Sprint received over 8 million requests for its customers' information in the past 13 months. That doesn't count requests for basic identification and billing information, or wiretapping requests, or requests to monitor who is calling who, or even requests for less-precise location data based on which cell phone towers a cell phone was in contact with.
That's just GPS. And, that's not including legal requests from civil litigants, or from foreign intelligence investigators. That's just law enforcement. And, that's not counting the few other major cell phone carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. That's just Sprint.
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I wonder how many of these they actually complied with?
I knew Big Brother was watching as soon as I bought my phone, but I didn't know it was this absurd. 8 MILLION requests?
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All of them. The police use software to make the requests, and the results are automatically given to them. Any time a cell phone is carried by a "person of interest", the police can track their movements.
But wait!, there's more. The courts now permit the police to put GPS tracking devices on you car, secretly, without a warrant. So if you have a cell phone, or your car is nearby, assume that your GPS coordinates are in the public domain.
And as a special bonus, all new cell phones can be remotely turned into microphones, not just by the police but by hackers as well, even if the phone is turned off. This means if there is a cell phone in the room, anything you say in that room can be monitored by someone.
It sounds totally paranoid, but there is lots of software to do it on the Internet. It's called a "roving bug".
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I wish them luck, Hellfish. If they can hear anything I'm saying one or two rooms away while the (off) phone sits in my purse inside a closed cabinet, they're welcome to listen.
And be bored silly.
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I agree, listen all you want, you'll be bored shitless.
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I don't know... if they listen in on my conversations they might learn something useful about the reasons for the differences between European and American table manners, why fish knives have silver blades, or why von Neumann did not have pangs of conscience over the Manhattan Project in contrast to that dear idiot Einstein. Surely even eavesdroppers find such things useful to know.
I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.
Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means. For the last week, my family and I have been hounded to expose intimate details of our personal lives. The stories in particular that physical violence played any role in the car accident were utterly false and malicious. Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect.
But no matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy. I realize there are some who don't share my view on that. But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
Whatever regrets I have about letting my family down have been shared with and felt by us alone. I have given this a lot of reflection and thought and I believe that there is a point at which I must stick to that principle even though it's difficult.
I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves. For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology
1. Never ground your club in a hazard
2. Never play out of turn
3. You cannot improve your lie
4. Penalty for playing the wrong ball
5. Penalty for hitting out of bounds
6. Cannot practice putting on a hole not yet played
7. DQ for playing the wrong hole
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Tiger gotta try to patch this one up or it's gonna cost him a helluva lotta money. Makes it difficult to discern his purpose for reconciliation. Must be a tough spot for his wife to be in with that potentially making it more difficult to judge his sincerity.
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How long before Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton and Jessie "Where's the Camera" Jackson show up?
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Agreed G, The guy has a life and its his to live. Its none of my business. Those that get pleasure from a public shredding of a family are the same gawkers that race to crash scenes, not to help, but to see others misfortunes.
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A law blog I looked at recently (can't remember which one so no link, sorry) noted that Tiger had to remain quiet: if he had told the cops what had happened Florida law would have required the cops to arrest his cop. Apparently the no-excuse law in domestic assault situations requires the cops to arrest the person responsible for the violence even if the spouse doesn't want them to.
So that's why Tiger's statement to the cops and media until today was 'no comment'.
I agree with Glenmore; I'm sorry to see the situation and wouldn't dream of trying to tell the man (or his wife) how to manage their affairs.
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Hope Tiger has another SUV to crash. I don't think a Kobe Bryant size diamond is gonna get him out of this.
Too bad. He once seemed like one of the few celebs who publicly had his head together.
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On Second Thought, Maybe This Wasn't Such A Great Cover Idea
Very funny, Dr. White.
We have our own Dr. White down here. Dr. Michael White. Nominally a dentist, but now an outstanding jazz clarinetist.
