Your Moment of Zen

9 Comments

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   Quaker in a Basement on August 6, 2015 at 3:41 pm

   OK. You covered your ass.

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     The Voice In The Wilderness on August 7, 2015 at 8:22 pm

     Actually, looking at the exact memo, that is what it looks like – just vague reports, nothing to act on, no suggestions, no details. I’ve got to say that I would have done the same, maybe without the sarcasm.  Now, if there were verbal details …

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   Cervants on August 6, 2015 at 3:56 pm

   Yes, and the speaker was, and is, an ass.

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     Cervants on August 6, 2015 at 3:56 pm

     (Meant to reply to Quaker.)

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   boran2 on August 6, 2015 at 3:57 pm

   Umm, shouldn’t that be eleven years ago?

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     boran2 on August 6, 2015 at 3:59 pm

     Oh,never mind.  I see it.  

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   Oui on August 6, 2015 at 4:58 pm

   While Bill was solving his personal problem on his extracurricular activities in the White House … Bin Laden could have been killed in Afghanistan … strike was called off due to presence of Dubai Emirates’ leader enjoying falk hunting with OBL!

   If the U.S. would have done proper investigation of all evidence of the first bombing of the WTC building, the blueprint of possible attacks on New York would have been discovered. Intelligence failure all-around. It did happen on Bush/Cheney watch and lots of questions have been left unanswered.

   Bin Laden Preparing to Attack U.S. | History Commons |

   On December 4, 1998, an item in President Clinton’s Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) is titled, “Bin Laden Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks.” The PDB says “Bin Laden and is allies are preparing for attacks in the US, including an aircraft hijacking to obtain the release of Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Muhammad Sadiq `Awda. One source quoted a senior member of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya (IG) saying that, as of late October, the IG had completed planning for an operation in the US on behalf of bin Laden, but that the operation was on hold.

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   Marie3 on August 6, 2015 at 5:26 pm

   Art thefts (b/c I find them fascinating)

   The Guardian: New Gardner museum video may show thieves 24 hours before art heist

   Odd that the video wasn’t cleaned up to make it somewhat watchable.

   NPR – Nina Totenberg: A Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years

   The denouement of a 35-year drama takes place Thursday at the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. And I trust that my father, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, who died three years ago, will be watching from somewhere.

   For decades he played his beloved Stradivarius violin all over the world. And then one day, he turned around and it was gone. Stolen.

   While he was greeting well-wishers after a concert, it was snatched from his office at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass.
   …

   Did the thief ever dare to play the violin in public?  Only in the privacy of his home?  Or at all?

   Did possessing it bring him joy or stifle a once promising career?

   Have the stolen Gardner Museum masterpieces experienced a similar fate?

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   S2 on August 6, 2015 at 7:43 pm

   I’m pretty busy clearing brush.  Would y’all boil that down to a few sentences for me?