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August 27, 2007
Vacation Interruptus -- Again
The ventriloquist dummy took a powder, Stephen Lee Myers reports in The New York Times.
Copy that, said MSNBC.com, which ran his report as its cover story (per the illustration, above), since replaced by the AP report.
There will be many thumbsuckers mulling the whys and wherefores of the dummy's departure, but here's ours (click the photo there or below):
It's our fave foto of El Senor Gonzales because it puts him in the proper perspective. May it long be remembered.
But here's a more important story of this dog day, reported by the AP's Deborah Hastings and published in the Navy Times:
One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.Or worse.
For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.
That's just the beginning of the story, which details the BananaRepublic's treatment of whistleblowers in ways you won't believe.
Posted by jherman at August 27, 2007 9:09 AM
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