Hiccup Redux

Literally: There's that anguished moment of waiting when you think you've finally gotten rid of your hiccups and the clock ticks as you sit there waiting for that first post breath-holding yelp that says you're wrong. Hard to imagine the disappointment if you had the kind of hiccups that go on and on. Strange.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A 15-year-old girl who hiccuped her way through part of January and all of February is hiccuping once again.

Jennifer Mee, who hiccuped close to 50 times each waking minute for more than five weeks starting Jan. 23, began hiccuping again Thursday morning after a nose bleed, said her mother, Rachel Robidoux.

It occured during Mee's second day back at school since her first bout of hiccups stopped Feb. 28, said Robidoux.

"I'm at my wit's end," Robidoux said.

Mee was taken to the emergency room earlier this month when her hiccups returned. They stopped, though, and Mee felt it was safe to go back to school.

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[Zifnab]

Meanwhile, Valarie Plame gives testimony on the Senate Floor concerning her outing and the outing of dozens - perhaps hundreds - of other CIA agents in or associated with the Brewster Jennings Corporation.

But yes. Hiccup girl. Please continue.

[yyy]

Al Gore is a hypocrite.

The Dems want to lose in Iraq.

Macaca!

[Seferas-H.]

Plame didn't seem do worried about her identity when she did that photo spread for Vanity Fair, but you know....not calling her a hypocrite or anything. Oh, and i guess it doesnt matter that the woman who WROTE THE LAW for the covert protection act even admitted that the covert status didn't apply to VAlerie Plame and those like her, but whatever.

Oh, and we already know WHY she is testifying....to smear the Bush Administration. Thats no secret. wasn't a scandal in the first place and now it's just someone beating a dead horse....again.

[yyy]

Are you saying it isn't wrong to publicly disclose the identity of a covert CIA operative?

Or are you saying since the illegality of disclosing the identity of this covert CIA operative is in dispute that you don't care?

Or do you just not care because disclosing the identity of this covert CIA operative was done as part of a Republican smear campaign?

Given the patriotic chest thumping that comes from the cons I would think you would outraged that anyone would dare 'out' a covert CIA operative whose life's work was about protecting and defending America?

I guess you are only patriotic when it serves your political purposes, no surprise there.

If John Kerry or any other Democrat had outed Valerie Plame we would never heard the end of it, you nutters would be demanding someone be sent to prison for treason.

[Zifnab]

Guys, guys. The topic was hiccups. Come on now.

[seekeronos]

*hic*

[Fred Beloit]

I believe this outing law requires the CIA employee to be covert AND overseas within the last three years to be considered a covert operative. That is why Fitzgerald did not go after Armitage and why he did not accuse Libby under the law in question. Where have you guys been and what have you been reading that gives you such a distorted view? Or perhaps I'm wrong. If so could you explain Fitz's legal actions?

[Dan Riehl]

Geesh, Armitage outted her, He's Colin Powell's boy, ask him. And then tell me why a CIA officer sends her idiot husband to do a bit of work? Were they Republicans, the cries would be nepotism, fraud, whatever. Life's too short to follow that BS.

[Fred Beloit]

Say, Zif and y, don't forget to go back to comments on Dan's piece about our goodwill ambassador w/o portfolio, H. Dean. There's more there for your edification.

[Zifnab]

Strangely enough, Dan, none of that saved Libby.

But if you want to indite the entire Washington judical system, feel free. Nothing wrong with lying to a grand jury under oath, right? Pardon! Pardon!

Armitage leaked it, and Rove et al piled on. Surprise, surprise, it was Novak and Miller, two of the biggest war cheerleaders who decided to print Plame's identity. Then they came back and tried to cover their roles in spreading Plame's identity after the cat was out of the bag.

This entire thing recked of "inside job" and still does. And its all to keep the fire under the "Iraq has WMDs!" meme that for some reason beyond comprehension just won't die.

Dan, seeker, HR, Fred, everybody... this may come as a shock, but Iraq didn't have any nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. They didn't exist. We invaded the country for absolutely no reason. That was dumb.

[Dan Riehl]

Novak

Idiot, Novak was not for the ar.

[Purple Avenger]

"Where have you guys been and what have you been reading that gives you such a distorted view?"

Wherever it is, I'm pretty sure you need a Delorean powered by flux capacitors to get there ;->

[madne0]

Dammit, let's go back to hiccup girl!

Err...got nothin'.

[Buzzy]

I volunteer to scare her real bad. (one topic + one off topic = awesome)