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Military wife swapping is as old as warfare

I just read an article in the Atlantic that a lot of our generals really suck and should be fire a lot more often than they are. Tommy Franks was spotlighted as an especially chowderheaded, not my job kinda guy, uninterested in the little things like cultural savvy and local politics. The premise was that we could have done a lot better in both wars with some more diligent ass kicking at the top. The inevitable comparison was made to WWII, of course. Regarding Petraeus, I've noticed that the narrative seems to be that its all the whore's doing. Petraeus' legendary narcissism, which would make a hot 40 year old sycophant a primary target of conquest, gets nary a mention. Other than her little turfishness issue, the chick sounds pretty regular, even if her writing style, according to critics anyway, isn't exactly top drawer. It wasn't like she was driving across the country in a diaper or anything. The whole thing sounds like some 13 year olds who could benefit from 3 days suspension and a trip to the school counselor. Except that it involves the head of the CIA.

Cheerist, those Tighties openly DESPISE America. Why the fuck else would they keep talking about taking it back? They haven't the faintest clue about the country they have so much contempt for, either. Witness all the 'mile high' and bong jokes about pot legalization. Nary a mention of the actual issue behind the reform - 2.4 million Americans in the slammer - disproportionately black Americans. No, we wouldn't want to be uncomfortably aware of the results of the policies we came up with and championed for 4 decades, would we?

What happened to...to MY America? N why does nobody wike me???

Liberals are WAY better at business. Rfucks are good at exploitation, lying to their employees, fraud, graft, and asset stripping. The whole 'business does it better' is laughable on its face. Most 'businesses doing it better' don't do it for more than 2 years before they go Chapter 11. Competent, open minded, innovative people do it better - regardless of what sector they choose to operate in, so save the ideological cartoons for your country club boozathons, conservicunts. Just die en masse so the rest of us can actually solve some problems and grow the economy like adults while we're at it.

The Party of Whinerz fights back! Kinda wish my party would hold its ground against their job-destroying fiscal idiocy, but oh well. Having the GOP around is like dropping a sea anchor on the economy. We'd be in so much further along in our economic recovery without those regressive tools around. I really love the whole 'job creator' myth. You want people who really are good at creating growth companies and jobs? Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple...yeah - they're liberals, assholes. Open minded, innovative, cool with others' differences. You want shitty fast food, outsourcing shops, and financial ass rapists - well, that would be the GOP's version of Business Acumen. As a data point, let's compare the 'smarts' used in the Romney campaign (I be a bidness man!) to those used for the Kommie Kenyan. From getting blindsided by the poles to a great steaming pile of a get-out-the-vote system that left headquarters blind as a bat on election day, Romney's campaign looked like it was run by the local paper boy. So fuck you, GOP posers. You could't manage a laundromat after a shit storm. Perhaps you can get into the business of ass mounted smoke alarms and start selling them to your own people.

I'm sure not a climate-be-all-fucked-up-today denier. Malaria is largely a political issue - countries torn by war and fucked gubmint can't seem to eradicate the carrier. Mozambique largely had malaria under control until their civil war, for example. Anyone who's had a mefloquine nightmare can be forgiven for attributing to it demonic properties. Vaccine superstitions have been around from the very beginning. Overcoming them can be the hardest part of a vaccination program. Primitive cultures that cling to belief in magic and witchcraft, like Americans, can transform even the most obviously beneficial medical breakthroughs into a Great Satanic Plot.

How about a hope-filled message of ephemeral somethingness? I find it helps to have a bit of focus on reality when problem solving. If the events of this past week aren't good examples of that...

African malnutrition: 1) Lack of birth control 2) Sectarian violence Thank you Religion.

What doesn't fascinate me about crap like this is all the glaringly obvious problems an individual like Kimmo could focus his anxieties and energies on. In a country of endless, manufactured global war, where the government is spying on all of us, and where we can be made to go away indefinitely...a country that has twice as many people in prisons than Mother Russia and 7 times more than China, those bastions of liberty and justice, why bother with the small potatoes? I understand the borderline schitzoid need satisfied by being a conspiracy whistleblower, but it really isn't about being an agent of change, is it? More about being a secret agent of change, I reckon.

We've all recognized that Bone is a national security expert, and consider his links accordingly. Kimmo, do you possess any special expertise in immunology other than Concerned Citizen?

