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11.30.03
The General and the Rock Star(s)
Huge Joke!
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"After the concert, Gen Clark and his wife went directly to Madonna's mansion, where the discussion ranged from Iraq to President Bush's recent tax cuts."
This guy wants to be President of the United States of America?
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General enlists Hollywood to ignite campaign
By Julian Coman in Washington
(Filed: 30/11/2003)
In an unlikely attempt to gain star backing for a slow-burning campaign, the Democratic presidential candidate, General Wesley Clark, is spending late nights talking politics with Madonna and wooing sympathetic supergroups such as The Eagles, with whom he recently shared the stage during a rendition of Hotel California.
Gen Clark, who had a cerebral and somewhat austere reputation during his military career, has spent much of the past month seeking out the late-night company of west coast rock stars, screen idols and movie producers. While his rivals preach to the worthy but unglamorous residents of early-voting Iowa and New Hampshire, Gen Clark is dressing snappily and going out on the town in LA.
After a 90-minute policy discussion with Madonna in her Los Angeles home recently, a friend of the star was authorised to disclose that "Madonna was very impressed with Gen Clark's intelligence and his vision for America". Another associate added: "Don't under-estimate this. Madonna is often ahead of the curve."
The showbusiness strategy reflects a change of direction by the Clark campaign team, which has already decided not to compete in the rural Iowa caucuses that launch the primary season.
The general's tacticians believe that Howard Dean, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, has already won the support of most left-wing grassroots activists. Gen Clark's goal is to emulate Bill Clinton in the 1990s by capturing the heart of Hollywood, a centre of liberal power and influence in America.
"He wants to be the chosen candidate of Tinseltown," said one sympathetic film producer. A Clark aide confirmed to The Telegraph: "We're reaching out to the entertainment community. Entertainers have a lot to offer any campaign. They have a platform, a pulpit, and they obviously get more attention than the average citizen."
They also earn a great deal of money. Gen Clark has calculated that popularity on the West Coast would help him to catch up with his rivals financially, after a late entry into the race, as well as achieve a nationwide "buzz" to match Mr Dean. Before his second election victory in 1996, Mr Clinton benefited from a $500,000 cheque from Steven Spielberg alone.
The apparent decision by Hillary Clinton to stay out of the 2004 presidential campaign has reinforced the Clark campaign's conviction that the general has the chance to fill a "charisma gap" on the moderate wing of the Democrats.
Gen Clark's Eagles night was judged a political triumph by his team and a model for similar events throughout next year. The group, who hope to influence a future Democratic president on environmental issues, agreed to play for over an hour at the Hollywood fundraiser.
Dressed in black, the general told the audience that Hotel California had been his favourite song since the days of his military service in the state. The Eagles obligingly placed it first on their playlist. According to a campaign aide, "Gen Clark and his wife, Gert, stood by the stage, holding hands and singing along."
The concert, hosted by the original founder of the Hard Rock Cafe, Peter Morton, attracted sympathetic film stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, and raised $500,000 for the campaign. Ms Lopez spent a quarter of an hour with the candidate and reportedly emerged a confirmed Clark fan.
Mr Morton, who has also thrown a dinner party for Gen Clark with Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the hit television series, West Wing, said: "I haven't been this moved by a politician since I had lunch with Bill Clinton prior to his becoming President. Clark is the Democrat's best chance."
After the concert, Gen Clark and his wife went directly to Madonna's mansion, where the discussion ranged from Iraq to President Bush's recent tax cuts.
The general's strategic incursion into Hollywood appears to have caught his chief rival rival, Mr Dean, off-guard. In Iowa, the fight for the nomination is expected to be a two-horse race between Mr Dean and mid-west candidate Richard Gephardt. Mr Dean is also the overwhelming favourite to win the New Hampshire primary.
To stay in the race, Gen Clark needs both the funds and the profile to play a longer game. His team claims that he is finding both on the West Coast. Taking advantage of the time freed up by the decision not to fight Iowa, Gen Clark has even worked to win the support of Hollywood figures who, during the summer, had declared an interest in Mr Dean.
Norman Lear, the creators of some of America's most famous sitcoms, gave Mr Dean a $2,000 campaign contribution last April. Last week, he was at Gen Clark's Eagles concert, having declared: "I'm inclined to the general."
A lunch with Mr Spielberg has also taken place. According to Mr Spielberg's spokesman, Andrew Spahn: "Gen Clark was a very bright articulate guy. We talked about Iraq, North Korea, foreign policy and tax cuts."
Mr Dean may be winning the early battles in Iowa and New Hampshire, but Gen Clark has taken the lead in Hollywood's unofficial "primary". In a Democratic race constantly criticised as lacklustre, an injection of star quality on the side of the General may yet prove a tactical masterstroke. « Close It
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Wishy Washy
I just heard Lieberman say on FOX News that "if we don't stop the radical Islamists in Iraq, we'll have a global religious war on our hands". I agree with him on that. When asked what his plan was - he went into a spin. So typical. The Dopefulls have NO agenda. He's Done!
Anyone disagree?
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11.29.03
Stay the Course
Remember - this Nut has made it official. "Stay the Course"
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday the United States "must stay the course" in both Afghanistan and Iraq and called for more military personnel to finish the job.
Sorry, this woman is a NUT. She should stay out of the game!
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Clinton says, 'Stay the course'
By DOUGLAS TURNER
News Washington Bureau Chief
11/29/2003
She must have contracts, which will enable her to realize profits from the movement of both personnel and supplies. Wonder where her dirtbag husband ate turkey?
The New York Democrat has spent two event-filled days meeting soldiers, leaders and citizens in Afghanistan and Iraq, and she spoke in a telephone interview from Kuwait.
Event filled days? Give me a break. She's thinking about running. Testing the water.
"We have to exert all of our efforts militarily, but the outcome (in Iraq) is not assured," she said.
All of our efforts? Right. Not assured, right. This woman has no clue!! If it weren’t for her party, we would've CRUSHED 'em already. That's a fact!
Clinton said it is still an open question whether the Bush administration can make the transition in Iraq from a war zone to an independent, representative government. In an interview with the Associated Press, she called for United Nations assistance in the process.
Let's get this straight. Open question = No agenda.
The morale of the troops, she said, "is very high," but she said the military personnel with whom she spoke in meetings and during "two turkey dinners" wanted to know "how the people at home feel about what we are doing."
" "Americans are wholeheartedly proud of what you are doing,' " Clinton said she replied, " "but there are many questions at home about the (Bush) administration's policies.' "
BULLSHIT - Shameless Hussy!
Clinton is on an official congressional tour of the war zones with another member of the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.
Double Bullshit! and Jack Reed can kiss my ass!!
Clinton and Reed, who left Washington on Tuesday, met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Karzai's presidential palace in Kabul.
"I left Afghanistan feeling very positive about what our military personnel had accomplished there, but I am not very confident that we have adequate forces to accomplish the many missions we have been asked to handle," Clinton said.
Why don't you send your jet setting daughter over there to take Jessica Lynchs' place? Hypocrite. And by the way, nobody asked you to handle anything.
Clinton's trip to Iraq was overshadowed by President Bush's quick visit to Baghdad Airport on Thanksgiving. Asked to comment, Clinton said, "It's a positive for the commander in chief to visit the troops in the field."
Surprise! Bush has class, and you are a dirtbag. Sorry, but that's a fact. Cut you out on that one, eh?
Arriving in Baghdad on Friday, Clinton met with L. Paul Bremer III, the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq, and with Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the senior military official there.
I can't believe he even granted her an audience.
Bremer has been criticized for dismissing the Iraqi army and for failing to work more effectively with Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim community, especially Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani. He has criticized the administration's plan for granting more power to the American-appointed governing council.
While declining to comment directly on Bremer's performance, Clinton said, "The administration didn't fully appreciate what they would be encountering in Iraq," although many members of the Bush administration had been preoccupied for years with former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein.
What I do appreciate is this. Your party was looking for a deal first. Second, with no deal in hand you need to save face, and finally - bash the current administration because you have no agenda.
"Now we're playing catch-up," she said.
What? She is clueless!!
Clinton said she was "moved and inspired" by the gritty courage of uniformed American men and women in both difficult theaters.
Seriously, does anyone believe that she was moved and inspired?
But she and Reed said the Pentagon needs to speed the delivery of more body armor for American troops and deployment of the armored version of the Humvee truck.
Hypocrite - It was the Clintons who stopped production in the first place.
A Reed amendment to the defense budget bill requires the Pentagon to send 318 armored Hummers to Iraq. The Senate's leadership killed a Reed bill that would expand the size of the Army by 10,000.
"There is no question we need a larger Army," Reed said, to deal with the problems in both Afghanistan and Iraq, sentiments Clinton said she shared.
Today, Clinton aides said, she and Reed travel from Kuwait back into Iraq to meet with more troops in Kirkuk, a northern oil center.
The Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade, employing aggressive tactics, have recently restored Kirkuk to order, including the installation of a 2,200-member Iraqi police force.
Earlier in an interview with the Associated Press, Clinton and Reed said the Bush administration needs to work harder to bring a more broad-based international coalition to Iraq.
Both said the expense and political burden in administering Iraq would be made easier with the U.N.'s stamp of legitimacy and help in transferring power to Iraqis.
"I'm a big believer that we ought to internationalize this, but it will take a big change in our administration's thinking," the former first lady said. "I don't see that it's forthcoming."
Does anyone believe her?
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I've never seen grass roots like this
It could be much worse. Just ask Hillary.
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2004 Is Now for Bush's Campaign
Early Advantage in Funds, Voters Sought
By Dan Balz and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 30, 2003; Page A01
President Bush's reelection team, anticipating another close election, has begun to assemble one of the largest grass-roots organizations of any modern presidential campaign, using enormous financial resources and lack of primary opposition to seize an early advantage over the Democrats in the battle to mobilize voters in 2004.
Bush's campaign Web site already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters. The campaign has set county vote targets in some states and has begun training thousands of volunteers who will recruit an army of door-to-door canvassers for the final days of the election next November.
The entire project, which includes complementary efforts by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and state Republican parties, is designed to tip the balance in a dozen-and-a-half states that both sides believe will determine the winner in 2004.
"I've never seen grass roots like this," said a veteran GOP operative in one of the battleground states.
Dean, a former governor of Vermont, has made major strides in organizing a grass roots-based campaign in a bid for his party's nomination. His advisers say it is the largest in the history of presidential politics.
While saying he is not familiar with all the details of Dean's grass-roots and Internet efforts, Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman said, "Our goal is for the largest grass-roots effort ever."
Organization alone cannot elect Bush to a second term. Given the reality that the president's campaign team cannot control such potentially decisive factors as the economy or events in Iraq, officials are determined to maximize their advantage in areas they can control. Rarely has a reelection committee begun organizing so early or intensively -- or with the kind of determination to hold state party and campaign officials, and their volunteers, accountable for meeting the goals of the Bush team.
In Ohio, for example, more than 70 elected officials and volunteer workers dial into a conference call every other Wednesday at 7 p.m. to report on their efforts to recruit leaders and voters, and to hear updates from Bush's campaign headquarters in Arlington. Roll is called, which initially surprised participants used to less regimented political operations.
The massive ground war now in the early stages underscores the latest turn in political campaigns, in which there is renewed interest in applying the shoe-leather techniques of an earlier era, enhanced with advances in technology. Campaigns, both Democratic and Republican, have rediscovered the importance of putting people back into politics, after years of focusing on television commercials.
"We live at a time of the greatest proliferation of communications technology in history, and in an ironic way that technology has taken us back to the politics of an earlier time," said Ralph Reed, former Georgia GOP chairman and now a regional official in Bush's reelection campaign.
Having the biggest presidential campaign treasury ever -- more than $105 million raised already and heading toward $170 million -- and no primary opposition gives Bush the luxury of focusing now on general-election organizing. The RNC and the Bush team have begun planning across a wide range of fronts, even including an analysis of which supporters are likely targets for absentee ballots or early voting, an increasingly critical aspect of turning out the vote.
The Bush campaign not only has started early, but also has set deadlines for developing its organization. In Ohio, there is a Dec. 1 deadline for recruiting county chairmen in the state's 88 counties. In Florida, the first three of a dozen planned training sessions have been held, and two campaign staffers are working out of an office in Tallahassee; county offices -- complete with plenty of lines for phone banks -- are scheduled to open shortly after Jan. 1.
In Iowa, the campaign's state chairman, David M. Roederer, said volunteers have been identified in all 99 counties, and they are working to expand their rosters down to the precinct level.
The Bush team hopes to build on techniques first employed in 2000 and honed in 2002 through what is called the "72-hour project," which is shorthand for mobilization operations during the final days before the election. Democrats acknowledge these techniques proved highly effective as a counter to their mobilization efforts in earlier campaigns.
"They've proven they can do it," said Gina Glantz, of the Service Employees International Union, who will join the Dean campaign as a senior adviser next month.
The absence of unlimited "soft money" donations to parties and tighter rules on coordination between a presidential campaign, the national committee and state parties -- all part of the new campaign finance law -- make this organizing more difficult and put a premium on volunteer labor. Mehlman said that, despite those challenges, "we want to take it a step further in this campaign" than in 2002.
Republican officials say these efforts are necessary to counteract voter mobilization by Democrats and their allies in organized labor and liberal interest groups, who plan to spend substantially more than $100 million on get-out-the-vote efforts.
Although Republicans have their own network of outside groups, from the National Rifle Association and the National Federation of Independent Business to the Christian Coalition, GOP strategists say privately none of them comes close to matching the resources, sophistication or fealty of organized labor and liberal groups.
"This party has no infrastructure," one Bush adviser said. "We have to build it from the ground up."
Both parties have rediscovered the importance of communicating personally with people, rather than assuming that television ads or direct-mail brochures will motivate someone to vote. From their analysis of previous contests, including this month's gubernatorial elections in Mississippi and Kentucky, GOP officials said someone who votes only infrequently is four times more likely to go to the polls after having a face-to-face conversation with a campaign volunteer about a candidate than after receiving a phone call or direct-mail brochure.
Thus, the Bush team is trying to build an army of millions of volunteers to go door-to-door next year to talk to potential voters. Officials have concluded that old-fashioned literature drops should be replaced by in-person contact with voters whenever possible, and they are trying to change old habits among veteran GOP workers in the states.
The Bush campaign will devote a portion of the estimated $170 million it will raise during the primary season to grass-roots organizing, although spending on television ads will still outstrip expenditures for the ground war. Any excess money in the Bush account can be given to the RNC at the time of the national convention next summer for get-out-the-vote efforts for Election Day in November.
The Bush campaign is focused now on building its state organizations, while the national committee is working on a variety of organizing efforts, including voter registration. Registration is important because, at a time when Bush enjoys about 90 percent support from self-identified Republicans, GOP officials believe there is no surer way of producing votes than getting more people registered with the party. The party is registering voters at NASCAR events and naturalization ceremonies, on college campuses and in targeted precincts.
The RNC has set state-by-state goals for registering voters, based on a formula that attempts to determine Bush's maximum potential vote percentage, all with an eye toward turning states that he narrowly lost or won in 2000 into winners next year.
In Oregon, which Bush lost to Al Gore by about 7,000 votes in 2000, the national committee's goal is to register 45,000 GOP voters by next year, enough to provide a cushion in a close election.
Republicans are using several techniques to reach and register voters. In New Hampshire, new homebuyers receive a postcard from the state GOP welcoming them to their neighborhood, explaining the party's historic opposition to higher taxes and urging them to register as Republicans. Party officials follow up with phone calls, often from volunteers in the same community, and next spring will begin going door to door.
In Arkansas, RNC officials recently hosted a breakfast for nearly 100 ministers, outlining ways they can assist parishioners in registering. Party officials plan to follow up by identifying volunteer coordinators in the churches to oversee those efforts.
In Illinois, Republicans have hired field operatives who will concentrate their efforts -- by telephone and sometimes face-to-face -- to identify and register likely GOP voters.
"If you've got a precinct where 50 percent [of registered voters] are Republicans and 30 percent are independents, there's probably gold to be mined in that precinct," said Bob Kjellander, one of 11 regional chairmen for the Bush reelection committee.
The campaign has staged splashy events to announce leadership teams in 14 of its targeted states, usually featuring Mehlman or campaign chairman Marc Racicot. The campaign's ambitions are evident from the depth of the organizations being assembled.
In each county, for example, the Bush operation will include an overall chairman; chairmen for surrogates, volunteers and voter registration; and an "e-chairman," whose responsibility is to communicate with supporters registered with the campaign Web site.
Campaign officials look for specific tasks to keep people involved. Team leaders have been asked to recruit five other team leaders and sign up 10 friends to receive campaign e-mails.
The campaign Web site includes an easy way for supporters to send letters in support of Bush's policies to local newspapers and has generated 28,000 letters since August. At training sessions, campaign workers are urged to help recruit participants for coalitions the campaign plans for teachers, farmers, Hispanics, African Americans, disabled people, law enforcement officials and sportsmen.
Bush officials say they have one advantage over Democrats: Enthusiasm for the president among the GOP base makes it far easier to organize a grass-roots army.
Sally D. Florkiewicz of Cleveland has signed up 196 people since mid-September to serve on Bush's committee, and has a list of 225 more e-names she wants to call. "They're so surprised we're calling them this early," she said. "I tell them it's going to be a very, very close election." « Close It
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Big Assic Pizza

