tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79596232011-07-15T17:19:32.175-04:00A.K.A<br /> "<a href="http://loosecoin.blogspot.com/2004/11/i-surrender.html">Maureen Dowd Picture Rolling Stone</a>"Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600484360885400035noreply@blogger.comBlogger1861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959623.post-1158669332335395282006-09-19T08:24:00.000-04:002006-09-19T08:39:48.000-04:00

The frothing, ranting, arsonous little urchins are justifiably upset by the behaviour of others, because they've been "humiliated" again. And what's the pedophile prophet's prescription for humiliation? Beheading, conquest, and plunder, of course.DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group led by al Qaeda vowed a war against the "worshippers of the cross" in response to a recent speech by Pope

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I remain confident that some day a denigrating comment will pop into the head of Howard Dean and just stay there for a change. Until then, he's mighty entertaining: Dean Calls Iraqi PM an 'Anti-Semite'“The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite,” the Democratic leader told a gathering of business leaders in Florida. “We don’t need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion bringing democracy to

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Ah, our cherished freedoms. Our rights to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of our own happiness. The right to print recklessly and irresponsibly whatever we can make a controversy over in pursuit of profit. That's America salad.If you've read another blog this week - any other blog, really - you'll already be familiar with the latest act of treason conscientious patriotism that the New

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A poignant conclusion from one of my favorite analytical writers (for the insufferably curious, the others are Mark Steyn, David Warren, and Victor Davis Hanson - Charles Krauthammer is about one or two brilliant articles from making the list).It's This BadThe newspapers confirmed what I had long perceived before I left Britain: that the zeitgeist of the country is now one of sentimental

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Despite the removal of France's youth job law, the French continue to riot.Students in France have kept up their protests against the government's youth employment reforms, but on a much smaller scale than last week.The protests came despite the government's decision to scrap the youth jobs law, or CPE, which had unleashed a wave of anger.And there we have it. Rioting is something they do "for

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You see, the problem with America's approach to dealing with terrorism is that we arrogantly refuse to try to understand the reasons for terrorism. We, in our simplistic way, fail to try to understand the things that drive people to want to kill us. Instead, we impose our own false motivations on them to try to characterize these people in a way that is convenient for us - primarily people from

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Yes, it's been a while again. So, where have I been this time? I have a good excuse! I've been doing my part to contribute to national security. Well, me and my tech specialist - the next door neighbor's kid, Carver.You see, I was thinking about this whole flap over "domestic spying" wiretaps while watching "24", and BAM! Like a Reese's peanut butter cup commercial, two great things came

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I have to admit, I've been caught flat-footed. Not only has a relatively unknown Democrat picked up a good idea and run with it, but she's actually improved on it in the process! Although Bill Engvall's idea did call for her to be wearing it, any implementation at all is good enough for me - kudos to Debbie Stabenow! It's refreshing just to see "Democrat" and "idea" in the same sentence

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I like to think that I've got a robust sense of humor, but I guess maybe I'm actually humor-impaired.According to court documents field Wednesday in Alabama, Russell Lee DeBusk Jr, 19, Benjamin Nathan Moseley, 19 and Mathew Lee Cloyd, 20, say they set five small, isolated churches about 50 miles southwest of their Birmingham homes ablaze Feb. 3 as a joke after a night of deer hunting and

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A visit to Jane's blog is always a worthwhile experience. It's unabashedly Yemenocentric, which isn't a bad thing, but outside of its influence in international Islamofascist terrorism, Yemen itself just doesn't hold much interest for me. What is interesting to me are the insights into the workings of the social institutions of a completely alien society, and every so often the discovery of an

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I've heard the select bits and pieces of the Jay Bennish rant that fall through the media filter, as you probably have too. Michelle's posted the entire transcript of the tirade, though - and all I can say is wow. I had no idea how much more there is to geography today - state of the union speeches had nothing to do with it when I was a kid. My favorite bit has to be the part where he confuses

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Continuing on the last post, today. I didn't mean to, but I found that I'd really added insufficient commentary when I wrote a reply that just kept growing to the following comment from Andy:Have not, under the power of “eminent domain”, the local, state and federal governments been “taking” and (under)paying citizens for land for many, many years?I think that it has only come into the public

