Self-styled hippie grandmother reporting in Iraq for Central Texas paper

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/04/08/04082007waciconoclast.html

<snip>Her dispatches focus partly on politics, partly on trivia. Many times the two collide, tied together by humor.

In one post, for example, Stillwater comments on how well stocked the chow hall is, offering everything from chicken and salad to coffee and cheesecake. But her observations don’t end there.

“I was about to give this place a whole bunch of Michelin stars for sure, but when I finally sat down at my tastefully decorated table and started to eat, I discovered that every wall in the chow hall had at least two giant plasma TVs nailed up next to the air conditioners and every single one of them was turned to Fox News! Eeuuww. Watching Bill O’Reilly interviewing some lady from the Heritage Foundation while eating? That’s just gross. Two thumbs down.”

In another post, Stillwater says that after a week in Iraq, she has determined there is no way to salvage the country as it is now. Her suggestion on what to do?

“I’d get Exxon or Bush or whoever owns Iraq’s oil money now to give every man, woman and child in Iraq $15,000 and a passport and tell them to get the hell out. I’d send them off to the country of their choice. Tahiti, Iceland, Venezuela, wherever — even America! And I’d make sure they also got $15,000 a year for the rest of their lives. Let them open bakeries in Cleveland! Everyone would be happy. The Iraqis would be happy. The American troops would be happy. Even Exxon would be pleased. And then we could start all over again in Iraq with all new people.”

[Fridays Child]

1. All Fox, all the time? Gee, I wonder who's holding the clicker.

[orleans]

4. must... keep...troops... brainwashed... must... keep...troops... brainwashed...n/t

[pinto]

2. Thanks for the post. She has a smooth writing style, good eye, and a good wit:

Here's link to her fifth post for the Lone Star Iconoclast:

http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=1303&z=122

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I was supposed to be interviewed by CNN today. We had a time all set up and everything. I was totally excited! I was gonna wave to all my friends and everything! But just three hours before I was supposed to go on the air, CNN called up and canceled. I was really disappointed. I felt like the proverbial nerdy girl in high school who had been asked to the prom by the popular guy only to get stood up at the last minute. No corsage for me.



“Why did they do that?” I asked one of the reporters here.



“Because of what Michael Ware said at the McCain press conference yesterday.”



“But Ware didn’t SAY anything.”

<More at link. Check out her plan for funding Kevlar for the troops>

[Mnemosyne]

3. "$15,000 and a passport and tell them to get the hell out"

I believe that when the Iraqis voted back in Jan. 2005, they were under the impression that we would leave their country.

Stillwater speaks mountains to how much we have destroyed there. :cry:

[B Calm]

5. My employer keeps the TV in the lunch room on FOX Noise. I sneak

in the lunch room between breaks every now and then and put it on MSNBC..