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Tales from Darkest Gitmo
That's right, folks, the Evil American Overlords are at it again - with their delicious food, education, medical treatment and religious tolerance. G-d, how can we sleep at night???
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Partial cures
[USS Clueless]
It must be hard to catch. Where I work I am exposed to TB everyday. After 16 years I had my first positive test. Now I get to have the chest x-ray every year. CP
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Wizblog is one year old today. Stop over and say Happy. Dan says don't rush out and buy anything.....small bills of large denominations are fine! CP
One Year Old. It's Wizblog's blogiversary, and I'm afraid the impact of its first year on man and civilization cannot yet be accurately measured. That's something for historians and the passing of time to sort out. But seriously folks....I'm here all week. There's... [Wizblog]
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Interesting!
Michael at Discount Blogger has found a story that raises the possibility that Mrs. O'Leary's cow may have been falsely accused of starting the Great Chicago Fire.
[DiscountBlogger]
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Martian Hidden Mickey.  The Spirit rover's stainless steel brushes on its Rock Abrasion Tool left behind a hidden Mickey on one of Mars's rocks. Link (Thanks, JWZ!)
[Boing Boing Blog]
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"Mayor Mike Moran" - has a nice ring to it
Remember NYC firefighter Mike Moran, the guy who lost his firefighter brother on 9-11, and captured America's sentiment when he told Osama bin Laden he could "kiss my Irish ass?" He called Limbo's show yesterday to basically say... [Curmudgeonly & Skeptical]
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Kerry unrepentant for pro-Hanoi activism
Local paper described him as 'closest thing to a male Jane Fonda'
He seemed to want it both ways in the protest movement. While claiming to "hate" the communists, he decried any attempt to marginalize them within the movement. Once, when questioned about his political alliance with supporters of the enemy, Kerry said that any attempts to push out Hanoi supporters might result "in seriously dividing and weakening the movement, and making it less effective."
That didn't sit well with some VVAW members beyond the Washington Beltway. Back in Massachusetts, VVAW state coordinator Walker "Monty" Montgomery, a Tennessee native, publicly differed with Kerry. The Boston Herald-Traveler reported Montgomery "was considerably more candid than Kerry about the problems posed by revolutionary communists inside an antiwar organization." [WND]
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Three headed Frog
Bush's fault for not signing Kyoto I'm sure.
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3/6/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
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Heather Has Two Mommies...
"How come you are so mean, mommy?" Heather asked.
"Don't say 'mean', Heather; I prefer 'aggression-enhanced.'" Crystal corrected. "It is probably because I used to be a man's girlfriend, er... unpaid sex worker. Actually, the best term to use is probably acquaintance rape survivor."
"How come that man next to us has such a big lens," Heather asked. "Is he sexually inadequate?"
"Remember not to be judgmental, Heather," Crystal replied. "Just because a white oppressor has a lens that costs and weighs more than a used car, that doesn't mean he is performance-challenged."
Thanks Ben
1:37:33 AM
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Who's Acting Unilaterally?
A pair of articles in the New York Times illustrate the silliness of those who attack the Bush administration of "acting unilaterally" and "alienating our allies." The first, which appeared yesterday, is a fascinating tale of a multinational investigative effort that "caught dozens of suspected Qaeda members and disrupted at least three planned attacks in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia."
It all started in April 2002, when the oddly named Christian Ganczarski, "a 36-year-old Polish-born German Muslim whom the German authorities suspected was a member of Al Qaeda," rang up al Qaeda bigwig Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to tell him about a terror massacre in Tunisia:
Through electronic surveillance, the German authorities traced the call to Mr. Mohammed's Swisscom cellphone, but at first they did not know it belonged to him. Two weeks after the Tunisian bombing, the German police searched Mr. Ganczarski's house and found a log of his many numbers, including one in Pakistan that was eventually traced to Mr. Mohammed. The German police had been monitoring Mr. Ganczarski because he had been seen in the company of militants at a mosque in Duisburg, and last June the French police arrested him in Paris.
Mr. Mohammed's cellphone number, and many others, were given to the Swiss authorities for further investigation. By checking Swisscom's records, Swiss officials discovered that many other Qaeda suspects used the Swisscom chips, known as Subscriber Identity Module cards, which allow phones to connect to cellular networks.
The effort "involved agents from more than a dozen countries, including the United States, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Britain and Italy," the Times notes. Alienating our allies indeed!
The second article, in today's Times, points out the folly of those who were pro-Saddam by proxy--that is, who claimed America's liberation of Iraq would be "illegitimate" because it purportedly lacked the approval of the United Nations.
"A group of Russian engineers secretly aided Saddam Hussein's long-range ballistic missile program, providing technical assistance for prohibited Iraqi weapons projects even in the years just before the war that ousted him from power," the Times reports. The technicians apparently weren't working for the Russian government, "but any such work on Iraq's banned missiles would have violated United Nations sanctions."
Russia has a veto at the U.N. Security Council; if it can't stop its own citizens from violating U.N. rules, what moral authority does it have to pass judgment on U.S. actions? [WSJ]
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Quote of the Day
I have this theory that all of the world's anger and hostility originates from a lack of cool tech gadgets. If everyone in the world had access to Wi-Fi broadband Internet, DirecTV with TiVo and satellite radio... wars would end, stars would align, and people all over the planet would sit in circles singing folk songs. Then maybe, just maybe I might have the inner peace needed to contemplate such important mysteries such as how they get the cream filling inside of those darned Twinkies. Matt Hartley
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The Girl Watcher
How much you wanna bet those are real?