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Early Morning
What a way to start the day

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The Red Fire
Acidman - This is for you!

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It's like this
You know, a million years ago I decided I would spend Thanksgiving with my friends and Christmas with my parents. I've been doing this for what seems like forever. This worked great, but now that my parents are both dead, it makes you think. I really miss them. It dosen't matter if I was right or wrong. What does matter is this: if you don't have friends, you have NOTHING!
Remember - no friends (true friends) = misarable life.
I'm very fortunate!!!
That's just the way it is.
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Pier Fog

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Isabel was a Bitch!

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Thanksgiving Menu
This was too good!
Good Friends and the Dog.
28 lb. Turkey. smoked overnight
Leg of Lamb - charcoal grilled - no gas
Turkey Gravy
Lamb Gravy
Dressing
Squash Casserole
Pearl Onion Casserole
Collard Greens
Parsnips
Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Olives
Beach Salad
Bread Rolls - as my English friend would say.
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Lemon Pie
Boo Coo assorted cold and warm beverages
Cuban Cigars, smuggled via Greece
and a bunch of stuff I can't remember.....
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2:30, 4:30, 1:30, Hike!
...or should I say "bedtime at the beach"? Yeap, and I'm talking am. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Well, as you can see, we had a long Thanksgiving day. 4:30 am., damn - at least we made it to bed before the birds started chirping. I hate it when that happens.
Hell, to hang with my friends requires training.
This trip was like an 80 yard field goal!
I'm telling you, "we always have a good time".
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11.26.03
Beach Tripping!
Not that it matters, but I'm outta here for a few days.
Have a good weekend.
Sam
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11.25.03
I feel better now!
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer
November 25, 2003, 5:45 PM EST
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will spend Thanksgiving in Afghanistan before traveling to Iraq with a former Army paratrooper turned senator to meet with soldiers and ask questions about the United States' ongoing nation-building efforts.
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The former first lady and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., have both been critical of the administration's handling of post-combat problems in the war on terrorism, particularly after major military operations ended in Iraq.
Wonder what kind of Cigar he prefers?
Clinton and Reed said Tuesday they were concerned about the current efforts to win the "hearts and minds" of Iraqis.
Like they can make a difference.
"This administration is run by people who have been obsessed with Saddam Hussein for more than a decade," Clinton said. "And the fact that they could have been so poorly informed and prepared raises a lot of serious questions about the decisions they are making now."
A decade? - That would be Bill, right? Poorly informed - kind of like you when your husband was tagging the staff and promoting Cuba. Cigars, that is.
Reed said he is worried "the administration seems to be rushing toward an exit strategy" in Iraq by transferring power as quickly as possible to civilian police authority.
"rushing toward an exit strategy?" Hypocrite! You speak with "forked" whatever.
The trip marks Clinton's first fact-finding mission abroad as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
While in Afghanistan, Clinton, D-N.Y., plans to spend time with members of the 10th Mountain Division, which is based in Fort Drum, New York and is now serving in Afghanistan.
I hope the 10th Mountain Division puts a little "fox and hound" on 'em. Remember, she's visiting a division from her bought state. If it was an Arkansas division, they'd kill her.
The division suffered casualties last weekend when an Army transport helicopter crashed near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, killing five U.S. soldiers and injuring seven others.
"I'm still very worried about Afghanistan ... The Taliban and al-Qaida are clearly making a comeback," Clinton said. "I'm very honored that we'll be spending Thanksgiving with our 10th Mountain Division troops."
Honored, you were not invited! Bitch!
New York's junior senator said she wants to "see and hear for myself what people tell me on the ground," adding she will "be supportive where I can be supportive and I'm going to have questions where I think it's in our national interest to ask those questions."
You mean to say - "I have no interest except my own, and only if it will benefit me, and my dirtbag husband." And by the way, "I'm staying with that bastard because CUBA is paying us a bunch of money to lobby for them. Must be the cigars. Who cares."
Reed has already visited Afghanistan and Iraq within the past year, and wants to compare what he saw then with current conditions.
The Rhode Island senator said the United States is now at "a very critical moment" in its international military efforts. After his visit to Iraq, Reed complained vociferously that some units from his home state weren't getting sufficient armor protection. While more have that protection now, Reed said, "the equipment is still slow flowing."
Help 'em out asshole, and quite bitching!
Reed said he is concerned that too many reserve and National Guard units are having to "make do" with insufficient equipment and protection, and wants to hear from individual soldiers about what they believe they need to complete their mission.
Idiot - That is what we do as Americans - make do, make the best out of bad situations - Adapt. How in the hell do you think we made it this far?
The two have criticized aspects of the administration's oversight of the U.S. military during the war on terror. Clinton voted for both the authorization to use force in Iraq and the $87 billion package to help rebuild that country and Afghanistan.
But even as she voted for the spending measure, she called it "a bill for failed leadership."
Hypocrite!
Reed, a West Point graduate who was once a company commander with the 82nd Airborne Division, voted against the force authorization and for the spending measure.
Traitor and not worthy. Should be deported to a villa to live with Coffee Noman.
For Clinton, the trip is also a chance to bring attention to one of her long-time public causes: the advancement of women in the political systems of other nations.
I trust women. I believe women have an intuition men do not. I believe women are equal to men. I believe any problem can be solved more efficiently with the help of a woman. I believe when a woman and a man agree, it's right. But not in this case - this bitch is bad JuJu.
She plans to meet with different groups of women leaders of both countries, and lobby for their inclusion in the nation-building effort.
"I want to be sure that women are involved in all levels," she said, adding she wants to take advantage of Reed's military experience as she tours military operations.
What?, and to take advantage of a traitor - Par for her course! This looks good in print, and that is all.
"I do know a little about winning the hearts and minds of people and developing a political strategy that gets people on your side, and I've been amazed and disappointed at how poorly our government has carried that out."
What?, bring IslamoFascists over to our side. This DemoHomo is way way out there! He is still watching cartoons.
Reed said the nation's attention has "focused dramatically away from" Afghanistan since Taliban forces were routed, and said he is worried "we may have lost some ground in light of the resurgence of the Taliban and the appropriate integration not only of our forces, but NATO forces."
Move to France or Canada and infiltrate a mosque, asshat. Shut up and help us out.
Citing security concerns, the exact itinerary of the trip was not disclosed. Clinton, who travels with Secret Service protection, said she was not concerned about her safety, but her office would not discuss what, if any, extra protective efforts were made for her trip.
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Thanks for Giving

