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What's Going on With the Axis?
Remember what was really said about the "Axis of Evil"? You don't? Come on, now. Surely you remember which countries constituted President Bush's Axis of Evil? That's right. It's Iraq, Iran and North Korea. What did the president say about... [baldilocks]
10:13:52 PM 
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You better pay attention to what this guy says!
Got that? Two reasons for the socialists' victory, says the Star. One: Aznar deceived the country. Two: Aznar sent troops to Iraq. It's a groundswell of righteous anger! It's also complete, stinking bullshit.
I mean after all.....this whole war we're having is over him so he should know what he's talking about .... right? I think its cool that the enemy has a blog so you always know what he's thinking. If the world would just pay attention for Christ's sake! Oops...sorry big guy! CP
[Allah Is In The House]
10:05:02 PM
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Gay Agenda
Thanks Beckie
9:53:05 PM
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Elimination Don't miss Mark Steyn's latest column.
If Islamic terrorism were as rational as Irish or Basque terrorism, it would be easier. But Hussein Massawi, former leader of Hezbollah, summed it up very pithily: "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."
Hello, Europe? It's... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
9:09:25 PM
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Tried and True
Let's review. From the first WTC attack (1993) to the last (2001), the US was attacked by Al Qaeda (counting the Towers) at least six times. Except for the last time, after each attack, our response was non-existent to perfunctory.... [baldilocks]
9:06:15 PM
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NBC: Clinton failed to get Bin Laden in 1999. Via Newsmax:
A secret CIA videotape shows that the Clinton administration had pinpointed the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden a year before the 9/11 attacks, but declined to kill him because of White House orders that he should be taken alive.
The video, obtained and broadcast by NBC News, "illustrates an enormous opportunity the Clinton administration had to kill or capture bin Laden," the network reported Tuesday.
Images filmed in Afghanistan by CIA Predator Drones show a man clad in white robes who towers over his entourage. [Bin Laden is 6' 5" tall.]
The film was shot over Tarnak Farm, the walled compound where bin Laden was believed to live at the time. The layout of the buildings in the Predator video perfectly matches previous photos and diagrams of Tarnak Farm prepared by U.S. intelligence.
The clip left CIA analysts convinced they had located the man who in 1998 had bombed U.S. embassies in East Africa and whose agents, four years earlier, had detonated a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center.
"It’s dynamite. It’s putting together all of the pieces, and that doesn’t happen every day," said William Arkin, a former intelligence officer and now military analyst for NBC.
Though President Clinton has boasted repeatedly that he issued orders to kill bin Laden, no action was taken when the White House finally got its chance.
Why not?
Gary Schroen, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, told NBC that the White House had in fact ordered the CIA to do just the opposite - take bin Laden alive or not at all.
The order "reduced the odds from, say, a 50 percent chance down to, say, 25 percent chance that we were going to be able to get him,” Schroen told the network.
The directive effectively killed the plan and, along with it, the U.S.'s best chance to prevent the 9/11 attacks. [Reality Hammer]
9:01:31 PM
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Quote of the day
"The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes."
--- Ayn Rand, The Objectivist, "Altruism as Appeasement," January 1966. [Silent Running]
8:59:08 PM
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AP Votes For Law-Enforcement Approach
I was skimming the AP news wire when I saw this headline: "Pakistan Kills Two Dozen Terror Suspects" Thinking that the Pakistanis had summarily executed captured prisoners, which would give the war effort a black eye internationally, I naturally clicked... [Captain's Quarters]
8:56:10 PM
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Kerry on Defense
John Kerry gave a speech and issued a press release yesterday outlining his approach to the War on Terror. HobbsOnline takes a hard look at it. Do you hear it? It's the language of disengaging from the terrorists, and preparing... [democrats give conservatives indigestion]
3:23:55 PM
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SPECIAL ANALYSIS: AN AL-QAEDA VICTORY
Since last Thursday's tragic events in Madrid and their impact on Sunday on the course of the Spanish elections, a great deal of commentary in blogosphere has been focused on what happened and why, as... [Winds of Change.NET]
3:21:45 PM
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Found!
The 'Foreign Leaders' that Kerry has been talking to! Ai caramba!... [Silent Running]
9:34:08 AM
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The Invisible Poll
A new CBS/New York Times poll shows George Bush suddenly ahead of John Kerry by eight percentage points in a three-way race, although it must be the quietest poll ever announced. [Captain's Quarters]
8:54:25 AM
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Say What?
There's a Kurdish uprising going on in Syria. Did you know that? I didn't; not word one on CNN or MSNBC or Fox or in the newspaper. Thank the Lord for blogs, bloggers - and The Command Post in particular.... [suburban blight]
8:41:03 AM
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Al Qaeda Opens First Embassy in Madrid
2004-03-16) -- Spain's newly-elected socialist prime minister today declared the start of a "new era of protection from terror" as he cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the al Qaeda embassy in downtown Madrid. The building, formerly known... [ScrappleFace]
8:33:22 AM
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Boucher Wants A To Sue Drug Companies
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Merle Boucher feels that North Dakota, along with several other states, should file a class-action lawsuit against drug companies over high drug prices. From the Miami Herald: "I think it's time, maybe, that the states around the...
Is a lawsuit really the best way to lower drug prices? Why not cause the market to lower drug prices by introducing new competition from Canada? If lower priced perscription drugs were suddenly on the market from Canada, American drug companies would have no choice but to compete. Such a move would also eliminate the costly legal fees of a class-action suit which would be passed on to taxpayers.
The object here is to lower the amount citizens have to pay, not raise it. [North Dakota Blogs]
8:05:13 AM
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Hey you nice people in Minisootaa......check this out.
Wish I had something like this on Strawberry Lake in the summer when I was a kid. Our cabin had a screened porch and the women folk would sit there with fly swatters in hand. Us kids would dash out the screen door and make a bee line for the water. We could usually make it without being carried off by the skeeters if we ran real fast. Once in the water we had to stay there unless you wanted to spend the rest of the night scratching. Ah yes....the good old days.
8:01:00 AM
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A SURVEY OF IRAQI PEOPLE
This is heartening news. A survey of Iraqi people has found them to be much better off than they were before the war:The poll, of more than 2,500 adults, was carried out by Oxford Research International between February 10 and... [DiscountBlogger]
4:20:35 AM
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Metrosexual
Does a photograph shows an advisory sign explaining priority seating for Japanese metro train passengers? [New Urban Legends]
4:09:38 AM
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3/16/2004. Day By Day Cartoon
3:36:10 AM
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I'm not going to talk about it anymore...really!...honest!
I see a lot of bloggers who say "I'm not going to talk about a certain subject anymore on this blog."
I can understand the frustration with certain subjects especially the ones that really torque your jaws because of their maximum stupidity like France or Spain!
I always have to wonder when I read something like that....what if some really big new development were to happen the next day having to do with that subject?
Suggestion: Don't say anything. Just stop until you feel like posting about it again.
3:35:05 AM
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