Updated: 3/31/2004; 12:50:12 AM.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes
        

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

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Stuff from Patrick

People who are so damn clueless that they cannot comprehend the fact that terrorists want to destroy us and our way of life:

I’ve lost all patience with your freely chosen ignorance of reality. I know it means a lot to you to be able to bitch about the “Right Wing” and “Conservatives” and “Republicans” but it’s time to grow up, shave off your figurative beards and get rid of your figurative love beads and take a giant step into the post 9/11/2001 world. It’s scary, I agree, but it’s the way it is and no amount of self-righteous, asinine chants and placards will change the reality that there are people who want to kill you and take away your God-given right to stand in public, shout ridiculous slogans about neo-con conspiracies and look like a complete asshole.


8:01:29 PM    

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Who's to Blame?

I realize it’s an election year, and there are partisan points to be made – but can we please stop pointing the fingers of blame at each other, and instead concentrate our combined efforts on capturing or killing these murderous bastards?    [Citizen Smash - The Indepundit]


3:22:06 PM    

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Ingrate Expectations

An Iraqi woman in an American grocery store who disdains America's bombing of her country is told off by another patron. [New Urban Legends]


3:18:37 PM    

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Looks Like "Under God" Will Stay

Bloomberg is reporting that it looks like "Under God" will stay in the Pledge of Allegiance based on statements made by Chief Justice Rehnquist. Pledge of Allegiance, `Under God' Backed at U.S. Supreme Court March 24 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme... [Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love]


3:16:18 PM    

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Yes, Liberals DO Support Terrorism

So the next time you see liberals and leftists saying that they’re ''true patriots,'' that they’re ''tough on terrorism'' or some other euphemism, please give them a message from me.

       ''You Are Treasonous Terrorist-Loving Liars.
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3:14:08 PM    

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BRITISH INSANITY

People in Great Britain seriously need to get out and protest this maddening sentence!A man who stabbed to death an armed intruder at his home was jailed for eight years today. Carl Lindsay, 25, answered a knock at his door... [DiscountBlogger]


3:09:45 PM    

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Europe Doomed to Real Media Player. Fate Sealed

I don't know about anyone else, but to me some of the most discouraging words I can read online are: "This Requires RealPlayer." [American Digest]


3:03:15 PM    

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2:51:09 PM    

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X-43 Ready for Flight   [Planenews Aviation News Portal]


2:43:08 PM    

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 'Bush Did Not Follow Up'
From an MSNBC report on the Sept. 11 commission:

The report revealed that in a previously undisclosed secret diplomatic mission, Saudi Arabia won a commitment from the Taliban to expel bin Laden in 1998. But a clash between the Taliban's leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and Saudi officials scuttled the arrangement, and Bush did not follow up.

What was Gov. Bush supposed to have done in 1998? As Glenn Reynolds asks, "Why didn't he send the Texas Rangers to finish off Bin Laden?" [WSJ]


1:41:08 PM    

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30 pieces of silver


1:35:03 PM    

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Expensive Oil

As usual, we have the Usual Suspects (Kennedy, Levin etc.) pissing and moaning about the free market -- in this case, the unexpectedly-high price of crude oil. They get particularly incensed to discover, as Fred Leuffer points out in NRO, that a key reason for the high... [Kim du Toit]


8:51:57 AM    

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Scientologists Get Special Tax Breaks?

A trial is to begin here on Wednesday morning to determine whether a Jewish couple can deduct the cost of religious education for their five children, a tax benefit they say the federal government has granted to members of just one religion, the Church of Scientology.

The potential ramifications are huge, for a ruling in favor of the couple could affect the millions of Americans who send their children to religious schools of all types. At stake is whether people of all religions can deduct the cost of religious education as a charitable gift, as Scientologists are allowed to do under an officially secret 1993 agreement with the Internal Revenue Service.  [Captain's Quarters]

Guess who got the secret tax break for them.  Can you say Movie Stars?


8:49:30 AM    

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WHAT PRICE, INDEED?

How much did it take to buy Richard Clarke's pointed finger of blame? What price does insincerity and betrayal incur? Judas had his 30 pieces of silver, but even he regretted his decision in the end.  [The SmarterCop]


8:28:26 AM    

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An Actual Majority Do Feel This Way

Based on my 30 year career as an editor, writer and literary agent, I'm afraid I'd have to say that you are but hoping in one hand here. I've worked in San Francisco, London, Boston, and New York over those years, and they have all been spent either in publishing magazines or publishing books. In that time, I've known hundreds of editors. Please believe me when I tell you that not only does a majority of editors feel the same way, it is a vast majority.  [American Digest]


8:24:36 AM    

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Morning Comics   [American RealPolitik]


8:10:43 AM    

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Wrong Answer   [Cox & Forkum]


8:09:47 AM    

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John Kerry Strongarms Witnesses to 1971 VVAW Meeting?

A Vietnam veteran who said he remembers John Kerry participating in a 1971 Kansas City meeting at which an assassination plot was discussed says an official with the Kerry presidential campaign called him this month and pressured him to change his story.

The veteran, John Musgrave, says he was called twice by the head of Veterans for Kerry, John Hurley, while a reporter for the Kansas City Star worked on a follow-up piece to a New York Sun article about the November 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War at which a plot to kill U.S. senators was voted down. Asked by The New York Sun if he felt pressured, Mr. Musgrave said, "In the second call I did." Mr. Musgrave said Mr. Hurley said Mr. Kerry had told him "he was definitely not in Kansas City."

According to Mr. Musgrave, Mr. Hurley said, "Why don't you refresh your memory and call that reporter back?"   [Captain's Quarters]


8:01:36 AM    

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Yassin, Hamas & Israel

Note for the 'peace' crowd: if you want peace in the Middle East, you'd better start considering Israeli sensibilities too. There can't be peace without the Palestinians... but there can't be peace without the Israelis either. And there can never be peace, of any meaningful sort, with people like this.

They wish to be martyrs? So be it. Oblige them.   [Winds of Change.NET]


7:48:03 AM    

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JAG??

The other bad news is that for some reason the stupid idiots at the Corps level JAG are deciding to clean out the jails here in Iraq. Well, instead of letting out the low-level weapons violators they are letting out the terrorists that are involved in putting out these roadside bombs--because they claim that we don't have enough evidence against them. In the last two weeks three major figures in the main bad guy group here have gotten out--and we have already seen the results as one of our unit's informants has already been assassinated. So it seems like everything we have worked for for the last year and the 13 deaths our unit has sustained has been for nothing. We are all pretty discouraged.  [Winds of Change.NET]


7:45:15 AM    

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Intriguing Dimples Near Eagle Crater on Mars


7:42:06 AM    

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3/24/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir


7:37:36 AM    

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