tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80883292011-07-28T21:15:23.577-04:00Dustynoreply@blogger.comBlogger8091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088329.post-1167169272810817472006-12-26T16:29:00.000-05:002006-12-26T21:01:53.103-05:00

... Lohachara and Bedford Islands: Then (1945+/-) and Now (Google Earth 12/06)After reading Tim Blair's post, at timblair.net, of the misleading story published by the Independent about the global warmening disappearance of Lohachara (and Beford) Islands, I went looking for maps.This picture below is a composite, flattened *.jpg of a *.psd consisting of US Army Map Service maps, Layers 1 and 2,

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...but I really think that this video posted (left hand column, second down) on the Hamas website (Arabic verison only; it certainly isn't easily found on the English version of the website, at least I didn't find it) and prepared by the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' terrorist department, should be considered a declaration of war by Hamas against the United States. (ht: Captain's Quarters)Mr.

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Times two.In the latter, he suggests Rumsfeld is no different, in his opinion, than Zarqawi. Then he puts on his moral supremicist hat to declare he is concerned our moral standing is in the gutter because he says so, reciprocity was the sole reason for the decisions for interrogation methods made early on in the war, and asserts that there's some cycle of barbarity being ridden in this war.

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Tim Blair has been all over TruthOut about Jason Leopold's leading of the news cycle with his futuristic "Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators" story that wasn't. Blair asks "What is that about?"I think TruthOut left out an ellipsis on that statement; maybe it was one of those fill in the blanks that accidently got edited out instead of filled in. I am pretty sure

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Via Hot Air (and several other sites) comes this story of how the Brits are giving civics lessons to immigrants using a teaching pack called "9/11: The Main Chance". It appears as though it is another typical lefty appeasement, multicultural understanding approach to ending British civilization as we knew it. That's certainly one perspective and, outwardly, it does appear to be the case. But

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... Irwan Firdaus opens takes a shot at analysis and removes all doubt of his stupidity. (ht: LGF) In this report on Indonesian terrorist, faux cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, Firdaus relates two claims by Bashir and then qualifies them:Bashir, who has never been linked to the execution, preparation or commission of terrorist attacks, was asked Thursday about families still suffering from the Bali

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Via Tim Blair, Al and Tipper Gore claim they are now carbon neutral:Tipper and I have switched to hybrid cars, installed clock thermostats, switched to compact fluorescent light bulbs, and we became carbon-neutral two years ago. That means after you reduce the greenhouse gas emissions as much as you can, you purchase offsets by reducing carbon dioxide elsewhere in the world.And we're supposed to

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is another man's news organization terrorist's brown nose. I wonder if the 72 virgins are the attraction for Pinch and the boys. (ht: Cliff May @ The Corner)May notes that "despair" is the go-to word right now. It is good that despair is being put out there for the terrorists to know what it is like to become one. Despair is good state of mind for a terrorist. We need more of it. All

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... How Alberto was blown out of proportion.We were over at a friend's visiting who happens to have cable (we don't) and I caught Fox's Greta anchor the news from a Florida beach in her yellow raincoat and waiting, waiting, waiting ... I flipped to MSNBC and CNN to check if they were also experiencing Katrina Tremens and it was only a little less chronic, but every one, like the new stories I

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Woohoo!First reports are flying across the TV that ZArqawi has been killed with his spiritual advisor. I caught the tail end of the report but it appears he was killed in a car bombing. Listening. and will update.There has been nothing on the main Internet news organizations via google, yahoo, etc. Fox News, Washington Post and the NY Times have nothing either.Update: (3:49 AM) Well, the wire

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I stopped by LGF yesterday morning shortly after his "Progressives" Supporting Troops Again story was posted. I jumped on Google and it took me 10 seconds to realize Jessie (aka Jesse) Macbeth would be debunked as a fraud and start to erase his present existence before I find a single thing of import to lay against him; I am not the guy spot a phony warrior. I closed up the google window and

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Hot Air related a post out of South Africa, some business fool in South Africa put up a billboard advertisement for the Daimler-Chrysler SMART car with the blurb "German engineering, Swiss innovation, American nothing".I think the greater outrage would have been if Daimler-Chrysler had not made it clear that there was no American contribution to this runt of a beast. My god, if this isn't an

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... on all but two counts. It seems right that one can't be found guilty of plagarizing your sock-puppet.It's the first I've seen of this and Eugene Volokh has three posts up on this already (in order). The Committee's report can be found here.