We also have a Senator who spent a lot of words telling people how to run their personal lives - until his name turned up in some madam's little black book. People like that I WILL condemn for their personal behavior.
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I do have to give Tiger a little credit--if those facial injuries were actually caused by Elin and not the accident, then it would seem he took his well-deserved beating in stride without raising a hand against his wife.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intends to award a non-competitive, sole source purchase order to Anzio Ironworks Corporation, 1905 16th Street N, St. Petersburg, FL 33704 for two (2) Magfed 20mm Rifles and accessories in accordance with FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.
The FBI intends to procure the following items:
Magfed 20mm Rifle with Belgian Camo Overcoat finish. Includes bipod, brake, handguard, free floated barrel and case (Qty: 1 each)
Magfed 20mm Rifle with Navy NWV Camo Duracoat finish. Includes bipod, brake, handguard, free floated barrel and case (Qty: 1 each)
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These sound like the Finnish Lahti anti-tank rifle of the '30s. Beast of a weapon, but effective against early war years soviet armor. I heard that several dozen were imported into the states and auctioned off to raise money to fund the war against Stalin.
Do the feds think they'll have to deal with hostile armored trucks? These should do better than Barrett rifles in that role.
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You wait, soon one of those trucks dripping Muslims will mysteriously go Boom, that's what this is for.
.81 will allow a range of ammo, also explosive warheads, I see this as a smallish version of the RPG's we see shot at us, but going back this time, smaller than an RPG but capable of multiple shots.
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Could be a handy weapon for a sniper in Afghanistan. I would think being able to 'inspect' a possible IED at 2000 yards might be handy.
Or for hostage rescue maybe? Sharpshooter being able to knock off targets when said target is behind a wall?
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My favorite quote from the link Parabellum provided: "Huge amounts of fun".
I'll say.
Of course, it does cost $13,000. And the ammo is $9.50/round.
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"And the ammo is $9.50/round."
When you care enough to send the very best...
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Or for hostage rescue maybe? Sharpshooter being able to knock off targets when said target is behind a wall?
Couple that with the cute little Israeli toy that can truly see through walls, the one they used in Gaza for Operation Cast Lead? It could lead to lots of fun for just the right team...
Seldom do I use the word 'life-transforming" because very few things in life are. True change is usually something that requires diligence, effort and often monotonous repetition. It doesn't come cheaply.
But what I did this past Thanksgiving changed my perception of the world forever. As a volunteer with my friend Glen Megill's organization, Rock of Africa (a Christian relief effort), I travelled to one of the poorest villages in Zimbabwe, one of the world's poorest countries. Joining me was my daughter Chana, my friend, the writer and radio host Dennis Prager, his son Aaron and about seven Christian volunteers. We staged an outreach program, preparing a Thanksgiving feast for 500 villagers, to whom we then distributed mosquito nets and Bibles. Most importantly, we gave them seed that can produce shima, the corn flour that is the staple diet for most of Africa and which, for $25 a year, can literally keep a family alive. The feast consisted of 10 slaughtered goats, giant pots of cooked cabbage and shima.
It would be difficult to convey the appreciation of the villagers for one good, hot, meaty meal. The people we met were gentle, beautiful and utterly poor. The village consisted of nothing but mud huts, the chief's homestead included. These people have virtually nothing. They live in tiny pen-sized huts, and one which we visited housed a hospitable but infirm man in his late 80s who reeked of urine. His 12-year-old grandson lives with him and takes care of him; his parents died of AIDS. The only luxury in the tiny dwelling was one mosquito net for the grandfather.
Indeed, of the hundreds who came to our feast, only a few were young mothers and fathers; the vast majority had already been lost to AIDS. We saw scores of young children strapped to their grandmothers' backs in the African way. An entire generation has been wiped out by this killer disease, which is still met by denial in Africa. Most of the people we spoke to who lost relatives to AIDS told us that "they got sicker and thinner." They knew exactly what caused the ailment but would never pronounce it. Strict moral codes govern life in southern Africa, so a sexually-transmitted disease is rarely acknowledged.
