Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Good post young Crawford.

...and now they are all gone, the big ones...and who's the last man standing? General Vo Nguyen Giap, Ho Chi Minh's figurative right-hand-man. General Giap is 97 years old and still going strong.
McNamara, who realized many thought of him as a
"son of a bitch" ('he Fog Of War' docu-movie), now joins Nixon and Humphrey in the last ring of hell.
So, Hitler, Stalin, and McNamara are sitting there and you have two bullets in your gun...who do you shoot?
Answer: empty the goddam gun into McNamara.

I remember how MSM portrayed Martha as a wacko, possibly an alkie, certainly a clown. This is how the same type of people portrayed Dennis Kucinich, who is the most honest politician I have ever run across.
Tell the truth, put it right out there, no holds barred, and you are a "wacko" or "whacko" or "crazy spaceship riding nutcase" or whatever. I don't know what to make of all the stuff I learned when I was younger and more impressionable.

General Vo Nguyen Giap , was killing Japanese , long before he killed any Americans. And the French too. He really put the hurt on the French.

Dexter -
I'm with you on the fact that ole ' Giap out lived them all.

Tough old bird.

At a court appearance July 4 in Manhattan, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal judge that Aleynikov’s alleged theft poses a risk to U.S. markets. Aleynikov transferred the code, which is worth millions of dollars, to a computer server in Germany, and others may have had access to it, Facciponti said, adding that New York-based Goldman Sachs may be harmed if the software is disseminated.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=axYw_ykTBokE

Dexter -
Here's one more still kickin -

Jane Fonda.

1954, Dien Bien Phu, and yes, General Giap was the senior military commander against the French .

McNamara...lead FoMoCo at age 44, harvard wunderkind, tapped by LBJ to run the war from The Pentagon...and yet...he had no understanding of the determination of the cadre of the NLF, the Vietnamese National Libration Front. He must have just dismissed Dien Bien Phu as an exercise in French futility.
The French, in the end , were sent scrambling into Laos, with thousands of French soldiers dead and wounded.
And still McNamara fed LBJ all this bullshit, month after month, with graphs and pointers and charts on the wall, and LBJ wanted to believe it and he pushed on from that information to command US troops into ridiculous situations, marches into hell-zones where we took many causalities , many deaths, for only to maintain a piece of ground on a hillside or flat meadow or river bank for a few hours, and then move on through the country side, killing every damn thing in the way.
Johnson and McNamara were like the man with the 15 year old car who pours $200 every month fixing this and that...no end, ever...

Where and what was that hall-palace where Obama & Medeved signed the arms-reduction papers? It was a fantastic hall, I am sure it was in Moscow, da?
What a summer vacation for the Obama family!
Many years ago I entered a drawing for a trip to one of three, my choice, of Russian destinations. I didn't win. This was a contest from Soviet Life magazine, which was a great window into life in the old USSR.

I think the reason the media got away with making Martha look wacko was because she was muzzled so quickly that we didn't really get a chance to hear her say more. Wonder if she regretted getting married to that old fogey.

Dexter, that setting in Moscow reminded me of so much of the scenes in that movie from several years ago, the one which was filmed all in one sequence with a hand-held camera. I can't remember the name of the movie but it sure was a spectacle.

Solar, Maria Elena was wonderful! I have that on an old album of Los Indios Tabajaros, but this Ry Coody is something else.

Craig -- thanks for mentioning Martha! And Dex, yes, I so remember how the media tried to make her into a nut case. I got such a kick out of her outbursts, and still remember once telling my Vietnam vet husband that if she WAS an alcoholic, I could understand it given that she was married to John Mitchell.

And speaking of that era, Bob Herbert sounds off BIG today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Ry Coody?

Good morning,

Had a bad thunderstorm last night that put out the power for 3 hours. It wasn't a comfortable experience in this sticky La. heat. I sat on my veranda pretending to be Scarlet O'Hara. I wanted a mint Julip but didn't have any of the ingredients except some mint growing up under the porch. Don't think that would have been enough unless I could have added another herb to go with it.

Just before the power went off I watched these teenagers sit on the wharf next door with lightening snapping all around them. Maggie had already found a good hiding place in the back of a cabinet. I almost couldn't find.

When I couldn't stand it anymore, I stuck my head out of the door and asked those kids if they realized how many people are killed every year from lightening. They just looked at me like I had leprosy. I tried.

My only option left was to pray that it would start raining hard enough to run those kids off the wharf. I didn't want to have to go out and resuscitate some crispy critters. Thank God it did start raining just before the close snap of lightening that put out the lights.

Re Sarah. She has been quite entertaining. The only thing that is more silly than she has been is the reaction of the media. I do think though that she may end up with the last laugh. Whatever happens it should continue to be fun to watch.

And my last comment on MJ. No one ever proved he was a child molester and no one can hurt him anymore. Yes he did pay off some of his accusers but he saw that as being less complicated and he could afford it. It doesn't prove anything.

What I think is that he did leave himself open for people to use and abuse him. I think it is more likely that those accusers saw dollar signs. Why would anyone put their kids in such a iffy situation. Instead of being paid off, they should have been prosecuted for child endangerment. If MJ was dangerous, their parents were far more dangerous. It's their responsibility to protect their kids.

Happy trails MJ.

NEW THREAD.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/07/the-putin-primary.html

Ry Coody?

Posted by: Patsi | July 7, 2009 6:41 AM

Surely must be Ry Cooder--

Mean of me, but remembering McNamara & so many of that ilk--who lied about what was happening in Nam to an increasingly paranoid and distraught LBJ--brings to mind that odd little Cooder piano blues in the movie CROSSROADS--"See You in Hell, Blind Boy"--

Got no clue whether they'll end up in hell or not, but so many from that administration--and the following Nixon one--blind in so many more ways than one--hence my ear/brain's strange musical connection--