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The first, on their blog:

I am Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division.

The second, by phone at 7:30 am:

"Your services are no longer required."

Er, they found out the identity of both Scott Thomas and Beth Greem? :(

Evidently.

Oh well... hope the downtime won't be too long.

My pieces were always intended to provide my discreet view of the war; they were never intended as a reflection of the entire U.S. Military. I wanted Americans to have one soldier's view of events in Iraq.

What public office are you planning to run for when you return?

Oh, and I still think you are a bullshitter of the first rank, "Winter Soldier " caliber at the least.

....my character, my experiences, and those of my comrades in arms have been called into question,

And don't think that you "fighting a war" in Iraq or anywhere else makes you unique. It isn't a single handed effort, schmuck, and it has all been done before...it is just new to you.

I'm still waiting for the Army to confirm that there is a "Private Scott Beauchamp".

"Your services are no longer required."

Whatever happened to the Mr. Spacely-style "Yooooourrrrr fiiiiiirreeeeddd!!", with jowls a-flappin'?

People are such wusses these days.

Private Scott Beauchamp Schonfeld

Fixed it for ya.

At this point, I'm not questioning TNR's homework skillz.

Does this mean Bloggie is famous? :)

general discharge

How about Buккaке?

This is a Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp in the Army; someone at Ace of Spades posted a link to his blog after TNR posted his letter.

DMOT will appreciate his taste in girlfriends.

"Vikkake"?

No, the "B", "u", and "a" are Roman alphabet, Throbert. :)

I figured if I used all Russian letters, I might get Russian spam/perverts.

throb - I'm so sorry about the fall out that hit you from this.

My own fault, AFW -- as you advised, I should've kept my nose out of it. And I feel monumentally stupid for having acted out of sheer impatience... yet only a week after this broke, the guy comes out publicly.

I was initially reluctant to take the time out of my already insane schedule fighting an actual war...

Wow.

I wanted Americans to have one soldier's view of events in Iraq.

"An Army of One."

grrrrrrrr

I'm sorry too, but, perhaps you were one of the forces that pushed this out into the open.

Commenter at TNR:

A quick glance at some conservative sites shows that the fact checking is just starting. Pvt Beauchamp appears to have been (or may still be) an undergraduate in creative writing at U of Missouri in Columbia. A few of his poems appeared in the undergrad literary magazine. It also looks like Pvt Beauchamp kept a blog for most of last year while he was training in Germany.

Sorry you got canned, Throbert. You'll get something better soon. And in the meantime, you still get royalties for using your likeness on packages of Brawny paper towels, don't you?

Damn, sorry Throbert. That sucks.

Scott Thomas Beauchamps blog - linky

One redeeming factor on his blog -

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yummy

"Your services are no longer required."

In brighter news, they link us, they really link us!

One redeeming factor on his blog -

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yummy

Train ride to Wurzberg: 11 Euro
Two Steins of Beer: 12 Euro
Having a girlfriend that embodies racial perfection: priceless

Yeah, but if that racially perfect chick was his girlfriend, how did he end up engaged to this one?

Hold on, I thought he was married? Throbert?

Oh ok.

According to the image file name, the racially perfect girlfriend shot was from Sept. 24, 2002. The happy engaged couple seems to be from four years later, in Sept. of 2006.

From Malkin-

I’m active Army & an Iraq vet.

I just pulled up “Scott Thomas Beauchamp” on the secure “Army Knowledge Online” website. It lists his current rank as “PV2″. (That data is kept accurate via pay records on that website.)

In his Sep 06 blog post he listed his rank as “Private First Class”. That indicates that without a doubt he was busted at least one rank as part of Article 15 proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he likely has a strong ax to grind with his chain of command.

In this photo he's got no rank insignia. That would make him a PV1. No date for the photo, though.

Where Pvt Beauchamp got at least part of his "exposé":

More Images Implicate German Soldiers in Afghanistan

More images showing German soldiers playing with skulls and bones in Afghanistan have surfaced. The site had been a regular stopping point for patrols. Those who didn't play along were considered wimps.

The skull scandal in Germany refuses to go away. Two days after tabloid Bild Zeitung published photos showing German soldiers playing with a skull in Afghanistan, the paper now says it has dozens more photos in its possession -- some of which it plans to publish on Saturday.

The new images, the paper says, show soldiers staging an execution with a soldier pointing his pistol at an assembled skeleton. An additional picture shows a skull wearing a German army beret and another shows bones arranged to spell out "CSR-Team" -- the abbreviation for the unit which patrols the area surrounding the German camp. The German television station RTL has also come into possession of new images, including one of a soldier apparently kissing a skull mounted on his left bicep.

One soldier told Bild that German patrols often stopped by the site where the bones were found. One eyewitness reports the site looks more like a gravel pit than a cemetary. The witness told the paper that posing for photos there had become commonplace. A number of soldiers evidently spelled out their names using the bones.

From Uniform Code of Military Justice (h/t Kragar at LGF):

934. ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE

Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.

Oh, great. Whose bright idea was it to re-arm Germany?

Pvt Beauchamp appears to have been (or may still be) an undergraduate in creative writing at U of Missouri in Columbia.

So this was pretty close to on the money, wasn't it?

Yup. That guy basically nailed it.

Our view, however, is that there's nothing wrong with a German army, if appropriately employed. Meaning they should prevent the ongoing genocide against Hanseatics at home and watch the Southern borders.

*gasp* You mean a lowly private with literay pretentions is making stuff up? No!

I can't wait to hear the reaction of his comrades.

