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Army Faces Worst Recruiting Slump in Years - Yahoo! News

     Why we need a draft.

Link: Army Faces Worst Recruiting Slump in Years - Yahoo! News.

     Of course, we musn't let the true facts  get in the way.

This was posted in my Father's office...

     ...for many years.  He was a printer, a typographic designer, actually, and a printer of his designed work secondarily.  But I remember this so well from my childhood that I have been able to recite it by memory (well, almost) over all the intervening years.

     It was originally written in 1940 by an apprentice at the Government Printing Office.

This is a Printing Office,
Crossroads of Civilization,
Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time,
Armory of fearless truth against whispering rumor,
Incessant trumpet of trade.
From this place words fly abroad not to perish on waves of sound,
Not to vary with the writer's hand,
But fixed in time,
Having been verified by proof.
Friend, you stand on sacred ground.
This is a Printing Office.

Beatrice Warde

Bloggers would do well to heed these words.

Hostage Gave Meth to Atlanta Fugitive

     So much for her being an "angel"...the meth was from her "personal stash".

Link: Hostage Gave Meth to Atlanta Fugitive.

Ashley Smith, the woman who says she persuaded suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to release her by talking about her faith, discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal.

Let me get this right...

     It's okay for the Islamo-monkeys to make videos of the beheadings of US soldiers and support personnel.  But when some US troops get frisky and do something stupid it's the end of the world?

Link: from BREITBART.COM.

An Islamic civil rights group said it wrote to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld objecting to the practice, which it said may violate international laws of war, and urging the Pentagon to bring it to an end.

First in a series...

     ...of self-help links. 

     Helpful headgear: How to protect yourself from evil George Bush!.

My Vietnam photos

     After 36 or so years, I've finally digitized hundreds of the photos I took in Vietnam and have begun mounting them onto a website: 69rvn.  The first category to go online is "things".  "People" and "places" are next.

     The site includes captions for the photos and commentary about my experiences there.  It will be updated as often as I can get to it.

     Your comments will be welcome.

Is it over for Air America?

Link: :: St. Louis Media Info & News ::.

When a radio company has to resort to begging for dollars from listeners, it might as well be. Brian Maloney's Radio Equalizer has the story.

   And now the odd little duck who was one of the original money men in the AAR mix, Sheldon Drobny, has launched NovaMRadio.

   From their website: Nova M Radio is seeking partners and the financing necessary to capitalize on this business opportunity to own, operate and broadcast progressive content from a conglomerate of stations in smaller markets across America.

   Who the hell is advising these people?

   This is EXACTLY the same wrong-headed business thinking that led Air America into its current financial crisis. The company should be in the software business, and leave the hardware to experienced owners.

   By buying a pack of small-market stations, all that NovaM will accomplish is to drive out of business the only broadcast facilities that a lot of those "small markets" have. But if you'd like to invest in their effort, here's a link. Don't call me to tell me you're wondering where your loot is, though.

Streisand is now a weather wizard-ette

     This is almost as funny as the "heavily armed dolphins".  Ms. Streisand is most certainly the one I'd go to for this information.

Link: DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005?

STREISAND DECLARES 'GLOBAL WARMING EMERGENCY' THE SUPERSTAR SONGSTRESS SERENADED SAWYER WITH STORM SEASON ASSERTIONS. BUT TO SOME SHE'LL SOUND MORE LIKE A WINDSOCK SINGING LIBERALISM'S GOLDEN OLDIES!

NEW YORK -- This summer's back to back superstorms are proof positive we have entered a new period of "global warming emergency," artist/citizen Barbra Streisand warns.

Streisand is back on the scene to promote her reunion disc with Barry Gibb. As hellstorm "Rita" churned in the Gulf, Streisand sat down for a promotional interview with ABCNEWS's Diane Sawyer.

"We are in a global warming emergency state, and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense," Streisand urgently declares.

But Sawyer did not remind Streisand that a Category 5 hurricane struck the Bahamas with 160 mph winds -- when the singer was five years old, in 1947!

And when Streisand was 8 years old, a Cat 5 hurricane -- named "Dog" -- packing 185 mph churned-away in the Atlantic.

When she was 9, a Cat 5 storm named "Easy" ripped the seas with 160 mph sustained winds.

Streisand was 13 years old when "Janet" hit Mexico with 150 mph winds.

Streisand was celebrating her sweet sixteen as "Cleo" formed with 140 mph.

At 18, Streisand read news about "Donna" AND "Ethel" -- both storms both storms carried 140 mph winds and formed 9 days apart in 1960!

One year later, when Streisand was 19, it happened again: Two Category 5 storms scared the world: "Carla" and "Hattie!"

"Carla" maxed out at 175 mph winds the year Streisand made her television debut on "The Jack Paar Show."

And who could forget Hurricane "Camille" -- which smashed into the United States with 190 mph, just as "Funny Girl" garners eight Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture and one for Barbra as Best Actress.

Up next on the weather warning watch, Streisand says to ABC: "There could be more droughts, dust bowls. You know, it's amazing to hear these facts."

"36 heavily armed dolphins..."

     Once again, life follow fiction.  The George C. Scott movie "Day of the Dophin" was probably the first to speak to the possibility. And now there's a whole platoon of these rascals loose.

     Are they pissed?  Are they aggressive?  Do they only kill their masters?  Do they fall under the US Department of Fish & Wildlife's new "catch and disarm" program?

     Note to self:  no diving while in the Caribbean this coming year.

Link: Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina.

Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.

See, this is what happens...

     ...when you put two mortal enemies together in the same playground.

Link: Israel Vows 'Crushing' Response to Attacks.

The Israeli forces will be concentrated opposite northern Gaza, from where 21 rockets were fired at Israeli border towns overnight, the official said. Five Israelis were injured in the attacks.