Comments on: Neidermeyer lives. http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=neidermeyer-lives one writer's daily download Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:51:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122683 brian stouder Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:00:24 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122683 Interesting article, Basset. This passage seems to capture the essence - <i> Last week, police arrested two 13-year-old boys on suspicion of daubing swastikas and naked women on the door of a Haifa synagogue. A 19-year-old was charged with setting fire to a booth where Haifa's religious Jews celebrated the Sukkot festival. In Bnei Brak, a predominantly Orthodox town near Tel Aviv, someone painted "Heil Hitler" on a synagogue wall.</i> So if you're a developmentally stunted kiddo who wants to be as outrageous as possible, and you live in Israel - painting swastikas and naked women(!) onto the wall of a synagogue is what you do. Sounds like a more virulent impulse of the sort that drives some people to be 'goth' or to pierce their foreheads and color their hair green, and proclaim their striking non-conformance with the world around them.....as they stand around with nothing to do Interesting article, Basset. This passage seems to capture the essence -

Last week, police arrested two 13-year-old boys on suspicion of daubing swastikas and naked women on the door of a Haifa synagogue. A 19-year-old was charged with setting fire to a booth where Haifa’s religious Jews celebrated the Sukkot festival. In Bnei Brak, a predominantly Orthodox town near Tel Aviv, someone painted “Heil Hitler” on a synagogue wall.

So if you’re a developmentally stunted kiddo who wants to be as outrageous as possible, and you live in Israel – painting swastikas and naked women(!) onto the wall of a synagogue is what you do.

Sounds like a more virulent impulse of the sort that drives some people to be ‘goth’ or to pierce their foreheads and color their hair green, and proclaim their striking non-conformance with the world around them…..as they stand around with nothing to do

]]> By: basset http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122596 basset Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:33:28 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122596 Meanwhile, on the Israel front... http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/features/article3041624.ece Meanwhile, on the Israel front…

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/features/article3041624.ece

]]> By: ashley http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122519 ashley Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:52:50 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122519 Blackwater was hired as private security everywhere around New Orleans. The rich fuckmooks of Audubon Place had them guarding their mansions while people died of thirst. Scott Cowen had full time guards while <a href="http://www.hereliesvera.com/" rel="nofollow">Vera</a> was floating. They were driving SUVs with night vision down St. Charles avenue at 70 MPH in the middle of the night. I personally saw them <a href="http://ashleymorris.typepad.com/ashley_morris_the_blog/2006/03/gimme_shelter.html" rel="nofollow">almost break a guy's arm</a>, for no apparent reason. He also put a Tonfa in the guy's throat. The case didn't go to court, or I would have been able to testify against them. Damn. I say they're criminal mercenaries, and should be shot on sight. As Nance knows, there was only one good mercenary, and he was headless. Blackwater was hired as private security everywhere around New Orleans. The rich fuckmooks of Audubon Place had them guarding their mansions while people died of thirst. Scott Cowen had full time guards while Vera was floating.

They were driving SUVs with night vision down St. Charles avenue at 70 MPH in the middle of the night.

I personally saw them almost break a guy’s arm, for no apparent reason. He also put a Tonfa in the guy’s throat. The case didn’t go to court, or I would have been able to testify against them. Damn.

I say they’re criminal mercenaries, and should be shot on sight. As Nance knows, there was only one good mercenary, and he was headless.

]]> By: Dorothy http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122483 Dorothy Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:33:49 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122483 Very cool, Kim. Her name is Laura. She's 5'11" so you probably won't miss her! Very cool, Kim. Her name is Laura. She’s 5’11″ so you probably won’t miss her!

]]> By: Kim http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122421 Kim Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:08:43 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122421 Dorothy, I'll have to introduce myself to your daughter next time I am over at the Pilot. My former writing partner/friend for life at a different paper was one of the reporters on that series. Small, small world. Dorothy, I’ll have to introduce myself to your daughter next time I am over at the Pilot. My former writing partner/friend for life at a different paper was one of the reporters on that series. Small, small world.

