Tim Blair

Link should be http//www.operationac.com

Whoops... I mean http://operationac.com/

Fixed! Much thanks, Sissy

Hooray for the lady! As one who has a family member over there, I applaud her individual initiative. Just think what it would take if the government had decided to provide air conditioners. There would have been the cost of competitive bidding, its concommitment of governmental middlemen, and on and on, all running up the cost of the unit. They never would have been able to sent 500 (or is it now 1000?) air conditioners for $200,000. This woman tried to send these units via the US Mail, who demurred because of toxic somethings or other (after carrying the first load). FedEx agreed to send the dangerous things instead.

As an aside, the military's latest logistical system, the one that pored enough supply into Kuwait and the surrounding areas to make Normandy look like a child's sleep-over, came from FedEx.

Where do they plug 'em in?

Tim you are talking about the community aircon webberthon and there is a war on.

Meanwhile, some father had his kid, wife and uncle killed by one of your "politically right" weapons of minor destruction, and you think it's good that someone else's kid now has an aircon in some tent in the stinking Iraqi desert, while yet another dad figures out how to blow up the power lines and kill someone else's kid.

Meanwhile us fucks on the other side of the world including your own club of admirers read this crap over lunch - while you do what? squat shit would be about it, I'd say.

Go to Iraq and be a journalist for once. Surely Fox News could set you up in an air conditioned tent in the Iraqi desert.

Now that'd surely make a man out of you as you came face to face with the war you think is about air conditioners.

Tim thinks the war is "about air-conditioners"? Whatever, zit. Oops, I mean "zMit." No, actually, "zit" suits you better.

Interesting that a private company, FedEx, could get the air conditioners over there but our federal/public/'owned by the US' Postal Service couldn't or wouldn't. How come a private company could deal with whatever was wrong and the Postal Service couldn't?

I don't favor privatizing *everything*, but a good case is made here to privatize the US' Postal Service.

I think It's a lovely gesture on the lady's part. Good on her...

Aircon sounds like a magic idea. Now we need someone to organise the fridges, beer and "interesting" reading material and the diggers will be happy as pigs in poo.

Dee Bates is referring to the highly motivated US Postal Service and its quest to prove just how profoundly they have repudiated their former slogan of "Neither rain nor hail..." etc.

The USPS is refusing to deliver any more A/C's to Iraq because they contain freon. Yet they will deliver The Nation to its subscribers despite the fact it contains five times as much harmful gas per ounce than any A/C.

Dear zMit: number of Iraqis raped, tortured, or kille yesterday by Uday and Qusay Hussein --zero. Expected toll tomorrow, zero. Thank you.

>Tim you are talking about the community aircon webberthon and there is a war on.

Good for you, little boy. You've noticed that grownups will sometimes talk about things that don't interest you. I think that after this comes the idea that maybe the entire world isn't about what you want to talk about. Then, walking.

I love the way right wingers suddenly develop a conscience for all those people suffering under regimes put there in the first place by their own corrupt oil hungry governments.
Sniff. Brings a tear to the eye. It's interesting because these are the same inherently racist apologists for Howardism/Hansonism who deny refugees a spot (because they got here on a leaky boat which obviously shows they are NOT genuine refugees), and who are now sticking up for a bunch of mid-east people on the other side of the world because they need to be liberated?
Very interesting. How long have you guys been interested in 'liberating' Iraqis anyway?

BTW John Nowak - I posted a link on Edward Puppy Hands, the story about the man being shot at the gas station? It's all there. I'll put it here anyway. But be sure to read my other comments though - I'm sure you'll be tickled pink by what I've said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/South/02/16/gas.
shooting.ap/
'Fatal shooting caught on tape'
'Witnesses apathy also caught on tape'
'That's just one of the worst things I've ever seen.' - Police Chief C.H.Ramsey.

"I love the way right wingers suddenly develop a conscience for all those people suffering under regimes put there in the first place by their own corrupt oil hungry governments."

Beats the way lefties never seem to develop a conscience no matter how many millions their policies kill.

"Tim you are talking about the community aircon webberthon and there is a war on.

Meanwhile, some father had his kid, wife and uncle killed by one of your "politically right" weapons of minor destruction, and you think it's good that someone else's kid now has an aircon in some tent in the stinking Iraqi desert, while yet another dad figures out how to blow up the power lines and kill someone else's kid."

Apparently the fact that there is a war going on means we shouldn't give a rat's ass whether or not our sons/daughters/fathers/mothers/aunts/uncles/etc who are over their doing their job are melting from the 130 degree heat.

Would you feel better zMit if they all had to sleep on the bare sand and drink from the polluted rivers? Perhaps they should only be allowed to eat food they can forage from the desert?

Yes, Amy, that is what he'd prefer.

timks: After sort of privatizing, and then unionizing, the USPS changed its motto. It's now, "Neither apathy, nor indifference, nor a declining work ethic, will prevent this institution from occasionally delivering some of your mail."