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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081103164134.e7a3sjmw&show_article=1

A more practical solution would be to remove the sickness - Muslims - rather than to treat the symptom. It's time to boot out the barbarians while you still can...

My big problem with the war and the republicans is that they say they won't leave until they "won" the war. WTF is winning the war?

The fact that Republicans call it a "war" at all just means they utterly lost the propaganda battle with the Democrats, as usual. The war lasted about 2 weeks. The occupation lasted about 6 months. Since then it has been a military presence. Anything approaching an intelligible discussion should discuss it in those terms.

As for the Iraqi's themselves, they would vote McCain, because they would fear that Obama would withdraw US troops to quickly:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94309881&show_article=1

The problem with letting you decide what, if anything, you're willing to pay is that it always devolves into people not paying their share, or what game theorists call the "free rider" problem.

Me, I just call 'em parasites.

A point that was conveniently proven by a real World example when Radiohead launched their album "In Rainbows" online, inviting people to "pay what they consider it's worth" for it. As it transpired (and wasn't particularly surprising) most people didn't bother paying anything at all.

Either they thought it was worthless (then why bother getting it?) or the mere fact that they could get it for free meant they jumped on the chance. It doesn't take a genius to work out which is the more likely scenario.

Whilst I'm no saint it angers me when people put forward the argument that "if it wasn't so expensive then I wouldn't have to warez it". Quite frankly that is ridiculous, outside of the digital realm you couldn't just walk into a shop and say "I don't think that TV is worth what you're asking for it therefore I'm going to steal it or offer what I believe it's worth" - it's madness.

Of course people then trot out the familiar retort about the difference between stealing a tangible item vs a digital reproduction. The media is irrelevant really, you're paying for someones time & expertise, it's not your place to determine how much this is worth, you either buy it or you don't.

And if Saddam Hussein had reinforced his contacts with al-Qaeda or started another war with Iran or restarted his dormant weapons programs, or all three plus some fresh hell....

Operation Iraqi Freedom has saved money and lives.

It's better to spend money on a constitutional requirement - "the common defense" - than on the specific welfare of Barack Hussein Obama's ACORN community (or more accurately, communist) organizers.

I guess we should have waited for Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi guy, not the pol from Corruptionland, Illinoise) to actually hit one of our patrolling aircraft, or otherwise "strike first" before we got rid of him.

Just think how many Mars rovers could have been built if the Dummycrats had not:

1) Created FNMA and FHLMC (Fascist Dictator Roosevelt)
2) Sold them to "private" interests (Lyndon Brainless Johnson)
3) Called anybody trying to fix them "racists," as Barney Frank did just yesterday.

and probably most importantly,

4) Been the racist pro-slavery KKK anti-civil-rights lily white yellow dog party in the first damn place!

more independent organization picks up the story - AP, Reuters, BBC, etc.

"[M]ore independent"?!? You have GOT to be kidding me.

You mean an "independent", unbiased headline like this: Analysis: Palin's words carry racial tinge. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KD6Q00&show_article=1

So...bringing up Obama's close relationship with unrepentant terrorist Ayers is now racist?!? You have got to be kidding me.

I'm only surprised that you didn't mention CNN as another "independent" news organization.

-john

while the "religion of peace" continues its conquest of Europe by immigration and overpopulation?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080927204747.vj5srmx9&show_article=1

Most people in the Army are not crazy and are reasonably well-natured enough that stuff that falls into the category of "illegal orders" are very uncommon.

Yes, but then there are soldiers that rape 14-year old girls and kill their family to cover up the traces, that torture and sexually abuse naked prisoners, shoot pregnant women, or bomb wedding parties, all of which somehow spoils the beautiful picture. What a PR desaster!

Try telling Tom Cruise that Scientology is a crock. I'd imagine he'd scream incoherently at the top of his lungs, jump up and down then rip your face off.

Matt Damon or Lindsey Lohan would do the same to you, if you tell them, Obama is a crock... With Barbara Streisand singing a notch lauder to drown your screams...

Seriously, there is a good reason, Romans considered entertainers to be among the lowest class of citizens — above only prostitutes... They weren't even allowed to serve in the regular army units.

