Qfiie just joined BooTrib tonight. We’re looking into it. In the meantime, merely as a precaution, I’d suggest you not click on any of that garbage code.
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oops, I just zapped a comment from qffie in Larry Johnson’s post right out of existence. I hope I didn’t step over the line, but I do read a little bit of kanji, and it seemed even more strange to me than usual, as in nonsensical. It also followed the usual pattern for comment spam, and I have never seen this user before.
I usually read from the bottom up in the diaries and then on the frontpage, so I just got here to your frontpage notice.
That’s fine and that was a good plan.
I wrote him/her an e-mail and received no reply. So I changed his/her password, and I deleted all of his/her comments … tedious process, but done now.
Cool, glad you agree I did the right thing. I take the privilege AND the responsibilty very seriously, and if I had a sliver of a doubt, I would not have done what I did. There was a user downthread to the spam that concurred with my assessment, so without further hesitation, I zeroed it out.
I haven’t told you lately, but I appreciate all the work you do make and keep this such a great place. Thanks susanhu!
I meant to add that I like your INITIATIVE. WTG! (And you can always e-mail me and, if you do so, i’ll send you my phone number.)
What’s with the militarization of Booman???
Col. W. Patrick Lang (Ret.) – U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces (The Green Berets).
Larry C. Johnson – Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism
I appreciate their insights… but is militarization the coming trend?
Slow down! Go back and read the part in The Phantom Tollbooth about jumping to conclusions.
Pretty soon you’ll be telling me that Peace Corps is a military organization because its first head was a Sargeant.
Shriver, that is.
What conclusion???
I asked a question.
Your conclusion was part of your question.
It isn’t really a “real” question, so I didn’t try to give a serious answer.
Sorry if I offended!
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No matter what color, creed or race …
It’s not dependent on job description, uniform or money in the bank.
Listen to and read insights, please do contribute with your comment.
Choose right moment to voice concern.
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Just wondering out loud why two CIA agents are now front pagers…
Larry Johnson was in the CIA as an analyst, and I think he did briefly work on the operations side. But he is not, and never was a CIA agent. A CIA agent is usually a foreign person who act as an informer, or supplies intelligence of some kind.
Patrick Lang used to be one of the highest ranking members of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Together they have a wealth of knowledge about how our national intelligence community works (and doesn’t work). They are also both very knowledgeable about the Middle East.
They are opposed to the Bush administration’s foreign policy, and it seems to me, to the vast majority of their domestic policy.
They are both allies in our efforts to replace the irresponsible ass-clowns in the White House.
We will need people like Pat and Larry to help us keep the country safe when we retake power. And I hope they learn as much from us as we learn from them.
I enjoy having them post here; their perspective is something we all need to hear more of, IMO.
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Must be the right combination, because to find recent diaries or in archives is a hell of a job. Unless diaries have a google link to select URL, they will be lost for eternity.
Appreciate ALL the front pagers and their introduction. Thanks SusanHu/BooMan.
It’s best to have Joe Wilson, Secretary of Finance Paul O’Neill and Terrorism Specialist Richard Clark on the right side :: of Liberals and Democrats
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Oui, I don’t understand to what you are referring here: “Must be the right combination, because to find recent diaries or in archives is a hell of a job.”
Do you mean here? Or?
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Your Frontpaged Diaries!
Doesn’t show up in search by user name for front pagers, contrary to same search tool for ordinary people – eh users -.
Similar problem I forwarded in recent email, as far as Google search on topic. I see the article has link to its URL now and not boomantribune.com!
EXCELLENT.
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Switch the drop-down menu choice from Diaries to Stories. Then you’ll find them.
Or, always follow this format for ANY registered member here:
boomantribune.com/user/susanhu/
boomantribune.com/user/BooMan/stories
— then click on the tabs, such as Diary, Stories, Comments, etc.
Your URL is
boomantribune.com/user/oui/
A couple fast comments:
1) I wish I had handy the list of admirals and other former top military who endorsed John Kerry in 2004 because they were so deeply disturbed by the dysfunctionality, aberrance, isolationism, wastefulness (in money and lives), destruction of diplomacy worldwide, and the very worrisome drain on our essential military by the Bush administration.