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11.24.03
Does this surprise you?
The Canadians are like re-fried beans. They cannot get it right the first time.
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Canada's first space probe may miss its target -- Mars
Tom Spears
Canwest News Service
Monday, November 24, 2003
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OTTAWA -- Canada's first space mission to another planet -- a science instrument riding on a Japanese probe heading to Mars -- is likely doomed as the Nozomi spacecraft is escaping control and may miss Mars completely.
Nozomi has been flying for five years and has already missed Mars once. It carries a Canadian-built instrument that would measure the gases in Mars' thin atmosphere. Nozomi is designed to orbit Mars.
But Japan acknowledges it can barely control Nozomi, and the spacecraft may crash on Mars within a few weeks, or miss the planet and drift aimlessly around the sun forever.
Nozomi means "Hope," and the little spacecraft could use some.
It has experienced a series of failures that kept it from reaching Mars on its first trip. Unfazed, its operators swung it around for a second pass at the Red Planet, but now say the probe is in its "final challenge" and may never arrive.
Translation: Nozomi, and the Canadian-built Thermal Plasma Analyzer, may continue a tradition of man-made probes that don't survive the trip to the bad-luck planet.
Canada's instrument is the country's first participation in a mission to another planet. In theory, once Mars orbit is established, the Thermal Plasma Analyzer will be extended out from the satellite on a boom, and its measurements of the Martian atmosphere will begin.
It is designed to measure low-energy particles and gases considered vital to the understanding of the origin and composition of the Martian atmosphere. Other instruments will study the magnetic field of Mars and take pictures of the planet's surface.
The Canadian Space Agency is funding this research. It involves scientists from the University of Calgary (the co-Principal Investigators of the TPA are Dr. Andrew Yau and Dr. Greg Garbe, professors of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary), as well as scientists from the Universities of Alberta, Western Ontario, and Victoria. Others on the research team include scientists from Hokkaido, Nagoya and Tokyo.
Nozomi's troubles began in December 1998 during an Earth fly-by that was to "slingshot" the craft toward Mars, and arrive there in October 1999.
But the plan went wrong. A stuck valve forced controllers to do extra manoeuvres, leaving Nozomi too low on fuel to steer safely into orbit around Mars at the scheduled arrival time.
The Nozomi team was forced to steer a more indirect path, and the probe is now closing in on Mars, and is due to arrive next month. As well, the probe's main transmitter stopped working, so scientists now depend on a backup.
Also, a large solar flare a year-and-a-half ago damaged its power system.
Nozomi isn't dead yet. On Friday the Japanese Space Agency had this to say:
"Nozomi right now is under 'the last challenge' to repair its malfunction on which must be concentrated all [the] task force of scientists and engineers of Nozomi mission team until its outcome is clearly known. Upon recovering from the damage, we will then work on putting the probe to orbit around Mars and resume its exploration."
But if they can't repair the damage they will steer away from Mars. "Nozomi will, after once approaching Mars, escape from Martian gravitational sphere to become an artificial planet going around the orbit of the sun forever."
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The Tar Baby is my friend!
I didn't name my blog "The Brier Patch" fo nothing! Jus bin bisy!! I'm almost ready! So now you know - been holding out!
Way down deep in de brier-patch is de home of Breir Rabbit. He is a smart feller, but he get on de nerves of Brer Bear and Brer Fox.
One night dey cach him and tie him up, to make him into stew. But Brer Rabbit only laugh at Brer Bear and Brer Fox. "Too bad" he say. "what do you mean?" ask Brer Fox. "I was goin' to show you my secret lauthing place in a hollow tree," say Brer Rabbit "Make me feel like lauthin' just to think of it." "Can't you tell us which tree?" dey ask. "I can't tell you where 'tis" say Brer Rabbit. "I got to show you. But you got me all tied up. If you'd set me free, I't take you dere." Brer Fox and Brer Bear consider more. At last they give in. Oh, dey keep a rope on Brer Rabbit, good ant tight. Den dey start off, an' Brer Rabbit lead de way right up to a hollow oak. "Dere 'tis!" he yell. "Dere's my secret lauthing place." So Brer Fox and Brer Bear peek in. Zippety-zim, out come a swarm of bees, and dey chase Brer Fox and Brer Bear a-howling through de woods. Brer Rabbit, he laugh till he almost choke. "Dat's my lauthing place!" he sing out. So Brer Bear and Brer Fox go home, mos' unhappy, and dream of trappin' Brer Rabbit again.
The Tar Baby
One day Brer Fox an Brer Bear wuz sittin' round in de woods, an Brer Fox say, all to once, "I'm goin' to make a new sort of trap dat's sure to git Brer Rabbit!" so he get some tar and set to work. he make him a Tar Baby and dress it in brer Bear's clothes. Dey took de Tar Baby, and dey sot him down by the side of the road. Den Brer Fox and Brer Bear, dey hid until Brer Rabbit comes along and spies de Tar Baby. "Howdy-do!" sing out Brer Rabbit. Of course, de Tar baby he say nothin'. Brer Rabbit wait. Den he say, louder dan before, "Ain't you goin' to be perlit and say Howdy-do?" De tar baby he say nothin'. Now Brer Rabbit get mad. He draw back his fist, and BLIP! he hit de Tar Baby smack in his nose. But Brer Rabbit's fist stuck in the tar. "Let go of my fist!" he holler, an he hit de Tar Baby. But dis fist stuck, too. Well suh, Brer Rabbit kiked dat Tar Baby wif both behind feet. Den he ram him with his hean. By now, Brer Rabbit so stuck in de tar, he can't scarecely move at all. Now Brer Fox and Brer Bear Bear come outer de bushes. dey dance round Brer Rabbit, laughin' and chucklin'. "Brer Rabbit," say Brer fox, "you been bossin' other folks round fer a long time. Now I'm de boss, an I'm goin' to roast you."Brer Rabbit, he skeered, but he tink he know how to get out of his trouble. "Roast me ez hot ez you plese," say Brer Rabbit, "but plese PLESE don't fling me in dat brier-patch!" "Hold on," say Brer Bear. It's goin' to be a lot of trouble to roast Brer Rabbit. First, we got to build a big, hot fire." "Yes....dat's so," say Brer Fox. "Well, Brer Rabbit I guess de best way is to skin you. Come on, Brer Bear let's get started." "Skin me," say Brer Rabbit "pull out my ears, snach off my legs, and chop off my tail, but plese plese PLLLLEEEESSSSEEEE, Brer Fox and Brer Bear, don't fling me in det brier-patch!" Now Brer Bear sorter grumble. "ah.....pooh! It aint goin' to be much fun to skin Brer Rabbit, 'cause he ain't skeered of being' skined." But he sure is skeered of dat brier-patch!" say With dat, he yank Brer Rabbit off the Tar Baby, an he fling him KERPLUNK!.....right into dat brer-patch! Well suh, dere wuz a flutter wher Brer Rabbit landed, den "Ooo! Oow! Ouch!" He screech an he squall. Den after a while, der is only a week wisper from Brer Rabbit. Brer Fox and Brer Bear, dey listen. Den dey laff an shake hands. "We got him! Brer Rabbit is dead!" But right den dey hear a scuffin' way at de other end of the brer-patch. An lo an behold, who do dey see scramblin' out but Brer Rabbit hisself, whistlin' with a piece of de brer-bush! "Born an bred in de brier-patch, dat's me," laugh Brer Rabbit. "told you not to fling me der. In all de world dat's the place I love best!" An lippity clip, he hop away. So Up an down dat contryside, Brer Fox an Brer Bear chase Brer rabbit still. Maybe some day dey catch him. You recon dey will?
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris - 1880
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Cry Wolf?, the Big Blow!
Monday, November 24, Al Qaeda marked Eid al Fitr, the festival closing the Muslim festival of Ramadan, with a dramatic warning. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources reports that a message published over al Qaeda’s electronic channels and websites declared that the countdown has begun for the biggest operation ever carried out in the United States. “The big blow will fall very shortly. It will consist of a series of surprise attacks that will cut America off from communication with its armies in Muslim countries.” The reference is clearly to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The largest number, around 115,000 soldiers, is present in Iraq.
Muslims living in the United States are urged to “take advantage of the short time left” to escape the country and harm’s way.
Some of the messages say that a new Osama bin Laden videotape will soon be out. It will also carry statements by al Qaeda members who executed the last suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia and adherents who died in clashes with Saudi security. They will be shown describing how they were prepared for action. Bin Laden will intersperse these cuts with comments explaining the selection of Saudi targets.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that some of the new messages are signed by Abu Assam al Yamani, who also threatens to murder Abdul Rahman Rashid, editor of the Saudi London-based paper Sharq al Awsat. Al Yamani says the al Qaeda passed sentence of death against the editor because he not only met President George W. Bush in the British capital last week but interviewed him and appeared with the president in a joint photo.
How many times have the followers of the "Religion of Peace" promised this? Of course, the al Qaeda Flu would change the world as we know it, and If this threat is true, and forthcoming, Muslims living in the United States should “take advantage of the short time left”, and break for cover - because neither God nor America will have mercy on you. I know I won't.
Killing innocent people with conventional munitions is sick enough, but unleashing a biological "agent" into the population is something else. It is evil!
I've never really met, or known of, anyone I can't or couldn't get along with (within reason) until now. If these people are ready to slow dance - I'm holding your dance card - bring it on!
One more thing - "May the fleas of 1000 camels nest in your beard"
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Countdown Script
Does anyone like my countdown script? It's on the left sidebar. And, if so, I'm open for suggestions. Please comment.
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The fine is too low!
Town passes ordinance requiring firearms
GEUDA SPRINGS, Kan. — Residents of this tiny south-central Kansas community have passed an ordinance requiring most households to have guns and ammunition.
Noncomplying residents would be fined $10 under the ordinance, passed 3-2 earlier this month by City Council members who thought it would help protect the town of 210 people. Those who suffer from physical or mental disabilities, paupers and people who conscientiously oppose firearms would be exempt.
"This ordinance fulfills the duty to protect by allowing each individual householder to provide for his or her protection," said Councilman John Brewer.
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11.23.03
Really - The Flamingoes are Pissed!
I needed a good laugh.
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Exclusive By Terry O'Hanlon
THE Queen is furious with President George W. Bush after his state visit caused thousands of pounds of damage to her gardens at Buckingham Palace.
Royal officials are now in touch with the Queen's insurers and Prime Minister Tony Blair to find out who will pick up the massive repair bill. Palace staff said they had never seen the Queen so angry as when she saw how her perfectly-mantained lawns had been churned up after being turned into helipads with three giant H landing markings for the Bush visit.
The rotors of the President's Marine Force One helicopter and two support Black Hawks damaged trees and shrubs that had survived since Queen Victoria's reign.
And Bush's army of clod-hopping security service men trampled more precious and exotic plants.
The Queen's own flock of flamingoes, which security staff insisted should be moved in case they flew into the helicopter rotors, are thought to be so traumatised after being taken to a "place of safety" that they might never return home.
The historic fabric of the Palace was also damaged as high-tech links were fitted for the US leader and his entourage during his three-day stay with the Queen.
The Palace's head gardener, Mark Lane, was reported to be in tears when he saw the scale of the damage.
"The Queen has every right to feel insulted at the way she has been treated by Bush," said a Palace insider.
"The repairs will cost tens of thousands of pounds but the damage to historic and rare plants will be immense. They are still taking an inventory.
"The lawns are used for royal garden parties and are beautifully kept. But 30,000 visitors did not do as much damage as the Americans did in three days.
"Their security people and support staff tramped all over the place and left an absolute mess. It is particularly sad because the Queen Mother loved to wander in the garden just as the Queen and Prince Charles do now.
"Some of the roses, flowers and shrubs damaged are thought to be rare varieties named after members of the Royal Family and planted by the Queen Mother and Queen.
"Other Royals had their own favourite parts of the garden as children and some of those areas have been damaged."
The Queen's insurers have told her she is covered for statues, garden furniture and plants she personally owns, but the bill for repairing damage to the lawns and the structure of the Palace will probably have to be picked up by the Government.
The Americans made alterations to accommodate specialised equipment. The mass of gadgetry meant the Royals couldn't get a decent TV picture during the visit. « Close It
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More Nonsense from the Dopefulls
Democrats Insist Republicans Pull Bush Ad
2 hours, 18 minutes ago
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is demanding that Republicans stop showing their first television ad of the 2004 presidential race, which he called "repulsive and outrageous."
Tom Daschle demanding anything is outrageous.
The 30-second ad, which aired in Iowa over the weekend, features clips of Bush during his State of the Union address last January. It portrays Bush as a fighter of terrorism and says his opponents "are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists."
"It's wrong. It's erroneous, and I think that they ought to pull the ad," Daschle told NBC's "Meet the Press" program on Sunday.
Tommy has already been "pulled". Shut the frap up!
"We all want to defeat terrorism," the South Dakota senator said. But "to chastise and to question the patriotism of those who are in opposition to some of the president's plans I think is wrong."
Not true - all this coward wants is to save face. After all, he took a pretty good bitch slapping from Bush not long ago.
The Republican National Committee (news - web sites) has no plans to honor Daschle's wishes.
"We have no doubt that Sen. Daschle and others in his party who oppose the president's policy of pre-emptive self-defense believe that their national security approach is in the best interests of the country," RNC spokeswoman Christine Iverson said. "But we also have no doubt that they are wrong about that, and we will continue to highlight this critical policy difference as well as others."
Other Democrats on the Sunday talk shows joined Daschle in his criticism.
Presidential candidate Wesley Clark (news - web sites) said the ad is wrong and ought to be pulled. It violates "the pledge the president made to not exploit 9-11 for political purposes," Clark said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Just who is exploiting 9/11 for political purposes? Give me a break. Two faced, all of 'em.
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy called it an "attempt to stifle dissent." On ABC's "This Week," Kennedy said "dissent is a basic part of what our whole society is about."
"Ted the Swimmer" is damn close to being a card carrying Communist, and he should be in jail with his relatives"
Speaking on CNN's "Late Edition," presidential candidate and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) said the ad was misleading, nothing more than an attempt "to get the public's mind off the joblessness in America, the bad prescription Medicare drug bill ... the energy bill, which sells out to lobbyists."
Joblessness, Medicare, Energy, Lobbyists - Damn, who is misleading who? Good thing he kept his day job when he was running around with Gore.
Republicans countered that there was nothing wrong with the ad, which was airing Sunday in Iowa, the day before the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines.
"It's portraying the president's leadership that he's displayed since Sept. 11, which I support," Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said on ABC. "I think it's a very legitimate statement to be made in the coming presidential election."
The ad will air through Tuesday in Iowa, and then may run again in New Hampshire during the next Democratic debate in December, said the RNC's Iverson. She said the party plans to run ads in conjunction with the Democratic debates, but the decision hasn't been made whether to simply run the current ad or new ones supporting the president.
If the Democrats had an agenda, they wouldn't be so defensive and offensive.
Yeap - they are both.
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Green Onions
Damn! Green onions are good for the soul!
It's the Mexicans fault - at least they say it is.
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By DANIEL YEE
Associated Press Writer
November 23, 2003, 3:02 PM EST
ATLANTA -- A North Carolina outbreak of hepatitis A probably came from green onions, which also have been blamed for outbreaks linked to restaurants in Georgia, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, according to a preliminary state health report.
The Georgia Division of Public Health found that the hepatitis A strain that sickened 16 people in North Carolina was the same as the one that afflicted 259 people in Georgia and likely came from the same source.
The Georgia outbreak had previously been traced to green onions shipped from Mexico, and the report said a single Atlanta Farmers' Market distributor provided green onions from California suppliers to three Georgia restaurants where multiple people got the liver infection.
Health officials have said that water can contain several different strains of the virus that could contaminate a harvest during irrigation or processing. The vegetables also could have been contaminated by infected workers.
There were no deaths stemming from the Georgia outbreak in September and October. This month, three people have died and more than 600 have been sickened in Pennsylvania in the nation's biggest known outbreak of the disease.
"We were very lucky in Georgia that people that got sick have gotten better or are continuing to recover," said Richard Quartarone, health division spokesman. "We were able to act very quickly on it."
Federal health officials said Friday that green onions from Mexico were probably responsible for the Pennsylvania outbreak, but stopped short of saying they came from one of three Mexican companies known to have supplied the onions blamed for other outbreaks.
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Bass Ackwards!
This is interesting.
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Is there any significance to what Web server/platform combinations 2004 presidential candidates are using?
As we swing into the thick of the 2004 electoral playoffs, it's interesting to see what kinds of platforms are running under the candidates' official campaign Web sites. Netcraft has a handy feature called "What's that site running?" that lets us see combinations of Web servers and OS platforms. So here's a quick rundown, in alphabetical order:
* George W. Bush: Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000
* Wesley Clark: Apache on Linux
* Howard Dean: Apache on FreeBSD
* John Edwards: Microsoft IIS "behind a computer running NetWare"
* Richard Gephardt: Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000
* John Kerry: Apache on Linux
* Dennis Kucinich Apache on Linux
* Carol Mosely-Braun: Apache on FreeBSD
* Al Sharpton: Apache on Solaris 8
* Joe Lieberman: Apache on FreeBSD
For what it's worth, the Republican National Committee is running Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000, while the Democratic National Committee is running Apache on Linux.
As of this writing, November 5, 2003, the RNC has an uptime of 4.26 days (maximum of 39.04) and a 90-day moving average of 16.91. The DNC has an uptime of 445.02 days (also the maximum) and a 90-day moving average of 395.38 days.
Draw your own conclusions.
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Savages
Well, the followers of the "Religion of Peace" are showing their true colors again.
Slitting throats and looting bodies.
Savages, heathens, scum.
We should do to them as the Spanish Conquistadors did to the Aztec, except the Spanish biological terror was accidental and the Aztec Nation was not scum.
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French Whine!
The proper way to pour a nice French wine.

