Mammries all alone in the moonlight…

You know the lower courts are a great source of live entertainment….

What ever turns you on!

She failed to keep more than the poodle under control

“Weight Watchers” would find a real challenge here

Oh and BTW Cornyn is attending a hearing on the two BP Agents imprisonments on Tuesday. Call his office, support our Border Patrol agents. 10 years for shooting a drug smuggling illegal in the butt is ridiculous.

Nice poochie

That poodle has a really big rack!

Mammeries, pressed between the pages of my mind (of course I’m still a leg man). Greetings all from the real south - Hawaii!!

Not only should the convictions of Campeon and Ramos be overturned, the arrest records should be expunged, an apology issued by the Federal government, and Johnny Sutton and the judge should be thoroughly rebuked by a joint resolution of congress.

Big 45 WELCOME BACK! Tell us about Hawaii. I agree,Ramos and Campeon need to be cleared, but we have another agent envolved in a shooting in a sewer tunnel. We have to watch that one.

Oh one more thought…….. anyone who dies their poodle pink is questionable rack or no rack.

Smacktool, your email address is not working. Send me an email with your correct address.

Hmmm, about Hawaii. Well, yesterday afternoon, July 13th, it was around 83 with a cool breeze around 3 PM, humidity around 75%, but you don’t notice that with the nice ocean breezes. The dog is getting used to his new environment with no problem. Just going thru the headaches of renovating before we move in, but having fun with the 3 grandsons. Life is good!

Party at big45s house tonight!

Nice puppies….

Hey Big45!

Aloha….

Put this sign in front of your new place:
http://www.kavajava.com/PARKING%20HAOLE.GIF

Any illegal who can swim across the border to this place should be given citizenship, lol.

How about having the December Brew Ha Ha here?

It sounds great Big45. All we know is rain.

#8
Big

My dog is a leg man as well.

Size IS relative. Them’s her panties a-hangin’ on the door knob in the background. It takes a mighty hefty engine to pull a large caboose.

Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™

Which dog won best in show?

Pink
by Aerosmith

Pink it’s my new obsession
Pink it’s not even a question,
Pink on the lips of your lover, ’cause
Pink is the love you discover

Pink as the bing on your cherry
Pink ’cause you are so very
Pink it’s the color of passion
‘Cause today it just goes with the fashion

Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light, and
Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

You could be my flamingo
‘Coz pink is the new kinda lingo
Pink like a deco umbrella
It’s kink - but you don’t ever tell her

Pink it was love at first sight, and
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

I want to be your lover
I wanna wrap you in rubber
As pink as the sheets that we lay on
Pink it’s my favorite crayon, yeah

Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink it’s like red but not quite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

#21 Mornin’ emmek. Backatcha! And, as far as the rest of you LST pink dawgs and puppies out there…the same goes for you!

I will go to the BHH, provided airfare is provided. Or we can all go on one of those big boats with the burly guy at front yelling “PULL!” “PULL!”

I would love to stay and chat, but must go and inventory my mother’s belongings. I will check back in later!

For those of you in Houston - stay dry!
For those of you in Hawaii - I’m jealous!

Bigs

No need for citizenship. They get all the perks being illegals.

On the pic…hubba hubba

Emmek

A glorious day indeed!

How much longer until we get a good hurricane. I can’t wait to see/hear the press get all worked up seeing who can come up with the most dramatic fear mongering tactics. I wonder if this talent (fear mongering) was developed as a result of some developmental malfunction in dealing with fairy tales and childrens’ stories. For instance, is there any similarity between the behavior of Chicken Little and some of the TV anchorettes? - especially during times of crisis whether real or imagined (the sky is falling). What about the Big Bad Wolf blowing down houses, etc. Perhaps a contest of some kind, or someone with more capacity to deal more deeply into this topic than I can would be in order to determine which media personalities match up with which story book characters. More later.

Cleaning break !! yayyy…… Emme gm sunshine, tho its rainy….. Rastus I agree with you. Tho, the morals of those stories were.. crying wolf doesn’t count etc. The MSM are addicted to sensationalism. They are crisis driven. If there isnt a daily crisis……..they manufacture one. Al Gore was clever enough to realize this, do some reading about the carbon credits in Keoto, start two companies and begin the religion of global warming. Now the chi-coms threaten to undo him with weather control. But, fear and crisis…… that’s their life’s blood. Has to be tragic or it doesnt sell ( in their small minds).

