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Skip to comments.Mylroie: "..the source of the near-universal belief that Iraq had WMD
Posted on 10/25/2005 1:01:51 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
From: Laurie Mylroie firstname.lastname@example.com
Iraq News Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:04:26 -0400
Robert Kagan [link below] reminds us of the origin of the view that Iraq retained large quantities of weapons proscribed by UNSCR 687, the formal cease-fire to the 1991 Gulf War.
Following that war, it was long believed that the bulk of Iraq's WMD was destroyed in the month-long bombing campaign that began the U.S.-led assault to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. It was further assumed that the UN weapons inspectors, UNSCOM, were merely mopping up what remained.
But in August 1995, as Iraq was pressing UNSCOM to declare its work done, and even threatening to expel the inspectors, Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamil, who had been in charge of Iraq's weapons programs, defected to Jordan. The Iraqis panicked and told Rolf Ekeus, the chairman of UNSCOM, that he should visit Baghdad first, before meeting with Kamil. They were afraid of what Kamil might say and wanted to control the flow of information.
Ekeus played skillfully on the Iraqis' fears, and they acknowledged that all their proscribed programs were larger and more sophisticated than they had previously admitted. Yet all the material they now admitted to having had or produced, they claimed to have destroyed on their own (UNSCR 687 called for UNSCOM to supervise the destruction of such material).
UNSCOM asked the Iraqis to support that claim, whether by providing documents or witnesses who could describe the purported destruction. The Iraqis produced neither and in the fall of 1997, initiated a series of crises that had the effect of undermining support for UNSCOM. A year later, in December 1998, UNSCOM left Iraq in advance of a four day US/UK bombing campaign (Operation Desert Fox), and weapons inspectors never returned until late 2002.
This is the source of the near-universal belief that Iraq had such weapons--not shadowy defectors, nor rogue reporters. Moreover, the possibility remains that Iraq did have such weapons (or their immediate precursors) and destroyed, hid, and/or moved them on the eve of this war and that the subsequent investigation simply has not been done all that well. ~ Laurie Mylroie
It Wasn't Just Miller's Story --- By Robert Kagan Tuesday, October 25, 2005; A21
The Judith Miller-Valerie Plame-Scooter Libby imbroglio is being reduced to a simple narrative about the origins of the Iraq war. ...."
There is a big problem with this simple narrative. It is that the Times, along with The Post and other news organizations, ran many alarming stories about Iraq's weapons programs before the election of George W. Bush. A quick search through the Times archives before 2001 produces such headlines as "Iraq Has Network of Outside Help on Arms, Experts Say"(November 1998), "U.S. Says Iraq Aided Production of Chemical Weapons in Sudan"(August 1998), "Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort" (February 2000), "Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration" (February 2000), "Flight Tests Show Iraq Has Resumed a Missile Program" (July 2000). ..."
Many such stories appeared before and after the Clinton administration bombed Iraq for four days in late 1998 in what it insisted was an effort to degrade Iraqi weapons programs. ..."
This was the consensus before Bush took office, before Scooter Libby assumed his post and before Judith Miller did most of the reporting for which she is now, uniquely, criticized. It was based on reporting by a large of number of journalists who in turn based their stories on the judgments of international intelligence analysts, Clinton officials and weapons inspectors. As we wage what the Times now calls "the continuing battle over the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq," we will have to grapple with the stubborn fact that the underlying rationale for the war was already in place when this administration arrived. ..."
Glad to see Laurie Mylroie's article. Thanks. Most of those WMD's ended up in Syria. What else was in that endless stream of trucks heading for Syria as the war began?
Bless you! I was trying to think of her name this weekend, when in a discussion with a good soul who was drowning in the brackish MSM waters of spin that there were no WMDs.
Saddam's money??
You could toast marshmallows off that sarcasm.
So, its best stated that if anyone lied about WMD risk that list has to start with the Iraqi regime, the UN and then the lame stream media, the Clinton Administration and only after that do we begin to add in the deficiencies of the intel services and any conclusions reached by the Bush Administration.
Rush ran with this story today.
If Bush knew there were no WMDs and he lied and said there were just to take us to war for political gain, wouldn't he know that he would be found out?
Why not wait to start the war closer to election time? This way the fact there were no WMDs would not come out until after the election.
Why not just have Rove plant the WMDs over there?
Weren't there also RUSSIANS in the trucks?
Bump to the top.
Do you have a working link for this?
I wonder if the UN oil-for-food scandal has something to do with all this also. The embargo really didn't stop France, Germany, and Russia from making a profit smuggling arms to Saddam. Saddam had his public relations coup (US killing children.) UN folks and Saddam both making money hand over fist. The gravy train might end if the WMD were known to be destroyed.
I suspect Saddam had a deeper game going. He was continuing work, mostly through France. There were barrels and barrels of precursor finds with French labelling.
Laurie Mylroie is an expert on Issues related to Iraq, al Qaida and their relationship. I'm sorry that she hasn't written anything for some time. I always looked for her and Edward Jay Epstein's columns. Epstein was focusing intently on the Prague Connection and then dropped for his new book on Hollywood. It's a shame he hasn't picked up Atta, Prague and Able Danger.
Another person who emphatically believes that Iraq and WMDs and moved them to Syria en route possibly to the Bekaa Valley is recently retired USMC Gernal Michael P 'Rifle' Delong.
On November 16 (1997), Cohen made a widely reported appearance on ABC's This Week in which he placed a five-pound bag of sugar on the table and stated that that amount of anthrax "would destroy at least half the population" of Washington, D.C. Cohen explained how fast a person could die once exposed to anthrax. "One of the things we found with anthrax is that one breath and you are likely to face death within five days. One small particle of anthrax would produce death within five days." And he noted that Iraq "has had enormous amounts" of anthrax. Cohen also spoke on the extreme lethality of VX nerve agent: "One drop [of VX] from this particular thimble as such -- one single drop will kill you within a few minutes." And he reminded the world that Saddam may have enough VX to kill "millions, millions, if it were properly dispersed and through aerosol mechanisms."
In Sacramento, November 15 (1997), Clinton painted a bleak future if nations did not cooperate against "organized forces of destruction," telling the audience that only a small amount of "nuclear cake put in a bomb would do ten times as much damage as the Oklahoma City bomb did." Effectively dealing with proliferation and not letting weapons "fall into the wrong hands" is "fundamentally what is stake in the stand off we're having in Iraq today."
