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45852. judithathome - 11/7/2014 10:06:24 PM Because the money guys who rule the country love them, that's why.
We don't have a democracy...we have a cashocracy. 45853. judithathome - 11/7/2014 10:07:51 PM Matt Taibbi is brilliant
His dad is no dummy, either... 45854. iiibbb - 11/8/2014 1:04:46 AM Pettycash 45855. arkymalarky - 11/8/2014 6:36:43 PM Spook's in co and Stan texted and asked if he missed ar. he said "every time I swing at it."
45856. Ms. No - 11/8/2014 9:42:09 PM Ha! I loves me some Spook! 45857. judithathome - 11/8/2014 11:50:02 PM Me, too...but I'm going to have to have that remark he made explained to me.
Yes...I am that dense. 45858. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 12:23:33 AM a swing and a miss...? 45859. judithathome - 11/19/2014 2:05:34 AM Keystone XL pipeline vote fails to receive 60 votes in the Senate. 45860. wabbit - 11/27/2014 11:39:37 PM Why would we spend who knows how many billions on the private enterprise Keystone Pipeline when infrastructure work would create many more good paying jobs and benefit many more people.
Oh yeah, brain fart...Congress.
Nevermind. 45861. judithathome - 12/16/2014 11:53:54 PM Watch Tom Coburn's Swan Song to Congress As He Single-handedly Blocks Veteran's Suicide Prevention Bill...
Absolutely shameless. 45862. arkymalarky - 12/17/2014 12:07:22 AM Shameless is exactly right. If the idiot had any shame, Rachel Maddow would have made him feel it last night. She was fantastic. 45863. judithathome - 12/17/2014 1:13:15 AM No shit...I loved how she was "generous" enough to suggest he might have gone off the rails and become BONKERS. 45864. iiibbb - 12/17/2014 10:08:58 PM Go Cuba 45865. judithathome - 12/18/2014 12:44:15 AM Agree....great news for them! 45866. judithathome - 12/18/2014 12:44:41 AM Despite that little shit Rubio! 45867. robertjayb - 12/18/2014 1:08:36 AM Yes, iiibbb. It has been too long coming. I've always thought that a smart and confident JFK would have straightened things out with "Cuber" and the Ruskies had he had the chance.
Among the hazards of geezerdom is events that prompt unavoidable reminiscences and spousal eye rolling. So:
In Oct. '62 I was a very green USAF 2nd Lt at a regional air defense Hqs in the upper U.S. when I drew my first OD duty. Officer of the Day. They should have called it Officer of the Night since things that fell to the OD would have been handled routinely in daytime. Being told I had the authority of the base commander did not impress.
A priority message came in that puzzled the com folks who thought should be handled by the OD. It puzzled me as well. From a base in Florida it ordered the immediate shipment of all tip tanks on hand for the types of fighter-interceptors in our region. What? In the middle of the night they needed auxiliary fuel tanks. These are the cigar-shaped things on the wings that mean extra range and can be jettisoned for maneuverability in combat.
So I went in search of an explanation when I came on three (count 'em, 3) actual Colonels huddled in the hallway. They pored over my twx a bit and said thanks, lt, we'll handle this. And so to bed. My contribution to the missile crisis was carrying a piece of paper about 50 feet down a corridor. With dawn the puzzle was solved. The Florida peninsula was weighted down wth U.S. aircraft.
Pretty tame war story but it's mine and I'm sticking to it. Col. Pat Lang, an intelligence officer who puts out sic semper tyrannis has a better one.
Well, good. I was going to be in the assault echelon for the landings on the north shore of Cuber in November 1962. That prospect went away. Good! Then, when I was in SF (special forces) in Panama in 1965, I was on the list to parachute into Cuber to link up with anticommunist guerrillas if war came between the US and Cuber. That never happened. Good!
Now Obama has used the power of lameduckhood to seek a return to normalcy between the US and Cuber. Good!
Rubio is on the tube bleating about Obama's fecklessness. Absurd!
Hey folks! There are seven, SEVEN, Cuban American members of Congress. Seven. There is only one state in which Cuban-Americans are more than 1% of the population, mostly they are less than .5%. That is Florida where they are 6.5% of the population. 6.5%
The US Chamber of Commerce will press for removal of the embargo by the Congress as will various other trade groups, farmers, ranchers, etc. Good!
Church bells rang spontaneously all over Havana as President Obama and Raul Castro made their announcements. Both praised the fisherman's heir (What does this mean?).
Let us all pray for peace in this season. pl
45868. robertjayb - 12/18/2014 1:20:02 AM More on Cuba...
If memory serves, a trip to Cuba was on cigarlaw's bucket list. Probably didn't have bucket lists then.
But, being a lawyer and all, he managed the trip, had some cigars, and IIRC, got laid too. Great!
Was it ALS that did him in?
45869. arkymalarky - 12/18/2014 1:53:44 AM yes it was.
great posts and story! 45870. wabbit - 12/18/2014 3:39:20 AM Would love to hear Maria's thoughts on this. 45871. arkymalarky - 12/18/2014 4:59:22 AM yes, I thought about her and that she wouldn't like it based on what I remembered. made me think how she's been gone a long time.
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