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Help Drive the German Left Crazy
I call upon the lizardoid hordes to go and vote in this poll at Germany's left-wing Spiegel Online, asking how well President Bush has done.[Little Green Footballs]
Follow the instructions on LPG carefully unless you are fluent in German. CP
10:17:23 PM
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This guy wants
to marry a tree. Fine with me. No problemmo. [Scripting News]
I'm thinking of asking Bill Gates to marry me and hope he dies soon after. Bigamy?....no problem! We'll just say we think bigamists are being denied their constitutional rights and to hell with the law. CP
9:57:18 PM
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The more, the merrier
The president and his policies have absorbed one left hook after another - from as many as 10 Democratic presidential candidates - during the primary campaign that effectively ended Tuesday.
Sen. John Kerry is now the presumptive Democratic nominee - so now it's "No More Mr. Nice Guy" for the president.
It is time for Bush to remind voters who he is - and who John Kerry is.
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I agree! If you don't agree with me - your silly!
Silly people listen to Michael Moore
Did I already link to this? I'm too lazy to look tonight. If I did it doesn't matter cause it deserves to be looked at again. If you want to see some examples of silly behavior go here and read the comments. Why are libs so thin skinned?
It's ok though. I spent 20 years of my life assuring that they can be as silly as they want to be and not get locked up for it. Did I mention I served in Viet Nam?
We won't talk about all those concentration camps scattered around the country.
By the way......speaking of silly......if there is anyone reading this who knows of a friend, relative, or acquaintance, in one of these camps would you please contact me by email? Which camp are they in? When did they disappear? Why were they picked up. What do I have to do to get them to come for me?
Be sure to check out the pictures of the fence in Utah that the wacko's believe must be a concentration camp. At least someone was smart enough to go and check it out instead of just saying "We don't know what it is and it has a fence around it so it must be a concentration camp." I know two places here in the Central San Joaquin Valley that look like that and the wacko's don't even have them on their list. I also know many people who have worked in these places and they get a good laugh when shown the pictures of the supposed camps.
It's all about as silly as the so called Area 51 crap (hint!). I was there at least 3 times during my military career for training and I damn sure didn't see any little green men! A few of us could have passed for little green men after consuming too much of the alien brew at the club.
Did I mention I served in Viet Nam? CP
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Julie is looking forward to the next eight months!
eight month ramble
The coming eight months should be terrible.
That's my political prediction. [Julie Neidlinger]
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The Dems suddenly fall in love with the Founders.
Liberal opponents of the Federal Marriage Amendment insist constantly that they consider the Constitution a "sacred document" that shouldn't be "tinkered" with. I'm very sympathetic to this view, but, frankly, I don't really believe them.
Here's my problem: Most of the liberals invoking the inviolability of the Constitution in the debate against the FMA are the same liberals who generally invoke the doctrine of a "living Constitution," which demands that we constantly "reinterpret" the document.
5:18:10 PM
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The Dukakis Trap
A SENIOR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL spoke privately the other day about dramatic progress in the Middle East. Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds have broken an impasse and are on the verge of a historic compromise on a new Iraqi constitution. It mandates a pluralistic, democratic Iraq when the United States hands over sovereignty on June 30. Meanwhile, as a consequence of American intervention in Iraq, reformers have been strengthened in other countries throughout the region. In Pakistan and elsewhere, official support for Islamic radicalism--and official tolerance for terrorism--are on the wane. Israel is going to withdraw from settlements for the first time in a generation--and the threat of terror there, too, seems reduced. There are even signs that the Europeans may actually help in efforts to reform the Middle East.
The White House official also had a lament. How come these breakthroughs have gotten so little serious attention? A good question--and one that spotlights a real problem for President Bush's reelection prospects.
No, we are not speaking here of the classic problem that would bedevil George W. Bush in even the best of circumstances: Republican presidents are almost always "embattled" and almost always have trouble "getting out the good news" through a not-so-vaguely hostile press corps. The problem is deeper than that.
The truth is, the White House isn't trying very hard.
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Big Brother Booze
Once again we see the socialist nanny state mentatily in action.
Doctors called yesterday for the price of alcohol to be almost doubled in an attempt to reduce the harm caused by excessive drinking. The Academy of Medical Sciences, an independent body of senior doctors... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
We showed those tobacco companies who's in charge! Time to kick some more deep pocket ass!
They came for the cigerettes and I didn't say anything because I didn't smoke. Then they came for the booze and........ CP
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Shocking...Not
After reading about the brouhaha over President Bush's campaign ad over at Smash's, I had certain expectations. I thought that, in the ad, a picture was shown of an actual body being pulled from the WTC wreckage; you know, a... [baldilocks]
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The Ads
This is such a non-issue.
President Bush's re-election campaign has begun airing millions of dollars worth of television ads in more than a dozen states that both sides see as key to victory. Some of these early election-year commercials are creating controversy. The ads never mention the president's likely Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Senator... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
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Kerry Waffle Chart
Now that John Kerry is the presumptive Democratic nominee, Republicans are sure to focus the spotlight on his history of flip-flops. Kerry did vote for the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq, even though he constantly trashes the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq. He voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, which limited marriage to a man and a woman, but he now says marriage should be limited to a man and a woman. (Although he also points out that he once attended a gay wedding.) And those are just the better-known issues on which Kerry has "evolved."
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3/5/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
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How dare Bush use the war!
I was shocked, shocked, to discover that the President is using images of the September 11th attacks to rally political support. Such a thing has of course never happened before in human history, and is utterly beneath contempt. What sort... [Silent Running]
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Some 9/11 Relatives Idiotarians
I've become somewhat inured to media bias; I still see it, but it no longer causes me to undergo severe outrage. Hey, you can't stay outraged 24 hours a day. But rarely, if ever, have I seen such naked bias and political axe-grinding as in this AP story: Some 9/11 ... [Little Green Footballs]
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The Real Two Americas
Looking at the divide between silly America and serious America.
