I am not a covert agent.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Libby and Niger Forgeries – Italian SISMI Investigation
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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«« click on pic for story Calipari
Head of Italian military intelligence - SISMI - Nicolo Pollari. AP Photo/Plinio Lepri
… speaks at the funeral of late Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari in Rome, in this March 7, 2005 file photograph. The head of Italy’s military secret services will be questioned by a parliamentary commission on Nov. 3, 2005 over allegations that his organization gave the United States and Britain disputed documents suggesting that Saddam Hussein had been seeking uranium in Africa. The documents detailed a purported Iraqi deal to buy 500 tons of uranium yellowcake from Niger.
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“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
lately I feel like a covert agent in my own life.
Certainly, I would be denied any official cover should I finally “be outed”.
Boo, how are you? Ok? Home safe and sound and such?
I know this sounds corny in type, but my bag of powerful rocks was added to for you….
ok, not corny, just stupid, but you’ll have to trust me that that is a good thing….
Not stupid! Wonderful ! 🙂 Hugs.
I am a covert agent. (Well, not anymore.)
I am not a covert agent but I play one on TV!
What show are you on?
Now if I told you that Susan, I would not be covert anymore…lol.
Chihuahua’s cover is about to be blown. check him out: page 4, 3rd entry.
Nice job, almost to page 3…couple more clicks ought to do it. That P.O.S. is going to need a teamful of sniveling, preening interns to clean this up.
Yeah!! I am pretty new at google bombing. I first thought that my comment would be what wuld come up, but what is even better SusanHu’s article is what shows up. And that is an indictment to his reputation.
I was thinking, if people are going to be reading this, we should clean it up, so, could you super-troll rate these comments ? Please??!!
My speculation is that he is quite proud of it, and can probably thank it for his current position.
If he wants to think that, fine with me. As long as the rest of the world can see through his bs
I am so not a nerd. I do not understand the first thing about googlebombology. 😀
I thought the same thing until I had to use it:pice of cake
Basically Google works by how many times yu click on it. those yu click the most, beggin to get closer to the top. At one point the one the most used will be the first. You use the same formula you use to create a link to a URL.
< a href=”()” >()< /a > .So, if you want to GB something you just put it in your signature . That is all there is to it. Now you are an expert and welcome to the Google Squad 🙂
What do you mean??? you are GB yourself in blog update 10-17
Then go away for a while and consume some saturated fat while I contemplate it.
You clearly do not realize what an accomplishment learning to type <a href to make a link has been for me.
Are you serious, or just pullin my leg??
Let me put it this way: if you hit “Blog updated 10-17” a zillion times, you Google Bombed. That easy.
I have been at DK for about a year, year and a half. Only about 2 or 3 months ago was I able to connect a link and a word. If there is a nerd, that is me. I swear. Yesterday I tried to “underline”, and couldn’t.
You mean that by merely clicking a link enough, google will be fooled into thinking it is popular and it will be more likely to appear on the first page of search results?
Can’t google tell that it is just one person clicking a million times? Would I not have to perform each click while connected to a different ISP?
Cruz, which ones should we troll-rate?
I’ll give you a hint though. The initials are WW.
Cool! Aloha Leezy is Wonder Woman!
SHHHHHHHHHH….it’s a secret.
Bzzzzzzzzzzz….wrong answer though. Guess again. Times ticking…9,8,7
Go fix that 2 you gave spiderleaf! 🙂
(I love it that I’m never offended by 3’s here at BooTrib – I know it’s a mouse control error.)
Hi, Lee, btw, how’s it going? Sure you’re not Wonder Woman?
OOOOOOOOOOOOPS!! That damn mouse at work must be replaced. Fixed that 2 and my deepest apologies to Spider.
Good to see you Jnaet. I am doing great all in all. I should probably say the best one can under this government…lol!
Boxer on Hardball right now. Gotta run!
I was accepted into graduate school today. WOOT!
First the DeLay indictment, then Libby, now this.
I’m wearin’ out my Chuck Taylors.
What are you studying?
If I could go back 8 years, I would have told myself to fuck the Ph.D. — not worth it and WAAAAAAAY to costly….