First, some URLs:

Long range acoustic device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_range_acoustic_device

Ship Blasted Pirates With Sonic Weapon
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8DNUV2G3&show_article=1

Sonic Weapons Ward Off Pirate Attack
http://realmwaverider.blogspot.com/2005/11/sonic-weapons-ward-off-pirate-attack.html

Does LRAD Work?
http://maritimeaccident.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/does-lrad-work/

Cruise Lines Turn to LRAD
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Cruise+Lines+Turn+to++LRAD-200811.html

This is almost a Security Theatre/Boondoggle Exercise all over again.

Any pirates wanting a particular ship, or even a random one that is known to be equipped with sonic blasters, but not protected by specially-trained anti-piracy personne with long-range weaponry will only need to fire RPGs, or laser-guided weapons, or use sniper rifles with HE/AP shells to take out the expensive, lone sonic mount. Even a frag blast *near* it may send it off-kilter.

To pull this off is a no-brainer. Typically, pirates already send one to 3 boats ahead of the target lying wait in the dark. They already would have paid out (dispensed) a line rigged between them as they separated sufficiently to ensnare the target. The target craft/vessel encounters the line, and forging ahead, draws the pirates in closer. They pirates use suction cups or grappling hooks, or some combination thereof and scale the hull.

Now, using sniper rifles with NVG-enhancement type equipment, a few well-placed sniper-fired rounds from one or more craft can take out the LRAD mounts -- unless so many multiples (fakes) are emplaced so as to cause the pirates to fire enough rounds do betray their location. Smart LRAD emplacements will have gear to detect and localize the source of incoming fire and train the operational/real LRAD to that bearing and elevation and dwell on the target. But, in congested areas, like the Strait of Malacca, using the LRAD can quickly become illegal if locals are sickened, ship-wrecked or otherwise harmed.

For a more recent article (but not one containing countermeasures such as mine, which anyone with half a brain can adduce/deduct/produce/educe in 45 seconds), see:

Maritime Reporter & Engineering News (www.marinelink.com) August 2008

If you are a sailor/yacht operator, you've probably already read:

"The New Piracy"
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n24/glas01_.html

"Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas", By John Burnette (I bought my copy in 2003)
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Waters-Modern-Piracy-Terror/dp/0452284139

We need to cut off their supply of money so that we are not paying countries that hate us. We need to drill for oil domestically,while at the same time having a Kennedy style "get off of gas in 10 years" development program. Surely if we could develop the tech to go to the moon in a decade we can develop efficient affordable electric cars in the same amount of time.

As for the one who marked me flamebait,I take it you haven't seen the videos of the 5 year olds singing "We will get to Allah with the heads of Jews and Americans on a pike!"? They teach it like a damned nursery rhyme. Or how Iran gave plastic keys to children as young as 12 and sent them to clear minefields by walking through them? Or maybe the teach kids to hate videos that start with freakin' puppets carrying AK47s? I repeat: There will NEVER be peace until they learn to love their kids more than they hate us. Because as long as they are willing to strap bombs to little kids just to kill us then there will never be peace. But as always this is my 02c,YMMV

That's funny, they did just that about 5 hours before you made your post.

Obama campaign highlights Palin's 'zero' experience. Yeah, except that she has been in political positions 5 years longer (1992) than Obama has (1997), and has gone further up the executive branch. This is not the battle they want to fight.

I haven't, as of this posting, heard a single word out of Obama or any of his direct campaign advisors on McCain's VP pick.

Looks like that's changed now.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080829171140.5123i228&show_article=1

Yeah, it's OT and all the Slashtard Obamatrons are going to hate it, but here it is:

Obama seeks to silence ad tying him to 60s radical

DENVER (AP) - Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign.

Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.

Funny how the news article editorializes about Kerry's ordeal. Funny also how Kerry has NEVER denied or refuted any of the Swift Boat claims, just like Obama has repudiated his "good friend for several decades" Ayers.

CHANGE!

Agreed. The last place we have to worry is airlines...and they know that. You know, it's gotten where EVERY day I see a story and think, is it April fools again already? One of those stories where you're just sure someone is pulling a fast one on the press. This one is today's...

Yesterday it was this one: "Toddlers who say 'yuck' when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says." Personally, I think that the UK and US are in a contest to see who can come up with the most stupid ideas!