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Never use a news report as back up to your awareness, especially before the news organization has a chance to correct their report (or you rummage around to check the source that they don't provide a link to.)Andrew Sullivan caught site of a WaPo story on demographic stats put out by the Census Bureau and posted on what he thought was a remarkable part, passingly highlighted in the story. (ht:

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It's high time the Iraq government moved forward in meting out justice to the terrorists captured:Iraqi authorities yesterday hanged 13 insurgents, marking the first time militants have been executed in the country since Saddam Hussein was ousted. [...]"The competent authorities have today carried out the death sentences of 13 terrorists," a Cabinet statement said.The announcement listed the name

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Confederate Yankee posts on a fantastic idea that might be sunk without Congressional approval to give scrapyard bound ships to The Salvation Army for refitting as disaster response vessels which can then be operated by the Coast Guard Auxiliary.Now that's an earmark I'll support.

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Tim Blair posts on a violent hostage taking that took place in Washington DC in 1977. Muslims were protesting to prevent the showing of a movie called "Mohammad, Messenger of God". Go read it.To tell the truth, I don't remember those events at all and that was because I was in college, not paying attention to anything outside that little world. But now I will.

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Walid Phares has a very nice analysis of the controversy over at The Counterterrorism Blog.

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Instapundit posts on BoingBoing being banned in some Middle Eastern countries. I saw elsewhere that Michelle Malkin is banned in the UAE, by the way.But there are work-arounds for that and I was surprised at the variety of suggestions and methods below the "Read More" on Glenn's post (for those who can't read them at BoingBoing). Seems like another Army of Davids to me.Also seems like the rope

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Iraq The Model has a very interesting analysis of the political events in the aftermath of the Askari Mosque bombing.ITM spoke of the nattily dressed "men in black" only in passing and they aren't central to what is discussed, but I read another post, I forget where at the moment, about them. I had never heard about them before, which makes me think this event is even more unique and, as such,

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LGF points to a United For Peace and Justice events announcement called "Storm the White House" a multi-day event which advocates: "The Administration is Criminal and if they will not step down, we must storm in, show them how many of us do not accept a criminal government," not to mention that there are soliciting the aid of foreign governments and espousing what certianly sounds like the

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Bill C at BrainDroppings reports that ABC has evidence, in the form of secret audiotapes, of Saddam discussing ways of attacking the US with Weapons of Mass Destruction.Bill expects the moonbats to go loco. I have a few other questions:Will anyone in White House Press Club Corps grill Scott McClellan or any member of any Intelligence Agency about why they haven't divulged this for over 'XX'

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Rantingprofs reports on what NYT's reporter Carlotts Gall can't see in her reporting. Cori's points do seem rather obvious.

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Damn, you have to be fast in the blogosphere when opinion column intos are supremely vulnerable to rewrites:There is a temptation that seeps into the souls of even the most righteous politicians journalists and leads them to bend the rules, and eventually the truth, to suit the political needs of the moment. That arrogance of power is on display with the Bush administration American mainstream

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Rezwan provides an inside look at how one protest over the Mohammed Cartoons was organized in Bangladesh. He alludes to this being a quite common method for seeing Friday protests.I was surprised to see a few things. One, that the Imam curtailed the usual prayer ritual in preference to starting the protest march. Two, that the Imam declared attendance of the protest was compulsory. Three, the

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No Pasaran again. I can't tell if he is ecstatic or outraged! Could he be both?Well, you decide. Here's Muslim Rave Party Sensation.

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... he shot my prediction all to hell. (Reg req'd. for first link.)I watched the some of the falderal from the White House Press Club Corps via the various broadcast news shows. ABC made the greatest effort to portray the grilling reporters gave Scott McClellan as serious inquiries by professional journalists. (Here's an ABC written report by Patricia Wilson.)Even that effort could not camoflage

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No Pasaran has the link.I have to say that that post by the Transatlantic Intelligencer makes me sad. I'll have to go off now and work up a post on why I say that. As is usual, that takes me a while. I wish I had more time because I really should be doing other things.

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... for the Renaissance.Eugene Volokh brings the story about a cartoon in an Akron newspaper to the top pages of the blogosphere.It's sad to see a community being challenged and so many in the community failing the challenge. No, not the failure of an Akron newspaper to resist the temptation of imparting information regarding world events, or even national or local ones, if it requires stepping

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The Jawa Report presents to you two clowns with their schtick.Ya gotta love the way reporters make fools of themselves in print nowadays. Watch for the White House Press Club Corps to try to corner Scott McClellan at the next briefing and shellac him with the evidence.Oh, darn, Helen Thomas has retired. It would have been perfect for her.

