Comments on: Bruce Ivins Rips the FBI’s Anthrax Case to Shreds in His Will http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:24:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: American http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99627 American Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:45:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99627 <p>Subject: 2008 Texas A&M School Commencement Address……</p> <p>Neal Boortz is a Texan, a lawyer, a Texas AGGIE (Texas A&M), and now a nationally syndicated talk show host from Atlanta . His commencement address to the graduates of this year’s A&M class is far different from what either the students or the faculty expected. His views are thought provoking:</p> <p>ADVISORY: The other 4,312 words of Neal Boortz (with a covert helping of the bad side of Pat Buchanan stuck on the end) rambling conservative crap have been edited out for being a complete waste of precious electrons and digital space. Should you, Mr. So Called American, choose to return here, please restrict comments to appropriate length and use links to long winded tomes you wish to advise people of. This is not a proper place for you to randomly publish rambling manifestos like some kind of two bit cut and paste Unabomber or something. And if today’s comment is indicative of your standard work product, well, perhaps you might just consider a different venue altogether. Boortz’s views are not thought provoking, they are vomit producing. Cheers. - bmaz</p> Subject: 2008 Texas A&M School Commencement Address……

Neal Boortz is a Texan, a lawyer, a Texas AGGIE (Texas A&M), and now a nationally syndicated talk show host from Atlanta . His commencement address to the graduates of this year’s A&M class is far different from what either the students or the faculty expected. His views are thought provoking:

ADVISORY: The other 4,312 words of Neal Boortz (with a covert helping of the bad side of Pat Buchanan stuck on the end) rambling conservative crap have been edited out for being a complete waste of precious electrons and digital space. Should you, Mr. So Called American, choose to return here, please restrict comments to appropriate length and use links to long winded tomes you wish to advise people of. This is not a proper place for you to randomly publish rambling manifestos like some kind of two bit cut and paste Unabomber or something. And if today’s comment is indicative of your standard work product, well, perhaps you might just consider a different venue altogether. Boortz’s views are not thought provoking, they are vomit producing. Cheers. – bmaz

]]> By: MrWhy http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99626 MrWhy Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:43:59 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99626 <p>OT but relevant to an earlier thread.</p> <p>From <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZlWnCcBFpo" rel="nofollow">Charlie Rose Green Room with Sarah Palin</a> (@ 3:17), favourite authors include <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221457005&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">C.S. Lewis</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Running-Being-Experience-George-Sheehan/dp/0966631803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221456849&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Dr. George Sheehan</a>.</p> OT but relevant to an earlier thread.

From Charlie Rose Green Room with Sarah Palin (@ 3:17), favourite authors include C.S. Lewis and Dr. George Sheehan.

]]> By: LiberalHeart http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99624 LiberalHeart Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:42:55 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99624 <p>Thank you.</p> <p>Looking forward to the hearings this coming week.</p> Thank you.

Looking forward to the hearings this coming week.

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99622 bmaz Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:10:13 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99622 <p>There was a full tox screen/blood analysis done; that has misled many to say there was a full or partial autopsy performed, but the official position has consistently been that there was no comprehensive sectional autopsy. For what it is worth, I don’t particularly believe that; I suspect there was a full exam secretly performed. If there was not, it was intentional obstruction and malfeasance.</p> There was a full tox screen/blood analysis done; that has misled many to say there was a full or partial autopsy performed, but the official position has consistently been that there was no comprehensive sectional autopsy. For what it is worth, I don’t particularly believe that; I suspect there was a full exam secretly performed. If there was not, it was intentional obstruction and malfeasance.

]]> By: LiberalHeart http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99620 LiberalHeart Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:47:19 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99620 <p>The DVD was tucked into today’s Toledo Blade (in the very blue collar, not Jewish, Lucas County in Ohio).</p> <p>A question for everyone — asked above but not answered: Was there or was there not an autopsy? I have seen it reported there was not, but also that there was, and I’m curious to know which is correct. I’ve never seen an official cause of death reported, though I’ve seen the many reports that it was an OD of Tylenol 3. Okay, I can buy that — but was that where the investigation into his physical condition ended? Thanks to anyone who can answer that.</p> The DVD was tucked into today’s Toledo Blade (in the very blue collar, not Jewish, Lucas County in Ohio).

A question for everyone — asked above but not answered: Was there or was there not an autopsy? I have seen it reported there was not, but also that there was, and I’m curious to know which is correct. I’ve never seen an official cause of death reported, though I’ve seen the many reports that it was an OD of Tylenol 3. Okay, I can buy that — but was that where the investigation into his physical condition ended? Thanks to anyone who can answer that.

]]> By: masaccio http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99619 masaccio Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:09:21 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99619 <p>The commenters at CR run bearish. The NYT said that the government has had people in the Lehman offices looking at their books, and they believe that it is not as exposed as Bear Stearns was. The bankruptcy is for the parent of Lehman. They assert that the subsidiaries are solvent, so they will continue to operate as the business winds down. The credit swaps are closing and netting today, and the bankruptcy code apparently permits that to go forward after the filing. </p> <p>We can’t keep bailing out these failed enterprises. They never had assets to justify their stock prices. Instead they had people who worked for them who could make money trading or selling securities. There is no there. Let the people who wanted to make money off the people who make money trading stocks and selling securities go down with the failed people at these entities.</p> The commenters at CR run bearish. The NYT said that the government has had people in the Lehman offices looking at their books, and they believe that it is not as exposed as Bear Stearns was. The bankruptcy is for the parent of Lehman. They assert that the subsidiaries are solvent, so they will continue to operate as the business winds down. The credit swaps are closing and netting today, and the bankruptcy code apparently permits that to go forward after the filing.

We can’t keep bailing out these failed enterprises. They never had assets to justify their stock prices. Instead they had people who worked for them who could make money trading or selling securities. There is no there. Let the people who wanted to make money off the people who make money trading stocks and selling securities go down with the failed people at these entities.

]]> By: prostratedragon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99616 prostratedragon Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:55:09 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99616 <p>For all the hedge funds left in the lurch while banks get first crack at Lehman’s collateral:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZaKA8AkcI" rel="nofollow">On My Own</a>, Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald.</p> For all the hedge funds left in the lurch while banks get first crack at Lehman’s collateral:

On My Own, Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald.

]]> By: prostratedragon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99612 prostratedragon Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:29:21 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99612 <p>I almost suspect that the Bear deal was the cost of showing to some folks that there is no magic bullet by which their cookies might be pulled from the fire by the Fed. (How’s that for mixing?)</p> <p>Anyway, if the no-deal rumors bear out it sure sounds like gut-check time for the investment companies at last.</p> I almost suspect that the Bear deal was the cost of showing to some folks that there is no magic bullet by which their cookies might be pulled from the fire by the Fed. (How’s that for mixing?)

Anyway, if the no-deal rumors bear out it sure sounds like gut-check time for the investment companies at last.

]]> By: nomolos http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99609 nomolos Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:16:16 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99609 <p>Pats 19 New Jersey Jets 10</p> Pats 19 New Jersey Jets 10

]]> By: behindthefall http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/comment-page-1/#comment-99607 behindthefall Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:06:01 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/13/bruce-ivins-rips-the-fbis-anthrax-case-to-shreds-in-his-will/#comment-99607 <p>Do as we say, not as we do. It applies across the board.</p> Do as we say, not as we do. It applies across the board.

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