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Given all the controversy stirred up by Kelo v. New London last year, you might think that the MSM would be working overtime to outrage the general public with anything resembling a new eminent domain scandal, wouldn't you? Well, you would if you assumed they were more interested in selling copy than selling an agenda. That, however, doesn't seem to be the case - this story's remained a local

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Some time ago at No-Pasaran, I came across this somewhat narrative piece on Tom Wolfe at The Guardian. It's what I'd call a "cup of coffee read", but for anyone whose thinking the writing of Tom Wolfe ever played even a minor role in, it's a must-read."I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by East-coast pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever

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Have I got a deal for Harry Belafonte! He won't get one better in the 21st century. Lemme pitch it: Harry, if you'll just stop trying to think, I'll stop trying to sing Calypso. Sound complicated? Not so! Steel drums will not coax one more syllable from me - not Limbo Rock, not Angelina, not even the Banana Boat Song, if for your part, whenever 12 random neurons fire you'll just keep mum.

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So, what's happened of note lately? Well, of course there's the bin Laden tape. Its appearance confirms that an unsettling proportion of my countrymen don't yet seem to have twigged to the fact that he's only a head of the hydra; they're still fixated on him as if he's the end game in the entire war on terror. Sure, it'd be great to take him down, but it isn't going to solve anything - and if we

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The fusion of Howard Dean meltdown and classic Loony Toons that I entitled "Howard 'The Duck' Dean - I Have a Scream", formerly hosted by Gordon of the now-defunct Cranky Neocon (now of Six Meat Buffet), was left hostless in the lurch. I revealed this to Jeremy of the dormant American Warmonger, who proceded to light a match under me to get new hosting for it. Noting that I was flame retardant,

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The erosion of — alternately — "online privacy", "your digital rights", and "the Internet" has been an increasingly recurring theme in writings both technical and political for a few years now. These pieces generally range from reasonable, good-faith doubts about developments in the pol-tech world to worst-case assumptions (like my WGIG reservations) to outright conspiracy lunacy. There's an

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An anonymous reader points out that it wasn't just the Veteran's Day post that I was late with. It's true; two weeks ago, I had a trade show to do, so I figured I had a valid excuse to skip it. Last week, I didn't really have an excuse, but figured that I could make something up in a pinch to rationalize my laziness if I had to. However, this would be the third week in a row, and although I've

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Although I'm late to blog it, I did take time to remember the sacrifices of generations past and present on the anniversary that we celebrate as Veteran's Day. Fortunately, the ever-reliable blogosphere widely recognized our vets in a more timely fashion, but I had to get one more post in anyway. I hope that I can be forgiven for marking the occasion with a few words from a Canadian which always

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To the United States Marine Corp:For 230 years, you've stood as the guarantor of every promise our country has made, be it to our fellow citizens or to people around the world. Thank you for the humbling job that you do, and I wish you another year of success.

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Ok, so it's kinda looking like this "forced transition back to regular blogging" is a miserable failure... to the unschooled observer. Those of you who are of a more nuanced and reasoned holy oxymorons catman bent of mind will recognize that sure, while it may look like I'm not accomplishing a darned thing on the outside, I'm just busting with blogging goodness on the inside. For instance, take

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OK, so I made it from Friday to Friday without writing a thing. I almost wrote a lengthy piece about the u.n.'s Working Group on Internet Governance (why such silence in the blogosphere on this? Wake the hell up!), and I nearly wrote a little bit about developments in the Oil For Fraud program's French connection (John F. Opie's got you covered), and very nearly chimed in with a quip or two

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So I've been jonesing to start blogging on at least a semi-regular basis for weeks now, but there's this thing called "life" that I need to deal with, which has these things called "bills" that I'm not paying, and I keep thinking that as long as that's the case, I really have no business frittering my time away blogging.Or do I?In the most recent few weeks, I've been thinking that maybe - just

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Preston Taylor Holmes of Six Meat Buffet thinks the recent suicide bomber in Oklahoma City looks like Tom Hanks with a dollop of Abe Lincoln thrown in. For my money, it's Doogie Howser and Screech Powers.

