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Quick Thoughts * News * Interesting * Funny * Quote(s) of the Day * Closing Dodgeball : Just saw this yesterday (while doing Apheresis, TYVM) and let me tell you - it is Slap Nutz Funny! ... I mean, sure its stupid - but it knows it and embraces its stupidity in a way many comedies fail to. BlogAds : They are looking for a new logo ... so get to work; if you win you get $1000 ... and if you tell 'em I sent you Riley will get $300 :) Trackbacks : SO, HaloScan messed me up just a bit and I sent a BOATLOAD of trackbacks out to some people. Dunno who. I know Basil got ~8-10 of them (Thx for the heads-up!). Anyway - just want to apologize to whoever else got a load. I'll say my bad, even though I really blame HaloScan and their "damned Internal Server Errors" NIF : Totally a limited blogation weekend, so just gonna add to this post. ... UPDATE : It was a NO blogation weekend, wow! (And Monday is gonna be a "slow start" :( ) Quick Thoughts News * Interesting * Funny * Quote(s) of the Day * Closing Florida : More on Katrina ... 2 dead (I heard 3 elsewhere, condolences) and 1M+ now w/o power! ... Make that 4 7 dead ... again, condolences ... Katrina may hit again, as a Cat4 9/11 : Former CIA Director George Tenet, ~12 others, to get nailed for intelligence failure? Europe : Flood death toll reaches 43 ... 31 from Romania ... condolences France : Appt building gutted by fire, 17 dead ... condolences ... cause being investigated, developing Military : Any recruiting deficiency is being over-compensated for by superlative retention #s! Iraq : Captured terrorist sings, we nab more terrorists / weapons ... this is the news we need to be hearing more of! ... Progress being made on constitution? ... FNC just reported that "it is over, no constitution" ... Islamofascism : Al Qaida may attack Asian financial hubs ... um, so stop them! (Perhaps the rest of the world will finally take notice?) Cali : 500k affected by those rolling blackouts ... Medi-Cal fraud investigation ... what, like a 2277% markup is bad? Iran : More nuclear delays? ... naturally, thanks to the UN / IAEA ... Excellent thoughts here ... the motivations for nukes (not as obvious as you might think), and why "bribes" WILL NOT work ... WaPo wrong, Iran not so far off from nuclear Illegal Immigration : Border Patrol helo downed by thrown rocks ... now that is just embarrassing... and all those who threw the rocks should be captured, charged, detained/deported! Holloway : Kalpoe brothers re-arrested ... for "unrelated issue" ... yes, this is still ongoing Miss America : Leaving Atlantic City ... $750k id handouts just not enough ... found via CFG Quick Thoughts * News Interesting * Funny * Quote(s) of the Day * Closing Islamofascism : France, embracing terrorists again ... University to publish "Best Of" speeches ... Italy helping them as well! ... Italian Red Cross hiding terrorists ... And we have given Italy $8B+ in the last 4 years ... "Islam is a supremacist ideology that aims to conquer and subjugate" ... MCB, UK's CAIR, doesn't like the deportation rules ... which is a ringing endorsement to me! ... What THEY want - the truth ... Hint : think Caliphate. Hi CAIR! ... Thoughts on de-WEB-ifying the terrorists ... Misha still trolling for a fatwa ... Muslims, Communists persecute Christianity ... no surprise, but check the details! ... Islam in public schools! ... Terrorist-hunt-05 underway in Germany ... Schroeder must need votes Crawfordstock : Cindy does John Edward / John Edwards impersonation, "channels" her son ... this woman is deranged! ... St. Cindy's Magical Mystery Tour ... PS - avoid DC on the Sept 24th , unless you are a ProtestWarrior that is! ... Leftist Creed - "Hail Cindy Sheehan, full of grace" ... Al Media Whore Sharpton to join circus ... Let's talk about the financing of her PR machine ... the usual moonbats ... American Legion votes unanimously to oppose the AntiWar protesters! ... Pat Boone lambastes Sheehan, AntiWar activists ... Aren't her 12 seconds up yet? Iraq : Reporter drops camera, picks up gun ... and "three more shots through the front hood, the universal sign for 'stop'." ... Things looking OK (not great, but OK) for SPC Noah Pincusoff ... 