods.

Yeah, I do. Sue me. I focus on the important.

I've read the book. Nowhere does it say they are "hot". 72 virgins can easily be a bunch of fat, smelly pimply chicks who couldn't get laid after hours in an after hours curfew club. These guys need to think this through.

I gotta kind of have to go with you on that. I'm not trying to incite religious fervor, but the Bible most Protestants read is definately (in my mind, at least) a man approved interpretation. Why is it called the King James version? Compare it to the Greek texts. The word of God is not what the original settlers carried from England.

That would be me.

It's still not a story.

And, once again, why make a point out of a non-issue?

I know. I got to marry one. But, I'm envious. There are probably 100 female government employees or so working in my building. I'm not kidding about 4 or 5. It's a guys workplace nitemare. If it weren't for my SAIC "juniors" that come over once or twice a week(and two of the 4 or 5...another story) there wouldn't be anything to scam. It's horrible. I should demand hazardous duty male pay.

Clarke is a moron. Might have been good at a point, but got stuck on himself more than in doing his job. From both sides, lots of egos at play. Bunch of spoiled kids. That is the single biggest thing that people who know what is going on have to fight to get something done.

Most of ours don't wear spandex and make high six figures, but you'd probably like to visit. Lots of fighter pilots, special forces, submariners punching their staff time tickets on the way to their stars. Up and comers. I have a running buddy, Army LT Colonel, Italian heritage and looks. About 6-3 220. You might like to meet him. None of the gals seem to mind working around the "scenery". Unfortunately for us guys, except for 4 or 5, this is where they send old female government employees to die. Elephant graveyard. I'm afraid to look out back.

Ain't it grand? God, I love this country. I actually get paid to toss papers on a table and say "this is fuggged up, who WROTE this crap?" Doesn't matter if I understand any of it or not. It's all about projection.

My Gawd...I'm turning into FFS!

Not everyone who works with/for the CIA is a covert operator. As has been mentioned before, VP drew a check, but it was not a big secret that she worked for the CIA. Just because one can not find it on the internet doesn't mean it's a secret. A lot of the people she probably dealt with, and had conversation with were well aware of her connections. It's called "back channel communications". Take a look at hubby. There are a lot of people, military and diplomatic that when they are assigned certain posts, their spouse is investigated and cleared too. An actual clearance, not just a file. Sometimes, when people have access to certain other people, especially "diplomatically", they sometimes have conversations with people in the intelligence business. I hold a TS with a whole bunch of acronyms after it. Darlene was in the process of being checked for an SSBI Secret, when she died. I STILL don't see the gain from "outing" her in the press. Mostly, because of the conversations and brouhaha we see in places like this. None of it represents any realities. Rove is not an idiot, by any stretch. You might not like him, I probably wouldn't, but he's an operator. There wasn't any tactical or political gain just to be spiteful. There's other ways to ruin someone that doesn't involve the (stupid) press. That's why I dislike politics and media. Somebody PLEASE make them go away. This isn't meant to be a LAMP, it's just that unless you are really around it, you don't have a good feel for what goes on versus spin. I'd like to find a better word, but it's spin. I'm not defending anything. I'm not in it, and I don't know what was said or what's going on - but a blow job from an intern in the oval office isn't hard to misinterpret. There aren't very many grey areas there. For those who want to make comparisons of what is worse - looks like apples and oranges to me.

Chick flic.

Define "Agent".

You're the one with the laser in the trunk. I'm well beyond that now. I do policy, which really means I don't do anything. I still get paid, though. Cool.

"This is my safety" (Line from Blackhawk Down)