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Baghdad family blog. Check out the pictures. I'm ready to go play tourist after seeing the pics!
Baghdad family snapshots.  Photos shot before, during and after the war from a collaborative weblog maintained by members of a family in Baghdad. American tanks roaming the streets, Mom (Faiza) at work behind her computer, old brick buildings, a 'net cafe, spring flowers in the front yard, a stack of sweet watermelons at the market ("it's the best fruit in the hot summer, we call it Raggi.")
Link to the family photoblog and Link to the original AFamilyInBaghdad weblog.
from Boing Boing
11:51:02 PM 
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Me to! Me to! And it's cheap!
Hint, hint
Gee, I can't imagine that anybody would want this for Father's Day, or an upcoming birthday.
from Infinite Monkeys
Fathers day will be just fine ... hint, hint.
11:41:11 PM
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A new Manhattan Project
"When the American space program began in the early 1960's, they knew specifically what they wanted to accomplish, and they had a pretty good general idea of how it would be done. Likewise, in 1942 when the decision was made to begin the "Manhattan Project", there was a theoretical basis for nuclear weapons and they had a pretty good general idea of what would be needed to make them work.
In both cases the project mission was to convert the theory and general approach into detailed engineering practice. There's no doubt they were both really tough problems, but the people on those projects knew where they were trying to go and had a pretty good idea before they began about how to get there.
However, a hypothetical "eliminate reliance on Arab oil" project would not have any theoretical basis for a solution. There are no alternative energy source which satisfy those five requirements which we have or could readily develop the technology to utilize."
from USS Clueless
11:32:19 PM
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Your opinion please.......
The new Lopsided Poopdeck at TypePad will open for business in less than two days. I have played with all the display settings and settled on what you see now. There will always be small changes, but I think I will stick with the basic layout you see now. Today I found out how to get rid of the white border around the top banner by changing the basic template. I will do that soon. What you see should work for the time being.
What I need is for some of you to look at the page as it stands and let me know if you see anything funny. Funny as in all messed up that is. Can you read the type in the posts or does it need to be bigger? Does the formatting look screwy? I have IE and FireFox and it seems ok in those browsers. Anyone using Opera or one of the Linux browsers please let me know if it looks ok.
I realize the formatting is not right on the A7 picture. That problem has not been figured out yet. I have stared at the source code till I can't see straight with no answers. It will probably come to me sitting on the can as most great ideas do!
If you want to tell me something please leave it in one of the comments on the new or use the email link on this one.
Thanks
Poopdeck Pappy
11:07:04 PM
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Vast Left Wing Conspiracy continued.
NY Times Bias? I'm Shocked!
"To follow the news out of Iraq from the headlines and photographs on the front page of today's New York Times, you would have a hard time finding out what has been accomplished. There was a time when the electricity was out in Iraq, when schools and hospitals were closed, when there was no oil flowing.
Did all those things fix themselves, like self-sealing tires, or did the Americans have to do some things, at considerable cost and risks, and despite organized sabotage and terror?
It has been hard to know from the Times' front-page coverage of unhappy reservists being called up for duty and all the photographs they could find of coffins or of terrorists gleefully holding up the boots of ambushed Americans they had killed."
from Common Sense and Wonder
5:42:59 PM
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Reuters Bias? I'm Shocked!
"THE ANGRY IRAQI first made his appearance at the start of the war, as Coalition troops raced through Umm Qasr on their way to Baghdad. While reporters from other organizations saw crowds giving Coalition troops the thumbs up and people tearing Saddam posters off the wall, Reuters found the Angry Iraqi. "We don't want Americans here," said one Hussein to Reuters correspondent Rosalind Russell. Another defiantly pulled a picture of the dictator out of his waistband. "Saddam is our leader. Saddam is good." Did anyone favor liberation? Clearly, if anyone did, Russell couldn't find them. On the same day--March 23, 2003--up the road in Shiite Safwan, Reuters' Michael Georgy had a real scoop. A few days into the war, Iraqis already had decided that the occupation was a failure. "I swear it was better when Saddam was here," claimed one Jamal Kathim, whose "angry friends" all nodded in agreement. "The Americans and British said this was going to be a liberation but it is an occupation," said one Majid, who, at age 15, was clearly a good source for sophisticated geopolitical analysis."
from Common Sense and Wonder
Reuters. Chronicle of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
5:39:07 PM
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"Dear Daddy, My Mommy Can't Be My Daddy Too."
Read the column and then go read what Baldilocks has to say from the perspective of a Black Woman.
I would like to add that my recent observation is that this problem is not only for Blacks. I see other races making great effort to play catch up. The color of a child's skin does not change the damage done by being raised without a father.
4:46:46 PM
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NAACP calls Republicans "terrorists" against blacks
At the "Take Back America" conference in Washington yesterday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond compared Republicans to the Taliban, the terrorists who used to rule Afghanistan."Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by...
from Ramblings' Journal
10:07:37 AM
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I'm giving you two MUST READS for today.
America's "Irresponsible" President Is the “Chief Culprit of this War”
"Thus, recently, one of Europe’s foreign ministers denounced America’s president as the “chief culprit of this war” and went on to bemoan the “American people” for having been betrayed by such an irresponsible leader.
“I don’t see much future for the Americans” added the head of state of the aforementioned minister.
It’s a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities … My feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance. … How can one expect a State like that to hold together — a country where everything is built on the dollar."
Be sure to read the whole thing starting at the top. Don't cheat and go to the bottom first.
Found at The Politburo Dikdat
9:22:40 AM
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