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Two French-style Protest Warriors exercising their free speech rights as 4,000 Muslim's march by protesting Mohammed cartoons. At least, I think they were protesting Mohamed Cartoons. No Parasan has the story and video. That's cool. Crazy, but cool.Support Free Speech. Buy Danish.

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The Middle East Times delivers to it's readers what has to be the most contrived "Cartoon War" Timeline:"The chain of events:Sept 30: Jyllands Posten publishes 12 drawings of the prophet. Several of them associate Islam with terrorism and suicide bombings. One shows Mohammed wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb with a burning fuse.October: First street protests over the images in Denmark.

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I've put up the Muhammed cartoons in pop-up windows, both the twelve Mohammed caricatures published by the Jyllands-Posten and the three fake Muhammad cartoons added to the information distributed by the group that traveled to Muslim countries to help foment the outrage seen these past weeks, on separate pages in the right side bar pull down menu under "The Cartoon War". Click on either title

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Michelle Malkin makes note of Islamic Rule #23,698: No Valentine's Day Cards.I wonder if the Indian police would think of using the same approach -- "Hey, let's cordon off the area and wait for them to go home!" -- with a bunch of anarchists who had rushed a police station, trashed it and took all their reports out in the street to burn them?I certainly won't hold my breath while thinking AP

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Chap points to "A Long War" by Neptunus Lex and has some comments. I haven't had the chance to more than scan them but NL has frequently had good articles and when Chap adds thoughts they are good. So I suggest both of them now. I'll see if I have anything to add after reading them fully.

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Per LGF, the EU is considering a media code of conduct in order to avoid having to deal with the annoying problem of people calling for the heads of members of the press when they slight Islam. Reuters duly communicates this bright idea:LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union may try to draw up a media code of conduct to avoid a repeat of the furor caused by the publication across Europe of

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... among Germany's dinosaurs. Thomas Leif calls bloggers "Narcissistic Egocentrists." (In German -- Babelfish is here.Davids Medienkritik's critique (a partial translation is provided) makes it look as though Der Speigel is publishing a self-criticism using Leif's complaints about bloggers. As I noted in his comments, my one satisfaction in Leif's interview is that I've finally been accused of

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DF when he's subtle.

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If you've read Anne Applebaum's Op-Ed in the Washington Post on the Cartoon War, you really have to Powerline's and the Captain's criticism. It does leave her help in framing the events in the dustbin.This from Captain Ed, makes her whole comparison of the current controversy with the controversy ensuing from Newsweek's Koran story awfully useless:Perhaps Applebaum has hung around American

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The Dissident Frogman is mocking an Iranian newpaper's Draw the Holocaust Contest. Hamshahri News announced the contest to test the West's committment to free speech by requesting submissions (that's a pun) for cartoons about the Holocaust and will publish the twelve best of the lot.Well, if you want to help them out, here's where to send them:(Click to enlarge)Pick one. Pick anyone. I'm sure

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There is a reason why people have gone so far as to caricature Mohammed. It's not, in general, because they hate Mohammed. It's because they are resorting to extreme means to point out the extremism infecting the Islam. This is how many see Islam and that is the direct result of Muslims allowing the extremists within their religious community to define Islam as extremist, so extreme that

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As No Pasaran pealed patriotism off the butt of a cowardly Billy Zane, Dissident Frogman was stitching together some really cool 'Support Denmark' graphics to accompany his mockery of the Religion of Peace.My favorites:Buy Danish!

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In typical No Parasan flair, Joe N. slashes his way through the barbarian camp like a red hot scimitar through Arla butter. Add a notch for Billy Zane.

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Patrick Henry's "It's in the Koran".(ht: Mark Humphrys via LGF, both of whom have good posts on it.)Update: I forgot ... Buy Danish!

