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mup blurble how does 10 minute presentation turn into week of work?

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mup blurble how does 10 minute presentation turn into week of work?

Same old

Army Reserve Brigadier General Janis Karpinski tells all

    It's really a good old boys' network. Come hell or high water, they're going to maintain the status quo. They all live by each other in Fort Myers, or near Fort Myers. I'm sure that they have these cigar-smoking sessions where they're all patting each other on the back that they got another female out of the way, before I was able to get higher up in the senior levels. But I always expected that reservists would find support from their own component, and not be tagged as bad apples. For myself, there was not any support whatsoever.

    I just find it incredible that the system - the Pentagon and the Judicial System - can continue to keep those soldiers in jail when there are simply volumes of documents and information that is emerging, and continues to emerge, that says exactly what one, in particular, Graner, was saying all along: that he was ordered to do these things by the Military Intelligence people and the interrogators, the contract interrogators. And there's more and more information to support that. The recommendation was that General Miller from Gitmo be reprimanded and his four-star commander from SOUTHCOM said no, I don't agree with that.

    MC: And General Geoffrey Miller was the one who was supposed to transplant those interrogation and torture techniques from Guantánamo to Abu Ghraib?

    JK: That's correct. There are sworn statements, not only from the interrogators and the FBI personnel down at Guantánamo Bay prior to even a thought of using Abu Ghraib for a prison location. These torture techniques were being implemented and used down at Guantánamo Bay and, of course, now we have lots of statements that say they were used in Afghanistan as well.

Same old

Army Reserve Brigadier General Janis Karpinski tells all

    It's really a good old boys' network. Come hell or high water, they're going to maintain the status quo. They all live by each other in Fort Myers, or near Fort Myers. I'm sure that they have these cigar-smoking sessions where they're all patting each other on the back that they got another female out of the way, before I was able to get higher up in the senior levels. But I always expected that reservists would find support from their own component, and not be tagged as bad apples. For myself, there was not any support whatsoever.

    I just find it incredible that the system - the Pentagon and the Judicial System - can continue to keep those soldiers in jail when there are simply volumes of documents and information that is emerging, and continues to emerge, that says exactly what one, in particular, Graner, was saying all along: that he was ordered to do these things by the Military Intelligence people and the interrogators, the contract interrogators. And there's more and more information to support that. The recommendation was that General Miller from Gitmo be reprimanded and his four-star commander from SOUTHCOM said no, I don't agree with that.

    MC: And General Geoffrey Miller was the one who was supposed to transplant those interrogation and torture techniques from Guantánamo to Abu Ghraib?

    JK: That's correct. There are sworn statements, not only from the interrogators and the FBI personnel down at Guantánamo Bay prior to even a thought of using Abu Ghraib for a prison location. These torture techniques were being implemented and used down at Guantánamo Bay and, of course, now we have lots of statements that say they were used in Afghanistan as well.

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http://catsinsinks.com/ via elynne et al
THE GEORGE W. BUSH PAID VACATION ACT

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http://catsinsinks.com/ via elynne et al
THE GEORGE W. BUSH PAID VACATION ACT

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If I atone for enough sins, I won't have to slowly transcribe my tired voice for a couple hours in my next life.

I've noticed my dad also has some speaking habits similar to mine (tho he's fab as a public speaker, unlike me). And I heard in passing that Parkinson's distorts the voice. So maybe I have Acute Early-Onset Parkinson's-&Sons Alzheimeristic Dysfybryylation Vocal Montypythonism, with a side order of fries.

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If I atone for enough sins, I won't have to slowly transcribe my tired voice for a couple hours in my next life.

I've noticed my dad also has some speaking habits similar to mine (tho he's fab as a public speaker, unlike me). And I heard in passing that Parkinson's distorts the voice. So maybe I have Acute Early-Onset Parkinson's-&Sons Alzheimeristic Dysfybryylation Vocal Montypythonism, with a side order of fries.

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God. I make George Bush sound like Winston Churchill or Martin Luther King.

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God. I make George Bush sound like Winston Churchill or Martin Luther King.

Did you with the knowing?

There's a reason why I don't make phone posts that feature me talking "normal"ly.

Did you with the knowing?

There's a reason why I don't make phone posts that feature me talking "normal"ly.

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All of my. Sentences sound like this so you've got. um. Pauses in the middle and the nex, the next sentence begins. so.

You can see here. Because this...

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All of my. Sentences sound like this so you've got. um. Pauses in the middle and the nex, the next sentence begins. so.

You can see here. Because this...