allthumbs Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Any of you notice that since we ratcheted up to Terror Alert Level Puce (or Magenta, or Plaid, or whatever the hell it is) the Political Elites in Washington get anti-aircraft missile batteries sprinkled around town and the suburbs, and Combat Air Patrols overhead, evidently on a 24/7 basis. The Media Elites in New York at least get the CAP, according to the news stories. (Don't remember any mention of Stingers with respect to NYC.) The rest of us are to be protected from threats with... Duct tape. And we have to buy it ourselves. I'm a little disappointed by this. Of course we can't cover the whole country with in-the-air CAP, or mount enough AA missile launchers for the whole place. It would be nice, though, if more of the expensively-protected politicians would let us have a modest anti-missile defense program, and other such goodies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeclimb9 Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Feeling vulnerable? Perhaps you know a mental health expert with whom you can share your anxieties? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RobBob Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Life is keeping me away from the pc (that may be a good thing). Next week, if I can break away from the pistes and off-pistes in Austria to scramble a snowy peak, I will attempt to post my first pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 19, 2003 Author Share Posted February 19, 2003 Sweet. And post some nude mountain women pics. too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Listen: regarding duct tape and such. http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1167685 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 19, 2003 Author Share Posted February 19, 2003 FDA, it's a myth that Rasputin ever got laid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 DFA, I and a whole lot of other Americans do not want to hear what that besmurched Daniel Schorr has to say about anything. And BTW, the only admirable thing about Rasputin was the trait he shared with Blackbeard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Trask = Daniel Schorr !! What's with all the lefty antigovernment stuff lately Traksy old boy? I've also noticed the massive amount of self-deleted posts? Are you having a terrible internal struggle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 19, 2003 Author Share Posted February 19, 2003 chucK said: Trask = Daniel Schorr !! What's with all the lefty antigovernment stuff lately Traksy old boy? I've also noticed the massive amount of self-deleted posts? Are you having a terrible internal struggle? Trask is actually on vacation...has been in Cabo for a week now. I'm just house sitting for him and he gave me the "trask password" and said to have fun. Apparently, I'm not upholding the tradition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 So..we finally get to meet one of the ex-Mrs Trasks!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 (edited) with the double-posts? Edited February 19, 2003 by RobBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 RobBob said: DFA, I and a whole lot of other Americans do not want to hear what that besmurched Daniel Schorr has to say about anything. And BTW, the only admirable thing about Rasputin was the trait he shared with Blackbeard. "Besmirched." Anyway, how is the esteemed Daniel Schorr "besmirched"? DFA doesn't really know much about Rasputin (other than that he was rather ), but you can't fuck with that portrait. Scaaaaary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 19, 2003 Author Share Posted February 19, 2003 RobBob said: So..we finally get to meet one of the ex-Mrs Trasks!? not ex-wife if that's what you mean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Rasputin & Blackbeard= Hard to kill. I guess that you could also say that both were as bad news in real life as their myths now make them out to be. F'rinstance, Blackbeard took a governor's pardon and went 'legit' for a year or so...married a planter's young daughter and moved into a house. But within a few months he was back out on his ship, up to his old tricks, and apparently sharing his young bride with the crew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Anyway, how is the esteemed Daniel Schorr "besmirched"? Daniel Schorr didn't have the balls to publish CIA and/or FBI documents that were classified back in the mid-70s. Instead he SOLD said docs to a reporter at the Village Voice, who published them. He then tried to make it look like Leslie Stahl did it. He resigned amid scandal from CBS Daniel Schorr is a slimeball no matter where your political affiliations lie. He has a whole lot of people believing that he is a do-gooder who "believes in the first amendment." Bullshit. I believe that he believes in Daniel Schorr's career interests at the moment, and further likes to make trouble for anyone in a position of authority. His silver tongue and the nature of our press (wielding power without responsibility) have allowed the slimebag to skate through with reputation intact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Thank goodness for google! In a matter of minutes, one can dig up an avatar pic of a notorious Russian that one knows essentially nothing about, and can then proceed to take in a brief history lesson and learn that said character was a life-long womanizing scalawag, a dubiously righteous self-styled Orthodox monk, weaseled his way into the Russian royal family (the Romanovs!), continued to booze and sleaze his way through life while exploiting tenuous political and familial times to stay tight with -- and apparently to diddle -- the royal family, then got suckered into a perhaps untimely but probably inevitable death while furthering his pursuit of liqour and lust. Fantastic. "During the fateful last evening of Rasputin's life, the conspirators drugged, poisoned, beat and shot him. Yet the staretz survived all these and actually died by drowning when his body, wrapped in a carpet was thrown into the Moika Canal on the Neva River." How about that shit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 RobBob said: Anyway, how is the esteemed Daniel Schorr "besmirched"? Daniel Schorr didn't have the balls to publish CIA and/or FBI documents that were classified back in the mid-70s. Instead he SOLD said docs to a reporter at the Village Voice, who published them. He then tried to make it look like Leslie Stahl did it. He resigned amid scandal from CBS Daniel Schorr is a slimeball no matter where your political affiliations lie. He has a whole lot of people believing that he is a do-gooder who "believes in the first amendment." Bullshit. I believe that he believes in Daniel Schorr's career interests at the moment, and further likes to make trouble for anyone in a position of authority. His silver tongue and the nature of our press (wielding power without responsibility) have allowed the slimebag to skate through with reputation intact. Hmm, didn't know that. But do you really think he's into furthering his career at this point? He's like 92 years old! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 19, 2003 Author Share Posted February 19, 2003 old news, so what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Did any of you just listen to the damn commentary? Sheesh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 I just hate to see people lionized because they are old and at the end of their career. People in their 70s, 80s, and 90s are the same mixed bag as they all were 30 years ago. He defined himself at the height of his career back in the 1970s. Sold himself to the . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 RobBob said: I just hate to see people lionized because they are old and at the end of their career. People in their 70s, 80s, and 90s are the same mixed bag as they all were 30 years ago. He defined himself at the height of his career back in the 1970s. Sold himself to the . all to true. generaly spaeaking, a mean son of a bitch will just become a mean old son of a bitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Well, not being especially well-versed in D. Schorr's history, the Doctor has only the man's incisive and wry commentary as a basis on which to judge, and making the leap from that platform, one arrives at the conclusion that ol' Dan is a sharp tack and a trusty source of reliable insight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeclimb9 Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Schorr's got the face for radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 True, and he's got a voice for print media, but his content outweighs all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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