Oh great Romney is being credited with initiating same sex marriage in Mass. Troublesome.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56674

One for a rainy Magnolia Saturday morning…

The flight was being served by an obviously gay
flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a
good mood as he served food and drinks.
As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing
down the aisle and told us that “Captain Marvey has
asked me to announce that he’ll be landing the big
scary plane shortly, so lovely people, if you could
just put your trays up, that would be super.”
On his trip back up the aisle, he noticed this
well-dressed and rather Arabic looking woman hadn’t
moved a muscle. “Perhaps you didn’t hear me over
those big brute engines but I asked you to raise
your trazy-poo, so the main man can pitty-pat us on
the ground.”
She calmly turned her head and said, “In my country, I am called a Princess and I take orders from no one.”
To which the flight attendant replied,
without missing a beat, “Well, sweet-cheeks, in my country I’m called a Queen, so I outrank you.
Tray-up, B*tch.”

Why did God invent man first

He didn’t want any advice

God made Adam and Eve….. he said ok you are made, however I have two parts left over. You may choose which part you wish to have. Adam was first, looked over both parts carefully. He thought, oh this looks like a lot of fun, and told God…. I’ll take this…. Eve said that’s ok I will gladly take what is remaining. God said alright, Adam you get the penis, Eve, you get the brains…….. hehe eric

Dadmanly makes another excellent post today, rounding up two articles by Charles Krauthammer and Mario Loyola:

There’s one often overlooked difference between the opposing sides in the Iraq conflict. America and its Coalition and Iraqis allies can solve their problems on the ground. It may be tough and expensive; and it might take a long time.

snip

Meanwhile the forces battling the central government can’t solve their problems. With every month that passes, the so-called insurgents seem weaker and more fractured. The most vital manpower reserve of the insurgency — the Sunni tribes — are coming over to our side wholesale. And according to one of the most senior counter-insurgency advisors to General Petraeus, “This is not a result of planning. It‘s a fashion trend.” If anyone is begging for an exit-strategy from its current predicament, it is the insurgency.

Put yourself in their shoes. They have studied history. They know what an insurgency needs in order to win. They know that they will never achieve national geographic scope. No foreign army is going to come to their rescue. They will never have diplomatic recognition, from any country. No Iraqi general will ever defect to their side.

As things now stand, they cannot win. Their only hope is Congress. And now — at the very moment that our troops finally have the chance to prove they can win — a majority of the Congress wants to legislate defeat, by interfering in the strategic and tactical judgments of the constitutional commander-in-chief and his generals, and force them to do things that they are convinced will throw to the winds all that we have gained at such a terrible price.

Think about that for a moment, let it sink in. Our enemies’ only hope is Congress.

This is why the anti-war folk who visit here often never answer this question when I ask it to them:

“How can these people defeat us?”

It’s because they can’t. The only way we loss to devil baby killers is to let them win.

oops–

Link to Dadmanly’s post:

http://dadmanly.blogspot.com/2007/07/hold-firm.html

Good read, good linkage within

This reported by News Max

Herpes Shows Promise for Killing Cancer

A genetically engineered herpes virus, designed to kill cancer cells but leave normal tissue unharmed, has shown early promise in clinical tests, scientists say.

The idea of injecting cancer patients with a live virus may seem bizarre, but researchers believe viruses — which are experts at killing cells — could one day become a valuable addition to the medical armory against cancer.

The latest progress in a small study using MediGene AG’s virus NV1020 was presented at the annual European Society for Medical Oncology conference in Lugano, Switzerland.

NV1020 is a modified version of the herpes simplex virus, which causes cold sores. Its genetic make-up has been altered that so it only replicates in cancer cells, killing them in the process, and leaves ordinary cells alone.

The German biotech company had already announced positive results from an interim analysis of a 13-patient Phase III study of NV1020 in September, but efficacy data from a case study was unveiled for the first time at the Swiss meeting.

Axel Mescheder, MediGene’s research head, described the case of one very late-stage patient whose cancer had spread to 10 different places around the liver and four in the lungs.