He asked Americans to not to view the current crisis as a "replay" of the Gulf War in 1991. Instead, "think about it in terms of the innocent Japanese people that died in the subway when the sarin gas was released [by the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo in 1995]; and how important it is for every responsible government in the world to do everything that can possibly be done not to let big stores of chemical or biological weapons fall into the wrong hands, not to let irresponsible people develop the capacity to put them in warheads on missiles or put them in briefcases that could be exploded in small rooms. And I say this not to frighten you."
On November 25 (1997), the Pentagon released "Proliferation: Threat and Response." A few things stand out in the report. In the section on Iraq, the word "terrorism" (in any form) is not mentioned. It is, though, cited in the sections on Libya and Iran. The report stated that Iraq "probably has hidden" chemical munitions, "may retain some missile warheads" from its old biological program, and could jump-start production of chemical and biological weapons "should UN sanctions and monitoring end or be substantially reduced."
Cohen began his press briefing on the Pentagon report by showing a picture of a Kurdish mother and her child who had been gassed by Saddam's army. A bit later, standing besides the gruesome image, he described death on a mass scale. "One drop [of VX nerve agent] on your finger will produce death in a matter of just a few moments. Now the UN believes that Saddam may have produced as much as 200 tons of VX, and this would, of course, be theoretically enough to kill every man, woman and child on the face of the earth." He then sketched an image of a massive chemical attack on an American city. Recalling Saddam's use of poison gas and the sarin attack in Tokyo, Cohen warned that "we face a clear and present danger today" and reminded people that the "terrorist who bombed the World Trade Center in New York had in mind the destruction and deaths of some 250,000 people that they were determined to kill."
Asked whether Iraq had moved "any of his programs underground into these hardened facilities," Cohen responded that he didn't know whether Saddam had "moved these chemicals or biological agents and materials --- not only the agents themselves, but documentation .... So we don't know whether they've moved them into hardened shelters or underground bunkers." He spoke of Iraqi weapons as fact, not a probability or likelihood"
A few days later, on February 7 (1998), Clinton, joined by Prime Minister Blair, devoted his Saturday radio address to Iraq. Noting the two were speaking from the same room where FDR and Churchill "charted our path victory in World War II," Clinton told Americans that we now face "a new nexus of threats, none more dangerous than chemical and biological weapons, and the terrorists, criminals and outlaw states that seek to acquire them." He warned that "Iraq continues to conceal chemical and biological weapon[s]," "has the "missiles that can deliver them" and "has the capacity to quickly restart production of these weapons."
And it just goes on and on... Link to Project for the American Century Site
Does ANYONE know what happened to the three circling ships we were monitoring in the Indian ociean before the start of the war??
Yeah...these people are frauds. Heck, it was just days after Bush's 2001 Inauguration that the NY Times, with the help of William Cohen (Clinton's Sec. of Defense) were writing stories "warning" the incoming Bush administration of the danger we faced from a rearming Saddam Hussein. Under the 1/22/01 headlines, the NYT's reported via Cohen that "Iraq Resumes WMD Activities," as their own reporters, Eric Schmitt and Steven Meyers, reported that "Iraq Rebuilt Weapons Factories."
These stories concluded that:
"While officials have previously disclosed that Iraq had rebuilt missile plants destroyed in the 1998 strikes, the Jan. 10 report released by Mr. Cohen was the first public acknowledgment of the resumption of work at suspected chemical and biological plants....Some of Iraq's facilities could be converted fairly quickly to production of chemical weapons," the report said at one point. It went on to warn, "Iraq retains the expertise, once a decision is made, to resume chemical agent production within a few weeks or months, depending on the type of agent."
Newsweek magazine ran an article in its January 11, 1999, issue headed, "Saddam + Bin Laden?" "Here's what is known so far:"
"Saddam Hussein, who has a long record of supporting terrorism, is trying to rebuild his intelligence network overseas--assets that would allow him to establish a terrorism network. U.S. sources say he is reaching out to Islamic terrorists, including some who may be linked to Osama bin Laden, the wealthy Saudi exile accused of masterminding the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa last summer."
On January 15, 1999, ABC News reported that three intelligence agencies believed that Saddam had offered asylum to bin Laden:
"Intelligence sources say bin Laden's long relationship with the Iraqis began as he helped Sudan's fundamentalist government in their efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. ABC News has learned that in December, an Iraqi intelligence chief named Faruq Hijazi, now Iraq's ambassador to Turkey, made a secret trip to Afghanistan to meet with bin Laden. Three intelligence agencies tell ABC News they cannot be certain what was discussed, but almost certainly, they say, bin Laden has been told he would be welcome in Baghdad."
NPR reporter Mike Shuster interviewed Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism center, and offered this report:
"Iraq's contacts with bin Laden go back some years, to at least 1994, when, according to one U.S. government source, Hijazi met him when bin Laden lived in Sudan." According to Cannistraro, Iraq invited bin Laden to live in Baghdad to be nearer to potential targets of terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
By mid-February 1999, journalists did not even feel the need to qualify the claims about WMDs and an Iraq-al Qaeda relationship. An Associated Press dispatch that ran in the Washington Post ended this way:
"The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden, who openly supports Iraq against Western powers." Where did journalists get the idea that Saddam and bin Laden might be coordinating efforts? Among other places, from high-ranking Clinton administration officials. In the spring of 1998--well before the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa--the Clinton administration indicted Osama bin Laden. The indictment, unsealed a few months later, prominently cited al Qaeda's agreement to 'collaborate with Iraq and Saddam on weapons of mass destruction'..."
What makes this even more relevant WRT Wilson and his Niger claims is that Saddam already possessed 500 tons of Uranium long before we even went into Iraq. Not only has the media ignored this story, they didn't seem to have any questions about where Saddam may have procured it. The fact that they took Wilson's claims at face value, when he even acknowledged that Niger was approached by Saddam's reps in 1999 to seal a deal, indicates they have no need for the truth. The fact that Niger would deny any deal with Saddam seems to only come as a surprise to Wilson (and his media brethren)...since such an admission would've been a clear violation of International Law and UN sanctions.
From the Kay and Duelfer(sp) Reports on WMDs to the Butler and Senate Intel Reports (discrediting Joe Wilson)....and even the 9/11 Commission Report, the media has either ignored or totally misprepresented the facts in each of these investigations to advance the Democrats anti-Bush agenda. And they have played these political games at the cost of endangering our soldiers lives and the lives of each and every one of us. This is no longer just a biased media; they have become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat party, using the power of the press and their 1st Amendment privledges (and Shield Laws) to advance an agenda that we couldn't legally do without violating some law.
