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Pajama Guys, 20; High-Paid Media Poobahs, Nil[T]he weekend that 1st Lt. Bush was supposedly ordered to report for his physical, May 13-14, 1972, the Ellington Air Guard Base was closed. It was Mother's Day. Except for emergencies, Air Guard units never drilled on Mother's Day; the divorce lawyers would be waiting at the gate... And he says a survey of the pay records demonstrate this fact. If you were playing your ten-year-old nephew in basketball, this would be the point at which you deliberately began missing shots and "accidentally" rebounding his shots into the basket in order to let the kid come within a respectable distance of winning. But it's not b-ball against a ten year old, so keep piling on the points. Cry. posted by Ace at 02:03 AM
CommentsBut Ace, if our side keeps piling on, the other "coaches" will accuse us of "running up the score" in an unseemly fashion, and then where would we be in the polls? I mean, you want the Digital Brownshirts to make a serious run at the national champoinship, don't you? Posted by: Sean M. on January 19, 2005 04:28 AM
How about if you were playing basketball against your 107 year old senile uncle? Sorry, that's no way to talk about Dan Rather. Posted by: Beck on January 19, 2005 07:22 AM
What a great catch! Yet another small, seemingly insignificant factoid that absolutely destroys the credibility of so many people... Posted by: lauraw on January 19, 2005 09:38 AM
Wasn't this Ellington Air Force Base? Posted by: Donnah on January 19, 2005 10:31 AM
Military installations don't shut down for any holiday. They go on skeleton for Federal holidays and branch birthdays. They're 24/7 operations. Posted by: Donnah on January 19, 2005 06:25 PM
Donnah, they don't shut down but under the circumstances it seems very unlikely the doctor who would have supervise the tests would be available. Even if the physician was on duty, it's unlikely a CO would put a reservist in the position of blowing off Mother's Day. Posted by: Eric Pobirs on January 20, 2005 09:36 AM
Eric, I'm sorry, but I can't see this one working. There's one clinic on base for all the units to use. If you're not deathly ill and showing up for sick call, you get an appointment and you go. Posted by: Donnah on January 20, 2005 03:42 PM
Donnah, You may be right about not shutting down completely, but there are no payments made for that weekend; all the payments are made for the following weekend. Suggesting that the base was more or less closed for anything except the most necessary business. Posted by: ace on January 20, 2005 04:03 PM
It was a Base. There were lots of different units there. You're talking about payments for a single unit only. Service members always have access to health care. Not even for Christmas or the Fourth of July, guys. And those are Federal. Posted by: Donnah on January 20, 2005 04:53 PM
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I'd wanted to review Parts 2, 3, and 4 of Ryan Lizza's revenge posts about Olivia Nuzzi, but they're all paywalled. I thought about briefly subscribing to get at them, but then I read this in Part 2: Remember the bamboo from Part 1? Do I ever! It's all I remember! Well, bamboo is actually a type of grass, and underground, it's all connected in a sprawling network, just like the parts of this story I never wanted to tell. I wish I hadn't been put in this position, that I didn't have to write about any of this, that I didn't have to subject myself or my loved ones to embarrassment and further loss of privacy. We're back to the fucking bamboo. Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations. I think he added that because he was embarrassed about all the bamboo imagery from Part 1. He's justifying his twin obsessions: His ex, and bamboo. Which is not a tree but a kind of grass, he'll have you know.
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On Tuesday, the book arrived in stores. At lunchtime, in the Midtown Manhattan nexus of media and publishing, interest in Nuzzi's story seemed more muted. The Barnes and Noble on Fifth Avenue had seven copies tucked into a "New & Notable" rack next to the escalator, below Malala Yousafzai's "Finding My Way." Not many had sold so far, a store employee said. She trashes Ryan Lizza for his "Revenge Porn" here. Emily Jashinsky says that when the Bulwark's gay grifter Tim Miller asked why she didn't report on the (alleged) use of ketamine by RFKJr., she broke down in tears and asked to end the interview.
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