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Fifth Column
MSM to resume pounding on Bush Guard duty.
2004-09-08
EFL The Navy launches an investigation into Kerry and we get this:
President Bush ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act.
So what? He wasn't in Texas in 1972: The records show his last flight came on April 1972, which is consistent with his pay records that show Bush had a large lapse of duty between April and October of that year, a time he says he went to Alabama to work on an unsuccessful Republican Senate campaign. Bush skipped a required medical exam that cost his pilot's status in August 1972.
The Pentagon and Bush's campaign have claimed for months that all records detailing his fighter pilot career have been made public, but defense officials said they found two dozen new records detailing his training and flight logs after The Associated Press filed a lawsuit and submitted new requests under the public records law. "Previous requests from other requesters for President Bush's Individual Flight Records did not lead to the discovery of these records because at the time President Bush left the service, flight records were subject to retention for only 24 months and we understood that neither the Air Force nor the Texas Air National Guard retained such records thereafter," the Pentagon told the AP. "Out of an abundance of caution," the government "searched a file that had been preserved in spite of this policy" and found the Bush records, the letter said. "The Department of Defense regrets this oversight during the previous search efforts."
The records only back up what Bush has been saying. He left Texas with permission and did his Guard time in Alabama. So he missed a few drill dates, in the Guard this is no big woop. You make up the time later, that's one of the reasons people stayed in the Guard, flexibility. It's not the active force where you have to be available for duty 24/7. Just go ask a Guard member.

Begala & Caraville didn't waste anytime did they?
Posted by:JerseyMike

#12  Massachusetts Financial Services Co - Other

Don't get me started. They're as inept as fund managers can possibly get.
Posted by: Raj   2004-09-08 9:53:43 PM  

#11  The MSM is doing this to divert attention from their allies the baby-killing gang raping Islamics of he Russian School murders.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-09-08 9:39:31 PM  

#10  I was a Reserve Training Officer on a ship that was home-ported in Norfolk. For me the assignment was one of 10 to 20 collateral duties. I received no formal training on any aspect of the required administrative tasks that went with any of these sundry collateral hats I wore. While I was only the active duty liaison for Reservists that came to train on my ship (as well as all the Sea Cadets, Lawyers, VIP's...), I am sure that my records were not up to snuff. I cannot even fathom what type of administrative compliance there must have been for Reservists in the Texas Guard during the 70's.

Even several years after I retired from active duty in the mid 90's, I had to make a trip to Cleveland with my DD214 to prove to the Veterans Administration that I had actually been in the military at all. They had no record of my service.

I'm sure all the paperwork for all personnel getting out of the military is straight today, now that we have computerized records. [/sarcasm]
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-09-08 9:29:29 PM  

#9  Hmm, I obviously heard wrong; I swore I read somewhere that the Sulzbergers controlled the NYT themselves. As for buying put options -- naw, I have a hard enough time dealing with the (embarassingly) modest investments I have.
Posted by: Jonathan   2004-09-08 9:16:46 PM  

#8  Jonathan, for although more risky, buying put options is another good strategy (in this case, since the decline will likely be a long lived one, LEAPS)
Posted by: mjh   2004-09-08 2:18:04 PM  

#7  NYT is a public company. It's trading range for the last twelve months is 52wk Range:40.25 - 49.23. With a current price of $41 and a market cap of $6billion. It's price 5 years ago was about $39.

So, it's near it's 12 month low and the price has gone up 5% in 5 years. Not a stellar performance but the 10 mutual funds that own 60% of the stock must be crazy or supporting their political fantasies as opposed to their fundholders interest. FYI the funds are:

Price (T.Rowe) Associates
Barclays Bank Plc
State Street Corporation
A I M Management Group Inc.
Morgan Stanley
Massachusetts Financial Services Co - Other
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The)
Private Capital Management, Inc.
Mellon Bank, N.A.
American Century Investment Management Inc.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-09-08 11:57:39 AM  

#6  Actaully the NYT is starting to sound like the National Inquirer.
Posted by: Bill Nelson   2004-09-08 11:36:45 AM  

#5  The Dem playbook... she is quite thin. This is dopey playground stuff. "Our guy is a he-ro, and you-ou are-n't. Neener neener neener."

Here are two options for coming back in the same vein:
"Well, our candidate can beat up your candidate."
or
"Yeah, Kerry's a hero all right: a hero to the North Vietnamese!"
Posted by: eLarson   2004-09-08 11:32:43 AM  

#4  Of course, the interesting thing is that a drunk retard like Bush could place in the middle of his flight class. Guess it must have been all those family connections that kept him from crashing in a notoriously unforgiving airplane.

If this is the best the LLL can do on 9/8, they have basically raised the white flag. Wonder who they'll run in '08?
Posted by: Dreadnought   2004-09-08 10:50:12 AM  

#3  B: Selling short is what you're looking for. If the NYT were a public company Wall Street investors would have shorted it a long time ago (say around the time of Howell Raines/Jayson Blair).
Posted by: Jonathan   2004-09-08 10:49:06 AM  

#2  Doesn't the NYT have stockholders to answer to? If I owned stock in these companies - I'd be dumping it pronto. They are about as valuable as National Horse and Buggy was 100 years ago.

I wish I knew how to capitalize on stock that is certain to move downward. There is a way. I could be RICH!!
Posted by: B   2004-09-08 10:24:00 AM  

#1  Good move! Drag this up for the ?tenth? time and see if the story still has legs. I doubt it. You can't prove something by nothing. If there isn't an official record of the "lapse" in guard service, that doesn't prove a lapse. It should prove that the LLL press claims of "AWOL" and "Desertion" are just wet dreams from the left. This won't last the 24-hour news cycle.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2004-09-08 10:16:08 AM  

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