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  1. Single Men Want a Child, but the Relationship Can Wait

    → Digg / Offbeat | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:08 am MDT

    Now, with fertility technology or adoption, men are becoming single fathers. Statistics on single fathers by choice are few, but there are indications that while they make up a sliver of the demographic pie, their numbers are growing.

  2. Would You Buy a Face From This Man?

    → Digg / Offbeat | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:07 am MDT

    It's the latest must-have cosmetic miracle - the New New Face, wrinkle-free and plump as a baby's. But to get it, you must enter a pact with the eerily smooth Dr Frederic Brandt - the King of Collagen. Heather Hodson watches in horror

  3. What I Like About Sarah Palin

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:13 am MDT

    Here’s some good news for readers who didn’t like my first Palin post: I am one voter with an opinion, and I doubt I will influence anyone. Besides, I planned to vote for John McCain, reluctantly, before he selected Palin, and I still plan to vote for him. In a million years I’d never knowingly [...]

  4. Killer Ike pounds Cuba on way to Mexico Gulf

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:07 am MDT

    HAVANA (Reuters) - Hurricane Ike pounded northeastern Cuba with 120 mile per hour (195 kph) winds, torrential rains and massive waves that rolled through coastal towns on Monday on a path toward the Gulf of Mexico oil fields and possibly New Orleans.

  5. OJ Simpson is back in court accused of kidnap and robbery

    → Digg / Entertainment | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:55 am MDT

    For a man widely believed to have 'got away with murder', former American footballing legend OJ Simpson has hardly been keeping a low profile.

  6. The World's Biggest Beasts

    → Digg / Offbeat | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:47 am MDT

    Huge creatures that went extinct, and other big animals that still roam this planet for now anyway.

  7. Look for Sarah Palin interview with Charles Gibson

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:41 am MDT

    Veteran newscaster and blogger Charles Gibson will be interviewing Sarah Palin on ABC's World News Tonight later this week.



  8. Freddie Mac shares drop 57% in Frankfurt on government plan

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:13 am MDT

    LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Frankfurt-listed shares of Freddie Mac tumbled 57%, trading at $2.21, following the U.S. government's move to seize Freddie and fellow mortgage giant Fannie Mae. Fannie shares weren't yet active in Frankfurt.Market Pulse Stories

  9. Merrill says too early to be overweight in financial stocks

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:13 am MDT

    LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Merrill Lynch analysts said Monday they believe it's still too early for investors to be overweight in financial stocks after the weekend's move by U.S. authorities to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac . The broker said

  10. XKCD - Still Raw

    → Digg / Offbeat | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:50 am MDT

    We actually divorced once over the airplane/treadmill argument.

  11. Chuck Liddell Knocked the F-ck Out!

    → Digg / Sports | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:50 am MDT

    Returning from a long layoff, UFC star Chuck Liddell had the crowd. He had the momentum, chasing Rashad Evans around the Octagon on Saturday.With one punch, Evans changed all that, landing an overhand right that instantly dropped Liddell. Referee Herb Dean rushed to stop the fight, and doctors immediately jumped in the ring to tend to Liddell.

  12. Second-Guessing The No. 2 Spot

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:45 am MDT

    The great edifice that is the United States Constitution has always had eccentricities, wobbly parts, some joists held together with duct tape. From one edge juts a curious protrusion, an architectural afterthought. It is called the vice presidency.

  13. MSNBC Drops Olbermann, Matthews as News Anchors

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:45 am MDT

    MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as the anchors of live political events, bowing to growing criticism that they are too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign.

  14. Falcons' Rookie Matt Ryan Throws 62-yard TD on 1st NFL Pass

    → Digg / Sports | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:30 am MDT

    Ryan, the third overall pick out of Boston College, hooked up with Michael Jenkins on the third play of the game against the Detroit Lions.

  15. Serena Williams Victorious Over Serbia's Jelena Jankovic

    → Digg / Sports | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:10 am MDT

    Serena Williams saw off a valiant display from Serbia's Jelena Jankovic to win her third US Open title and regain the world number one ranking. The American, 27, came through 6-4 7-5 in a fantastic match to secure her ninth Grand Slam title.

  16. MySpaceTV to stream 'Sorority'

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:09 am MDT

    TV News: Website gets one-day jump on WB.com show -- MySpaceTV has landed a one-day jump over its broadband rivals to stream webisodes of "Sorority Forever," TheWB.com's first major Web original skein, beginning today.

  17. CEC TL1N Worlds most precise belt-driven CD player for audiophiles

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:47 am MDT

    In 1991, CEC introduced the TL1, the first product to use a belt drive CD mechanism. All over the world, audiophiles and music lovers took note and gave the product an enthusiastic reception. Never before had such a wealth of detailed musical

  18. Mounting Woes Left Little Choice

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:47 am MDT

    The sweeping government intervention stemmed from a growing realization by Treasury and Federal Reserve officials that the companies couldn't survive in their present forms, and that any collapse would be devastating to the economy.

  19. Government Seizes Mortgage Giants

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:34 am MDT

    The government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in its most dramatic market intervention in decades. Treasury plans to replace the companies' CEOs and provide up to $200 billion as part of the rescue. (Complete coverage)

  20. Undercover Cop Never Knew Selling Drugs Was Such Hard Work

    → Digg / Offbeat | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:20 am MDT

    "I guess I imagined it being like in the movies: drinking champagne, hot-tubbing with honeys, and cruising in customized Escalades while watching the cash roll in. But here I am, freezing my ass off. I've got to say, these drug-dealing scumbags really earn their pay."