Silly people listen to Michael Moore. Silly people issue marriage licenses to couples ineligible to receive them because they feel that it is important to do so. Silly folks think Dick Cheney is still running Halliburton and that Halliburton is running the war. Silly people make ads for websites that feature George W. Bush morphing into Hitler. Silly people think we've got Osama bin Laden stashed away in a cave waiting for a September debut. Silly people look to Maureen Dowd for insight into the world.
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Liberal Hypocrisy, Take 2
After whining that President Bush was trying to "politicize" 9-11, the Democrats respond by...using victims of 9-11 and union bosses claiming they represent victims and firefighters to attack President Bush.
Oh, no hypocrisy there! ::roll eyes::
I guess I forgot that Democrats are allowed to attack President Bush night and day without proof and President Bush is not allowed to run on his record. Silly me!
And the liberal press presents the issue of Bush's campaign ads as if no one likes them, with AP headlining "Some 9/11 Relatives Angered by Bush Ads", and only much later in the story revealing the whole story, that many also approve of them: [Reality Hammer]
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Your daily does of Liberal Hypocrisy
Liberals are certainly working overtime in the hypocrisy department.
They are currently insisting that people like Rush Limbaugh, and his use of free speech, are actually a threat to free speech that can only be corrected by "equal time" laws forced on the public by government.
In other words, if you choose to listen to Rush Limbaugh, you must also listen to Al "I lie for a living" Franken's new radio show. In fact, every radio station that broadcasts Republican, conservative or libertarian ideas must undergo a government review to determine whether their broadcasts are "in the public interest".
So many times over the years I am thankful that I am too smart to be a liberal and too honest to be a Democrat. [Reality Hammer]
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The Mars Rover has started it's own Blog
NASA told me to use the microscopic imager on the end of my arm and I just said no. I'm not their puppet, you know. I am semi-autonomous up here. It was just like totally unacceptable for me to carry out that command, you know? I could have gotten hurt! Or dusty! In the end they saw my point of view, but then they GROUNDED me! I don't get to drive anywhere until tomorrow!! They said it's for my own good, but I just can't believe it!!!!! I thought they'd be happy that I can say no when it's good for me. Instead they're treating me just like my sister. Maybe I should cut off contact for a few days, too, then. *sulks*
And they keep playing crappy music at me. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are soooo 1990s. At least I have all you nice people to keep me company! You guyz are the best! *rover hugs to all my peeps*
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I miss The Cold War. Things were so much easier then. Maybe we should hook up with the ruskies again and kick the shit out of the rest of the world and go back to the way things were. The Russians have to take France though.
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A Miscalculation
The not-so-secret secret is out: a lot of black Americans have never been happy with homosexuals equating their struggles for acceptance with that of civil rights. Part of the reason is that many, if not most black Americans are very...
I think that homosexual activists, in their zeal to get what they want right now have been quite short-sighted in this matter. There are too many black evangelical Christians out there that won’t “put their color before Christ,” as Star Parker put it. [baldilocks]
A very big miscalculation from what I'm hearing at work. All support they had at one time is gone due to their impatience. CP
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John Kerry
Hi everybody, my name is John Kerry and I'm mad.
I'm mad at George Bush. Gee willikers, I really hate him. I mean I hate him. He's just such a buffoon. He never tells the truth. He lied to us about everything. He lied to this whole country and to the whole world about everything.
He's just so mean. [Shining full Plate and a good broadsword]
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BUSH LIED!!!! by Telling the Truth
The San Francisco Chronicle's Debra Saunders got a chance at an editorial board meeting last week to quiz John Kerry about his claim that President Bush "misled" him into backing the liberation of Iraq:
Kerry says he believed the resolution tied President Bush to promises to build an international coalition, to work with the United Nations and only go to war as a last resort. A disappointed Kerry now says Bush failed in all three venues. . . .
A month before Kerry's "yes'' vote, Bush went to the United Nations and said the following: "Saddam Hussein has defied the United Nations 16 times. Not once, not twice--16 times he has defied the U.N. The U.N. has told him after the (Persian) Gulf War what to do, what the world expected, and 16 times he's defied it. And enough is enough. The U.N. will either be able to function as a peacekeeping body as we head into the 21st century, or it will be irrelevant. And that's what we're about to find out.''
Bush told the U.N. that if it failed to act, America and its allies would--as indeed they did. So where's the deception? Saunders:
Kerry's answer was that Washington insiders believed that Bush didn't mean what he said. "I think that you had a hard-line group (then Pentagon adviser) Richard Perle, (Deputy Defense Secretary) Paul Wolfowitz and probably (Vice President Dick) Cheney. But when Brent Scowcroft and Jim Baker (former advisers to the first President Bush) weighed in, very publicly in op-eds in the New York Times and the (Washington) Post, the chatter around Washington and (Secretary of State Colin) Powell in particular, who was very much of a different school of thought, was really that the president hadn't made up his mind. He was looking for an out. That's what a lot of people thought."
What about what Bush said to the U.N.? That was "rhetorical," Kerry answered. And "a whole bunch of very smart legitimate people" not running for president thought as he did. "So most people, actually on the inside, really felt that (Bush) himself was looking for the way out to sort of satisfy Cheney, satisfy Wolfowitz, but not get stuck." Kerry continued, "The fact that he jumped and went the other way, I think, shocked them and shocked us."
So Bush "misled" Kerry by telling the truth! As Saunders observes, "The scariest part is that Kerry looked as if he believed what he said."