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I've been looking for a phrase to describe The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy while avoilding the words 'disappointingly' and 'uninspired', or making reference to the ego it was clearly intended to indulge instead of rendering the story. I think I've got it:You had some of the most brilliant material ever written to work with, you jackasses.

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The New York Times revealed its sharply conservative slant yesterday when it unveiled TimesSelect, a bold new strategy to effectively restrict its op-ed readership to people with some sort of job. While the economic barrier is anticipated to help stem an embarassing tide of demogoguery from the Times' pages, reducing readership alone may not be sufficient. There is also speculation that the move

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Via E-nough! (with a hat tip to Pave France) -A man stripped in the French Senate, revealing the word "non" written on his chest, a show of opposition Thursday to the European Union constitution.The man was unharmed after jumping several feet from the public gallery onto the Senate floor, officials at the upper house of parliament said. He was carried away, waving his fists, by security. He was

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Fast on the heels of the announcement of the general election, the BBCBS news uncovers this shocking document.

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My God, has it been that long since I was posting regularly? I guess it has. No, I'm not back to posting regularly, or even irregularly, but I do have a little something that just needs to be shared.Following Howard Dean's "I Have a Scream" speech after the Iowa caucus, I developed this nagging... thing in my head. You see, that rousing little rant had managed to form an association with a much

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Ivory Coast accuses France of shooting civilians The Government of the Ivory Coast is planning to take legal action against French troops accused of shooting civilians. The Ivorian Government is taking its case to the International Court of Justice. Ivory Coast accused French troops of killing up to 60 people during an anti-French demonstration in the commercial capital, Abidjan, last week.

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We have confirmation; Rice for Secretary of State. WASHINGTON -- President Bush today nominated national security advisor Condoleezza Rice as his secretary of State, to replace Colin L. Powell as "America's face to the world." In Rice, the world will "see the strength, the grace and the decency of our country." Bush said. Ok, I don't dispute that Dr. Rice is absolutely brilliant, that her

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It's a country whose products are known and respected, whose engineering is renowned; from electronics to machinery to component and consumer goods its economic landscape features world industry leaders. Germany is one of the world's greatest exporters; just a couple years ago, it surpassed the USA for the first time. With a highly educated work force and the largest economy in the eurozone, on

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Normalizing sexual harassment is an important transitional step in preparing that most august international body, the United Nations, to have a chair shined by the gluteus maximus of B.J. Clinton. For an organization more associated with legitimizing thuggery and robbery however, it may take more than that. Kofi's going the extra mile. MOVIE beauty Nicole Kidman is to be named Citizen of the

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Tim Robbins will invade an oil rig.

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France urges creation of Palestinian state Well, there it is; proof that France is still relevant. A Palestinian state - who ever would have thought of it, if not for France? France's foreign minister said Saturday an independent Palestinian state should be created as soon as possible - even with "temporary" borders - and called on the United States and Europe to work urgently toward brokering

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Via E-nough - French consider naming streets after Arafat Several French municipalities governed by communist and left-wing majorities are considering naming a street or a square after Yasser Arafat. The French police intelligence service, Renseignements Generaux, reportedly warned the Ministry of Interior that such initiatives might trigger heated polemics and tensions between Jews and

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United Nations Establishes Working Group on Internet Governance Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the members of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance, which is to prepare the ground for a decision on this contentious issue by the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2005. I'll not mince words - the last thing that I want the United Nations

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Get over it The simple fact is that John Kerry lost his bid to turn the United States of America into a socialist country. It has only been a little over one week since President Bush successfully and soundly beat John Kerry in one of the hardest fought presidential elections in United States history. Even though President Bush beat Kerry by an amazing 52 to 47 percent and by more than 2

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Jane has written of the new perspective that she - and hopefully many Americans - has found regarding the Vietnam war and the events surrounding it. Anything more that I say about it will only delay you from reading it, which you should do.

