tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79596232026-02-11T08:34:54.405-05:00A.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.comBlogger181125tag: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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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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