28 February 2003
THIS JUST IN:
Sources in Baghdad claim that
President Bush is a maniac.
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27 February 2003
An American size can of whoop-ass
An
amatuer video that shows what modern American whoop-ass looks like.
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The passing of a former neighbor
Fred Rogers
has passed away. [
source]
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Scenes from Afghanistan
Despite the chaos, Afghanis are
rebuilding Afghanistan. The money quote:
The government and [international aid organizations] won't make Afghans stand on their own feet. Businessmen will do it.
– Sabir Latifa, Afghan entrepreneur
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26 February 2003
Operation Cheese in a Can
Samizdata has
blown the lid off of
another plot by the Bush Junta®. This one, Operation Cheese in a Can, is aimed at conquering France by first
destroying their film industry. But the French are
catching on –
They [the Americans] always understood that the first way to occupy a country was to impose their films
The key question for the Bush Junta® is
why on the earth the United States (or any other country) would want France, even if handed to them on a plate?
– Liberty Belle
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25 February 2003
The 18 UNSC resolutions on disarming Iraq
The list. [
source]
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24 February 2003
Maine teachers accused of harassing children of soldiers
The Maine National Guard is claiming that teachers are telling children of soldiers who have been deployed to the Middle East that their missing parents are bad people. A
video clip from the local newstation has the story. [
source,
source]
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Canadian military college afraid to play hockey
From the
National Post [
source]
The Royal Military College of Canada has dropped out of a historic hockey game for fear that its officer cadets might be injured during the no-contact match, college officials said yesterday. [...] Ms. Thibault [RMC athletic director] said "But there's a safety rule we have to follow.... It's a risk we're not prepared to take."
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Susan Sontag argues for the liberation of Iraq
A
powerful article that slams moral equivalence between war and internal repression. [
source]
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23 February 2003
Voice of the people
An Austin camera man
lays down the smackie on Robert Fisk. [
source]
"Yeah, I wanna tell you that the cause of this problem is the f****** medieval Arabs and their wish to enslave us all – and I tell you that it is because we want to save the Jews from the f****** savage Arabs who want to throw them into the sea that we are about to f*** Saddam." There was a pause as Don Darling [host] looked at the man, aghast. "And that," cameraman number two concluded, "is the f****** truth."
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Powell gives in to North Korea
Colin Powell is promising the
resumption of food aid to North Korea.
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22 February 2003
Upgrade to Movably Type 2.62
I've upgraded to the 2.62 version of
Movable Type. Everything seems to still be working.
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We are all Clintonians now
Al Sharpton shows that his motto is
never explain, never apologize by refusing to do either concerning the prosecutor Sharpton
falsely accused. The Democatic Party shows it moral character by giving Sharpton a pass.
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21 February 2003
Andrea Harris betrays the VRWC
In an event that is likely to rival the Pentagon Papers, Andrea Harris has revealed the existence of
Operation Wrap Party, a secret plan by the Bush Junta® to terminate uppity celebrities. It'll never go off now so we're stuck with them. Thanks, Ms. Harris.
And now, idiots
Molly Ivins
puts up her shot at the
Worst Column Ever. [
source]
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Iraqi economic boom
Apparently the Iraqi stock market and real estate market
are hot. [
source]
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Jesse Jackson plumbs new depths
A recent night club fire
killed 21 people in Chicago so Jesse Jackson swoopped in to wave the bloody shirt. It turns out, however, that Jackson had been
lobbying the city to not shut down the business due to numerous code violations. Spin away, Jesse!
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19 February 2003
Iraqi exiles revile the anti-war protestors
Article. [
source]
Where were you all while Saddam was killing thousands of Iraqis since the early 70s? And where are you now, given that every week he executes people through the "court of revolution", a summary court run by the secret security office?
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Another Lefty gives up on the left
Stephen Pollard
rips on his Leftist former friends [
source]
I am nauseated that they would rather give succour to evil than think through the implications of their gut feelings. It is a shocking experience to realise that your friends are either mindless, deluded or malevolent
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Lunacy
Trouble with the Moon. This notes that a bill banning
orbital mind control lasers (something near and dear to this blog) is sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). [
source]
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Quote of the day
USS CluelessChirac [...] will definitely come to regret his frankness
*ka-ching*! Of course, Chirac
can't help it -
it's his heritage.
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18 February 2003
Axis of Weasel stripping the gears
An emergency meeting of EU ministers turns into a
Chirac bashing session.
Mr Chirac stood up and, with Gallic passion, began a defence of the French position [...] Then, the normally mild-mannered Bertie Ahern, the taoiseach, interjected and pointed out that the only person getting away with defying the will of the international community was Saddam [...] By this time, Mr Chirac was positively steaming at the pro-American forces reigned against him. But there was more [...]
[
source].
Another view of the same meeting. [source]
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And now, idiots
Robert Fisk is
perplexed at the
lack of fervor on the part of anti-war protest in Arabia. [
source]
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17 February 2003
For what do they protest?
A
powerful graphic that explains what the protestors were supporting last weekend.
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16 February 2003
The Maureen Dowd train wreck
Catherine Seipp gives the
grewsome details. [
source]
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15 February 2003
Has anyone seen my spine?
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says that the UN inspectors in Iraq
will get more time.
