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Jesus Bocanegra was an Army infantry scout for units that pursued Saddam Hussein in his hometown of Tikrit. After he returned home to McAllen, Texas, it took him six months to find a job.
He was diagnosed with PTSD and is waiting for the VA to process his disability claim. He goes to the local Vet Center but is unable to relate to the Vietnam-era counselors.
“I had real bad flashbacks. I couldn’t control them,” Bocanegra, 23, says. “I saw the murder of children, women. It was just horrible for anyone to experience.”
Bocanegra recalls calling in Apache helicopter strikes on a house by the Tigris River where he had seen crates of enemy ammunition carried in. When the gunfire ended, there was silence.
But then children’s cries and screams drifted from the destroyed home, he says. “I didn’t know there were kids there,” he says. “Those screams are the most horrible thing you can hear.”
At home in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexico border, he says young people have no concept of what he’s experienced. His readjustment has been difficult: His friends threw a homecoming party for him, and he got arrested for drunken driving on the way home.
“The Army is the gateway to get away from poverty here,” Bocanegra says. “You go to the Army and expect to be better off, but the best job you can get (back home) is flipping burgers. … What am I supposed to do now? How are you going to live?”

AP- From the judge’s decision:

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchism or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence.

Choicepoint execs sat on the theft of info for months, sold off their own stock.

ATLANTA — ChoicePoint Inc.’s top two executives made a combined $16.6 million in profit from selling company shares. They did so in the months after the company learned that people’s personal information may have been compromised and before the breach was made public last week, regulatory filings show.

Backup tapes heisted known to include all the personal info of Bob Dole and Charles Schumer, among 1.2 million federal employees and officials.

Over the weekend some nice person beyond my control pressed the power button on the server for this site, putting it into sleep mode and taking the site down. As a result I wasn’t able for a day and a half to update the title. In the process of doing so I’ve discovered that 10 US soldiers have died just over the weekend. That’s ten more mothers who’ve lost their sons.

I don’t normally post computer industry news here, but this is more of a public service situation. Take a look at the picture below, which is proof of the headline:

This ia a major, major story. Watch them try to spin it, it won’t work.

Oozing out a book claiming Kerry and other Democrats gave Iran the bomb. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.

Washington Post

Hunter S. Thompson- Yes it’s harsh, that’s who he was, I’m not going to apologize for him. I encourage everyone else to link to any other good Thompson screeds online.