The main body of the British 6th Airborne Division lands east of the
River Orne.

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Most definitely deserves another.
And as an added bonus, I shall do my best impersonation of my mother
and whip out the Catholic Guilt Trip and start swinging:
{Ahem}
Bloggers you should really give seldom sober a bed to sleep on. I mean,
honestly, how could you not do this? Have you no compassion? All he's
asking for is a bed between Detroit and New York. Even a sofa or an air
mattress will do. He's not asking for a night at the Ritz-Carlton.
Simple shelter will do and you'll even get a t-shirt out of the deal.
{insert windy sigh of disappointment here} Honestly, you should try
harder. I know you have plenty on your plates right now, but I'm not
coming to visit, Rich
is coming to visit. You'll actually have fun. One night isn't that much
to ask for, is it? I really don't think it is. And you should be
ashamed of yourself for not offering sooner. Somebody give the poor boy a bed to sleep on between Detroit and NYC.

UPDATE: 06/01/2004 Rich would also like a bed somewhere in between the vast
wasteland of Tucson and Colorado Springs. Oops. My bad for leaving that
one out. /guilt trip.

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...from Rich over at seldom sober for the next person who chips in $50 towards James' walk.

So we have two---count 'em TWO---Gmail accounts to give away...all we need is the moolah, folks!

Read about James here. To get straight to the giving go here.
And in the words of Bartles and James, I thank you for your support.
(It was Bartles and James, wasn't it? Wine coolers, right? God, that
was just like so eighties.)

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US 101st Airborne Division lands by parachute near Utah Beach. Their
objective was to secure the exits from Utah, which they manage to do
despite being dropped all over the peninsula due to heavy anti-aircraft
fire and inclement weather conditions.

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Auntie Em' has a few for you.And
they're freakin' hilarious.

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If there was ever a photo that begged for a caption contest, I think this would be the one.

That's Gerhard Schroeder looking askance at Blacque Jacques Shellac at the D-Day Anniversary yesterday.

Go to it.

(Which, of course, no one will, because no one reads this $%%^Y^ blog!)

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First reports of American airborne assault reach headquarters of the
German 84th Army Corps at Saint Lo, located at the base of the
peninsula.

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Today was a wash. I didn't get much done in terms of blogging but I
wanted to let you know how James' Jaywalkers were doing! At least
that's one area that's not a wash!
We've brought in $50!
WOOHOO and thank you to our oh-so-wonderful contributor! Every bit
helps.
I also want to thank these very special bloggers for helping to get the
word out. Go and visit them because they're all fabulous people and
they deserve any slight rise in their stats that I have the potential
to make happen. Miss Apropos, seldom sober, My partner in defiling the memory of Jane Austen and his partner in photoshopping at The Llama Butchers , Fausta at the Bad Hair Blog
have all graciously offered their linking help. Two other bloggers whom
I don't know have also linked and I'm grateful for their support. Go
and visit Uptown Girl and Always Victoria. Go and check them out---you never know, you might find someone new to read.

Now, kids. I don't want to have to invoke the spirit of Michele and have to start reaming people because you're not contributing. I don't want to do that. Please
don't make me do that. But there is a reason why Michele makes so much
money for the causes that she chooses: she doesn't let up until she
gets what she wants. She will yell, she will cajole, she will bribe. I
haven't any bribes as of the present time...although I suppose I could
figure out how to give my Gmail account offer to someone who wanted to
contribute a few bucks....does that work for you? It does? Ok. Here
goes. ONE GMAIL ACCOUNT TO THE NEXT PERSON WHO CONTRIBUTES!

It's a little early in the game to start bribing people, but what the hell.

To read about James' fight against Type I Diabetes go here . To throw cash in the kitty you can go here---they take all sorts of credit cards.

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82nd Airborne lands west of Saint Mere Eglaise. First Navy hands
ordered to man battle stations. Landing craft begin to be lowered into
the water.

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Thousands of men, women and children who were supposed to be protected by UN peacekeepers in Srebrenica in 1995 were instead slaughtered, raped and tortured. Reportedly, the peacekeepers didn't fire a shot.

But in Kinshasha, in 2004, when their base is overrun by protestors who
are angry that the UN peacekeepers didn't do enough to keep Bukavu from
falling into rebel hands, they don't have any issues with shooting and
killing people.