Now, OTOH, if they wanted to put the shock collars on some of the kids riding the planes.... ;-)

LOOK AT BILL GATES FINGER in this LINK...He says: FUCK YOU ALL!!! http://www.breitbart.com/image.php?id=app-dd61c332-9bf4-46d2-98b7-594605366225&show_article=1&article_id=D91IKTR80

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Didn't I read somewhere that television viewing was actually DROPPING? Come up with crappy shows and reruns and wonder why viewership is declining? Perhaps the writer's strike had something to do with it?

Perhaps it's because of Youtube and Vimeo? In my household, we probably average about as much YT as TV, even with a dish DVR. We don't watch commercials much at all, and what network a show is on is, for us, irrelevant because it records the shows we want, not the stations we like.

Anybody who'd say that things haven't radically changed is simply oblivious to the fact that they have. Business is no longer usual!

Thisd whole story is a troll. Hey look, a McCain piñata. Everyone take a swing! Meanwhile Obama make an overt threat against Iran, about a complete a flip-flop as you can have from his lovey-dovey approach from two weeks ago and you guys let it slide.

...largely due to the efforts of this woman.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90I4TN00&show_article=1&catnum=0

And here I just read a story today that some lady is having her 18th baby.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90I4TN00&show_article=1&catnum=0

Yes this is really helping things out....

There are plenty of places on the web for anyone that wants to be better informed about what is happening in Iraq. Just for starters...

Multi-National Force - Iraq website.
          Today's top stories:
          Iraqis Displaced from Homes Now Returning in Droves
          Soccer Stadium Opens with Tourney
          Mahmudiyah Hatchery Receives First Egg Shipment
          Soldiers Distribute Fertilizer to Farmers

The Long War Journal
Michael Totten's web site
Michael Yon's web site (He has just published a new book: Moment of Truth in Iraq )

Some Iraqi bloggers:
Iraq Pundit
Iraq the Model

Some useful news of the war does slip through:
Al Qaeda chief slams Muslims for lack of support
Iraq: After the bombs, the tomatoes
Violence Leaves Young Iraqis Doubting Clerics

The number with problems with medical care and with access to a computer would both be greater - and both are more fuzzy.

Eivind.

Case in point:

skews.com has this article rated as "liberal" -- it looks to me like it's just the result of a (somewhat alarming) study on education. This article here appears to have been labeled "conservative" just because it came from Fox News.

Skews makes no sense. Take this article as an example:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080401184532.kxjxy7xo&show_article=1

It's an AFP wire story with completely straight, factual reporting about high school graduation rates in the USA. There is no commentary from the author whatsoever. However Skewz users rate the story as "Liberal", giving it 2.5 out of 5 points on the Liberal scale. I'm having a hard time seeing the logic there. How can a purely factual report on this topic possibly be considered leftist?

You are confusing the law with the unethical and illegall activities of certain members and/or branches of the current government. Even under the patriot act, its not technically legal to simply tap a phone line or read someones email. There is still a thorough and detailed process by which all those actions "should" be tracked, including warrant and so forth.

The problem as it stands, is that in over half of the cases. The people involved in these investigations have compltely ignored the process. If you look at H.R.3162 (also known as the Patriot Act) it is simply a series of ammendments to existing law. As such somebody invovled in surveylance is still required to adhere to due process in regards to wire taps, subpoena of information, etc. However, somewhere along the line the powers that be thought it also gave them the right to completely ignore it using loopholes that may or may not have been intentional.

See http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8NOQV5G2&show_article=1 as an example

Considering that 1 in 4 teenage girls already have STDs, those will be in high demand.

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VBB9D00&show_article=1

Good article, wrong link, this is the right one.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UVH3800&show_article=1 was just linked to on the drudge report as 'MICROSOFT prepares workers for YAHOO takeover...'.

I laughed...until I stopped laughing.

If only they were that lucky.

