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"Great Novels Of The 21st Century That Will Never Be Finished" is a continuing series in a new genre that promises to kill dead the Western literary tradition."It was easier during the famine," Felix mused.Copyright © 2009 by S. Ridgway Thornton

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"Great Novels Of The 21st Century That Will Never Be Finished" is a continuing series in a new genre that promises to kill dead the Western literary tradition.One of the advantages of being a writer is that you can go to work drunk," reflected Austen Pillory as he stumbled into his den/office, tripped over Fiddlesticks, his ancient cocker spaniel, and banged his head against the edge of his

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Image of of NRCC page on 1/24/2009Confounding the experts, somehow the National Republican Congressional Committee has turned the economy around on a dime, from moribund to spectacularly successful. Here's how they explain it:Economy Thanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong. Republican tax cuts are creating jobs and continuing to strengthen

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Warning!!!If you are a little bitty kid, listening to the below video may possibly make your ears and nose drop clean off, thereby disfiguring you for life. You should immediately go back to that porn site you were exploring.Responsible adults may now view the below video of the first graduate of the Bill O'Reilly School for Reasonable Journalism™.

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Yeah, I know. It's usually a show-stopper for me, too whenever I see the words, "Ron Paul" in print.Mr. Paul owns the distinction of falling for every half-wit and/or loony theory that has ever come down the pike in the history of the world, then waxing prolix about it in that boring-annoying way of his.Most people credit his political longevity in Congress to the fact the voters in his district

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Remember back in the Good Old Days when for years and years we were slaughtering all those pesky farmers in Southeast Asia because each succeeding President "didn't want to be the first American President to lose a war?"Guess what.

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The ad said, "Obama's IQ is 128, Is your's higher?, Take this test and see."I'd already taken the test, so I knew mine was higher. How weird is that? He got the Oval Office and all I got was this lousy blog.But the frisson I felt wasn't about being theoretically smarter than the President of the United States, it was that number, "128."You see, that was my late father's IQ. My father was a

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"We need a bigger gun."

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From the same folks who let Osama escape. Maybe we now know why they were so distracted. Full story here.

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Even though some overly excited opponents of the President have called him a Hitler, Mr. Bush can take comfort in the fact that no one has suggested that Hitler is another Bush.

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If men had boobs, at least they'd have something to talk about besides football.

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Henceforth, this blogger will refer to himself entirely in the third person.That is all.

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Courtesy of www.dangerdom.com.

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Have I ever mentioned my childhood friend who, when he grew up, decided to have a sex-change operation so he could date lesbians?Remind me later and I'll tell you about it.

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Alex Castellanos, one of the premier GOP hit men in the McCain Campaign (bio here), recently regurgitated one of his signature, fact-challenged Jeremiads at the Huffington Post, targeting Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.Castellanos first fumes that on his European trip, "Obama was not only treated with respect, he was received enthusiastically, a public affront to an administration

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In his August 3, 2008 article on the Huffington Post excoriating New York Times Op-Ed columnist Michael Gerson for inventing facts for a column, blogger David Sirota said:"Michael Gerson's column suggesting Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter for vice-president is the latest example of someone paid to report the facts actually refusing to do 5 minutes of work to, ya know, report the facts."Yours truly

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We've all had the experience. You craft a snarky, non-profane, non-ad hominem comment on a blog and the darned blog censors blitz it out, forever putting paid to your attempts to be a half-wit.Well, to heck with all that. From now on, each Huffington Post comment reject goes here. Entries may contain additional material (such as how dumb the HP censors are and why), thus offering further

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Thanks to the CollegeHumor website.

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In a previous post, the possibility was raised that John F. Kennedy's assassination might have been prompted by concerns within the government about possible mental instability brought on by Kennedy's prescription drug abuse.Feeding into that possibility is the claim by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton that he found evidence Kennedy experimented with LSD during his affair with Mary

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Imagine an energy source that is unlimited, clean, safe, and available now. An energy source that is so scalable, it can be used to power anything from an 18-wheel truck to a city the size of New York. An energy source for which all the science and most of the engineering has already been done. An energy source so clean that it has a zero carbon and nuclear footprint. An energy source so safe,

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Freelance reporter Nir Rosen was invited to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday, April 2, 2008. Mr. Rosen is a highly respected journalist who has reported extensively on Iraq as both an embedded reporter and independently. His written statement, submitted to the Committee before he testified, is available here.Some of his more telling comments:Today Iraq does not

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This is a duplicate of a comment on the Huffington PostThe decline of Sen. Obama's quest for the Presidency and the likelihood of a Clinton nomination is a die that was cast the moment the Clinton campaign made the decision on the kitchen sink strategy before the Ohio/Texas primaries.My sense is that Sen. Clinton will go into the Democratic convention with the tide on her side and will

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Foreign political donations: was the Senator against them before he was for them, or vice versa? Related question: which member of the Senator's entourage will be going to jail for violating U.S. election law by accepting foreign donations?Senator McCain as well as members of his staff adamantly denied there was anything remotely political about his trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.