Out!
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The Bright Angel Trail
This was one of the most physically demanding excursions I've ever attempted.
Several years ago, when I was in much better physical condition, some friends and I arrived at the rim of the Grand Canyon. I've got to tell you, that is one big ass ditch.
It was an afternoon in August when we decided to descend that night, and ascend the following day. Sixteen miles round trip, no problem. This was a bad decision.
How we made it to the river, I'll never know. We were drinking beer all the way down, and hiking down in the dark is dangerous. You are history if you stumble over the edge of a switchback. At the bottom, we had some more warm beverages, did some stargazing, went skinny-dipping, and made breakfast.
At about mid morning, we headed back for the rim, and it was Hot. Really really Hot. About half way up, we were all in pretty bad shape. We'd already discarded most of our supplies due to weight, refilled the wine sacks with water, and bummed salt tablets from passing hikers. Yeap, we never considered that one.
At about the two-thirds mark, we were becoming delirious and I thought I was dying. To save distance, we decided to climb the switchbacks instead of hiking them. The first one I climbed, I came face to face with about twenty rattlesnakes, and I busted my ass making my escape. We kept walking.
At about the three quarters mark we happened upon a Park Ranger with a donkey. One of us could barely stand, and needed to be evacuated. The Ranger agreed, so we strapped his ass on the donkey, and off they went.
The rest of us continued on, discovered a pool with a waterfall, and immediately dove in. This resulted in all of us developing some mysterious skin spots that lasted for a year or more.
We made it up and out, but after I took the last step over the rim, all of the muscles in both my legs cramped, and I collapsed. That hurt, and I was sore for a long time.
When it's 120+ degrees - never, ever, hike eight miles uphill.
That was stupid, but I’ve never seen so many stars.
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The Democrats’ Southern Problem
Thank G_D for Arkansas, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Read this.
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Kennedy Assassination
My two cents:
Had to be more than one shooter. There is no way Oswald could've gotten off those shots in that time frame, and been accurate at that range and angle, with a bolt action rifle with a bad site. No way.
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Women and Combat
Very interesting - I say "go for it".
From the Debka file.
"The Israeli Defence Force is setting up first all-woman combat battalion."
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Our True Enemy
The conniving, deceitful Saudis are at it again. This Saudi problem will get much worse before it gets better.
Excerpt:
''Our problem as Muslims is with those who seek to destroy us and our religion – and they are well known – not with the Arab and Islamic governments in our countries,''
Go here to read it.
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Wild Turkey
My wife and I were members of the Rare Breed Society until we discovered the French own the Austin, Nichols Distilling Co. We used to have an annual bourbon tasting, which usually coincided with the fastest two minutes in sports, and a Wild Turkey Brand won every time. Not anymore, which is too damn bad.
You might be surprised to see what else Pernod Ricard owns. Go here to find out.
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11.22.03
Halftime
Nov 21, 6:01 PM (ET)
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most powerful conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal exploded in a huge, fiery cloud on a Florida test range on Friday after being dropped by an Air Force cargo plane in the last developmental step for the nearly 11-ton"mother of all bombs."
An MC-130E Combat Talon I dropped the 21,700-pound satellite-guided GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, or MOAB, over the test range at Eglin Air Force Base in northwestern Florida, said base spokesman Jake Swinson.
A plume of smoke rose more than 10,000 feet in the air and was visible 40 miles away in Pensacola, Florida.
"It looked like a big mushroom cloud filled with flames as it grew and grew and grew," Swinson said after the afternoon test. "It was one of the most awesome spectacles I've seen."
The Air Force called the test successful, saying the bomb separated cleanly from the aircraft with the help of a parachute at 20,500 feet, glided 41 seconds to its target area and detonated as planned.
Officials said the bomb was developed in only nine weeks to be available for use this spring in the Iraq war, but commanders opted not to use it. Its only previous live test came on March 11, the week before the U.S.-led invasion.
The MOAB, the most powerful nonnuclear U.S. bomb, carries 18,700 pounds of high explosives, detonating just above the ground when the tip of the 30-foot-long bomb hits the earth, Swinson said.
Swinson said the bomb was now available to U.S. commanders, but said there were no immediate plans for it to go into production.
The United States has had larger conventional bombs in the past but none in the current U.S. arsenal is as big.
The MOAB is envisioned as a successor to BLU-82, the 15,000-pound "Daisy Cutter."
The "Daisy Cutter" was used to clear helicopter landing areas in the Vietnam War and was used in the 1991 Gulf War and in 2001 in Afghanistan. In the latter two conflicts, U.S. commanders used the "Daisy Cutter" partly for the psychological effect of such a massive blast.
Swinson said it was the last of four developmental tests for the MOAB -- nicknamed the "mother of all bombs" by some in the military. The two live tests were preceded by two inert tests.
Lynda Rutledge, MOAB program manager at Eglin, said there were minor modifications to the MOAB tested on Friday compared to the one detonated in March, adding that the latest test sought to give commanders a chance to understand how the big bomb performs, particularly relating to targeting.
Poor weather forced a postponement of the test on Tuesday and a problem with a laptop computer aboard the plane carrying the bomb forced another delay on Thursday, officials said.
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My back yard!

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Thanksgiving!
Oh Well!

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18 degrees
18 degrees can be warm

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Cool with me Mon!
Color Photo?

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The Icelandic Horse
The Ultimate Four Wheel Drive!!

