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congrats, dude. i voted for ya ;)

Considering that Banfield also spoke up about what being an embedded reporter meant during Gulf War v2.0, the two of you will have something to talk about, too. <wink />

Best of luck on the Independent Press Awards!

… not that you’d need to talk much, eh? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) GOOD FOR YOU! Your work so richly deserves this kind of recognition and more. I voted for you too. Hope you win it all, and hope it all comes with hefty cash prizes!

Between you and Paris Hilton, it wasn’t easy, but I think I made the right choice.

Between you and Paris Hilton, it wasn’t easy, but I think I made the right choice.

Congratulations!

Your new site design looks really nice.

I linked to one of your past entries in a recent blog post, and I tried to do a Trackback, using a stand-alone trackback form, but it apparently didn’t work. (Although, that form did work for other pings… Maybe I just entered something wrong.)

Anyway, keep up the great work with your weblog and your writing. Good luck in this contest. Thanks!

Congratulations on both nominations! Somehow I feel, though, that the Utne Awards will carry a bit more weight ;-)

On another note, and maybe this isn’t the best forum for it, but Chris, what is your take on the story many media are picking up now that Saddam was actually captured by the Kurds, drugged, and then left somewhere where the US Army could find him? I saw most of CNN’s interview of Saddam’s eldest daughter, Raghad, recently and she also said she was “100 percent convinced” that her father had been drugged in some way.

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has a post about this and how he feels it’s just not true, at least, as he says, based on “what I’ve seen in published accounts”.

From your perspective having walked among the Kurds (and others in Iraq), unlike Marshall (I think), does this story have any plausibility? Or are we yet again being hoodwinked by those in charge?

Hmm… the HTML didn’t take as I expected.

Here are the links for my post above:

CNN interview with Raghad Hussein, Saddam’s eldest daughter, Dec. 19, 2003

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/18/sprj.irq.saddam.daughter/

Josh Marshall’s post about the Kurds-capturing-Saddam story

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week200312_21.html#002341

How does one do links in these comments?

Thanks.

I think what you’ve done is incredible; and it’s one of the better blogs that I’ll ever read, I reckon. Loads of luck for both the awards, though I don’t think you’d win ‘cause of luck; you’re just so brilliant that you’d win by merit =)

Keep up the good work, and stay safe when you’re in Iraq.

After pulling up the Google search engine, I used “anti-Bush” as a search word. After clicking on the very first reference, I then clicked on the “Weblogs” hyperlink. Incidentally, nearly 400 are listed, yours among them. After visiting your weblog, I got the impression you’d like reading the text between the starred blocks.

So, the right wing has succeeded in strong-arming the CBS television network into dumping the proposed REAGANS mini-series onto some subscriber channel. What an impressive display of sheer political might. Here’s the kicker.

It was also a startling display of sheer political jealousy. A Sunday or so ago, the History Channel did a retrospective on President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, some forty (40) years after his assassination. Because I won’t be around to collect the bet, I must forgo offering this wager.

Oh, how I would love to bet five doughnuts to anybody’s three! Some sixty (60) years from now, a hundred years after JFK’s assassination, some mass media outlet will do a retrospective on the man and “Camelot”. And the institutions dedicated to his memory will be flourishing. By then, former President Ronald (a/k/a “The Great Communicator”) Reagan will have been relegated to history’s curio shoppe. Chances are, the curators of the Reagan Library will have to made ends meet by adding on a bed-and-breakfast section … maybe, a massage parlour, even.

Aaay, let’s face it. Compared against the swan that was Jackie-O, Nancy comes across like a guano-spattered shrike. That alone is enough to drive the right-wing up the wall. * * * *

Well, if you’ve come this far, you must’ve enjoyed the text between the starred blocks. Just so happens, it’s an excerpt from an article that was recently published on the Internet. Just in case, you’d be interested in reading the whole article, I’ve enclosed a hyperlink in this courriel.

Before clicking on it, though, you might like to know the hyperlink connects to an index of sorts that lists recently published articles. Furthermore, the excerpt is found in the “Yoko” piece.

Maybe, more to your interests, you might like to peruse the “Palestine” piece, for which I’ve gotten a few compliments. I’ve been told it explains, in large part, the peculiar behavior of the United States with regard to the Middle East, since the end of World War II.

And now, here’s the promised HYPERLINK.

The administrators of some websites I had visited have asked me for credentials. A reasonable enough request, I suppose. To honor such requests, I’ve replied with the following directions.

One need only pull up the Google search engine, and then insert with quotes and all this phrase “A. Alexander Stella” in the search field. After clicking on the Google Search button, your monitor screen will be filled references attached to my name.

warm regards

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 Bogey

p.s - I almost forgot to include this bit of information. The administrator for the www.theworriedshrimp.com website took me up on my offer to display my copyrighted and historically corrected version of the Confederate Battle Banner. So, here’s another link for your edification: www.theworriedshrimp.com/ToonReviews.html

When I was in the service, my ship’s captain was obsessed with “belt and suspenders”. Maybe, he had a point. And so, here’s the U.R.L undergirding the above hyperlink:

http://www.bcvoice.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=2

OK - so aside from being a prolific blogger and perhaps coveting Einstein’s good looks, who ARE you, Stella? Running a google search may turn up a billion comments you’ve written, but outside the rarified ethers of cyberspace what do you do - edit a newspaper? Read cartoons? Scrawl graffiti? I’m a little curious why you would visit this website and favor us with a story that’s perhaps 3 times the length of this site’s owner’s post o’ the day. Can anyone cast any light? I hate being confused, especially unnecessarily so. Gracias!

*What’s silly is that I’m nestled in between Roger Ailes and Ashleigh Banfield. (Hm. Half of that snugglefest wouldn’t be so bad.)*

Yeah, Roger IS a hottie. :)

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Thanks for the information!

I really used it.

Best regards

No matter how much times you will be back there. Your crimes are dirty and bloody. Revenge will come from both south and north, from sky, sea and earth… just wait a bit…