smays.com // My name is Blanche. I'm a 12-year-old girl living in Karachi where I am forced to maintain this website for a wealthy American who has too much time on his hands but not enough to maintain one more blog. Please help me.
Print it. Stuff it in little plastic bag. Drive around town, throw them at the front door. Can't search. No links. Sad.
You know these morons take these outfits to the dry cleaners ("I really need this by tomorrow") without wearing a hood.
And where do you get one made? Are there patterns?
"With Going Rogue, the 2012 reality show has already begun. As brainless political theater, she can’t be topped. It’s just too bad for conservatives that she happens to be unsustainably divisive and, asNewsweek points out, a really good bet to permanently marginalize the Republican party by reducing it to a pissed-off, semi-coherent mob that repulses independent voters on a visceral level. To paraphrase John Doman’s Deputy Ops Rawls character from The Wire, she’s “brilliant — fuckin’ shame it’s gonna end our careers, but still.”
"You're not supposed to analyze it, you're supposed to blindly recite it, even if it doesn't make sense. Like the Bible or an eye chart." - Colbert on Pledge of Allegiance
Except for the success of homegrown singer Sheryl Crow, Kennett has not been blessed with much good news in recent years. In 2006, Emerson Electric ended an employment slide at its electric motor plant by closing it altogether, taking away the last 240 of what once were 1,200 jobs. In January, an ice storm knocked out power for weeks and damaged virtually every tree. Now comes a new kind of storm. "It's bringing a lot of attention to our city that we, by and large, would rather not have," said Roger Wheeler Sr., mayor of the city of about 11,000 people, approximately 13 percent of them black. Jeweler Ted Burnett told a reporter that there did not seem to be much racial tension until the Ellis case. "It's putting our town in a bad light," he complained. He said any trial outcome will leave hard feelings. "It's like a bad divorce. No one is going to come out a winner." If the attention has created some local discomfort, it also roused a few white supremacists. Officials said more than a dozen people on the sidelines of Monday's march held up signs showing Confederate flags or swastikas. After a parade in support of Ellis in June, police had found the route littered with business cards bearing the name of the Ku Klux Klan, and warning that "the next visit will not be social."
Not good. Not good at all.
In fact at this point, according to Paul R. Pillar, a Georgetown University professor who formerly served as the CIA's chief intelligence analyst for the Middle East, it's pretty clear that the goal of leaving behind a stable, democratic Afghanistan is unattainable.
So is there any alternative to an open-ended commitment? The only genuine exit strategy left involves unilateral disengagement. But politically, that's a nonstarter -- at least for now. It is widely considered inevitable that if Obama began to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan without being able to declare some form of victory, he would be derided in the press and by Republicans as a coward and a quitter.
I really hate to think that O would let hundreds or thousands more die for political expedience. That would make him pretty much like most of our previous presidents.