Reeve, BJ

pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor"

Sliced writsts recovering from barbwire night mission in a furnished 1600's bedroom window open to the stars strained notes The Magic Flute from further down the hall when I'm off work early she brings me coffee and a fresh stack of freshly pressed laundry while struggling through The World According to Garp auf Deutsch...warum?...now you are a citizen of the world, son, so she rents a car to take me to Bamberg this weekend and maybe plane tickets to London the next because through a month of silence and guilt and regret, reciting the Zarathustra quote over and over in your head, "I've always carried a disdain for creatures who considered themselves kind merely because they were clawless"..and you "get it" and you "understand" and you see yourself maybe not for the first time and finally a perfect rearrival of yourself, doch, ja, meine mereshweinkin ist sehr schon...die Welt ist deins...do you come to terms with the past or accept it or apologize and bow or cut free and run...then, of course, theres the war, and your dreams about a haunted barn...but she wakes you up practicing for an opera performance and then drives you to work...three days of perfect tears, the colors red and blue, at least thats what he said...the library closes and you're already drunk...you run six miles...you lift weights...you bullshit with seargent Justify to get out of guard duty...you aim a little low and to the left and follow the glow of the tracers across the targets at night and the slow down slow down slow down in your sweaty head till you can hear them chruning and grinding slower maybe than constellations in the sky...

You guys notice this post at Ace? Was someone snooping around here looking for the goods in relation to the TNR mess?

I guess whistleblowers are only safe if they take down mean, evil corporations or Republicans.

Sorry that you are paying such a price for your honesty and integrity.

Ok I can deal with the fact that Beth is a man, baby.

And I'm really bummed that Throbert got sacked.

But what I absolutely can't hack is the fact that John Barnes was right.

On the other hand I guess it takes a literary fraud to know one.

"Gracie"? LOL

Yeah, but if that racially perfect chick was his girlfriend, how did he end up engaged to this one?

Isn't that guy just a little bit old to be a private?

Sliced writsts recovering from barbwire night mission in a furnished 1600's bedroom window

He sounds like a V!agra salesman.

Wonder if this is going to screw up the wedding plans :-P

Wedding Channel.

Scott Beauchamp Elspeth Reeve MO* 10/26/2007

Throbert, this is tough. I hope you have the resources to see you for a little while. You have done the right thing. You will get though.

TNR's offices are currently glued to this thread and have been reloading it obsessively.

TNR's offices are currently glued to this thread and have been reloading it obsessively.

Really? In that case -

Hi Elspeth! Dinner?

TNR's offices are currently glued to this thread and have been reloading it obsessively.

Really?

Hey TNR

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No we're not.

You people need to get lives.

Of course, when you think about it, this clown's pompous prose and oh-so-cynical world view is in fact a perfect fit for the pseudo-intellectual and half-educated types who take TNR as something sophisticated.

Wait! Elspeth, I didn't mean it honey, I swear!

Does that mean I can ask them what ever happened to "journalism." You know, where they do their best to make sure something is the truth before they print it?

I doubt the HUAC or Joe McCarthy did anything near this egregious on a continual basis, and they are still being portrayed as evil personified. The antics of TNR and their ilk will, if unchecked, get many Americans killed – and not just in Iraq.

Clue-o-gram to TNR: the First Amendment doesn't mean a thing if there aren't people to defend it. But as academics show with "Speech Codes" on university campuses the left really does not believe in freedom of speech.

Quit grinding your axes, and tell us the truth.

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I just posted this over at Ace's place:

Hi, Ace! I'm the one who told Sean that the IP address in your post was doing searches on discarded lies for Beth Greem, when we were discussing what we could do to better cloak Beth/Gracie's identity. At the time, I was only speculating that the searcher using that IP address might be from TNR. I've since investigated our logs further, and have determined that that particular IP address likely does not belong to TNR, and I regret that it's appearing here. I have since determined the actual IP address* that TNR's offices were using to access our site. A whois returns TNR as the owner of the IP block in question, while the 72.75.X.X IP is just some Verizon DSL account in the DC area and could be anyone.

I can authoritatively state that TNR did their investigation into Beth/Gracie's identity from their corporate network and their own netblock, not some Verizon DSL account. One of the mistakes Beth/Gracie made was using his computer at TNR in whistleblowing, which made their investigation much easier. Based on that, I would greatly appreciate it if you removed the 72.75.X.X address from your post, so as to avoid accusing someone who is likely uninvolved. Thank you.

Isn't she beautiful?

Is PV3 the same as PFC, Sean?

If TNR's staff had half a brain, they'd come clean immediately.

The more time they take, the more ridiculous their denials are going to look as more information comes to light in the editorial pages of papers nationwide.

More and more people will be linked to this thread. More and more will read about Scott's engagement to a TNR staffer, and then no one will believe anything TNR has to say about the matter at all.

Come clean now, and they may just lose Foer (assuming his motive for obfuscation is as has been suggested). Keep waiting, and TNR will lose whatever credibility it has along with its readers.

doubleplusundead/Sinistar is really tearing holes in this pricks story.

http://doubleplusundead.mee.nu/

repair the world (tikkun olam)

???

Oh dear. Is this bloggie's Rathergate?

The photo of the German hottie at Oktoberfest was from 2002. He wasn't there in 2002. He never met her.

In his Sep 06 blog post he listed his rank as “Private First Class”. That indicates that without a doubt he was busted at least one rank as part of Article 15 proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he likely has a strong ax to grind with his chain of command.

Interesting.

How do you know that, Distwalker?

I don't doubt that he got the free credits. An Article 15 will take you from E3 to E1 fast and in a hurry.

Look at the file name: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/2076/320/2002-09-24-oktoberfest-090_jpg.jpg

Gotta be a reason for that 2002-09-24 right?

Yeah, it means that we're gonna all start hanging out at Wanderlust, and get in a fight with the rest of the regulars triggered by events that happen on a third blog, and be delinked later on, all in the space of eight months.

