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HIDDEN STORIES OF IRAQ [KansasCity.com]
Hunting for the 'good stuff' is worth it
Two competing story lines have emerged in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Let's call the first one “Quagmire.” The second might be titled “Iraq's Glass is Half-Full.”
By and large, “Quagmire” is told by the large print news organizations and the TV folks.
“Half-Full” is mainly found on the Internet, although many of the links available lead to articles in the conventional media. For interested readers, a good place to begin broadening your view of the Iraq story is www.instapundit.com, a spritely Web log run by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds. Instapundit is chock-full of firsthand accounts, story excerpts and links to other articles.
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Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? [Slashdot]
Good stuff from Slashdot. Be sure to check out some of the comments.
I personally have abandoned the major media completely even on the net. I only go to an article on one of their sites if following a link. I find that using a News Aggregator (RSS) makes my news gathering simple and painless. I get a lot more news from a lot more sources in a fraction of the time. By the time I'm done reading the same story from a dozen sites, all with different commentary, I can pretty much make up my mind what the truth is and discard the BS. If I watch the evening news, I get one very slanted version of the story and waste one third of that time with commercials. In the same time it would take me to watch the evening news on one of the majors, I can sift through about 40 different sources coming in on the RSS feed, and get lots of differing opinions to help me make up my mind on a subject. I'm turning people I work with on to RSS and they are always amazed when they try it. If everyone who uses it would tell someone else they know about it and maybe even help them set it up, this new era of "Quick Truth News" as I call it will be greatly accelerated. The numbers are dropping on all the network news shows and they can't figure it out. The truth on just about everything is out there somewhere on the net. You just have to know where to find it and how to get it quick. Once people try it they never go back. (LP)
6:46:28 PM
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Kuwait foils Iraqi-WMD smuggling attempt
Report: Biological warheads, chemical arms en route to Europe snagged
? 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Seems like we have been here before but if its true - WOW! (LP)
Already the feelings of Bullshit! Bullshit! are cropping up. Had a bad feeling about this one from the beginning when no one but WND jumped on it. Maybe they need to be a little less eager? Maybe they were set up by one of the Bush haters. Those people hate the conservative Internet news sites almost as much as Bush (or Bill Gates). (LP)
6:17:17 PM
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Julie smells trouble.........
call me a racist. I was speaking with a local person, and we got to talking about three or four African American guys that had moved into the area. (By area, I mean in the tri-county vicinity. That's "area" to North Dakota.) As we were talking, some things I was told made [Julie Neidlinger]
4:12:22 PM
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Department: Liberals are the funniest People
'Anger-Baiting' [WSJ] So much hate! Below is just the first paragraph.
I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it. I think his policies rank him among the worst presidents in U.S. history. . . . I hate the inequitable way he has come to his economic and political achievements and his utter lack of humility (disguised behind transparently false modesty) at having done so. . . . I hate the way he walks--shoulders flexed, elbows splayed out from his sides like a teenage boy feigning machismo. I hate the way he talks--blustery self-assurance masked by a pseudo-populist twang. I even hate the things that everybody seems to like about him. I hate his lame nickname-bestowing--a way to establish one's social superiority beneath a veneer of chumminess (does anybody give their boss a nickname without his consent?). And, while most people who meet Bush claim to like him, I suspect that, if I got to know him personally, I would hate him even more.
I'm guilty of liberal anger baiting on a regular basis at work. Its so easy and they never catch on. I am always being preached to about being too negative, and hateful. I always let the sermon go to its conclusion without any argument. When I think they are finished I then say "What do you think of Bush". The explosive reaction is always the same. The face turns red, and if this were a cartoon world, I swear that steam would shoot 10 feet from their ears and nose while dragon like flames would come from their mouths. Of course once I do this I am committed to listen to another long diatribe on the evils of Bush the Devil. It seems to be well rehearsed being used so often. Of course it is always the same and always starts with how the Satan Bush stole the election from its rightful winners. There is never an explanation of how he did this just "Everybody knows he stole it"! Liberal Anger Baiting is so much fun I just can't help myself. I have been told to lighten up by others because the person who is baited is useless for the rest of the workday due to the clenched fists and heavy breathing that seems to go on for hours. I'm just evil I guess. (LP)
While your here be sure to sign up for 'Best of the Web Today' e-mail newsletter. Its my favorite read. Covers more ground with more insight every day than all the others put together. (LP)
2:57:47 PM
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DEMS' MORAL COLLAPSE . Or are the Dems simply racists when it comes to wars of liberation? Was intervention in the Balkans necessary because the victims were white? Were the lives of half a million Iraqi citizens slaughtered in cold blood by Saddam's... [Zogby Blog]
7:22:02 AM
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Jury Duty today. I doubt I will get past the first question -- What is you occupation? If any lawyer wants me on his jury then he is not looking out for the best interests of his client. (LP)
6:29:23 AM
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Today is the official Grand Opening of Front Line Voices.
6:20:33 AM
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Bill Whittle gives us the POWER [Eject! Eject! Eject!]
Read the whole thing. Thats an order. Below is just a sample. (LP)
The United States is often referred to as a childish country, an adolescent nation, young and strong and stubborn, but unsophisticated and unseasoned. Up until a short while ago, there may have been some truth to this, for there is one adolescent quality that has long marked the American psyche when involved overseas, and that is the desire to be liked by everyone. As we mature as individuals (and this is not a universal phenomenon ? yes, I?m talking to you, Sheryl Crow), we begin to realize that not only is it impossible to be liked by everyone? it is, in fact, repugnant. I do not want to be admired by scumbags and liars and wife beaters. I want to be admired by good and decent, intelligent and just people, and in order to achieve this I need to do things that make me despised by their opposites.
As we began to fight back against the worldwide terror network, their corrupted ideology, and the states that harbor them, I and many of my fellow countrymen were shocked to discover all of the sympathy and affection generated by our status as victims suddenly evaporated the moment we decided to utilize our power to try to put an end to this threat. We were counseled by our moral superiors that terrorism was a fact of life in this new millennium ? best just to ignore it as much as possible, and not make things worse by poking it with a stick. And as for all those new skyscrapers and super-jumbo airliners and all those other dreams?forget it. Too much of a target. Who would ever want to inhabit the building replacing the fallen towers? The terrorists will just blow it up again. Better to build a park or something less provocative.
How very?French.
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