  21. Bears Beat Colts With Tough Defense

    → Technorati Front Page | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:16 am MDT

    INDIANAPOLIS Chicago rediscovered its winning formula Sunday night. Play tough defense, control the ball and make no major mistakes. No, it wasn't enough to win a Super Bowl 19 months ago against Indianapolis, but it was the perfect scenario to ruin the

  22. Murray stuns No. 1 Nadal in US Open semifinals

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:50 pm MDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Murray finished a stunning, rain-interrupted victory over No. 1 Rafael Nadal 6-2, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4 at the U.S. Open on Sunday to reach his first Grand Slam final.

  23. Favre Throws for Two Touchdowns in Jets' Victory

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:30 pm MDT

    Six months after Favre began a brief retirement, he made a stirring debut Sunday as Broadway Brett. Favre's new beginning had a happy ending when Darrelle Revis intercepted Chad Pennington in the endzone with 5 seconds left, and the Jets won 20-14.

  24. Investigation continues into death of newborn

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:34 pm MDT

    Investigators say it'll be another two weeks until the cause of death results are released for a newborn boy, whose mother remains in Dauphin County prison on charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing the ...



  25. Comcast Driver: "Get The F!@# Down From Your Car So I Can ..

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:30 pm MDT

    Comcast Driver To Senior Citizen: "Get The F!@# Down From Your Car So I Can Kick Your Ass" Northfaceninja watched in horror as a Comcast employee repeatedly smashed his Comcast van into a car driven by a senior citizen before barking: "Get the fuck down from your car so I can kick your ass." The angry employee quickly abandoned his ass-kicking pla

  26. Roller Blading at over 256 km/h

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:10 pm MDT

    World record for high speed skating at over 256 km/h

  27. The 11 Lamest Supervillains in History

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    Including Asbestos Man

  28. Biden says he looks forward to debate with Palin

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:57 pm MDT

    Democrat Joe Biden says he's debated "an awful lot of tough, smart women" throughout his career and next month's vice presidential debate with Republican Sarah Palin will be no exception. But he'd like to know where she stands on issues.

  29. McCain campaign hits Albuquerque restaurant

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:42 pm MDT

    After a week of getting Republicans fired up about their campaign, presidential nominee John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin stocked up on some of the hot stuff.

  30. Obama plans extended meeting with Bill Clinton

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:14 pm MDT

    Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to lunch with former President Clinton this week in what will be their first extended face-to-face meeting since the bitter primary season.

  31. ABC News' Gibson lands first Palin interview

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:16 pm MDT

    Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has agreed to sit down with ABC's Charles Gibson later this week for her first television interview since John McCain chose her as his running mate more than a week ago.

  32. 'Gotcha!' - Hilarious Unused Wienerschnitzel Commercial

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:10 pm MDT

    Remember back in college when girls in boxers would chase wieners through the hallways of the dorms? That's exactly what's happening in this clever spot as this starving college cutie is set upon having a midnight snack!

  33. The Tudors - the BBC's not-so-historical drama

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:06 pm MDT

    The BBC is running a television series called The Tudors, I believe that the show is in its second series. They seem to think that the Tudor dynasty started with Henry VIII as there were no episodes on his father Henry VII, and the show still seems to be stuck on Henry VIII. Indeed his second wife, Ann Boleyn, has not even been executed yet - sorry if this is a 'spoiler' to people who...

  34. Sometimes it's easier to just walk.

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm MDT



  35. The Lesbian List: Hollywood's Sexiest Women

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm MDT

    Lesbians rate Rachel Weisz as their top sexual fantasy, a new poll has revealed. The British actress took the number one spot in the 'Women We’d Love To Love' poll of 4,000 gay women.

  36. 6 Great Martial Arts for Killing a Man With Your Bare Hands

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:50 pm MDT

    Were you one of those guys who took Tae Kwon Do or Karate lessons as a kid? Did you learn to break little boards with your fist, and dream of becoming the baddest man on the planet? Well, consider your dreams shattered. There are martial arts taught around the world that are designed to break people, not boards.

  37. Tom Brady is Likley Out for the Season with a Torn ACL

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:30 pm MDT

    New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is expected to miss the rest of the 2008 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, according to a source familiar with the injury.

  38. McCain takes on GOP and Bush along with Obama

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:24 pm MDT

    Barack Obama isn't John McCain's only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he's running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.

  39. Sick of Multi-Paged web articles?

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:50 pm MDT

    Well then you will really hate...

  40. The Simpsons Intro Lego Style

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:40 pm MDT



  41. Zack And Miri Make A Porno

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:30 pm MDT

    Reviewed by Josh Tyler : 2008-09-07 17:17:20 With the casting of Seth Rogen as his lead, I've heard people attempt to dismiss Zack and Miri Make a Porno as writer/director Kevin Smith's attempt to be Judd ...



  42. Stunner: East Carolina trips up No. 8 West Virginia

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:20 pm MDT

    East Carolina didn't need any final-moment heroics to seal its latest upset. This time, coach Skip Holtz's plucky Pirates all but had No. 8 West Virginia put away by halftime.

  43. Skate Shoes – What Makes Them For Skateboarding Anyway?

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Skateboarding Shoes there are so many choices!! What is the right one for me and how do I pick out the correct shoe for my style of skateboarding?

  44. Obama says he was too flip on abortion question

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:51 pm MDT

    Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was "above my pay grade" to answer a question about when is a baby entitled to human rights.

  45. Economist lies about Sarah Palin and John McCain.

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:46 pm MDT

    "Vetted for fifteen minutes" So runs the subheading in the "Lexington" article about Sarah Palin in this week's Economist magazine. A choice, the Economist says, which raises serious questions about John McCain's judgement... and the rest of the normal left media establishment spin. The line is a lie, as Governor Palin was closely vetted by the McCain campaign over an extended period of time. No doubt some clever-clever person will come up with the excuse...

