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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn ("In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."). --HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

The stars hath turned in the heavens once more: Mighty Cthulhu stirs. His dreams reacheth forth, communing with those with ears to hear. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! His thoughts trample down along the pathways of thy mind; thou knowest His footprints, each of which is a wound...

Tuesday, September 28, 2004





News Roundup
(Because I'm too tired for specific snark)

Well, that only took 3 years...
Homeland Gestapo has expanded the fingerprinting of visitors to 27 additional countries. New on the "Papers, please" list are Australia, Brunei, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore, as well as 22 European countries. Since Andorra is known as a hotbed of discontent, I'm glad to see they finally closed that gaping security hole.

Not technically a Draft:
Once again, the Army is accused of threatening and coercing soldiers to reenlist or face another deployment to Iraq. They tried this back in May as well. Apparently, desperation makes for obstinance. I wonder who their Commander in Chief is?

Well, no wonder...
I guess the Army is returning to its dirty tricks because of a less-than-enthusiastic response to their other Draft attempt. Hey Dumbya™, if you throw a war and only 62% of your soldiers show up, is that bad?

Perhaps if they knew what they were fighting for...
It's hard to get enthusiastic about getting shot at half way around the world when our "leaders" can't get on the same page. Do our soldiers liberate the whole country, or just part of it? Which parts? How will they know when they're done (and can come home) if you people can't agree on "success"?

Addendum to previous post:
I realize that I might have given the impression that I agreed with Mr. Lind's gloomy predictions of mass-desertions in the National Guard. As a matter of fact, I do not agree.

I've met many Guardsmen, both in life and on the 'net, and I believe that any Guardsman will go anywhere if called upon to do so. It is that sense of duty and dedication that makes our citizen-soldiers so impressive. NG personnel are Us, The People, working with us, sending their kids to the same schools we do, shopping at the same grocery stores we shop--their awareness of the world outside the military is at least as wide and deep as anyone else's. Yet they answer the call for gawd-awful duties like Iraq, dispite the risk of economic ruin to their families, dispite the risk of unemployment when they return, dispite whatever feelings they have about the current administration. I think Lind is wrong about the looming mass-desertions. But the risk is real, has happened in small numbers already, and is caused by one thing: ShrubCo's™ inability to grasp Reality.

I posted Lind's article because I don't often come across an arch-conservative who cares enough about the military to actually criticize the current administration. Contrast with chickenhawks like "butt-cyst" Limbaugh, or "5-deferments" Cheney.

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