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9th Circuit: Cow Palace wrongly limits protesters' speech Yes, Cow Palace. No, it's not a burger place. An animal-rights activist brought the case, saying small "free-expression zones" set hundreds of feet from the entrance stymied him and others from protesting circuses and rodeos. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. We let you people breathe, don't

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Election posts are so last week, but I was catching up on Iraq The Model and couldn't pass this by. Omar translated this letter, which he says had collected over 1,000 signatures in about a day. In the name of God, Sir, President George W Bush, President of the United States of America. On behalf of the families of the victims of the mass graves, on behalf of the martyrs of “Halabja” and “

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Between a combination of time constraints and technical problems, I haven't posted in a week. I really wanted to get the Veteran's Day post up though, so I kept intermittently trying until Blogger gave back something besides a server error and finally got it up. Then, since I was taking a time out anyway, I decided to check the referrer log to see just how anemic traffic has been in the absence

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You know who you are. You landed at Normandy, fought across Pacific Islands, and kept South Korea independant. You held the line at the Fulda gap, and kept the balance from Vietnam to Grenada. You lost comrades in Beirut, Somalia, and off the coast of Yemen, but did not lose heart. You took back Kuwait, toppled the Taliban and Saddam. You fly the planes, drive the trucks, operate the ships,

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Annan asked to clarify harassment ruling "Because I feel that it is of importance to set this precedent." Wait, no, that was the voice in my head. Sorry. New York, NY, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The United States is reported to have asked U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan why he overruled claims of sexual harassment against a senior staff member. An American woman alleged Ruud Lubbers, the high

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At 11:49 am EST, a member of the White House press corp informed the President that Yasser Arafat is dead. No confirmation yet. First step to Pali/Israeli peace? Update: Only a couple sources maintain that Arafat is dead; most say that he's brain-dead. If his condition is improving, why didn't they just say so?

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U.S. Allies Welcome Bush Re-Election In Europe, French President Jacques Chirac sent a congratulatory letter saying he hoped Bush's second term "will be the occasion for strengthening the French-American friendship." "We will be unable to find satisfying responses to the numerous challenges that confront us today without a close trans-Atlantic partnership," wrote Chirac. Correct, Jack - you

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Kerry's Vision Not Clear, Analysts Say Those analysts - they're pretty quick on the uptake, huh? BOSTON — Sen. John F. Kerry had nearly all the ingredients to mount a successful challenge to President Bush: a tepid economy, an unpopular war plagued by setbacks, and a fiercely motivated Democratic base. But, in the end, political analysts and party strategists agree that the Massachusetts

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Kerry Concedes, Says He Hopes Healing Can Begin Of course, what he means is that it's time to start licking his self-inflicted wounds. "We had a good conversation, we talked about the danger of division in our country and the need, the desperate need for unity, for finding the common ground, coming together. Today I hope that we can begin the healing," Kerry told supporters in historic Faneuil

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Daschle Pledges to Keep Working for S.D. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, denied a fourth term by South Dakota voters, pledged Wednesday to continue working to solve the state's problems. You're a fiend, Daschle. Just when the state thought they had fixed their problems...

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This image (stolen without shame from Alpha Patriot) speaks volumes. The text might help some people, though.

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Or Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin It's not over 'till the fat lawyers sing, but they're warming up right now. No one's willing to declare a winner yet; CNN and C-Span both stand at 254-252 with Ohio, New Mexico, and Iowa uncalled, while Fox has the race fixed at 269-242, with New Mexico, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Delaware in the balance. By all appearances however, the

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GOP Vehicles Vandalized In Milwaukee MILWAUKEE -- Election Day got off to an ugly start at a parking lot on Milwaukee's northwest side. Someone slashed the tires on 30 vehicles that were designated for the local Bush/Cheney campaign. "We showed up this morning, and it appears the tires were slashed on the vehicles we were going to transport our people to the polls to conduct our poll watching

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GOP Complains About School Voting Over Alleged Ice Cream Bribe LUFKIN, Texas -- Lufkin-area Republicans are complaining about voting by residents from the local state school for the mentally disabled. The Lufkin Daily News reports the Angelina County GOP headquarters was told that Lufkin State School employees bribed students with ice cream. And what does the Boss Tweed of Lufkin State School

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The early bird catches a break in the poll lines - get up, get out, and do your thing. Red state, blue state, battleground - I don't care where you live, just go vote. Just on the off chance that you're one of those elusive undecideds and are just now scratching through the blogsphere for the last little item to make up your mind, let me throw my two cents in. I haven't bothered making any

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A different election projection - LANDOVER, Md. (AP) - Since 1936, the outcome of the Redskins' last home game before the election has correctly predicted the winner of the election. Sillyness, right? Snopes says no. Last home gameResultRace WinnerNov. 1, 1936Won vs. CardinalsIncumbent (Roosevelt)Nov. 3, 1940Won vs. PiratesIncumbent (Roosevelt)Nov. 5, 1944Won vs. RamsIncumbent (Rosevelt)Oct.