  46. For now, Chad Johnson can't wear Ocho Cinco

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:20 pm MDT

    Chad Johnson has changed his name, but his jersey remained the same Sunday. The Cincinnati Bengals receiver legally changed his name from Chad Johnson to Chad Ocho Cinco, but the NFL decided against allowing him to put his name on his jersey.

  47. Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:53 pm MDT

    Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush's tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.

  48. Obama slips on TV: ‘My Muslim faith’

    → TexasFred's | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:18 pm MDT

    Obama slips on TV: ‘My Muslim faith’ Slip of the tongue or momentary confusion? In a television interview today discussing his religion, Sen. Barack Obama stated, “My Muslim faith.” Obama, speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week,” was talking about what he described as “smears” that were claiming he was a Muslim when he maintains he [...]

  49. The 10 Commandments of Public Transportation

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:50 pm MDT

    10 Commandments all methods of public transportation must follow. Or else.

  50. 82 diggs in 3 minutes

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:40 pm MDT

    People thought 9 diggs in 1 minute was bad? This is 3 times as many!

  51. Awesome Football Trick Play

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:30 pm MDT

    A high school football team pulls off an awesome trick play making their opponent look really really stupid. Theyll never fall for the old Wrong Ball Coach trick again.

  52. Obama's stump speech plays to fears, hopes

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:20 pm MDT

    As Barack Obama paces before 15,000 people with a hand-held microphone, it's easy to assume his 30-minute talk is more or less a free-associating string of talking points and applause lines.

  53. When you gotta go you GOTTA GO!

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:10 pm MDT

    College girls: because they can pee standing up just like the guys.

  54. Chuck Liddell knocked out by Rashad Evans!!

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:30 pm MDT

    Huge upset!!

  55. Lego Hawking [PIC]

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:10 pm MDT



  56. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rejoin the federal government

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:09 pm MDT

    Can someone explain why the government created companies that are now run by private shareholders? I'm having trouble understanding what the advantage is.



  57. The flesh Of Christ

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:50 pm MDT

    -|--- + gore = a classic.

  58. NFL Cheerleaders vs NCAA Cheerleaders

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:50 am MDT

    Cheerleaders: NFL vs College Football On this first weekend with college football and the NFL back-to-back a popular debate is likely to arise. Which type of football is better, college football or the NFL?

  59. MrBabyMan Reads So Fast!

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:10 am MDT

    9 submissions dugg in less than a minute? Something smells fishy...

  60. Normality by weekend the goal in Big Easy

    → TexasFred's | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:57 am MDT

    Normality by weekend the goal in Big Easy NEW ORLEANS — Federal and local officials pledged to try and get residents’ lives back to normal this weekend as 315,000 people who evacuated the city for Hurricane Gustav slowly made their way back home. But they also warned that no one should expect too much as the [...]

  61. WTF Is In My Salad? (IMG)

    → Digg / Offbeat | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:40 am MDT

    Holy crap....Check it out....I would be furious if that happened to me....WOW!

  62. Browser Wars: A Disturbance in The Force

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:30 am MDT

    So Google has released Chrome, its entry in the browser wars (bonus points, Google, for promoting it with a Scott McCloud comic). I know, I know, it uses the same rendering engine as Safari... but even still, Murphy's Law of Browsers dictates that weird little quirks and idiosyncrasies will somehow find their way in.

  63. UN Say Eat Less Meat to Curb Global Warming

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:58 am MDT

    People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer ...



  64. Federer beats Djokovic to reach U.S. Open final

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:41 am MDT

    As the losses piled up and the titles escaped him, Roger Federer insisted he felt fine, he wasn't washed up and his game would come around.

  65. Tommy Lee Jones Says Not Enough Money for Old Man

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:00 am MDT

    Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of "No Country for Old Men" for $10 million dollars. Jones says he was promised "significant box-office bonuses" and claims he hasn't received any. In the lawsuit, Jones says Paramount Pictures paid a reduced upfront fee for him to be apart of the film but says the studio needs to shell out what it owes. Now.

  66. McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:39 am MDT

    The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.

  67. Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights

    → Reflecting Light | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:22 am MDT

    Wong Kar Wai has made his first American film, My Blueberry Nights. Having been impressed with his Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and particularly his near-masterpiece 2046 -- all of which I caught up with on DVD -- I was keen to see his latest opus in a real movie theater. Normally, I prefer DVDs (unless I can see a movie in a technically superb theater, like Hollywood's ArcLight

  68. OPUS - Where do you want to be at the end? Choose wisely!

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 7:20 am MDT



  69. Obama, McCain call for changes in mortgage giants

    → Top Political Headlines | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:23 am MDT

    Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday that any government takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must put the interests of taxpayers and homeowners first. His opponent, GOP nominee John McCain, said it was essential to restructure the mortgage giants.

  70. Skateboarder Wanted for Speeding

    → Digg / Sports | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:51 am MDT

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Police are trying to track down a man filmed riding a skateboard down a steep stretch of south German motorway at 100 km an hour (62 mph), far above the speed limit.

  71. Kitsap Sun: Cougars Fall Victim to Bear Attack

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:40 am MDT

    Paul Wulff, the first-year coach of the Washington State Cougars, has been asking fans to show patience with his rebuilding football team.



  72. Metallica: Master of YouTube?

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:40 am MDT

    Metallica, whose leaked album Death Magnetic is coming out on September 12, launched a promotion on YouTube today that features the band's favorite covers of their songs that have been uploaded to the site. Drummer Lars Ulrich introduces their selections, apparently made over a two day period, in the video to the right.

  73. The 10 Greatest Movie Summers in History

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:39 am MDT

    The collective might of bookend blockbusters Iron Man and The Dark Knight may have made summer 2008 a memorable movie season, but how does it rate against other hit-heavy summers?