]]> By: nancy http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122415 nancy Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:54:58 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122415 Thanks, Kim and Dorothy. The chapter on Blackwater in New Orleans post-K was disgusting. I hope Ashley sees it. Those soulless, gutless pricks. Thanks, Kim and Dorothy. The chapter on Blackwater in New Orleans post-K was disgusting. I hope Ashley sees it. Those soulless, gutless pricks.

]]> By: Dorothy http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122414 Dorothy Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:48:00 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122414 http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=108106&ran=202193 This is the link, I think, that Kim intended. Not sure why it was linking back to the home page - I hope this one doesn't do that. My daughter was a copy editor for this project! She was quite excited to be part of a Pulitzer-nominated team in her 2nd year at the paper! (edited to add - I clicked on both links - mine and Kim's - and they both worked.) http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=108106&ran=202193

This is the link, I think, that Kim intended. Not sure why it was linking back to the home page – I hope this one doesn’t do that.

My daughter was a copy editor for this project! She was quite excited to be part of a Pulitzer-nominated team in her 2nd year at the paper!

(edited to add – I clicked on both links – mine and Kim’s – and they both worked.)

]]> By: Kim http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122412 Kim Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:47:46 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122412 Nope - something is weird as I try to link it. Go to www.pilotonline.com, click on the news bar and go to special reports. The series titled "Blackwater: Inside America's Private Army" is at the bottom. Sorry, but it's really worth the trouble. Nope – something is weird as I try to link it. Go to http://www.pilotonline.com, click on the news bar and go to special reports. The series titled “Blackwater: Inside America’s Private Army” is at the bottom. Sorry, but it’s really worth the trouble.

]]> By: Kim http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122398 Kim Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:09:07 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122398 I'd direct anyone intrigued/appalled by Erik Prince's story to this Virginian-Pilot series from 2006, which was a well-deserved Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting. http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=108106&ran=202193 Neidermeyer is brilliant! And, yes, Nance, you are right (again) about the origin of the Blackwater name. Btw, I see these guys all the time, and they are right scary, even in the good old U.S. of A. <strong>NN EDIT</strong>: Kim, your link is redirecting to the home page. Is <a href="http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=107985&ran=89575" rel="nofollow">this story</a> the one you wanted to call our attention to? I’d direct anyone intrigued/appalled by Erik Prince’s story to this Virginian-Pilot series from 2006, which was a well-deserved Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting.

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=108106&ran=202193

Neidermeyer is brilliant! And, yes, Nance, you are right (again) about the origin of the Blackwater name. Btw, I see these guys all the time, and they are right scary, even in the good old U.S. of A.

NN EDIT: Kim, your link is redirecting to the home page. Is this story the one you wanted to call our attention to?

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122374 brian stouder Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:30:28 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/10/08/neidermeyer-lives/#comment-122374 Well, we can move from pondering the meticulous mercenary, to considering Fort Wayne’s kooky candidate for mayor http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071009/LOCAL/710090345 In this account of stupidity within the Kelty campaign, the best quote was “This isn’t a race for student council.” And the Journal-Gazette reaches more people than the South Side Times (a high school newspaper), and Kelty's cake got the front page above the fold! (it’s too easy to say that this latest turn of events ‘takes the cake’, but certainly it provides more icing for it) Well, we can move from pondering the meticulous mercenary, to considering Fort Wayne’s kooky candidate for mayor

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071009/LOCAL/710090345

In this account of stupidity within the Kelty campaign, the best quote was “This isn’t a race for student council.” And the Journal-Gazette reaches more people than the South Side Times (a high school newspaper), and Kelty’s cake got the front page above the fold!

(it’s too easy to say that this latest turn of events ‘takes the cake’, but certainly it provides more icing for it)

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