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... or the stakes higher. As Jawa says: "Please circulate it or post it to your website. Yes, it's that good."Buy Danish!I don't suppose you have missed the Instapundit round up, but in case you have, here.Tim Blair has been on the story, too. For example here, here, here, here and here.And Silent Running, off and running since 4 January in the Buy Danish Campaign and only ones I have seen

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An overwhelming part of the Muslim world has been in a rage for a week now over the depictions of Mohammed in a deprecating fashion. The 12 cartoons published by the Jyllands-Posten were the spark for this current controversy though this is not the first.The source of the rage is the Muslim belief that any depiction of Mohammed or Allah is strictly prohibited. The BBC provided a brief

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As is typical of imams intent on inciting their flocks, they lie to foment hatred and speak in two tongues to deceive:"PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen lashed out at extremist Muslim leaders in Denmark on Thursday for speaking with two tongues in the on-going row between the country and the Muslim world.Rasmussen said imams' positive comments in Danish about the recent days' thaw in the dispute over

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Normblog posts on the plan for a Rally for Darfur reported in Forward:Jolted by the tepid response to the genocide in Darfur, Jewish communal organizations are mobilizing at an unprecedented level for an issue that might appear tangential to Jewish concerns.National and local Jewish organizations are gearing up for a rally to be held April 30 in Washington under the aegis of the Save Darfur

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I'm offended!Posts in this meme:5) The tongue of the snake is also called two4) Bordering on the sacrilegious3) Let them eat butter cookies2) Preach the word ....1) Buy Danish!

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... from Stephen at Horsefeathers.Where's the Audio?

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Per the Norway Post: (via Tim Blair)"The Palestinian group Holy War has asked Danes, Norwegians and Swedes to leave the Gaza Strip immediatley. The Nordic citizens have been asked to leave the area within 48 hours. On Monday, armed men burned the Norwegian flag outside the EU Headquarters in Gaza."What a great way to convince EU nations to send you $600 Million.Posts in this meme:5) The tongue of

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David Bernstein has a summary and an inclination over at Volokh Conspiracy.Just reading DePaul's "About DePaul" page, I'd put my bet on the hypothetical student proving the administration's policy is "at DePaul every student's and professor's right express his views is subject to the ideological whims of the university administration" as Mr. Bernstein describes the alternative to DePaul's stated

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Buy Danish!I see the contest has extended to cyber-attacks of Danish news websites and a call for counter-attacks on Mideast news websites. What a fine donnybrook this is turning out to be -- The Clash of Civilizations brought about by cartoons. I wonder how this will look in the history books a hundred years hence. Weeee!Posts in this meme:5) The tongue of the snake is also called two4)

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Well, so much for those brave leaders that popped their heads up from their gopher holes (or waved from their t-bars) in an effort to rally 'round a filibuster of Alito. The cloture motion passed 72-25.The most prominent in that effort were Kennedy, a has-been; Kerry, a never-been; Feinstein, scared of Sheehan's shadow; and Clinton, .... what's her excuse -- she wants to be President?Update:

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Lincoln Chafee announced he would vote against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Chafee is scheduled later this year to fight off "No" votes in his own re-nomination bid to be Repubican candidate for the 2006 Rhode Island Senate election.You can find the website for Stephen Laffey, his Republican challenger, here. Bookmark the site, you may want to contribute to Laffey's

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On Friday, Little Green Footballs highlighted another step in the continuing effort of some countries to make Denmark get on her knees and beg forgiveness because a private newpaper, the Jyllands-Posten, published cartoons depicting Mohammed (the prophet, not any of the multitude of other ones).Many Muslim countries have protested diplomatically and with responses unsatisfactory, several have

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Here's an interesting tidbit on the Republican mayoral attitude regarding Kelo via Robert Novak:The nation's Republican mayors, in a closed-door White House meeting last week, nearly unanimously supported the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo decision permitting local governments to force property owners to sell or give way to private developers.The GOP mayors, in Washington for the U.S. Conference of

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Joseph J. Ellis struts his wisdom in "Finding a Place for 9/11 in American History":"IN recent weeks, President Bush and his administration have mounted a spirited defense of his Iraq policy, the Patriot Act and, especially, a program to wiretap civilians, often reaching back into American history for precedents to justify these actions. It is clear that the president believes that he is acting

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First Senator Dimwit calls it in and now the Mrs. Laughingstock sends a memo.For immediate release:Friday, January 27, 2006Contacts:Jodie Evans, (310) 621-5635 (in Venezula and US)Medea Benjamin, (58 416) 208-0134; (415) 235-6517Cindy Sheehan to Dianne Feinstein:Fillibuster Alito or I’ll Challenge Your Senate Seat {Read the rest at LGF)I am beginning to wonder if Sheehan is not crazy but crazy

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Iraq The Model posts on the a fast moving militia in Al Qaim:"The Anbar tribes’ campaign to rid the province of Zarqawi’s terror organization, al-Qaeda in Iraq is in its 2nd day and so far, 270 Arab and foreign intruders have been arrested. ...."The information is sketchy and the original report is in Arabic. While this is important good news in itself, putting it in context with the Desert

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Nasdijj, according to an expert, is not a name but an example of gibberish in Navajo, like so much of Timothy Patrick Barrus' life in the non-fiction book world.Via Ed Driscoll, so stop by there and then read the expose' at LA Weekly.