2:24:49 PM
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California Dreamin
40 mb Sorry dial-up.
20 minutes long. When you think it's over it ain't over. Turn up the volume and be there.
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What's In A Name
Much has been made, and still is being made, about the lack of evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. After all, where are they? Granted, we haven't found them - yet. Maybe we never will. I've written enough... [Shining full plate and a good broadsword]
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3/4/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
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Wish I'd said this.......
What he said.
I'm oft to point out that my lack of support for same-sex marriage has little to do with the content and everything to do with the context. It's the context which irks me, and that context amounts to public officials disregarding the rule of law to forward an agenda. It's their job to follow the law... [Capitalist Lion]
6:08:32 PM
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You Won't Believe This
"In Meida Res" sends this story from the Detroit Free Press: Michigan Teacher Must Cover Cost Of Substitute While On Military Duty ASSOCIATED PRESS GRAND RAPIDS -- A Michigan school district told a teacher activated for military duty that he... [Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love]
I've emailed the school with my thoughts on this. I will probably go to jail for using naughty language but sometimes you just got to vent. CP
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What The .....?
Is my creeping senility now complete or has the Times web site been hacked?
I go to the url above and I get a page that appears to be from the NY Times website. I read down through the corrections and I think good on the NY Times for correcting some of the spin in the columns of the left-wing wacko's they carry.
Then I get to the last two paragraphs and I see this..........
The Times does not welcome information about errors that call for correction in columns written by Times' Op-Ed columnists. Since The New York Times refuses to hold their columnists to any standard of accuracy, The National Debate has taken upon itself to offer this Supplemental Corrections Page for New York Times readers. Messages may be e-mailed to nytcolumnistcorrections@thenationaldebate.com.
To reach the real public editor, Daniel Okrent, and ask him to press Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger to make good on his promise to change The New York Times "columnist correction policy" which currently leaves the decision on whether to issue a correction up to the columnist, e-mail public@nytimes.com or telephone (212) 556-7652.
I know it's not really a page from the Times. My question is....can I make up pages like this and say anything I want and get away with it? I can think of some good articles I would like to write for the Times.
Beam me up Scotty....it's time to go back to our dimension! CP
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Canadian Arrogance
This column is simply disgusting.
There is much about Haiti that pulls at the heart strings: the fact that it's the poorest country in the hemisphere, that it was established by former slaves after a courageous slave rebellion, and that it is struggling against great...
But this begs the question, why is it the job of the United States to go and solve every crisis in the world? Iraq was a country begging to be liberated, and the Canadian government didn't seem too damn interested in helping out. Okay, fair enough. But after criticizing us for freeing the Iraqi people Canada is going to criticize us for not doing more to help out in Haiti? [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
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Kerry's complicated exfoliation
IT'S AN ODD campaign gimmick, but Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., often tells voters that he was "misled" and that's why he voted for an October 2002 resolution authorizing military force against Iraq.
Kerry says he believed the resolution tied President Bush to promises to build an international coalition, to work with the United Nations and only go to war as a last resort. A disappointed Kerry now says Bush failed in all three venues.
Kerry's story only works if you don't know that the resolution didn't bind Bush as Kerry said.
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Court Knocks Down Church Weddings
A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT today ruled today that state recognition of clergy-officiated marriages is unconstitutional.
In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, said the use of religious officials to perform a civil function violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which requires a separation of church and state. [Citizen Smash - The Indepundit]
Clueless people - be sure to read the comments at the bottom. CP
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A BORING ELECTION SEASON
Joshua Claybourn:Surprisingly, the first substantive issues Kerry addressed [after his Super Tuesday win] were taxes and his desire to raise them. But aside from hardcore Democrats who'll vote for Kerry anyway, that position inspires few people. The second issue he... [DiscountBlogger]
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The second coming happened and we all missed it!
Damn! I was looking forward to the light show.
The Mind of George Soros
Meet the Esperanto enthusiast who wants to save the world from President Bush.
Cold as he is toward the Jewish people, Mr. Soros is not much warmer toward his adopted country. "I had never quite become an American," he once said. Now he complains that today's America "is not the America I chose as my home," as if, by turning conservative and electing George W. Bush as President, the country has failed to live up to him.
The egotism of the remark is revealing. Mr. Soros has admitted to having "carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." Having made his mark, he now seems to give them free rein. He told one interviewer that he had "godlike, messianic ideas," and another that he sometimes thought of himself as "superhuman." To still a third he explained that his "goal is to become the conscience of the world."
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Open source radicals (Linux Weenies)--eat cake
Open source advocacy pieces often sound like they are channeling the spirits of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, all of whom would ONLY do open source if programming had been a discipline in the 18th century.
Admittedly, this is a good way to spin the argument for Americans, since America's founding fathers hold special importance to Americans. It is also an implicit admission, even if unconscious, that MOST people wouldn't find access to source code particularly interesting.
What I have ALWAYS opposed is the notion that all software must be open source, or that it is right to dictate procurement practices that disadvantage proprietary software. Figure out where open source is important, and balance it against the revenue generating possibilities of closed-source software.
People who like macaroni and cheese don't tend to eat it exclusively (though they might get sick from ALL THIS ANALOGY). Don't get carried away by your enthusiasm for open source.
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Profiles in Courage
Boy, that junior senator from New York is a real risk-taker, isn't she? Yesterday, the Associated Press reports, she issued a presidential endorsement:
"This is going to be a year, I believe, for Senator Kerry who will be our nominee and I will do everything I can to get him elected. So I hope that next year we will have a Democrat in the White House," she told Japan's Nippon Television Network Corporation.
Not only does she withhold her endorsement until the contest was over, but she decides to tell the Japanese.
