There is a _Big_Honkin'_ gap between Hillary getting the nomination and "Madame President". I still don't think America will vote for a chick over whatever gargoyle the Republicans throw up. France didn't and they still have a half-newsworthy communist party and had a female Defense Minister, fer chissake, at the time. Hillary is just the edge Republicans need to make sure their efforts to steal the election again are enough.

As for Florida, those teachers should act French. Walk off the job _immediately_. Every one of them, and every family member and friend they can get, should be clogging the streets around the Florida state capitol. Otherwise, well, whatever. Just stay quiet and meek and take it and enjoy the fruits of that strategy.

I've also enjoyed your guest blogging.

I thought your book review was great. Either that, or “Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization” is just a fantastic book, and was easy to review. I'll be looking for it in the stores, and keeping some of the strategies you outlined in mind. With you mentioning The Cathedral And The Bazaar I figure you must be an old-time geek, or maybe just interested in OSS.

So if there's a shortage of drinking water in Atlanta, 'Let them drink Coke'.

That's slightly better than Newport Beach, CA, where they're drinking recycled piss.

Is it getting through to anyone that the above are signals that we may be facing a crisis?

Mike Meyer @ 7:

ONLY YOU, THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER, CAN FORCE CONGRESS TO IMPEACH. Call Nancy pelosi @1-202-225-0100 and DEMAND IMPEACHMENT.

To busy shopping for the latest heated toilet seat.

A terrific job all week, Bob. Many thanks for bringing a refreshing change in perspective to C&L....
MF

Bob did a great job this week with the roundup

Finally (tooting own horn), here’s my review of John Robb’s groundbreaking book, “Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization.” Welcome to open source decentralized swarming warfare or, as he puts it “what if warfare was reinvented and nobody bothered to tell the Pentagon?” It might change the way you look at the world. It did for me.

Oddly enough, C-Span today broadcast a presentation by one, certain Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the Commanding General of the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, at a Kansas University symposium on the developments in the nature of warfare from 11/14/07. Much of what he spoke about seems to have been addressed by John Robb's book, only Robb did a much better job. What was terrifying was that the LTG in question is supposed to be developing the doctrine which will be needed to challenge the developing world of opposition actors and seemed to have no clue as to what to do. Most of the presentation consisted of one long whine about how the terrorists, insurgents, guerrillas didn't play fair. I was scared shitless by the end of his presentation because this booby is supposed to be defending me. I would have fired him after this presentation and put in somebody with some of the qualities he's claiming to seek in up and coming officers. He clearly got promoted based on a completely different set of criteria - like professioanl bootlicking.