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11.21.03
Train Tripping - 53 Hours
I used to go to Sacramento on business quite often. I finally figured out how to do it right. Instead of flying to SAC, I'd fly to Chicago (Midway), and get on the California Zephyr. Well that's not exactly true, it's not the Zephyr yet, it is just the train. It departs at 2:40 in the afternoon, does Iowa and Nebraska at night, and arrives in Denver at dawn. Once you've seen a mile of those two states, you've seen it all. Anyway, the train is watered, and then begins to slowly chug up and over the Rockies. High enough, the snow never melts. Then, your hauling ass downhill for Salt Lake City. The train arrives at dusk, it is watered again, more engines are brought forth and they split it into three trains. The train station in Salt Lake is very close to the Mormon Tabernacle, and if you've never seen it glowing at night, you are missing a beautiful sight.
The first third of the train (now the California Zephyr) presses forward across the High Sierra to SAC and San Francisco. The middle (now the Desert Wind) heads for Las Vegas and terminates in the city of Angels. Problem is, all the Angels out there left along time ago. The tail end (now the Pioneer) heads north for Seattle.
This is a great way to see the country, on the company. Don't take me wrong - I do not cheat on expenses, but when I was doing my "train tripping", you could purchase a ticket for the same price as a one way ticket to SAC. I might have kicked in a little (and I mean a little) personal cash, but it was well worth it. You get, a private "room" with two bunk beds, windows that open, a semi private head, and breakfast, lunch, and dinner - cruise ship style. Two seatings, early and late. Also, the Bar Car. It is transparent, open 24 hours, has a live band, and is just very very cool. Set up for maximum sightseeing.
It's about as much traveling fun you can have in 53 hours, and you will be Mooned!
This is a beautiful country, and I love it!
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My Binary Dreamer Friend
I just heard that one of my binary dreamer friends is making a career move. Good for him, not good for me. He saved my ass on a number of occasions.
I wish him well, and I know that he will be successful in whatever he chooses.
I hope our paths cross in the future.
Cool Runnings my friend!
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Uncle Ted
In grammar school, my teacher gave me an assignment. She wanted me to explain “moral”.
Oh shit – Well, my uncle Ted was flying over Viet Nam and all he had with him was a .50 caliber machine gun with 50 rounds of ammunition, a bayonet, and a case of beer. He was hit by a SAM (I was named after it) and had to bail out.
On the way down – he drank the beer.
When he landed, 150 enemy soldiers surrounded him. He killed the first 50 with his gun, and when he ran out of ammo, he gutted another 50 with his bayonet. When the bayonet broke, he killed the rest with his bare hands.
My teacher asked, “what could possibly be the moral of this story?”
I said: “Don’t Fuck with Uncle Ted when he’s been Drinking”
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Problem?
There is no problem that cannot be solved by the appropriate application of high explosives.
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11.20.03
Eric's Story
I was in another town the other day, talking with my good friend Eric, and learned something. Eric, who is older than I, is the type of guy you want to have around when the chips are down. I mean, he is a standup get down type of guy and he’ll cover your back. When the shit hits the fan, you can always depend on Eric. Eric understands Honor. Eric knows what true friendship is. Eric is a humble man. Eric is a bad ass.
Eric had just been to his doctor who informed him that, in his opinion, the muscles in his heart were deteriorating. His doctor said, “you might die soon”, but “we’ll run some tests in two days.”
Eric said to me, “You know Sam, if I die, so be it. I should have died when I was twenty. The last forty years were a gift. I remember when I was twenty years of age, laying in that rice paddy in Viet Nam amongst my buddies brains, intestines, and severed limbs. I was the only one not hit. The VC even blew up the chopper. Everyone died but me. So whatever happens, I’m OK with it.”
This happened on his first tour, he volunteered for a second and was wounded (shot) multiple times on three separate occasions.
Anyway, I could hardly swallow when I asked him – “If you do die, can I have your Pearl .45’s?” You might think this callous, but your wrong, it’s the way true friends communicate with each other.
Many years ago, we discussed this same situation. Very interesting - how people reflect.
Bottom Line: The doctor was wrong, and Eric and I have some more drinking and talking to do. Life is good!
But I still want the guns!!!
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Human Wanna Be!
This POS (Michael Jackson) is done.
Nevermind him!
Sick Sick Sick!!!
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11.19.03
Eunuchs
In the beginning, a long long time ago, there was UNIX and there was DOS. In the great Technological Evolution, DOS became extinct, and UNIX evolved into the most powerful operating system ever. It is the plumbing of all telecommunitations and the Internet. Linux, son of UNIX, is not doing badly either.
As I said, DOS is extinct, but the idea evolved into Windows. So, Windows is a monkey, and Linux is human.
Now, my question is this.
Why would anyone name such a powerful operating system after a bunch of guys with no nuts?
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He should Die!
This POS should be thrown off a cliff. People like this make me angry. Have you ever noticed that money, is both good and bad.
Oh, and POS does not mean "Point of Sale".
What do you think?
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11.18.03
3 Too Cool Chicks
These girls are DOWNTOWN! Random Order.
One Two Three
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Do you believe this ?
What am I missing? This is NOT right!
ARAGHHHH!!!
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Two out of three ain't bad
And Paridise by the Dashboard Light ain't too bad either. Know what I mean?
Meat Loaf Collapses on London Stage
Nov 18, 3:52 PM (ET)
(AP) Pop star Meat Loaf, shown in this Aug. 7, 2003 photo, is being treated for exhaustion brought on...
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LONDON (AP) - Grammy-winning singer Meat Loaf, who collapsed on stage during a concert, is being treated for exhaustion brought on by a virus, hospital officials said Tuesday.
A spokesman for Mercury, the singer's record company, said a second concert planned for Tuesday night at London's Wembley Arena had been postponed.
Meat Loaf, 52, collapsed Monday on the first sellout date at the venue. A spokesman for North West London Hospitals said the pop star was in Northwick Park Hospital recovering "from exhaustion due to a prolonged viral infection."
"Meat Loaf will be re-evaluated by doctors today and further information about his status will be made available," the spokesman said.
Born Marvin Lee Aday, Meat Loaf made his name with theatrical stage productions and operatic songs, including "Paradise by the Dashboard Light,""Two out of Three Ain't Bad" and "Bat out of Hell."
He won a Grammy Award for "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." His films include "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Fight Club."
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Could've had a V-8
Yesterday, I got a new Laptop, and it is a piece of shit! Hardware is the latest greatest IBM ThinkPad, but the "pre-loaded operating system" is Microsoft XP (eXtreme Problems).
If you want to be stable - the ONLY solution is to nuke it (format everything and start from scratch) and install Linux.
There are so many "preinstalled applications phoning home", it is a joke.
Beware, I'm telling you the truth.
FYI - Linux is perfect for blogging!, except MT does not support Mozilla very well, or vice versa.
Microsoft Sucks...
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RedDog1 to Base
This is a "not so coded" message for my good friend down under:
Ya'll are very welcome! Question is - can a newbie tolorate it? - it has nothing to do with women! I mean - if they like it or not.
I could be driving something that belongs to someone else!
That is Fraped Up.
Be cool with it.
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11.16.03
Memo from Israel to Palestine
Author Unknown.
Date: "To Be Determined"
To: The Palestinian People
From: The People of Israel
Re: Final Notice Before the Termination of Our Relationship (To be filed in your "Permanent Conduct Record")
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As you know from our repeated meetings over many years, we have repeatedly done our best to accommodate your incessant demands regarding employment, compensation, housing allowances, health benefits, and other items of mutual interest as we have endeavored to work together on "Project Peace in the Middle East."
We have, with your agreement and assurances of a better performance, given you time, money, professional help, medication and a more than reasonable offer of land for you to live in while you work out "your issues." In the course of these meetings we feel we have been more than forthcoming in our attendance to your "special needs."
From time to time we have accepted your written word that, given adequate resources, you would be working to resolve "your issues." We note, for the record, that at no time has your word proven to be worth the paper which we both so ceremoniously signed. Indeed, it has been our bitter experience that the working out of "your issues" most often involves explosive episodes on the streets of our country.
It has come to our attention, through a continuing rain of the body parts of our citizens onto our streets, that "your issues" do not seem to be resolvable through considered and mutually agreeable negotiations. The outcome of these 'negotiations' in the recent past seems to us to be one of we give and you take and then you kill us. We have decided that this is not a program that we wish to continue.
Indeed, it would seem to be the case that your "central issue," although internally generated within your institutions and religion, seems to be the eradication of the state of Israel and the extermination of the Jewish people here and abroad. We mention 'abroad' since it would seem to us that your goal is to first create a base that includes the entire state of Israel, kill the Jews within those borders, and then use that land as a base to kill Jews throughout the world. Perhaps we are wrong in this but we find that a people is best known by the company they keep.
We have had a similar experience with this "central issue" as a "final solution" towards the middle of the last century. We discovered, after millions of us had been slaughtered, that mollification, negotiation, and submission was not a successful policy. Indeed, we created the state of Israel around the central concept of 'Never again.'
Please note that after no little reflection and soul searching, we have decided to return Israel to this concept as the foundation of our internal and international policy from this moment forward.
Because we are a reasonable people we have decided to issue this memorandum in order to give you one chance to reform yourselves and become fit to be included in the human race. Should you choose not to pursue this path, we will at least have a record that you were notified in a fair and timely manner before termination.
"Never Again" was our first principle and is now our final position. This memo serves to note the end of all negotiations with the Palestinian People.
Your problems and your issues as of this date are yours and yours alone. You must solve whatever bipolar instability and manic-depressive disappointment and psychotic tendencies towards homicidal violence plague your society among yourselves. You will not, from this date forward, use the People of Israel as targets for your own internal demons.
Your "issues" will no longer be allowed to become our "episodes."
Should you choose act out, even once, we, the People of Israel, hereby notify you that we are prepared to and shall, without any further notice, over-react towards all Palestinian people and interests within our sphere of influence.
Bear in mind that we have not in recent memory over-reacted against your unremitting efforts to exterminate us. We have been patient and measured in our responses, cognizant of a watching world and not wanting to seem, even for a moment, to be as savage and violent as those who have been waging a coward's war against us for decades. We have, at all points, been as honorable in war as possible -- even when the wars in which we were engaged were not fought by honorable adversaries.
As you know, our military power, both conventional and nuclear, is immense. We won't detail here the helicopters, missiles, tanks, aircraft, and troops which we can mobilize and move to the west as far as the shores of the ocean if we wish.
Mere mention of these items has not gotten your attention.
The restrained use of these items has not gotten your attention.
Because we are weary of having our streets used as your martyr's mausoleums, because we are extremely angered when we must place the shredded bodies of children into body bags, because we would feel a lot better getting up in the morning if we knew we'd be coming home at night, we have decided we must, regretfully, engage in methods which will, finally, either get your attention or leave you without the capacity for attention in the first place.
This then is your single choice:
If you know of those among you who seek to kill even one of us by any means, you would be well advised to render them incapable of killing anyone immediately. Should you wish to ever have a bit of land to call your own and you are aware of an organization of any kind that seeks to take our land outright, you would be well advised to render them powerless forthwith.
Should you fail to do so and, as we stated above, even one more of our citizens should be killed by the cowardly methods you have perfected over the years, we will conclude that your entire society values martyrdom more than life and peace and endeavor, to the limit of our ability, to supply you with same.
We will begin our program of over-reaction without delay and without reference to our allies or world opinion. We will deal with that in the days that follow the completion of our strategic exercises in what you quaintly term "the occupied territories." Please notify those whom you consider your allies that, should they chance to intervene, we have sufficient resources to deal with them expeditiously.
Should individual Palestinians feel that these terms are unrealistic, we would advise them person to seek an exit visa and to remove themselves as far from 'the occupied territories' as is feasible and as quickly as possible. When we over-react to the west we will not be checking ID cards.
Please reflect upon these conditions as seriously as we have in drafting them.
Remember, in the final analysis, we are a people with no little experience of genocide.
Sincerely,
The People of Israel
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Pick me up outta the yard!
It was a Saturday, and I was in the kitchen working on my wife's birthday dinner - we've got a bunch of people coming over and she chose a meal which is a major production. I've got The Dave Matthews Band (DMB) on about 10 - shaking the windows, a cold beverage, and I'm cooking my ass off. Now I can trash a kitchen - ingredients everywhere - floor, walls, ceiling, you name it. Listening to the DMB, I remember they are playing close by and it's sold out, and I forgot to get tickets. FORGOT to get tickets. I tell my wife and she says "no big deal". She's a 10.
15 minutes later: I hear my wife scream "SAM". The music was so loud she had to scream. Anyway, I look through the window and I can see her talking to the mailman - not our regular mailman, but a substitute. I walk outside and he's listening to the music as well. Hell, it was so loud I guess the entire neighborhood was listening. I take pride in being Riff Raff.
He said "Would you like two tickets to the DMB concert? Pick me up out of the yard. Is that strange? He delivered them on Sunday.
So, there are three points to this story (1) it was the best encounter with the species vealuseggplantusparmesonous to date and (2) the mail here does run on Sunday and (3) Loud Music is Good!
Although I disagree with the DMB’s politics 100%, they can GET DOWN!
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And here you have it
So, Congress is complaining on how long Bush’s war is taking but consider this: It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation. It took less time to find evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. (They conveniently appeared shortly after the statute of limitations had run out.) It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to storm the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sunk at Chappaquiddick. It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida.
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Choked Up!
Excerpt...
No matter where I found myself, if I could find Orion’s belt in the starry sky, I knew I’d be all right. I guess I felt like that constellation was guiding me, protecting me, until I got home. Orion represents the hunter. The hunter of the night sky, and I still feel like that constellation guides me till this day. I named my new pup Orion. I knew that dog would protect me and help me find my way home......
Head on over to The Dax Files and read Orion's Belt.
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Arabia is History!
As I've said here.
It takes no historian, economist, or fortune-teller to predict the shocks and tremors that will accompany the rapidly approaching downfall of the Saudi royal house.
Via Jerusalem Post
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What will begin with panic in the energy markets will likely proceed to other commodity markets, from precious metals to food staples, and from there the road will be short to mayhem across the major stock, currency, bond, and derivatives markets.
Other side effects - like the inability to sell jets, tanks, and vessels to a newly anti-American Riyadh - may initially win less attention, until it emerges that those alone will cost thousands of American jobs.
Fortunately, some people - including George W. Bush - do get the imminence and gravity of this nightmare scenario. Unfortunately, even they, and even now, still think that the root of the Saudi malaise is in that vast country's politics. In fact, that is merely the symptom: The root of the problem - there as elsewhere in the totalitarian Middle East - lies in its sociology.
In Saudi Arabia, the regime has skillfully kept the people at arm's length, throwing in their direction crumbs from the massive wealth with which Allah blessed the country that is the center of His worship, while clutching the lion's share to their own princely bosoms.
Yes, during those increasingly distant years when the local per-capita income was higher than $20,000 (it is now well under half that level, and still declining) the government generously offered free health-care and education. In reality, however, life expectancy (63) and the per-capita number of doctors remained low even by Middle Eastern standards, while infant mortality remained high.
The reason is simple: While Riyadh abolished tuition, it never instituted what the Jews decreed already 2,000 years ago: compulsory education. And when people are not raised to value self-development nor led to actively seek enlightenment, they indeed avoid them. The result is a catastrophic rate of illiteracy (40 percent according to the Encyclopedia Britannica) and a widespread lack of basic tools with which to accomplish social mobility and personal fulfillment.
The royal house will hopefully forgive us for suspecting that this policy was neither coincidence nor miscalculation; rather, it was, and remains, part of a cynical ploy aimed at shackling those with humble origins, much the way serfdom served that purpose for medieval Europe's feudal nobility.
THE DESIRE to freeze the anti-meritocratic social order so that a family of several thousand princes can perpetuate its grip on power was applied even more sinisterly in the labor markets.
There, the royal house engineered a system whereby 70% of the economy's jobs are handed to foreign workers, mainly ones from beyond the nearby Indian Ocean, who in turn are evicted within three years of their arrival.
As would befit the outlook of a regime for whom social paralysis has become an article of faith, the financial and industrial systems have also been structured in ways that were expedient for the select few, and catastrophic for the rest. That is why the local stock market was sealed for foreigners, while the industrial sector was chained to the oil industry.
Sadly, no single mineral or crop can, in the long run, sustain an entire nation. Cuba has learned that about its sugar, Zambia has learned that about its copper, and the US Confederacy learned that about its cotton. Mexico, by contrast, was wise enough to industrialize and diversify its oil-rich economy, ultimately offering more future with less crude to a population more than four times the size of Saudi Arabia's.
The Saudis, of course, knew better, and thought the riches they found under their feet without even shedding a drop of sweat to mine them, would generate them fortunes endlessly, even as they squandered every third petrodollar on arms and much of the remainder on princely hedonism, while repressing their subjects and funding troublemakers the world over.
One is at a loss to seek throughout history a comparably brazen, stupid, and criminal combination of theft, waste, oppression, obscurantism, hypocrisy and belligerency. Morally, economically, and socially - it is predestined to collapse.
Sadly, the kingdom's recent toying with reform - like the much-heralded live broadcasts from the king's rubber-stamp "consultative council" of royally appointed political eunuchs, and the pathetic plan to hand over the labor market to the local population - are too little and way too late.
To be effective, Saudi Arabia's heavily unemployed workforce (an estimated 40%) would have had to be educated decades ago, and allowed economic access to the country's riches.
Similarly, the kingdom should have fashioned itself as a modern immigrant state, by welcoming and quickly naturalizing newcomers from nearby, overpopulated and fellow Sunni Muslim Egypt.
Yet to do that the Saudis would have had to cease being the selfish anti-developers that they so tragically were, and remain.
For their part, however, Westerners seeking Mideastern emancipation must understand that before they can participate in democratic elections, the region's masses must first be educated and employed, albeit nominally. The people who toppled communism were such. That is exactly why the people who currently oppress the Middle East are so loath to spread enlightenment and prosperity: from their viewpoint, those are bad for business.
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Saudi kingdom will reflect a widespread sense of disgust with a morally bankrupt regime. Yet, unlike the fall of the Wall, which offered the West moral vindication and strategic breakthrough, the fall of the house of Saud will generate geopolitical chaos and moral perplexity.
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Just remember!
Alligators longer than 20 inches are not allowed to be sent through the mail.
MILWAUKEE -- A four-foot alligator chewed its way out of a shipping carton before a postal worker tossed it into a hamper and called animal control officers.
Employees were sorting mail Friday when they noticed the alligator chewing its way out of an Express Mail box, said JoAnne Blackburn, a Postal Service spokeswoman.
Workers tried to tape the box closed, but the alligator bit it open.
"The nose ... was sticking out with its teeth hanging out," said postal employee Jennifer Hejdak. She said a co-worker picked it up by its tail and threw it in a hamper.
The alligator will remain at a shelter for a week before being shipped to a northern Illinois sanctuary, said Len Selkurt, executive director of the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control. The sanctuary owner will then take it to Florida, he said.
Alligators longer than 20 inches are not allowed to be sent through the mail, and officials said the shipment from Milwaukee to Colorado was under review.
Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press
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Christmas
It’s always been like this, and always will be.
I love Christmas music. I love Christmas decorations.
Following are some rules for the holiday season.
* You cannot decorate your home or listen to Christmas music until after you’ve seen Santa Claus in the Macy’s parade on Thanksgiving day.
* You must eat Black Eyed peas on News Year’s day, and they must be cooked with a dime in the pot.
* All decorations must me removed by January 6th.
This is just the way it has always been.
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Lies
I guess Bush did mislead us.
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Flip Flop Kerry
Just a reminder.
Kerry 2003: Bush Misled Americans On War; Kerry 1997: Warned Of Saddam Nuclear And Biological Capabilities
In New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said President Bush broke his promise to build an international coalition against Iraq's Saddam Hussein and then waged a war based on questionable intelligence.
But 5 years ago, Sen. Kerry seemed to warn of Saddam's nuclear and biological capabilities as he argued the U.S. must do what it has to do, with or without other nations!
From the official congressional record: Warned Of Saddam Nuclear And
Biological Capabilities:
"It is not possible to overstate the ominous implications for the Middle East if Saddam were to develop and successfully militarize and deploy potent biological weapons. We can all imagine the consequences. Extremely small quantities of several known biological weapons have the capability to exterminate the entire population of cities the size of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. These could be delivered by ballistic missile, but they also could be delivered by much more pedestrian means; aerosol applicators on commercial trucks easily could suffice. If Saddam were to develop and then deploy usable atomic weapons, the same holds true." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
Use Of Force Against Saddam Justified To Prevent WMD Production:
'[Saddam Hussein] cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. This is not a matter about which there should be any debate whatsoever in the Security Council, or, certainly, in this Nation."(Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
Military Force Should Be Used Against Suspected WMD
"In my judgment, the Security Council should authorize a strong U.N. military response that will materially damage, if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, as well as key military command and control nodes. Saddam Hussein should pay a grave price, in a currency that he understands and values, for his unacceptable behavior. This should not be a strike consisting only of a handful of cruise missiles hitting isolated targets primarily of presumed symbolic value." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
U.S. May Have To Go It Alone To Stop Saddam:
"Were its willingness to serve in these respects to diminish or vanish because of the ability of Saddam to brandish these weapons, then the ability of the United Nations or remnants of the gulf war coalition, or even the United States acting alone, to confront and halt Iraqi aggression would be gravely damaged." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
U.S. Must Do What It Has To Do, With Or Without Other Nations:
"[W]hile we should always seek to take significant international actions on a multilateral rather than a unilateral basis whenever that is possible, if in the final analysis we face what we truly believe to be a grave threat to the well-being of our Nation or the entire world and it cannot be removed peacefully, we must have the courage to do what we believe is right and wise." (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254
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"Behind" it all
When you see a space shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs.
The SRBs are made by Morton Thiokol at a factory in Utah.
Originally, the engineers who designed the SRBs wanted to make them much fatter than they are. Unfortunately, the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site in Florida and the railroad line runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to be made to fit through that tunnel.
Now, the width of that tunnel is just a little wider than the U.S. Standard Railroad Gauge (distance between the rails) of 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
That's an exceedingly odd number. Did you ever wonder why that gauge was used? Because US railroads were designed and built by English expatriates, and that's the way they built them in England.
Okay, then why did the English engineers build them like that?
Because the first rail lines of the 19th century were built by the same craftsmen who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
I'll bite, why did those craftsmen choose that gauge?
Because they used the same jigs and tools that were previously used for building wagons, and you guessed it, the wagons used that wheel spacing.
Now I feel like a fish on a hook! Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Well, if the wagon makers and wheelwrights of the time tried to use any other spacing, the wheel ruts on some of the old, long distance roads would break the wagon axles. As a result, the wheel spacing of the wagons had to match the spacing of the wheel ruts worn into those ancient European roads.
So who built those ancient roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts?
The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. And since the chariots were made by Imperial Roman chariot makers, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Well, here we are. We now have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
Specs and bureaucracies live forever.
That's nice to know, but it still doesn't answer why the Imperial Roman war chariot designers chose to spec the chariot's wheel spacing at exactly 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
Are you ready?
Because that was the width needed to accommodate the rear ends of two Imperial Roman war horses!!!
Well, now you have it. The railroad tunnel through which the late 20th century space shuttle SRBs must pass was excavated slightly wider than two 1st century horses' butts.
Consequently, a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was spec'd by the width of a horse's behind!
So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horses' rear end came up with it, you may be exactly right. Now you know what is "behind" it all.
~Author Unknown~
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Back Porch

