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Tuesday, December 02, 2003
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I think that would be great. Bush would be a shoe-in!
Hillary ... (No? But ...). Mickey Kaus thinks she may be positioning herself to run. (Via Instapundit) She is certainly coming up with something resembling a facially coherent critique of Bush's Iraq policy, which is more than the Loathsome Nine have been willing or able... [Chicago Boyz]
10:25:19 PM 
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Jesus Christ I hate these guys (the fucking French)! They have caused so much trouble and continue to act faultless and arrogant.
Original Link from On The Third Hand
Jihad warriors trained in rural France. Perhaps attracted by the congenial surroundings, "French Islamist militants, who later spent time in al-Qaida military camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan and went on to became soldiers of the jihad, underwent their first group training exercises in the bucolic surroundings... [Jihad Watch]
Perhaps attracted by the congenial surroundings, "French Islamist militants, who later spent time in al-Qaida military camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan and went on to became soldiers of the jihad, underwent their first group training exercises in the bucolic surroundings of the forest of Fontainebleau, investigators said yesterday." This from the Guardian, with thanks to CruxNews.
"'We call them the Old Campers,' said a police officer working with judge Jean-Louis Brugui?, France's leading anti-terrorist investigating magistrate. 'They trained in the forest near Paris, and also in the Alps near Annecy. At least one later died fighting with al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan.' . . .
"Several times during night exercises in the Alps, the magazine said, frightened would-be Islamist fighters from France's big-city suburbs got lost in the mountains and had to use their mobile phones to be rescued by gendarmes. One reportedly fell into a crevasse.
10:17:21 PM
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This does paint a rather frightening scenario.
MARITIME THREATS. One of the presenters at the conference today was Mansoor Ijaz, who gave a very interesting talk on, among other things, the terrorist threat to... [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY]
A terrorist attack against one or more of these transit areas that disabled it for weeks or months - or, in the case of a radiological "dirty bomb", for far longer - could seriously disrupt global trade. The economic calculus of moving cargo by sea would be rendered useless. Everything from energy prices to insurance rates and shipping freight costs would be affected. The ripple effects, particularly for industrialized nations, are incalculable.
This is what al-Qaeda, with its revamped leadership structure, is counting on. While the US Homeland Security Department argues about how many screening machines to install at airports, terrorists are planning how to convert supertankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas or other chemicals into floating bombs - or perhaps even dirty bombs with help from a rogue nation with nuclear knowhow.
10:04:51 PM
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Why in the hell do they let these guys out? I just don't understand it!
From Powerline
One local story that has gotten some national attention is the kidnapping, ten days ago, of a twenty-two year old student at the University of North Dakota named Dru Sjodin. Sjodin is from northern Minnesota, and was kidnapped as she left her job at a shopping mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
A suspect has now been arrested: fifty-year-old Alfonso Rodriguez of Crookston, Minnesota. Rodriguez' arrest has triggered a controversy, as he is a convicted Level 3 sex offender who was released from prison in May. If he proves to be guilty, the controversy may become a firestorm.
As a convict classified as a "Level 3 predator," Rodriguez has his own page on the Minnesota Department of Corrections' web site. The web site has this information for Rodriguez:
"Offender information: Offender has a history of sexual contact and attempted kidnapping with adult females. Contact included pentration in two instances. Offender used force and has used a weapon to gain compliance. Offender was previously known to one victim, not previously known to two victims."
9:43:57 PM
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The whole article should be of interest to Radio users.
Rogers Cadenhead is interviewed about Radio UserLand. [Scripting News]
Q: Could you provide five tips from the book?
A: 1) Use the Nightly Backups preference to enable Radio to save your weblog data on the server hosting your weblog. When you publish with Radio, your most important data is on your computer, not the Web host. Saving it to the server -- which is off by default -- makes it easy to recover from a hard drive crash and other disasters.
2) If your weblog outgrows the free hosting offered by UserLand, consider switching to the Python Community Server (http://www.pycs.net), an open-source clone created by Phillip Pearson and Georg Bauer. It's faster because there aren't as many users and offers additional features such as the ability to edit comments.
3) A lot of great add-on tools have been created for Radio. I use Kit by Mark Paschal to enhance the RSS news aggregator, Footbridge (also by Paschal) to publish a weblog category to an Advogato diary, and MyRadio by Mikel Maron to collect other data sources.
4) When you write scripts, there are times when the compiled script you are running will be different than the one you see in the editing window. This is a feature, not a bug, and the reason is explained in Chapter 12 of the book.
5) Befriend the Radio debugger. When I finally took the time to learn how it works, I was kicking myself for avoiding it for so long.
5:43:57 PM
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This guy is such a loser! Does no one remember Tawana Brawley besides Salon? I don't see how anyone could lend any creedance to this guy, black or otherwise.