OK, thanks, dist - I didn't get a chance to look at the filename.

How do you know where he was in 2002?

Probably listed as "Columbia University" on his resume.

According to HIS blog, he didn't get to Germany until 2006. He says he has been to college. In 2002, he would have been 18 and still living with mummy and daddy in NY I assume.

Hey, andthenblammo! is over at Ace's. I always wondered what that funny freak was up to.

I think it bears repeating here that while salacious stuff is all great and fun, TNR and the veracity of Beauchamp's stories still must be checked. Right now, some of his stories have holes big enough to drive a Bradley through, even one poorly driven, without crashing down walls.

Throbert:
Sorry about the job situation. Hopefully this situation will work itself out for the better and you end up in a much better job.

On his blog he said his zodiac year is "boar". That is 1983 for him. Means he was 18 or 19 in September 2002. Probably in college.

If you look closely, you can see the thread-holes of where the chevron used to be.

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Just kidding...
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I suspect it will be along the lines of "Pillow Party time!!"

I do, Sean.

In 204 he was attending abortion rallies and his girlfriend was using him as a source in her writing.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2004/04/26/mid-mo-protesters-hit-dc/

Washington — Hundreds of thousands of people descended on the nation’s capital Sunday to protest recent U.S. policies regarding women’s reproductive health. Included in the throng of marchers were more than 100 young men and women from the Columbia area.

“I don’t think there’s usually enough men at these kind of events, so it’s really important to show up and support it,” said Scott Beauchamp, who endured a 24-hour bus ride from Columbia to attend Sunday’s march. “I think it’s really a civil rights issue.”

Looks like Scott was a Howard Dean man. At least that is what he squeeze reports here.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2004/09/27/going-for-broke/

Here's the timeline for how Beth/Gracie got identified and fired from TNR, as reconstructed from our logfiles. Whois confirms that the IP address belongs to TNR. It appears to be a corporate proxy, because we've got at least 4 different useragent strings (these are how browsers identify themselves to a server) for the same IP address, indicating that more than one computer is using it at the same time.

The last time Beth/Gracie visited DL from work was at 3:19 PM PST on Wednesday. It looks like the first time someone came from TNR who *wasn't* Beth/Gracie was shortly thereafter, at 4:16 PM PST yesterday, with this referer (landing here). I believe this was probably by coincidence, based on the referer. It was to be their lucky break, because the thread they landed on from Google blog search contained Beth's explosive revelation that the husband of a TNR staffer was central to the affair, and was most likely Scott Thomas himself.

3 minutes later, having seen Beth's name and allegations, they used Google blogsearch to look for Beth Greem, and then wandered all over DL until 5:11 PM PST on Wednesday, devouring all of the Beth Greem threads.

Then the logs have nothing until 4:42 AM Pacific on Wednesday, when the useragent belonging to Beth/Gracie's computer shows up again, along with his commenter cookie. That couldn't have been him, since he reports that he got fired by phone at 7:30 AM Eastern (4:30 AM Pacific), 12 minutes prior to the visit from his work computer. They must have been snooping in his computer at work almost at the same time that they fired him. The DL commenter cookie from his work computer for the log entry at 4:42 AM PST said "Beth Greem". So the connection between "Beth Greem" and his computer was definitely known to the investigator(s) at TNR. They probably snooped in his computer looking at his history and cookies and so on, as well as checking their network/corporate proxy logs.

Late last night Sean Gleeson and I were talking about obfuscating Beth's email address to protect her identity, since she was using her real name as a commenter email address. I did end up changing it to "beth@discardedlies.com" to get rid of her name in the email address if anyone checked it. But we were already too late by the time we discussed that and decided to take action. That was at 9:55 PM PST last night, and TNR had already been hot on his trail since 4:16 PM. Incidentally, no one from TNR ever did use the getmail tool to fetch Beth's email address. So we were worried about nothing in that case, since they figured out who it was by other means.

Also, I mentioned above that the initial TNR searcher who had a lucky break read every thread Beth was involved in. Well, among those were comments by Beth describing a party she attended at Foer's house on Friday night and asking him questions about the Scott Thomas case, so it can't have been too hard for someone who read Beth's comments to put two and two together, whether they had access to incriminating evidence from his computer or not.

TNR investigated the leaker in their office with tenacity and took quick action. If only they would have applied the same tenacity, diligence, and sense of urgency to investigating the fantastic allegations they published by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, none of this would have been necessary.

I just like to have a plan.

Hmmmm... neither of those fit with my stereotypes of military folk.

The third blog will be "Hilary R. Clinton Will You Please Go Now?"

I was military folk. Retired infantry as a matter of fact. Platoon sergeant, jumpmaster, sniper, SERE instructor, etc.. Let me tell you, I had a puke like this kid in every platoon I served in or led. Worst nightmare for leadership. He is too smart for his own good. Smirks at everything. Thinks he has it all figured out and those of us sincere about our service are unsophisticated dupes. Naturally I had my boot in their asses all the time...

TNR investigated the leaker in their office with tenacity and took quick action. If only they would have applied the same tenacity, diligence, and sense of urgency to investigating the fantastic allegations they published by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, none of this would have been necessary.

Yep. :(

Oh, I see the context of my comment in #103 was lost, due to all the posts before it.

I may be wrong, but when I think of "military folk", "Howard Dean" and "reproductive rights" aren't the first phrases that jump into my head.

Quite true.

#107... Oh. Yeah. Me neither.

That's me, save the last bit. Change "unsophisticated dupes" to "cool", and you're dead on.

Why do sh*tbirds like Boochamp even enlist?

TNR investigated the leaker in their office with tenacity and took quick action. If only they would have applied the same tenacity, diligence, and sense of urgency to investigating the fantastic allegations they published by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, none of this would have been necessary.