Oooops. Start over:
Congrats, urizon! What are you studying?
English Lit.
Poverty and I are, and will continue to be, well acquainted.
Y-a-a-y-y-y-y for you! Second best thing I ever did, going to grad school. (First best is motherhood.)
And poverty – eh, depends on your standards. I teach, which is not supposed to make you rich, and at a community college, which pays less than universities, but I feel “rich.” I mean, I pay the electric bill every month – and on time too! Couldn’t do that most of my life.
Agreed.
Teaching is what it’s all about. I should be conducting my first Comp I class in January. I’m a trifle nervous about it but I’m also thrilled.
I’m thinking of doing a “Distopic Visions” theme. Atwood, Huxley, Sinclair Lewis — with a dose of Terry Gilliam, Paddy Chayefsky and Fritz Lang.
Maybe I’ll shake loose a few of the mental shackles.
Oooooh! Can I take that class?
Love your tag line. I’m reading To the Lighthouse as we speak.
My favorite quote of her’s comes from A Room of One’s Own:
“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide if any part is worth keeping.”
My masters and most of my college teaching experience is English (Lit., Comp., Tech. Writing, etc.) — I hate to be an ass (quiet now ya’ll, you know I do), but if the students you’ll be teaching are first or second year college students, they aren’t going to get any of that, at all….where will you be teaching? This may also have something to do with my experience and cynicism about it all — though I had a GREAT time the semester I taught Cat’s Cradle — sophomore’s though, not frosh….
You’ll be great, I have no doubt — I taught my first college class (Frosh Comp) all on my own at 21 — I was terrified, but felt much better once I realized that although they weren’t all that much younger than me, they had spent all of their cognizant life with MTV and Reagan (granted that was back when MTV didn’t actually SUCK)….
Just have fun, teaching is a love/hate sort of thing, but, in my experience, always worth the time spent, if only ’cause you learn a LOT!
😉
I’m at New Paltz, which is one of the better SUNYs. While you may be right about my choice of subject matter, I remember reading more advanced stuff in high school. I think it really comes down to pedagogical approach.
I’m not sure how deeply I can make them dig, but each of these will make for good paper topics. Hell, they let another TA do a Bob Dylan theme, so who’s to say.
If you share your love and enthusiasm, the students will soak it up and revel in it! A passionate teacher makes all the difference in the world.
Thanks, Sue. You’re right, as usual.
Congratulations. And the course you’re going to teach sounds most interesting.
As long as you’re into distopia, throw in a pinch of Tom Robbins and perhaps a bit of Jim Shepard while you’re at it.
Posted that comment at work as I was about to run off and teach a class – now I’m back.
I love teaching, love it, love it. That’s why I’m at a community college rather than a university – if I had followed the usual academic track, I’d be sweating grants and spending most of my time in the lab. I found research mildly interesting, when I was doing what I had to to get the PhD, but not nearly as much as teaching.
I think a good teacher loves the subject – how else to convey how wonderful this stuff your students are learning is? – but loves students more – loves to watch brains waking up, intellectual confidence growing.
Yesterday, in my non-majors (that is, business majors, English majors, history majors, anything-but-biology-majors) cell and molecular biology class, I had them designing and carrying out their own experiments and one student came up and said, “It was blue when I put it in there, so I know that the solution did have starch in it, right? . . . and . . . oh look, it’s getting clear. Why isn’t it blue any more? I mean . . . (I can practically hear the WTF??? that he’s not saying out loud). Why is it getting clear? . . . I mean, is the starch just . . . disappearing? . . . How . . . ? . . . Pancreatin DOES have amylase in it, doesn’t it!” He and I both just burst out laughing and I swear I looked up over his head to see if the lightbulb was actually visible. I live for those.
If you’re like most people, when you first start teaching you’ll teach over their heads. It’s hard not to – you know too much, more than you realize. (It’s the more than you realize that’s the key here.)
The bad teachers get frustrated and decide that their students are just stupid and lazy and endlessly whine about them. The good teachers learn to see the world from the point of view of someone who doesn’t yet know what they know and start from there . . . leading the way, patiently.
