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Draft Fear
Will the U.S. military be reinstating the draft by Spring 2005?
from New Urban Legends
Can you guess what that classification code stands for? Give up? Don't feel bad. The recruiter had never seen it either. It's the code issued to 'Only living sons of a deceased veteran of a foreign war'. At the age of 21 I had to have my mothers permission to join the Navy. I was really worried about it. She and my father were both Army and I wasn't sure if she would think I was a traitor to the memory of my father wanting to join the Navy. I would have never been drafted with that code but by then I had already quit my job and burned all my bridges.
8:22:39 PM 
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Elena Is A Hoax?
Rocket Jones links to a report that Elena, the Chernobyl motorcycle chick, is a hoax....
from annika's journal
First I've seen of this. Snopes has nothing on it yet.
8:10:44 PM
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Moving update.
Don't just sit there staring at nothing! Go check out my new digs at TypePad. It's not open for business or ready for the housewarming yet but just like a new house you can stick your head in the door and look. I'm looking at a grand opening about two weeks from today. There will be balloons and prizes and lots of adult beverage to drink.
This a previous post updated with the latest new home I am trying out for the Poopdeck. Glad they have 30 day free trials. The walls are still bare as of today but I will start hammering nails in them soon. I must get completely moved in and settled before the trip to the Midwest in two weeks so keep looking back as I decorate the place.
Thanks to Baldilocks for her recommendation of the new home.
5:55:07 PM
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Clue for Liberals
President Bush, the coalition and most appropriately, the soldiers involved have already won the war against Saddam.
They did it last year.
You would think that one of the greatest military victories of all time would be easier to remember!
Liberals, however, are not interested in the truth. They simply cannot tolerate a military victory by President Bush. So they, and their allies in the media, have constantly repeated the false question of "when/are we winning 'the war' in Iraq?", as if the issue was unresolved!
Gee, do you think we will win WWII? Let's do a poll!
Why are liberals so relentlessly clueless?
from Reality Hammer
9:05:49 AM
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STRENGTH (part 1)
"We have seen two months of what looks like non-stop catastrophe, and we will see more, and maybe worse, before we are through. Here is my well-reasoned, historically researched, deeply nuanced opinion: Tough shit. This war will be over when we say it is over, and not a second before.
When Santa Ana’s men ran up the red flag and his band played the Deguello – “The Throat Cutting” it must have made the men and women in the Alamo sick and weak in the knees. But it did not have the demoralizing effect that the Mexican dictator intended. Rather, it hardened the defenders. They did not run, and we are not going to run either, and Dan Rather and Ted Koppel and the rest can play all the goddam dirges they want to. The Alamo itself was a military disaster, a catastrophe. And when Sam Houston retreated from and kept evading Santa Ana’s army, he was called a coward and a traitor – afraid to fight, not tough enough to do what was necessary. Sam Houston was a deeply flawed man, but he had thick skin and that in itself goes a long way when you are planning deep. Sam Houston didn’t give a tinker’s damn about Glory or Honor. Sam Houston wanted Texas. Like the equally wily and patient George Washington before him, Sam Houston wanted to win. And they did win. And that is why there will be no major metropolitan area named Kerry."
from Eject! Eject! Eject!
8:51:39 AM
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'Day After Tomorrow': A lot of hot air
"As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as "science" are used to influence political discourse. The latest example is the global-warming disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow.
This film is propaganda designed to shift the policy of this nation on climate change. At least that's what I take from producer Mark Gordon's comment that "part of the reason we made this movie" was to "raise consciousness about the environment."
Fox spokesman Jeffrey Godsick says, "The real power of the movie is to raise consciousness on the issue of (global warming)."
'Nuff said."
from USA Today
8:32:28 AM
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Brainwashed!
Get the book.
"When parents send their children off to college, mom and dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute -- able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to author Ben Shapiro, there's only one view allowed on most college campuses: a rabid brand of liberalism that must be swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
In this explosive book, Shapiro, a college student himself, reveals how America's university system is one of the largest brainwashing machines on the planet. Examining this nationwide problem from firsthand experience, Shapiro shows how the leftists who dominate the universities -- from the administration to the student government, from the professors to the student media -- use their power to mold impressionable minds.
Fresh and bitterly funny, this book proves that the universities, far from being places for open discussion, are really dungeons of the mind that indoctrinate students to become socialists, atheists, race-baiters, and narcissists."
8:07:33 AM
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John Kerry Falls Off Bike, Receives Two More Purple Hearts
Concord, Mass - "Extreme sports enthusiast (and extreme longshot presidential candidate) John F. Kerry was injured Sunday in preparation for the upcoming X-games. He was training for the Mountain Dew 10 k Bikeathon, when he apparently crashed. Although his wounds were eventually deemed superficial, he has already demanded (and received) an additional two Purple Hearts for being injured during a time of war."
Thanks OD
7:33:14 AM
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