Why do sh*tbirds like Boochamp even enlist?

One word - adventure.

Or, given his apparent political leanings, he may have been an agent provocateur from the get-go.

Miss Sullington Stands Up For His Previous Employer

Or he is such a shit for brains he couldn't get a writing job.

I nominate Throbert for a Blogie Medal of Honor.

He thought he was going to be Hunter Thompson and he needed authenticity.

Wishful thinking on his part...

If only he were able to reach reality... Oh if only...

Um, is this some military slang that I don't know?

It's kind of spooky to think that if the Beltway Sniper hadn't killed all those people five years ago, I might not be on Bloggie now.

OK, thanks swj, I figured it was something like that.

Have you ever heard of Durian in Pantyhose?

We should try to do something for Beth. She deserves thanks for bringing this to light.

*goes to google*

Not getting anything...

I feel that I should worry.

I'd post a picture of a present I'd love to give her, but I'm at work now. :)

Thank you, Beltway Sniper!

Indeed.

Beth, you took one for the team today. You could have sat back and done nothing, but you acted.

I am very, very sorry that they were douchebags and fired you. You deserved better.

You also deserve better than to be working there, so it's mixed blessings... :)

Hope it's a short wait for the job offers.

The photo of the German hottie at Oktoberfest was from 2002. He wasn't there in 2002. He never met her.

I recognize that photo from a blog:

http://www.misunderestimatedgermans.com

I stumbled onto LFG during the Beltway Sniper crisis. If I hadn't done that, there's a good chance that I might not have wound up here.

Geez, you'd think we're the AP or Reuters with all these stringers. :)

swj -

This is Durian.

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It is a large, heavy, spiky (and stinky) fruit grown in Southeast Asia.

Apparently when stuffed in pantyhose, it makes a good "mace".

He never said it was his girlfriend.
I took that post as a some attempt at a joke.

Distwalker and swj719, welcome to bloggie :-)

:P

cba is going to be pissed she missed all this.

And I hope that your relations with the agency weren't damaged. I have a hunch that they didn't want to tell them the whole story, or even possibly any of it.

...

*Goes to find when he can buy some*

I'd like to direct the attention of all the first-time posters here to the link button above the comment box. It works pretty easy and painlessly (and is pretty self-explanatory), and helps not break the layout. Thanks.

And also, I wouldn't necessarily take his comment as indication of any racial beliefs.

Go to an Asian grocer, particularly Thai.

Speaking of the Dreaded D, I had a weird idea to make spaghetti sauce using a pinch of durian pulp substituting for parmesan cheese.

#151 And also, I wouldn't necessarily take his comment as indication of any racial beliefs.

Some people were using that post to indicate infidelity on his part. My post pointing out that it was an old photo was an attempt to debunk that. I don't think it means anything other than he thinks his sense of humor is edgy and oh so sophisticated.

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Ummm... just where did you find that, RWC? ;P

Am I weird for noticing that he has great arches?

Looks to me like the Oktoberfest photo was stolen from here...

Photo

Golly, here she is again...

Photo

Doh! She is everywhere!

Photo

Why do you ask?

What search keywords are you using, distwalker? Looks like I may be in danger of losing my title of "King of the Google Image Search".

Charles' latest update:

The LGF Irony Meter just went off the scale; an article by Elspeth Reeve at The Center for Public Integrity: It’s All Relative.

WASHINGTON, December 20, 2006 — Arkansas’ term limits forced Mike Creekmore out of his job as a Democratic state representative in 2004, but he still has a strong connection to the General Assembly. His wife, Dawn Creekmore — also a Democrat — was elected to serve in his old seat in the next legislative session.

The spring following her election, Mike Creekmore was hired to lobby for a bill on behalf of pharmaceutical services company Caremark Rx. Dawn Creekmore was not on a committee that dealt with the bill, but “it was a little odd” to see her in the statehouse, according to her husband — not that it mattered, though. “She’s a pretty independent thinker,” he said. Mike Creekmore terminated his lobbyist registration after a week, and the bill never made it out of committee.

The Creekmores are just one example of the family ties evident in the legislative and lobbying ranks of the nation’s state capitols. Through its six-month investigation of state legislators-turned-lobbyists, the Center for Public Integrity found not only ex-lawmakers cashing in on legislative experience, but wives, husbands, sons and daughters of sitting legislators as well. ...

But concerns go beyond access. A lobbyist’s compensation is dependent on his or her success at persuading legislators. If a lobbyist is married to a legislator, the lobbyist’s compensation benefits both and creates a significant conflict of interest.

Good find distwalker.

Wow. I think swj719 will fit in well here.

Only his nick is somewhat unwieldy.

Sorry, dude, you're going to have to change your name.

What search keywords are you using, distwalker? Looks like I may be in danger of losing my title of "King of the Google Image Search".

Google image search: Oktoberfest 090

LGF just went down.

The amber(?) on her ring matches the color of the beer. That's kinda cool.

And just what were you doing looking for that over on Amazon, RWC?

I see Frankie and I share suspicions.

Throbert, that sucks. But in the end, it's probably good for your mental health.

Question: Do you think Beauchamp would have exposed himself if they didn't know the cat was wriggling it's way out of the bag?

Hiya, Zorkie!

The wedding registry might be a fake.

Someone has purportedly discovered that Beauchamp is engaged to a New Republic staffer because of an Internet wedding registry. I'm not linking to it because, after looking through it, I think it's spurious — only six gifts are sought, no one's bought any of them, and there are no other items registered in their names at any other wedding site. If someone is now manufacturing bogus wedding registries to prove something — even to expose a relationship that actually exists — then there's a lot more lunacy attaching to Beauchamp's tales besides the details of the tales themselves, true or untrue.

Don't you judge him...

