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Cool! It looks like Medea Benjamin got peppered.

Met him once back in the 60’s when we used to run the Middle Fork until the advent of the Kennedy’s ruined it.

Very interesting guy. Used to make his own black powder rifles. Rifled his barrels by pulling a die though them while turning the barrel. Glad he was able to pass on at home.

I received an email from a source in Searchlight who says that many of the greeters were homeless recruited from the streets of Las Vagas. Reportedly, they were given blue shirts money and a meal or two.

It seems that DU is down right right now. Database is glitching. Looks like the may be cleaning some archived posts. Do ya think????

Blaise Bon Pane??????? My Lord is he still alive?

Listen Bon Pane is a former 60's radical Marxist and SDS shill. I seem to remember that he is a defrocked priest who defected to Latin American revolutionaries and then fled to California. When I was running sources in the SDS in SoCal he popped up a lot in many of the debriefs. This is a guy who should be stuffed and mounted somewhere and used to scare children.

I don't have any of the files since the Feebs got very twitchy about our/my networks and had some of their people with bad breath and worse suits pick 'em all up. Note: the 115th MI Grp. had nothing to do with this operation.

Once upon a time there was a wing of the Republican Party that supported the Ripon Society and was known much later as the Rockafeller wing. There was a Republican left. They have been largely chased out of the party and hold their noses when they vote. McCain knows very well that there is an opening towards the non corporate center of the political spectrum.

From the Republican National Party's Website:

"At the time of its founding, the Republican Party was organized as an answer to the divided politics, political turmoil, arguments and internal division, particularly over slavery, that plagued the many existing political parties in the United States in 1854." For slavery, substitute abortion.

Sound familiar? There are new political formations being explored in Congress. An avalanche can start with just a single rock obeying gravity. I've been a Republican through thick and thin and registered as one the day after my 21st birthday in 1961. Here at the grass roots, we're just biding our time waiting for the right time to take control of our County Central Committee. And, we're Westerners not effete Eastern Establishment types. The far left isn't the only group that is rapidly maginalizing itself.

I'm in favor of the citizen's patrols. A few of us went down to the California/Mexico border last spring to amke contact with some local private land owners, drive some back roads and do a recon for possible similar action.

The locals advised us to adhere strictly to California Vehicle-Firearms laws because just driving on the roads were were going to drive on would gather fuzz like blue serge. They were right. We were stopped and checked twice by county deputies who lets us know, in no uncertain terms, that citizen patrols were not going to happen in California.

So were're a Four Wheel Drive Geology group now.

Also, it's called a covering charge. He would have had possible grounds to sue the jurisdiction. If he had had competent cousel it would have never gone to a plea deal.

If this guy was able to put this kind of information together from public sources, imagine what could be done from intelligence data. Social Network Analysis (SNA)was somewhat valuable, even in its' infancy, during the Vietnam War. It allowed targeting of the VC infrastructure. Couple this kind of thing with, for example, COMINT,Communications Intelligence and Traffic Analysis, and other tools and put them all together in a very advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) and you have real tool. Now couple it with other technology, such as that discussed in Bruce Sterling's article in the April 2002, Wired magazine about space based defense systems and you begin to see that this is a whole new form of warfare.

Have you read, "SOG:The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam" by John L. Plaster? Amazing stories. If they are even half-true, they make Rambo look tame. The Green Berets in Laos and Cambodia didn't need no steenkeen lasers to wrack up huge body counts - the did it the old fashioned way, with AR-15s, grenades and walkie-talkies!

Yeah, that's right. And, we took causalties like you wouldn't believe. And, we got dengue, drug resistant malaria, jungle sores and dysentery. Oh, and lots of good memories, such as boots with those M-16's with bayonets stuck between them. I'll take this method of fighting with lasers any day. The point, as I believe Patton said, is not to die for your country but to make the other poor, dumb ba****d die for his.

Can you trust that these are really pictures from the shoe bomb incident? Why are there no pictures of the guy who had the bomb?

No. Obvously they were produced by The Men In Black who have a nice tin hat waiting for disbelievers

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It only wastes your time and annoys the pig.

By their brave actions the Flight 93 passengers made that kind of takeover highly unlikely in the future.

However, over on DU, many still believe that the US government brought the plane down for nefarious conspiratorial reasons. Lots of foil hat conspiracies abound.

I am sure that they are using their mounted troops as maneuver elements and not in the role of Heavy Dragoons for shock value. I use shock in the sense of riding into massed shoulder to shoulder troops.

It would be interesting to work out tactical problems when you had a couple of hundred mounted troops to deploy.

In the time of the North West Territories, the youngest member of a Five would hold the horses. This meant that the FNG's held the horses until they could be trusted in battle.

They have been secretly lusting for piles of body bags and stacks of coffins at Dover AFB for several weeks now. They have a fixation on body bags. Not to worry though. They've been driving any voice of moderation out for a long time. Freeper alerts are their usual method just before somebody gets their postings and account nuked. At the current time and for the forseeable future, the left wing of the Democratic Party is just as marginalized and impotent as the outside the party protesting groups.

It's not time to invite them to a healthy year-round summer camp just yet. And, the DU'ers are just about as dangerous as my elderly maiden aunt. So, it's probably best to leave them in their little combination sand and cat box so they can't get up to any serious mischief.

HAL9000 sends.

More excellent news from the front lines. If Taloqan has indeed fallen than the Taleban in Konduz are trapped. Couple that with the drive on the Salang Pass and we are looking at a classic double envelopment, like Cannae or Tannenberg. Which means total destruction of the enemy in the north-east. Also, if Bamiyan has fallen, then the Northern Alliance are one hop from the main road from Kabul to Herat, so in a couple of days the Taleban forces in the west will also be cut off. The smart move now would be to keep the final road (Herat - Kandahar - Ghazni - Kabul) open, because that's the route the Pakistani fanatics are taking (Qetta - Charman - Kandahar) to get to the front line. Another 20,000 or so of them fed into the meat grinder will take a lot of internal pressure off Musharraf. Next places to watch? Qaleh-ye-Now, last defensive point before Herat, and Charikar, last ditch before Kabul. If the Alliance take Charikar, that's a pretty clear signal they intend to take Kabul too. And if they wheel around the western appoach, and seize Kowt-e-Ashrow, then the Taleban in Kabul also face destruction. Wow, a Schlieffen Plan style envelopment of the capital.

Concur.

Hey, it's BabelFish. The translations are usually "quaint".

The Tallywhackers would have to re-group and establish a line of resistance somewhere that counted. If the reports of the rapid collapse are accurate, then I don't see that happening any time soon as long as the NA can maintain the initiative.

A political initiative and humanitarian aid will need to be the next steps along with a co-operative effort to eradicate the remnants of the "foreigners" allied with OBL.

Unit cohesion went all to hell. The difference between a band of tribals and a real military unit is the ability to stage a co-ordinated, fighting, withdrawal. It is also the ability to handle the collapse and subsequent rout of adjacent supporting units.

Or, as was observed after First Manassas, "Them boys ran all the way to yet."