NAIROBI Angry demonstrators targeted United Nations
facilities across Congo on Thursday, protesting the failure of UN
peacekeepers to prevent the eastern town of Bukavu from falling to
rebels. The most violent protests took place in the capital, Kinshasa,
where thousands of people broke down the door of a UN logistics base
and stormed the building.
In response, UN forces fired at the protesters, killing two and
wounding a third, said a spokesman for the UN, Hamadoun Toure, who
called the shootings "legitimate self defense." "Our security people
were overwhelmed," he said in an interview by telephone from Kinshasa.
"They had to open fire to calm down the situation."
Elsewhere in the capital, a large group of demonstrators converged on
the headquarters of the UN mission. Similar demonstrations broke out in
the central town of Kindu, in the southern town of Lubumbashi and in
the city of Kisangani, officials said. The popular outrage at the
10,800-strong UN peacekeeping force came after two renegade military
commanders launched an attack on Bukavu on Wednesday, seizing control
of the strategic town from Congo's military.

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I'm wiped out. Hence I won't be blogging this evening, but rather
watching DVD's.
See ya tomorrow.

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I do not feel well, but I can't lay about in bed any longer and there's
nothing good on TV.
Waaaaaah.
Sorry, kids. The husband had a meeting. He's not here to listen to me
whine. So I suppose I'll complain to my blog instead. The only
downside? The blog won't give me a cuddle and a backrub when I'm done
whining.
The main symptom? I'm nauseous. I know what you're thinking, but no,
I'm not preggers. It's a stomach thing.
My main problems are threefold at the moment:
1. Illness
2. Our very nice Pakistani doctor couple who live in the lower half of
the house have Grandma visiting to look after their little boy. Despite
her refusal to never empty the dryer's lint filter (What? Are there no
dryers in Lahore? I simply refuse to believe that! She knows how to
adjust the settings for knits and permanent press---why doesn't she
empty the damn filter? Explain this one to me!), and her inability to
speak English (She just smiles at you with this uncomprehending look on
her face when you talk to her. Never mind that everytime the husband
says hello, she pulls the whole pious Muslim woman act and basically
runs away from him.) she's a nice lady. And wow, can she cook up a
storm. The Cake Eater Apartment smells like a really upscale curry
house everyday from the hours of three to eight. On a daily basis we
get five hours of what are usually glorious smells wafting in through
the windows and the oven venting. I usually don't mind this. It
generally pushes me to create something really tasty for dinner, but
today it's just making me want to throw-up. There is no remedy for this
other than to let the smells die out in the normal way. (What would I
to say to them? "Could you stop with the saffron already? Could you
have some bland food just for tonight? Thanks, I appreciate it." Yeah.
Like that's going to work.) The smells will die out in about an hour. I
just have to keep myself from vomiting in the meantime.
3. There's one of those magazine sales guys roaming the block. He knows
someone's here as it's gloomy outside and I have the lights on. He's
already rung the doorbell a few times, and is still roaming up and down
the block. He will stop by again. I know he will and I don't want to
have to deal with the guilt of not answering the door. I already feel
bad for not answering the first time he came by. I don't think I could
take it a second time. Of course he knows this. And he will take
advantage of it, of course, because that's what door to door
salespeople do. You know the drill, right? A ringing doorbell or phone
or whatever and you feel compelled to answer, even though there's no
social contract that you've signed in blood under the light of the full
moon that says you are legally obligated to do so. Especially when you
feel like crap. But you can't really help yourself even though you know
you're going to be pitched subscriptions for fine, outstanding
publications like Tennis Weekly.
I am one of these people. I've finally learned how to let the phone go
to voice mail, but I haven't gotten to the completely remorseless, I
don't give a crap stage with the doorbell yet.
Thanks for the vent, blog. You're still lacking in the cuddle/back rub
department, though.

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...they want their governments to solve every problem for them.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish woman, tired of the noise
made by her amorous neighbors in the apartment above, took her quest
for some peace and quiet to an official environmental health committee.
Jon Persson, who works with the local health committee in Simrishamn,
some 382 miles south of the capital, Stockholm, said Thursday that the
woman said she was "distressed, angry and tense all over" because her
neighbors make love loudly almost nightly. He said it was the first
time he can recall such a complaint ever being filed in the
Scandinavian country. Typically, most disputes get settled between
neighbors and don't require government intervention. The woman, who was
not identified, complained that the lovemaking usually starts around 10
p.m. and lasts well past midnight, sometimes to 1 a.m., Persson
said.According to a copy of her complaint, she said the lovers' efforts
have left her with tense headaches, cramps and heartburn. "You are my
last hope, please help me," the woman wrote in the complaint, according
to Persson.

