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The Mohammed cartoon crisis shows that the West is at a crossroads. One of it's making. One of utter stupidity.The issue, we are told, is that Islam bans the rendering of any image of Mohammed on the basis that such would encourage idolatry. If you visit a mosque you will find it extremely spare when compared to European churches, synagogues or east Asian temples. The idea is simple - one

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Alright - the holidays knocked me flat on my butt again. I can roll off the excuses for why I haven't posted, but they are just excuses. Just the same, I post when desire and opportunity coincide. That is rare coincidence in November and December.If that excuse doesn't cut it, then why not try "Locusts!!!"

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OBL's terms of surrender for the United States have been fully translated and compiled, and you can have a peek at them over at the UK's Telegraph -His terms for America's surrender appeared after the September 2001 suicide attacks and include demands that amount to the abandonment of much of western life.Alcohol and gambling would be barred and there would be an end to women's photos in

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... but by no means close your mouths, my anti-war friends.Even when those stubborn facts just won't go away. Ignore them.Like "Boogie To Baghdad" (via Instapundit)In case you don't remember, "Boogie to Baghdad" is the phrase that Richard Clarke [the same Richard Clarke who then disclaimed his assessments in front of congress so that he could sell books - ed], when he was the top White House

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China has decided to block the printing of foreign newspapers -Beijing has halted plans to allow foreign newspapers to print in China because of concerns raised by recent “colour revolutions” against authoritarian governments in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, according to a senior media regulator.Shi Zongyuan, head of the General Administration of Press and Publication, said the role of the

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French Interior Minister Sarkozy has seen his already high approval ratings go even higher in light of his firm stance on the rioting in France.Article here in French.Interestingly, Sarkozy has been savaged by French media for calling the rioters "scum", which supposedly provoked them into more rioting. Obviously, the average Frenchie disagrees with that sentiment. Most of the time, the French

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Some stubborn facts just get in the way of a perfectly orchestrated effort to revise history.Democrats face struggle to win support for Iraq war 'lie' claimColonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, the secretary of state, could hardly be counted a friend of the White House. In a blistering address at a Washington think-tank last month he charged that a small "cabal" led

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Well the new Washington sport of criminalizing politics was just dealt a bit of a setback. Turns out the chronology at the center of Fitzgerald's indictment of Libby has some new holes in it - holes big enough for a public defender (let alone Libby's high priced defense team) to drive a Redskins team bus through.It turns out that Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) was the first reporter to have

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Another Bush / Condi Rice foreign policy disaster.GENEVA -- Saudi Arabia has agreed to end all economic boycotts of Israel, allowing the World Trade Organization (WTO) yesterday to admit the oil-rich kingdom as its 149th member, diplomats said.Saudi Arabia has tried to get the US to push through membership for 12 years despite the boycott. Similar pressure on the Carter administration got it

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The BBC has this story on the escalating crisis between Venezuela and MexicoThe Mexican President, Vicente Fox, has threatened to cut off all diplomatic ties with Venezuela.He said he would take that action if Venezuela's leader, Hugo Chavez, kept on making comments about him or Mexico.Earlier, both countries withdrew their ambassadors from each other's capitals after a row over free trade

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Racism® has becom a joke upon itself because the word has lost its meaning.Jacques Derrida would tell us that such is the fate of all words while Herbert Marcuse would tell us that any political idea, sufficiently marketed for mass consumption, simply becomes a tool of repressive thinking.Racism® is such a word.For example, we have a non-controversy on the east coast as a black skinned Republican

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Well - I am feeling much better and have a clearer head again. So those side moments can be squandered serving up the swill that is my opinion on many-things-political.One observation from the tough flu that I just got over - When Bird Flu comes, all of the airlines will be able to purge their frequent flyer programs. All of their frequent flyers will be dead.I caught this bug on a flight from

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I have had the flu for the last few days (caught on a Friday night flight back from DC - when avian flu comes, airlines will be able to wipe their "frequent flyer" databases clean). My time at the keyboard has gone exclusively to client work and I have had little time for blogging.Too bad too - the French Riots are fertile ground for delving into the "French Exception" and how that is not