By my count, we are probably dealing with as many as eight, maybe even nine, unexplained cut or damaged undersea cables within the last week, and not the mere three or four that most mainstream news media outlets in the United States are presently reporting. Given all this cable-cutting mayhem in the last several days, who knows but what there may possibly be other cut and/or damaged cables that have not made it into the news cycle, because they are lost in the general cable-cutting noise by this point. Nevertheless, let me enumerate what I can, and keep in mind, I am not pulling these out of a hat; all of the sources are referenced at the conclusion of the article; you can click through and look at all the evidence that I have. It's there if you care to read through it all 1) one off of Marseille, France 2) two off of Alexandria, Egypt 3) one off of Dubai, in the Persian Gulf 4) one off of Bandar Abbas, Iran in the Persian Gulf 5) one between Qatar and the UAE, in the Persian Gulf 6) one in the Suez, Egypt 7) one near Penang, Malaysia 8) initially unreported cable cut on 23 January 2008 (Persian Gulf?)

The article includes the following links as references to document the above list of believed cuts:

1) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1202064573279&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
2) http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/business/?id=24186
3) http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February121.xml&section=theuae
4) http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080202132053.iohfg5ob&show_article=1
5) http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153455.htm
6) http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQ
7) http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510132-internet-problems-continue-with-fourth-cable-break?ln=en
8) http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=7980
9) https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean
10) http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/?iref=hpmostpop
11) http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/04/technology/cables.php
12) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
13) http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/31/Cut-cable-disrupts-Internet-in-Middle-East_1.html
14)

So, to clarify, the White House ordered "a ship [...] to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday"?

Here's some more conspiracy fodder for you: a third cable, Falcon, is also damaged. Must be the White House!

Oh, wait...it's just the incredible fragility of our undersea cable network finally being embarrassingly exposed.

I'm surprised this hasn't hit the /. front page yet:

Google Stock Down After Results Miss Views

Yeah, I know, off-topic...

They censored search pages.

JFGI

You've got a lot of information, but you've got it wrong. The Bricks of cash on palets, mentioned here, among other places, were supposed to pay civilian contractors aiding in the reconstruction efforts. Accounting practices bordering on criminal have allowed some sickening war profiteering, and certainly some of that money ended up in Iraqi hands, but since the Iraqis are the actual workers, I'm not too concerned.

It is, after all, unavoidable when the goal of spending all that money is to rebuild Iraq.

There have been accusations of Coalition commanders paying off Afghani warlords to not attack their bases, and that, I agree with you, is entirely unacceptable. That no-one has been brought up on charges for the practice yet (to my knowledge?) - is something to be pissed about.

You've got no arguements with me over the scary implications of what Blackwater, or similar private mercenary groups, could do. I like to think they realize they stand a whole lot better chance of long-term business if their primary employer stays internally stable, but you never know.

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On to Iran:

New IED's Made in Iran. These are currently the most feared and effective weapons in the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres.

Terrorist training camps, In Iran. Remember we went to war in Afghanistan over this one.

"Israel will be Annhilated". This is a good enough reason for me why Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapons.

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While I agree with most of your points about how we should be watching our own government much more closely than we should be watching Iran, I disagree with your conclusions. We've had recurring problems in the Middle East because our economic concerns (competing with the Soviet Union, taking natural resources, etc.) - involve screwing over the Middle East at every oppourtunity. The leadership of the Middle East realizes this and is rightfully pissed off about it.

This is why major problems crop up every ten or twenty years, the goal of US foreign policy is to keep the middle east more or less destabilized.

Of course, every once in a while all this nonsense creates a situation that might actually be threatening to the US, like Afghanistan, or a nuclear-armed Iran. We have to deal with it.

Why am I not surprised to learn that wed and alcohol were involved in their decision to taunt the tiger. I guess the two survivors will never make that mistake again. I can't say they didn't deserve their fate. The dead one should get a Darwin Award.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U85K080&show_article=1

Right... Nobody is doing that...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8EBR6D00&show_article=1, http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/1999/march_1999_2.html, http://www.incorrectu.com/2007/10/24/liveblogging-ifaw-at-emory-university-with-david-horowitz/

The war is already lost, Harry Reid said so. Of course Harry believes that there are 535 Commanders in Chiefs but maybe someday he will get to the point where he can clean that brown ring off his neck.