And my name stays. It's used on MANY blogs. I'm not memorizing a new one just so you malcontents have a funny word to read... :)

But dude, really.. swj... 719. they're all over the keyboard. Couldn't you have picked sdf123 or something? Stuff that's all next to each other?

Why you make me hunt and peck, why?!?!?

RWC -

Is the Crafts Room piling up again?

If so, I'll show your picture to the BF, I think he would be very happy to meet you. :)

hey, if you wanna be a huntin' pecker, that's your life coice, not mine...

It's my first, middle, last initial, and the month and day I was born.

I'm sorry I wasn't named something more convenient for you. ;)

Hey Pablo :-)

I know that NOT participating in a war (and such a misguided one at that) should be considered better than wanting to be in one just to write a book...but you know, maybe id rather be a good man than a good artist...be both? Some can and some cant...i guess it all depends on how great an artist, or how great a man they want to be. Sometimes it feels like i have to choose between being totally loyal to thoughts of my future family OR totally loayl to chasing down the muse.

huntin' pecker

I just found a new nick.

Along with Bernese Mountin' Dog.

...says Miss Stormi bin Warmongerin'

And don't get me started on the people who write their nick in Hebrew, Greek and English.

No, still pretty good. That was one of the agreements we made in order to keep the kittens.

*of course, couldn't get me to get rid of the lil' furry claws of death now.

; P

Pablo -

I saw one of your comments over at Protein Wisdom the other day.

Linked the article in the Hyperlinkopotamus, but somehow Right Wing Conspirator got author credit.

We must've posted it nearly simultaneously, maybe.

Anyway, I did give you a hat tip in the first post.

Throbert, I am so sorry about your job loss, but I feared it would happen when you gave some pretty specific details of certain conversations.

Good luck in getting something else soon.

I hope TNR does not do something blackball you, which I fear would be in keeping with a mag that publishes BS in order to hype their own agenda, then continues to support it after the fake is found out by the general public.

Partly, I think, new media hatred of TNR. Partly that Thomas is obviously a liberal Democrat who's also a soldier. But mainly, it seems to me, the conservative blogosphere has taken such an almighty empirical beating this last year that they have an overwhelming psychic need to lash out at those still clinging to sanity on the war. This Scott Thomas story is a godsend for these people, a beautiful distraction from the reality they refuse to face.

Has he officially given up the pretense of being conservative?

LMAO....shaddup.

Thanks, Lewis, and I'll pass that right over to some dude called "splurge" in the comments over at Hot Air, which is where I saw it.

Barnes pretty much nailed him, didn;t he?

The Teletubbies overdubbed with "Shake Dat Ass" (or somesuch).

I'll have to see if I can find a link to the Teletubbies doing the rumpshaker.

I'm having the most enormous fun reading this thread. But I'm sorry Beth about your job. That was a huge sacrifice you made on behalf of bloggie. I think you deserve a medal. Seriously.

Also, it's interesting to see him using the term "New Media" perjoratively.

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Pssst... do we have any agents inside The Atlantic?
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Weap in greater quantities, novice!

nope.

I'm just lucky to be like this naturally...

Be

Afraid

Needs the guy from the Tangerae commercials instead...

Another classic, RIP Ford! :)

Prost, RIP Ford!

This swj719 guy is awesome. Can we keep him?

Only if yer hot, 'available', and female...

Otherwise I'm afraid I'll have to stay "free"...

Damn Jefe. I just started doing the same graphic.

I would have had it sooner if it wasn't for you meddling kids, I mean problems logging into Photobucket.

Say, swj719, you don't happen to have any coupons for dinner at Red Lobster, do you? That maybe someone gave your for your birthday?

I once asked somebody if they were free for dinner. And the dude snapped right back at me with 'No, but I'm cheap.'

Zzzzzing!

This thread needs more traffic! Reaganite!

I'll shut up now.

Oh, feh. I have to go to water aerobics now. See y'all later.

See ya Stormi.

And layla tov annie :-)

Layla tov zorkie and bloggie comrades. I'll catch up tomorrow morning :-)

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Sorry about Throb's job. How could they fire him tho'? It's not like he explicitly exposed who it was.

Anyway, TNR are complete shisekopfs.

LOL!

They were probably more uncomfortable with the "Plame" angle.

I feel like I'm missing a funny story. Share, while Stormi is gone...

LOL, RIP :-)

(Straight to Ferkakta).

(Don't tell her who told you.)

This would be great if any of us subscribed to the New Republic:

Divest Now.

If, for some reason–such as sheer laziness–you’ve not yet terminated your subscription to TNR, do. Make sure to let them know that their “services are no longer needed.”

You kids have fun

Many years ago, I would read TIME, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Fortune, Forbes, both TNR's, and Reason practically from cover to cover. Those days are long gone.

Not due to politics in all cases, just the availability of the internet and the lack of time.

I'll have to invent a gay-slang meaning for "Red Lobster".

From Hot Air updates

Here’s his old blog. Per Bad Candy, of particular interest is the entry from May 8, 2006. He’s not in Iraq at this point (i.e., as of May 8, 2006), I don’t think: his sidebar bio says he’s training in Germany and he cops to being in Amsterdam three weeks later, but I guess it’s possible (is it?) that he was in Iraq and then went to Europe in the intervening time. Either way, the May 8 item can only be one of two things: an exercise in creative fiction that looks exactly like the sort of thing he wrote for TNR or a bit of reportage of an actual incident — in which a U.S. commander ordered the murder of children. Which is it?

If the TNR folks are still reloading this thread, this might be a clue as to the veracity of Beauchamp's story..

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Red Lobster - a sexual act wherein a man fists a menstruating woman and pinches her cervix
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Um, where is the other man, RWC?

Does this mean we can't talk dirty?