Meanwhile, Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, offers some advice to Kerry on his choice of a running mate. Gillers urges a Kerry-Clinton ticket. Bill, that is. But isn't that unconstitutional? Not according to Gillers's tortured reading:
The 22nd Amendment, which became effective in 1951, begins: "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice." No problem. Bill Clinton would be running for vice president, not president. Scholars and judges can debate how loosely constitutional language should be interpreted, but one need not be a strict constructionist to find this language clear beyond dispute. Bill Clinton cannot be elected president, but nothing stops him from being elected vice president.
Gillers, however, does not mention the 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, which provides that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." Is Bill Clinton ineligible to the office of president? As always, that depends on the meaning of is. [WSJ]
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Can Graphs Lie?
Of course not, comrades. Aside from using wrong data, graphs cannot lie. But they can tell larger truth, da? Look at this graph. Is very famous. Is all over internet. Good Party Comrades love this graph, put it on backpacks... [The Politburo Diktat]
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You are Gaius Caesar Germanicus - better known as Caligula!
Yep! - that's me!
Third Emperor of Rome and ruler of one of the most powerful empires of all time, your common name means "little boots". Although you only reigned for four years, brief even by Roman standards, you still managed to garner a reputation as a cruel, extravagant and downright insane despot. Your father died in suspicious circumstances, you were not the intended heir, and one of your first acts as Emperor was to force the suicide of your father-in-law. Your sister Drusilla died that same year; faced with allegations that your relationship with her had been incestuous, you responded, bafflingly, by declaring her a god.
You revived a number of unpopular traditions, including auctions of properties left over from public shows. When a senator fell asleep at one such auction, you took each of his nods as bids, selling him 13 gladiators for a vast sum. You attempted to have your horse, Incitatus, made into a consul and hence one of the most powerful figures in Rome. It was granted a marble stable with jewels and a staff of servants. At one point you forced your comrade Macro to kill himself - in much the same vein as your father-in-law - accusing him of being his wife's pimp. You, of course, were having an affair with said wife at the time.
Things went from bad to worse. When supplies of condemned men ran short in the circus, you had innocent spectators dragged into the arena with the lions to fill their place. You claimed mastery of the sea by walking across a three-mile bridge of boats in the Bay of Naples; kissed the necks of your lovers, whispering sweet nothings like "This lovely neck will be chopped as soon as I say so,"; dallied with your sister's lover and made her pull her unborn child out of her womb prematurely. Towards the end of your reign, you had a golden statue of yourself made and dressed each day in the same clothes you yourself wore. When you eventually died, the terrified people of Rome refused to believe that such a cruel reign could ever end, and believed you to be alive for years afterwards.
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All in a Knight's Work
I really love my work. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. And it brings satisfaction. Deep satisfaction. It was just that kind of night in San Francisco. Darkness filled the air like a velvet cloak that... [Shining full plate and a good broadsword]
You'll love this short story if your a hippy lover like me! CP
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Kerry Voting Record Update.
Voted FOR extending the so-called "assault weapon" ban, keeping citizens from owning guns that have cosmetic differences from other similar guns.
Voted FOR requiring private citizens to obtain government approval before selling a gun to a family member, friend, or fellow collector.
Voted AGAINST stopping frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers and importers. [democrats give conservatives indigestion]
Just so you won't forget between now and November. I promise to not mention it more than once a day! CP
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It's a Party
Did the VLWC try to invalidate my vote? You decide. I walk in, hand over my ID and two people with separate lists check my name against my address. Then, a third person hands me my ballot. I didn't notice... [baldilocks]
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Does Michael Moore Need....
There’s no question that for 40 years, eco-activists have been claiming the environment around us is doomed because people are raising too many babies and living too well. The activists have predicted massive famines, energy shortages, the destruction of the world’s forests, unprecedented soil erosion, and a global warming that will fry the world’s crops and wildlife even as it melts the Arctic ice cap and floods port cities like New York and Calcutta. None of these dire predictions are coming true. [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
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3/3/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
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You've got to be kidding!
Bill Clinton could be just the ticket for Kerry
Clinton's strengths would compensate for Kerry's weaknesses almost perfectly. Not only is Clinton the most talented campaigner of his generation, but he is also a Southerner -- and since 1948, when Harry S. Truman chose Sen. Alben Barkley of Kentucky as his running mate, every successful Democratic ticket has included a citizen of a Southern state.
Besides, people might even pay to watch Bill Clinton debate Dick Cheney. So why not?
The first objection, the constitutional one, can be disposed of easily. The Constitution does not prevent Clinton from running for vice president. The 22nd Amendment, which became effective in 1951, begins: "No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice."
If I was Kerry I would be afraid of having a mysterious death in the first year of my presidency. He would never be able to sleep wondering when it was going to happen. Kick Bill in the nuts Hillary and tell him to go do his needlepoint! CP
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Voters OK Schwarzenegger's Budget Plan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Californians overwhelmingly approved a plan Tuesday to borrow a record $15 billion to bail out the state budget, handing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a crucial victory in his bid to turn around the world's sixth-largest economy.
"Californians have gone to the polls and flexed their muscles and let their voices be heard," Schwarzenegger said in his victory speech in Santa Monica. "California is back on track."
We just bought a very expensive house and now we have to pay the mortgage! CP
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Owl Cam Thanks Ben
They are so good on the barbie!
By the way......Owls are stupid when it comes to traffic. I drive to work at night and there is a huge owl population around here. Maybe thats why we don't have a mouse problem. Anyway.....hardly a night goes by that one of those big suckers doesn't come swooping in from the side and almost get hit by my car. There are many dead owls to be seen along the side of the road. They seem to have no peripheral vision and they are always looking straight down for lunch and never ahead. Even so the numbers never seem to go down at least in the 17 years I have been making this nightly drive.