I don't have a working link to this because the source was her email news letter she sends me. All I have is her email address: Laurie Mylroie at: firstname.lastname@example.com I included that in my post.
"The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden, who openly supports Iraq against Western powers." Where did journalists get the idea that Saddam and bin Laden might be coordinating efforts? Among other places, from high-ranking Clinton administration officials. In the spring of 1998--well before the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa--the Clinton administration indicted Osama bin Laden. The indictment, unsealed a few months later, prominently cited al Qaeda's agreement to 'collaborate with Iraq and Saddam on weapons of mass destruction'..."
I can't seem to find a link, but wasn't Zarqawi treated in Baghdad before the Iraq war because of wounds he sustained fighting us in Afghanistan?
Yes, AZ was treated in one of Saddam's sons hospitals after he was injured in Afghanistan and well before we even went to war with Iraq. In fact, I think Powell even included this in his UN speech. Also remember that AZ was meeting (and helping finance) Ansar Al-Islam in N. Iraq, which started getting set-up before 9/11 even happened. People forget that AZ was a top Lt. in one of Bin Laden's Afghanistan's terrorist camps and he was trying to establish this AQ affiliate with Ansar before we even went into Iraq.
Here's a copy of the UBL indictment:
It should also be noted for those libs who like to say that AZ and Ansar were a threat to Saddam...and that he would not work with them; The Clinton era indictment states this:
"Additionally, the indictment states that Al Qaeda reached an agreement with Iraq not to work against the regime of Saddam Hussein and that they would work cooperatively with Iraq, particularly in weapons development."
I agree with your assessment .. and some of it went to Russia - who has admitted they did retrieve some WMD - what quantity or substance - I've never been able to find out.
However, I love this statement: "the underlying rationale for the war was already in place when this [Bush] administration arrived".
Rush talked at length about this today. He was probably reading from this article. Rush kept repeating that the media wants the world to believe that nobody was talking about WMD until Bush arrived in office. As these articles prove, the whole world was talking about it.
Yrs: "What else was in that endless stream of trucks heading for Syria as the war began?
Saddam's money??"
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
- Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has invigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of an ilicit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
- Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL,) and others, December 5, 2001
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do"
-Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime...He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation...And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction...So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real."
-Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
So the democrats say President Bush lied, that there never were any weapons of mass destruction and he took us to war for his oil buddies? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........................
The Russians had a policy for recovering 'illegal' arms and hiding them should the purchaser have to surrender to a greater force.
The stockpiles in IRAQ were quickly moved by a consortium of 'russians' (an easy description for far east organized crime) to Syria for storage in safe , underground facilities.
We watched them do it. We even helped. Better for the weapons to be secured, than for one of Saddam's sons to decide to use it.
I just recall the Russians being mad that we bombed their "diplomats" while they were high-tailing it to Syria.
Good post. Thanks. FReeper comments/research...GREAT!
The MSM wants no part of a story like this --it might just show Bush was right.
History will show that the MSM is simply an out of touch propaganda machine for what I call the "Lost Utopians",
those who follow the line of the DNC. Those retards are dangerous.
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I migrated my blog to WordPress around a month ago and have been really happy, I'm fairly new to web applications and blogging but its been a great exercise.
Today I have upgraded to 2.3 and like the addition of tags but want to get some advice on best practices, here's a few questions:
Should I add tags to all my previous posts?
Whats the difference between catorgories and tags?

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How do you have a category with things in it, but just not published?
You see, I'm writing an FAQ for my site, but I don't want it to be in my recent, top posts. I would like it to just be there in case someone clicks on it, but I don't want it to be the first thing someone sees when they come to my site as a new post.
So is there a way to hide posts? But still have the content of it in your site? (like on the sidebar where someone would have to actually click in it to view it)
And is there a way to arrange the categories in the order I like? I've tried rearranging the categories in a certain order, but I don't know how...
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I'm using the Coraline theme. Our site is basically set up as a static website instead of a blog. However, there is no reason that we could not have a hybrid website/blog. We are a non-profit chefs association. Each of our chapter officers have their own page with a contact form and a photo and, perhaps, a short bio.
MY QUESTION: Can I assign a contributor role to each officer with permission to edit only their own page(s) and blog category?
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That was totally it :D
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Finally putting this plugin to good use. I noticed though on the results page in my plugins menu, it shows all the files that were cached along with time statistics, etc. Since I set it to crawl every hour, this getting to be one REALLY long page.
Does the plugin eventually reset the stats? Otherwise, errr.... that could be a problem. :-)


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By Sgt. 1st Class Steven AkanaSeptember 15, 2011
FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Sunday is the start of Child Passenger Safety Week, which runs through Sept. 24. Current studies indicate that one of the leading causes of death for children between 1 and 14 years of age is accidental injury, with motor vehicle-related accidents topping the list. It stands to reason, therefore, that the safe travel of a child in a vehicle is of paramount concern to parents.
You can help prevent these tragedies by ensuring your child is safely secured in a child safety seat that has been properly installed. The type of safety seat suitable for your child will be based on your child's age and weight. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at www.nhtsa.gov offers a detailed chart for car seat recommendations and proper usage.
South Carolina safety laws affirm that while riding in a vehicle, children younger than 6 must be properly restrained by an approved child safety seat.
State law also includes the following conditions for compliance:
* Children younger than 1 or weighing less than 20 pounds must be in a rear-facing child safety seat.
* Children between the ages of 1 and 5, weighing between 20 to 40 pounds, must be in a forward-facing child safety seat.
* Children between the ages of 1 and 5, weighing between 40 to 80 pounds, must be in a booster seat secured by lap/shoulder belt (lap belt alone is not permissible).
* Regardless of age, children weighing 80 pounds or those who can sit straight with his or her back firmly against the back seat and can bend their legs over the seat's edges are not required to be in a booster seat.
In general, children younger than 6 cannot ride in the front seat. The law states that this stipulation is waived if the vehicle does not have a back seat, or if the back seat is occupied by other children younger than 6.
This is the law, and violators are subject to a fine of $150 for the first offense.
Additional information regarding safety seat installation and regulations can be obtained by visiting your local Office of Highway Safety, or call (877) 349-7187.