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ANNOUNCER: Now our own Wendy Terwilliger grills Presidential candidate Barack Obama on new charges that have surfaced from the Clinton and McCain campaigns. Wendy?WENDY: Thank you, Charles. Senator Obama, it has been charged that as many as several million of your supporters have had sex with a partner other than their spouse. Do you support such behavior by still accepting their support?OBAMA:

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President Taft's Claim to Fame

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If you have a lot of time on your hands, and you think about it really hard, for as much sense as it makes, the universe could just as well be constructed of chicken soup. It would obey the same laws of physics but would taste better than dark matter or the flames from a dying star.I'm going to the kitchen to see if there's more of that wine left.

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Today, Senator John McCain announced he wanted to rule over Hell.Speaking before a crowd in Atlanta, Georgia, the Senator identified the location of Hell -- Washington, D.C. -- but avoided making the logical inference that this made McCain endorser George W. Bush the current King of Hell.McCain, who up to now has been but a lowly Prince of Hell (U.S. Senator), also avoided commenting on the

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Title: "Honey, I Shrunk the Lead"Stars: Bill, HilSynopsis: Campaign managers tell startled Bill every time he speaks, Hil's voter backing shrinks. Bill mistakenly thinks this mean Hil's voters are actually, physically shrinking. Hilarity ensues. Bill finally confesses to Hil he doesn't really know what the Hil he's doing.Roll credits.

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Bill Buckley made only two mistakes in life:Creating the Conservative Movement.Letting the riffraff in.Bill Buckley never met a contrarian he didn't copy, figuring out early in life how to make money promoting other peoples' bad ideas.If Washington, D.C. is where good ideas go to die, Bill's magazine, the Weekly Standard, was where bad ideas went to be fruitful and multiply.Although Bill was of

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Aboard the Straight Talk Express, candidate McCain struggles with his inner dumbass...You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was.Amazingly, this actually qualifies as "a statement which is neither delusional nor an outright lie." It's why Senator McCain is fast becoming the darling of the right. Maybe.Thanks to "The Caucus," a blog on the

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Still waiting...Thanks to Brave New Films

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Courtesy of Juan Cole and YouTube.

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At least, they're trying a different approach. It's called TheRealNews.Here's their intro:

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We Can't Make It Here Anymore - by James McmurtryCourtesy of YouTube.

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To all candidates for national office in 2008:Fuck pro life and pro choice.Fuck gay marriage debates.Fuck family values.Fuck The Global War on Terror.Fuck Iraq and Afghanistan.Fuck Creationism and Flag Burning.Fuck debates on religion.Fuck gun control and the 2nd Amendment crap.Fuck who's the most macho on foreign policy.Fuck what an asshole your opponent is.Fuck knee-jerk praise for our

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Should a practicing Mormon be excluded from high political office because of his religious beliefs?Frankly, the question had never occurred to me before I read a recent article on the Huffington Post.Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA School of Public Affairs, in a recent rendering on the Huffington Post, spotlighted an excoriation of a Fr. Richard John Neuhaus for his article

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News from the front...Teh surge:...and the aftermathThanks to Treasure of Baghdad.

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A wry look at the next generation of Republican leaders, captured in their own element. Courtesy of Max Blumenthal and videographer Thomas Shomaker via The Huffington Post.

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Here are some hints...Somebody needed to do it. Courtesy of YouTube.

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Also at Daily KosThe transformation of Richard B. Cheney, current Vice-President of the United States, from his widely perceived persona as a reasonable, pragmatic, and effective realist while serving as President George H. W. Bush's Secretary of Defense in the 1980's, to his current position as perhaps the most excoriated political figure since disgraced President Richard M. Nixon, is -- as they

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Everyone from the guy ringing up your McBurger to the richest corporate CEO in the land agrees that, by God, they're just paying too much in taxes, period. It's just not fair.The two people who sometimes accidentally visit this blog might be aware that I am somewhat psychic so that I am peculiarly qualified to solve this vexing problem.The problem, as I realized this morning in a blinding flash

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We're still waiting.Past & present not so golden moments.

