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02/05/2004 Archived Entry: "A break in the disaster."
A break in the disaster.
Replies: 5 people speak up
What a great cartoon!
I'm trying to listen to Dean Radio but everytime i leave the site i lose the connection, gonna try again...then catch up on this blog
Posted by Joni @ 02/05/2004 09:33 PM NY
what the hell is that verse from? it sounds so familiar? is it carrol? i just cant put a finger on it...
Posted by justin @ 02/05/2004 11:23 PM NY
i looked it up, its some guy named Hughes Mearns, i dont know where i heard it then, because i have no idea who he is.... any ideas? either way, the people on google dont seem to know which version of the quote is true, there seems to be several,, curiouser and curiouser...
Posted by justin @ 02/06/2004 12:28 AM NY
To my best recollection, a variation of that rhyme appeared in the film Identity.
Posted by Pfonics Monkey @ 02/06/2004 12:35 AM NY
An interesting possibility just popped up on Salon that would go a long way to explain the timing of certain events....
By Eric Boehlert
Feb. 6, 2004
One of the persistent riddles surrounding President Bush's disappearance from the Texas Air National Guard during 1972 and 1973 is the question of why he walked away. Bush was a fully trained pilot who had undergone a rigorous two-year flight training program that cost the Pentagon nearly $1 million. And he has told reporters how important it was to follow in his father's footsteps and to become a fighter pilot. Yet in April 1972, George W. Bush climbed out of a military cockpit for the last time. He still had two more years to serve, but Bush's own discharge papers suggest he never served for the Guard again.
It is, of course, possible that Bush had simply had enough of the Guard and, with the war in Vietnam beginning to wind down, decided that he would rather do other things. In 1972 he asked to be transferred to an Alabama unit so he could work on a Senate campaign for a friend of his father's. But some skeptics have speculated that Bush might have dropped out to avoid being tested for drugs. Which is where Air Force Regulation 160-23, also known as the Medical Service Drug Abuse Testing Program, comes in. The new drug-testing effort was officially launched by the Air Force on April 21, 1972, following a Jan. 11, 1972, directive issued by the Department of Defense...."
Posted by Xan @ 02/06/2004 02:24 PM NY