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken
122 used & new
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fair and Balanced Review
Sept. 7 2003
This review is from:
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Hardcover)
I've resolved to use the term "fair and balanced" as often as I can when in public. I'm off to a slow start as I've only done it once so far. Well, twice if you include the "fair and balanced" in the first sentence there. And three times if you include that one. See how easy it is? I encourage everyone to start using it as much as possible. With Fox fighting all these lawsuits, maybe Rupert Murdoch will eventually go broke!
Okay, let's clear up some misconceptions about "Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" -- those misconceptions propagated mainly by the one-star reviews written by people who obviously did not read the book. The book is not about proving conclusively a conservative bias in the media as a whole. Here, Franken makes a two-pronged argument. First, that there is a well-funded portion of media that does indeed have a conservative bias and that by their repeating lies over and over again, eventually some of it seeps through to the mainstream media. Franken's second point is that ". . . there are other, far more important, biases in the mainstream media than liberal or conservative ones." Like the ". . . bias toward the Sensational, involving Scandal, and hopefully Sex or Violence. . ." or the Easy-and-Cheap-to-Cover, Get-It-First, Pack Mentality, Negativity, Soft News, Don't-Offend-the-Conglomerate-That-Owns-Us, Hoping-There's-a-War-to-Cover biases. To name a few. The poignant chapter on the Paul Wellstone memorial is a good case study of how the conservative media is able to exploit these ingrained biases in order to propagate their lies.
The point of the book is also not to be an all-encompassing catalog of the lies of the Right. Early on, Franken says he made the observation to a friend that going after Ann Coulter is like shooting fish in a barrel. To which his friend replied, "I've never shot fish in a barrel. But I could imagine that after a while it could get boring." So, Franken's goal is to illuminate with representative examples in order to reveal the bigger pattern. Take, for example, Bill O'Reilly's repeated claim that Inside Edition won two Peabody Awards which turned out to be one Polk Award the show won a year after O'Reilly left Inside Edition. "So he made a mistake! Big deal," you say. Well, aside from the fact that he repeated this misstatement (ironically, about a journalism award) several times in order to give Inside Edition -- and, by extension, O'Reilly himself -- the veneer of respectability, it was his crybaby reaction to being corrected that's so telling. Instead of simply admitting that he made a mistake, he used his own show as a soapbox and said he never made any claims about a Peabody and that, therefore, he was the victim of "attack journalism."
In addition to outright lies, Franken tackles duplicity and hypocricy found in rants from the Right. Take the following two quotes, for example.
1."They haven't prepared for anything in this. And they're running out of weapons to do it. And frankly, I don't think [the President] has the moral authority or ability to fight this war correctly."
2."You don't have to take cheap political partisan shots at the commander in chief and say to the world that he doesn't have the experience to lead when he is leading men and women into harm's way."
That second quote is from Sean Hannity on March 27, 2003, and it sounds kinda like he's refuting that first quote there, doesn't it? Except that the first quote is also Sean Hannity, on May 10, 1999, in reference to the war in Kosovo. You know, when Clinton was leading men and women into harm's way.
Perhaps I've not convinced you yet of the brilliance of Al Franken? Of the fair and balanced nature of the arguments in the book? Well then I'd like to close with one last quote from the book -- some sage words from a man even stalwarts of the Nutty Right (yes, even Ann Coulter) have no grievance with. That's right, I'm talking about Mr. Sneer himself, Dick Cheney: "A commander in chief leads the military built by those who came before him. There is little that he or his defense secretary can do to improve the force they have to deploy. It is all the work of previous administrations. Decisions made today shape the force of tomorrow. . ." Of course, Cheney made the comments in August 2000. He continues on, saying he called up Ronald Reagan to thank him personally for the military that won the first Gulf War. And that's why we've been so inundated with nonstop coverage of Cheney's public declarations of gratitude to Bill Clinton. Especially with this liberal media.
Great Books Of The 20th Century Gravitys Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
16 used & new
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Toothsome Challenge Turns Out Merely Long in the Tooth
April 15 2003
This review is from:
Great Books Of The 20th Century Gravitys Rainbow (Paperback)
Maybe it's the wide variety of styles and motifs used in this psychedelic hippy dippy slide show as we jump from vignette to vignette that added - intentionally, I'm sure - to the disorientation and vertigo I felt trying to slog my way through Gravity's Rainbow. But I'm not convinced my rising gorge was caused so much by brilliant exposition as by the sensation of Pynchon casting about like a man going down for the third time, grabbing at any piece of flotsam floating through his consciousness at the moment. This can lead to some creative anecdotes, I grant, but there are just too many ancillary passages that peter out into ". . . . . ." when the steam's run out that I'm quite convinced Pynchon himself lost the thread. It isn't his, ". . . Tree of Life, which must be apprehended all at once, together, in parallel" style, or the way the story bounced around in space and time that caused my eyes to glaze over but these rants of Pynchon's, which add nothing to our understanding of Tyrone Slothrop or the overall mood of the book unless that mood is one of random meaninglessness - completely antithetical to the Grand Conspiracy in which Pynchon is so insistent his characters believe they are immersed. Pynchon spews forth these digressions in an unending torrent (digressions heading off on tangents, defined by ever finer changes in the "Ecks!" and "Why?") as if he expects the reader to share the same paranoid/drug-addled state of mind as his characters ("in the zone," so to speak har-har, where, since anything can happen, it necessarily does!) so that the proper irrational conclusions will be drawn, "Oh, the complete history of Slothrop's zoot suit and Planetoid Katspiel where pinballs come from . . . a-and oh yeah! Byron, the immortal light bulb and a giant, trained octopus that - wait a minute, *immortal* light? Now, I don't want to be an alarmist here, but it's all coming clear . . . sort of . . . at least I sense it coming clear soon." That moment just before the synapses snap to! Sweet anticipation of the Big Revelation when the scales will fall and They will be named. Pynchon is a master at postponing that moment indefinitely and keeping it all lively with his fancy oh-wow-man-I-wish-I-was-high-right-now-so-I-could-appreciate-this footwork.