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Diego Garcia, the island base in the Indian Ocean used as a stationary aircraft carrier by US forces operating in Afghanistan and Iraq may be reverting to the indigenous people who actually own it, according to a story in British newspaper, The Guardian."An estimated 2,000 Chagossians were driven from their homes between 1967 and 1971 after Britain made a secret deal to lease the island of Diego

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Also posted at Daily KosConservative pundit William S. Lind, an expert on military affairs and Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation, is privately advising unit commanders in Iraq to prepare their own versions of 5th century B.C. Greek general Xenophon's classic retreat north from Persia (present day Iraq and Iran) through Kurdish Iraq and Turkey."

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We're still waiting.Past & present not so golden moments.

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I switch a lot between CNN and the SciFi channel, so I could be wrong on this.

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Watched the Republican Presidential Debate on Fox the other day. All politicians are fiercely territorial. Republicans appear to mark their territory by crapping on all the best ideas.Free Trade proponents say their ideas are inevitable and any bad results are only temporary. Free Trade is a special case of Murphy's Law: Anything that can't possibly go wrong, will go wrong.

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Daily Guardian 'toon2007-05-21: Tony Blair's farewell tour in Iraq

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We're still waiting.Past & present most meandering moments.

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Updated May 7, 2008: For Part II click hereAt this point in history, if anyone who examines the available facts still believes the "single bullet" theory advanced by the Warren Commission report on the assassination of 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, they may be willfully self-delusional. It seems, in retrospect, an almost obvious PR concoction.SPOILER ALERT: What follows is

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Also...Cross-dressing balding paunchy raunchy politico w/several ex-wives and hateful kids seeks kinky female intern named "Monica"

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Jerry Falwell, long-time pastor at the 24,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, passed away May 15, 2007. He was 73.Like many prototypical American characters, the broad outlines of Reverend Falwell's public life could have been sketched by American novelist and social critic, Sinclair Lewis. In his 1922 novel, "Elmer Gantry," Lewis describes the rise of a midwest preacher

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According to White House press spokesmodel, Tony Snow, the Russian Foreign Ministry has privately pointed out to the US Embassy in Moscow that Russian President Vladimar Putin's recent public remarks comparing the invasion and occupation of Iraq to actions of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich did not actually mention either President Bush or the United States by name.

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We're still waiting. And, in a twofer, STILL WAITING.

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User, "AwesomestNerd," writing from an undisclosed location, recently opined:“One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is accepted EVERYWHERE BY EVERYONE. Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That

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Why do prominent public figures such as George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Alberto Gonzalez, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, James Inhofe, and a host of others make public statements that are obviously either incomprehensible, inconsistent, or impossible?French philosopher and 18th century wit Voltaire explains it:“Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible,

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We're still waiting.

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According to the European Union's Terrorism Situation and Trend Report for 2007, out of 498 documented terrorist incidents in the European Union in 2006, exactly one was attributable to Islamist extremists.

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Many people can now correctly spell the name of the capital of Iran, "Bagdad."

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We're still waiting.

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We're still waiting.

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Some people worry that after 60 years of attacking neighboring countries, political assassinations, stealing land, burning crops, blowing up villages, shooting Palestinian men, women, and children, herding survivors into refugee camps and then blowing up the camps, Israel might be in danger of beginning to wear out its welcome in the Middle East.

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"Looks like our ass is grass, Lieutenant.""General, couldn't we just framoozle the meningroid with the happentrap?""By God, that just might work. Good thinking, Lieutenant. Sergeant Major, make it so.""Sir! Alright you pathetic sacks of !@#$%, framoozle that &^%$# meningroid with the @#$%^& happentrap and be quick about it or you can kiss your *&^%$ goodbye because your ##@@!! will belong to me!

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The AP reports that Abstinence classes don't stop sex.

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And the winner is: AOL news surfers.Taken from latest poll results that asked about Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, the following percentage of respondents had never heard of her:AOL/AP - 55LA Times - 50CBS News - 47CNN - 23Fox News - 19USA Today - 19Newsweek - 17From the PollingReport.com website.