  74. Why Me?: Alec Baldwin's Sob Story

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:58 am MDT

    For a moment, he imagined life at the center of a big-budget drama, and remembered watching Leonardo DiCaprio at work in the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator.” “To be Leo!” he cried out. “To have a huge role like that! I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie."

  75. Harry Potter Wants to Wear a Dress?

    → Digg / Entertainment | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:46 am MDT

    "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen," Daniel Radcliffe says, "just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup."

  76. Delaware Newspaper Calls Out Biden For Drunk Driving Lie

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:23 am MDT

    Saturday, September 06, 2008 TV's Inside Edition ran a story last week replaying Sen.



  77. Why The Dark Knight will Beat Titanic

    → Digg / Entertainment | 6 Sep 2008 | 11:40 pm MDT

    Box Office analysts are predicting that "The Dark Knight" will finish with $530-$540 million domestically, about one "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" away from breaking "Titanic"’s $600.7 million record. But I believe they are wrong - and here’s why.

  78. Ghostbusters 3 Casting Predictions (PICS)

    → Digg / Entertainment | 6 Sep 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    So without further ado, in the order they are listed on IMDB, here are BWE’s Ghostbuster 3 Casting Predictions.

  79. The 65 MPG Ford The U.S. Can't Have

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 6 Sep 2008 | 9:20 pm MDT

    If ever there was a car made for the times, this would seem to be it: a sporty subcompact that seats five, offers a navigation system, and gets a whopping 65 miles to the gallon.



  80. These Paralympians Fight for Something More Enduring Than Gold

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 6 Sep 2008 | 4:57 pm MDT

    Sir Philip Craven , president of the International Paralympic Committee, called the United States "slower to react" to Paralympic support than nations well beyond Canada and Britain, citing Brazil, Iran and ...



  81. A fork in the road

    → Samizdata.net | 6 Sep 2008 | 4:16 pm MDT

    On a spring day in Beijing almost a decade ago, tens of thousands of people gathered on the pavement surrounding the high-walled Zhongnanhai compound, the Chinese equivalent of the Kremlin. They were protesting, but there was barely a murmur to be heard from the enormous crowd. There were no banners, no megaphones noisily chanting demands, no unruly behaviour. It was not a typical demonstration – the participants were seated and meditating. They stayed for around...

  82. Hurricane Ike: The Projected Path

    → TexasFred's | 6 Sep 2008 | 2:13 pm MDT

    Hurricane Ike: The Projected Path My most sincere hope is that the thing dies down to nothing more than a tropical storm, I have friends and immediate family in the projected path. If Ike cooks up to a Cat 4 or more, while making his way through the Gulf of Mexico, I hope that those folks in [...]

  83. Maher: 'I'm Putting Country First By Supporting Obama'

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 6 Sep 2008 | 12:46 pm MDT

    On Friday evening, HBO's Bill Maher announced to the world what certainly won't come as a shock to many: " You know who's putting country first? I am by supporting Obama ." With this coming a week after he ...



  84. Sharp analysis of what McCain is all about

    → Samizdata.net | 6 Sep 2008 | 11:41 am MDT

    Bob Bidinotto has an excellent appraisal of John McCain. It should serve as a corrective to some of the hopes that people may have about him after his - in my view - wise choice of Sarah Palin as his VP choice. John McCain is a decent man of great character, with a wonderful sense of life and a courageous spirit. But he is no intellectual and certainly no philosopher; ideologically, he is very much...

  85. What is it with TV chefs and their hatred of imports?

    → Samizdata.net | 6 Sep 2008 | 8:53 am MDT

    "What is the point of growing food if you let them get destroyed by pests? And another thing, if a sheep gets a headache, I'd give it an asprin." That was broadly the gist of a remark made this morning on a BBC food show by Gregg Wallace, the grocer and UK television presenter, who is not a devotee of organic food. Ah, I thought, this guy is prepared to pull the chains of the...

  86. Will Joe Biden be removed from the Democratic ticket before the upcoming U.S. election?

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 6 Sep 2008 | 8:39 am MDT

    Also found on a search - Joe Biden to be withdrawn as Democratic VP candidate before 2008 presidential election TOPICS: Editorial ; Government ; News/Current Events ; Politics/Elections ; US: Delaware KEYWORDS: ...



  87. Palin for President

    → Samizdata.net | 6 Sep 2008 | 5:09 am MDT

    Something for the weekend:...

  88. Wilson Sisters To RNC "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around!"

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 6 Sep 2008 | 4:23 am MDT

    Ann and Nancy Wilson of the rock group "Heart" infuriated at the use of their 70's rock anthem

    It seems that the Republican National Convention and Presidential hopeful John McCain tried to take America to "heart", and Heart stated under no uncertain terms that they didn't want their "heart" stolen. Apparently Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was given the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" whilst a star high...



  89. McCain, Obama tied in TV audiences

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 6 Sep 2008 | 12:10 am MDT

    The GOP presidential candidate attracted roughly the same number of viewers to his convention acceptance speech Thursday as Obama did before the Democrats last week, according to Nielsen Media Research.



  90. Bloomsbury Publishing Launches Creative Commons Publishing Imprint

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 5 Sep 2008 | 7:54 pm MDT

    Bloomsbury Publishing , one of Europe's leading independent publishing houses announced today that it is launching an CC-exclusive publishing imprint called Bloomsbury Academic : All books will be made ...



  91. Midday Mashup: Shooting, Stabbing, Suing, Etc.

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:34 pm MDT

    Mayor Bloomberg's lawsuits against out-of-state gun owners may have inspired East Villager Calvin Gibson, who was shot by a schizophrenic man at Avenue D and East 7th Street in July.



  92. Angry Readers dump Us Magazine over Palin

    → TexasFred's | 5 Sep 2008 | 11:13 am MDT

    Angry readers dump Us Magazine over Palin ST. PAUL, Minn. - Three celebrity weeklies — OK!, People and Us Weekly — featured Sarah Palin on their cover, but one of those magazines is reportedly losing subscribers because of it. Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) [...]

