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I can’t wait till WND throws the Masons, the Jews and P&G as players into this conspiracy of racist fools.

I guess that no one at the WND has ever had to undergo obtaining a top secret clearance. I have a couple of friends in Canada City who did. It’s not pleasant, but I’ve been told the US America equivalent in much worse (mortgage applications are much more pleasant to obtain.)

Any discrepancy is torn apart. So how could a bunch of stupids do a better job examining records than experienced professionals at the FBI especially for the stuff that Barry has to see (Area 51, Transformers, Faked Moon landings)?

@ManchuCandidate: I’m two months into the clearance process, with no light at the end of the tunnel…I’ve lived a very complicated life, apparently.

You actually read WND? You go there and read the articles posted? You do that for us? I am humbled.

@Nabisco: I once saw my FBI file on the desk of a sub-consul in London and it looked like it was about two inches thick. God knows what was in it; the brand of my first boyfriend’s underwear? Since I like to sleep at night I’d prefer not to know. I cannot imagine what it’s like to get hard-core clearance. Luckily that will never be a concern of mine.

@Nabisco: Mine took seven months, and I had no life to speak of… You’ve got a while yet.

Speaking of Hawaii Five-O, there is extra high surf in So Cal this weekend. One bodysurfer already got killed at The Wedge, a spot in Newport Beach where the waves come in at an angle to the jetty and beach and can hump up to 25 feet on a good day. Good for the ambulance drivers, that is.

@Benedick: In 2005 I wrote to the FBI to see if I had a file. They said no. I took it at face value. Now? Not so much.

@ManchuCandidate: They probably presume that, like their ex-candidate McCain did with Palin, everyone gets nominated after a three-hour conversation, with no background checks at all.

@blogenfreude: I did that too. Wasn’t it a Move On or ACLU campaign to have people request their files? I was so disappointed they said they didn’t have a file on me. Though they left unsaid, “But we’re starting one now, you flaming civil libertarian.”

@SanFranLefty: I was responding to that campaign as well. I also had been wanting to check for some time. I would have been surprised had they had a file on me.

@SanFranLefty: Yep, you now have a file which reads: “2005: requested to see copy of FBI file.”

@Benedick: WND publishes from Medford, Oregon, so I’m obligated.

Medford’s in the heart of Oregon’s survivalist region, so the crazee has a long history there. It’s also near Ashland, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

After all the elite Masonic Illuminati shape changing Reptilians in thrall to International Banking (spelled “j-e-w-s”) who are linked to the Queen of England (Bushes, FDR, Washington, Jefferson) we’ve had in office, I don’t see why they’re so bent out of shape over a guy from Hawai’i (“not the corn- fed Heartland” in Polynesian).

@Nabisco: It’s that goddamn punk rock music.

@SanFranLefty: I hate to have to break this to you but if you have ever sent money to ACLU, or SLC, or almost anything that isn’t the NRA, the FBI has a file on you.

@nojo: It’s also near Ashland, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Speaking of crazees.

T/J. I just dug a big new flower bed. I have 150 daylilies to plant. Where are the Mexicans when you need them?

@Benedick: I have a few daylilies in my back yard, but 150 together would be awesome.

@Benedick: Call it a tribute to Sarah Palin, and you can raise five grand to have someone do it for you.

@Benedick: That’s going to be gorgeous. I sometimes wish I had space for huge displays like that, but I have as much as I can handle without staff.

@Benedick: That’s what I thought, too, but alas they had no record of subversive donations – or so they said – not to mention that I have *worked* at some subversive organizations, and I traveled to Cuba with the State Department’s permission.

P.S. I love day lilies – they’re everywhere in our flower garden – about the only thing I seem to not kill in the flower world.

@Benedick: I would like to thank the immigrant community of Santa Fe for their assistance in sanding and sealing our oak floors and in painting the bedrooms, hallway and dining room. (I did the grunt work of moving shit, bagging or covering stuff in the closets and, biggest drag of all, spent 18 hours putting masking tape and dropcloths on floors and walls, doors, baseboards, and painting ceilings. )

OK. I got 100 planted and the rest go in tomorrow morning. I got the special deal offered by White Flower Farm: 50 unnamed plants for $100. I planted 100 a few years ago (it was 50 for 50 then) and got a beautiful mix of colors shapes and bloom time. They are my very favorite flower. I’m planting this new bed with nothing but and put them in quite close. I’ll mix in lots of tulips later on and next spring will be worth the wait.

@SanFranLefty: For something so exquisite they are amazingly tough.

@Mistress Cynica: I don’t have staff but the dogs like to help by sitting where I want to dig and then acrrying the plants around before they’re planted.

@Benedick: Please post photos when appropriate.

@Dodgerblue: Roger wilco. I’ll post in that secret place that we are NEVER TO SPEAK OF.

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@Benedick: Oh, they help like my pupster used to help in the garden. She’d manage to find the one spot that I needed to work in and get herself comfortable there. Then when I’d have to move her there would be so much puppy sighing and huffing and puffing.

And a guy is moving into my condo complex who has two wiener dogs – I’m so excited!

@Benedick: It was likely filled with errors. A friend from another life, died last year, was a Russian language studies major at a university you’d know during a tumultuous period in US-Russian relations, retrieved her file after a friend from her class filed to view his – and she was amused to see how little the FBI got right. The report was a complete hash of confused and mis-placed facts, leavened with fictional speculations. If she’d seen at the time it was being composed, she would have been overwhelmed with fear and outrage, but read in the comfort of her kitchen 25 years on, it was just pathetic. I’ve been interviewed by the FBI for colleagues’ clearances and the guys I met were straightforward, stepwise in interview approach and asked ridiculous questions that would reveal nothing of interest about the character of the applicant. Exit interviews at Ben Gurion by teenaged security sweeties are more rigorous.

@FlyingChainSaw: My first interview was ridiculously facile, but very pleasant and efficient. Dude was on contract, tho, and so far none of my peeps have had face-to-face follow ups on the forms they had to fill out. My overseas travels are gonna make this thing drag out.

Exit interviews at Ben Gurion by teenaged security sweeties are more rigorous. For the self restraint required, judging by the IDF hotty links RML keeps sharing.