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Since killing terrorists only leads to more terror (at least that is what "experts" tell us), and since clamping down on Parisian rioters simply creates more riots (at least according to French newspapers), then we can all agree on something. Let's ban summits. They lead to 2 things the world can ill afford - violent protests and more summits. Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

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Nice to see Hitchens weighing in on "stability," and specifically Brent "Mr. Stability" Scowcroft -Scowcroft, sounding "realist" enough, announces to Goldberg that he is "a cynic about human nature." Well, so would I be, if I were a former partner in the firm of Kissinger Associates who now runs his own consultancy, introducing unpleasant regimes to the corporations that love them. But "cynicism"

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Per Barcepundit, one of the fugitives from the Madrid Train Massacres has been caught.In Pakistan via ... Venezuela.

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From Big Pharaoh -Egyptian blogger Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman who runs the blog Kareem Amer was arrested on October 26h from his home. According to his family, his arrest might be a result of his writings. His brother said that Abdolkarim has a tense relation with Islamists in his hometown of Alexandria. He added that the Islamists might be the ones behind filing a complaint against his

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Here are some nice pics to look at over the weekend!!!

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... unreal. That is what happens when two NATO allies don't get along. Just a reminder - this happens today, in modern Europe.

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Syria is now releasing political prisoners.190 of them.This is a good thing. No one can argue against it.But it is intended to signal a softening, and give "hope" to those who push "stability" over tyranny that a better behaved, chastened Syria under Assad is plausible. This makes any call by America et al for sanctions or tough measures seem shrill.Were the west to learn from Arabs like Arafat

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... this is one.Hitchens unpacks the many ironies of the Plame case.UPDATE: We now must ask "who will be indicted for disclosing this, or are CIA leaks the exclusive privilege of the CIA? If so, then we have a 4th branch of government with very few checks and balances.

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In Ethiopia we have a post-election crack-down on opposition protesters - 33 are dead -ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Clashes between police and protesters erupted in gunfire and grenade explosions Wednesday, with police killing at least 33 people during a second day of renewed protests of Ethiopia's disputed elections, a rights group said.The post-election violence stems from what seems to be a flawed

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The news from Iran reminds me of the depths of the Cold War, when "Prague Spring" was ultimately crushed by reactionary forces -Iranians Celebrate 1979 Embassy seizure -..."We have to continue our confrontation with the United States and Israel. This could help the world get rid of the arrogant powers," the hard-line Jomhuri Eslami daily said in an editorial.Since the 1979 Islamic revolution,

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Syria is "isolated" for now.The dynamics will change once some substantive action is taken against Syria. After that, what is currently called a 'rant' and 'tirade' will be recast as a substantive defense against U.S. imperialism / hegemony.Syria has no defense. None. No legal defense.No moral defense.Not even a "stability" defense.Assad need not worry - he knows it, which is why this 'tirade'

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Chavez warns of spooky US Halloween 'terrorism'President Hugo Chavez cautioned Venezuelan parents to protect their children from Halloween with a spooky warning that the US tradition is rooted in "terrorism.""What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism," Chavez said, quoted in the local press. "They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to

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Alright - now the time most treasured. The candy is spread on the floor. Time to introduce the kiddies to taxes - as in "I raised you little bastards - I want the butterfingers or the reeses."The other approach - health. "That crap is bad for you - give me some."Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

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Oldest so far is about 15. When I was a kid, 7th grade (about 12) was it. Old kids always have lame costumes - hobo, crash victim, baby sitter with scythe - all pretty lame. Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

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A kid just skated by wearing a fat lady costume - hard to describe except for hilarious. He is wider than tall (the tutu probably adds to the effect). Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

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Scythes are in this year. Just about every kid seems to be the grim reaper. The little ones are funny because they don't make mini scythes. They hit just about everyone and everything with them, or just end up tripping over them. Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

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Booo.Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

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Regarding this report in the BBC regarding 3 young girls who were "beheaded" on their way to their Christian school in Indonesia -Police say the heads were found some distance from the bodies.It is unclear what was behind the attack, but the girls attended a private Christian school and one of the heads was left outside a church leading to speculation that it might have had a religious motive.