He was given four weekly infusions of the virus followed by two cycles of chemotherapy, and six months after treatment scans showed that his liver tumors had nearly disappeared. The patient survived for 12 months following the intervention.

“The reduction in the tumor masses was really impressive in this patient. The hepatic [liver] masses almost disappeared,” Mescheder said in a statement.

“The results are really quite encouraging at this early stage.”

Treating cancer in the liver is notoriously difficult, and the prognosis for patients is very poor. Many people with colorectal cancer, in particular, face the risk that their cancer will metastasize, or spread, to the liver.

The encouraging results with the virus in early human studies follow tests in animals, which showed that NV1020 was effective at killing colorectal and liver cancer cells.

This offering at DI ties in well.

http://www.damninteresting.com/

Squawk, check your linkey for the cannon pic. still points to the poodle story.

#32

EvilE™

Why did God invent man first

He didn’t want any advice

God knew he could do better that is why he made woman.

Hello? tap tap tap….ahem…™

Squawk

We get a new photo but not a new story?

you tell him emme

I’ll bet someone other than Squawk changed the picture.;=)

what happened to the boob pic?

Don’t make me post a link to the boob pics i took at Rocklahoma Thursday night….

american woman

I stopped by Ritz Camera yesterday. The Pentax K 100D is $600 after a $50 rebate. If you will Email me your Snail mail Addy, I will mail you the catalog. Otherwise, go to http://www.ritzcamera.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?catalogId=10001&langId=-1&gclid=CLSXq4vrp40CFRNyZQodUnQ20g&storeId=10001&gtse=goog&gtkw=ritz+camera Another source is B&H camera on line. I have ordered from them, and they deliver. Link

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

No tax yet for online orders. No shiping on big ticket items either, I think. Anyway, two places you can look. You can always go by a regular store, see the cameras, and still order on line, and save the sales tax.

See what you think.

There are also some reviews on Pop Photog’s site. I’ll post a link later.

american woman

Here is the link.

http://www.popphoto.com/?gclid=CPu_go7vp40CFR4-Igod1z8ItQ

Pick up a copy at a book store or Kroger, etc and see if you would like to subscribe.The August issue has an article on taking pictures of animals etc. I know you will enjoy it. (snuck around HAL so far)

Thanks Marc, and I sent my email :)_

The speech George W. Bush SHOULD give:

Normally, I start these things out by saying “My Fellow Americans.” Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.

I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people.

I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too darned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s despite record numbers of homeowners including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we’re mentioning minorities, I’ll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I’ve mentioned all those things before, but it doesn’t seem to have sunk in.

Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too darned stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don’t give me this “blood for oil” thing. If I was trading blood for oil I would’ve already seized Iraq’s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me this ‘Bush Lied People Died’ crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I could’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’ Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ‘Clinton’ established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them.

That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That’d be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you. And the ba$tards are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of ‘Survivor.’

Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat’s political campaign, well, dammit, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet. It just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there’re just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that’s it. God bless what’s left of America. Some of you know what I mean.

/please forgive me Squawk!

Hey, I just came across their store locator. Put your zip in at the bottom, and the stores will list out starting with the closest.

http://www.ritzcamera.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/MapQuestView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&languageId=-1&city=Brookshire&state=TX&zipCode=77423

ST,
That was DAM fine.

ST,
Permission to post this over at Wino’s Blog?

Go for it Marc!

I double dog dare ya to post it over at Shakey’s place!/ducks and hauls butt!

#46 ST - You forgot the link to that article. Author is unknown but there are many links to it. Here’s one:

http://www.plnewsforum.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/20251/

(Another blogger forgot to add the link a few weeks ago and she was accused of plagiarism. Just watching your back.)

#49
I triple dog dare ya.

#49 Heck fire, I’ll do it for ya!

#49 et al - Done

That speech needs to sent everywhere. What a fine summation, and true. ST thanks!

Sorry Liz! I got it in an e-mail. Thanks for watching my back, shuug! /and you’ve either got a big pair of gonads, or a death wish! Muah! Back to work for me

I have discovered a very good message in Harry Potter = Order of the PHoenix

Not witchcraft - Politics.

