Ghost of BiB

It's beginning to look like we won't even be able to recognize the league in 2006 compared to 2005. Some good teams are going to look awful bad, and some bad teams might end up looking awful good.

Troop strength should have been doubled two years ago, but wasn't workable. Doubling troop strength now, even if we could and wanted to is politically untenable for everybody, us, Iraq, etc. I was sort of surprised that the question was even raised. Makes me suspicious of what they were trying to figure out.

Same here. I detect a drift towards post-modernism, and am thinking about that angle.

Polls relation to policy concerns? If I seem like I'm piling on, it's because I know you're a lawyer, probably a very good and clever one and have argued a lot of cases. I sense a tendency to present "evidence", and shape the argument to fit that evidence while mitigating or even ignoring argument or evidence to the contrary. Common practice here, you can be more subtle about it than most though. In the quoted statement, you would have us shape a conversation based on evidence (poll numbers) that may be accurate, but perhaps not truly representative with the idea that should another poll surface later that better explains it's demographics, the subject will be revisited. Well, it's doubtful that that will ever happen. So, we discuss the poll in question where a blind man can see that troops don't have a huge interest in being in Iraq, and that shapes the merits of the conversation. Anyone saying that the poll does NOT indicate that troops don't want to be in Iraq would be wrong, easily refuted by one piece of evidence. Stacked deck. Then, you tie it to policy implications (dangerous with ANY poll, but whatever). Plus, sometimes it's simply fun to jerk your chain.

Damn. There go my plans for a 5 man defensive front.

Only on "Mellow Mondays"

PPP Terrorists

Well, bust our billies. That must be what makes American Idol so exciting now, instead of those sad, lame times. It was still pretty damn funny. Funny now, in TV comedy is getting the wrong coffee from starbucks.

I'm still waiting for grid coordinates. No one's missed western Iowa yet, and it's been two years. The youngster is just that, young. He'll figure it out, maybe. Some do - some don't. A dangerous disadvantiged neighborhood? Welcome to earth. Hey spunky, ever been to any place that ends in "stan"? And Simon?, for whatever reasons you know better than that.

50 years from now? You look at the football board and of the wall recently? And some of them are pushing 30.

BTW. Your opinion. Folding camp shovel? Or folding battle axe with shovel like qualities?

And in my experience, anyone allowing in outsiders had better be prepared for what they get. Lots more opportunity now than a few years ago. Of course people want to be home. A long time ago, I had beers with Mike Wallace one night, lots of laughs and good time, then saw a 60 minutes that made us look like a bunch of idiots not even resembling the truth, let alone "off the record" conversations. That was early 80's, think it's better now? But, I think this was another effort to say that since troops don't like being in combat, given the choice between being shot at or not, our "policy" should be to call it off because the troops don't like being there. Well, maybe they have enough sense to figure out being shot at is not better than not being shot at? But, let's all discuss the numbers and call it proof Mickey's right.

Oh, fine. Great. I'm getting bitten by a dog...again?

No, but the rats have me thinking.

Not me, It would be just about impossible to get me to shake my apathy. You would be hard pressed to find someone more apathetic than me in so far as local issues go. Really. I truly don't care, and I can't think of anything that would make me.

You said "Dick"

Well, I'm a bad, bad man because I don't care. Sue me.

Exactly why I carry scotch, semtex and consider Sophie Sardalo a great partner.

I even like Debbie. She's good people.

Sorry. It looks like a shovel. A dinkey one at that.

Yeah, it does, but not over anything Buckley has ever said.

No, you're defending a camp shovel as an insult to your manhood.

Read Ken's post, it's pretty accurate. Of course, he's only obtaining an aditional graduate degree in Security and Intelligence studies with a special concentration on North Korea, so what does HE know. Not like he has read about it, or anything.

Am I the only one who has ever read Macbeth?

Wendy Smith owes me money. I gave her money for gas once.