The WikiLeaks Brouhaha: Shooting the Messengers and Ignoring the Elephants,...
Part 1 of this series revisited Pfc. Manning's activities at Forward Operating Base Hammer with a focus on indicators that provided information about the level of oversight and risk management with...
View ArticleThe Wikileaks Brouhaha: Shooting the Messengers and Ignoring the Elephants,...
In Part 2, we looked at the security environment at FOB Hammer and discovered that there was effectively none. That was the first component of the "perfect storm" that enabled Pfc. Manning to collect...
View ArticleThe WikiLeaks Brouhaha: Shooting the Messengers and Ignoring the Elephants,...
So far in our story, we have focused on the role of the Department of Defense in facilitating Bradley Manning's opportunity to acquire and export so much classified information. In Part 4, we will...
View ArticleThe Wikileaks Brouhaha: Shooting the Messengers and Ignoring the Elephants,...
In this series, we looked at the incompetence and negligence in the Departments of Defense and State that resulted in an operating environment that enabled Bradley Manning to copy hundreds of thousands...
View ArticleMolly Ivins did not exaggerate
From TPMMuckraker: Texas GOP’s 2012 Platform Opposes Teaching Of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’Actually, the title is a bit sensationalist . . . but not by much. And from my perspective, the author of the...
View ArticleAuthoritarians at the Gate
"Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people...
View ArticleBush's legacy is more than Iraq . . . *facedesk*
Yesterday, Kathleen Parker had posted on the Washington Post web site an article titled: "Bush's legacy is more than Iraq." In it she argues that W was . . . more than a composite of swagger and smirk....
View ArticleThere Is Hope After All
Was following my nose around the interwebs and ran into this on the Salon site. Apparently, Dub decided that it was prudent to cancel the trip he'd planned to take to Switzerland later this week to...
View ArticleThe joke's on him
Today's Guardian web site posted an op-ed by John Bolton (as in Bush's UN ambassador). When I saw who wrote it, I thought I knew what I was in for if I read it, but I was curious about how he would...
View ArticleHypocrisy, Thy Name Is Christianity
Today was a great day for watching high RWA Christians in their natural habitat. For bait we had the two most recent rulings by the Supreme Court . . . the one that gutted legislation that was designed...
View ArticleIs There A Darwin Award for Hypocrisy?
I have a very strong opinion about the government showdown and harbor some particularly ill will toward Republitarians (high RWA Republicans). Robert Altemeyer, a psychologist who studied...
View ArticleInteresting deconstruction of Obama's NSA speech
There's an article with the title "Those NSA 'reforms' in full: El Reg translates US Prez Obama's pledges" on today's Register. The subtitle says it all: "Filleting fact from fiction."Here's what it's...
View ArticleCould It Be True? Tree-huggers at the National Review?!?!?
I don't know how I ended up there, but I just stumbled onto this: National Review article "Obama's Earth Day Travels Will Generate 868 Tons of Carbon."There really wasn't any point to the article...
View ArticleRewriting "Deliverance"
If James Dickey were to write the screenplay for "Deliverance" today, the "squeal like a pig" scene would have turned out completely differently. Today, the governor of Georgia signed House Bill 60...
View ArticleThe Perfect Troll
In today's Washington Post there is an article in the Style blog by Caitlin Dewey by the title of "'I will get the people to buy into my works just to rip their hearts out.' A Q&A with a...
View ArticleThere's Some Information In There, Somewhere
I was banging around the Interwebs earlier this evening and I stumbled on this column on the Huffington Post: Megyn Kelly Battles Joe ScarboroughUnder other circumstances, I would not have followed the...
View ArticleBy the Book
Russia is raising the stakes in eastern Ukraine. In the past couple of weeks we've seen: - August 14: An "aid" convoy from Russia, which included military vehicles . . . which proceeded into the...
View ArticleNew Orleans LEAs Get Snow Camo From USG
Yes, it's true. New Orleans did get 20 snow camouflage parkas in their latest tranche of goodies from the DoD. They also got a "rough terrain" forklift, 21 7.62 mm rifles (probably M4s . . . probably...
View ArticleThe GOP clown show, Hillary’s challenge, and our dangerously frozen democracy
That is the title of one of the best articles on the current state of national politics. He takes on the Republican Party and the Democratic Party as well as the usual suspects, Boehner, McConnel and...
View ArticleMemo to all Texans who are in a panic about Jade Helm 15
Don't panic.There is nothing in Texas that is of any interest to anyone else in the Universe. You people take solipsism to a whole new level. You have nothing to fear from the Constructor Fleet. It has...
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