| | Music lovers talk about morrell 8 string lap steel| Is McChrystal the Right Man For the Job? | | In the past few months the President has been criticized by many from the right who felt he should have immediately followed the advice of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal regarding sending additional troops to Afghanistan. After all, HE'S the general, he's the one who knows what's needed over there, right? However, should McChrystal have been appointed and then confirmed for this position to begin with? According to the parents of Pat Tillman, whose death by friendly fire was covered up by McChrystal, that answer is no. Pat's father, Pat Tillman Sr., told the Associated Press, "I do believe that guy participated in a falsified homicide investigation."Mary Tillman, who excoriated McChrystal in her book, Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, said, "It is imperative that Lt. Gen. McChrystal be scrutinized carefully during the Senate hearings."Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said in response:"We feel terrible for what the Tillman family went through, but this matter has been investigated thoroughly by the Pentagon, by the Congress, by outside experts, and all of them have come to the same conclusion: that there was no wrongdoing by Gen.... | |
| | New executive jets on the Pentagon's budget>> Don't tread on our milatary Obama | | The United States is fighting two wars and the Democrats take zillions of dollars out of our defense budget to buy jet's to fly around in throw the dam bums out for another forty year's.
WASHINGTON -- The House's bid to buy new executive jets on the Pentagon's budget has broadened a conflict between Congress and the administration over defense priorities."It forces us to take money from things we do need to fund and redirect it for things we don't need," Geoff Morrell, a spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said Friday. "And in a time of war, we just can't afford that."Lawmakers' move to upgrade the fleet of government jets -- used for travel by lawmakers and other senior government officials -- is just one of more than 1,000 spending projects lawmakers added to the Pentagon's budget for next year that weren't requested by President Barack Obama.The request for additional executive jets, which pales next to the multibillion-dollar weapons systems targeted for cuts by Mr. Gates, comes at a time when the Obama administration is trying to shake up Pentagon budgeting and contracting."The bottom line is, for everything that they appropriate for us above... | |
| | Who are your favorite authors? | | I love Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Robin Cook, David Morrell, James Patterson, John Sanford, JK Rowling and Mary Higgins Clark. | |
| | Who is your favorite fiction author? | | What makes you interested in reading the book of your favorite fiction author?I am interested in reading the books of John Grisham, D. Francis, J. K. Rowling, Nicholas Sparks and David Morrell. Each author is a genius in creating very interesting novels. | |
| | What books did you enjoy so much you read them in one sitting? | | You know when you pick up a really good book and you just can't put it down until you know how it ends? What books did that for you?The ones I can remember that I read in one sitting were:
The Fifth Profession, by David Morrell
The Stand (Unabridged Version), by Stephen King
Bag of Bones, by Stephen King
The entire Harry Potter series
Acceptable Risk, by Robin Cook
Dragons of Autumn Twilight, by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman | |
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