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14 February 2003
The NY Post gets nasty
The cover of today's
New York Post. [
source,
source]
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13 February 2003
New diet sweeps Africa
Eco-tourists are becoming a
dietary staple for lions in Africa because of the large increase in tourism.
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Latino parents recall bi-lingual supporter
A school board member
was overhwhelmingly recalled because of his support for bilingual education and opposition to California Proposition 207 in a heavily hispanic district. [
source]
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Groundskeeper Willie says
The translation you've been waiting for, apparently from
Le Monde itself: "les primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage". [
source,
source]
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12 February 2003
Statement from the Students for Democracy in Iran
Statement. [
source]
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11 February 2003
Gaming becomes security risk
Bugs in the
Unreal server engine can allow
network based attacks against the host.
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Offensive words in Canada
A Canadian school has banned the word "gun" from first grade spelling tests because of complaints by a parent. [
source]
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10 February 2003
And now, idiots
Naked protestors
in the snow. [
source]
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EU leaves no egg unmarked
The EU will require a
label on every egg sold in Europe. [
source]
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"unilateral" means without UN approval
The way the word "unilateral" is used means without the authority specifically of the U.N. to use military force. That's the way the term "unilateral" is used, because that U.N. authority makes a big difference.
- US Senator Carl Levin on
Fox News [
source]
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France vetoes protecting Turkey
France
has vetoed protecting a fellow NATO member, Turkey, in response to an
earlier request.
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Updated Magic cards
A new
topically themed deck. [
source,
source]
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07 February 2003
Free speech for me but not for thee
Damian Penny
channels Nat Hentoff and blasts the Leftists who only support certain types of speech.
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Daily Pundit Premium unlinked due to inactivity
It looks like Bill Quick has given up maintaining his Blogger Premium site so it's been dropped.
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06 February 2003
The failure of the NY Times on Iraq
Andrew Sullivan
lays down the smackie on the Paper of Disrepute.
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Turkish Parliament Approves Upgrade of Military Bases for Possible Iraq War
Prime Minister Says Country Has No Choice But to Support U.S. War Effort. Are the
converging forces coming together?
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Dropping the NATO hammer
The NATO Secretary General, George Robertson, has
dropped the hammer on NATO by putting preparations for the invasion of Iraq under the "silent procedure". This means that the preparations become NATO policy by 09:00 GMT Monday unless an
explicit objection is raised. That's quite the rock and a hard place for the Axis of Weasel.
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And now, idiots
Terry Gilliam [
source]:
we certainly have criminals in the White House. These are even more successful than the last time. I mean, Nixon and company were kind of petty in their ambitions. These guys are ruthless beyond belief, and boy, are they pocketing a lot of money
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05 February 2003
A cold day in Grand Rapids
A
snowball fight erupted at a speech by President Bush. Pro-Bush forces, despite being outnumbered, routed the anti-Bush forces through "better target selection and superiour firepower". [
source,
source]
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Kids doing science experiments: Contact the ATF!
The ATF warns kids about doing experiments involving
fermentation. [
source]
Information on the use of poison gas in Kurdish areas of Iraq
Some
good comments and links the dispute the claim that Iran used poison gas. More commentary at
The New Republic [
source]
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Beating low expectations
[Governor Gray] Davis held his first Cabinet meeting in two years, and, participants said, he smiled and took notes and didn't interrupt or launch into obscenities
[
source]
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EuroParliment starts investigation of EU aid to the PA
Enough EuroParliment members have signed a petition to trigger an
investigation into how EU aid to the Palestinian Authority is spent. [
source]
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04 February 2003
Palestinians evicted from their homes to make way for others
By Force 17, Arafat's Presidential Guard. [
source]
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Incipient Terror in Australia
Tim Blair
reports on a looming disaster of Biblical proportions.
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03 February 2003
The Enemy. They Must Be Destroyed.
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
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Eco-freaks save hunting from ban in the UK
Because idiotarian eco-freaks "liberated" minks from mink farms in the UK, they are now a major pest problem in some areas. The only viable solution is
hunting with hounds because other methods kill non-pest species. [
source]
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Anti-appeasement in the Guardian
Editorial. [
source]
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Little to gain, much to lose in showing our data on Iraq
A
good article in
Slate on the futility of Powell using classified data at the UN.
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German voters punish Schroder
"German voters delivered a
stinging rebuke to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party on Sunday".
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Thai - Cambodian tensions
Long simmering border disputes lead to
recent riots.
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02 February 2003
Bureau of Indian Affairs malfeascance
Jacob Levy
comments and
follows up with good information on the ugly stain that is the BIA along with a
piece in TNR online. [
source,
source]
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01 February 2003
Head Start may provide negative knowledge
A new
national study found children enter Head Start experience a significant decline in letter recognition and book knowledge after spending a year in Head Start classes. [
source]
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Columbia breaks up on re-entry
Story.
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South Korean president pays off North Korean regime
Story. [
source]
The independent counsel investigating a huge transfer of money to North Korea was set to seek an arrest warrant for Lee Keun-young, former chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission, for breach of trust yesterday.
Lee served as governor of the Korea Development Bank when the state-run organization extended 400 billion won in loans to Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. in June 2000, violating company credit limits.
Of the loans, 223.5 billion won was sent to North Korea after being changed into U.S. currency immediately before the first-inter-Korean summit was held in Pyongyang in the same month.
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