Cryptoquote Spoiler – 11/17/09

“Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.”   — Gen. Omar N. Bradley

(I guess the good general is outranked by General Dynamics . . . and Raytheon, and Honeywell, and Northrop Grumman, and Sikorsky, and Teledyne, etc., etc., etc.!  These corporations, with their drones and their smart-bombs, whathaveyou, make it possible to maintain these deadlocks, in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Yet, to what end?) —   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 11/17/09

Visual Description:  Waterfowl hunters deciding where their blind will be.

NOPIA  =  PIANO,  KELLN  =  KNELL,  GUMMAN  =  MAGNUM,  NARIFA  =  FARINA —   Giving us:  PNELMGAA

Clue/Question:  Important to have when you go hunting.

Answer:  A “GAME” PLAN

(Not bad!  Hunters might quibble over the use of the word “game” when it comes to describing geese, but it’s really no biggie.) —   YUR