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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
The French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen provoked outrage among British veterans yesterday when he compared the September 11 attacks on the United States to RAF-led bombing raids during the Second World War.
The National Front leader said both were "terrorist acts as they expressly targeted civilians to force military leaders ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
I'm currently reading two books, one fiction and one non-fiction. The fiction book is from my favorite fiction genre: (private) detective mysteries. It's an oldie but a goodie: Rex Stout's Murder by the Book. I've been re-reading Stout's Nero Wolf mysteries after several decades have had their chance to erode ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
what journalists learned, if anything, in civics class in school or if they just snoozed right through all that pro-America nonsense. Andy Sullivan of Reuters writes:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney will have a last chance to convince a jury he is not guilty of ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
It's even something easily solved.
Heh!
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Benford has a proposal that possesses the advantages of being both one of the simplest planet-cooling technologies so far suggested and being initially testable in a local context. He suggests suspension of tiny, harmless particles (sized at one-third of a micron) at about 80,000 feet up in the stratosphere. These ...
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Nevermind. I totally misread and misunderstood the Times article upon which this rant had been based. My bad. My apologies to the Times and to anyone who read my rant.
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
but what's the question? This:
"So why not straightforwardly strip the money out of the appropriations bill -- an action Congress is clearly empowered to take -- rather than try to micromanage the Army in a way that may be unconstitutional?"
Some more choice bits:
Mr. Murtha has a different idea. He would ...
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
It's not just Monty Python, either.
If you like sports, thank a Brit.
Thanks Paul and Ann.
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
as long as that debate doesn't include anyone who doesn't agree with him 100%.
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
that fails to predict this? I mean, weather forcasters can't even predict 5 days out what the temperature will be, whether it will rain or shine, etc. How accurate can a weather model be that proposes to predict what conditions will be, globally, a hundred years from now...if it can't ...
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