  93. The sweet taste of vengeance

    → Samizdata.net | 5 Sep 2008 | 8:23 am MDT

    The Republicans and their alter-ego Democrats have for decades used their control over the system to give Libertarians no end of grief on our ballot access campaigns. I remember one Libertarian pundit in the eighties commenting 'it is easier to get on the ballot in Nicaragua than it is in the United States'. Their mis-use of power has become more and more egregious these last few years. I still keep tabs on Pennsylvania because that...

  94. The Friday Morning Firing Line

    → TexasFred's | 5 Sep 2008 | 6:37 am MDT

    The Friday Morning Firing Line DETROIT (AP) - Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city - and left the door open for a return to public life. Full Story Here: Detroit mayor, soon off to [...]

  95. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:01 am MDT

    "In general the most important effect of the government attempt to shield itself and its clients from uncertainty and risk is to place the entire system in peril. It becomes at once too rigid and too soft to react resourcefully to the new shocks and sudden challenges that are inevitable in a dangerous world." - George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty, page 235 (1981). His comment ought to be on the walls of every state regulatory...

  96. Palin: Democrats spreading misinformation and lies

    → TexasFred's | 4 Sep 2008 | 5:50 pm MDT

    Palin: Democrats spreading misinformation and lies MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Thursday blamed supporters of the Democratic presidential ticket for spreading “misinformation and flat-out lies” about her and her family. But her spokeswoman said Obama’s campaign was not responsible, even though a Palin fundraising letter named the Democratic ticket with the words: [...]

  97. Thursday Thoughts on Worldly Matters

    → TexasFred's | 4 Sep 2008 | 2:00 pm MDT

    Thursday Thoughts on Worldly Matters CHICAGO (AP) — The Reverend Jesse Jackson is being treated at a Chicago hospital after experiencing severe stomach pains. Full Story Here: Jesse Jackson in hospital for stomach pains Sarah Palin is a powerful woman. She knocked it OUT of the park and it gave Je$$ie a belly ache. I love Sarah Palin! [...]

  98. Hiding in Palin sight

    → Reflecting Light | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:21 pm MDT

    I couldn't bring myself to watch the season finale of the Republican convention last night — or is there an anti-climactic thud scheduled for tonight? — but after reading some of the glowing reviews of Ms. Palin today, my torpid political bones were stirred into just enough action to catch some of the instant replay on YouTube. At first I was sorry I bothered, as she banged on interminably

  99. Yet another way the BBC opposes self-ownership

    → Samizdata.net | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:29 am MDT

    The BBC thinks the state should own your organs....

  100. Reasons

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 4 Sep 2008 | 8:18 am MDT

    In July, I lost my biggest client. It wasn’t the economy; it was technical problems. Panic Room What are you doing, God? Most of my monthly income was gone, just like that. I needed to act fast. I did what I should have been doing over the years. I began looking for new clients in earnest. I [...]

  101. We HAVE made the RIGHT Choice!

    → TexasFred's | 3 Sep 2008 | 9:20 pm MDT

    Ladies and Gentlemen, I am fully convinced that we have got a great opportunity ahead of us, an opportunity to elect John McCain and Sarah Palin to the offices of President and Vice President of this great nation. John McCain isn’t perfect, no candidate will be, but we can’t allow Obama to ascend to the Oval Office, [...]

  102. No EU surrender to the bloggers

    → Samizdata.net | 3 Sep 2008 | 2:16 pm MDT

    Any regular reader of newspapers will be familiar with the phenomenon of the newspaper article which says one thing, but with a headline above it, written by someone completely different, saying something completely different. Yesterday's Telegraph piece written by Bruno Waterfield, entitled Brussels admits defeat in EU blog wars is, I think, a good example. I read the headline and rejoiced, but then I read the article. What Waterfield's piece actually says is not that...

  103. Tighter little island

    → Reflecting Light | 3 Sep 2008 | 12:31 pm MDT

    Peter Hitchens, bless his heart, feels sick at the prospect of the United Kingdom not only losing any of its traditional cultural identity but becoming wretchedly overpopulated, a European India. Our Brussels masters predict that Britain will soon be the most crowded country in the whole of Europe. Presumably this is what they want, since it is their laws that have destroyed our borders and

  104. The TRUTH about Sarah Palin

    → TexasFred's | 3 Sep 2008 | 12:17 pm MDT

    The TRUTH about Sarah Palin Sarah Palin’s Rice Krispies Bubbles don’t go snap, crackle, pop..they go “Oh shit…quiet!!!..here she comes..” Death once had a near-Sarah Palin experience. Sarah Palin always beats the point spread. Sarah Palin uses French Canadians as bait to catch giant king salmon. When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered. Sarah Palin knows [...]

  105. Americans Doing Jobs Illegal Aliens CAN’T Do

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:34 am MDT

    It warmed by heart to read about the federal government doing the job it’s charged with: executing immigration laws. Heartwarming is a strange way to describe it, but there you go. You probably remember reading about a raid at Howard Industries, a transformer plant in Laurel, Mississippi, last week. Close to 600 illegal aliens were arrested [...]

  106. Some Gustav evacuees say officials overreacted

    → TexasFred's | 3 Sep 2008 | 9:30 am MDT

    Some Gustav evacuees say officials overreacted NEW ORLEANS – Millions fled the Gulf Coast in fear of Hurricane Gustav, billed as the apocalyptic “mother of all storms.” Fortunately, it was no Katrina. Now, with three other storms lining up in the Atlantic, some fear people might not listen next time. As the first of the 2 million [...]