1) Hero is trying to ready people for danger (Voldemort/immigration/bin laden)

2) government (ministry of magic) lies about him and the danger (daily prophet/ramos campeon / no problem with islam)

3) Government makes charges against hero to shut him up (using magic out of school/ talk shows only conservative)

4) hero must do job himself (order of the phoenix / minutemen / did a miltary grop try to wan about 911?)

5) hero awakes the public ( shows voldermont is back / to be continued in real worl problems )

Just a lot of parallels

And a VERY VERY good lesson for young minds - there are real idiots in government.

#57 Neither ST, there just isn’t any big, bad boogymen over there (or here). Believe me, I KNOW who to fear.

ST, I don’t post at sgageys dead blog.

I will add the link, thanks Liz.

Shakey’s

And, the DAM Racoons ran off with my measuring cup for the detergent! AAAARRRRGGG!

Those pesky racoons…… hey maybe they need to measure…….too. His blog isn’t dead. What was the measuring cup for detergent doing down by the creek? Ya’all must be pounding your clothes with rocks lol

#60 I know marc and I understand your reasons why.

Dead blog?

Last time I checked there were more comments for today at my dead blog than over here.

Interesting™

#62 marc, lol. (sorry - but that was funny…)

#60 marc

Yup, http://www.headshaker.com is dead. Only 88 posts and counting for this weekend. Your hatred puzzles me. My only guess is that it’s easier to post where everybody agrees with you.

Cant handle the truth?

#46, ST. Thanks bushels for posting that. Wish the Pres would actually say something like that publicly. Of course the doofuses wouldn’t recognize themselves.

We villagers will need our torches and pitchforks more than ever when the Congress people come home for their August vacation, thinking they can fool us into believing they really got the message on amnesty. That was just the first message sent–there are other topics needing similar treatment. We need to make it abundantly clear we are not one-trick ponies.

Don’t let them get to you, Shakey…they’re only trying to get you to lower your price!

Show ‘em and jack it up!

Is that a picture of Al-Goregonzola checking out for more hot air?

Smackface, I do not hate anyone. Shakey I feel sorry for, and you I dislike. That happens when you are so nasty. Sorry Bud, End Of Story.

We villagers will need our torches and pitchforks more than ever when the Congress people come home for their August vacation, thinking they can fool us into believing they really got the message on amnesty. That was just the first message sent–there are other topics needing similar treatment. We need to make it abundantly clear we are not one-trick ponies.

#52 - Elizabeth, that “other blogger” didn’t forget to add the link, she blatantly presented the comments as her own; no blockquotes, no italics, and interspersed with her own. And she’s done it numerous times, before and since. She also knows how to add those tags because she’s done that before and since. Just calling bull hockey when I see it

#72 Hammie, Did not know the “other blogger” interspersed her own words into the body of work as well. I seriously only intended to protect ST because she is a friend and know she would not want to misrepresent herself. Plagiarsm is a seriously illegal and unethical crime imo - equal to felony theft. Thanks for filling me in about the “other blogger.” Had hoped it was an honest mistake on her part too.

criminy

We villagers will need our torches and pitchforks more than ever when the Congress people come home for their August vacation, thinking they can fool us into believing they really got the message on amnesty. That was just the first message sent–there are other topics needing similar treatment. We need to make it abundantly clear we are not one-trick ponies.

The border is only one reason why Congress’ approval numbers are lower than the President’s.

The People are getting tired of their being on Bush’s ass all the time for pissant stuff that doesn’t mean a damn thing.

Instead of governing, they are conducting useless investigations into stuff that is perfectly legal. They are passing “symbolic” legislation instead of real legislation. all that shows me is that they don’t have any more ideas than Bush does, they certainly aren’t presenting anything new.

If I want symbolism, I’ll go to an art gallery.

The one thing they CAN do about Iraq is the one thing they won’t do: defund the war. Which means they aren’t serious about it—and all the symbolism is just a sop to their base.

And appealing to the Left wing Deomcrat base does not govern the country–it just helps Democrats in the primaries.

To the Democrats in Congress;

You achieved your goal of making George W. Bush the lamest dck in the history of lame ducks. Congratulations. Now, get off his ass and start governing the nation. All you’re doing now is piling on, and coveringn your own ass. Deliver the governance you promised.

Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.

It took the Republicans 12 years to get to this point—it took you guys about 12 weeks.

