Drill Sergeant can clue us all in. If the Army sanctions this, which I have to believe if the report is true, someone needs to go to jail.
Here’s a name that’s become familiar to us all lately:
The advisory board at one company, First Command Financial Planning in Fort Worth, includes Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, the retired commander in chief of the United States Central Command.
I’d say the general needs to rein in his troops.
Thomas Lifson has a thought-provoking article on The American Thinker:
The frenzy of the left continues to unfold before our very eyes.
I’ve been thinking about this phenomenon a bit today. The NYPD is gearing up to handle the folks who are gearing up to disrupt the RNC Convention. Boston doesn’t have the same problem based on what I’ve read and heard. The crowds New York’s Finest will face include some of the same people who destroyed some of downtown Seattle several years ago protesting a WTO meeting.
I think “cult” describes them quite well. This is a religion to them. It is their consuming passion. It isn’t what normal Americans see as civil disobedience. It is riot and destruction. It is hatred, not an attempt at rational discourse. They want NYC to be like Chicago in 1968.
Why is it that the “peaceful” left has in its midst such raving lunatics–and not only tolerates but celebrates them?
Bill says much of what I believe regarding the Federal government, and explains it in a way which makes a lot of sense.
My boys like to be in control. I taught them to accept insults for what they are–an attempt to control interaction. I told them if they simply smiled and said, “Thank you,” they would then be in control because the other person is mad that they aren’t mad.
Well, Birdie stuck a finger in rfidtag’s eye and got a response. Sorry, that’s how my boys play the game. Anyway, rfidtag responded with portions of a post I’ve seen this weekend floating around liberal/leftist web sites regarding a case John Edwards handled.
In 1994, an eight-year old girl named Valerie Lakey was playing in a wading pool. She got caught in a defective drain. Her intestines were ripped from her body by the suction. She is now 17. She will have to be fed through a tube, 12 hours a day, for the rest of her life. In 1997, John Edwards won her family a $25 million judgment, of which he took a portion. The judgment helped jump-start his political career.
On the first day of last year, as part of his opening comments on Crossfire, this is how the incident was described by Tucker Carlson, whom public and private broadcasting networks tumble all over themselves to hire: “Four years ago, he (Edwards) was a personal-injury lawyer specializing in Jacuzzi cases.”
I went to college with a grandson of the Jacuzzis. He wasn’t evil, and I doubt his parents or grandparents were, either. But, I won’t debate the judgement of this jury, nor will I debate the judgement of the Mumia jury. That doesn’t mean I agree with either one. Funny how people can rally around a jury when the decision meets with their approval, then rant about how misguided a jury is when it doesn’t.
Anyway, my point in this whole issue revolves around the impression trying to be put forth that because Edwards won a $25 million award for these folks, he is somehow “for the little man.” Note that he “took a portion.” The entry doesn’t say how much. I’ve read it was as much as 40 percent. Most lawyers take 33 percent in cases like this, so it doesn’t sound too out of line.
How much of his $8 million or so did Edwards donate to the family to help them out? How much did he donate to the Jacuzzi company to help pay for research which might prevent such things in the future? Did he donate to the UNC Engineering Department to fund some such research?
Hey, he did his job and made a bunch of money. But there was nothing altruistic about it, any more than it is when any other personal injury lawyer wins a case like this.
Yes, the jury makes the decision. I sat on a jury in a personal injury case once, and it was obvious there was no negligence. Yet we still had one woman want to find for the injured claimant. “He got hurt, and somebody needs to give him some money.” And that is the kind of juror personal injury lawyers are looking for. With folks like that, fact means nothing. Emotion rules.
I finally broke 80 on this course. I really don’t understand it. I’ve shot in the 70s on much tougher courses than this one. Maybe it is just an unforgiving course. It is that. I shot 78 even with a triple bogey. And it was a stupid one, the kind I hate. Our #6 has OB on the right, and it is easy to avoid. But I wanted to cut the corner…just a little. And I hit my 1-iron instead of the driver. Yesterday I put my drive right in front of the green, and expected to do the same today. Instead, I hit the ball of the toe and ended up OB. I hit my third into the fairway bunker, left the approach short, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Fortunately I had enough birdies to accomodate the seven.
I keep forgetting to add a link under golf stuff to the site maintained by one of my playing partners. It’s there, now. Dave sits in the front pew of the First Church of Flog. I’m the new guy, so I bat fourth. We meet for services each Sunday morning at O-Dark-Thirty, and are always the first out. Gilbert plays a yellow ball, and when we can see it off the tee, there’s enough light to play. Herman rounds out the foursome.
Anyway, Dave’s site is mostly about the trials and tribulations of an average golfer, whatever that is. He also has some photos of his trip to Thailand and the courses he played while there. He and his wife are building a house there and will move back when he’s ready to retire.
I just got permission to spread the good news:
I categorized this under “Golf” because I hope he or she will learn the game (if Mom doesn’t mind).
Love and congratulations to Bogey and his lovely wife–the Little Mama!
Liberal Larry has the inside scoop on Bush’s snub of the NAACP. He also got his hands on the heart-felt letter Kweisi Mfume wrote to invite Bush to speak.
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