  107. A question about just how nuts the Russians might get

    → Samizdata.net | 3 Sep 2008 | 2:08 am MDT

    A question that occurred to me in some of the recent jousting on the Samizdata comment threads about Russia's annexation of parts of Georgia was this: what other countries might get in the cross-hairs? It seems to me that there could be a real risk that Ukraine and the Baltic states like Latvia - many of which have Russian-speaking populations living among them - might "provoke" poor old put-upon Russia to send in the tanks....

  108. Death of a giant

    → Samizdata.net | 2 Sep 2008 | 1:23 pm MDT

    In the late sixties and seventies I lived in DuPage county, Illinois. This was/is a county remarkable for the concentration of scientific and physical research conducted there. In addition to Argonne National Laboratories and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, there was the largest of Bell Laboratories many facilities, the one in Naperville/Lisle, Illinois that employed about 11,000 people. That period of time was the zenith of Bell Labs legendary status. In the seventies its employees...

  109. L'affaire Palin

    → Reflecting Light | 2 Sep 2008 | 11:59 am MDT

    Whatever borderline rationality I have managed to hang onto when I think about this election campaign, which is now beyond bizarre, has become irrelevant. You can't use reason to understand surrealism. I wrote in this blog several months ago that both candidates were unelectable, and events are proving me correct. My original tentative approval of Sarah Palin has sent me on another switchback

  110. RIAA Sort of Prevails Against Jeffrey Howell

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 2 Sep 2008 | 10:25 am MDT

    [sarcasm] Let’s see how many comments this controversial post generates. So exciting. [/sarcasm] After burning out on he-said-she-said politics last year, I started blogging about digital technology, digital music technology, to be exact. I’m not a music or tech blogger, but it was an oddly satisfying distraction. A reporter quoted from one of my tech posts, [...]

  111. They are getting nearer to 3D printing

    → Samizdata.net | 2 Sep 2008 | 9:21 am MDT

    ... or so they say: As IDF came to a close, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, presented a keynote speech in which he explained just how close the outfit was to realizing "programmable matter." Granted, he did confess that end products were still years away, but researchers have been looking at ways to "make an object of any imaginable shape," where users could simply hit a print button and watch the matter "take that...

  112. Further proof that Paul Krugman is a bit of an ass

    → Samizdata.net | 2 Sep 2008 | 7:53 am MDT

    The US economist and cheerleader for the Democrats, Paul Krugman, reckons that George W. Bush is a "libertarian". To which I would respond: "If only". US blogger David Bernstein is equally unimpressed: Bush and McCain are Extreme Libertarians: So says Paul Krugman: "What we really need is a government that works, because it’s run by people who understand that sometimes government is the solution, after all. And that seems to be something undreamed of in...

  113. Sarah Palin: Why?

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 2 Sep 2008 | 4:40 am MDT

    Update (7 p.m.): Well said, Dr. Laura. ——————————————— I’ll go against the conservative blogosphere grain and state my confusion over and disappointment in John McCain’s choice of running mate. I think Sarah Palin, a relatively unknown female governor from Alaska, is a bad choice. I came to this conclusion before I found out Palin has a five-month-old [...]

  114. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 1 Sep 2008 | 6:39 am MDT

    So there are many women voters who do indeed want to vote for a women. Just as there are many black voters who want to vote for a black person. After all Senator Obama does not get 90%+ of the black vote because most of these people say to themselves "I really like Barack's interpretation of Karl Marx via Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers, it is much better than the interpretation of ..." I doubt...

  115. Obama divides the waters of Hurricane Gustav

    → Reflecting Light | 31 Aug 2008 | 2:14 pm MDT

    His Holiness the Dalai Obama demonstrates his power against flooding in pre-hurricane Louisiana. "We are deeply concerned," Obama told ABC News' Ann Compton at the Yankee Kitchen family restaurant in Boardman, Ohio. Although the formality of his apotheosis is still more than two months away, His Holiness has ordered the federal government to stand by for further orders. "I've instructed my

  116. Here Comes the Sun

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 28 Aug 2008 | 1:01 pm MDT

    I won’t be watching Barack Obama’s speech tonight (no TV and wouldn’t watch it if I had one), but I may watch a video clip and blog or write an op-ed about it next week. Feel free to discuss his speech and anything DNC-related in the post below. The next few days will be extraordinarily [...]

  117. Michael Prescott's Blog

    → Reflecting Light | 28 Aug 2008 | 10:11 am MDT

    I've run across Michael Prescott's Blog, which he subtitles "Occasional thoughts on matters of life and death." It includes a number of intelligent postings about psychical research. His writing on that subject is like what I originally envisioned I would be doing in Reflecting Light. It hasn't turned out that way. Although you will find some postings from this blog under the heading "Paranormal

  118. DNC Stuff Open Thread

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 27 Aug 2008 | 9:51 am MDT

    I give up! Just for today. Between packing for the big move, taking care of clients who pay the bills, and doing miscellaneous other things to retain a sense of normalcy in the middle of a life-altering event, I can’t settle on a post idea. So I give up, sort of. I’ve posted future First Lady [...]

  119. Meth Heads’ Plot to Murder Barack Obama Foiled

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 26 Aug 2008 | 5:18 am MDT

    Update II (8/27): NEVERMIND!

