http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... roud-5.php
Rescorla seems to be a real-life (and heroic) modern version of Flashman. I have read of Rescorla before, but had not seen that he (and a friend)modeled themselves on "Peachy and Dravot" from the Man who Would be King."
Book ordered.
Non-Political Powerline Post-re Rick Rescorla and 9/11 stuff
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Re: Non-Political Powerline Post-re Rick Rescorla and 9/11 stuff
Here I am recommending a story from Slate (about Danny Lewin)
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... ernet.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... ernet.html
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Non-Political Powerline Post-re Rick Rescorla and 9/11 stuff
I reccomend Heart of a Soldier
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Non-Political Powerline Post-re Rick Rescorla and 9/11 stuff
Just thinking about how Rescorla had a "Fortunate" death. I think it is the death he would have chosen.
It is good that he did not die shitting in his bed in an Old Folks home.
It is good that he did not die shitting in his bed in an Old Folks home.
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Re: Non-Political Powerline Post-re Rick Rescorla and 9/11 stuff
Read the first chapter which opens with Hill(Rescorla's) friend serving as a mercenary officer in Katanga in 1961. CIA related. The interesting part is that the mercs there were largely ex-Wehermact who had joined the French Foreign Legion after WW2-then served in French Indochina-then served in the war in Algeria and then mercs. Many of them almost continuously at war since 1939.
A tough group of customers-that.
The line of the book has to be about Hill and Rescorla getting somewhat spiritual about meeting in past lives -ie Celts fighting Ceaser etc.
>>>“It’s called ‘déjà vu,’ ” Rescorla explained, using a term Hill had never heard. “Maybe we were Celtic warriors, fighting side by side.” “Maybe we were fighting together against the Romans !” Hill said. Rescorla’s face lit up at the prospect. And maybe, Hill thought, they were both boys who had never quite grown up. But at that moment, it seemed real. Hill felt it, the déjà vu Rescorla told him about. And he knew Rescorla did, too.
Stewart, James B. (2009-11-24). Heart of a Soldier (p. 23). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. <<<<
I love the "Never quite grown up" line.
A tough group of customers-that.
The line of the book has to be about Hill and Rescorla getting somewhat spiritual about meeting in past lives -ie Celts fighting Ceaser etc.
>>>“It’s called ‘déjà vu,’ ” Rescorla explained, using a term Hill had never heard. “Maybe we were Celtic warriors, fighting side by side.” “Maybe we were fighting together against the Romans !” Hill said. Rescorla’s face lit up at the prospect. And maybe, Hill thought, they were both boys who had never quite grown up. But at that moment, it seemed real. Hill felt it, the déjà vu Rescorla told him about. And he knew Rescorla did, too.
Stewart, James B. (2009-11-24). Heart of a Soldier (p. 23). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. <<<<
I love the "Never quite grown up" line.
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Re: Non-Political Powerline Post-re Rick Rescorla and 9/11 stuff
The German Mercs were last seen robbing a bank in Elizabethtown (Congo) and heading for Uganda.
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Re: Non-Political Powerline Post-re Rick Rescorla and 9/11 stuff
Was one named Roland?Spock wrote:The German Mercs were last seen robbing a bank in Elizabethtown (Congo) and heading for Uganda.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.