tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5718030277401252104..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: David Letterman says he is creepy.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85817614569014236312009-10-03T09:48:36.880-04:002009-10-03T09:48:36.880-04:00One more before, I go.
one of my favorites
This...One more before, I go. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57aPmHnw7cU" rel="nofollow">one of my favorites</a><br /><br />This should get me on the list, damn it.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44803841013012645852009-10-03T09:41:24.860-04:002009-10-03T09:41:24.860-04:00Just don't ever nod in agreement it could lead...Just don't ever nod in agreement it could lead you to trouble.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76886894258733339912009-10-03T09:33:00.902-04:002009-10-03T09:33:00.902-04:00I had an excellent time, mostly trying to decipher...I had an excellent time, mostly trying to decipher the ramblings of a charming Scotsman - all of whom, I beg the Foreign Office, need to come with helpful subtitles.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9921666493490342662009-10-03T09:28:45.242-04:002009-10-03T09:28:45.242-04:00Trish does not conga.
No incentive great enough, ...Trish does not conga.<br /><br />No incentive great enough, nor state of intoxication. Believe me.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47252758115589148032009-10-03T09:28:04.062-04:002009-10-03T09:28:04.062-04:00Well, doug, that story about US troops doing battl...Well, doug, that story about US troops doing battle in Afghanistan is interesting.<br /><br />One wonders why their mortar rounds were not dispersed amongst their mortar positions, but held centrally in a single target-able location. Leading to catastrophe.<br /><br />How many casualties did the US troops induce, with that high volume of fire. Were they hitting anyone, or keeping just their heads down?<br /><br />From that snippet, from the BC, I'd say our troops were ill led and suffered from a lack of fire control discipline. <br /><br />Brave men that they are, regardless.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19735278849338672812009-10-03T09:27:29.593-04:002009-10-03T09:27:29.593-04:00I hope you had fun.
Just as soon as, I'm do...I hope you had fun. <br /><br />Just as soon as, I'm done my coffee, I'll let you all get back to your regular programming.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30115075064575957872009-10-03T09:24:31.138-04:002009-10-03T09:24:31.138-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51882757908906078652009-10-03T09:17:46.812-04:002009-10-03T09:17:46.812-04:00Trish, obviously my drinking took place, in my hom...Trish, obviously my drinking took place, in my home...alone, while others were out having a good time. It's a shame, I definitely would have been in that conga line. I usually start the damn thing. <br /><br />And, if I were there you wouldn't have been watching you would have been joining in.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87010436311932385472009-10-03T09:10:40.963-04:002009-10-03T09:10:40.963-04:00I never slept with anyone to get where I am.
...I never slept with anyone to get where I am.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Oh, wait. That's about all I did to get where I am.<br /><br />And some of us were indeed out drinking last night and watching (ahem) certain others of a certain age do the conga line.<br /><br />And our Venezuelan counterparts do indeed know how to party with the Great Satan, given appropriate quantities of booze. Isn't that good to know?trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30172539101041235582009-10-03T09:06:08.382-04:002009-10-03T09:06:08.382-04:00And of course it wouldn't be me without a litt...And of course it wouldn't be me without a little <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqKKDKTqT-g" rel="nofollow">wickedness</a>MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45550602362641206832009-10-03T09:01:55.015-04:002009-10-03T09:01:55.015-04:00I can even go for a little country
How about you?...I can even go for a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrjBtABaiIA" rel="nofollow">little country</a><br /><br />How about you?MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79689987098799400752009-10-03T08:57:19.296-04:002009-10-03T08:57:19.296-04:00How ironic is this<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I87zMVtAdiw" rel="nofollow">How ironic is this</a>MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46565870640789349682009-10-03T08:47:02.535-04:002009-10-03T08:47:02.535-04:00Glenn Reynolds Interview - The Warrior Ethos of St...<a href="http://www.pjtv.com/v/2511" rel="nofollow">Glenn Reynolds Interview - The Warrior Ethos of Steven Pressfield</a>Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42013444822433382312009-10-03T08:41:38.174-04:002009-10-03T08:41:38.174-04:00Well, since that didn't work out, I could alwa...Well, since that didn't work out, I could always go with the music video route. <br /><br />I'm very flexible. It doesn't always have to be about the 70's. <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAcsKJKM_xM" rel="nofollow">Like this for instance</a>MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60190927517627321442009-10-03T08:37:36.904-04:002009-10-03T08:37:36.904-04:00The Brits have always had the Best Soldiers, and t...The Brits have always had the Best Soldiers, and the worst Generals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35572631286490245312009-10-03T08:08:07.481-04:002009-10-03T08:08:07.481-04:00YON The Greatest Afghan War