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Senate Kills Gun Bill
Via Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate, in a surprise about-face on Tuesday, defeated legislation to shield the gun industry from many civil lawsuits after gun control advocates attached language to it extending the 1994 assault weapons ban and the bill's own sponsor repudiated it.
A battle is won, but the war is far from over. You can be sure that the Dems won't rest as long as they can think up some new way to attempt the disarming of America. [democrats give conservatives indigestion]
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Did Special Ops Soldiers Kidnap Aristide?
Okay, I don't believe that they kidnapped him. I can't believe that anybody listens to Jesse Jackson, but he's claiming that the CIA and SF soldiers kidnapped President Aristide. Thanks, Jesse. Thanks a bunch.
First off, why does skin color matter when someone comes to tell you that, in a matter of hours, your city will fall and your palace will be under Rebel control? And that means someone will probably come to execute you. Does anyone really think that the SF soldier delivering the message cared about race? I doubt it. If I were him, the only thing I would care about is getting the hell out of Dodge. [Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love]
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Someone You Should Know
Concerned about why 10-year-old Yahya was selling soda and candy instead of sitting in a classroom, McCorkle started asking questions. He learned that since Yahya’s father had died, he had to drop out of school to support his family.
“It just broke my heart to think that children should have to do that,” said McCorkle, 46, an Army reservist with the 318th Tactical Psychological Operations Company.
McCorkle went to speak to Yahya’s mother. She cried after he said he would support their family if Yahya returned to school.
[Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love]
Wondering what you can do to help the children in Iraq?
You wouldn't want to throw any more money at our education system so they can turn out more brainwashed liberals. Maybe this would be a better use for the money. CP
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Sex and Homelessness in Sweden
Sweden has one of the world's most comprehensive social welfare systems. It is hailed by the American left as an example to be emulated, where a nominally capitalist/nominally-socialist country comes together in the spirit of the common good to provide for the needy. Well, I'm shocked, shocked to read that not are there actually homeless in Sweden, but that they're Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
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Just one of the guys....
Neil Cavuto doesn't think that John Kerry and John Edwards pull off the anti-elitest, 'everyman' image too well. Maybe it's just me, but I find... [Common Sense and Wonder]
When was the last time a liberal let facts get in the way of Bush Bashing? CP
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Schwarzenegger could accept gay marriages
I feel the same way. The problem is People like San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom. He would rather take the Law, yes law into his own hands. The fact of the matter is that a law is being disregarded. Right or wrong the law is the law until changed. Not changed by Pols or courts but by the citizens and legislators of our States or country.
The problem is people are too willing to let the courts write laws when they agree with the Black robbed Terrorists, But one day they will make a decision you don't agree with and you will have no recourse. [Left Coast Conservative]
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Penn Jillette. "My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." [Quotes of the Day]
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3/2/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
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"In the 2004 presidential field, there is a candidate for nearly every point of view. His name is John Kerry." --Jeff Jacoby
[American Realpolitik]
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Gay Marriage: The Candidates Stumble
The Washington Post asks the Democrat candidates to take a stand: Kerry's reply: "What I think -- I think it's a distinction between what you believe the institution of marriage is, but what's important, Dan, is that you give people... [democrats give conservatives indigestion]
Read Kerry's answer to the question and see if you can tell me what the hell he was saying?! CP
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Things About Germany
Kim shares his impressions of Germany with us. I was very surprised to hear about the graffiti problem. The only signs of that I saw there in the 70's and 80's was having to do with a big flap they were having about nuclear power. I thought graffiti was only a problem in certain places in California but I guess everybody wants to get in on the act. CP
[Kim du Toit]
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eBay
Another phishing expedition with eBay as the bait. [New Urban Legends]
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Sand Trap
Do photographs show Iraqi fighter planes found buried in the desert? [New Urban Legends]
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A Shameful Past
Don't play the Vietnam card with me, John Kerry.
Liberal critics of American foreign policy have claimed they "support the troops"--but they're obviously hoping we have short memories. Many of us will never forget the hundreds of lawyers they dispatched to Florida in 2000 to make sure military absentee ballots did not get counted (some sources say that two out of three military voices in Florida were never heard). That was after the Clinton administration initiated rules making it more difficult to vote on overseas military bases. [WSJ]
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Kerry Will Abandon War on Terrorism
The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration.
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Let them eat cake
The Democrats have been pounding on the Bush administration for months about its alleged "insensitivity" to the outsourcing of jobs. Kerry and Edwards have been screeching about the White House's "policy" to outsource jobs, close factories and - no doubt coming soon - to switch honest American Girl Scout cookies for stale Chinese fortune cookies made by children shackled to conveyer belts.
Before that - and before Bush backed a half-trillion-dollar Medicare expansion - the Democrats pounded the table about Bush's "insensitivity" about the lack of healthcare and the outrageous costs of prescription drugs. Before that it was the tax cuts. I forget what came before that. But there's a unifying theme to all of these policies and criticisms, at least in the minds of liberals.
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Is Switzerland your idea of heaven?