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When the US (and other western nations) screw over the masses in the Middle East by following the morally bankrupt advice of "experts" by supporting "stability" over liberty, it breeds deep resentments and distrust. Such a legacy has made democratization of the Middle East very difficult because people suspect our motives. At the very end of this article on Sistani, we are reminded of this -The

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Ayatola Sistani will not endorse a party for the next Iraqi election -Sistani ends Shia party backingAyatollah Sistani, one of Iraq's most senior Shia clerics, will not endorse any political groups for December's election, his spokesman has said.The grand ayatollah wants Iraqis to vote according to their beliefs, Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai said in a sermon on Friday.The ayatollah's statement

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A friend in the Federal law enforcement racket tells me that the term used for getting someone on an obstruction/perjury charge stemming from the investigation of a crime rather than being charge in the crime itself is called "Getting Martha'd", named after Martha Stewart.Looks like Libby will get Martha'd. Rove will likely follow.While that may seem petty, federal investigations are serious and

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Readers of this blog should see no surprise here -Russia Opposes Sanctions Against SyriaUNITED NATIONS -- The United States, France and Britain ran into strong opposition Wednesday from Russia and Algeria over their threat to impose sanctions against Syria if Damascus fails to cooperate fully with a UN investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.Russia's

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Take a look at this and tell me that the news media don't think that you, the public, are absolute idiots.

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In a pique of unvarnished candor, Juan Cole lets the mask slip today.He reveals himself via a contradiction and an endorsement.He contradicts his entire "Fundamentalist Crescent" theory that he used to rationalize acceptance of Syrian thugocracy a mere 3 days ago, and now he endorses Saddam's crimes for the stability they provided. All this while ignoring the "violence" and "chaos" associated

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On the matter of being oversensitive to Islamic sensibilities (thereby playing into the hands of the Islamo-Fascist narrative of western oppression, the crusades, that Arabs like having no free will and other non-sense), we have this update from Damian Penny on the purging of "Piglet" and other porcine caricatures from English culture. All in the name of being "sensitive to Islam."Yesterday, in

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Ahhhh ....The lovely and responsible statements of a newly minted Theocratic leader:Iran Leader Calls for Israel's DestructionTEHRAN, Iran -Iran's hard-line president called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, state-run media reported Wednesday.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also denounced attempts to recognize Israel or normalize

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Andrew Apostolou is leading an appeal that desperately needs your support!!!!UPDATE: Appeal momentum - Hitchens may join in.

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Green Geeks and Cyber Altruists, be aware - you may be creating a toxic dump in the 3rd world.

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Any and all readers of this blog should find this very interesting.

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Yesterday, Juan Cole indulged his readers with this.Some kind readers have requested that I say something about the report of UN-appointed German diplomat Detlev Mehlis concerning the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon. Mehlis is a careful and determined investigator and his findings, which fingered persons in the direct circle of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Asad,

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They have drawn a map correctly.It shows the regions of Iraq along with their ethnic and religious makeup.Notice that the Kurds are largely Sunni and not some other religion. Notice also that the Shia are largely Arab and not Persian.There seems to be this notion going around (could this guy have anything to do with it?) that all Shiites want to be part of an Iranian theocracy, which is a huge

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Wretchard picks up the story and points something out to breezily dismissive western intellectuals -There is a tendency, especially among Leftists, to view Christianity as a 'colonial' or 'Western' religion now being challenged by Islam. From this starting point it follows that conflicts between Christians and Muslims are the story of an 'oppressive' ideology being rolled back by an 'authentic'

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One has to dig deep to find any western news outlet covering it, but guess what:The Coptic candidate of the ruling National Democratic Party in Alexandria, Maher Khella, was in a fiery mood insisting that the play at issue did not convey an anti-Islamic message."The demonstrators burned copies of the Gospel yesterday. This is unacceptable and right now we cannot even accept excuses," he said.This

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Arab News (the mouthpiece of the Saudi Royal Family and its personal property, being the country of Saudi Arabia and all organisms therein) tries to use nuance today to soft-pedal conspiracies regarding the Mehlis report.They try the old "man in the street" routine, (emphasis - "man") -Saudi reaction to Mehlis ReportJEDDAH, 23 October 2005 Â? Reactions were mixed here on the Mehlis report that

