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Sunday, January 18, 2015

I'm not sure that's the point

There's never a moment's rest at the Fair 'n' Balanced Network. If the terrorists and the warmists and the amnesty-ists let up for a moment, something else is coming right at Our Way of Life:

An Army recruiting station has been ordered by higher ups to shelve a sidewalk sandwich board with the wording "On a mission for both God and country.”

The order went out Friday to a recruiting station in Phoenix that had been displaying the outdoor sign since at least October. The sign board also shows an image of a Special Forces patch and Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces tabs.

And who blew the whistle?

An inquiry from Army Times to the U.S. Army Recruiting Command prompted the sandwich54-year-old second son of Queen Elizabeth II was named in papers filed with a Florida court last week as part of the woman’s lawsuit against American financier Jeffrey Epstein, whom she says forced her to have sex with prominent people. The woman claims she was forced to have sex with the royal in London, in New York and on a private Caribbean island between 1999 to 2002.

That's quite a bit of trimming and moving around, the upshot of which is to insert an error in the AP's already tormented prose:The filing was submitted as part of a lengthy lawsuit against American
financier Jeffrey Epstein, who the woman claims forced her to have sex
with prominent people, including Prince Andrew.

I'm glad we got rid of the "claims," though the effect is