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To: Sully- who wrote (59533)	6/4/2007 3:11:49 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

NY Times May Exhaust Ways to Undercut War Effort Satire from ScrappleFace By Scott Ott on Media/Journalism (2007-06-04) — Editors at The New York Times are reportedly concerned that the nation’s “paper of record” may run out of ways to undercut the U.S. war effort in Iraq before the November 2008 presidential elections, and perhaps much sooner. In what some insiders call “the nightmare scenario,” the Times would exhaust its supply of demoralizing stories based on leaked information even before the end of the 2007 calendar year. The news comes on a day when the Times’ lead story, drawn from a leaked Pentagon document, alleges that U.S. commanders are disappointed about the progress of the troop surge in clearing and securing Baghdad neighborhoods. According to unnamed sources in the Times newsroom, “Our only hope is a steady flow of leaks from the Pentagon and State Department. So, we still have a fighting chance.” scrappleface.com

To: Sully- who wrote (59533)	6/4/2007 4:19:57 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Funny you should mention this. I spent the weekend in the hospital. An exacerbation of whatever the H is eating my nervous system. Be that as it may. I escaped. In the other bed in the ward room was a Korean immigrant. Green card. Read "legal". A software engineer. College grad, of course. Spent YEARS in the long waiting line to get a legal pass. He got it 2 years ago. Thought he had the world by the tail. A bit of background: his right arm and hand are useless due to a birth defect. Something happened Friday. He noticed increasing difficulty typing in code at work. Worse Saturday morning and he headed for the ER and was admitted from there. Sunday morning he couldn't move his left hand or any left fingers. He started crying. Fortunately, my nurse was in the room at the time to start to handle problem of mine- -one caused by the night staff's incompetence and alteration of doctor's orders and was resulting in plunging BP. (My cardiologist, now chief of medicine at the hospital, had intervened in exactly the same problem the previous day and ordered the orders returned to their original form. They had again been altered.) His wife was there and mine. His wife also started crying. The handwriting was (or wasn't) on the wall for him. My wife talked to her, explaining improvement was likely over the next months and year. She said they didn't have time to wait. To H with my problem. This counted. As sad a tale as you can imagine. NOW: Why is it an illegal invader from Mexico gets to raid the candy jars while this guy, who followed all the rules, waited in line years to get a legal pass, whose kids started studying English YEARS BEFORE THEY CAME, and intends to become a citizen, gets the shaft? It appears he will get essentially NO HELP from our generous liberal gov't agencies. What's wrong with two fences at the Mexican border with a minefield between them? And soldiers with orders to shoot to kill? And if this pisses off the Mexicans so badly I have to stop going there, I'll pay the price. HEAR THAT, MARCOS????