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I notice that Juan Cole has nothing to say about yesterday's UN report (not even the candied Kofi Annan version). Kinda hard to construct a revisionist narrative that denies Ba'ath fascism, condemns the west and describes the "cultural" need of Arabs for political consensus. It must be a busy Saturday morning in Michigan. Face it - the elites in the west want to screw over the Lebanese after

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Arab papers are unanimous - stick with Syria and defy the US-Israeli plot to "destabilize" the region (via these BBC translations)Editorial in Egypt's Al-AhramThe Mehlis report was no ordinary one... and its consequences will be dangerous... It is important for all Arab countries to use logic and convincing arguments. As for resorting to the argument that the report is politicised and is part of

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Regarding the attacks on St. Gergis church in Alexandria, Egypt -Pardon me for being blunt, but when 5,000 Muslims in one of the most peaceful countries in the Middle East are attacking churches; torching vehicles and are hurting innocent passersby, we may excuse the people in the west for 'always having the wrong impression' about Muslims and Islam. And this is about a two year old DVD record. A

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Break out Dad's Nehru jacket - Egypt and Russia are on the same page, just like back in the old days.Egypt Discourages Focus on Syria, LebanonMOSCOW - Neither Syria nor Lebanon should be allowed to develop into a new focus of tension in the Middle East, Egypt's foreign minister said Wednesday.Ahmed Aboul Gheit met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other officials in Moscow to

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Annan lies again.Where are the "Annan Lied, Rwanda had a Genocide" bumper stickers, BTW?Mr Annan had pledged repeatedly through his chief spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, that he would not change a word of the report by Detlev Mehlis, a German prosecutor. But computer tracking showed that the final edit began at about 11.38am on Thursday — a minute after Herr Mehlis began a meeting with Mr Annan to

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Let's start observing the regimes that are supposed to go unmolested by "American Imperialism" so as to preserve "peace and stability" in the Middle East, shall we?We start with this excerpt from the article referenced in the previous post. The deleted names represent the inner core of the Syrian regime. Maher al-Assad, President al-Assad’s younger brother, is a lieutenant-colonel and head of

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I challenge anyone with even the vaguest of an understanding of Microsoft Word's "track changes" feature to read this story and not conclude that the UN is utterly incompetent.Too bad that the UN is so needed - it could otherwise be disbanded.Fire Annan.

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I have grown tired of the breezy bromide "I support the troops."Clearly, many who state this do so without any thought or self examination. This morning I am greeted by a variety of opinion makers who have taken upon themselves the moral burden of condemning the Taliban body burnings in Afghanistan. Ironically, many of these people are the same who trot out "chickenhawk" name calling in an effort

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Syria has been "implicated" by the UN for the killing of Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.In just about any other region of the world, such an act would be considered and act of war. The UN might even be inspired to do something - from impose sanctions to authorizing military strikes - to bring the perpetrators to justice, or at least to heel.In any other region.At this time, and in this

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A dispatch from North Korea ...Traitorous Diatribe of Dong-A Ilbo BlastedPyongyang, October 19 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland Wednesday issued information bulletin No. 908 vehemently denouncing the south Korean Dong-A Ilbo for its traitorous diatribe. It said:An editorial of the paper dated Oct. 15 found fault with the south Korean Uri

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Certified gooner and Tory basher Andrew Apostolou has found an interesting use of the term "guided" as it relates the Sunnis of Iraq.

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Egypt is about to build a security fence around Sharm El Sheik to keep terrorists out.Fence to protect Red Sea resortEgypt has started to build a security fence around the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh to try to stop attacks on the town, security officials say.The officials said the fence would stretch for 20km (12 miles) and force vehicles wanting to enter the town to pass through one of

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Hitchens pulls apart the myths around Iraqi "identity politics" - it is a far more cohesive society than the press (hunkered down in the Green Zone) tells you.Tribal Ignorance - What you think you know about Iraq's factions is all wrong.When it comes to Iraq, one of the most boring and philistine habits of our media is the insistence on using partitionist and segregationist language that most