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11.15.03
Grouper Cheeks

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The British are coming!

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Your Brain on Habanero

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Please! Please!
Is the Bitch going for it?
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11.14.03
Left Coast Quiche Eaters
You must read this. She is Downtown.
Via: Key Monroe
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: MAY I INTRODUCE TO YOU THE THEME PARK OF THE NEXT GENERATION (ASSUMING THAT THE SOCIALISTS IN DEMOTURD CLOTHING HAVE THEIR WAY):
S P R O U T W O R L D
A VISION, by Key Monroe.
Come one. Come all to the magical land of tofu and bean sprouts, where animals roam free rather than lay gutted and deep-fried on a platter before you. We have many lands of promise that have been built with love for your enjoyment.
ENVIRO-LAND
Come see what the world would be like without the oppression of mankind constantly bearing itself down upon it. Explore the forests that haven't been touched in decades. Experience thick underbrush, swamps brimming with mosquito larvae, areas so rich with oil that it bubbles at the surface, wildlife so thick that it costs taxpayers a million a day to keep the boogers alive. For some reason, if we don't feed them, then we find dead, mangled, carcasses laying about everywhere drawing flies and buzzards, and the stench....Oh, the stench! But, no worries, all that is taken care of. So come and join us, bring your boots, and guys, leave the bug spray at home. It's bad for Enviroland.
THE LAND OF INDOCTRINATION
A favorite. This is where our precious youth learns everything that they need to know to carry this beautiful legacy on to the next generation. We must thank our programmers for giving up their own beliefs long ago and dedicating themselves to this noble cause.
PEACE-KEEPING LAND
We are most proud of our success in this arena. Countries and people alike are coming together to discuss their problems rationally. Ambassadors are a thing of the past. They have been replaced by certified counselors that are teaching the world how to communicate. Weapons have become an antique. In fact, if you'd like to view one, we have several museums that showcase primitive weaponry.
SMARMYLAND
Meet our great country's leaders. Enter the smarmy gates and come face to face with the individuals who are responsible for creating the paradise that you see before you. (Please note: if you hear moaning, please wait until the intern leaves the room before entering. Thank you.)
LAND OF STANDARDIZED HEALTHCARE
Finally, a land where everyone has the same medical benefits. Now everyone suffers equally under a new plan that gets us all a little nostalgic when we think of the good 'ol HMO. Discover the program that sent the Canadian doctors RUNNING back to the border with many American doctors on their heels. Meet the ONLY two dozen doctors left in the country, and please, do not feel obligated to give to their children's college fund. Yes, they ask everyone.
ABORTIONLAND
Well, the name says it all. Come here and watch our county's women exercise their right to choose. But please, make reservations early. We have precious few doctors and limited space in the viewing area.
LAND OF INFLATION
The most fun of the park! Take a ride on the yo-yoing economy, or belt yourself in to the coaster of doom!*
Enjoy all of this with your FREE admission to Sproutworld. Don't worry about a thing! All of the fun that you can stomach--for that matter all of the sprouts that you can stomach are ON US! That's because we've had you bent over a barrel for years now until we finally managed to finance our billions a day project. (We apologize if this has affected your standard of living.)
*Sorry, we've had to temporarily close the coaster. It seems that a rebel brat from Georgia escaped from the School of Indoctrination, stole a bazooka from the Museum of Antiquities, fired it into Enviroland, turned it into an inferno, and sent the overpopulated animal kingdom scurrying into the Land of Inflation where they met their demise on the tracks of the coaster of doom! We apologize for the delay. We are sending our clean-up crew--who make as much as the doctors do, because that's only fair--to the scene, and the guts and ash should be out of your way in no time. I hope everyone realizes that this is the fault of that damn rebel. We had everything set up perfectly.
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Why Blog?
I've been asked why I blog. The short answer is "why not? - because I can".
It if it was not for him and her and him and him, I wouldn't.
I enjoy blogging, and that is all that matters.
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Community Service
This is ass backwards. We should give this guy a medal.
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via CBS news.
A Web designer was sentenced to community service for hacking into the Web site of the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera and redirecting its traffic to a site showing an American flag and the words "Let Freedom Ring."
John William Racine II, 24, was ordered Wednesday to perform 1,000 hours of community service and pay $2,000. He pleaded guilty in June to felony charges of wire fraud and unlawful interception of an electronic communication.
U.S. District Judge A. Howard Metz said during the sentencing hearing that he believed Racine "immediately recognized how much terrible havoc" was caused by the hacking.
Racine's plea agreement indicated that he acted after learning in March that Al-Jazeera's Web site had posted photos of American prisoners of war and soldiers killed during the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Representatives at Qatar-based Al-Jazeera have said they believe more than one person was responsible for hacking their site during the invasion.
Aljazeera.net was subject to several attacks in March, including one where visitors were redirected to a pornography site. But authorities suspect Racine acted alone, forging documents to have the Web site's password changed. That provided unhindered access to the site and blocked access by its legitimate administrators, according to the plea agreement.
Web traffic from Al-Jazeera's site was redirected by Racine for about three days ending March 27, prosecutors said.
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Snakebit
And I thought my Golf game was Snakebit.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. Nov. 14 — When Roy Williamson hit a tee shot off the fairway, the lie turned out to be much rougher than he thought.
Williamson, 60, was bitten in the head by a rattlesnake when he went to retrieve his ball from some wetlands. "I saw my ball pretty much in plain view," Williamson said Thursday, a week after the encounter. "Unfortunately, it was being tended to by a rattlesnake that I didn't see." He said he picked up the ball and felt something scratch at his right temple as he stood up, slapping at what he thought was a briar. He saw blood and then the rattler, "a good 6 1/2 or 7 feet long. "The men Williamson was playing with his son, brother and brother-in-law came running in response to his screams. He remembers reaching the clubhouse, but the next thing he knew, it was three days later.
Doctors determined that the snake bit him twice, and the venom quickly spread throughout his body. Alan Cale, general manager of Henderson Golf Club, said his employees roped off the area and posted warning signs. Professional snake handlers were called to assist in rounding up any snakes at the course.
"It's an unfortunate accident, but on a golf course out in nature you're going to have wildlife," Cale said. Scott Courdin, wildlife curator at Georgia Southern University, said golf courses can be deceptive because they are so well kept.
"Golf courses may be in the middle of a neighborhood or surrounded by development, but that doesn't mean there's not going to be snakes there," Courdin said. He said rattlers, water moccasins, copperheads and coral snakes are plentiful in Georgia. Williamson said he will play golf again but will be much more careful. "If I go out now and hit a ball off of the fairway in any fashion or form, I will not go after it," he said. « Close It
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Right Woman
This is one fine developing blog.
Check it out!
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11.13.03
Turn up the Music
One thing is for certain: These IslamoFascists do not know how to live, and they die like the coward scum they are - hidden behind a scarf and the cause of a hijacked religion, which they interrupt as holy. They really have no idea!
It seems to me, that until the Muslim parents want to see their children more alive than dead, we've got a long roe to hoe. Maybe the parents need the cash. Now, that is sick.
Via: The World Tribune
Al-Qal'a (The Fortress) an Islamist Internet forum, posted the first of a two-part interview with a person who introduced himself as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, one of the Al Qaida commanders closest to Osama bin Laden.(1) The interview was conducted in Iraq, south of Faluja. The article notes that Al-Hijazi was surrounded by five masked men carrying missiles as well as personal weapons. The following are excerpts from the interview:
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In regard to rumors about a large-scale attack against the U.S. during the month of Ramadan, Al-Hijazi said that "a huge and very courageous strike" will take place and that the number of infidels expected to be killed in this attack, according to primary estimates, exceeds 100,000. He added that he "anticipates, but will not swear, that the attack will happen during Ramadan."
I do not recognize Ramadan as a month. Can you be a little more specific?
He further stated that the attack will be carried out in a way that will "amaze the world and turn Al Qaida into [an organization that] horrifies the world until the law of Allah is implemented, actually implemented, and not just in words, on His land... You wait and see that the balance of power between Al Qaida and its rivals will change, all of a sudden, Allah willing."
You cannot turn scum into anything but more scum! Scum is Scum, plain and simple.
Regarding Al Qaida detainees, Al-Hijazi said: "We follow their situation closely... the collaborating governments will pay the price for capturing these heroes who want to revive the glory of their nation and shake off the dust of humiliation and disgrace." Al-Hijazi added that the "collaborating and treacherous" governments should know that Al Qaida has a long reach and its members enjoy popularity that will not end just because apostate governments detain hundreds of Al Qaida's members. "As soon as the governments detain one of our people, ten like him join us... this is no secret."
Proves your way of life is hopeless. Ask the Saudi Royal asshats for some cash - they are the people who screwed you in the 1st place!
Al-Hijazi said that Al Qaida instructed its members not to confront the governments of Islamic countries and clarified that Americans are the main target of the organization, wherever they may be, in order to cause their disintegration and collapse, even if it takes a long time. "We are patient," he added, "our patience will only end with the collapse of America and its agents."
No, you are a bunch of Chicken Shits! You have no Honor!
Al-Hijazi also said: "There is no doubt that the demise of America and its collapse will lead to the collapse of these fragile regimes that depend on it... We will not stop until we establish the Islamic Caliphate and until Allah's law is implemented in His land."
Fragile Regimes - Give me a break!
When asked about the recent bombing in Riyadh, Al-Hijazi referred to Saudi media reports — which claimed that in the attack Muslim women and children were killed — as "merely media deceit." He added: "This place was under surveillance for many months. Following a thorough investigation, it became perfectly clear to us that the people living there were at least 300 Americans and a large group of Lebanese Christians who had tortured Muslims there, in Lebanon, during the civil war. After consultation, we decided it was appropriate to attack this place and destroy it, including the people who lived there, because it housed Americans and a large majority of Christians holding Lebanese citizenship.
Merely Media Deceit - you really are stupid! Even CNN got this one right. Idiots, all of you.
"Since the Saudi government is aware of the sensitivity of this place and that it is a declared target for Al Qaida, it surrounded it with very heavy security. However, we gave our people in Riyadh a green light to destroy it on top of those inside. Allah facilitated breaking into the place and bombing the part in which mostly Americans stayed. As a result, praise Allah, at least 40 Americans were killed, as well as 27 Christians from Lebanon, and a group of citizens who were Muslim; also, at least 70 Americans were injured, as well as more than 30 citizens of other countries, most of them Christians from Lebanon."
Liars!!!!
According to Al-Hijazi, a Saudi religious scholar who is wanted by Saudi authorities will claim responsibility in a televised communiqué for the bombing "and for other operations to come." He added that the wills of the attackers will be published, apparently, in the month of Shawwal — the month following Ramadan according to the Muslim calendar - when Al Qaida's main website, Al-Nida, is due to be reactivated.
Bring it on! Suicide is a coward’s way out. You all have no honor!!!
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11.12.03
Protection
People often ask me what I use for protection. I tell them, "I personally like a 12 gauge pump shotgun with a short barrel and no plug." Then they say, "no, no - I mean for a virus". I say, "really, what kind of virus?" That's as far as I'm going with that. They say, "a computer virus". OK - now we're getting somewhere.
This is what I use:
1. My Firewall is a dedicated Linux box (separate computer) running iptables with a 2.4.xx Kernel.
2. My antivirus software scans all inbound network activity in real time. This means Web, email, etc.
3. I run a "Spyware sniffer in real time."
The above is in a nutshell.
Since Broadband is now the Norm for home computer users, the following, at a minimum, is what everyone should do. 1 and 2 are of equal importance.
1. You must have a Firewall, and keep it current.
2. You must use antivirus software, and it must be automatically updated by the vendor when a new virus is discovered. Remember, antivirus software is reactive, not proactive.
3. It is not necessary to scan in real time for Spyware (although I do), but you should at least scan and remove these pests often. You would not believe how many computers are "phoning home."
4. You must download software patches from your operating-system vendor (most likely Microsoft) as soon as they are announced. If you are using an older version of Windows, that means checking the Web site for updates. Windows is the most insecure Operating System EVER!
5. Back up your system / files regularly.
I hope this is helpful.
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Another Olive Branch
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called for an end to three years of violence, saying Wednesday that Israel had a right to live in peace, and his prime minister urged an immediate and comprehensive cease-fire.
Bullshit!!!! is all I can say. Arafat has no desire, whatsoever, for peace. The Israelis' should have killed that bastard a long time ago.
Anyone disagree?
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Nuclear Iran?
The Bush administration, citing the latest U.N. report on Iran's nuclear program, said yesterday it would prod other nations to take "appropriate action" against Iran's ability to make nuclear weapons.
Wait just one damn minute. Does anyone believe that Israel will allow Iran to go nuclear?
Not a chance! Israel will take "appropriate action" in the form of a 1,600 mile roundtrip, 100 ft. over the sand, death from above mission.
They've done it before, and they will do it again.
Any bets?
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11.11.03
Cosmic Dolphins
Several friends and I chartered a 55 ft. Gulfstar sloop in Ft. Lauderdale and sailed over to the Abaco Islands. The “Syncopation” had dancing room below, drew 9 ft., and was a perfect party situation. The six of us were going to sail from Ft. Lauderdale to Nassau, pick up the wives and girlfriends (who were flying in), and continue on to Miss Emily’s Blue Bee Bar on Green Turtle Cay, which is famous for the Goombay Smash. The Goombay’s are another story all together.
At about 5:00 pm, we headed down the inter-coastal with the boat owner who was drunk as a bicycle. Our plan was to stop at a marina, top off the tanks, drop off the drunk, and head for the Gulf Stream. No problem. The wind was light, so we fired up the diesel and aimed for Don’t Rock. About two hours later, when it was dark and we were in the middle of the shipping and cruise ship lanes, the damn motor stopped. No wind for the sails, no motor, no moon, drifting around in front 800 ft. ships, not a good feeling.
We were out of options, except for MAYDAY. That worked, and we were towed back to port. After the mechanics were called, we determined the problem. The damn drunk boat owner had topped off the diesel tanks with water, and the water tanks with diesel. It only set us back a day, a bunch of “up front” cash (which we later deducted from the bill) to have the engine rebuilt. Let me tell you something though; no mater how many times you flush the water tanks – once they’ve had diesel fuel in them, your screwed.
Off we go, headed once again for Don’t Rock. After you cross the Gulf Stream, Don’t Rock (which is a navigation point) becomes visible fairly soon. The next step is tricky and depends on the stage of the tides, the depth of your keel, and the time of day. You don’t want to attempt this at night. If you sail directly for the Rock, you can save about nine hours. If you use the navigational charts, which you should, it takes much longer, but you’re safe. We decided to go for it, and as it turned out, it was a major mistake laced with some weird JuJu.
We got about three quarters of the way in to Don’t Rock and started “bumping the bottom”. Then we started to run aground (damn near hard aground), darkness was approaching, and we asked ourselves “what are we going to do now?” Our situation was not good.
This is where it gets Cosmic. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a couple of Dolphins showed up and began swimming around the boat, jumping in and out of the water, like they were trying to get our attention. Then they’d swim aft for about 50 yards, return to the boat, and repeat the jumping again. We thought this was too cool, so we had a cold beverage and took some pictures. We were still discussing how to get out of this mess when someone said (I’ll take the credit, maybe), “lets follow the Dolphins, maybe they’re trying to show us the way out”. We certainly didn’t have anything to lose, so we began to follow them. And that is EXACTLY what they did. They showed us the way out. We did not “bump the bottom” once. It was simply amazing!
That is all.
Nope, there is one more thing. If you want to fish for Barracuda, and have no steel leaders, just use the wire that is used to connect stereo speakers. Yeap, that’s right, we gutted that damn boat.
All had a good time.
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11.10.03
So Predictable!
Debka File: Top US official Armitage said after meeting Crown Prince Abdullah in Riyadh Monday: “Al Qaeda wants to take down the royal family."
The House of Fraud
The IslamoFacists have struck inside their mother country, again. Should you be surprised? No. These scum not only want to kill every Jew and American on the planet, but any Muslim who is not a follower of the radical Wahibi sect of Islam. Wahibi(ism) is the Puritanical Saudi Islamic sect founded by Muhammad ibn-Abd-al-Wahab (17031792), which regards all other sects as heretical. By the early 20th century it had spread throughout the Arabian peninsula and still remains the official ideology of the Saudi Arabian kingdom.
Why? Because with the discovery of oil and the wealth generated by it, the House of Saud needed a method to control the population. This would be the extreme version of Islamic law. The Saudi Royal Family are (on the inside) a bunch of decadent pigs. Why wait for paradise and a bunch of virgins when you have the resources (cash) to have paridise on earth? On the outside, they feign to be good Muslims. This, of course, is bullshit. No one outside the House of Saud has any rights at all.