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It's just bizarre the way that this has happened to our country. I mean, who can tell what reasons there may be for it? It certainly isn't a fire stoked by truckloads of moonbat rhetoric, no sir! Not in any way. That's a very partisan conclusion, because if anything like that is happening, it's happening on both sides. That's right! There's no way one side of the spectrum could be more guilty

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Deborah at Pajama Journal points out this transcript of a Kerry interview by NBC. Brokaw: This week you've been very critical of the president because of the missing explosives in Iraq. The fact is, senator, we still don't know what happened to those explosives. How many for sure that were there. Who might have gotten away with them? Is it unfair to the president, just as you believe he's been

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A new link appeared appeared in ye olde blogroll a few days ago to a new blog called The Left Right Debate. Long story short, lefties and righties post on the same page with the hope of lefty and righty commenters hashing out the issues in non-echo chamber surroundings. The paint's hardly dry, and it's already looking interesting. I've been invited to sully the pages of that blog by

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For days now, I've been getting dozens of search hits on various permutations of "Maureen Dowd Rolling Stone picture" (a consequence of this post), primarily from Yahoo and MSN. Bizarrely, both engines' top result for this search turns up a Rolling Stone interview with Bruce Springstein. Honestly, I had no idea that it was that difficult (or desirable) to find, but since an awful lot of people

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Media Fund, the latest pet of Harold Ickes, is a 527 attack vehicle which has run 17 negative ads against Bush since March according to OpenSecrets.org, though their combined web sites offer quite a few more than that. Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore (link to the ad) This anti-Bush radio ad is among the worst distortions we've seen in what has become a very ugly campaign. It

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I could swear that I just heard Kerry say that "I'll show you what love is like for the next four years". I won't sleep well.

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Watching John Kerry, I've realized how very simple it is to run for president. I like simple things, and I'd like to be The Leader of the Free World™, so it is my pride and honor to announce my candidacy for the 2004 presidential election. Sorry I missed the debates, but here's my pitch. Half of the lifetime of our sun is gone - squandered - and this arrogant administration has done nothing to

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The stupidest issue of the 2004 presidential race is... 380 tons of explosives! It isn't that it isn't a newsworthy story; it is. They were U.N.-tagged materials, they can be used to trigger nukes, and there's speculation that the pre-war Russian convoy was spiriting them away which, if true, has very newsworthy implications. Iraq is a situation that explosives have been playing a large role in,

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There's a reason that it's not the hottest thing in Pajamistan. Damn you, John Edwards; damn you from the pit of my lower intestine.

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It's got to be Suha Arafat. Not only has she not seen Yassir since 2001, not only is he in precarious health, not only has he siphoned millions of dollars of Palestinian funds into what is poised to be her retirement account, but there's even a chance that he's not going to join her in Paris. She just can't stop winning. Deborah Sontag delivers a unique mental image that's sure to delight me

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Europe's struggle to define itself in recent years has moved me to lend a hand. SARDONIC sâr'dânik adj. Lack of European experts has held up the excavation of mass graves in Iraq, according to an American human rights lawyer working on the investigation. Greg Kehoe said the experts were not joining in because evidence might be used to sentence Saddam Hussein to death. Europe: useless to the

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Via E-nough - HowWouldTheyVote.org

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Via Armies of Liberation - Kerry's stances on Cuba open to attack ''I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world,'' Kerry told WPLG-ABC 10 reporter Michael Putney in an interview to be aired at 11:30 this morning. Then, reaching back eight years to one of the more significant efforts to toughen sanctions

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How does a governing body like the European Commission assess whether it's able to do what people want? Eurosoc points out that it pays someone to tell it that it needs more powers (and more money to pay for such studies). So, can I hire someone to determine that I need a raise?