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Interesting that the BBC chose to place this in their "Americas" section of their website.Wars 'less frequent, less deadly'Wars around the world are both less frequent and less deadly since the end of the Cold War, a new report claims.The Human Security Report found a decline in every form of political violence except terrorism since 1992."A lot of the data we have in this report is extraordinary

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If you didn't live through much the Cold War as an adult then you probably don't know what a lively and colorful place the UN was.Well, the UN has gone retro - now you can get a taste of the empty rhetoric of yester-year:Mugabe, Chavez slam U.S. at U.N. eventZimbabwe leader compares Bush, Blair to Hitler, MussoliniROME, Italy (AP) -- The leaders of Zimbabwe and Venezuela on Monday denounced

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I am conducting a bit of an experiment on this blog.If you look over at left bar on your screen you will see something below the "Karmic Retribution Links." If I say what it is or who provides it, I will skew the experiment a bit.So far, I have to say the results have exceeded my expectations. What comes up in that little area is not controlled by me. A computer determines what you might want

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Here is an excerpt from AP on the expected outcome of the Iraqi elections -Sunnis Appear to Fall Short in Iraq Vote...But the outcome could further divide the nation, with many Sunnis fearing the new decentralized government will deprive them of their fair share in the country's vast oil wealth. Large numbers of Sunnis voted "no," and some of their leaders were already rejecting the apparent

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Some insight as to what is going on in at least one Iraqi mind:I am so excited but a flashback from Saddam’s referendum three years ago still hurts; he wanted a 100% as the 99.96% of the previous one shocked the dictator. I was depressed that way and I decided not to go to the voting office and so did the rest of the family but my father was afraid that not going could be dangerous.He said that

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Here is something unexpected out of Saudi ArabiaBoth Jihadist Salafism and Nazism Are Based on Hatred and Physical Elimination of the OtherLike I said - unexpected.It isn't from their government - it is from a columnist. Saudi Arabia is as repressive a theocracy as exists in this world and has a very long way to go before it legitimizes itself in my eyes. Just the same, a comparison of Salafism

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Did the folks handing out this year's Nobel for Literature know that Mr. Harold Pinter is campaigning for the release of Slobodan Milosevic?The playwright Harold Pinter has joined a campaign to free the former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic. Pinter, who was a fierce opponent of the Nato bombing of Serbia and once defined US policy to the former Yugoslavia as "kiss my arse or I'll kick your head

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I have to say that the whole Miers nomination is making for some great political fun. Sadly, there is a person in the middle of it, and she will be forever labeled as people kick her around, but that is a risk of politics.Far more interesting than her and her record are those doing the kicking.The religious right have been shorn of all pretext and pretense as their opposition to her grows.

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If you want a little insight into how I see the evolution of modern political discourse, read this.http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051012/D8D6N2081.htmlIt is Al Gore ranting for a Swedish audience. Rather than brushing it off as a typical rant from the fringe, think of it as the new, core method of bringing a product to market. This is the future of all politics - left and right. You and I are

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Royalty has a tradition of using the royal plural - a monarch will refer to herself/himself as "We."Syria's Bashar Al-Assad must have adopted this use in this interview, because his statement makes no sense otherwise."We should re-evaluate what's going on in Iraq," Al-Assad told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "What did we achieve, what did they achieve from that war in Iraq. It's a very simple

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I haven't seen or heard anyone offer up a particular thought regarding the Sunni compromise (perhaps because it is a feeble thought).My thought is this: If the Sunni's come on board with the democratic government, yet had significant integration with the AQ exsurgency, then this is much a potential intelligence coup as it is a political one. It is now in the Sunni interest to turn on AQ so as

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"More than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media,"- AQ#2 Ayman al-Zawahri, Summer 2005

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In light of a Sunni / Kurdish / Shiite compromise on the Constitution, we have this:Al-Qaeda Threatens Sunnis for 'Yes' on Iraqi ConstitutionThe Iraqi armed group “The Geish al-Taifa al-Mansura” (army of the victorious confession) has threatened to kill prominent Sunni leaders for having called for a “yes” vote for the new Iraqi constitution.In an Internet statement released by the group, which

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I have fixed comments and altered the template for general readability.If you want any improvements, ask now while my brain is still in HTML/Javascript land.BTW: For those of you who aren't geeks, I'll fill you in on something. Software engineers reinvent the same stuff every 15 years. It is, largely, pathetic. HTML is a huge step backward in engineering, but the people who came up with it

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Patriot Act got you down? Worried about big databases in the wrong hands?Well, don't get on this list.This guy and this guy should have paid cash!This one and this one have no excuse.