Well whomever wrote it, it’s good. Sad but true.

#72 marc

Fair enough. I feel sorry for headshaker too. He needs all the empathy he can get.

May God be with you. When I put my son to bed tonight, I’ll include both you and headshaker in our prayers tonight.

Dang, I’m sure glad I had Liz to cover for me on Wino’s blog. I would have been Banned I tell you, Banned!

Welcome back, Nancy Drew…did you have a nice trip?

#76…I agree, american woman.

Smack, There is hope for you at least. God bless you also.

Well, we’re off to somwhere for din din. TTFN.

#78…I would have covered for you on Wino and my blo ;)g, Marc…don’t forget FauxNEWS is mine, too!!!!

#78…I would have covered for you on Wino and my blog, Marc…don’t forget FauxNEWS is mine, too!!!!

Whoops! Didn’t mean to be repetitious! Freudian slip!

#79
Thanks Sunny. Had a wonderful time with my family. It was great to visit old places again that I had not been to since I was younger.

sunny, I’m confused, did you mean this Faux news?:

http://www.fauxnews.org/blog/

or this Faux news?:

http://www.fauxnews.com

Smacky,
It’s href=”http://www.fauxnews.org/blog”>FauxNEWS

IF it’s faux it isn’t real lol

#86…Yes, of course, Smacktle…I am “Dagny” in FauxNEWS…Wino and I set it up together, to run together. I am also “Lee” (real name) in my own blog “Kitchen Connection”.

Perhaps to stop confusion, I should change my nick in here from “Sunny” to “Dagny”, but that action in itself would cause confusion!

Sunny I didn’t know you were Dagny but suspected cause you refer to it and I never say Sunny anywhere there. I like your site.

#91…thanks, american woman.

Are we posting on a revolving picture or did my ex wife send in pictures of her best dream with me inside of that weapon ?

I could swear I saw a pink poodle.

How ’bout Dagleenny? Sundaglee? Leesundag?

#87 Nancy Drew

When I click on your link, it takes me to a site with pictures like these!:

http://www.hardbodiesclub.com/CHEROKEE,%20SWAYZE,RANDY%20copy.gif

Did you mean to do that?

#94 Hamous

What I wonder is how does Wino do it? He’s got ladies all over the world! I’m lucky if I can keep track of or keep up with my own wife.

#95
Yeah buddy, good pic. Well, if you were hung like they were you probably wouldn’t have a problem keeping track of your wife.

They’re all gay

#94…Hamous…”Dagny”, by the way, is pronounced “Dane-ee”. It is the name of the heroine in “Atlas Shrugged”, written by Ayn Rand.

#98
That maybe so, but still a good pic, not that it does anything for me.

Who cares? As long as they’re happy!

#97 ND

It’s probably a good thing I’m not hung like them, because as short as I am I’d be dragging that thing around on the ground, everywhere I go.

Wino has the gifted writer, world traveler, unavailable bachelor thing going on for him…

Sunny/Lee’s name is really Snookems. Shhh don’t tell Don.

#99 - I kind of figured that. Great book, btw. Just read it for the second time while I gave up TV for lent this year.

add to #58 re new potter movie =

the kids also see a govenmet agency trade a course of study designed to prepare them for the ‘rel’ world with one thats PC.

All I know is don’t read Sunny’s blog when you are hungry. The gorgeous pics and her descriptions of her culinary master pieces are torture!

#101
That’s right Sunny.

#102
ROTFLMA It is a good thing Smackey.

#105…Hamous, it is a great book, I totally agree. It has a place of permanence on my bedside table. I’ve read it many times. I’m a big fan of Rand, her writings and philosophy.

#107..Elizabeth…did you have a look at this weekend’s menu?

#102…you could always use head-gear, Schmackie!

Before the Afghanistan and Iraq invasion we were told of these magnificent caves OBL had built with plasma tv’s and air conditioning. There were drawings of tanks parked inside and some James Bond type defenses.

In Iraq we were told of underground cities Saddam built.

Question? Why havent we ever seen any of this on TV? Was this pre intel exaggerations too?

RE: New Pic

I was gonna throw in a new story with the pic but was called away.

/Dang slacker moderator.