So you slowly lead them onward . . . and then they surprise the hell out of you and teach you something! Love it, love it. Hope you do too. Sounds like you will . . .
That is super cool! More happy dancing in the Boo Tribe!
Many thx.
Hi Urizon,
Congratulations!! That’s wonderful. Where are you going for grad school?
Staying at SUNY New Paltz. I already know half the English department so I might as well enjoy the continuity. I’ll have to move on for my PhD, however, as NP doesn’t have a doctoral program.
This is a terrific and inexpensive school, btw — even if you’re from out of state.
oooohhh! New Paltz–absolutely one of my favorite places–isnt this where they had the safe sex toys for lesbians brouhahah?? And, if I remember rightly, some utterly primitive wingnuts did this whole thing about not granting state aid, because of this, but the New Paltz president stood firm.
Am I getting this right….or is old age and loss of memory catching up with me?
You’re quite right. New Paltz, the town, is also home to Jason West, the only Green Party executive in the country (though that may have changed by now). West, if you recall, was put on trial for illegally (sigh!) marrying a number of gay couples, not too long ago. We had Fred Phelps and his traveling, rhetorical gas-chamber, and the whole nine yards.
I stayed home, lest I inadvertently knee-cap some poor, unsuspecting neo-fascist.
I heard an approval rating of 35% today. Can’t remember which poll. They said it was the lowest since Nixon after Watergate. Thirty years ago! Hahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahha! Sorry got a little delirious there. 🙂
thanks for clearing that up.
Well, You SAY you’re not a covert agent… What does that MEAN? Does that mean that you WERE a covert agent, or that you were a NOC, but you haven’t recently been out of the country OR that you are an OVERT agent working for the Ambassador to Upper-Lower Stobobia? OTOH, you might be a covert DOUBLE-AGENT.
“not a covert agent”… I mean, what kind of ambiguous statement is that???!
😉
I think it means he does all of his agenting naked out in the front yard, just like God intended. 😉
OH, I see! He meant “not a COVERED agent”!
Well, let’s all GET NAKED and do the frog dance, then.
After all, if we can’t follow our leader, what’s a leader for?
I’m having a senior moment and can’t remember the name of the Italian journalist who was kidnapped and then was the victim of “friendly fire” on her way out of Iraq. More importantly, I can’t remember the name of the Italian security guy who got killed shielding her. And here’s why I’m interested: <dons tin foil hat> What if he was the real target of an intentional hit? I mean, he was some high-up spook-type and maybe he was involved in the Niger forgeries… Or knew about the back-story…
Anyway this is the kind of in-depth speculation that Boo is so good at and I’m distressed about my personal situation and will be on the road to Dismal Swamp/gator territory and back this weekend and may be, if I’m not too crazy, someone will do me the great favor of checking out my intuitive feeling about this.
Or, more likely, I’m just stressed out about losing the beautiful mountains around here and am misinterpreting the signals I’m getting from Sirius/Channel 93. But there feels like there could be a connection…
I’m like that too … Nicolas Capilagari ? something close to that. Now i’ll cheat and look it up.
Giuliana Sgrena – the journalist + Nicola Calipari – the Italian secret service agent
That possible scenario had crossed my mind too. Hopefully there is some industrious blogger looking into it as we speak.
please go vote in this poll.
I am not a covert agent.
A likely ruse if ever there were one. Would you admit to covertness if it were true?
Of course, that would be a brilliant deception to throw us all off balance. By admitting you are, we would be forced to think it’s impossible because you have just admitted it, thereby rendering yourself overt.
It would be more likely to think this is the case and therefore your first statement must be true and you are indeed,….one or the other.
But that’s just a guess.
I am not a covert agent.
only a covert agent would deny being a covert agent.
Has this been covered here?
Yes. rom wyo, Oui and I have all done diaries about these revelations.
…I’ve heard that one before, booman.
By the way, “this statement is false.”
Ahhh… to have a quiet world.
That’s it.
The second question is yes. I Think that is how GB started.
Every time we create a link, we are Google “mini”Bombing.