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Daily Archives: October 8th, 2010

Friday Night Music-Mea Culpa

Friday, October 8, 2010

Last week I opined that bagpipe music began and ended with Amazing Grace. Last night, to prove me wrong, one of our liberal drinkers loaned me a CD by a group called Rare Air. The CD is named Primeval. The group pretty much defies categorization, but I would say Celtic jazz is as close as [...]

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Mercenary madness

Friday, October 8, 2010

This article in the New York Times is mind boggling on many levels: Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban, criminal networks and Iranian intelligence have been hired to guard American military bases in Afghanistan, exposing United States soldiers to surprise attack and confounding the fight against insurgents, according to a Senate investigation. [...]

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