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... and a jerk's response. (ht: Instapundit)Don't go questioning Scott Ritter's patriotism, though.

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... and out to lunch. John Kerry, speaking on Thursday from Davos, Switzerland called for the filibuster of Samuel Alito nomination to the Supreme Court. (via Hugh Hewitt)Hugh suggests Kerry's ambitions might be getting the best of him. I think it more likely it was his way of trying to get his ski vacation extended. Talk earlier this week was that the vote could come tomorrow, though it was

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This is unexpected and gratifying:BB&T, the nation’s ninth largest financial holdings company with $109.2 billion in assets, announced today that it “will not lend to commercial developers that plan to build condominiums, shopping malls and other private projects on land taken from private citizens by government entities using eminent domain.”In a press release issued today by the bank, BB&T

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... or a pestilence upon diplomacy. I interrupt my short disappearance (can't write the wrap up for three posts and am grumpy about it) to ask:Would someone please take Kofi out back and whack him up side the head until I say "When!"

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Fate would have it that he show up on the day of a misdemeanor trespass trial for Cindy Sheehan. At least she would finally get a hearing from Bush.(ht: Brothers Judd)

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The WatchTower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania silenced a Canadian blogger who, per this report from Religion News Blog, posted "a well researched and topically organized collection of interesting and esoteric quotations from more than one hundred years of religious literature published by Jehovah’s Witnesses."They bashed Peter Mosier over the head with a $100,000 lawsuit to prevent him

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Since Kathy has started a list, I'll toss in one:Barhopping in Florida: A Guide To Picking Your Drinking Companions

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... Kenneth has written to President Bush. Michael Leedeen brings us the letter in his NRO Column "Justice Will Be Done". (Thanks to Smash for the heads up.)It's a moving tribute to Robert Dean Stethem and a reminder of the cause for which we have fought and are currently fighting: expanding freedom and liberty by vanquishing slavery and oppression. Hero is too small a word for Robert.

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Darned if I had forgotten that Tim Blair does his Year in Quotes -- a month by month summary of memorable quotes. It's his 3rd Annual event. Plenty of reading and he's only posted back to July. Enjoy.

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Need a revisionist history professor for your US college? Got one right here! (ht: LGF)Fortunately, it looks like he's currently not teaching.

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... make sure you check out this great blonde joke. Couldn't resist anymore, Chap.

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She's sharp as a tack and funny as hell. (Thanks, Chapomatic)

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Michael Yon has a suggestion for providing fuller coverage of happenings on the ground in Iraq via the troops there. (ht: Winds of Change)I'd love to see something coalesce around this kind of idea. At the end of each day, I hit the shut down button with a whetted appetite for news from the front. One milblogger, active or retired, can only do so much. I've long relied on Bill Roggio for

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Todd Zywicki points to a BizzyBlog update on some new steps being danced for the Kelo tune "Get Your Property Here For a Song" made famous by New London Governmental Orchestration.If a little more light was shone on the dance floor to expose the fast footwork of partners NLDC and CJ the two might fall flat on their faces and Susette can get back out there and do the Kelo Bump.

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The Jawa Report has the skinny.

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A good story popped up yesterday. Glenn posted on an Alphecca post entitled "Your Tax Dollars at Work" describing the money wasted as a result the ban on homosexuals in the military since the implementation of Clinton's "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy in 1993. Here's the key 'graph Alphecca constructed and Glenn used:So let's see, 114 + 191 = $305 million dollars spent ridding the services of

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... and pretty much everyone else in range.I spent a goodly portion of my surfing today reading of the amateurish blog rants by Michael Hiltzik about Patterico's Year End Review of the LA Times in 2005 and Patterico's responses here and here. Tom Maguire had some good comment, too. Thanks to Instapundit for the pointer.I have to say Kathleen Parker's column came to mind several times during my

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John Atkinson summarizes energy-related tech stuff over the past year over at Winds of Change.