By embracing the extreme fanatical Wahibi sect they were able to keep the natives in check, and keep "all" the money.
Not anymore - game over.
It used to be about American troops, but now that we're gone these scumbags need others to kill. It is all they know how to do, and they've focused their sights on the Saudi Royal Family. This could evolve into a civil war, so to speak.
The House of Saud made their bed, and now they have to sleep in it.
Saudi Arabia is not now, and never has been, our friend.
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It's not worth a Nickel
Our new Nickel is being released to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. Thomas Jefferson will stay on the "heads" side. On the "tails" side, it has an image of an American shaking hands with a Frenchman.
Not very forward thinking of our friends at the U.S. Mint.
At least the French got the "ass end" of the deal, again. We clipped them on the original deal in the first place.
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This is Treason
I understand that some members of Congress (both Republicans and Democrats) have formed the Congressional French Caucus.
How soon they forget!
These traitors should be shot.
Anyway, you can read more here.
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11.09.03
Self Reflection
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Ramadan, the month on the Islamic calendar devoted to fasting and self reflection, has also been a time of war and, this year, suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Reflection on what? How to kill more people.
"For militant groups, Ramadan is an opportunity for escalating violence," Dia'a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam at Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said Sunday.
Rashwan said some Muslim militants believe they would "gain the highest reward" by committing acts of jihad, or holy war, in the month during which Muslims believe their sacred book the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. This year, Ramadan began in late October.
"gain the highest reward"? More girls and a case of beer
But Islamic scholars disagree with the extremists.
Bla Bla Bla
"Linking Ramadan with violence is unacceptable," said Abdul-Moti Bayoumi of the Islamic Research Center at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, considered by many to be the world's leading Sunni Islam seat of learning. "Ramadan is the month of peace between the individual and himself, with people and with God."
Apparently, some believe (are taught) violence is not only acceptable, but their duty.
Saleh al-Fauzan, a member of Saudi Arabia's senior clerics committee, told Saudi radio that attacks in his capital Saturday blamed on Muslim extremists violated "the sanctity of Ramadan."
I'll bet you, he is next.
Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic year, when Muslims are expected to fast from dawn to dusk in an effort to renew their focus on spiritual, rather than material matters. It is believed that in Ramadan good deeds are rewarded 10 times.
I was wrong - it is now 720 virgins and 10 cases of beer.
On Saturday, three explosions rocked a residential compound in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, killing at least five people and wounding more than 80. A Saudi Interior Ministry official said that the compound attack was by a suicide car bomber and similar in style to a series of May 12 car bombings in Riyadh compounds housing foreigners that were blamed on the al-Qaida terror network and that killed 35 people, including nine suicide bombers.
As Ramadan began two weeks ago, a series of vehicle bombings killed scores of people in Iraq, where the U.S.-led coalition that ousted Saddam Hussein has been struggling to restore order.
Violence during Ramadan, however, has roots in history. The seventh century Battle of Badr, the first battle between Muslims and non-Muslims, took place during Ramadan.
Once again, Muslim historians distort the facts.
Egypt and Syria launched their 1973 war on Israel during Ramadan.
Good news - Egypt and Syria got their ass kicked.
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The House of Fraud
The IslamoFacists have struck inside their mother country, again. Should you be surprised? No. These scum not only want to kill every Jew and American on the planet, but any Muslim who is not a follower of the radical Wahibi sect of Islam. Wahibi(ism) is the Puritanical Saudi Islamic sect founded by Muhammad ibn-Abd-al-Wahab (1703-1792), which regards all other sects as heretical. By the early 20th century it had spread throughout the Arabian peninsula and still remains the official ideology of the Saudi Arabian kingdom.
Why? Because with the discovery of oil and the wealth generated by it, the House of Saud needed a method to control the population. This would be the extreme version of Islamic law. The Saudi royal family are (on the inside) a bunch of decadent pigs. Why wait for paradise and a bunch of virgins when you have the resources (cash) to have paridise on earth? On the outside, they feign to be good Muslims. This, of course, is bullshit. No one outside the House of Saud has any rights at all.
By embracing the extreme fanatical Wahibi sect they were able to keep the natives in check, and keep "all" the money.
Not anymore - game over.
It used to be about American troops, but now that we're gone these scumbags need others to kill. It is all they know how to do, and they've focused their sights on the Saudi Royal Family. This could evolve into a civil war, so to speak.
The House of Saud made their bed, and now they have to sleep in it.
Saudi Arabia is not now, and never has been, our friend.
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The French looking Idiot
I just heard John "I fought in Vietnam" Kerry say on the Clinton News Network:
"The reason I'll be a great President of the United States is because I've been a long suffering Boston Red Sox fan"
What? The only thing funny about this guy is his $300.00 haircuts haven't helped.
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11.08.03
Pigs and Beers
My wife and I were exploring a small Caribbean island which mysteriously, as most do, has two distinct ecosystems.
Sea level is typical of Caribbean latitudes, but with a little altitude it becomes a Tropical Rain Forrest. We're "four wheeling" in the rain forest, in a "two wheel drive" vehicle, when we happened upon the "Domino Hut Club". We desired a cold beverage so we pulled in and went to the bar.
It was the sign that aroused our curiosity. "ALL BEER FOR THE PIGS MUST BE PURCHASED AT THE BAR". Well damn, what else can you do? We ordered a couple of Rums ,a six pack, and followed the signs to the pigs.
There were two of em' - seasoned veteran and trainee or teacher and student. The veteran was about 1500 lbs. (this thing was huge) and the student, about 400 lbs. As we approached, the "big one" stood on it's hind legs (about 15 ft. high) and started to snort. We looked at it and "busted out laughing". I also noticed a pile of several hundred crushed beer cans about 10 feet to his left. I asked my sweetie, "what the hell do we do now?". She said, "I think he wants a beer". No Shit!
I said, "do you think I need to pop it for him?", she said. "I don't think so". So, I tossed a full can of beer at him, he grabbed it with his huge snout, crushed the can, drank the beer, did a little "left twitch" with his head, and the crushed empty can landed on top of the rest.
After we picked ourselves up off the ground (we were laughing so hard we couldn't stand), we fed em' the rest of the six pack and drove off into the sunset for a nice dinner of Caribbean Jerk Pork to celebrate.
Cool Runnings!
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Airport Security
I was flying out of Atlanta yesterday and encountered this stupidity.
Sir, your bag has been randomly selected for X-Ray. Fine.
Do you have any film? No.
Do you have any sharp objects? No
Do you have a weapon? No.
Have a great day. Thanks.
Do you have a weapon? How stupid is this? What was I going to say? "Well yes, actually I do." "My can of shaving cream is really an aerosol version of the Ebola virus"
Anyway, they were herding people through the security checkpoints like cattle at an auction. There is no way, NO WAY, they could catch everything. I heard one screener tell another "we done jis gotta move em' thru - we's got a backlog build up". The other screener "I's fixin to go on break".
This is ridiculous, there has to be a better way. Maybe we should make it mandatory for all applicants to the FBI, ATF, Border Patrol, local Police departments, etc., to do a stint with airport security. Or, get serious about it and do it like Israel.
The fact is the majority of these people are dumber than a box of rocks.
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Deport and Disbar
Nine "illegal Mexican immigrants" who worked as janitors at Wal-Marts in New Jersey sued the company on Wednesday, accusing Wal-Mart and its cleaning contractors of failing to pay overtime, withhold taxes and make required workers' compensation contributions.
Huckster ambulance chasing lawyers are converging on these illegal immigrants as if they were accident victims.
These Mexicans are in the country illegally - Deport them, disbar their lawyers, and be done with it.
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The Plan
Ann Coulter, once again, has a great article which illustrates the Democrats' quagmire.
THE DEMOCRATS' new method of opposing the war on terrorism while pretending not to oppose the war on terrorism is to keep demanding......
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'The Plan'
November 5, 2003
THE DEMOCRATS' new method of opposing the war on terrorism while pretending not to oppose the war on terrorism is to keep demanding that Bush produce a "plan." Wesley Clark recently complained that Bush had put American troops in harm's way, "without a plan." Of course, Clark's "plan" would have been to create a quagmire, just like in Bosnia.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said the difference in how he would have prosecuted the war in Iraq is: "I would have planned." Yes, the invasion of Iraq was the usual unplanned, spur-of-the-minute thing that took 14 months.
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., noted for the record that when he voted for war with Iraq, "I said at the time that it was critical for us to have a plan. ... This president has no plan of any kind that I can see." Maybe it's that Beatlemania mop-top that's blocking Edwards' view.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. – the one Democratic presidential candidate too conservative for Barbra Streisand – said that President Bush gave the American people "a price tag, not a plan." He said that "we in Congress must demand a plan." You know, like that incredibly detailed plan the Democrats have in place to spend $400 billion buying prescription drugs for elderly millionaires.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said: "The administration had a plan to fight the war, but it had no plan to win the peace." Kennedy's idea of "a plan" consists of choosing a designated driver before heading out for the evening.
Interviewing Vice President Dick Cheney on "Meet the Press" about a month ago, Tim Russert echoed the theme, asking: "What is our plan for Iraq? How long will the 140,000 American soldiers be there? How many international troops will join them? And how much is this going to cost?" When will we be there, Daddy? Can I go to the bathroom? Are we there yet?
The same questions were asked of FDR over and over again by the American people after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. "How much will this cost?" "My husband's a sailor – how long will he be gone?" "What's your exit strategy, you warmonger?" Wait – no. My mistake. That didn't happen.
The Democrats' incessant demand for a "plan" tends to suggest there is something called "The Plan," which would magically prevent bad things from ever happening – especially something as totally unexpected as violence in the Middle East. Violence in the Middle East constantly comes as a bolt out of the blue to liberals.
Bush said deposing Saddam Hussein and building a democracy in Iraq was an essential part of the war on terrorism. He did not say that invading Iraq would instantly end all Muslim violence and rainy days that make liberals blue. We're at war with Islamic lunatics. They enjoy blowing people up. What further insights do liberals have to impart about this war?
A war is not as predictable as, say, a George Clooney movie (although generally more entertaining). Historian Stephen Ambrose described Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's genius as a soldier, noting that "he often said that in preparing for battle, plans were essential, but that once the battle was joined, plans were useless." Transforming a blood-soaked police state dotted with mass graves and rape rooms into a self-governing republic might take slightly longer than this week's makeover on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."
This is not the first time an evil tyrant was deposed only for bloody elements of his regime to remain. For example, it's been nearly five months since Howell Raines was removed as editor of the New York Times. No quagmire there! What is Bill Keller's "plan" to turn the New York Times around, and how long will it take?
The U.S. military has had considerably more success in turning Iraq around than liberals have had in turning the ghettos around with their 40-year "War on Poverty." So far, fewer troops have been killed by hostile fire since the end of major combat in Iraq than civilians were murdered in Washington, D.C., last year (239 deaths in Iraq compared to 262 murders in D.C.). How many years has it been since we declared the end of major U.S. combat operations against Marion Barry's regime? How long before we just give up and pull out of that hellish quagmire known as Washington, D.C.?
The Democrats' urgent need for an "exit strategy" apparently first arose sometime after 1993, when Bill Clinton sent all those U.S. soldiers to Bosnia – who are still there. The Democrats' conception of a "plan" is like the liberal fantasy that there's a room somewhere full of unlimited amounts of "free" money that we could just give to teachers and hospitals and poor people and AIDS sufferers and the homeless if only the bad, greedy Republicans would give us the key to that wonderful room. Republicans should claim the "plan" is in that room. In a lockbox.
It's interesting that after we've finally gotten liberals to give up on seven decades of trying to plan an economy, now they want to plan a war. Extra-credit question for the class: Comparing a peacetime economy with a war, which do you think is more likely to shoot back at the planners and require subsequent readjustments? No, no, not the usual hands from the eager YAFers in the front row. Are there any liberals in the back rows who want to take a stab at answering this one? Paul Krugman?
Needless to say, the Democrats have no actual plan of their own, unless "surrender" counts as a plan. They just enjoy complaining about every bombing, every attack from Muslim terrorists, every mishap.
Back in the 1870s, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman told a group of graduating cadets: "There are many of you here who think that war is all glory. Well, war is all hell." We didn't start it, but we're going to win it. « Close It
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11.06.03
Atlanta Math
Rush Hour + I-285 N + Rain = NIGHTMARE
And there you have it. I cannot believe I lived there as long as I did.
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11.05.03
Our Boy Jessie
Hat Tip to Jack:
Jessie Jackson has added former Chicago democratic congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud and lies to the Federal Election Commission.
He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer. This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate...won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate.
His new job? Youth counselor.
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
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I'm in before I'm out
Bejus is lurking in the shadows. So is the CatDaddy!
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11.04.03
Some People
Some people will, and some people won't
Some people can, and some people can't
Some people do, and some people don't
Others will, and others won't.
Just Depends!
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11.03.03
Way South Florida
Fact: Everyone who lives in South Florida, is from somewhere else!
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Ever been hit by a Car ?
This morning, I flew all the way to the bottom of Florida and was hit by a damn car. I don't mean another car crashed into my rental car, I mean another car crashed into my ass. I was walking in the rental car lot, and got clipped by someone who probably shouldn't have been driving in the first place.
Here's what happened: I'm walking along between the stripes in the rental car lot, and the next thing I know is I've bounced off a windshield and rolled off a hood. I'm OK, but it scared the bejus outta me. This was only a 3 - 5 mph incident, but it could have been much worse.
With all the noise from planes taking off and landing, and all the people and traffic, you just cannot isolate the sound of one car. All these simultaneous sounds confuse the senses. Plus, this woman was way out of line (as in – driving in the pedestrian stripes).
Oh well, could’ve had a V-8.
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I had one of those "point A to point B to point C flights. From point A to point B, I felt something (a vibration maybe) that just didn't seem right. I was thinking, "there is something wrong with this plane", but we landed safely. Now this point A to point B plane was supposed to continue on to point C, but after we landed an announcement was made for all passengers continuing on to point C to disembark with your luggage. This plane would not be used for the point B to point C leg.
Wierd? I fly often and I'm glad point A to point B was only a 20 minute flight.
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11.02.03
Business Tripping
Not that it matters, but I'm business tripping for the next week. I'll post when I can.
Have a good week.
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Just Kidding !
We can't kill em' all, or can we?
One major problem with the war on terror is we are having difficulty finding the IslamoFascist leaders. They are being sheltered by their own people. The people hiding the scumbag leaders are, after all, Muslims. Their religion has been hijacked by a mob of extremists who would prefer to live in the 7th century, do not believe in progress, do not believe in technology (unless it can be used to kill everyone not like them), are not tolerant (except for"honor killings"), believe women are a sub-species and should be treated as property, and on and on and on. Why to they continue to provide aid to the extremists? Because any Muslim, even a radical IslamoFascist, is higher up the food chain than an Infidel.
Plan A: We nuke an uninhabited area of Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or somewhere, and show em' what the 7th century looks like. Then we tell em', "give em up" or we're moving forward with plan B.
Plan B: We nuke a major city and vaporize about 10 million of em'. If they still won't help us, we inform them we are moving forward with operation Kilo Tango Alpha.
Operation Kilo Tango Alpha: Kill Them All.
Some might say, "we can't nuke the oil". I say, "you can't use oil if you're dead".
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Opposition to the War
I have one thing to say to all the opponents of the War on Terror.
We can either fight them there, or we can fight them here. But the reality is we must fight. Don't you people understand that without International security, there can be no National security. If we have no National security, then Domestic policies are irrevalent.
Why is this so hard to understand?
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11.01.03
Israeli Defense Force
I Support Israel 100% in its struggle with the IslamoFascists. Soldiers get hungry just like anyone else, and who doesn't like pizza? I just sent the troops of the IDF a pizza, and so can you.
Go here to do it - it is a good feeling.
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Popup Test