One bit of feedback I'll offer to your Scandinavian anecdote is the same rebuttal I offer my Swedish friend:
Comparing the situation in a country with a relatively homogeneous population the size of New York City to the USA might be unfair.
In other words, one wonders whether any of those countries would fare so well if you jacked their population up an order of magnitude, and gave it the cultural mish-mash that is the USA. Additionally, and this is a serious question about the foot vote: in which direction, North America or Scandinavia, is there greater human migration? For relatively prosperous countries like your Finland and Norway, I would expect the numbers are small and roughly equivalent. For all the purported superiority of these systems, we don't see a stampede towards the old country.

You may want to rethink the statement that Sweden has a homogeneous population. As with other European countries Sweden has a sizable immigrant population:

"Sweden struggles to integrate Muslim immigrants". As TFA says "'Immigrants to Sweden have become political refugees. First there were people from South America, then Iran, Afghanistan and now Iraq,' he said." Fact is is many European nations welcomed foreigners, many from Africa and the Middle East, as workers as early as the 1950s. Maybe not all, I don't know, but many Northern European nations have growing African, Middle Eastern, and Muslim populations.

drudgereport.com is a right-leaning website frequented by media execs

you see the very first story linked as:

"Most Fans Paid $0 for Radiohead Album..."

(breitbart is a right-leaning media outlet as well)

ps: right now being 4:15 pm, 11/06/2007

what's funny is how a pro-file sharing website, like slashdot, can spin a positive out of the numbers, and an anti-file sharing website can spin a negative

spin, spin, spin

just my two cents: radiohead probably made more money off their album with this internet tip jar concept than if they signed with a label, considering how the companies nickel and dime artists to death. actually, radiohead has some clout, so maybe that's not 100% true. but rather, an unknown band would DEFINITELY make more money with free albums and an internet tip jar than signing with a label

hopefully more and more bands will realize this, and a critical mass of hot young bands will coalesce such that one will consider doing business with the defunct music labels ever again

then the RIAA attack dogs will sue up and coming artists to sign with the music labels? (half-joking, i wouldn't put it past them)

McVeigh served in the US Military and was awarded the the Bronze Star during his service in the Gulf War. He went wacko after he left the Military.

The US should increase Military spending and should concentrate on bulking up air power because after all the caterwauling over Iraq, the next war will be a bomb fest.

With all the crap we customers are putting up with (constant rate increases, lousy service, high prices, lack of privacy, ridiculous usage filtering), the only way Comcrap is going to lose customers is if there is some sort of competition.

Currently, they have, essentially, a monopoly in most areas. In my neighborhood, DSL only became available recently and really only through SBC (hiding behind the AT&T name). The "service" is an 1/8th of the speed for barely any less monthly rate.

Believe me, if there was any way to get decent internet without paying Comcrap for it, I'd be doing it. And I'm sure a LOT of other folks would, too.

Has the Savvis CEO ever taken you guys out for a night on the town?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SCEBLG0&show_article=1

This might be off-topic, but it seems relevant. It appears Comcast is blocking traffic.

"Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!"

      1. This was a civil trial - Capitol vs Thomas - not a criminal trial.

      2. The level of proof required was much lower than a criminal trial.

      3. Since its a civil trial, she can just go bankrupt (the jury award isn't a fine resulting from a criminal trial - fines for criminal convictions aren't generally dischargeable in a bankruptcy).
(parent is already modded up)
Parent is right. The Duluth Press article (TFA) was accurate, but the other media reports I've been seeing on this, Brietbart and AP, have it wrong, saying she was fined for illegal downloading. The articles don't give any address to contact for corrections.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/04/national/main3330186.shtml
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071004233021.itudt24b&show_article=1
Perhaps she can sue them for libel to raise the money she now owes, since a recklessly false claim of illegality is actionable. Dunno.

Do we know the names and home addresses of the plaintiff's lawyers? I'd like to add them to my christmas card list. In fact, we should all send them christmas cards, to show that there are no hard feelings.

65,000 a month won't even pay the property taxes on some houses, so it could be a good deal!

The water levels are forecast to rise a meter, no matter what we do. So why bother at this point?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RQKV7O0&show_article=1

If we can, over the next 100 years, get used to a rise of a meter a year, then we can get used to that for ever. By 2050, we'll have fusion - for real, and then the whole greenhouse gas thing goes away.