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The Rumsfeld Overhaul

Monday, May 13, 2002

• TITLE: "The Rumsfeld Overhaul" I like the way this sounds. Try it. See if it doesn't grow on you. The Rumsfeld Overhaul.

  Maybe I was thinking of the "Kobayashi Maru" scenario. That was the "problem without a solution" which James T. Kirk was the only cadet in the history of Starfleet Academy to solve, although it later turned out he had re-programmed the computer. That Kirk. What a kidder.

• "... Crusader web page ..." Here's the link to the United Defense Industries' web page on the
  Crusader .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• "... byzantine ..." From the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary:

  Main Entry: Byz.an.tine
  Pronunciation: 'bi-z[^&]n-"tEn, 'bI-, -"tIn; b&-'zan-", bI-'
  Function: adjective
  Date: 1794
  (a) often not capitalized : of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation
  (b) : intricately involved

• "... nine states ..." The states are: SD, KY, MN, SC, PA, FL, CA, AL, and VA.

• "... dirty little secrets ..." Here's a photo of what you would have seen if you had been watching MSNBC on Saturday morning about 10:35 EDT:

  ... And click here to see what the people in the studio had to look at!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
     British World War II Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  President Bush at the Welfare Reform
  event in Columbus, Ohio on Friday.
  This pic is here because The Lad was the
  Lead Advance for the event and I thought
  it looked great.

  (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) ____________________________________________________________________________________