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Month: May 2004

Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Back to normal

Today is the observed date of Memorial Day. (Being a purist, I prefer the traditional May 30 date, but that is of little course for…

May 31, 2004February 15, 2021
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Justice is served–sorta

The final installment on our intrepid pizza delivery man–the prosecutor says “self defense”. I suspect that the business about the medical examiner finding that the…

May 31, 2004February 15, 2021
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Hm-m-m…the plot thickens?

The latest on the Pizza Hut driver case is here. Interesting, but probably not worth reading too much into the possibility that he may have…

May 23, 2004February 15, 2021
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Bless this young lady’s heart

She’s 11 and shopping for clothes. Everything she finds is too revealing for her taste. She writes a letter to the store and they may…

May 23, 2004February 15, 2021
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3 less

FoxNews reports 3 terrorists were blown to their just rewards apparently trying to transfer explosives. There is justice in the world.

May 23, 2004February 15, 2021
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Well duh!

FoxNews has this opinion piece cataloging the failures of gun control in the US and around the world. It isn’t news for any of us…

May 23, 2004February 13, 2021
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No more moral equivilents

(Via Jerry Pournelle) Gary Kasparov (yes, THE Gary Kasparov of chess fame) has some very interesting things to say on the attempts to draft some…

May 22, 2004February 13, 2021
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Pizza delivery driver fired

(Via Kim du Toit and Usenet News) Huh, What’s this guy thinking–this isn’t worth blogging. Ah, but it is my friends, it is. You see,…

May 21, 2004February 13, 2021
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An interesting take on prisioner abuse

John Ross, noted author and out of the box thinker, has this take on the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Highly interesting reading.

May 19, 2004February 15, 2021
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So there are no WMDs in Iraq

So, my loopy liberal friends, just how do you explain this? Is this a poor attempt at an “October Surprise”? You don’t think that Rumsfeld…

May 19, 2004February 13, 2021
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A lot to go over

and precious little time to blog. First, a Wired magazine article on Thomas Gold. Thomas Gold is a world-class contrarian who believes that we are…

May 19, 2004February 15, 2021
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Life and Death, Torture and Abuse in Iraq

I’ve been considering these subjects for several days now. I’ve read the news, read some of the pundits and the thoughts of several bloggers. Permit…

May 13, 2004February 15, 2021
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I must have missed this

I have been wondering exactly how the Iraqi prisoner abuse (it isn’t torture, morons) story broke. Fox News has a story on the whistleblower, Spc.…

May 9, 2004February 15, 2021
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So Mr. Moore, what is the real story?

(Via CNS) Moore accused of publicity stunt over Disney ‘ban’ So he’s known for a year that Disney wasn’t going to distribute his tripe? And…

May 7, 2004February 13, 2021
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If you don’t like America

Then I think you’re perfectly welcome to take your illegal alien self and cross back over the border. Via WorldNet Daily: Protest targets new BMV…

May 7, 2004February 15, 2021
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See what stupidity gets you?

(via WorldNet Daily) It really jerks my chain. The war in Iraq was going fairly well, all in all. (Not handled the way I would…

May 7, 2004February 13, 2021
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The human side of the President

(Via WorldNet Daily) Bush Pauses To Comfort Teen Nothing more needs to be said. (And for those of you who want to be cynical and…

May 7, 2004February 13, 2021
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Stay Tuned

What went wrong in the Iraq war and who is to blame? The military historian in me answers, “Stay tuned.” In about 100 years, we…

May 7, 2004February 13, 2021
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The gungrabbers are at it again

Once again, the gungrabbers prove that they will stoop to any lengths to take away your rights. Rep. James P. Moran, a Democrat from Virginia…

May 6, 2004February 13, 2021
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Well, we can get it right

All is not lost–at least we got this one right, even if belatedly and not completely (Saleh should go completely).

May 5, 2004February 13, 2021
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Who’s minding the store?

I’ve been waiting to comment on the Iraqi “torture scandal” until I could get access to enough hard information to be able to make some…

May 5, 2004February 13, 2021

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