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TAKE YOUR MONEY BACK THEN.
Canada was wrong. The United States and others could really have used the support of a respected country like Canada. But Canada preferred appeasement and a solution that would have kept Hussein in power - free to fucking kill whomever he pleased. Nice support there Canada. Canada can appease dictators all over the damned world for all I give a shit. Fine. Just don't bitch and moan about it when you cannot get some of the action that you weren't all that shit hot about in the first place.
[DiscountBlogger]
10:44:32 PM 
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Sentry of the Century
"Hundreds of American soldiers [in Iraq] owe their lives to the prompt action of a 23-year-old sentry," London's Daily Telegraph reports:
In the faint pre-dawn light Specialist James Ross saw a car, its headlights on, accelerate towards his guard tower at the entrance of the Talaafar military base, near Mosul.
The vehicle had already cleared the first line of defence, barrelling over a coil of barbed wire 80 yards away and was heading straight down a corridor of crash barriers.
"I knew it wasn't one of our guys--it was either me or him," said Spc Ross, who began firing his machine-gun in a last-ditch attempt to stop the car entering the compound, where 300 soldiers were just waking.
Spc Ross, from Kentucky, fired almost 100 rounds before the car, pitted with bullet-holes, came to a stop. A second later, the vehicle blew up.
CBSNews.com reports this under the headline "Iraqi Suicide Attacks Fall Short"--but a Google News search shows that most other news outlets are reporting this as if it were a victory for the enemy.
[Wall Street Journal]
9:10:28 PM
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This Just In
"Dems Criticize Bush, Omit Facts Sometimes" NO WAY!
Well knock me over with a feather!
9:07:53 PM
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Don't Know Much About History
Looking somewhat deranged, Al Gore took to the stage yesterday to endorse Howard Dean and declare liberated Iraq a "quagmire." He was "veritably barking"--those the words of the New York Times, not us--when he announced: "That war it is not a minor matter to me. I realize it's only one of the issues, but my friends, this nation has never, in two centuries and more, made a worse foreign policy mistake."
Reader John Steele Gordon offers these comments:
Wow. The worst ever and the game's not even half over. I wonder where Al Gore would place the following foreign policy mistakes:
- A year after refusing to renew the charter of the Bank of the United States, the government's sole borrowing mechanism and fiscal agent, Congress declared war on the one country in the world, Great Britain, capable of attacking the United States. By March, 1813, we were dead flat broke and the Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, had to go hat in hand to Stephen Girard, the richest man in the country, and beg him to guarantee a bond issue or we'd have lost the war right then for lack of money to pay the army. The following year, the British burned Washington, D.C., the only time foreign troops have occupied a part of the continental United States.
- Although the United States was the only Great Power that was strengthened, rather than exhausted, by World War One, and thus the only one capable of providing strong leadership, Woodrow Wilson refused to compromise in order to get the US to join the League of Nations and as a result, we largely withdrew from world affairs, except for sponsoring quixotic treaties like the Washington Naval Treaty and the Kellogg Briand Pact (which outlawed war; Germany and Japan both signed it). The lack of real US leadership in the postwar era, made World War II nearly inevitable.
- We thoroughly mismanaged the Vietnam War, sticking with a failed strategy and a failed general until we lost the home front and thus the war.
Is Gore really ignorant enough to believe that the liberation of Iraq is the worst American foreign-policy mistake in history? Or does he just think the American people are ignorant enough to believe it?
By JAMES TARANTO [Wall Street Journal]
8:59:26 PM
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"This is a sad day for freedom of speech...
Who could have imagined that the same Court which, within the past four years, has sternly disapproved of restrictions upon such inconsequential forms of expression as virtual child pornography...tobacco advertising...dissemination of illegally intercepted communications...and sexually explicit cable programming...would smile with favor upon a law that cut to the heart of what the First Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government." --Justice Scalia, in dissent [American Realpolitik]
6:07:18 PM
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ENSURING BUSH'S RE-ELECTION.
I bet Democrats won't pay attention to anything this article has to say:But Clinton’s hard-right critics, not themselves long on humor, were not satisfied with laughing at his moral inadequacies. They were determined to portray him as a monster. This... [DiscountBlogger]
4:52:25 PM
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This just in.............
SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS GORE'S ENDORSEMENT OF DEAN.
Transfers nod to Bush in 5-4 Decision just moments after former Vice President Al Gore endorsed former Vermont Governor Howard Dean for President in Harlem yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned his endorsement by a 5-4 margin. The Court, finding the... [Dog Snot Diaries]
4:14:01 PM
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THE YEAR 1903 Thanks Bob
Bob Hope just died at the age of 100. It's time to revisit where we were a century ago. This ought to boggle your mind The year is 1903, one hundred years ago... what a difference a century makes.. Here are the U. S. statistics for 1903....
The average life expectancy in the US was 47.
Only 14% of the homes in the US had a BATHTUB.
Only 8% of the homes had a TELEPHONE.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost $11.
There were only 8,000 CARS in the US and only 144 miles of paved ROADS.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the US was $0.22/hour.
The average US worker made between $200-$400/year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000/year, a dentist $2,500 /year, a veterinarian between $1,500-$4,000/year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000/year.
More than 95% of all BIRTHS in the US took place at HOME.
90% of all US physicians had NO COLLEGE education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost $0.04/pound. Eggs were $0.14/dozen.
Coffee cost $0.15/pound.
Most women only washed their HAIR once a month and used BORAX or EGG YOLKS for shampoo.
Canada passed a law prohibiting POOR people from entering the country for any reason.
The five leading causes of death in the US were:
1. Pneumonia &influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30.
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
There were no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
One in ten US adults couldn't read or write. (now only one in ten High School Grads can read and write!!!!!)
Only 6% of all Americans had graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.
Coca Cola contained cocaine.
Marijuana, heroin and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
18% of households in the US had at least one full-time SERVANT or domestic.
There were only about 230 reported MURDERS in the entire US.
Just think what it will be like in another 100 years.
4:08:55 PM
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 Developers take Linux attacks to heart
I'll have a lot more to say about this but I've got a roaring headache from whatever everyone is passing around. I only like to take on the Linux Weenies with a clear head. Captain Poopdeck
3:27:30 PM
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Traitor..
Those of you who have been reading me for some time know that I am not prone to indulging in wild outbursts on this blog. I bend over backward to be fair, even when expressing a strongly held opinion. I... [The Accidental Jedi]
The Jedi is very angry and I don't blame her. This is sick behavior for someone who wants to be president. Captain Poopdeck
3:03:06 PM
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