From Salon Not that anyone has ever accused him of being subtle. From the moment Sharpton made his first appearance on the national stage, during the Bernhard Goetz trial in 1985, through the racial turmoil in Howard Beach and Crown Heights, to his participation in the notorious Tawana Brawley case, his social activism has been tinged -- many would say permanently tainted -- by his flamboyant personality, gadfly instincts, and penchant for overstatement and tabloid melodrama. He's managed to annoy just about everyone on the New York political scene, while demonstrating an uncanny ability to drag his issues onto the public stage.
The Rev. Al Sharpton's latest crusade. He wants to be to this decade what the Rev. Jesse Jackson was to the 1980s. [Christian Science Monitor]
The Rev. Al Sharpton is late. But you wouldn't know it by looking at him. The preacher and political provocateur, wearing a pin-striped suit and flanked by a handful of aides, strolls into the packed gym at Voorhees College like he was right on time.
And when he starts to talk, the words just cascade. It's part sermon, part history lesson, part political theater. The message: If you're young and black, you've got more reason to vote than at any time in modern history.
5:23:07 PM
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Goodbye, farewell. Blogshares, I hardly knew ya!
RIP Blogshares. Blogshares is toast. Lair's evil plan has apparently worked. Pity I was getting close to infinity on stock splits.... [Wizbang]
5:12:32 PM
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This has been blogged to death but, personally I don't want any kind of colonoscopy. Gentler or otherwise!
A Gentler Type of Colonoscopy Proves Effective. A new study finds that virtual colonoscopy, a method that uses a C.T. scanner for colon cancer screening, can be just as effective as traditional colonoscopy. By Gina Kolata. [New York Times: Technology]
5:10:50 PM
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OK, OK, maybe it isn't such a good idea.
From New York Times
Israel Raps U.S. on Plans to Meet Geneva Authors. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel issued a rare rebuke to Washington, its closest ally, Tuesday, saying Secretary of State Colin Powell would be making a mistake if he met the architects of a symbolic Middle East peace plan. By Reuters.
Israel issued a rare rebuke to Washington, its closest ally, on Tuesday, saying Secretary of State Colin Powell would be making a mistake if he met the architects of a symbolic Middle East peace plan.
Powell responded by saying at a news conference in Tunis he had a right to meet anyone with ideas on ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
5:04:05 PM
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I read this the other day and forgot all about it until I read this post. Can you just sit and imagine our troops going across the battlefield in their new cybersuits on a revved up segway? Man!
The segways got smart... decided our fate in a microsecond.... AP: Will Segways become battlefield bots? The answer is yes, but what will we replace the generals with?... [Amish Tech Support]
It's called the Segway Human Transporter, but the Pentagon is drafting the two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops.
The program is still in the research phase, so the self-balancing scooters aren't expected to report to boot camp anytime soon. So far, university researchers armed with Pentagon funding have programmed Segway robots that can open doors, avoid obstacles, and chase soccer balls -- all without human control.
4:52:33 PM
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OMG his thingy is hanging out. That's the funniest damn thing I have seen in a long time. Thanks to Jay Reding.com I found it! Heh, can't quit laughing.
Too, I seriously doubt he is nearly that well endowed!
Ewww.... Someone at The Associated Press has a sick sense of humor......
11:57:29 AM
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I came across this link on Electric Venom, she feels it is right on the money. Unfotunately (or fortunately since I didn't like the answers) it seemed to not be repesentative of my personality. Maybe I'm in denial...
Why Pay For Therapy?. PsychoAnalyze YourSelf! Oddly enough, I found the answers surprisingly on-point. How about you?...
11:46:07 AM
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Looks like London is making some headway today!
From BBC News: Fourteen arrested in terror raids. Fourteen people are arrested under the Terrorism Act in raids in London, Cambridge and the West Midlands.
Four men were taken to a central London police station by Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch officers.
Four men and two women were arrested at addresses in Cambridge and detained under Section 41 of the Act.
Four men were held in raids in Walsall and Dudley, though police said these arrests were not linked to the others.
11:37:51 AM
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Ah, perhaps we have caught one of the big fish. Damn, I sure hope so.
The Best Defense Is A Good Offense. Slowly the strategy of taking it to the insurgents seems to be paying off.KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops may have killed or arrested Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam Hussein's top former deputy suspected of leading the anti-U.S. insurgency, an Iraqi... [Wizbang]
U.S. troops may have killed or arrested Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam Hussein's top former deputy suspected of leading the anti-U.S. insurgency, an Iraqi official said Tuesday. Officials of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad said they had no information on the report.
Al-Douri - the highest-ranked Iraqi fugitive after Saddam - may have been arrested or killed in a U.S. raid in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a senior Kurdish official in Kirkuk said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"I heard he might have been killed or captured," the official said, citing sources in his political party. The official said family members of al-Douri bodyguards were seen crying and saying that al-Douri had been captured.
11:31:11 AM
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