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Via Pajama Journal - Discovered papers: Hanoi directed Kerry The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily. One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later

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Kerry slams Bush over missing Iraq explosives "George W. Bush, who talks tough, talks tough, and brags about making America safer has once again failed to deliver," Kerry said. "After being warned about the danger of major stockpiles of explosives in Iraq this president failed to guard those stockpiles,” he said. “Terrorists could use this material to kill our troops, our people, blow up

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Kerry Flubs Bosox Score, Again "Ten-9, the Sox did fabulous," Kerry said with a big smile as he ducked into church Sunday morning in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Inside, the minister had asked worshippers to clap "if the Lord has done anything wonderful in your life this week," and Kerry applauded. "Coming from Boston, I had a special reason to clap," Kerry explained to the congregation when he took

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Bill at INDC Journal picks out the salient point of the latest Kerry fabrication. Kerry manufactured meetings out of whole cloth and then presented them as justification for a serious contradiction of George Bush's decision to go to war. He did something very similar when he previously recited a false story on the Senate floor about an illegal mission into Cambodia, using it as a basis

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The Washington Post's 2004 Best Blogs Politics & Elections Readers' Choice Awards results are finally in - is anyone surprised? Best Rant - National Review - The CornerBest Campaign Dirt - National Review - Kerry SpotBest Democratic Party Coverage - National Review - The CornerBest Republican Party Coverage - National Review - The CornerClass Clown - ScrappleFaceMost Likely to Last Beyond

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Will Thomson, a producer for WBUR radio in Boston, hit my inbox with a little something for the "undecided" in your life - an interesting issue-based poll. Select as many candidates as you like for review, and the questions that follow give you blind agree/disagree choices on 20 issues. The ADD-afflicted can even quit early and see the results. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know,

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Via E-nough - the documentary Stolen Honor is now available for free download (12.3 MB; 42 min; Windows Media; magnet link*) or viewing. It's far from DVD-quality - I'd still encourage you to buy a copy - but it's more than good enough to get its message across. Conservatives may get smug satisfaction out of it (ok, they will), but it's liberals that I'd most encourage to have a look. In

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Alaa at The Messopotamian points out the relative silence surrounding the election in Afghanistan, and the things that it should signify - Now those who have eyes can see, but the blindness of the heart is blacker than the blindness of the eye. And all those who shed crocodile tears over the “invasion” of an Islamic land, and raised such a din of noise about the injustice perpetrated against “

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Via The BUFFALOg - Longest. Headline. Ever. Kerry's FBI files reveal comments from Buffalo chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War Most of us know that John Kerry was one of the leaders of the group "Vietnam Veterans Against the War" back in the early 1970's. Little known though is how the Buffalo chapter of the group felt about Kerry. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Channel 2 News

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Ann Coulter drives liberals into a berzerker rage by equating them to terrorists - they can't figure out why she would. "Al Pieda" Targets Ann Coulter OCTOBER 22--Meet "Al Pieda" disciples Phillip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolff. The Tucson men, both 24, were arrested last night after throwing custard cream pies at author Ann Coulter during her speech at the University of Arizona.

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Remind me again why the U.S. arrogantly refuses to get entangled in goofy international court schemes? EU backs German laser game ban THE European Union's top court has backed a German ban on laser-tag games in which players simulate killing each other in a maze. "The affront to human dignity posed by that activity justifies a restriction on the freedom to provide services," the European Court

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Iraqi bloggers have been putting forward their thoughts on the upcoming presidential election here in the US for some time now, mostly in favor of Bush (although that support is not entirely unconditional). However, the tinfoil-clad among us are wont to explain that the Iraqi bloggers, with the exception of Riverbend, are CIA propaganda plants and not actual Iraqis. The brothers at Iraq The

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David alerts us that Spiegel is once again hosting polls; naturally, this calls for a drive to get out the vote. The polls are here - the first is "who do you want for president", the second is "who do you think will win". Make your selection, and click "abstimmen" (you must vote on each separately). Will this be a repeat of the ZDF incidents (one and two)? We'll have to see how it pans out.

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Fidel Castro appears poised for a career change, jockeying for recognition as the new Rich Little with the most credible impersonation of Gerald Ford since Chevy Chase. Break a leg, Fidel! Oh, you did... nevermind.