I didn’t know Bsue had adminstrator level editor rights

EPJ
#114

Yeah it is called Louisville Slugger adminstrator level editor rights

!205….damn! You had to go and let the cat out of the bag, Marc!

I don’t recall any talk about “magnificent caves” in Afghanistan. I saw pics of the underground bunkers in Iraq. Lots of ‘em. Is this post-invasion exaggerations of pre-war intel?

Any pics I’ve seen of the caves in Afghanistan certainly wouldn’t be described as “magnificent”!

Magnificent imagination, more likely!

Sadam’s spidey hole was Magnificant, great place for him to wallow untill we found him. RIP

Hamous Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
I don’t recall any talk about “magnificent caves” in Afghanistan. I saw pics of the underground bunkers in Iraq. Lots of ‘em. Is this post-invasion exaggerations of pre-war intel?

There’s a lot of that going round these days—–

Mostly because all the other stuff they alleged turned out to be lies or distortions.

Good post from Micheal Yon today:

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/second-chances.htm

When context is other people’s children

As I write these words just a few miles from the graves I saw, the resulting controversy about whether what the man said was true, or whether his words should have been written if the writer couldn’t verify them, seems precious. There is no imaginary line of credulity that al Qaeda might cross should it go from beheading children to baking them.

No unnamed Iraqi stringer claimed that al Qaeda had taken over Baqubah. Al Qaeda said this through the press. I sit writing these words in Diyala Province just a short drive from where the self-proclaimed leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was killed by a bomb delivered by a US warplane. Al Qaeda: the organization that gleefully bragged about murdering roughly 3,000 people by smashing jets full of civilians into buildings and earth. Al Qaeda in Iraq: who proudly broadcast their penchant for sawing off the heads of living breathing people, and in such a manner as to ensure lots of spurting blood and gurgles of final pain, in some cases with the added flourish of the executioner raising up the severed head and squealing excitedly.

These are the same terrorists I often come face to face with: not on television or in magazines, but on bloodstained streets ablaze with human carnage. I remember the charred corpse of a small Iraqi boy. I remember the wailing Iraqi parents and countless other scenes that I am likely to see again and again. Back in 2005, terrorists here were intentionally attacking children. I shot the photo below on a day when they drove a car bomb through a crowd of children who had run out to American soldiers on patrol.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/little-girl.htm

Many soldiers say this photograph symbolizes this war for them. It certainly has become emblematic for me.

In the more than two years since that awful day in May 2005, I’ve witnessed innumerable instances of the work of terrorists of many stripes. One clear indicator of just how bad a terrorist group is, is when battle-hardened soldiers—and writers like me who travel with them—don’t find it hard to believe a story which purports that al Qaeda had baked a child and set his roasted body out as the main course at a lunch for his parents.

People at home might find it incredible, improbable, even impossible. Yet here in combat with al Qaeda, the idea is no more improbable-sounding than someone saying “The chicken crossed the road.” Maybe the chicken crossed the road. Maybe not. The veterans I’ve been talking with here have no difficulty imagining the chicken crossing the road, or al Qaeda roasting kids. Sickening, yes. Improbable, no.

I posted this on another blog. I got a hard time for it.

Seems they don’t like me calling people who kill babies baby killers—and they think it’s unfair to bring in the fact that our enemy is a cruel and evil one.

I guess if you can bring yourself to ignore the uncomfortable facts, you can believ just about anything.

Including that there were stories of underground palaces in Afghanistan and Iraq that were talked about a lot before the war.

marc Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Sadam’s spidey hole was Magnificant, great place for him to wallow untill we found him. RIP

I’ll agree with the first part of that. The spider hole he was in was the best place to keep him until he could be hanged.

As far as the RIP goes, I hope he’s slow roasting in Hell and every 15 minutes or so they dip his scarred and bleeding body into a vat of bleach.

But you know me—I hold grudges—-

You didnt remember seeing those animations on FOX and the others with elaborate caves in the mountains built by the multi millionaire UBL?

They were supposed to be air supplied and fortified to withstand a nuclear bomb blast.

All I saw on Iraq was dirty water filled bunkers. Not like the underground palaces that we were told Saddam had built.

I found this.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1016_afghancaves.html

That’s it? Which one of those widley read by everybody on the planet storeis from National Geographic News is the one that tells us of the palatial caves in Afghanistan?