'View from Iraq: Fires of Righteousness' ... found via TMH ... Fallujah rebuilding ... MSM silent ... ' To those idiots who want our troops out of Iraq' ... More "Saddam was funding terrorists" info ... 'Honor a Soldier--Get It Right!' ... some straight-shooting (no pun intended) advice for how to win IraqNot that it matters - but I do not 100% agree with the good Colonel ... still interesting! ... found via IAP ... Adopting beans ... condolences for her son ... and she is yet another military mom that could teach "St. Cindy" a lesson. Israel : Abbas ignores truth, says "they started it" ... and still cannot control "his" people ... Palestinians demanding Israel to provide medical treatment? ... My response would be "Kiss my ... " ... Some thoughts here, from the Emperor ... And remember, the IDF needs Pizza too! Eugenics : Carle Foundation Hospital sterilizing the unwilling? ... Hmm, I thought Hitler killed this off Yemen : No Freedom of Press for Jamal Amer ... found via DS Military : 101 Soldierly Thoughts ... found via Argghhh ... Bask in the glory of the OICW ... 1960's SLAM - nuclear ramjet Robertson : Something good to come out of this ... flashback : Stephanopolis can call in a hit Anti Civil Liberties Union : Bad from the very beginning! ... I just might have to pick up Alan Sears book :) ... Throwing blocks for terrorists, thugs ... oh, and for pedophiles/NAMBLA ... ACLU-Louisiana issues apology / retraction SCOTUS / Roberts : WaPo likes Hyperbole, dislikes Roberts Clinton : #'s weakening ... "not exactly the unstoppable political juggernaught" Air Scamerica: More here ... (two separate links) Left : They actually do not have a foreign policy platform ... just a fact ... Dismantling "ChickenHawk" ... Prominent Dems maintained support for going to war in Iraq ... so spread vitriol their way as well, go on .. .I dare ya' ... Political Correctness, and the slow death of the American Spirit ... How about a nice "red hot cuppa" hypocrisy ... several flavors! Living library : That's right, you can check out PEOPLE Abortion : "No fetal pain" researchers just a bit biased ... surprise, NARAL's name comes up ... When is Pro-Choice not Pro-Choice Economics : Some real numbers, oh - and Krugman misleads again! ... "the unpleasant reality about jobs is that there is no unpleasant reality about jobs" ... Krugman lies, misleads in issuing a so-called correction ... WRT election04 ... Malkin busts him as well! ... Recession in '06/07? ... I am not convinced, but you be the judge Useless Nations : Syria hindering Hariri investigation? ... and Bolton unloads, reaffirming his appointment! Unions : Northwest Airlines doing OK, TYVM ... forget the union = sweet! ... Growing chasm between unions and left MSM : Their role is not to inform, but to influence ... or so they believe, that is a classic line! "Kodee / Casey Kennings" : 'Daily Egyptian' falls for long running Anti-War/Bush hoax ... Humorous follow up WRAMC : Code Pink shows their disrespect (hatred?) for our troops, country ... More Code Pink "goodness" here ... Relax, closing WRAMC not so bad Seattle beat down : SayAnything is tracking this pretty good! Abortion : LSB, on babies not feeling pain ... and I agree with her 100% (this time :P) ... Eugenics Health : Bird Flu (H51N) approaching Europe? ... Men have higher IQs ... but women are "more conscientious and better adapted to sustained periods of hard work"? AntiSemitism : Germans tried to keep the Jews out, to "protect property values" ... WTF? ... found via Ace , who shares a few links / thoughts Nanny-state : Tennessee Attorney General says "No" to on-stage chewing tobacco ... Paul Summers, meet reality ... "I’m more than willing to extrapolate this out to see how the implications of such government intervention might impact me" Taxation : Q&A has a problem with the Fair Tax ... one that I don't agree with, atleast not yet! ... Flat vs Fair ... Fair wins! Space : Wanna see Venus & Jupiter, "together"? ... Sept 1st ... James Webb Space Telescope hitting a budget wall? ... Hubble had vision problems too :P ... Misc Hubble images ... Space ferry, ETA 2010 ... just in time for shuttles to retire Mars : Spirit Rover climbs Husband Hill ... they keep going and going and going "Global Warming" : ' You don't have to use electricity' ... "Otherwise the cries of environmentalism ring false" ... Suing the federal govt? Nature : CO2 does not boost forest growth Physics : Quick primers on a LOT of different physics topics, in "chains" ... like "Hydrogen Bomb" :) Earth : Dirt is germy ... 