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Corporate Media = MSMThe left half calls it the "Corporate Media".The right calls it "MSM - Main Stream Media".Both claim it is biased in support of the other.Regardless of who is correct (I use MSM), this should put to rest any notion that the media is not distorted.Dan Rather expresses doubts, and they seem to me to be motivated by BOTH anti-Bush bias AND money - Rather was pre-occupied with

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Boomers O.D.The LA Times tells us:Boomers' Overdose Deaths Up MarkedlyCalifornians age 40 and older are dying of drug overdoses at double the rate recorded in 1990, a little-noticed trend that upends the notion of hard-core drug use as primarily a young person's peril.Indeed, overdoses among baby boomers are driving an overall increase in drug deaths so dramatic that soon they may surpass

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It won't just go awayThe Jihad won't go away. it won't even take a break from a massive earthquake - instead, it takes 10 more Hindu lives in the name of Allah:JAMMU: Terrorists killed 10 people at three places in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday night, showing no change of heart despite a devastating earthquake having hit the state on Saturday.While terrorists massacred five

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Reality by the numbers: Part 1I was recently reminded of an old Irish joke:An American businessman goes into a Pub in Dublin, hoping to find a friendly, jocular clientele.He finds it. Everyone is laughing and having a good time. As he sits at the bar sipping his ale, he listens for the jokes that are making everyone laugh. He is surprised to only hear numbers."23" gets a big laugh, followed by

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Hints to the leftWhile the DLC is in full swing trying to reassert control over the Democratic Party today (here and here), those on the left might do better to read this with care and thought.The implications of Haley Barbour's statements are simple - voters don't trust a politician who overplays his hand. Barbour's tone is much more measured than a Nancy Pelosi or a Kathleen Blanco. He also

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JokeIn 1939 Churchill described the Soviet Union as "A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma."Today, we can describe the Norwegian Nobel Committee as "A Pun Wrapped in a Joke Inside a Gag."

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Will Freeh be the next to get the left's wrath? In another revelation, Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to

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News that could make Andrew Sullivan pro war againFrom The Times of London:No dancing and no gays if Hamas gets its wayBy Stephen FarrellA VISION of an Islamic society that bans mixed dancing and sternly disapproves of homosexuality has been given by Mahmoud Zahar, the most senior leader of Hamas in Gaza.After controversies when a Hamas-led council halted a dance festival and Islamist gunmen

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Dept. of stupid is as stupid does.via Briebart ...A woman was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing a T- shirt that bore an expletive and images of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.Lorrie Heasley of Woodland, Wash., said she plans to press a civil- rights complaint against the airline over Tuesday's action at Reno- Tahoe International

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Cards on the table timeThis I find to be very frustrating. It is a speech by Albert Gore decrying the loss of the "marketplace of ideas" that, at some imagined point in our past, once existed.I read it and want to scream. Don't jump to any conclusions as to why - my reasons will surprise most anyone, even long term readers of my blog.The time has come to lay some of my cards on the table, and

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My 2 cents on Bush's Supreme Court nomination are these:+ Bush threw a curve to both his supporters and foes (duh);+ He did so to throw off the hidebound polemics that were sitting on the shelf ready to be spent in attacking/supporting the nominee (a little less "duh");+ What we have in the nominee is an accolyte in a wild cards clothing;+ The entire purpose of the exercise is to get Roe v. Wade

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A friend just rang to tell me that another friend has posted a challenge to me of sorts. I am on my blackberry, so linking ain't part of this post for now, but the challenge is at mitchellfreedman.blogspot.com. Typos are also disclaimed. Mitchell sees that the US Army hasn't made its recruiting numbers (again) and extrapolates a great many conclusions. First, he says we need a draft.

