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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:12 PM
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Lt. Mike Kafka. Not making this up.
"The removal was ordered because the commanding officer did not feel it accurately reflected his vision of the base," said Navy spokesman Lieutenant Mike Kafka.

(Yes, you're reading that correctly. A man named Kafka has been deployed to field questions about a prison where the criminals are only vaguely charged with crimes, can't speak to lawyers and likely will never get out.)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/guantanamo_worster/
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:14 PM
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1. How very appropriate -
Wonder if that was planned; if someone giggled when they put him in charge.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:14 PM
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2. i wonder if he appreciates the -- well -- irony?
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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:20 PM
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3. It's gotta be some higher ups idea of a joke. nt.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:23 PM
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5. ya never know since more than half of america rejects evolution.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:21 PM
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4. The Castle at Guantanamo
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:24 PM
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6. Kafka!!!
As Whoopi Goldberg said, "You can't make this shit up"
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:25 PM
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7. Reality is making satire obsolete nt
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:26 PM
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8. At least he isn't Joseph K. Kafka.
I've never met or read about anyone named Kafka, except for Franz Kafka.
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:30 PM
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9. That's really creepy
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 04:30 PM by meganmonkey
:scared:

Truth is stranger than fiction. Or, truth is fiction and they are both very, very strange.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:33 PM
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10. Makes sense in a very Kafkaesque kind of way
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:35 PM
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11. could someone explain - this has gone completely over my head
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 04:35 PM by stop the bleeding
:shrug::blush:

I would like to play also.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:39 PM
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13. try this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805210407/sr=8-3/qid=1141853916/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-0046676-1112142?%5Fencoding=UTF8

"A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral."
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:50 PM
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16. Research it
and then jump back into the conversation with a clever and witty remark, as nonchalant as possible to make it sound as though you have had considerable experience with the subject matter. ;)
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 05:01 PM
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17. I'm still lost - oh well - thanks for you all's input
:beer:
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:37 PM
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12. Anmd Again It Is Proved, Sir
Satire has been rendered inmpossible by prevailing reality....
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:41 PM
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14. Do the have a Captain Orwell there, too?
Just wondering.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:49 PM
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15. And his commanding officer is named Fellini?
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