BUT AMID these serious challenges, the people exhibit unbelievable warmth. Are they happier than we in the West? I can't say. I have never believed in the supposedly ennobling effect of poverty, and I will not glamorize a life with so little. But what is undeniable is that they seemed far more satisfied, grateful and content than us. We in the West who are fortunate to be able to translate so much of our potential into something professionally and personally fulfilling are more often than not plagued by insatiable material hunger, rarely finding the inner peace which they seemed to possess. Balance at the link.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The United Arab Emirates economy is in a good condition and will not slip due to the global financial crisis, the Gulf country's president said on Tuesday as Dubai's ruler said the global reaction showed a lack of understanding.
That is certainly one way to view the situation.
President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan also voiced support to the ruler of Dubai, saying Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and his cabinet "face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements."
Sheikh Khalifa said that the national economy was showing signs of gradual growth in the fourth quarter.
Meanwhile Gulf markets dropped for a second day running, taking little comfort from Dubai World's plan to restructure about $26 billion of debt and despite a statement by Sheikh Mohammed, who is also UAE vice president, prime minister and defense minister, insisting his city was "strong and persistent."
Sheikh Mohammed also told reporters the global reaction had shown "a lack of understanding."
Dubai stocks fell a further 3.6 percent and the Abu Dhabi bourse lost 5.6 percent on their second trading day since Dubai last week asked creditors of Dubai World and its property arm Nakheel for a six-month delay on debt repayments.
The neighboring Gulf state of Qatar's bourse was also more than 8 percent lower.
State-controlled Dubai World, which led the emirate's transformation into a regional hub for finance, investment and tourism, unveiled details late on Monday of its plan covering $26 billion of debt owed by its main property firms, Nakheel and Limitless.
Global markets took a pounding when the Dubai news broke last week, though on Tuesday Asian and European stocks were up, following the lead from Wall Street overnight.
The Dubai World group, whose total liabilities are estimated at nearly $60 billion, said the restructuring would exclude "financially stable" units such as Infinity World Holding, Istithmar World and Ports & Free Zone World, which includes DP World, Economic Zones World, P & Ferries and Jebel Ali Free Zone.
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"Professor Ian Plimer [a geologist] condemned the climate change lobby as climate comrades keeping the gravy train going."
So one scientist says it flat out. At the end of the story...
"leading economist Lord Stern dismissed the sceptics as 'muddled'.
"Lord Stern, who produced a detailed report on the issue for the Government, said evidence of climate change was 'overwhelming'. He accepted that all views should be heard but said the degree of scepticism among 'real scientists' was very small."
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On the plus side, the staying power of such scoundrels is small. They are a cowardly bunch, and when the cry of "Stop! Thief!" goes out, they tend to bolt, whether or not they have been recently cutting purses.
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The weather is now in charge. China is having crop failures and transportation problems with the worst winter in 50 years. Our mid west and across the pond are also seeing records. In my opinion we are in a 100 year cold spell with summer temps of 65 for the highs. I do hope I'm wrong.
General Motors Co. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson has resigned, marking the loss of the company's second CEO this year.
GM Chairman Ed Whitacre said in a brief statement to reporters that he will become interim CEO while a search is made for a permanent successor.
Whitacre said the board accepted Henderson's resignation today. He said Henderson had done a remarkable job.
But "we all agreed that some changes needed to be made going forward," Whitacre said.
In a statement, the Obama administration said, "This decision was made by the Board of Directors alone. The administration was not involved in the decision."
Henderson became GM's top executive in late March after the Obama administration asked CEO and Chairman Rick Wagoner to step down. Henderson worked with the U.S. government to take GM through bankruptcy about 60 days later.