The humor in the book mainly derives from Pynchon's cranking up the gross-out factor which I'm sure was cutting edge in 1973 and seems to be the reason Gravity's Rainbow has been able to coast so long on it's notoriety. Burlesque denizens of the Zone soft-shoe (or sometimes foxtrot) their way across the story in droves. The effeminate soldier who is not taken in by a diversionary ploy involving buxom showgirls, and who, when confronted at gunpoint ("'. . .this is out of bounds, you big sillies.'"), fairly hikes up skirt and scampers off Stage Left is played for laughs, but such humor strikes me as being more hopelessly dated than universal, the innuendo about as subtle as Eric Idle as that Monty Python character, poking us in the ribs, "Wink wink, nudge nudge. Say no more, say no more. Eh? Eh?!"
However, while I can resent Pynchon for his self-indulgence, I can't hate him because there is some fine writing in Gravity's Rainbow, but pointing out what exactly is appealing is a task akin to pulling hair out of molasses. The problem is he oversells the lie that is supposed to contain the kernel of truth hidden within. The facade is encrusted with too many gargoyles; cherubim and succubi jostle for space, bodies pressed together obscenely; caryatids groan under the weight not only of spires, clock towers, dormers, balconies, balustrades and the crenulated eaves of the roof, but are called upon to support each other. There's graffiti over the gilded, gessoed, plastered, parqueted, mosaicked, painted, carpeted surfaces. It snakes around corners, up and over statuary and seems innocuous enough - a tooth blacked out on Priapus, Aphrodite with Groucho brows -oh look! A marble micromosaic depicting an alchemist holding aloft the Philosopher's Stone, said Stone surrounded by requisite halo of cartoony light-rays (and that's not meant to be *sun* light, if you know what I mean) - or is that a Chess piece he's holding? Made of Imipolex G? Hard to tell: it's been obscured by the words, "Rocketman was here!" But mentally unfold the surfaces: ceiling, wall, floor; lay them flat, smooth the ripples in masonry and certain areas of graffiti spread, break apart while others overlap, creating dark shadows and a form takes shape - like a Mad Magazine Fold-In but in reverse - a pictogram emerges - the back of a giant hand, fingers curled away except the middle one. But no. That's not the message we want to see and now the spell's been broken. Anything we might have seen there dissipates into the Aether, much like Slothrop himself eventually does. In the end, there isn't so much a structure standing there before us as it is an amalgamation of decorations and conceits.
Or is that exactly what They want us to believe?
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
by Carl Zimmer
49 used & new
5.0 out of 5 stars
Of fish antifreeze and whale feet
Oct. 6 2002
This review is from:
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea (Hardcover)
Learning about walking whales is just one reason to buy this book. As Carl Zimmer so concisely points out in Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, no scientific theory can ever be directly proven. But a theory generates hypotheses that make predictions, and these can be tested. Zimmer, delivering the most up-to-date information on the scientific consensus, shows that evolution has amassed over a century's worth of such testable predictions. He explains evolution's global journey, extracting the most important points and illuminating with representative examples along the way.
In one chapter of the book, Zimmer delivers a brilliant knockout punch to Intelligent Design, exposing it as repackaging of the irreducible complexity argument. It used to be thought that the eye was far too complex to have developed in a step-by-step (i.e. evolutionary) process. Take away any part of the eye and, like taking a cog out of a clock, it becomes useless, therefore must have been created whole, right? As it turns out, there are many examples of "partial" eyes in nature. I love how the editors have boldly used this icon of creationism on the cover of the book. Contrary to what a reviewer below claims about the book (which makes me skeptical that the person actually read it), Zimmer does indeed give examples of how complex biochemical reactions evolved - like blood clots, which depend on a cascade of different interactions, any one step of which, if missing, will cause the process to fail. It seems proponents of irreducible complexity must keep reducing the area defined as "too complex."
All in all, this is an excellent book to get an overview of the most current research on evolution. It's a great starting point for further reading into the finer points of evolution theory. Oh, and fish antifreeze? You'll just have to read the book.
Novelty: Four Stories
by John Crowley
34 used & new
4.0 out of 5 stars
Soulful delectations from one of my favorite authors
June 21 2002
This review is from:
Novelty: Four Stories (Paperback)
This collection of four stories by John Crowley covers a wide range of themes and styles. Here's the breakdown by story.
The Nightingale Sings at Night is Crowley's version of a Creation and Fall myth that is clever and cute but lacking the depth of meaning and rich textures that I've grown accustomed to in his writing.
Great Work of Time is a strong entry with vivid descriptions that evoke the proper mood for the times and places we're shown. Crowley presents a unique concept for time travel and the "effects" of altering the past. But he falls into the same trap many writers before him have in writing time traveling stories: eventually he over explains his idea in pages of exposition. Crowley is such a talented writer I felt he could easily have written these portions instead as events in the story, subtly building the air of mystery he so successfully achieves in the rest of the narrative. Some of these passages read more like notes to himself than useful story devices and the overall effect is that this tale would be a good candidate for a rewrite in an expanded and more fleshed out form. The all too brief glimpse into the future shows us a wonderfully distorted world inhabited by strange creatures, but we never learn much about them. I really wanted more. Overall, what's present is classic Crowley, but seems somehow unfinished.
With the story In Blue, Crowley departs from sensuous descriptions in favor of a more sparse style to evoke the sterile world in which his characters move (reminding me of a Kubrik film). Every event that happens and thought that Hare has adds to his breakdown in a believable way. But what I still have not reconciled is Crowley's attitude towards this world. At first it all appears a set up for an indictment of the catch-22 logic of this mild mannered dystopia, but what are we to think when Hare eventually finds his place in the Revolution? I'll be mulling this one over for some time to come.
And in Novelty we see possibly the kernel of inspiration for the Aegypt books. There are strong parallels between the writer character in Novelty and Pierce Moffett, both impotently trying to convey mystical deep meanings that seemingly lose their impact once expressed. This one was a little hard to get into at first. For me, writers writing about (not) writing ranks up there with films about filmmaking. Can it be well done? Yes, but it still seems too self-involved. Novelty is rather short, though, and by the end I was engrossed, mainly because the writer character gets around to describing what he wants to write instead of describing how he can't get around to writing. In fact, these passages read more like poetry than prose and coalesce beautifully.
I highly recommend this book for Crowley fans. But for those unfamiliar with him, Otherwise: Three Novels might be a better place to start. Engine Summer alone is worth the price of admission.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott
140 used & new
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Flat Out Fun Read
June 6 2002
This review is from:
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
Certainly the saving graces of this little gem are its brevity and Abbot's creativity. Much more of the descriptions of life in Flatland would have bordered on tedium. However, the explanation for the banishment of color in Flatland was very clever and one of the better parts of the story. As it is, it's a humorous, demure satire in the Swiftian vein whereby the protagonist, A. Square, teaches us about his world, has a series of adventures, and learns lessons about life (and mathematics) along the way.