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One Week Later ...My last post on Katrina was a week ago.In that time WAPO reported on the latest brazen pork request to come from the Bayou.If you haven't read it, do so. No point in spoiling it, other to say that I warned any and all that this would come. Asking for 10 times more than the most liberal aid estimates didn't surprise me. What I didn't expect was a paper like the Post to

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Impugning Motives and My Friend Mitchell FreedmanOne thing about blogging has been a disappointment to me over the years is how the blogosphere has found itself bifurcated between the "left" and "right" (if you've read my blog, you know the reason for the quotes around those words). We now have two blogospheres. If one relied on one half's description of "the other" to know more about it, you'd

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Louisiana to DC: Investigate thee, not meMore effluent from the corrupt cesspool commonly known as Baton Rouge:Blanco calls for independent probeAn independent commission is needed to investigate the errors in the response to Hurricane Katrina, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said in a letter sent Wednesday to President Bush.Â?This disaster was of such a magnitude that it will certainly have significant

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Louisiana to Texas: Fuck YouI don't curse much on this blog, but there is no other way to net this out:State police urge Rita evacuees urged to head north (sic)BATON ROUGE -- State Police late Thursday issued a plea for Texans and residents of southwest Louisiana to head north, and not east into Lafayette and Baton Rouge, as they evacuate from the approach of Hurricane Rita.State Police spokesman

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Katrina and the KnavesStorm Donations Found at Official's HomeBATON ROUGE, La. - Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday.Officers searched Cedric Floyd's home because of complaints that city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane victims.

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Silly statement from DCHere is something very silly from the Bush Administration -U.S. Says System in China Can't LastWASHINGTON - The Bush administration urged China on Wednesday to begin a transition to democracy, contending the existing one-party system "is simply not sustainable."..."Closed politics cannot be a permanent feature of Chinese society. It is simply not sustainable," Zoellick said

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Trade Pork for Pork?InstaPundit is promoting PorkBusters over at Truth Laid Bear. I'm not sure I understand what these folks hope to accomplish.Let's take it step by step -Step 1.> Katrina recovery will cost a lot of money.Step 2.> The Federal Government is still spending more than receiving in revenue.Step 3.> Congress (House and Senate) has been spending freely on pork programs (the recent

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A quick note on Katrina and New OrleansBy now the few media outlets who have picked up on the issues regarding the planning failures by the local and state governments around Katrina are following the story, with the rest ignoring it whole and simply going after Bush. Blogs aren't doing much better, given that so many now position themselves as having to counter media bias while others

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Remember that $5.5 Million communications system?It ran out of gas. You know - the $5.5 million system provisioned by the Federal govt. to the City of New Orleans for interoperable communications in such an event. I have a hard time buying that the federal government would pay that much money for a system and allow it to not have redundant back up. Not just back up power, but back up

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"When the balloon goes up ..."Was there a plan for Katrina?I was fortunate to have been an officer in the US Army at the time that turned out to be the end of the Cold War. Not only did I get the opportunity to see changes in the world that few dared say were plausible - I also got a chance to participate in the meticulous planning that ended up producing some of that change.War planning in the

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Only a mild understatementKofi Annan has stated he takes "personal responsibility" for the oil-for-food scandal and that he finds it all "deeply embarrassing".Well then. I guess that is all over. We can go back to normalcy now.After all, what does it matter that the UN is a hive of corruption and graft? It isn't like its tasked with keeping the world safe from expansionist tyrants or anything.

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HSPD-8I am blogging from my balckberry at the moment, so links and formating aren't things that are going to happen right now. On December 17, 2003 the president signed a Presidential Directive for the Department of Homeland Security. In a sharp contrast to congressional emphasis, it introduced an "all hazards" approach to preparedness, including natural disaster. It also lays out a

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This blogger sums it all up quite wellA blogger who has recently resumed blogging (just like me) has the definitive summary post regarding the state and local response timeline on Katrina.Go here for it.As for me, I am still going to focus on the money side - where the federal dollars flowed, under what terms, to whom, and how it was spent.Because of state sovereignty, there is only one means by

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