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Courtesy of Sietske In Beiroet:

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Test your attention span. Try to remember who made these statements about the Iraq War:"Do not be hasty because your disappointment will be huge.""You will reap nothing from this aggressive war, which you launched on Iraq, except for disgrace and defeat.""We will embroil them, confuse them, and keep them in the quagmire.""[T]hey [the US] cannot just enter a country of 26 million people and lay

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Whatever happened to the good guys? You know, the Americans in white hats who were going to eliminate war, starvation, poverty and disease from the world and make America a beacon of freedom? The Bush administration's stubborn determination to prevail, whatever the costs, is evident not only in its reckless military venture in Iraq, but in its single-minded pursuit of new nuclear weapons.The U.S.

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Here we go again. Russian strong man Vladimir Putin is put in the crosshairs by the Billionaire Boys Club:Exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky told British newspaper The Guardian on Friday that he is "plotting" a violent overthrow of Russian President Vladimir Putin from his home in Britain.The Finland Station in St. Petersburg, Russia "...is best remembered for the arrival of Vladimir

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One year after his arrest, an Associated Press photographer is still being held at a prison camp in Iraq by U.S. military officials who have neither formally charged him with a crime nor made public any evidence of wrongdoing.Editor & Publisher has the sordid story.

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Bush appointed World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, formerly DOD number two, not only ordered promotions and an increase in pay for his girlfriend to nearly $200,000 a year for a no-show job, but apparently lied to the World Bank Board of Directors about it....newly released documents included an August 2005 memorandum in which Wolfowitz ordered the bank's human resources division to award [

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We're still waiting.

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An Army officer speaks out:I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and

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Investigative journalist Robert Parry gives some of the backstory on the refusal of three US generals to consider appointment as President Bush's new "War Czar":Retired Marine Gen. John Sheehan was another four-star who rebuffed the White House. “The very fundamental issue is, they don’t know where the hell they’re going,” Sheehan told the Post. “So rather than go over there, develop an ulcer and

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In case you haven't been following the latest indicators about what the Ministry of Fear (aka DHS) is up to these days, here's a sample:"I presented my credentials from the Marine Corps to a very polite clerk for American Airlines. One of the two people to whom I talked asked a question and offered a frightening comment: "Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying

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The once proud Washington Post continues its slide into the abyss of propaganda, lies, and deceit. Mark Thoma has the sordid story:Once again, Robert Samuelson lumps all the social insurance programs together and foresees a dire future, in this case generational warfare. But as Dean Baker continually and correctly reminds us, Social Security is not the problem, and the programs themselves are not

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Mike Whitney says he knows why:The American people are in La-la land. If they had any idea of what the Federal Reserve was up to they'd be out on the streets waving fists and pitchforks. Instead, we go our business like nothing is wrong.Are we really that stupid?Jury still out on the "stupid" part. For the full article: CounterPunch.

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Apparently, there is no limit*.* Too many recent examples found to catalog. Only one mild example provided. Sorry about that.

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H-m-m-m-m.

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"So many flim-flams, so little time."

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"So many flim-flams, so little time."

Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-86943529983571819012007-04-07T13:43:00.000-05:002007-04-07T13:56:55.248-05:00

In this topsy-turvy world of color-coded terror alerts and increasingly muddled guidance from the powers on high charged with protecting this great nation of ours from those pesky terroristas, it becomes increasingly important to set forth some simple guidance on terrorist detection.Although we are not an expert, we have determined the most effective rule in feretting out an actual terrorist in a

Sam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049389264459683859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253192577344001170.post-40723399832427135302007-04-07T02:00:00.000-05:002007-04-06T23:22:08.942-05:00

So far, so good.

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Plus, their stuff is easier to fence while it's still in one piece.

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It's the Navy culture, stupid.Bush's hand-picked leader of the massive fuckup war on terror in the Middle East, Navy Admiral William J. Fallon, told CNN's Kyra Phillips today that:...Iraq isn't in a civil war...but is driven by "small factions fighting each other." -- Admiral William J. Fallon, Commander, CENTCOMOops, isn't that the definition of a civil war?According to the latest National

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CAIRO, March 28 (RIA Novosti) - The king of Saudi Arabia, one of Washington's few allies in the Middle East, joined the chorus of other Arab leaders Wednesday by calling for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.

