The Bush administration to date refuses to recognize that it has a military problem beyond the immediate problems in Iraq & Afghanistan: how to get enough "volunteer" soldiers to conduct these and future wars.  The well publicized failure of most military branches to meet recent recruitment goals both: (1) reflects the failure of mainstream Americans to support the war in the most personal way possible, by actually fighting it; and (2) appears to be resulting in a military that is now accepting substandard recruits.

For those who didn't catch the CNN show Anderson Cooper 360 on Wednesday night, it was all devoted to Cindy Sheehan in Crawford.  The whole premise of "360" is that it takes in all angles.  But that surely wasn't the picture that I saw.

Democratic Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) had a stroke Tuesday, his aides reported today.

Being an old fart doesn't come easy, oft, it's worse than you wish it was, and I don't mean shit like wishing the hair that sprouted on one's ears at 40 would move elsewhere...

Interesting bit of data I ran across...

Or, playing the part of the idiot all too well, of course.

About 400 people turned out tonight to support Cindy Sheehan with a Candlelight vigil. That, and a dozen protestors or so.

I have to ask the question, because new information has come out about the shooting by London police of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.

... Aren't we carrying this Cindy Sheehan thing just a little too far?

This country needs more cowbell, but it needs a Rolex up the pooper even more...

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