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British commandos take control of the bridges over the Orne Canal and
River. It takes them fifteen minutes to accomplish this task.

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Go and take a nap on a lazy Saturday afternoon, and when you wake up, you find that you've been instalanched.

Hmph.

To all those who are stopping by courtesy of the biggest of the big dogs, welcome and I hope you like what you see.

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Hmmmm.

Is Robert trying to psych me out, or should I take him at his word?

Hmmmm.

Either way, Emma's going down.

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Courtesy of Bill from INDC Journal.

I haven't invested myself in this whole brouhaha mainly because it touches upon my ELECTION FREE ZONE rule, but I will say this much: I think Sullivan wasn't being purposefully disingenous, as in I'm
going to say one thing to the gay media, and another thing entirely to
the readers of the Dish because I'm clever that way and they'll never
figure it out. He writes for different audiences all the time. Lileks does the same damn thing. If you only read Lileks' Backfence column in the Strib,
you'd never suspect he also wrote his very political Newshouse column.
It's called being a professional writer. Different magazines look for
different things from their contributors. What Sullivan writes for Time is different from what he writes for The London Times, which is most assuredly different from what he writes for The Advocate.
It's all Sully, but it puts different facets of his brain on display.
Magazines, after all, do have to sell copies. They don't hire people to
spout off simply because they've got a blog. They hire writers for
commentaries because they have something valuable to say, and
they're professional enough to tailor that message so it fits in with
the overall theme of the magazine. You don't hire Safire to write for Mother Jones, in other words. If blogging is, as Sullivan says, "thinking out loud," then which outlet is getting what Sully really
thinks? I think is simply a case of misguided perceptions: he didn't
realize how it would look. I don't think there's some grand conspiracy
here to mislead his readers. And I certainly don't think he's a shill
for Kerry, as some have suggested.
This doesn't mean he hasn't damaged himself. I believe he has. Time
will tell as to how badly he wounded himself with this whole thing. Now
would be as good a time as any for him to clarify just what he's
writing The Dish for, other than just to "think out loud." He's said
before he doesn't need to write The Dish, but he does because he has
serious respect for the medium of blogging. He needs to get his
priorities straight because no one in the blogosphere will take him
seriously if he doesn't resolve the issue between what he's contracted
to write as opposed to what he just lets fly from the top of his head.
It's the same with what he writes for the mainstream media: it's a
credibility issue. And it's one he has to solve as soon as possible.
Just blowing it off isn't going to fix the problem.

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Don't mind me. I'm just trying to come up with a name for Paris Hilton's new perfume.

We could always go the French route and call it putain. Clever, no?

Hmmmm.

Much thought is required.

UPDATE: 06/01/2004 I suppose I should give credit where credit is due. Sigh. Hat tip to Gawker. They have some interesting, but yet somehow too flowery, suggestions for the name as well.

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British Commandos under the command of Major Howard arrive by glider
and begin attacks on Pegasus and other bridges over the River Orne that
would need to be seized intact so that the landing supplies brought
ashore from the beaches would be able to be moved inland. More on Glider Operations Here

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I wish that whomever is leaking
all of the stuff about Abu Ghraib would get it over with already. It
seems to me that a few people are dishing this stuff out to the media,
one document at a time, as they arise or are made availabe to said
leakers. I don't know who these people are, I can assume a whole hell
of a lot about their motivations, but that doesn't mean I'm correct in
those assumptions.
Let me just point out a few things to whomever's leaking like a sieve:
1. If you're a republican who's frustrated with all of the neocons in
the Pentagon and wants Wolfowitz fired, etc. learn that if Bush hasn't
axed Wolfie or Rummy by now, it's not going to happen.
2. If you're a democrat who's looking to make sure this scandal stays
on the front page as long as it possibly can, you're performing a
self-defeating act. The longer it stays on the front page, the more
people are going to get bored with it and will start to blow it off. In
other words, you've had your fifteen minutes and the law of diminishing
returns has already kicked in terms of the general electorate.
3. If you're a republican who's leaking this crap in the misguided
effort to "control" the story---you ain't got control, baby. You never
had control. Give it up.
I could go on, but I think you get the point. Get it over with,
already, eh? I want the whole story, not just the tasty tidbits that
you're dribbling out. When we have the whole story we can fix what's
wrong and make motions toward getting over it.

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