I question its value as a teaching tool, though. I fear the Victorian niceties employed in the exposition will seem stilted and nigh unbearable to today's younger audience, especially if assigned as schoolwork. But, I think those who already grasp the mathematics involved (basic geometry) will enjoy it. Also, A. Square's unabashed enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge are qualities one would happily encourage in students.
My favorite part of the whole book has got to be the visit to the King of Pointland. The way Abbot so succinctly portrays humanity's capacity to ignore evidence that does not conform to preconceived notions, then force the facts to fit long established beliefs is a stroke of genius. In Pointland, ignorance really is bliss.
This little tale definitely provided excellent entertainment for the price I paid here at Amazon. If it sounds interesting to you, I suggest putting it on your wish list, and then adding it to the next purchase you make (your wallet will barely feel it).
Zimiamvia: A Trilogy
by E.R. Eddison
10 used & new
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mature British Fantasy that Predates The Hobbit
May 31 2002
This review is from:
Zimiamvia: A Trilogy (Paperback)
The Zimiamvian trilogy is a philosophy beautifully realized through Eddison's deftly extruding a world based on Beauty, his "fundamental value" of the universe (but how it's accomplished you'll just have to read for yourself). The fact that he starts with a philosophy means that his mindset throughout Zimiamvia is consistent and allows him to progress confidently through plot, prose, and poetry.
He describes environments with sumptuous imagery, but the best of his writing is in how he conveys that which is left unsaid: in the wonderful, bantering conversations, in the way Fiorinda conveys so much in the simple tilt of her head. Indeed, transitory beauty found in the fleeting moment was one of Eddison's obsessions, and important to the books. Simple gestures create changes in mood and atmosphere and it's fascinating to see Eddison impart these sweeping temporal phantasms again and again.
My only criticism is that Eddison's Victorian sentiments towards the roles of men and women can be quaint. But he obviously loved these characters and his commitment to them and to the philosophy behind Zimiamvia makes them utterly convincing, and such anachronisms are easily forgiven. After all, he fully admitted that his idea of utopia might not be everyone's.
This edition of the Zimiamvian books (Mistress of Mistresses - published in 1935, A Fish Dinner in Memison, and The Mezentian Gate all in one volume) also has the benefit of an introduction and wonderful footnotes by Paul Edmund Thomas which helped me since I'm uninitiated in the scholarship of Scandinavian and Viking sagas and a little rusty on some of the classics, to which Eddison makes copious references. I don't know if the individual books have the benefit of such notes, but I would recommend seeking out a copy with them if you're not intimately familiar with those subjects (also with Renaissance Italian political intrigue, European art history, and, in one passage, cricket match terminology). But please don't let this deter you from reading these marvelous books. Thomas' notes are conversational and even funny sometimes, which makes them very accessible. As of the writing of this review, the book is out of print, but I easily found a cheap used copy online and I encourage you to find one, too.
Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
by Gene Wolfe
40 used & new
1.0 out of 5 stars
Highly Overrated Series
Nov. 13 2001
This review is from:
Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (Paperback)
In the Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe touches on many allusions and themes, thoroughly exploring none. Time and again he raised my hopes by initiating an intriguing line of thought just to wear my patience thin by flitting from thing to thing and never satisfactorily following through. Certain details, like the concept of a torturer's apprentice, are what sold me on trying these books in the first place. Other compelling ideas are buried deep within the book. The alzebo is horrifying and fascinating. It's even touching, in a macabre way, when Severian becomes closer to Thecla through its use. The waiting room that has transformed over time into a de facto prison, where people wait generations for an audience with the Autarch, is darkly humorous. But these fascinating details are not enough to sustain a coherent storyline.
While reading one tale from the book Severian carries around with him, I was trying to figure out if it was a corruption of the Romulus and Remus story, Moses' early life, or some conflation of the two (or more). And I realized I was paying more attention to the artifice Wolfe constructed than to Severian's own story.
The use of literary allusions should aid in fleshing out a story, to say something about a character or his situation. It should not be an end in itself. In New Sun, Wolfe piles allusion upon allusion, overburdening a flimsy story structure, which simply collapses under the weight.
There are other problems that contribute to this state of affairs: a mostly pointless addition of archaic vocabulary, meandering and awkward sentence structure and intentionally vague pronouns. All, apparently, to the purpose of constantly reminding the reader how clever and erudite the author is -- a process devoid of storytelling.
In the end, the plot becomes a slave to this hodgepodge of techniques, jerking Severian through a gauntlet of unbelievable or unexplained twists, making for a disappointing reading experience.
I enjoyed Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas much more.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
by Gene Wolfe
30 used & new
4.0 out of 5 stars
Now this is more like it!
Nov. 8 2001
This review is from:
The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas (Paperback)
I liken another of Gene Wolfe's works, The Book of the New Sun, to the myriad pieces of a mosaic that have been jumbled and have no mortar to hold them together. There are pretty bits and pieces but no overall impression that emerges from it. The stories in The Fifth Head of Cerberus, however, are more like three paintings -- a triptych, as it were. Each brush stroke is thoughtfully applied, revealing only as much as Wolfe wants us to see. The synergism of the three stories -- between the slight overlaps of theme, character and location -- becomes entrancing.
The key to why this works is focus. Each tale has a unique story structure. Each of the three has a different voice and perspective. Symbolism and allusion are used sparingly and well, enmeshed with Wolfe's imagery to add depth to the stories. There is an attention to detail that fleshes out the stories convincingly, giving them a distinct sense of place.
In the title story, Wolfe describes a melancholy world of decaying grandeur where the humans make your skin crawl and the most sympathetic character is a machine.
The second tale is in some ways the strongest entry and in others the weakest. The imagery is lyrical and haunting, told in an intriguing folkloric style. I enjoyed the issues of identity and consciousness Wolfe raises, and the elliptical change in subject to convey these. But, unrelated to this theme, he peppers throughout the story awkward sentence structure and the use of vague pronouns. This seems to be intentional, as if Wolfe enjoys these little mental misdirections. It pulls me out of the experience of the story and so detracts from the work, though not greatly.