The Obama auto task force briefly considered ousting Henderson when it asked Wagoner to step down in March. But former task force chief Steven Rattner told the Bloomberg Washington Summit last month that finding a replacement for Henderson was considered too difficult at the time, with a new CEO search likely taking six months.
Henderson remained on as CEO as the automaker emerged from bankruptcy as a company whose majority owner is the U.S. government. The U.S. Treasury has pumped around $50 billion into GM to keep it alive.
Gerald Meyers, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Business, has known Whitacre for years. Meyers described him as a demanding boss who "takes no prisoners."
Henderson, Meyers said, "didn't stand a chance with Ed as his boss. If it was Jesus Christ, he would have bowled him over."
Along with all of the changes, former head of AT&T Ed Whitacre was named chairman.
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First, what does a former telco CEO know about running an auto manufacturer? Second, there should be a law against board chairperson's naming themselves CEO.
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The current height of the beam splitters as they are called makes the presidents chin lift too much, says Harris, which creates the appearance that Obama is talking down to his audience.
And he thinks that's an accident?
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At midnight last night, we ceased to be an independent state, bound by international treaties to other independent states, and became instead a subordinate unit within a European state.
Under the Lisbon Treaty, which came into force today, Europe acquires legal personality, which gives it the right to sign accords and treat with other states. Nor is this right simply theoretical: the EU now has a foreign minister, a diplomatic corps (the European External Action Service) and 160 overseas embassies.
Until yesterday, the EU could not annex additional policy areas without a new treaty, which needed to be ratified by all its constituent nations. Now, it has the so-called passerelle clause, or self-amending mechanism. Parliament, in other words, no longer has the final say on extensions of EU jurisdiction. The EU derives its authority, not from its 27 members, but from its own foundational texts.
Until yesterday, Britain could simply walk out of the EU by abrogating the Treaty of Rome and repealing the 1972 European Communities Act. Henceforth, it will have to go through the secession procedure laid down in Lisbon. In other words in the minds of Euro-lawyers, at any rate, if not of British constitutionalists the EU gets to settle the terms on which its members are allowed to leave. Formal sovereignty has been shifted from the national capitals to Brussels.
It is appalling, demeaning, disgraceful that such a thing should have been done without popular consent, and in the absence of the referendum that all three parties had promised.
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Why? The Soviet Union had three seats in the General Assembly.
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It is appalling, demeaning, disgraceful that such a thing should have been done without popular consent
Democracy is a failure, according to the EU. You will now be ruled by the Council of Alphas. Your popular opinions do not matter as you're simply not qualified to comment on government. Surely you understand this and you are being ruled for your own good.
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Hannan misses one key point with his It is appalling, demeaning, disgraceful that such a thing should have been done without popular consent.
Liberty must be fought for. You long ago gave up the right to those items necessary for the fight. The birth of America was not a majority vote at the time. It was what a minority was willing to fight for and demonstrate to convince others that it was worth it.
The Brits couldn't even mount a large scale rally lik MLK. They have disappeared with nary a whimper.
President Barack Obama's aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.
Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUH'-nee awn-YAHN'-goh) told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is troubled that her immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew.
Onyango, the half sister of Obama's late father, said she has exiled herself from the family after attending Obama's inauguration because she didn't want to become fodder for his foes. Obama and his family have not reached out to her either, she said.
"Before, we were family. But right now, there is a lot of politics, and me, I am not interested in any politics at all," said Onyango, whose appeal for asylum from her native Kenya is before an immigration judge in Boston.
The Obamas are her only family in the United States, she said. Moving on to the last paragraphs of this AP "exclusive" is this jewel of info:
Onyango reserved special words of kindness for former President George W. Bush for a directive he put in place days before the election requiring federal agents get high-level approval to arrest fugitive immigrants, which directly affected Onyango. The directive made clear that U.S. officials worried about possible election implications of arresting Onyango.
She said she wants to thank Bush in person for the order, which gave her a measure of peace but was lifted weeks later.