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The State had a law which required teachers to stress the positive aspects of French Colonialism?Oh, and regarding this add-on subject of Slavery Remembance Day in the BBC story:"France has set an example by being the first country in the world - and still the only one today - to recognise slavery as a crime against humanity. I have decided to establish a day of remembrance in France."Maybe they

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"Say what you will about the so-called mainstream media, but no industry agonizes more about how to improve its product, police its own members and better serve its communities. Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right."Kathleen Parker"Lord of the Blogs"12/28/05Okay, Member Lords, I need to know if

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... Der Speigel slips in another nomination for 2005 MSM Master of the Obvious Award. (via LGF)Crummy sakes, I could have told them plans are being made without even investigating any facet of it. Anyone with half a brain could have. It would be a manifest dereliction of duty not to, at the very least, have a plan. And a good one at that. Bush has not shied from meeting that expectation as

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... of the old media. Instapundit links to Patterico's 3rd annual review of the LA Times for the year past and updates with one for Michelle Malkin.Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette recalls the stories he had covered over the past year that can now be aptly tagged "fake but accurate" journalism and notes why it is important to see the year as a whole:And there's good reason to do so, because the

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Well, 2006 already looks to be exciting. The Dissident Frogman is back!

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Here's hoping you all have a safe, exciting, and very prosperous 2006.And thanks for visiting this last year.

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... maybe even blacker.So our ever watchful guardians (just to link two) are still at it, exposing every little tiny thing the US Government is doing regarding surveillance of people far and wide. Or so it seems. (HT: Instapundit and Captain's Quarters)Several of our guardians have been digging so deep that they have exposed a sinister plot by the NSA to place cookies on the computers of anyone

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Michael Totten describes his time there. (via Winds of Change)

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Will someone, anyone take on the role of Santa and give all those people being hurt by the NYC transit strike that make less than the transit workers do a really nice Christmas opportunity -- a chance to become the new transit workers?I say fire the whole lot of them. Their pink slip can be a sock holding a lump of coal.

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Has anyone noticed that Both Google and Yahoo's New searches are limited to the range of only one month?I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I'd swear this is something pretty new, since I had searched for news articles before and received hits older than one year. But in a search on Google I was doing yesterday, I didn't get what I wanted went to their advanced search. I found I couldn't go

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Rob McGovern was there at the World Trade Towers and helped dig out. He was one of three prosecutorial team to succesfully prosecuted Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar for the murder of two of his fellow soldiers and the wounding of 14 more. And McGovern spent five months in Iraq helping Iraqi judges prosecute the insurgents and terrorists, racking up a 90% conviction record.There are thousands of heroes

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So the story goes, some UMass Dartmouth student requested The Little Red Book from the school library and they didn't have the original Peking version so the library had to go to the inter-library loan route. Viola, agents from DHS showed up at the student's house, 'caaaussssse ... they are watching!Let me go out on a limb here and say ..... bwahahahaha!(Be back later, got to pick up my kid from

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... is up at The Weekly Standard. He has a some story surplus and a sad day after event at ThreatsWatch as well as photos of election day in a flash presentation.

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... the cover of James Risen's new book, right?How about this: (via Volokh Conspiracy)or maybe this: (via LGF)I wonder if Risen's sharing the book advance with his sources. Just what kind of deals are being made here? It may be a State of War, but it appears to be more like the Buying and Selling of National Security.More: Reading the article, it seems to me the way an awful lot of the

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Australians can thank their lucky stars the Cate Blanchett gang has finally weighed in on the rioting.Problem solved! Just one question -- how far away is Coogee Beach from Cronulla or Maroubra Beach and why do I suspect Cate rallied at a beach where no problems have occurred?

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It's up at JibJab.I can't get my browser to load it. Go watch it and tell me how good it is!

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In his "Los Angeles Times Suggests Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime" teaching moment, Patterico takes LA Times staff writer Nicole Gaouette to task for her failure to grasp the meaning of words and concepts in her inept "Illegal Immigration Could Be a Felony" reporting.

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... and thank God, that the MSM didn't catch wind of that protest demonstration at a polling station in Erbil or they would have found some way to set it in the standard "It's a failure!" perspective:We also asked him about the voter's turnout and he answered "it was more than what we expected," and regarding the obstacles they faced today he said "the only obstacle we faced today was some 14 to

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Pajamas Media is providing reporting on the provincial level via Iraqi correspondents arranged by Iraq the Model (ITM). ITM is providing the same on their blog with, as usual, comments activated.So, not only are the Iraqi vote stories exciting, but the views of the correspondents and their writings are, too. I don't think I have seen one report indicating the news as Bush's last stand,

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This news couldn't have happened to a nicer political thug.

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at the UN. Video at Political Teen.

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