These are very educated, dedicated, and highly disciplined individuals who care deeply about our country. And the world, because they know a lot about other countries, cultures, languages.
Amazingly — to us civilians — they are often far more objective in their assessments than we are.
One of the things I learned from debate tournaments when, several times in a single day I had to argue both sides of a heated topic ,is that there ARE two sides to every topic… and infinite shades between.
Because people like Pat Lang and Larry Johnson — I don’t know them but gather this from their writings — had to study other cultures in great depth, they most surely (I safely assume) had to turn what they learned inward, and question their own culture and religions.
And that kind of speculation and self-questioning is invaluable throughout life.
At the very least it helps one realize that one’s opponents are not always dim-witted savages but have a different world view (and that applies to the dimwits we think are in the U.S. as well).
2) There are a lot of former military in my family, and — for the most part, with one notable exception — they are just about the finest people you’d like to meet.
My Uncle Gary is a retired colonel who served tours in Vietnam and worked at the Pentagon in later years, then for a consulting company.
My twin cousins Mark and Mary both had professional Army careers, and Mary’s husband is still in the Army.
My brother served in Vietnam as an intelligence officer, fluent in Vietnamese (after language school), and then worked at the Pentagon.
My cousin Bill died of prostate cancer a few years ago. He was a NCO lieutenant in the infantry in Vietnam. Smart as a whip, bad student in high school, charismatic– so he was drafted and picked right away for officer school. I’ve told some of his Vietnam story elsewhere here. Everyone felt that his devastating cancer was partly due to Agent Orange, because he was repeatedly, directly exposed to it while he was in Vietnam.
My father and all of my uncles served in World War II. I used to think that my father’s stint during WWII in Alaska had been an easy time of it until I read some WWII history on his unit that I found on the Internet.
It’s been good to have exposure to so many in the military, and in different eras. Like any other population, those in the military are brilliant and stupid, kind and cruel, conscience-/character-driven and sociopathic, capable and inefficient, etc., etc. And most fall somewhere in between.
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Government Involvement China – SAIC – Yahoo :: Journalist Convicted
Amazing coincidence and similarities between Internet security and government regulations —
SAIC in U.S. 1995 ● SAIC in China 2005
In a recent circular, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the Ministry of Public Security and the SAIC reiterated the State’s intention to crack down on the unlicensed provision of international telecoms services. Such activities have already been prohibited under the PRC Telecommunications Law, the PRC Criminal Law, a Supreme People’s Court document issued in January this year (see China Legal Highlights, February 2002) and a number of other regulations and decrees.
The circular restates that no organization or individual may supply international telecom services in China, without government approval, and an international telecom operating license. Moreover, authorized telecoms operators may not provide network access services to operators, illegally providing international telecom services. Authorized telecoms service operators are obliged to report immediately to their local communications authorities any illegal telecom services they discover, cooperate with the communications authorities and provide relevant evidence of such misdeeds.
CONCERNS RAISED OVER NETWORK SOLUTIONS’ ACQUISITION
When Web Review, a newsletter published over the World Wide Web, revealed last week that Network Solutions Inc. had been acquired last spring by defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), some Internet users voiced concern over SAIC’s role as owner of the organization that assigns Internet domain addresses.
SAIC’s board of directors reads like a “Who’s Who” of former intelligence and defense officials, and the article quoted one source as saying the military is “trying to maintain control over the Internet.” SAIC’s media relations VP called these concerns “a hoot and a half,” saying that Network Solutions’ registration activities were not a consideration in the acquisition. Some Internet insiders have suggested that domain registration should be taken over by multiple companies after Network Solutions’ current contract with NSF expires in 1998, using a central booking system similar to that used by airlines.
Wall Street Journal 2 Oct 95 B1
In 2001 Network Solutions Inc. has merged with Verisign and in fall of 2003 was bought by Pivotal Private Equity Group in Arizona.
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