"I loved President Bush," Onyango said while moving toward a framed photo of Bush and his wife standing with Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House on inauguration day. "He is my No. 1 man in my life because he helped me when I really needed that help."
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SO... Barry thinks we need to be more accomodating to the feudal aristocrats of the third world. Democrats everywhere seem to believe those people are morally superior to westerners. They also want to implement policy changes that will make us a much more feudal society with a lot more political patronage than before.
BUT... when faced with some of the most basic tests of fitness in a feudal society, i.e. do you help to take care of others in your clan... they FAIL. "Oh well, maybe the Republicans can be relied on to do something."
[Geo News] Pakistani High Commissioner in Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan headed a secret operation in Geneva and received at least 12 cartons comprising the original documents and evidences against some Pakistani high-ups in Swiss money laundering case, Geo News reported Tuesday.
According to Geo News correspondent, the Prosecutor General of Pakistan in Geneva deposited these cartons in the era of former President Pervez Musharraf.
The sources said the secret operation was carried out at the bidding of a top personality of Pakistan, as these evidences could be used if Swiss Money Laundering case is reopened after the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) terms comes to an end.
The sources at Pakistan embassy said if the concerned officials or the courts do not interfere by taking the evidences back from Wajid, then these documents would be wasted for good.
The secret operation begins at 9am on Monday when Wajid arrived in Pak High Commission's car along with NAB's senior official Danishwar Malik at the office of Prosecutor General in Geneva.
According to sources, the Prosecutor General kept refusing to give the documents for some hours, as nobody from Pakistan embassy was formally receiving them.
It should be mentioned here that after the NRO, these cases were closed. However now that the term of NRO is over, it was all the more likely that these cases could be re-opened and these evidences could be employed against Pakistan's high personality.
Geo News team secretly filmed the whole episode from an undisclosed location after receiving tip-off from reliable sources.
The sources in Geneva told Geo News that Wajid Shamsul Hasan is arriving in Geneva from London, so that these documents could be destroyed or shifted to some safer place.
The Pak embassy in Geneva was kept aloof from the operation.
Geo News correspondent Javed Kanwal approached Wajid and Danishwar, as both of them appeared from the office. Both of them looked perturbed at the presence of Geo News reporter there.
When approached for comment, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said he is absolutely unaware of any such operation; however, he would assert a portion of media is victimizing President Asif Ali Zardari with its heinous campaign.
The high-ups in Interior Ministry also said they are not abreast of any such report, adding the matter relates the NAB and Law Ministry.
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Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease.
Scientists at Newcastle University have for the first time been able to record spontaneous epileptic activity in brain tissue that has been removed from patients undergoing neurosurgery.
Led by Newcastle University's Dr Mark Cunningham, the research has revealed that a particular type of brain wave pattern associated with epilepsy is caused by electrical connections between nerve cells in the brain - rather than chemical ones. This means the traditional drugs are useless to them.
Professor Phil Jones, the director of a research unit at the centre of a row over climate change data, has said he will stand down from the post while an independent review takes place.
Sceptics claim the emails show climate change data was being manipulated.
Prof Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), has said he ''absolutely'' stands by the science produced by the centre - and that suggestions of a conspiracy to alter evidence to support a theory of man-made global warming were ''complete rubbish''.
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"Independent" inquiry headed by "recognized experts in the field"?
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Like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark - "The Ark is being examined by top men in the field, Dr. Jones." (Dr. Jones? Oh, the irony!)
Indy says, "Which ...top men?" ('cuz he knows them all.)
The CIA guy responds, "Top. Men."
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As an aside the Indiana Jones Crystal Skull Movie had a spot where Jones is forced to find the Skull in a area 51 warehouse, and one of the crates he pases has the end broken and shows the Ark, it's just a quick glimpse, but funny all the same, Investigated My ass, warehoused and forgotten is more the truth here.