According to a new survey of the quality of life in 215 countries (are there really that many nation states?), Zurich is the best city in the world to live. Geneva is second. Bern is sixth. Does that makes Switzerland heaven on earth? I like Switzerland, but really it's a pretty boring place (OK, not as boring as Luxembourg). In this survey, London - where I live - comes 35th. I'd put it... [NightHawk]
Amen! Having spent time in both places I would say that Switzerland is ok for a one time visit if your a scenery buff, but London is where you go to have a good time. CP
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Allah is sad today
Allah can usually count on news from Iran to calm him down when he gets riled up like this, but not today. Oh there is plenty of news, and on any other day it would make him laugh and clap like a little girl, like this article or this glorious collection of anecdotes from the recent election or this long but absolutely essential essay on how your foreign policy "realists" soon shall be pressuring Curious George to appease Allah in all the right ways. But not today. Today Allah is not feeling it. Today something is wrong that is making Allah so very sad in the pants. [Allah Is In The House]
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February Casualties in Iraq Lowest of War
As far as Commissar has been able to Google, there are no reports of February casualties in this context. Therefore, Commissar will award new dacha, Hero of Soviet Union medal, and bolshoi linkage to any comrade identifying traitorous, counter-revolutionary mention of low February casualties in any mainstream MiniTruth media.
Full blackout, comrades; enemy bombers overhead! [The Politburo Diktat]
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Never Again!
There are no Dachaus in the United States. There will never be any Dachaus in the United States. If there were a Dachau, maybe outside Quincy, Illinois, I would be there now -- and so would you.
When you equate Bush to Hitler, you're wanting to dishonor the President. I don't care much about that.
What I care about is that by trivializing the issue, by using your absurd hyperbole, you dishonor the suffering and the loss suffered by the people who were victimized by the real Hitler. Your own illusory suffering at the hands of this Republican president is not only trivial, it is non-existent, and do not even think you can begin to equate the two. [Kim du Toit]
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Banning "Cop Killer" Bullets
When have you ever met a liberal that was "informed" on any issue?
There never has been any such thing as a "cop-killer" bullet. The issue is a fiction, invented for purposes of politics, not public safety. In any case, since 1986, federal law has prohibited the rare types of handgun ammunition that have unusual abilities to penetrate body armor.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reports that current ammunition laws are fully sufficient to protect the police, and that attempts to change these laws could actually lead to increased police fatalities. Notwithstanding this strong warning, some lobbyists and politicians continue to play on public misunderstanding, by using the so-called "cop-killer" issue to demand the power to ban standard rifle ammunition used for hunting.
And there you have it in a nutshell. If we won't let them get away with banning guns outright, they'll go after the ammunition, they'll go after the gun makers, anything at all to continue their agenda of disarming America. [democrats give conservatives indigestion]
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Boobie Crisis!
About My Nips
Now, most people wouldn't notice this ... [Da Goddess]
She's right! I didn't even notice! Now that you mention it I can see there is a definite problem there. Lets get her into surgery quick!
I started to imagine myself going to the store, walking through the frozen food section, poppin' a boober, and feeling all eyes upon my unlevel nubbins. Should I readjust? Ignore? Pride dictates that I at least attempt a brastrap adjustment as a means to hopefully bring about a level playing field. Homeostasis. But, wouldn't that be acknowledging to the store that I KNOW my breasts are less than perfect? (Pretend they are!) Or would my nipple oglers think that it was a flaw in the bra that caused that temporary bust unsightliness? If I ignore, my erect and obvious misalignment could cause more stares. Conceivably, I could be at fault for nasty shopping cart accidents as my fellow shoppers stare at the unnatural state of my breastesses. I don't have insurance for that.
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On the road with Her Filthiness
I told reader Jake yesterday that I was going on record and saying, "Kerry will not be the Donk nominee." I'm sure y'all understand why; he has become of caricature of of himself, and quite unelectable. But ...... [Curmudgeonly & Skeptical]
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Kerry and Vietnam The daughter of a Vietnam veteran writes:
Kerry supporters are the ones who would applaud my high school social studies teacher, a draft dodger who in 1976 banished me to the library for the duration of our Vietnam unit because I questioned his one-sided presentation of our troops as baby killers. Dare I say, these are the same people who spat on our guys back in the 1960s and disdained them in the '70s. [PoliPundit]
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"Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months." [Quotes of the Day]
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Carjacker
The real story behind photographs purportedly showing a failed carjacking attempt. [New Urban Legends]
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3/1/2004. Day By Day by Chris Muir
Good one from Chris today. CP
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Believing the "Obvious"
Well, the Oscars are over, and the local station here started showing Entertaintment Tonight immediately afterwards. One of the stories they were previewing was something to do with a new type of breast implant. I turned to my mom and mentioned that the whole silicon breast implant thing was the greatest scam ever foisted on the American public by scumbag trial lawyers. She looked at me like I was crazy, and said something along the lines of, "You can't tell me that all that... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
Some days I lose interest in reading stuff on the net and think, I'll just watch TV instead. Fat chance right? - for those that know me. Then I start surfing the blogs in my newsreader and gems like this pop out at me and I learn something that I had a snowballs chance in hell of learning about in the newspaper or on TV.
Thanks Lee! I learned something today. CP
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This is just funny
Some levity is sorely needed if you were foolish enough to waste good time watching the liberal asshats of hollyweird pat themselves on the back. This fills the bill quite nicely. [Left Coast Conservative]
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I should do this more often
Stop by Calpundit, that is. Every time I do, there is invariably something posted that gets me in the mood to write about it. Kevin scores with a twofer this time around. First, he points out that Kerry is making... [Silent Running]
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Clinton Legacy Project Update: Haiti - Aristide flees
It is not often that a ruler is forced to flee twice from his country.
Aristide was restored to power by the Clinton administration, which obviously did not take the time to make sure that democracy was fostered. One hopes that the Congressional Black Caucus, always quick to demand that the United States "do something" whenever Haitians started acting up, will decide to put their money where their mouths are and contribute in meaningful way to the rebuilding of Haiti.
President Bush authorized United States forces to participate in an international peace-keeping mission. Once again America leads the way to restoring freedom and democracy.