Back from Amsterdam...eh...today we had classes in MOUT (military operations in ubran terrain)...

Hmmm... does the US military have as heavy a presence in Holland as it does in Germany? Although I suppose it could be related to NATO.

One trend I notice - he doesn't proof his typing/spelling.

Oh, what the hey... five in a row...

If women do it, how come it's called "men's struation"?

OK, gotta go now - blogging will be light to nonexistent in the evenings for at least the next two weeks, and probably will be lighter in the daytime due to deadlines and feelings of insecurity due to today's events.

To keep the womyn down.

Hey Stormi...

*runs for his life*

reaganite reaganite reaganite

zorki....the new kid is picking on me....make him stop..

You! Swojjy-something! Quit picking on RWC!

Are you so ADHD you can't pull it together for six freaking characters?

There... Is that better, or shall I go back to swj719?

But you'll always be swojjy to me...

But if you wish to shoot me off a quick email with the highlights (I've just been skimming the front pages of Bloggie and LGF for the last few days), I'd appreciate it.

Throb, sorry about your job. Hope something good comes your way soon.

I subscribe to TNR. By and large it's a fine journal. I'll continue my subscription.

Welcome to you and the other new poster (whose nick I don't recall and I can't be bothered to search, but it ends with a ').

And, much as I miss my Bloggie, this certainly confirms my decision (not that it was ever in doubt) to never log on from a client site.

Whew, this sure is a long thread. I hope we don't have another Fred on our hands...

Hate to be a stick in the mud so late in the blog, but he is actually wearing PFC rank (Private First Class / E-3).

The location for Army rank in the new ACUs is not on the collar (like before with the BDU/DCUs) but where the bottom of the sternum is located.

Maybe he needs to get a new photo with his soon to be new rank of Private / E-1.

Cordially,

SFC Ronin

Throbert, again, I'm very sorry you lost your job, I know you were very happy and excited to get it and I hope you find something better.

Penultimate comment at Scotty T. Bochump's last Diarist:

The story is true, I was there. (29 of 30)

posted by buddyjimmy on 2007-07-24 12:00:06

I am an active duty soldier serving with the 335th Crossbow Division. Scott's brigade and I were on patrol when suddenly he swerved into my path to hit a dog, startling the Unicorn I was riding and nearly causing me to accidently discharge my blunderbuss. The Unicorn unleashed a torrent of abuse: "Bastard drives that thing like Bush runs the country, and the poor dogs are like the American people, especially after the Florida recount. I need a magic sugar cube to calm down." I reached into my suit of armor but, realizing that none were there, turned into a giant flying robot and headed back to base to resupply. More to come.

I don't think the problem is looking at a blog or posting a comment while you're at work

Wow. I've been sleeping all day -- the theme of my firing managed to work its way into every single dream -- and the thread has gone to over 300 posts.

Welcome back, Throb. How are you holding up?

90% or better of my blog-reading consists of four blogs: Discarded Lies, Little Green Footballs, Ace of Spades HQ, and Protein Wisdom, and ALL of them are all over this story.

Hi, Throbert!

Tough break with the job. Good luck getting another, better one in - short order.

the theme of my firing managed to work its way into every single dream

Thanks. The lady downstairs whom I hang out with all the time happens to be a recruiter with a placement agency here in Virginia, and has been bugging me for a resume for months ("Oh, I can get you a much better hourly rate than you've got now.")

So, that's one thing going for me. And she just called inviting me to join them for dinner downstairs, so I need to take a shower now.

Hrrrm. If they're STILL reading this, you guys are welcome to keep my plants for the office, but I'd like my coffee maker and framed pictures back.

LOL!!

Were you fired before work? Called at home? That's tacky (but better than having you waste the trip in).

You should go collect your things. I don't believe they are allowed to stop you from doing that...

Throb, jobs come and go, and I'm quite sure you are destined for greater things. You were put there for a time such as this. It will make for an amusing early chapters in your memoirs.

Yow! The "Plame-ish" angle seems rather over-the-top, though; there's nothing unusual or unethical about landing an interview for a freelance job through personal networking.

Anyway, off to dinner now.

Man, I must say that I have not had this much fun reading a blog entry since... well, since crap... I cannot remember having this much fun reading a blog period.

You guys are all a bunch of crazy people (in a good way) and I feel at home somehow.

It is amazing how people either fluff their careers up, or just plain create the reality that they think they should be worthy of. It is very sad. The compulsive lies, or the actual delusion filled (deceptive) realities these people create. I figure they would be very happy in a "Matrix" environment in which their lives are given meaning by a bogus computer somewhere in dreamland.

This reminds me of a particular case, in which a "counterintelligence agent" accused some members of my National Guard unit of torturing prisoners. It got all the way to the FBI, and his statements are found at the ACLU website. I am glad to say that his statements were never corroborated by actual facts, but the blog madness created by his "imagination" can actually damage a unit and in particular, the effectiveness of such unit.

Can we not think that retardo's posting has taken away assets better employed in the war on terror? There are particular members of his unit that are stupidly tied to this investigation who could be better occupied with... I don't know, conducting infantry related tasks?

It just completely appalls me that people like this only give fodder to the ones that guided by partisan hatred, instead of uniting us in a common goal.

Just my $0.25 (this is more than two cents, I guess).

Cheers,

SFC Ronin

Just my $0.25 (this is more than two cents, I guess).

What the hell... you're here less than a day and you're already busting my chops, man :o)

SFC Ronin -

Ditto what evariste said.

It's started to seem to me that people who self-identify as "liberal" or "progressive" far too often have, as their Enemy #1 Who Absolutely Must Be Defeated Above All Others And At Any Cost: "Republicans," or "conservatives," or "neo-cons," or "the religious Right."

