Comments on: “Not An Easy Time”

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:17:19 +0000

She seems to have time for everything except Congressional hearings and her job.

OT: regarding your latest post on the recently departed – unbelievable. They have lost what little mind they had.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 May 2007 20:51:25 +0000

FWIW, there was a guy on the flight to Paris seated a couple of rows ahead and on the other side of the aisle from me who seems to have met Bush’s parrot-girl. At least he had plenty of pictures of him and her at the same conference-y shindig that he was showing to one of his seatmates for the best part of half an hour.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 16 May 2007 05:16:26 +0000

Putin is not exactly Mr. Subtle, and doesn’t require a lot of stroking, but these people seem to go out of their way to annoy the Russians.

OT: I was in 1966-74 as a Russian linguist and analyst. Because of the analyst part I pulled some TDYs that had little to do with the Soviets, other than a check on possible activity.

I had my intermediate and advanced Russian at DLI, basic at Indiana University.

We had a Navy slot at my squadron on Rhein-Main.

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Wed, 16 May 2007 02:55:26 +0000

I think you can count on complete incompetence when it comes to the Bush government. I would say an expectation that they might actually engage the Russians and do something that would benefit us both is pretty naive.

OT but from some of your comments it would seem we served in allied positions in the military. I was a CTM mostly doing HFDF but spent a lot of my time in ComSec. I worked with a lot of DLI types and since most of my time was in the Middle East we had Hebrew and Arabic as our main tasking but there was alway as Russian linguist on watch just in case. I left in 73 so you might have been later. Just wondering.