In my favorite of the three, Wolfe lets us peer over the shoulder of an officer and read the private journals of one of his prisoners, presenting them to us out of chronological order so that important hints are dropped in the most careful way, culminating in a clever conundrum: is he really what we think he is or merely mad from long confinement? It's rewarding fun to fit these puzzle pieces together.
All in all, Wolfe delivers enough of a payoff to be satisfying, and yet keeps the reader wanting more -- in just the correct proportions to be both entertaining and thought provoking.
Dangerous Angels
by Francesca Lia Block
32 used & new
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simple? In the Same Way Poetry is Simple.
Nov. 7 2001
This review is from:
Dangerous Angels (Paperback)
Francesca Lia Block achieves in a few pages a depth of characterization some authors can't get across in an entire book. She does so with a stylized way of writing some have criticized as too simple. I couldn't disagree more. Her short, snappy sentence structure I found reminiscent of beat poetry, highlights of the environment that are the small, important details in these characters' lives.
The way she turns the fairytale archetype on its head, too, is great fun. By page 30, all of the characters are living happily ever after. The rest of the book (really a collection of books) explores what it means to live happily ever after. It's decidedly not without its rough patches.
While the stories are very upbeat, optimistic and full of love, Block still effectively conveys those bugaboos of young adult life -- social anxieties of fitting in, popularity, life as a stepchild, falling in love and finding oneself -- with stunning symbolism. I don't think I'll ever forget the creepy coven of the Jane Mansfield Fan Club or Witch Baby's finding the chilling horrors of mannequin figures frozen in attitudes of excruciating emotion.
The 'young adult' category of the book should be thought of more as a recommendation on the minimum maturity level of the reader than an age suggestion. There are indeed some adults in the book facing adult situations, but Block does not let anyone off the hook: there are serious consequences to serious actions.
In short, the power of this book should not be underestimated. One should not confuse a simple writing style for simple ideas. When Block writes that love is a dangerous angel, she allows the reader to figure out what that means without using pages and pages of purple prose. I find it refreshing that she treats the reader intelligently.
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
by Gene Wolfe
45 used & new
1.0 out of 5 stars
Difficult Reading Equals Masterpiece?
Aug. 16 2001
This review is from:
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (Paperback)
Please note -- Spoiler alert: Two specific plot points are divulged in this review.
Boy, was this series a disappointment. I had high expectations, especially with praise like, "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" from the Washington Post. And so many positive customer reviews, too. Well, I should have looked a little closer.
Beware of reviews that state that anyone who likes complex and hard reading will love this book, thereby implying - or sometimes explicitly stating --that if you don't like the book you must be a Philistine with a junk food diet in literature. These reviewers are too busy patting themselves on the back to give useful advice.
Let me make this clear: I like a challenging vocabulary. However, Wolfe's use of arcane words adds nothing. Few of the words are used in any sort of context, that one might glean their importance to the story. Mostly, they're dropped in at random points in Severian's journey, like specks on the horizon, signifying nothing. One could just as well substitute names of trees for the same effect. Also, the whole conceit behind the use of these words is that the book is being translated from a document and that these are the closest words to the meanings in the document. A translation that requires one to translate yet again is a bad translation. It is a very lazy device for the author to say that these things are so different from what we know today they cannot be described.
For example, here is a quote from the book when Severian describes partygoers in the city of Thrax as, " . . . the autchthons, gymnosophists, ablegates and their acolytes, eremites, eidolons, zoanthrops half beast and half human, and deodands and remotados in picturesque rags, with eyes painted wild." Sounds promising, especially the bit about half beast and half human. I even know a few of the other words without having to look them up in the dictionary. But so what? It's all background noise, never more a part of the story than a laundry list. It's a distracting gimmick that wears thin.
Another distraction for me was the sun's burning down like an unattended campfire. Any astronomers please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the sun has another three or four billion years' worth of fuel before it enters its next stage, red giant, in which it will burn brighter, pretty much turning the Earth into a cinder.
I quickly lost interest in the story soon after Severian left the Citadel. One event is so unlike another in Severian's journey that, after a rapid succession of strange encounters and narrow escapes, I felt more cheated by the capricious will of the author than drawn in to any sort of coherent future society. It got to the point that I could predict when Wolfe was getting tired of a character who would soon be making an abrupt exit. I certainly didn't flinch when Severian Jr. got barbequed. A dozen pages back, Wolfe seemed exasperated with the kid, as if he'd written himself into a corner.
I found the books to be surprisingly humorless, as well. Scenes like the play Severian performs in are supposed to be comic relief, I guess. I just found it grotesque.
And, finally, at the tail end of book four, when a little green man appears with a flying saucer to whisk Severian to safety, I wanted to throw the book against the wall. That one random and too convenient incident embodied my impression of most of the previous 800 pages, coming full circle -- back to the beginning when I thought, early on, why should I care?
I would suggest the following alternatives to The Book of the New Sun:
-Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. Two books that provide a much more richly imagined and alien medieval setting than New Sun.
-Engine Summer by John Crowley. Truly immersing read. The lyrical telling of a quest/coming of age story set in a distant future with gymnosophists, an eremite, and what could be called one big deodand. Although, Crowley does not use those words.
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"As an Allstate Agent, I believe it is my responsibility to demonstrate the Good Hands Promise in the Brooklyn community every single day," says Perez. "It is an honor to be able to donate this grant to South Brooklyn Youth Organization and hopefully touch the lives of the youth who are involved."
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This starts with the "CONTRACT-MARRIAGE" track, and there are a set of songs which inspired me to write this, and hence you'd probably be getting to listen the songs which I love and listen to, most of the time.
Khushi opened her eyes to look at the bleak sunlight which entered through the slight opening of the curtains. Why had the curtains moved? Who had moved them? Her head ached as if an explosion had taken place inside it. She felt a soothing hand on her head. The touch which she could recognize even in her sleep. And she slipped back into her sleep with a smile on her lips.
She felt someone calling her. That voice, which she could never forget. The voice of the man she loved. The voice of the man, whom she thought, loved her back. But that was so long ago. Things were different now. She had left him, hadn't she? "Yeah, you did." came the prompt reply from beside her. She turned immediately to look at the source of the voice to find Arnav next to her, sitting comfortably, cross-legged on the bed. Khushi stumbled out of bed, a hand at her throat, as she stared at her husband with shocked eyes. "No!!! Nooo. . . ." Khushi whispered as she shook her head vigorously. This couldn't be happening. She had left him. She had left her whole family! No one knew that she was here!! How on earth had he found her?!
