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Aieee!.
One good reason not to support Wesley Clark for President. And Michael Moore in the equation, for gossakes? Uh-uh. No....
[suburban blight]
I could hear kelley screaming all the way out here in la la land! Now I know what it was all about.
10:19:22 PM 
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Dean's Split Personality.
Howard Dean continues his stunning meltdown into a rancid puddle of schtoopid juice: "The capture of Saddam is a good thing which I hope very much will help keep our ...
[little green footballs]
Never thought I'd say it but I'd rather see Hillary in the house then this lunatic!
10:10:39 PM
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2003 Dishonest Reporting Award.
The 2003 Dishonest Reporting 'Award' goes to ... the envelope, please ... al-Reuters! The world's most biased "news wire," bar none!
[little green footballs]
The most well deserved award in a long time.
10:05:49 PM
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NO effect?.
We've heard for a couple of days now that the capture of Saddam Hussein won't have any effect on the...
[Shots Across The Bow]
9:38:00 PM
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WWWer NK writes: "I am a dedicated Windows 98 SE user & am bah-humbugged beyond belief re MS kicking me out of the family. Will you be abandoning me (and W98) too? The professional ezines are acknowledging quite a few Win98's still being used by companies, to say nothing of home use."
In my opinion, the computer press overplayed the importance of two recent postings by 'Softie Andy Boyd which said that Microsoft is pulling Windows 98 from the MSDN download site. (That download site is used primarily by developers, to get copies of Microsoft software for testing purposes.) Microsoft says the decision was prompted by a settlement reached almost three years ago that limits Microsoft's ability to disseminate the Java Virtual Machine. In fact, anybody who subscribes to MSDN and needs Windows 98 or any of the other soon-to-be-removed products probably has more copies of the software than they could ever use. And the agreement with Sun allows Microsoft to distribute the old JVM until September 30, 2004. But who's counting.
Still, it's true that Microsoft is moving Windows 98 to "nonsupported" status on January 16, 2004. In practice, that doesn't mean much to you or me, or to any of the hundreds of millions of people who use Windows 98. (Yes, I most certainly do have an older machine that runs Windows 98, 24 X 7. Proud of it.)
It doesn't mean much because Microsoft hasn't recently released any patches for Windows 98, except for security patches. And I'm convinced that MS will keep its promise to continue to provide security patches.
Why? Because MS is still providing security patches for Office 97. About a year ago, I was convinced that MS was going to release a major security patch for Office 2000 and later, but kiss its Office 97 users goodbye. I was wrong. And I'm very, very happy to admit that I was wrong. MS came through with an Office 97 patch then, and they've come through with one more since then. While I won't give the 'Softies any gold medals for Office 97 tech support, I do have to admit that when push came to shove, they did The Right Thing.
And I'd be willing to bet the Windows people will do the same.
By all means, upgrade to Windows XP if you have a PC that can handle it. (I've been saying that for two years now!) You'll save so much time simply from the lack of crashes that you'll pay for the pain of upgrading in very short order. But if your PC can't handle WinXP, don't let the latest pronouncements make you feel inadequate. Your machine will keep on chugging along, same as it always has. The sky isn't falling. Save your money and buy a brand-spanking-new PC one of these days.
8:30:34 PM
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Looks like Washington State is really pissed off about this!
7:34:32 PM
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Double-landlocked: Let's call a country "landlocked" if....
Let's call a country "landlocked" if it doesn't border any ocean or sea, except the purely inland seas that have no substantial natural connection to the ocean (e.g., the Caspian Sea or the Aral Sea). This is more or less the standard definition: Paraguay, for instance, is landlocked; Turkey is not.
Which countries in the world are double-landlocked, which means that all the countries that they border are themselves landlocked? Answer here .
[The Volokh Conspiracy]
Want to help your brain washed, brain dead public school educated children learn a little about world geography? Give them a globe and tell them they get no MTV or MP3 till they get the right answer. If nothing else, when finished, they will know where at least two of the world's countries are located. They probably still won't be able to point out where the U.S. is but it's a start in the right direction.
7:19:41 PM
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Required Reading..
An excellent speach on the almost all of the eco-tard nonsense can be found here, by Michael Crichton. About the only topic of idiocy it doesn't cover is wind power. So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers ...
[Capitalist Lion]
7:00:17 PM
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Maybe, just maybe lady - if your country hadn't bombed the crap out of our Navy, all of this would never have happened. Your country miscalculated badly in thinking that a President with some balls like GWB would not appear on the scene. Unfortunately for you, Harry Truman came along and you lost. Deal with it!
6:18:44 PM
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The Carrot and the Stick. Score yet another huge victory for the bumbling hick from Texas.
[Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
"Once again Bush gets what he wants without capitulating, giving in, compromising, or sucking up to those self-interested, gutless Old European pricks. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you're willing to play a little hardball, isn't it? Iraq has been liberated, there are fundamental changes going on in the Middle East, al Qaeda is on the run, Saddam Hussein is in leg irons, taxes have been cut, the economy is booming again..."
6:02:40 PM
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Cardinal pities Saddam, criticizes U.S.
Lets see - should I tell the church what they can do with their opinion?
Naw - I think you can figure it out for yourself. Here's a little hint.
5:08:17 PM
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Seems the charges of torture of Saddam may be true after all!
4:08:38 PM
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Doopy Dean
The Safety Dance--I [WSJ]
"The capture of Saddam has not made America safer." You can expect to hear that quote a lot next summer and fall if Howard Dean is the Democratic presidential nominee. It's tailor-made for GOP campaign commercials.