I'd imagine that that's where this guy ["Scott Thomas"] is coming from: it's way more important to discredit This Evil War! than to help win it.

I grew up self-identifying as liberal, and though I've definitely moved considerably rightward as I've more and more fully embraced my Nine/Twelverness, I don't think of myself as conservative.

But the thought of calling myself a liberal in this political atmosphere makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little.

I suppose the typical refuge of rogues such as me is to label ones self as a "classical liberal."

Heck, if it works for guys like Jeff Goldstein and Dean Esmay, I suppose it ought to be good enough for me.

Anyway, welcome to Discarded Lies.

I think it's only fair to warn you that this blog is mainly about cheese, though.

I think it's only fair to warn you that this blog is mainly about cheese, though.

And cat pictures.

I think it's only fair to warn you that this blog is mainly about cheese, though.

Amount Per Serving
Cheese 20 (Geopolitics 15)

But most importantly, Bloggie is a very huge blog about international issues.

Damn... And I had these coupons to Denney's...

Hold on now, let's not be too hasty. They have liquor at Denny's, right?

Geez, I pack my lunch bucket, slog off to the salt mine (uphill), work my fingers to the bone (what do you get? Bony fingers), trudge home (also uphill), do my normal quick/scan through the news and Other Plaices, only to find DL is the top of the heap and Throbert is famous and sacked!

Y'all been busy today.

Many of them do, now. And in Canada, they still give you a free meal on your birthday!

Sweetheart, you don't go slumming much, do you. You must actually care what you eat.

Denney's. One of three places I can order a meal and feel my arteries harden before the food even gets to me. They might as well print "So you've decided to kill yourself" at the top of the menue...

But don't worry. I promise we can get you good an boozed-up.

Throbert, I'm really sorry you lost your job. {{Throbert}}

Hi, lady red--welcome to my world...

swoojy, just so's you know what you're letting yourself in for, I think you should read this first.

Who is actually not fat arsed or humuouourless at all, and who I adore very much.

Let's have a vodka.

Brilliant idea. Once I've finished my espresso and grappa.

Sweetheart, you don't go slumming much, do you. You must actually care what you eat.

First off, that's one damn funny post.

Damn near the woman of my dreams...

Second:

Give me a poker. Give me a brick wall.

Bad zorkie! Bad! Bad!

And you know, Stormi, the thread where you originally wrote the story (with, it must be admitted, encouragement from the crowd) was one of the funniest among many very funny Bloggie threads.

First off, that's one damn funny post.

Damn near the woman of my dreams...

Second:

Hey now sister... I don't play that way. I only swing one direction... If you want the nasty, kinky stuff, you'll have to talk to RWC over there...

zorks, I think you need to introduce swoojy to BOOL III.

OMG I'm about to pee my pants.

I wanted to know all about him, where he was born, where he grew up, what kind of music he listened to. Did he have dogs or cats? Did he clip coupons, tip cows, wear his sister's underwear?

But you people can't be any less sane than I am, so bring it on!

LMAO!

Stormi, can you tell us what is going to happen on August 22, 2006?

Stormi, can you tell us what is going to happen on August 22, 2006?

Actually, I haven't been to a Denny's in Canada. The ones with alcohol that I have seen have been in Washington and California. Some Denny's in California have had alcohol for over 30 years. They usually are decent places -- it used to be that the ones with bars are company owned, and, therefore well run. I don't know if franchisees now can have Denny's with bars or not.

"We did?"

I can see we're going to have a lot of fun digging up old threads with which to enlighten The Swoojster. {cba settles in to the comfy chair}

Are you in special ed or something?

n00b.

Kinda funny...

And yes, I hovered over the speech bubbles.

I guess just one question really. Who is Ev's boob girl? It isn't Stormi is it? Boob girl sounds like she might be a lil...

you know...

Less than virtuous?

Kinda funny?!?!?!!?

I'm not the boobie girl (I don't think I was, or was I? I forget). I'm the chick with the motorized scooter.

Oh, so you all go discussing Denny's without me? You KNOW that's how I got through college! I often wondered if it was worth it...

So, I waited two different Denny's for about three years... And they served alcohol. Nasty little bottles of screw top wine, it was. And beer, too, I believe. Once, I brought this woman one of the little bottles of wine (pink - because the normal labels don't apply to the cheapo Denny's wine) and she actually SNIFFED THE CAP before pouring it in the glass!

A few months before I quit the second time, the Denny's management actually installed LOCKS on the freezers for fear that someone might walk out with a frozen steak or something. Have they not eaten their own food? Sheesh! It's not like it's even a GOOD cut! I get better meat at the commissary!

It's best to start in Episode 3, "Velma and Louises". The first two episodes are a sort of introduction to some of the characters. The boobie girl wishes to remain unknown.

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Not a single Denney's that I have seen in the mid-west has served booze of any kind. I wish I knew of some that did.

Dude, just drink at home alone in the dark like a real alcoholic. It's been working for me.

Are you a CHEAP drunk?

Stormi would fit that description.

But the booby girl whom ev is ogling is whoever happens to be viewing BOOL III at the time--i.e., you.

Nope. Not near enough there...

Stormi, eh?

*slides on over*

Hey baby...

BOOL's got rather a lot of in-jokes. Which is what makes it funny. But cliquish.

ok, "We got booty" was funny...

The Admission prices were awesome. I fully support that pricing system.

SOrry, but I disagree.

On a gamer forum, I have a HUGE rant about kids in the damned theater. It was huge. Epic. Vulgar. (I think every 4th word was an f-bomb).

So anyways... Stormi... What's up, baby? Wanna go to to a Chinese Buffet?

I don't know. Do you have a coupon?

Nope! I'm willing to pay full price for you, baby...

Ok, that sounded slightly wrong.

Ummm...