100x moreso than previously thought Weather : Forecasting to (finally) get more reliable? ... "Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)" Jeep : A peek at the 2006 Commander ... seating for 7, 17/21mpg (6cyl), V8 Hemi MDS & QuadraDriveII (14/19mpg) available! ID : The “ID is anti-science” position is unscientific ... Why a detractor thinks it should be taught! Computing : More on Clearspeed's "50GFlop" cards ...was PCIx, now PCIe also. 50Gflops ... "$1000 to $10,000" ... A peek inside CELL ... Intel to crush AMD next year? Gaming'ish : Splinter Cell, the movie? Internet : China probing US? ... Pr0n to be .XXX or not to be .XXX ... not really that much of a question, IMHO ... Skype 1.3.0.65 released Firefox : BackupFox ... Direct DL here ... preserves your settings ... Hacking Firefox Google : Google Talk, the good & bad ... by IMAO, so you know it is good! MS : +Measles ... unexpected cost of offshoring? :) Yomango : literally, I steal. ... I had never heard of that! Disaster Planning : Has your state submitted its plan? ... SCA share some tidbits from Indiana's Bloggers : The future of the medium or of Rick, or something - thought provoking. ... Beth implements Rule#5! ... Tons of "buttons", free ... Watcher's Council features a few blog-friends : Dr Sanity and Rick ... and 1 blog acquaintance : OTB OPSEC : Guidance for MilBloggers! ... More WARNO here! ... More here! A Story, bit by bit : ... "SuperEgo" : Pt 1 , Pt 2 , Pt 3 , Pt 4 , Pt 5 , Pt 6 , Pt 7 , Pt 8 , Pt 9 , Pt 10 , Pt 11 , Pt 12 , Pt 13 , Pt 14 , Pt 15 , Pt 16 , Pt 17 , Pt 18 Quick Thoughts * News * Interesting Funny * Quote(s) of the Day * Closing OOTS : #214 ... NO MORE GUESTS! ... and check out the new complete breakfast! Filthy Lie : Camp Puppy Blender USMC : Gunfight Rules ... (true'ish) WTW'ish : Mountain talk ... you best be a-fixin' to go read this Flash : Troyis (puzzle game) ... 103520 for me "Maverick" McCain : Not so maverick when needing votes, comes out in support of ID ... (true) ... found via Ace Iraq'ish : EV presents "How to write a Constitution" ... well, sorta' Celebrity(ies) : ' The Five Stages Of A Teen Queen' ... Hi Hillary! ... (true'ish) Lance Armstrong : When French say doping, they mean he's stupid Moore : Letter from the Fat Farm ... Fat Farm diary Flash : Connexions Religion : Humorous church bulletins Crawfordstock : Bus would be cool! Earth : Core rotates faster, according to the movie anyway Caption This : Fidel + Hugo, sitting in a tree .. ok, no tree - but they are man-hugging Robertson : Castro backs violent overthrow of 700 Club Flash : Ninja Test ... I am a "Good Ninja" Whoddathunkit : Ogre has a Mini! ... (true!) Not MSM : We strive to bring you the most timely, honest and accurate fake news available Quotes : LOTS of funny ones ... "My teeth smell of pain." Quick Thoughts * News * Interesting * Funny Quote(s) of the Day * Closing Simpsons : Oh, hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such self-help videos as 'Smoke Yourself Thin' and 'Get Confident, Stupid!'" --thanks Matt Groening, viaAOC Freedom : A government is only as good as the people it governs and their understanding of what it means to live in a society of laws --thanks to our founding fathers, via TCS Quick Thoughts * News * Interesting * Funny * Quote(s) of the Day Closing Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Intl ... found via jcrue Dr. Sanity Day by Day Cox & Forkum Mass Hypocrisy Bloggie Linkfests: Basil-AM , TMG , ER , OTB , IP , TMG , Basil-Lunch , ME @ IAP
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