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I experienced a blast from the past today - a visit to the journalism of Rolling Stone Magazine. Many were the afternoons that a younger self spent in the bedroom or apartment of an aquaintance picking over one story or another in Rolling Stone magazine, for no better reason than it was cool to do so. I can't even recall a single one of the articles; dozens and dozens of issues, and not one

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Trudeaupia reminds us why we have a second amendment - so that we can do this.

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Mrs. Heinz Kerry seems to have graced us with another precious glimpse into the "inner Kerry", letting slip her husband's January surprise during an interview with USA Today - Q: You'd be different from Laura Bush? A: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since

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In a bid to establish equivalency, nearly every news media outlet has been telling us for the last week or so that "both sides are ratcheting up the rhetoric" in the final stretch of this electoral campaign. I've disagreed, being of the opinion that Bush is just stumping more often, but saying pretty much what he's been saying all along, and that the Kerry camp is the only one really getting

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Via Erik from No Pasaran! - Weapons cache stuns Canucks Canadian soldiers attached to the Afghan National Army (ANA) have stirred up a hornet's nest in Kabul by being too efficient. They've "discovered" a huge Soviet ammunition dump a few kilometres from Camp Julien with the potential of obliterating the camp, as well as most of Kabul. That may sound like hyperbole, but I was with the

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While I generally have no argument with the practice of product placement, it should go without saying that there are some places that products just should not be placed. "Target marketing" takes on a whole new meaning in the first-ever viral marketing use of an interactive urinal communicator in America. The deodorizing urinal drain filter cover -- featuring a waterproof anti-glare lenticular

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Putin: Terror attacks aimed at Bush DUSHANBE, Tajikistan -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that terrorists are aiming to derail U.S. President George W. Bush's chances at re-election through their attacks in Iraq. "I consider the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at coalition forces but more personally against President Bush," Putin said at a news conference

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And where else would it be suppressed but on the left? George Soros sends his exchange with Ray D. of Medienkritik down the memory hole. Update: A vague and mysterious "technical error" was responsible for selecting Ray's e-mail for deletion (or "falling off" the blog). Really. You can believe it, because George says so.

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Does The Guardian's invitation to the uninformed, drooling, socialist Eurotwinks who comprise their readership to pester swing state voters summon as much bile to your gorge as it does mine? (Via Cranky Neocon) Tim Blair offers up Operation Guardian, which is a perfectly reasonable response. If foreign nationals have a right to badger US voters because US elections affect their countries, then

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After all the time, effort, and money that's gone into Kerry's campaign, he still can't pull the wool over an eight-year-old's eyes. She didn't buy it then, she's still not buyin' it now.

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Jane has a great example of the sort of opinion that would be far more rare today if we still relied on the media that we had until the early 90's or so. What would we all think of our troops and Afghanistan if we had only the Big Three, newspapers, and the water cooler? How is it poor Afghans are today richer than many of their neighbors? How is it that today Afghanistan is suddenly one of the

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I just caught Kofi Annan making a statement on Cotecna. Is it just me, or can you too gauge how objectionable a matter he is addressing by how softly he speaks when addressing it?

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Impressions; Kerry looked good on style, Bush seemed tense and often appeared defensive, both candidates got in some solid blows on substance. Speaking of "blows", Bob Schieffer was the worst moderator of the debate series. I'll include every single question in this post (and address it to some extent) - see if I'm fibbin'. Bush looked better on domestic substance than I really expected, what

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Much hullaballoo has arisen from President Bush's refusal to provide an exhaustive discourse of his failure to stop beating his wife any mistakes he believes he has made, and during a presidential campaign in which he aspires to re-election no less. Arrogant indeed. In the event that CBS' Bob Schieffer has not yet settled on his questions for tonight's debate, I'd like to offer up some

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Just a reminder - you are expected to attend the live debate chat being hosted by the Commissar at Politburo Diktat tonight, and the party will countenance no excuses. The imperialist tool Internet Explorer is recommended; bolshevist collaborations like Firefox may not work well. The Commissar also promises liveblogging to each according to their need.

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For the domestic debate, I'm really making an effort to be less partisan. But no promises.

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