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Nearly three years after the controversial February 29, 2004 US-backed coup that ousted Haiti's democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the interests of ending what outside powers claimed was uncontrolled violence and corruption, the US State Department has this to say about travel to Haiti:U.S. citizens traveling to and residing in Haiti are reminded that there is a chronic

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Most of us find polling information interesting, sometimes startling, sometimes frustrating.I'd guess that most of Washington's beltway politicians pay at least as much attention, and perhaps more, to national polls than they do to their constituent communications.National polling organizations take remarkable measures to ensure their polls are as accurate as possible, while a typical Senator or

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Today is my birthday, no. 65. Now officially an Old Fart (no longer just in name), additional duties are involved. Here goes.Today, many who oppose the war in Iraq march in protest. Old Fart Prediction #1: Won't make much difference unless they carry torches and a rope.That was easier than I thought. Meanwhile, more birthday stuff.On this day in history, the Auschwitz Death Camp was liberated by

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White House spokesman Tony Snow today announced that, based on reliable reports, former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein is still dead."This is absolute proof of the wisdom of the President's 'New Way Forward' strategy," Snow advised astonished reporters.Asked how the Administration came by the extraordinary information, Snow demurred. "We can't simply divulge our sources and methods to the public,

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Is this country great, or what?Not only are we a nation where you don't have to be smart to be President, honest to handle other people's money, or have high moral standards to be a preacher, you can actually be paid handsomely for being a raving lunatic.Case in point for the latter assertion: Dinesh D'Souza, the Conservative darling who's moved so far to the right he's fallen over the edge into

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ALERT TO TRAVELERS: HANDLE YOUR MONKEY LIKE WE SAY, OR ELSEThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the same folks who make your life a living hell when you attempt to board a flight to grandmother's house, have now thoughtfully supplied regulations detailing how TSA storm troopers should weed out your terrorist monkeys from your friendlies:When a monkey is being transported in a carrier

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When the first astronauts land on mars, what if they report finding a parking ticket on Sojourner, the 1997 Pathfinder probe's dead mobile sidekick?In part, the ticket might read:You must report to the Imperial Mars Traffic Court at noon on the Firbust of Qualdon or your vehicle will be impounded and we will be at bartlebutt!Now what?At White House urging, scientists at JPL and Houston's Mission

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Remember legendary game show host Jack Bailey's historic cry, "You - could - be - QUEEN FOR A DAY!!!"Turns out, it - could - ACTUALLY HAPPEN!!!English Heritage, the UK's "...statutory adviser to the British government on the historic environment", has launched an international quest for claimants to the English throne.They're looking for those who can trace their heritage to Anglo Saxon or

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From the Iraq Slogger, this wickedly morbid joke is making the rounds in Baghdad:A driver is stuck in a traffic jam on the highway. Suddenly a man knocks on his window. The driver rolls down his window and asks, "What's going on?""Terrorists down the road have kidnapped George W. Bush and Dick Cheney," the man says, "They're asking $100 million ransom. Otherwise they're going to douse them with

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I knew Al-Jazeera TV must be good for something. Check out this transcript of a January 2, 2007 debate between Saddam Loyalist Mish'an Al-Jabouri and Shiite Iraqi Journalist Sadeq Al-Musawi, courtesy of the MEMRI TV Monitor Project.Quick excerpts:Sadeq Al-Musawi: You are a thief... You are a thief. You've been convicted for theft..Mish'an Al-Jabouri : Get out. Saddam Hussein is your master and

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In the intelligence business, "blowback" is what happens when you secretly publish misinformation in an enemy's media or to their intelligence service, then that same misinformation accidently "blows back" into your own media or intelligence service and you wind up confusing your own people.In years past, blowback was usually considered a bad thing. There were rules against letting it happen,

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Good news from Israel, they've discovered that good, old "let's you and them fight" strategy.Offered Dec. 30, 2006 by Brigadier General Oded Tira of the Israeli Self Defense force writing on the y-net news website (emphasis added).President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran. As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the

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All of us have heard of the dread Neoconservative boogeymen, but where do they actually want to go and how to they propose getting us there?Personally, I have problems with their direction, logic, and funding (mostly mad millionaires), but what do I know? I'm not an expert and they claim to be.Many of the Neoconservatives have the academic credentials and work experience to back up their claims

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Many in the blogosphere and a few in the mainstream media have noted that, based on his public statements and actions, there seems to be something slightly peculiar about President Bush's behavior.Some have even speculated that President Bush may have psychopathic tendencies.One way to judge for yourself is to use the below standard evaluation form used by psychiatrists and see how your insight

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