You've all exceeded your two post FBI threshold. Expect a visit in the near future. If you can run a sub 6 minute mile, start now.

Rob is rarely substanceless.

The Truth is always one click away. Rob, what are you THINKING? Do you know how easy is it to make a bike commuter's demise look like an accident???????

This was the sum total of my military sex education back in 79: [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW3AJ9xPSWE

The subject of vaccines does seem to cause mental retardation, although I haven't seen any studies to support that.

I'm too busy rechecking the voltage in all my outlets to weigh in on this important topic.

Party of Whiners Blame List so far (not in order) Americans who want stuff Lamestream media Pollsters Weak candidates (presumably picked by 'someone else') The Democrats! Sandy 'Messaging' Todd Akins Hispanics

The current GOP base's population is dwindling by 2% every 4 years. That's the end result of all the demographic stats from a political standpoint. That's why this was a watershed election. The GOP will continue to lose by increasingly wider margins without a substantive change in platform. Outreach, money, or other window dressing isn't going to cut it anymore. The party of bullshit is going to have to return to the age of reason. I'm not sure what their platform will be, considering that its pretty much 100% bullshit right now, but that's their problem to solve, or not.

If a calcified tea party does dessicate the GOP to the point where it eventually blows away, thas coo wit me. Texas will be a swing state in 12 years. Buh bye. Various factions of the GOP leadership and their religious lamprey seem to be wrestling with what pretty new wrapping paper they're going to wrap the same old hardened turd of a platform in to attract the three or four Florida Cubans they haven't been able to reach yet. Compassionate bigotry? Good luck with that.

I've never gotten a flu shot. I wish I could say that I knew they might be bad for you all along, but I just hate needles.

You can google the Rightiest, Tightiest blogger in the solar system and generalize their rants to support your pet thesis - after all, that's what the GOP does, but it's probably better to put more stock into what the RNC, GOP elected officials, and more long lived Righty rags and think tanks are saying. That's "all over the map" right now, but the consensus is the party's got a problem, and its a fundamental one. There's a lot of confusion, but the growing portion of the GOP that's tired of wasting their donations only to get their asses handed to them for religious craziness and tea party ego trips they couldn't give two shits are having a say about things finally. The GOP is certainly the party of self injected anal smoke, but the principle they hold most dear is a contempt for losers, and that would be themselves. Look, there are still plenty of tea party morons who won't get the message...ever, but the longer the GOP lets those assholes window sit, the more fractured the party becomes, the less money they get, and the more elections they'll lose. It's really wonderful to watch, actually. Couldn't happen to a nicer group of fascists. I 502 was like flipping the bird to the Party of Punishment, and R 74 was like taking that bird and performing a very rough prostate exam. Some people like football...

See? The Kinder, Gentler FOX is already in action: Arguing is Pointless The pic next to this piece on the main page is a spiral galaxy...they still need a little help with their IT department, apparently.

I wasn't aware that O'Reilly was a party strategist or elected official. Thanks for the heads up. More people listen to Rush, actually - but that doesn't stop a large and growing portion of the GOP, particularly its younger membership, from thinking he's absolutely batshit. FOX is a business. They'll take the pulse of their audience and continue to feed them what they want to hear in whatever direction that goes - if the GOP suddenly decides to love da gays (and I predict they will pretty soon) FOX will start loving em, too. Hey, they can always fall back on the Benghazi coverup. Seems like they intend to rerun that story for the next 4 years, if not longer. Half of their piece on Patraeus this morning was about Benghazi you know, cuz he's in the CIA and the CIA was in libya...LOL

The GOP is dazed and confuzed right now after having their teeth kicked in. They're response is anything but monolithic. One thing is for sure, the call for reform is finally being heard on the national stage. The whole bubble/group think circle jerk is over, at least temporarily. They're not going to get another 1.2 billion for a national election without offering a different product, cuz the last one was DOA out of the box. I know this first hand - I saw Mygyn Kylly basically tell Karl Rove he was full of shit on TV. Yes, teabaggers may still be reelected by their loony districts - for a while, but those who refuse to tow the line and cause the kind of collateral damage we just saw may find funding from the RNC harder to obtain and key committee memberships harder to come by. Congress and the GOP have a few ways to marginalizing rogue members who won't be coached, even if voters won't. The 'party of the big tent' is actually quite authoritarian and centralized in its messaging and strategy - it doesn't tolerate self serving behavior of its members very well.