  120. USA: the next Argentina?

    → Reflecting Light | 25 Aug 2008 | 12:06 pm MDT

    Americans fixated on the Democratic Circus this week, and the Republican Circus next month (or whenever it is; I don't care enough to pay attention) are wasting their time on irrelevances. Whatever slogans generate the most tumultuous, calculated applause, whatever promises are made, whatever visions of change are released into the ether, have nothing to do with the country's true crisis. Neither

  121. Library patron does the perp walk

    → Reflecting Light | 24 Aug 2008 | 2:03 pm MDT

    A certified Obama-free posting™ ! No artificial ingredients Here is the latest instance of an evergreen story that appears in the news every few years: Woman cuffed, booked for not paying library fines A Wisconsin woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Twenty-year-old Heidi Dalibor told the News Graphic in Cedarburg that she ignored the library's calls and

  122. Joe Biden: The ‘Articulate’ and ‘Clean’ Man’s Choice

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 23 Aug 2008 | 7:27 am MDT

    Help! I’m up to my nose in boxes. Man. You never realize how much stuff you accumulate in 10 years. And the books. They’ve been breeding! (I’m moving to California, by the way.) Anyway, I’m breaking briefly to blog about Barack Obama’s choice of vice presidential running mate, Senator Joe Biden. I couldn’t resist reminding you [...]

  123. Packing It In

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 22 Aug 2008 | 11:45 am MDT

    I’d planned to do a big post next week with a long list of reasons why I’ve decided to do this radical thing. Too much work, so here’s a short post now. Every once in awhile, I’m motivated to take a risk, and the urge usually centers around my age. The older you become, the more [...]

  124. Kristi Stassinopoulou

    → Reflecting Light | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:59 am MDT

    Eclecticism is big in popular music — any day now we will hear about a disc of minimalist bluegrass or Cuban-Tibetan fusion — and some of it seems like a desperate pitch to be different at all costs. But Kristi Stassinopoulu (whom I will henceforth take the liberty of calling Kristi, so as not to get writer's cramp from continually typing "Stassinopoulu") has developed an eclectic style that

  125. Crystal Mangum Goes for ‘Grace’

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 22 Aug 2008 | 3:52 am MDT

    Update III (8/25): Here’s the press release that arrived in my inbox on Thursday night: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 22, 2008 Publication Date: October 1, 2008 Media Inquiries: Vincent Clark vince@firefilmz.com greenecourt@aol.com 919.630.3806 Michael Denisoff MDenLA@oal.com 949.293.2797 http://www.firefilmz.com http://www.denisoffconsulting.com Poignant Memoir Reveals Details of a Difficult Life (Los Angeles) - The Duke Lacrosse case is no longer the lead story on the network and cable news shows, but [...]

  126. George Obama, ‘The least of my brothers’

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 20 Aug 2008 | 4:50 pm MDT

    The Telegraph reports that George Obama, Barack Obama’s half-brother, subsists on less than a dollar a month in a hut in Nairobi, Kenya. He says he’s ashamed of his poverty and doesn’t tell people he’s related to America’s first black major party presumptive presidential nominee. Assuming he didn’t know how his brother was living (benefit of [...]

  127. Fannie and Freddie: friends in low places

    → Reflecting Light | 20 Aug 2008 | 12:21 pm MDT

    The American taxpayers are, in essence, guaranteeing $5 trillion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt. The Federal Reserve stands by to subsidize Fannie's and Freddie's stock in the stock market. Fannie and Freddie continue to pay dividends to their shareholders. All the profit goes to the shareholders and management. The taxpayers get no compensation or payback for saving all of Fannie and

  128. GodBlogCon Returns to Vegas

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 20 Aug 2008 | 6:01 am MDT

    ***Scroll down for questions*** A gathering of Christians working to advance the Kingdom through blogging + internet technologies. I’m headed back to Vegas! I’m returning to the God Blog Convention, sponsored by Biola University in La Mirada, California. This year’s convention will be held at the Blog World and New Media Expo on September 20 and 21. (Last [...]

  129. Alan Greenspan's Irrational Exuberance

    → Reflecting Light | 19 Aug 2008 | 8:50 am MDT

    Alan Greenspan autobiography, soon to be published by Goldilocks Economy Press Alan Greenspan isn't content to rest on his achievements, the last of which during his stint as Federal Reserve Chairman from 1987 to 2006 was to pump up the housing bubble. Looking at the bear market following the previous dot com bubble, he presided over a lowering of the fed funds rate all the way down to 1

  130. The Mount Isa Doctrine

    → Reflecting Light | 18 Aug 2008 | 3:09 pm MDT

    A certified Obama-free posting™ ! No artificial ingredients We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging to bring you news from Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. John Molony, the mayor of the Australian outback mining town of Mount Isa, is a straight-talking Aussie bloke, the kind of man who calls a spade a bloody shovel. But after suggesting that "beauty disadvantaged" women should move to his

  131. LBC Bandwidth Fund - August

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 18 Aug 2008 | 10:10 am MDT

    In the spirit of charitable giving, Christian or otherwise, I’m starting a monthly feature here at LBC for those who want to give. If you read this blog, like it, and want to contribute a little toward the LBC Bandwidth Fund, click the Pay Pal button below: Thanks for reading!

  132. Barack Obama and Matthew 25

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 18 Aug 2008 | 6:04 am MDT

    Cal Thomas (emphasis added): “Obama and others on the evangelical left see government, not individuals or the church, as the instrument by which the commands of Jesus are implemented. In such a doctrinal interpretation, government serves as a kind of “lesser God,” intruding on believers and their commission to do good works, as a means of [...]