Give Dean this: He is, in a certain perverse way, eloquent. It's not easy to cram so much idiocy, mendacity and arrogance into nine little words, but he did it.
Dean's assertion is impossible to support rationally. If you believe, as we do, that liberating Iraq was vital to American national security, then obviously Saddam's capture has made America safer. But for the sake of argument, let's assume that the left-wing critique is correct: Iraq is a "distraction," diverting troops, resources and attention from the war against al Qaeda.
If this is true, then the way to make America safer now that we're in Iraq is to finish the job so that we can free up the men and resources we're currently spending there and put them back to work in Afghanistan or wherever al Qaeda lurks. In other words, even people who thought liberating Iraq was a strategic mistake should be cheering every tactical victory there--if, that is, they really care about our national security.
Saddam's capture was a necessary step, arguably the most important step, toward final victory in Iraq. Does Dean really believe a victorious America will not be safer than a defeated one, or one stuck in a quagmire, would be? Joe Lieberman has a nice line: "Howard Dean has climbed into his own spider hole of denial if he believes that the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer." The question is whether Democratic voters will join him there.
3:44:16 PM
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Bush Lied!.
Honestly, I get sick of hearing this. Unfortunately, it's the liberal's golden idol. "Bush sold us a lie that got us into this war". It's all you hear, because the Democrat's only chance of winning the 2004 election is contingent...
[Dog Snot Diaries]
12:58:43 PM
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10 questions for Dennis Miller
Explain how the war in Iraq makes sense to you as a response to 9/11. Like there's no chance that the secular state of Iraq and Islamic fundamentalists cohabitate? They both think we're Satan. How about that as a nice point of departure for them car-pooling? I wish there was a country called al-Qaedia that we could have invaded, but there wasn't. (Saddam was) the only one who had a home address.
12:51:25 PM
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Onward Christian Linux Weenies, marching as to............. [Forbes.com]
I have a sneaking suspision that if you could nail these dickwads down long enough for a rectal exam you would find out that they were all liberal's.
"Linux crusaders insist SCO's claims have no merit and that SCO's evil managers will all end up in jail. They write to government agencies complaining about SCO, and some have even threatened to boycott the Royal Bank of Canada (nyse: RY - news - people ), one of SCO's investors. SCO's management has hired bodyguards after receiving death threats. Robert Enderle, an analyst who believes SCO's claims might be legitimate, says he and others also have been threatened, and says this "techno-insanity" verges on terrorism. "
11:53:54 AM
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Picture of the Day
This is what happens at 65MPH when it's foggy and the temperature is 30 degrees.
I had just past another car who was leaving what I thought was way too much space between himself and the school bus in front. I quickly found out why he was doing that as large chunks of ice flying off the bus began pelting my car. As I backed off I heard another weird sound from the back of my car which turned out to be my scanner antenna whipping wildly in the wind because of this large chunk of ice still hanging on after the lower part had broken off. It was at least 3/4 inch thick and must have weighed quite a bit before braking off just as I passed the other car. Sorry other car whoever you were.
9:40:03 AM
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THE RATIONAL LEFT.
I've said before that, when I formed my political views, they were firmly in the Democratic side of the political fence. For 30 years my views and values have remained more-or-less steady, but I find that I'm now firmly in...
[Hell In A Handbasket]
I'm very glad to hear this since Card is one of my favorite authors.
9:04:45 AM
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More Interesting Reading.
[Citizen Smash - The Indepundit]
It is astounding that they do not have a plan about what to do with Saddam after he's been tortured. I can't believe they didn't learn a lesson when they forgot to plan for what happened in Iraq after Saddam was toppled. – Isbister
As I said yesterday - "Be very afraid". These people are wondering around out there with no adult supervision. You are rubbing sholders with them everyday.
9:01:12 AM
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History repeats itself.
[Julie Neidlinger]
"I'm looking through some old newspapers from 1945, and the headlines and topics could well have been from today. There was an article on whether or not Hitler was really dead and why he hadn't been located yet. There was an article on the number of dead in Okinawa: 46,000 Japanese (except the very un-PC term "Japs" was used). There was a headline detailing the 7,000 American troops that had died..."
8:53:41 AM
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A Dogs Tale...........Thanks Sid
Three Labrador retrievers -- one brown, one yellow and one black were
sitting in the waiting room at the vet's surgery when they struck up a
conversation. The black lab turned to the brown and said, "So why are
you here?"
The brown lab replied, "I'm a pisser. I piss on everything --the sofa,
the curtains, the cat, the kids. But the final straw was last night
when I pissed in the middle of my owner's bed."
The black lab said, "So what is the vet going to do?"
"Gonna cut my nuts off," came the reply from the brown lab.
"They reckon it'll calm me down."
The black lab then turned to the yellow lab and asked, "Why are you here?"
The yellow lab said, "I'm a digger. I dig under fences, dig up flowers
and trees, I dig just for the hell of it. When I'm inside, I dig up the
carpets. But I went over the line last night when I dug a great big
hole in my owner's couch.
" So what are they going to do to you?" the black lab inquired.
"Looks like I'm losing my nuts too." the dejected yellow lab said.
The yellow lab then turned to the black lab and asked, "Why are you here?"
" I'm a humper," the black lab said. "I'll hump anything. I'll hump
the cat, a pillow, the table, postboxes, whatever. I want to hump
everything. Yesterday, my owner had just got out of the shower and was
bending down to dry her toes, and I just couldn't help myself. I hopped
on her back and started humping away".
The yellow and brown labs exchanged a sad glance and said, "So, nuts off
for you too, huh?"
The black lab said, "No, I'm here to get my nails clipped."
8:39:45 AM
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