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[Straits Times] HUNDREDS of Indonesian Islamists rallied on Tuesday, World Aids day, to demand the implementation of syariah law to prevent the spread of Aids rather than condom use.
About 700 members from the Muslim Women of Hizbut Tahrir group staged a rally in the city of Surabaya in East Java province, distributing pamphlets on Aids.
'We have to admit that using condoms is equal to legalising free sex,' Muslim Women of Hizbut Tahrir spokesman Febrianti Abassuni said in a statement. 'We hope that the government stops the programme and returns to the application of syariah,' she said, referring to the Islamic legal code that has strict rules on gender segregation, sexuality and drug use.
Hizbut spokesman for the rally Nurul Izzati said that they also rejected harm reduction programmes for drug users. 'It has been proved that harm reduction cannot stop the behaviour of drug users and cannot guarantee that they won't share needles,' Ms Izzati said.
Hundreds of members of the Hizbut Tahrir group rallied on Sunday on the streets of several cities including Jakarta, Solo, Yogyakarta and Makassar.
Around 270,000 Indonesians are estimated to be infected with HIV, and Aids has claimed about 8,700 lives in the Muslim-majority nation of 228 million people, according to the UNAids agency.
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Can't allow anything to reduce our suicide boomer supply.
Either MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews let one slip tonight, or it was an extremely poor choice of words.
Following President Barack Obama's Dec. 1 speech, which he announced his intentions for increasing troop levels in Afghanistan, MSNBC followed with wrap-up coverage of his speech with arguably three of their most prominent on-air personalities - "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann, "The Rachel Maddow Show" host Rachel Maddow and Matthews.
Matthews referred to a scene from "Gone with the Wind" about the American Civil War as an example of "excitement" going into a war. He said that was lacking in the room during Obama's speech.
"I think it's true of most wars," Matthews said. "They start with a lot of excitement. I remember the scene in Gone with the Wind' where the rebels are so excited about going to war with the North, a country they can't beat because of its industrial advantage and population advantage. They are going to lose that war eventually."
However, Matthews also said he saw a lot of skepticism among some of the older audience members at West Point, which he called "the enemy camp" and "a strange venue." (emphasis added)
"It seems like in this case, there isn't a lot of excitement," Matthews said. "I watched the cadets, they were young kids - men and women who were committed to serving their country professionally it must be said, as officers. And, I didn't see much excitement. But among the older people there, I saw, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn't see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there. The president chose to address tonight and I thought it was interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case. I mean, that's where Paul Wolfowitz used to write speeches for, back in the old Bush days. That's where he went to rabble rouse the "we're going to democratize the world" campaign back in '02. So, I thought it was a strange venue."
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What a coincidence--he feels the same way about West Point that I feel about MSNBC. Whoda thunk?
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I've got a few years on'em, but with the appropriate legal wavors signed, three to five minutes of gloves-off in a darkened CONEX box would be most delightful. I'll tap on the door three times when finished.
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You have to forgive Chrissy. He's a liberal and even the concept of someone willing making a sacrifice for the sake of others (their nation, country, et...) is a truely alien concept.
To Librals its all about sacrificing others for one's own benefit.
he just can't wrap his mind around it. It turns his whole worldview upside down.
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He issued an apology. Not accepted. F*ck you, Tingles. Your insincere mea culpa makes you even more of a pig
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"So, I thought it was a strange venue."
It was a photo-op.
In essence, Matthews was right: it was 'enemy camp'. You take a President who has no rapport with or respect for the military, who deliberately and publicly took his time to make a decision, then made a tepid speech that essentially went over the heads of his audience, and aimed his political base. A speech that essentially said "I'd rather fight a domestic war on behalf of the progressive agenda. But I'm bring forced to do this, so let's just get it over with. And by the way, Bush sucks."
I'd say Matthews was right, tho not for the reason he thought.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone. 
General Motors Co. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson has resigned, marking the loss of the company's second CEO this year.