I am willing to pay for a meal without using discounts, coupons, or gift certificates.

Er, um, I just got here and holy crapola. I read about Throbert's unfortunate "your services are no longer required" tel mes before I went to work this morning. The husband has been sorta keeping me updated but I have to go back and read the whole thing in it's entire wholeness.

I hope someone bought some cheese.

I hope someone bought some cheese.

Well... we did but the new guy ate it all.

hey... Stormi was feeding it to me... Who was I to say no?

I think we've still got some of that green cheese hubby was snacking on. We could share!

I hope someone bought some cheese.

Someone was flying it in but was delayed at the airport for some reason......

I think.

He's hitting on Stormi, isn't he?

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We have to vet.

Speaking of green, I found out today that I actually know somebody who owns a Prius. He's a supercilious little wanker too.

LOL, Stormi! Great timing :-)

He's hitting on Stormi, isn't he?

What? You want her to become a nun or something?

Throbert's rotten news notwithstanding, that is.

Just stopping upstairs to get some saline solution for my itchy contacts. The boyfriend of the lady downstairs has an icky-sticky delivery on the way, which will certainly make for a pleasant end to a rotten day. I only regret that I will not be able to do it on company time.

The boyfriend of the lady downstairs has an icky-sticky delivery on the way

Aha. I'm so naive.

I'll stick with the demon liquor, thanks.

Awesome.

Slainte!

So... Throbert has been canned, DL has been linked far and wide, some German girl has her face splattered across the net, The New Republic is reading bloggie and this writer is in for a world of hurt...

What are we going to do tomorrow?

RIP, LMAO! Awesome summary.

What are we going to do tomorrow?

The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!

I didn't get any work done today AT ALL. But I did get some work phone calls out of the way. And at least I started my day with an Egg McMuffin.

I found a new place to go to poke fun at people.

It was a good day.

But if it's the restaurant industry we have to sign up El Chef-ay Jefe.

I stumbled in here from a Michelle Malkin link (I think)--y'all are great--can't remember when I've had this much fun reading through a thread! Unfortunately, lately, it's been troll trouncing...ugh. Do you mind my bookmarking you?

Do we mind? We'd be delighted! :-) Thanks, Miss Beth.

Thanks...trouncing trolls gets rather aggravating and I can always use some humor with some cool people!

Anyone care to explain about cheese and red lobster? ;)

Oops..sorry, it was Junkyard Blog from MM...

Over @ Hot Air:

Also, Got this from a guy who knows him in Iraq… he was pretty freaked out that I messaged him out of the blue (thought he was in trouble) and had no idea what the uproar was about or that this was such a “bid deal”. I guess he hasn’t read the latest installment of the “fake but accurate” literary style of Scott Thomas aka Scott Thomas.

His exact quote to me several months ago when i asked him about some of the things he wrote was. ” just because it didn’t neccarly happen to us doesn’t mean it isn’t true”.

ahhhh… “fake but accurate”

And, shockingly, Turns out Private B. is NOT a top 80% soldier.

as for private beauchamp him self. he just received is 2 article 15 for going awol for three weeks up at BIAP after he returned from R&R. not a model soldier despite that i have considered him a friend up untill now.

Yea, I suspected something like this may not make him very popular right now…

I won’t have him wanting to mke things sound more intersting over here to make more people want read his writing reflect me in a negative light!

I’m shocked… shocked, to find an agenda at play here!

BadBrad on July 26, 2007 at 11:23 PM

LOLOLOL! You mean there's an agenda in play? Oh my (as in lions and tigers and bears)

LOL...well, I'm forever grateful to JYB--lol-got to hit the sack, though--have some motions to get in early tomorrow. Will leave this up so I can see the new stuff and start the day off right in the morning! Thanks again, y'all!

'Night Miss Beth, come back and see us now!

His exact quote to me several months ago when i asked him about some of the things he wrote was. ” just because it didn’t neccarly happen to us doesn’t mean it isn’t true”.
ahhhh… “fake but accurate”

as for private beauchamp him self. he just received is 2 article 15 for going awol

Like "distwalker" said, there has to be one in every unit. It is necessary so that NCO's have a place to shit.

So, we're de-linked before even being linked?

Ace of Spades linked to Bloggie about five or six times in the past couple of days. Just in the post here he linked twice (this is the one linked from that Protein Wisdom link).

He also quoted Throb, Sean, and me fairly liberally.

Ahh, ok, Ev, - I only read that one particular thread.

Been packing/working/sleeping all week, and not keeping up, I'm afraid.

I still hope and pray this isn't Bloggie's Rathergate.

I still hope and pray this isn't Bloggie's Rathergate.

Grande Délinquement

I love it. :)

And I love the notion of "he inflicted a date upon me".

throb - if you decide to tell your story on Montel, I want an audience seat! I'll use my maiden name to get in.

I can go incognito.

I'll borrow someone's trench coat and pretend I like to listen to My Chemical Romance or something.

I actually have to get some chores done today. That sucks.

Michael Bolton: I told those fudge-packers I liked Michael Bolton's music.
Peter Gibbons: Oh. That is not right, Michael.

So this is where all the cool kids from LGF are hanging out now? Hiya!

Welcome, andthenblammo! Glad you made your way over.

No, that wasn't me. My only pseuds are andthenblammo! and sort-of-mad max. Otherwise, I comment under my real name, Albert Gore Jr.

PS: Did you know that I invented the Internet?

sort-of-mad max

Are you aware that bigel, for a while there, changed his username to Meshuganah Max?

RIP Ford:

You too, dude.

This thread is too young to die.

The good die young.

Trying to get in touch with Robert McGee for a story on TNR that I am reporting. Anyone know how I could reach him for an on- or off-record interview?

Richard Miniter

I've put Mr. Miniter in touch with Rob.