"Y. . . You!! Go away!!!" Khushi yelled, and Arnav grimaced, and shrugged, as he said simply, "I can't."
"What do you mean you can't?!" Khushi asked, annoyed with the calm countenance of her husband. Arnav gave her a sweet smile as he answered, "I'm here because you were thinking about me. I'm here because of your. . ." he trailed off, and tapped a finger against his temple. Khushi looked down, her eyes still wide with shock as she tried to understand. Looking up at him, she asked "You mean I'm imagining all this??!"
Arnav nodded disapprovingly and replied, "Hallucinating is the proper word."
"No. . . Th. . . Why. . . That is crazy!!" Khushi sputtered, not ready to believe what Arnav was telling.
"Of course that's crazy. You should stop doing it! Or better yet. Come back to me. You know I can't do without you. I. . . . I love you!!" Arnav said, the last sentence coming out in a low whisper, his eyes pleading her to act according to his whim. Khushi shut her eyes tight, and put her tightly balled fists at her ears, trying to muffle the voice of Arnav.
"It has been 4 days, Khushi. And you never even got out of the bed. You should go out, you know. Some fresh air would do you good." Arnav said, standing in front of her, his voice still crystal clear to her ears.
When Khushi didn't respond, he said in a dry voice, "That's not gonna work. My voice is inside your head. Heck! I'm INSIDE your head!! Or else would I be speaking so much?! I'm right now a Khushi version of me!!" Khushi opened her eyes and looked at him with eyes filled with longing. "And you should cry, Khushi. Don't hold it all in your chest. It simply stresses you out." Arnav's voice was now coercing. Khushi fought the urge to touch him by remembering the past six months of her alleged CONTRACT MARRIAGE, and turned her back on him.
To make his voice go away, she turned on the audio system and tuned to some channel. Whiteny Houston's legendary song, "I'll Always Love You" was being played. If there was one thing she had learnt when she had been married to Arnav, it was the Western Music, Western behavior, and most of Western everything! It had been Di's idea and also her naive attempt to impress her husband. "If not for me, cry for your family Khushi. Just think of all that they've gone through along with you... Go make some Jalebis!! Munch on a few!! I always thought a few more pounds would look good on you." Arnav's teasing voice started to irk her now. She even started singing with the song. It was more like yelling the lyrics of the song. If it was true that she was imagining all this, she wanted to keep her mind elsewhere occupied, lest she turn insane!
If I should stay
I would only be in your way.
So I'll go.
But I know
I'll think of you every step of the way
And I Will always love you
Will always love you
You, My darling you
Bittersweet memories
That is all I'm taking with me.
So good-bye' Please don't cry'
We both know I'm not what you need
And I... Will always love you
I... Will always love you
You, ooh
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of
And I wish you joy and happiness
But above all this I wish you love
And I... Will always love you
I... Will always love you
I, I will always love
Darling I love you
I'll always
I'll always
After the song, she quickly had a shower and found Arnav sitting on the reclining chair, waiting for her, following every movement of hers. She shook her head, not believing that hallucinating to such an extent was even remotely possible, as she dialed a number, and said into the phone, "Could you come over?"
"Of course, Chamkili!" came the immediate reply from the other end and Khushi put down the phone, and stood by the door, waiting for her friend. The only person who knew about Khushi right now. . . . .
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Stobart gears up for another super season with a new face onboard After a truly outstanding season in this year's FIA World Rally Championship, the Stobart VK M-Sport Ford rally team will continue into 2008 with an exciting new force in the ...
Stobart gears up for another super season with a new face onboard
After a truly outstanding season in this year's FIA World Rally Championship, the Stobart VK M-Sport Ford rally team will continue into 2008 with an exciting new force in the ranks. This season Jari-Matti Latvala caused shockwaves throughout the WRC paddock with his performances and, with his promotion to the BP-Ford team, the opportunity to fill some big shoes has been given to Italian superstar Gigi Galli.
Henning Solberg and Matthew Wilson will continue with the team in 2008 on all 15 rounds after superb performances this year, especially during the final quarter where both drivers achieved their highest results. All three drivers will have upgraded artillery in the form of the Ford Focus RS WRC 07; an evolution model from the 06 specification used by the Stobart team in the 2007 championship.
M-Sport will again run the Stobart outfit after a successful venture which has seen increasingly positive performances and overall results over the past two years. Malcolm Wilson will again offer expert guidance and management as Team Principal in 2008.
Galli's addition to the team will see him compete on all 15 rounds in a Stobart liveried car as the team's permanent nominated points scoring driver. The second scoring driver position will be left open during the year as the team looks to battle for a place on the manufacturers' championship podium for the second year running.
Fulfilling this position in next season's opening round, Rally Monte-Carlo, will be a fourth Stobart entrant as Belgian Francois Duval jumps into a Stobart liveried car to score for the team. Duval is no stranger to the blue oval as he competed as a works driver in the Ford camp on various occasions from 2002 to 2004.
Stobart's fourth place finish in the manufacturers' championship this season will mean a numeral change for next year as the two points scoring Stobart Focus RS' pick up numbers seven and eight on the livery. Wilson will retain his number 16 tag next year for those events where he is not nominated to score for the team.
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The final change for 2008 sees Rally Turkey back in the action after a year's break from the WRC. Rally Ireland and Norway are being rested for 2008 after both hosting their inaugural events in the world championship this year.
2008 is set to be another top year for the Stobart team which, in its short history, has helped develop some of world rallying's finest young talent.
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Since 9/11, courts have broadened the Police Department's investigative authority in the vital interest of protecting the city from terrorist attack. The department should not interpret that as a license to run roughshod over the Constitution.
In a press release Sunday NYPD countered the Times declaring the paper's opinion "wrong."
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The New York Times is wrong in claiming in an editorial that the NYPD overstepped constitutional guarantees in protecting New Yorkers from violent crime and terrorism.
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I suppose that my main Linux user account password serves as my SSH password as well. Is there a way I can modify this? As it turns out, I'd like to have a REALLY secure SSH password for obvious reasons, but a less secure local password, as it makes typing in passwords a heck of a lot easier on a machine. Is there a way I can change my account password in SSH without changing my Linux user password?
No. But if you use a SSH key and require login using a key then you can set the key passphrase to anything you like.
It is possible with some PAM configuration magic. With SSH, however, key-based authentication as suggested by Ignacio is a better solution.