Ted Kennedy [a.k.a. "The Swimmer"]: Expert on Drowning [from Rush Limbaugh]
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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: "Protesters staged a waterboarding yesterday outside the Justice Department, calling for a Senate committee to reject attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey because of his reluctance to define the tactic as torture. The demonstration came shortly before Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said he would oppose Mukasey." It doesn't matter because Schumer is going to support him. So is Dianne Feinstein. So he's assured of passage here, at least getting out of committee. Schumer even wrote a piece in the New York Times today, said (summarized), "Look, we Democrats are going to handle this another way. We're going to...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:39:38 AM
My Rookie Officers Were Third Division, Says'Bully' Skipper (UK)
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My rookie officers were third division, says 'bully' skipper By Stewart Payne (Filed: 17/01/2006) A submarine captain accused of bullying his officers told a court martial yesterday that some were so inexperienced it was like having lower division footballers on a Premiership pitch. Capt Robert Tarrant, 44, who was commander of the nuclear submarine Talent, told a court martial that he expected the very highest standards from his crew. He said he used a leadership style he had learned serving in the Falklands conflict. "I discovered that the margin of error between operational safety and therefore operational success and operational...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:39:38 AM
Ex-Swift boat skipper praises Kerry (sKerry Mafia shakedown alert!)
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For 35 years, Rich Baker seldom talked about Vietnam, Swift boats or John Kerry's ability as a young naval officer. But now, with Republican partisans challenging Kerry's wartime record, Baker said he feels compelled to strike back. "Every Swift boat officer gave his all in Vietnam, but Kerry stood above the rest of us," said Baker, 61, of Scott, a former Navy lieutenant and Swift boat commander. "He was number one as far as courageousness and aggressiveness. He set the tone." Campaign aides to Kerry, the Democratic candidate for president, yesterday asked Baker to speak out publicly to counter television...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:39:38 AM
Ore. charter skipper loses license over life jackets
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The U.S. Coast Guard has revoked the license of a charter fishing captain whose boat capsized last year, killing two. In a ruling made public Thursday, Judge Edwin Bladen took Ted D. Howell to task not so much for having violated Coast Guard rules but over whether the charter guide had learned anything from the experience. Specifically, the judge cited the captain's "cavalier attitude" toward life jackets. Howell was piloting a 25-foot boat on May 18, 2002, when a fast-moving 12-foot wave capsized it south of Tillamook Bay. Both of Howell's passengers drowned. Howell, 77, who was able to swim...
Published on Friday 10th of September 2010 09:39:38 AM
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