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Today should prove to be a wee bit busy.

A few things:

• I managed to watch Veronica Mars for the first time. I found it immensely entertaining.
  
• Tonight is the night I become overly intimate with a dead turkey. The things I'll do once a year to get delictious giblet stuffing and a golden brown bird. Literally, I have to get all up in that turkey, smack it up, flip it, rub it down. "Oh no" is right. Actually, any smacking is purely accidental.
  
• taogrl will be coming over to watch me during the Bird Wrestling Ceremony.
  

Captain Josh Rushing speaks...

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“Control Room” Iraq Vet Speaks

Some of our readers may remember Captain Josh Rushing, the Marine featured prominently in the documentary "Control Room." After 14 years of service, he recently resigned his commission, and is now able to speak publicly about his experiences. Yesterday, he appeared on CNN's "Paula Zahn NOW." Here are some excerpts:


On the media coverage of the war:

"We should see the consequences of our actions. If it makes us sick, we should talk about it and make sure those are the right actions. But to not see it, to put it away and still take those actions, I think is unhealthy. In America, war tends to have its own branding. People think, when you say war, they think of F-16s over Yankee Stadium and sailors kissing his girlfriend in Times Square. These things have very little to do with what combat is actually about. So it's far too easy for America to go to war."


On WMDs:

ZAHN: Now turns out there were no weapons of mass destruction, at least the evidence doesn't point to that right now. Do you feel like you misled your audiences?

RUSHING: I never felt like that until I saw Colin Powell say something to the effect of some of the information he gave at the U.N. was incorrect and appeared to be intentional manipulated to achieve a desired result. And I thought, wow, that hurts. Because I watched him speak at the U.N., and I thought this is so important that I printed it out for everyone at Centcom to read so we all understood exactly why we were going to war and what the evidence was about. So I was repeating him verbatim, and now I realize I was repeating incorrect information and intentionally manipulated information. Yes, I think on some level I probably felt a little duped.

ZAHN: How duped?

RUSHING: How duped? I still hope in my heart that we're doing the right thing in the long run for Iraq, in terms of one generation from now it will be multi-ethnic, democratic, a real kind of pillar of stability for the region. And I can't let go of that hope because it's just too hard to watch what happens every day over there if I do.

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You Are the Stuffing

You're complicated and complex, yet all your pieces fit together. People miss you if you're gone - but they're not sure why.

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And this is why I sacrifice the odiferous sanctity of my domicile for the benefit of our delicious giblet, walnut and mushroom stuffing.

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I'm really glad the day calmed down after the morning. I was able to get some ongoing work done, so that is all good and well. Let's hope Friday is the same.

An evening with weaktwos and <user site="livejournal.com" user=

Well, the giblets are a stewing, and the pie dough is made, and much good conversation is being had.

We ended up talking about who sang the song "Picture Book" on the latest HP commercial. So, we did a search on the great Oracle that is Google. We found the following thread, which I feel is rather comical to behold:

Read it here. Who sang it? Was it Yes? Was it The Cure? Was it Fresh Young Fellows. Let's just see what the people have to say...

By the way, it is Picture Book by the Kinks.