  133. The glass isn't half full or half empty. It's empty.

    → Reflecting Light | 15 Aug 2008 | 10:59 am MDT

    James Quinn has an asteroid-striking-the-financial-world piece at Seeking Alpha, the interesting site devoted to exchange traded funds, titled "The Great Consumer Crash of 2009." You'll feel better for reading it, I'm sure. Says he: By 2005 practically everyone had a large automobile and a beautiful house. By 2010 many of these people will be asking where is that large automobile and will realize

  134. I have a dream about the latest crisis

    → Reflecting Light | 14 Aug 2008 | 10:26 am MDT

    Imagine if you can — yeah, I know you can't — that the President of the United States steps up to the microphone at the news conference and says: "Good morning. I've just met with my national security team to discuss the crisis in Georgia. We concluded that it is an unfortunate situation in which various groups that have been at odds with one another for hundreds of years are in conflict. We'd

  135. Standing above the rubble

    → Reflecting Light | 10 Aug 2008 | 9:04 am MDT

    Recordings of classical music traditionally represent about 5 percent of all recordings sold. Of that 5 percent, I would guess that historical classical recordings are in the vicinity of 5 percent. That is, 5 percent of 5 percent. I'll confess to a preference for relatively modern recordings (say, from the 1980s on), with a slightly guilty extra pleasure in sonic state-of-the-art discs. I'm

  136. Pakistan Protests too Much

    → Noblesse Oblige | 13 Jun 2008 | 7:26 pm MDT

    What were Pakistani troops doing in such close proximity to Taliban Troops?

  137. American Innovation

    → Noblesse Oblige | 12 Jun 2008 | 7:22 pm MDT

    Here’s the stuff of science fiction in practice - in Vernor Vinge’s latest book Telepresence is a key part of the narrative along with wearable computers and virtual communities. Here you see John Chambers of Cisco talking to Marthin Debeers through Telepresence. I once had to wake John up at three am a few years back, so [...]

  138. A Second Strike has Always Been an Al Qaeda Signature

    → Noblesse Oblige | 11 Jun 2008 | 4:56 pm MDT

    The second strike sometimes comes quickly, but most often is timed to attack first responders. Remember those folks, and the many who have responded to terror attacks across the world since this infamous day.

  139. Yesterday Was Black Tuesday

    → Noblesse Oblige | 11 Jun 2008 | 6:11 am MDT

    If you use Microsoft OS, please go get their new security patches at windows update , here’s an overview of the patches released yesterday from SANs.

  140. My Barack Obama Website’s Fly is Open

    → Noblesse Oblige | 9 Jun 2008 | 7:48 am MDT

    We've talked about populist candidates here in the past, and how they seem to attract strange bedfellow alliances of crazies, hate-groups, and kook-pundits - they do it by making speeches full of sweeping general statements without specifics. The attractant is that crazies can see anything they want in the candidate, while a specific stance is not really there; instead you see populist charicature or posture on almost all issues.

  141. Laura Bush in Bamiya

    → Noblesse Oblige | 9 Jun 2008 | 6:11 am MDT

    Laura Bush revisited Bamiyan province in Afghanistan this weekend to raise more money for reconstruction and to showcase the progress made since her previous trip there. This is her third trip, but the press tends to ignore these calls for aid; doing the requisite one story and not examining in detail what Laura is trying to [...]

  142. Missile Defense Video Response to Obama

    → Noblesse Oblige | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:42 am MDT

    Earlier I wrote about Obama’s Dangerous pledge to unilaterally disarm and to cut our missile defense systems. Here’s a video reply from Free Constitution.

  143. Al Qaeda Genocide Against Muslims

    → Noblesse Oblige | 6 Jun 2008 | 4:31 pm MDT

    Fareed Zakaria takes umbrage at the word Terrorism in the Khaleej Times, so I thought I would reply to the semantic game. He quibbles over whether the civilians killed in Terror attacks in Iraq should be counted as terror victims in an attempt to downplay terror. These are word games, because whether you call it [...]

  144. Iranian Backed Hezbollah Captured in Iraq

    → Noblesse Oblige | 6 Jun 2008 | 2:39 pm MDT

    Our forces captured a Hezbollah operative today Southeast of Baghdad, and it appears that they’ve opted to become actively and openly engaged in Iraq according to this article: The U.S. military in Iraq has captured the deputy military chief of the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah, coalition officials said. Iraqi sources said the U.S. Army has arrested the No. 2 figure [...]

  145. 64 Years Ago Today

    → Noblesse Oblige | 6 Jun 2008 | 12:27 pm MDT



  146. Another Haditha Marine Exonerated

    → Noblesse Oblige | 5 Jun 2008 | 6:50 am MDT

    1st Lt Andrew Grayson’s honor is unbesmirched as he was fully acquitted of charges for the Haditha incident. This isn’t going to make Murtha happy. As more comes to light on the incident it has become apparent that Haditha was an agitpropaganda set up from the get-go, and that the attempt by our enemies to recreate My [...]

  147. Remembering Tienanmen Square: China It’s Time to Release the Prisoners

    → Noblesse Oblige | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:34 pm MDT

    Please take a stop by Lawhawk’s - today is the 19 year anniversary of the day the Tankman became a world reknowned figure.

  148. You Know Things Are Bad When

    → Noblesse Oblige | 4 Jun 2008 | 6:32 am MDT

    You know thing are bad when the UN calls for Capitalism. Ban Ki Moon called for the end to tariffs, protectionism, and trade barriers in face of mounting food inflation: “We simply cannot afford to fail,” the UN secretary general told a news conference at the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) summit on food security. “Hundreds [...]

  149. Summertime

    → Noblesse Oblige | 1 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am MDT

    It’s June, there are graduations, and the usual silly season has started with journalists reporting alien sightings. I’ve taken a brief hiatus to enjoy the Spring, as there haven’t been too many warm days this year until the past two weeks. In politics the battle royal has begun with the thousands demonstrating at the DNC rules committee yesterday. [...]

  150. Baitullah Mehsud Calls on Pakistan to Use Nuclear Arsenal “to Defend Against the Enemies”.

    → Noblesse Oblige | 27 May 2008 | 2:54 pm MDT

    In this brief interview you will see Baitullah Mehsud, leader of TTP, or Pakistan’s Taliban, deny the assasination of Benazir Bhutto (methinks he doth protest too oft and too much…) as well as praise Bin Laden. He states that Bin Laden is not “in this region”, but they would do whatever he asks. Then he goes on to exhort the [...]



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