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FLOWERS ON A GRAVE WITH NO NAME
Rick
As a veteran of wars we have fought in foreign lands I will tell you that you only got a bit of a grasp of what it is to be a veteran who has been there done that.
One thing that will stick with you always is the appreciation for what is right and good in our form of government we have had the grace of God to be born under.
Most of us knew it before we volunteered for defending her even back when there was a draft. But even we did not grasp beforehand how much more we would come to understand that need over the time of our service.
Look around at most veterans of any war you want to see and you will see a person who's sense of priorities has changed, who is not distracted by the small and the trivial.
Some would suggest it is almost as transforming as a near death experience or a similar close call. But unlike that near death instance that is forgotten over time, this one lives on in us until the day we die.
So today we thank our veterans and for some our brothers and sisters in arms. Also we hope for the protection of and the success of those now and in the future in the field of battle no matter where it is to be fought.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 11.11.2007 @ 09:12
THE RACE TO POLITICIZE TRAGEDY
The national guard horse they are trying to trot out is as wrong now as it was when they first let it run during the Greenburg Kansas Tornado.
I hate reruns.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 25.10.2007 @ 22:51
Meanwhile in other news relating to your comments about married men I saw today on the web some commentary about how guys were deserting the 30 something ladies in the peak of their sexual prime for younger gals.
Heck I thought that was always the premise supposed to be reserved for dirty old men.
Well I am now at the age of a dirty old man and I don't lust for the teen gals, but now the 30 somethings could be a different story.
But that's just my take on the issue.
Oh and I am not being a cheater here, I am a widower.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 21.09.2007 @ 02:59
FANTASTIC FABULIST DEBAT FOOLS THE FOOLISH
He is like Norman Hsu.
We don't have to background him, because the other guys must have done their homework, so now we can just let him hit the ground running.
The art here is keeping the stories interesting enough to stay employed but not high profile enough to catch anbody's attention.
In the flood of words in the worldwide media and the net, not really a hard row to hoe, except for gathering the initial cred.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 14.09.2007 @ 20:21
POLITICO'S SIMON FEELS THE GHEY FOR BILL CLINTON
Listen
You know the writer has to pull out all the stops to get past all the drooling press Obama and Gore have gotten in the last year.
By next year, we will have to be inventing new words to stack on the pile.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 5.09.2007 @ 14:52
"YOU VILL DO VUT I SAY AND BE HEALTHY, EH <em>SCHWEINHUND?"</em>
If John Edwards ever had to face the day he had someone following him around with the "football" in a briefcase, he would wet himself due to loss of bladder control.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 3.09.2007 @ 17:13
CONSERVATIVES TO BUSH: "KEEP YOUR GRUBBY PAWS OUT OF OUR PRIVATE SPACES!"
Heck where I live the county does a full aerial survey of photos and videos about every five years and the building and zoning department always catches about 60 to 70 , and once as many as 300 buildings built in back ends of the property that were built without permits and weren't on the tax rolls for the additional structures.
This year they caught about 15 in ground pools that neither the homeowner or the installer had gone through the permit process for.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 17.08.2007 @ 13:59
To me the PCA argument is bogus.
Each of the law enforcement agencies could purchase the same thing through commercial satellite photo vendors with no impact.
If a police traffic chopper flies over a home and sees pot growing in the back yard they can act on it. This has already hit the Supreme Court and been upheld.
Heck then can even use infrared to detect grow lights in a garage indicating potential plant growth.
I would rather have them have access to high res imaging for a Katrina recovery situation than low scan blurry stuff.
It's not like cops are getting a terminal in their watch room for each satellite pass, each request will be vetted through an application process.
Also this allows data sharing between agencies for example to have a port imaged to look for weaknesses that need to be compensated for.
So we can scientifically look at volcano activity, but can't do good looks at beach erosion or other things.
But those same cities could legally contract an aerial photo service to blanket their city.
Please don't go jumping off bridges just because the guy next to you might.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 17.08.2007 @ 13:49
For how many years did NSA stand for No Such Agency?
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 13.08.2007 @ 14:51
I disagree with you on this one.
FISA is a old law and just think of all the new technical means for communication today. IM's , ICQ, Web base Email, File Sharing networks etc.
Another factor is how voice and data are routed physically on this globe we live on.
If a government wanted to spy on someone they would do it outside the government with more controlled small sized staffs regardless of the law.
The NSA program has strict safeguards, audits of all usage and review by the FISA courts of the audit quality.
Each probe has a designated tasking and scope limits.
I always laugh when I hear people say they are storing away everyones entire means of communication with full data.
Any idea how many server farms that would take and then how many people would you need to eyeball the data.
Comment Posted By SlimGuy On 1.08.2007 @ 09:57