In a move that should surprise no one, the United Nations scheduled a debate on whether to send peacekeeping forces to Haiti. No need to hurry simply because chaos rules the land and people are dying from mob violence. No, it is far better to spend your time criticizing the United States for liberating Iraq. Once again we are remined why we should dissolve the United Nations and reconstitute it with nations that are actually committed to democracy. [Reality Hammer]
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Regime Change?
This cartoon is a repost from April 24 of last year. At the time some readers thought the cartoon was our prediction of what was going to happen in Iraq, as if we were declaring the invasion of Iraq... [Cox & Forkum]
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Teach Your Children Well
When out good friends the French aren't out beating Jews or burning synagogues they're teaching their children about America.
In January, a cartoon festival was held in the town of Carquefou, just outside of Nantes in the northwest corner of France. Students of all ages competed in a contest to illustrate their vision of the United States. They drew obese Americans... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
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Wooly Boys Paid Up
So while "Wooly Boys" hasn't yet equaled the success of "Dance With Wolves," (a movie that had a huge impact on tourism in South Dakota), its not quite the disappointment Democrats would have us believe its been. [North Dakota Blogs]
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Mars may be muddy!
Evidence that suggests Mars was once a water-rich world is mounting as scientists scrutinize data from the Mars Exploration rover, Opportunity, busily at work in a small crater at Meridiani Planum. That information may well be leading to a biological bombshell of a finding that the red planet has been, and could well be now, an extraterrestrial home for life.
There is a palpable buzz here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California that something wonderful is about to happen in the exploration of Mars
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EAT Them, Ferchrissakes!
"The bjoat mjust be bjuilt accjording to the rjegulations issued by our bjetters in de Oslo", we can almost hear the EUrocrappers intone in their fjinest Weejun.
So they continue to talk and talk and talk and talk, while tons of high-dollar seafood is marching past their doorstep, destroying everything in their path.
They'll probably end up declaring the critters an endangered species while applying for foreign aid because they've sat by and watched their fishing industry get destroyed.
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Hang in there California
With people like this helping, the budget fiqures are looking better every day.
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9-11 'God's work'
Arab will someday shout 'Allah is Great' from top of White House!
Well ain't that a kick in the pants?! After all the money we have spent in the war on terror, we find out we were after the wrong guy!
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ACE is on an XM8 Roll
I'm still not convinced that a full service conversion from the M16 to another weapon which still fires the 5.56 is worth the cost (as the round, not the rifle, is our problem at this point). If our goal is to equip our troops with CQB [close quarters battle] assault-type weapons which can spray bullets without careful aiming, this looks like a good choice. But sometimes, our soldiers need to take careful aim and accurately place a shot in a guy's chest or head. As the M4 has demonstrated, very short barrels reduce accuracy and terminal punch, as some of the powder is burning outside the barrel.
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Not Idiots
I've been reading Mona Charen's book, Useful Idiots, if tossing the book across the room in fury every dozen pages can be called "reading". One thing in particular strikes me, and forgive my stupidity -- I claim immigrant status. Charen does a fine job of identifying the American liberals and socialist /... [Kim du Toit]
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The Dodge City Scenario
When GFWs talk about concealed-carry permits leading to "Dodge City", I don't think that they'd appreciate this dose of reality:
As with Dodge City, the excitement in the Old West in general has been much overstated. All the big cattle towns of Kansas combined saw a total of 45 murders during the period of 1870-1885. Dodge City alone saw 15 people die violently from 1876–1885—an average of 1.5 per year. Deadwood, South Dakota and Tombstone, Arizona (home of the O.K. Corral), during their worst years of violence saw four and five murders respectively. Vigilante violence appears to not have been much worse. [Kim du Toit]
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....but what about the important stuff like - will they allow gay marriage now?!
Aristide Flees Haiti
HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN BERTRAND ARISTIDE has fled the country after resigning early Sunday morning, AP is reporting. A jet carrying... [Citizen Smash - The Indepundit]
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Forget "compare and contrast"; schoolchildren now learn
"text-to-text connections". They don't go to "home room" but rather
"Achievement Time" or, in some schools, "Time to Care". The temporary
classroom is now a "learning cottage" rather than a "trailer". Even the
humble essay is gone, replaced by the "extended constructed response".
"If teachers want to talk in those terms among themselves, they're
welcome to," says Vocabulary Review publisher Hartwell Fiske. "But
introducing children to them is criminal, dehumanizing." Students
agree. "It's like renaming a prison 'The Happy Fun Place'," complains a
Maryland senior. "Tests should be called tests. 'Brief constructed
response'; you just wonder why they don't say 'paragraph'." (Washington
Post) ...It's nice that kids still get to learn about George Orwell. [thisistrue.com]
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What was your first clue?
Corrine Brown is a Racist...
You know, as well as I do, that had a Republican uttered those stupid words, every left forum, blog, and newsite would be demanding resignation. It would be the crime of the century! But no, a female, non-Caucasion Democrat did and what's being said? Not a single word, that's what. Not a single thread on Democratic Underground about it. Not one. Is it suddenly okay to make a racist remark, as long as a white person isn't the one doing it? [Dizzy Girl]
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." [Quotes of the Day]
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War: What is it Good For?
Well, well, well. You remember all the wailing we heard from the left about how sanctions against the United Nations had killed 500,000 Iraqi children by starvation, denial of medicine, and denial of clean water? Well it seems that -- are you sitting down? -- that Saddam Himself was taking the oil-for-food money for himself! Yes, I know you're as stunned as I am, but it really looks like Saddam had set up quite a detailed system to pilfer all the proceeds for his own uses, none of... [Right-Thinking from the Left Coast]
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