The Greatest Afghanis...<a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/01/yon-the-greatest-afghan-war//print/" rel="nofollow"> YON The Greatest Afghan War</a><br /><br />The Greatest Afghanistan War has deteriorated so noticeably that one can now feel the enemy's growing pulse. Each month it beats steadier, stronger, and in 2010 it will finally be born. <br />---<br />On Aug. 26, I was in Helmand with the British when a bomb exploded in Kandahar, killing at least 41 people and blowing out windows in the room I later rented to write this account. There were bombs and attacks on a daily basis in Kandahar but I only watch from the roof as Afghans kill Afghans. Potential for civil war is great. <br /><br />In this unprecedented moment, dozens of the world's most notable nations have focused on helping one land, yet Western sympathies for Afghanistan already have peaked. <br /><br />While an Afghan avalanche is poised, our thoughts are growing cold. This is it. Either we will begin to show progress by the end of 2010 or, piece by piece, the coalition will cleave off and drift away, meaning 2011 will begin the end to significant involvement in Afghanistan.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88552650822739349672009-10-03T06:38:23.431-04:002009-10-03T06:38:23.431-04:00'We pity the Brits' the view from the Mari...<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/we-pity-the-brits-the-view-from-the-marines-1782093.html" rel="nofollow"> 'We pity the Brits' the view from the Marines - </a><br /><br />US troops in Afghanistan are shocked by the standard of equipment their British counterparts have to use. <br /><br />The Marines speak with nothing but respect for those who held this ground in far fewer numbers – the British servicemen who passed, as some might say, this poisoned chalice on to them. If anything, there is muted admiration for how they coped with less equipment, particularly with their vehicles.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73572263615288144912009-10-03T06:13:37.776-04:002009-10-03T06:13:37.776-04:00Taliban Inroads in north imperil path for U.S. mat...<a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/01/taliban-impairs-supply-route/" rel="nofollow"> Taliban Inroads in north imperil path for U.S. materials</a><br /><br />Growing Taliban influence in northern Afghanistan is threatening a new military supply line painstakingly negotiated by the U.S. as rising violence takes hold on the one-time Silk Road route. <br /><br />The north has deteriorated over just a few months, showing how quickly Taliban influence is spreading in a once peaceful area. Local officials say the Taliban are establishing a shadow government along the dilapidated road that ultimately could prevent vital supplies carried in hundreds of trucks every week from reaching the military. It also raises the danger that the supplies could end up in militant hands as fodder for suicide attacks. <br /><br />People in Baghlan and Kunduz provinces complain that international forces, the government in Kabul and aid have passed them by in favor of more troublesome regions. Militants are taking advantage of that resentment, and control by either Afghan or international forces is slipping. <br />"For the past two to three years, it's deteriorated day by day,"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72663156612456911212009-10-03T00:56:27.750-04:002009-10-03T00:56:27.750-04:00Somebody from BC, 'Rat.
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U.S. Review of Bat...Somebody from BC, 'Rat.<br />---<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/world/asia/03battle.html?hp" rel="nofollow">U.S. Review of Battle Disaster Sways Strategy on Afghanistan</a><br /><br />A 2008 firefight in eastern Afghanistan has become a template for how not to win there, and helps to explain the strategy of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.<br /><br />The battle of Wanat is being described as the “Black Hawk Down” of Afghanistan, with the 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three to one in a four-hour firefight that left nine Americans dead and 27 wounded in one of the bloodiest days of the eight-year war. <br /><br />Soldiers who survived the battle described how their automatic weapons turned white hot and jammed from nonstop firing. Mortally wounded troops continued to hand bullet belts to those still able to fire. <br /><br />The ammunition stockpile was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, igniting a stack of 120-millimeter mortar rounds — and the resulting fireball flung the unit’s antitank missiles into the command post. One insurgent got inside the concertina wire and is believed to have killed three soldiers at close range, including the platoon commander, Lt. Jonathan P. Brostrom.<br /><br />The description of the battle at Wanat — the heroism, the violence and the missteps that may have contributed to the deaths — ends with a judgment that the fight was “as remarkable as any small-unit action in American military history.”Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7704974793407827372009-10-03T00:39:00.004-04:002009-10-03T00:39:00.004-04:00No, MLD.
Letterman was an asshole long before h...No, MLD. <br /><br />Letterman was an asshole long before he admitted his latest zesty tales this week. I don't give a damn what he said this week. His bona fides as an asshole have been long established.<br /><br />He's also a jerk.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16034873490764342632009-10-02T23:22:04.374-04:002009-10-02T23:22:04.374-04:00What an asshole.What an asshole.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32216827134750242652009-10-02T23:21:45.226-04:002009-10-02T23:21:45.226-04:00Oh, yeah, he slept with several women at work and ...Oh, yeah, he slept with several women at work and someone tried to blackmail him for, what...two million dollars? Then he tried to justify it on national TV, making a joke out of it because his reputation was in jeopardy.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49981400126483340902009-10-02T23:08:50.545-04:002009-10-02T23:08:50.545-04:00Why is Letterman an asshole?Why is Letterman an asshole?MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63487879060248751862009-10-02T23:05:57.755-04:002009-10-02T23:05:57.755-04:00Who is going to shoot the first National Guardsman...Who is going to shoot the first National Guardsman, doug?desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26449041791047475062009-10-02T23:04:42.524-04:002009-10-02T23:04:42.524-04:00Three Google searches with surprising results:
le...Three Google searches with surprising results:<br /><br />letterman asshole--167,000 results<br /><br />strategically shaven--546,000 results<br /><br />rat wisdom--2,440,000 results<br /><br />Proving? <br /><br />The counter-intuitive property of complex systems.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.com