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Greenland from 45,000 feet

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Simple Math 101
I was just thinking. If there are 2 billion Muslims on planet Earth, and only 1% (20 million) aspire to murderous suicide / homicide acts of terror, we've got a long row to hoe. But it also means they need to come up with 1 billion, 440 million virgins.
Now, that's a bunch of hoes
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One Big Mess
I wouldn't scale em' up too high. You'll get your ass kicked!
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Assad, Nasrallah and Abu Ala Scale up Threat Levels
DEBKAfile Special Report
October 29, 2003, 3:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
A shrill chorus of threats has been emanating from Syria, the Palestinians and the Hizballah as the Middle East heads toward another bleak winter.
President Bashar Assad is still smarting from Israel’s October 5 retaliatory air strike against a terrorist training camp at Ein Hatsav 15 miles from Damascus – the deepest Israeli raid inside Syria since the 1973 war. It followed the deaths of 19 Israelis in a suicide bombing in Haifa and Israeli accusations of Syrian support for terrorist groups and activities.
Not content with the warnings issuing from Syrian officials every couple of days, Assad dispatched his military chief, General Hassan Turkmani, and deputy chief of staff general Ali Habib – widely regarded as the Syrian army’s most professional commander -- to Beirut on Monday, October 27 for some straight talk with Lebanese leaders. They notified President Emil Lahoud, army chief of staff General Michel Suleiman and military intelligence chief General Michel Azar in no uncertain terms that any future Israel strikes would bring forth Syrian reprisals. In such a contingency, Lebanon would be required to stand shoulder to shoulder with Syria in a united front.
Syrian foreign minister Farouk a-Shara had already spelled out Syria’s intentions. In an interview with Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, he said: “Syria will strike back if Israel attacks again and could hit Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights. Our people will not stand for another attack and we will have to carry out the will of the people.” He added: "We have many cards that we have not played. Don't forget the many Israeli settlements in the Golan. I am not exaggerating but describing things as they might happen."
Israel captured the Golan Heights in 1967 after Syria joined a combined Arab offensive on its borders and was thrown back. The two countries are still at war.
For Damascus, artillery or missile attacks against Israeli targets on the Golan Heights would be regarded as legitimate military action inside Israeli-occupied Syrian territory. Hizballah uses a similar argument to justify its shelling attacks in the disputed Har Dov/Shebaa Farms region which remained in Israeli hands after the UN approved the pullback of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon to the international frontier in May 2000. On Monday, October 27, the Lebanese Shiite terrorists aimed several rounds of missile and shell fire at the Golan as well as at Israeli positions on Har Dov. Israel hushed up the incident, but Hizballah publicized it a day later.
According to DEBKAfile’s intelligence and military sources, the Syrian military visitors extracted from Beirut prior and unrestricted permission for the Syrian air force to use Lebanese airspace and for Syrian troops to redeploy in the central and southern Lebanese positions they have been evacuating in the past four months. This change in the strategic situation on its northern frontiers not only poses a challenge for Israel but represents a dramatic reversal for Washington’s efforts to stabilize the Lebanese government and strengthen its pro-US leaders, such as prime minister Rafik Hariri. The Americans based progress towards their goal of weakening Syrian and Hizballah influence in Lebanon on the phased withdrawal of the Syrian army. It now looks as though Syrian troops leaving through Lebanon’s front door are reentering from the back.
Palestinians
On this front, prime minister Ahmed Qurie, better known as Abu Ala, has decided to stay on after forging a seven-point pact with Yasser Arafat, according to which he will form a permanent government on November 4, when the mandate of the emergency cabinet expires.
DEBKAfile’s Palestinian sources reveal the key points of the pact:
1. The Palestinians will refuse to join Israel in peace negotiations as long as construction of Israel’s separation fence continues. “Its continuation makes any talk of a Palestinian state farcical,” our sources quote Abu Ala as saying.
2. Any Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire agreement must be based on terms quite different from the conditions of what Abu Ala calls “Abu Mazen’s failed hudna”.
3. The Palestinians will demand the evacuation of settlements as condition number one for a ceasefire.
4. The Palestinians will insist on advance notice of all of the Sharon government’s actions in relation to the Palestinians.
5. A ceasefire will be phased, taking effect in one zone after another.
6. No Palestinian administration will accept the demand to dismantle terrorist infrastructure.
7. Palestinian security forces will go into action only against ceasefire violators.
Arafat made the important concession of allowing Qureia to appoint a security affairs minister with real authority.
On the strength of this pact, Abu Ala asked to meet Hamas leaders to discuss a truce, sparking rumors that the way was clear for General Nasser Yousef to assume the security post.
DEBKAfile’s sources report that Abu Ala dismissed suggestions that he travel to Washington or a European capital. He told his associates that, unlike Abu Mazen – who was eased out by Arafat last month – he preferred to cast his lot in with the “rais” (boss) and does not seeks relations with the Americans or Europeans.
Hizballah
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told visiting Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom last week that Hizballah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah believes Israeli prime minister Sharon had backed away from most of the points agreed in the German-mediated Israeli-Hizballah negotiations on a prisoner swap, especially those covering the repatriation of Lebanese prisoners and detainees held by Israel.
Nasrallah listed the top five men he wanted: Jawad Caspi, Hizballah’s operations officer, Anwar Yunes, Omas Balahis, Ali Baro - a drug dealer who fled a death sentence in Egypt in 1998 and was given an 18-year jail term after being caught by Israel – and Samir Kuntar.
In 1979, Kuntar was part of a four-man Palestinian terror squad which carried out a particularly savage attack on a civilian family in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya. The four broke into the Haran family apartment. One terrorist used his rifle butt to smash in the skull of 4-year old Einat Haran and then joined another team member to murder her father, Danny Haran aged 32. Her mother accidentally smothered two-year old Yael Haran to death to keep her from crying out in their place of hiding in an attic. Rescuers killed two of the raiders and captured the remaining two, one of whom was turned loose in a 1985 prisoner exchange deal. Kuntar stayed in jail and his release is now demanded by Nasrallah.
According to DEBKAfile’s sources, Nasrallah warned the German mediators he was giving Sharon one last chance to carry out the exchange as it stood in relation to the Lebanese prisoners. Otherwise, the Shiite group would resume its attacks against Israel, including kidnaps of soldiers and civilians. Official Israeli sources do not credit the Shiite extremist’s claim that the barrage Hizballah loosed on Monday was unrelated to the prisoner issue. Tuesday, October 28, Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz stated: “Israel has very deep information of the Hizballah’s intention to carry out a major attack in the north”. « Close It
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It's a beautiful night
Testing my stuff!!!
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