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The Cowardice of Kos and the Missing Link
"We hear a lot from people such as Kos about ethical behavior. But when it comes to covering their own behinds, ethics and accuracy in the historical record seems to be the first thing jettisoned." [American Digest]
7:49:15 PM 
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Fastest Job Growth in Four Years
"I'm predicting that will not stop them from trying to find new things to whine about.
This is really the heart of the problem for Democrats. If they were truly trying to bring back JFK, they would be running a "we can do better" campaign instead of another Carvillesque "worst economy since Hoover" attack campaign." [Reality Hammer]
7:33:41 PM
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Clarke Post Mortem
"Second, by blaming the government for the deaths of their loved ones, Clarke deftly endorsed the grotesque moral inversion by which those who died on Sept. 11 are victims of . . . George Bush. This is about as morally obscene as the implication (made by, among others, the irrepressible Howard Dean) that those who died in the Madrid bombings were also victims of George Bush." [baldilocks]
7:30:31 PM
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Our Military II
"If you ask the Marines to “secure a building”, they will send a squad under cover of darkness who will place explosive charges and blow the building up. They will then report back that the building is secured.
If you ask the Army to “secure a building”, they will send a platoon of soldiers with artillery support who will clear the building and establish a 360 degree cordon around it. They will then report back that the bldg is secured.
If you ask the Navy to “secure a Building” they will send 2 Sailors and a Chief (who will undoubtedly have a cup of coffee in his hand). The Chief will order the two Sailors to turn off the coffee pot, turn off all of the lights and lock the doors to the Building. They will then report back that the building is secure." [IMAO]
1:19:38 PM
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Didn't We Go Through This Once Before?
I remember a time in the early `90's where predicting earthquakes was a big fad. I think California was supposed to drop off into the ocean and St. Louis was supposed to be washed away with the Mississippi. [The Bitch Girls]
The Big Parkfield Quake is now more than 10 years overdue. I work a few miles from Parkfield so it should rattle real good when it happens. I guess they think their prediction methods have improved. We'll see.
12:02:38 PM
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Bareback
An attractive woman from New York was driving
through a remote part of Texas when her car broke
down. An Indian on horseback came along and
offered her a ride to a nearby town.
She climbed up behind him on the horse and they
rode off. The ride was uneventful except that every
few minutes the Indian would let out a whoop so
loud that it would echo from the surrounding hills.
When they arrived in town, he let her off at the local
service station, yelled one final, "Yahoo!" and rode off.
"What did you do to get that Indian so excited?" asked
the service station attendant.
"Nothing," shrugged the woman, "I merely sat behind
him on the horse, put my arms around his waist, and
held onto his saddle horn so I wouldn't fall off."
"Lady," the attendant said, "Indians ride bareback.
Thanks Sid
9:06:45 AM
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A HEART WARMING STORY
This is a nice story about the bond formed between a little girl and
some construction workers that will make you believe that there is
still hope for the younger generation...
A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a
construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.
The young family's 4-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in
all the activity going on next-door and spent much of each day
observing the workers.
Eventually the construction crew, all of them more or less
gems-in-the-rough, adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They
chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch
breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel
important, of course always watching out for her safety.
At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay
envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home
to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and
suggested that they take the two-dollar "pay" she had received to the
bank the next day to start a savings account.
When they got to the bank the teller was equally impressed and asked
the little girl how she had come by her very own paycheck at such a
young age.
The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew
building the house next door to us." "My goodness gracious," said the
teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever
deliver the @#$%ing sheet rock.
Thanks Sid
9:01:27 AM
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A duck is a duck..
This news is about a week old, but I can't help but wonder what these boneheads on Brazil were thinking last weekend. [Attaboy]
8:44:00 AM
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Our Laws, Not Yours
"Apparently, the so-called "International Court of Justice" has their panties in a knot because we're going to execute 50-odd convicted murderers, who happen to be Mexican citizens:
I don't care if the murderers are Mexicans, or Irishmen, or Turks, or even people from places far outside the United States, like Berkely.
One law, for all, regardless. It's the fair way, the right way, in fact the only way to administer justice. There's no "Mexican exception" for murderers." [Kim du Toit]
7:50:41 AM
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Against Selected Enemies
"I looked forward to reading "Against All Enemies." Yes, I expected him to put the wood to President Bush for not doing enough about terrorism--a continuation of his Clinton-era complaints--and I expected that he might be right. I assumed, of course, that he would not spare the Clinton team either, or the CIA and FBI. I expected, in short, something blunt and forthright--and, that rarest thing, nonpartisan in a principled way.
I was wrong on all counts. Forthright? One momentous Bush-era episode on which Mr. Clarke can shed some light is his decision to approve the flights of the bin Laden clan out of the U.S. in the days after 9/11, when all other flights were grounded. About this he doesn't say a word. The whole premise of "Against All Enemies" is its value as an insider account. But Mr. Clarke was not a Bush insider. When he lost his right to brief the Cabinet, he also lost his ringside seat on presidential decision-making." [Left Coast Conservative]
7:47:35 AM
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Iraq Redux
"Chris Hitchens in top form today with his comments on Falujah and the reasons for invading Iraq.
There must be a temptation, when confronted with the Dantesque scenes from Fallujah, to surrender to something like existential despair. The mob could have cooked and eaten its victims without making things very much worse. One especially appreciated the detail of the heroes who menaced the nurses, when they came to try and remove the charred trophies." [Common Sense and Wonder]
7:28:30 AM
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