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The Lusitania was a Cunard liner.

In 1915 nothing on this Earth could be more British. She was torpedoed just south of Queenstown, Ireland, on May 7, 1915. The ship went down in 18 minutes. 1,195 died, including 123 Americans. The U.S. was a neutral in 1915 and her ports were open to ships of all nations. The Lost Liners - Lusitania [Robert Ballard, PBS 2000]

That Japan was about to make a move against the U.S. was known.

But where?

The Pearl Harbor attack was a hit and run raid, and, in the end, the attack bought Japan only six months of naval superiority in the Pacific. Pearl, after all, was nothing more or less than a forward naval base. It wasn't where ships were being built or men being trained. It wasn't rubber or oil or other strategic materials. Report Debunks Theory That the U.S. Heard a Coded Warning About Pearl Harbor [Dec 6, 2008]

Tonkin didn't feel like a virtual battle to those who fought in it. Anatomy of a crisis [March 2004], What Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam? [May 1988]

There was - let us say - fair reason to be a tad suspicious about Iraq's abandonment of WMDs:

In 1995, UNSCOM's principal weapons inspector..showed Taha documents...that showed the Iraqi government had just purchased 10 tons of growth medium. Iraq's hospital consumption of growth medium was just 200 kg a year; yet in 1988, Iraq imported 39 tons of it. Shown this evidence by UNSCOM, Taha admitted to the inspectors that she had grown 19,000 litres of botulism toxin; 8,000 litres of anthrax; 2,000 litres of aflatoxins, which can cause liver failure; Clostridium perfringens, a bacterium that can cause gas gangrene; and ricin, a castor-bean derivative which can kill by impeding circulation. She also admitted conducting research into cholera, salmonella, foot and mouth disease, and camel pox, a disease that uses the same growth techniques as smallpox, but which is safer for researchers to work with. It was because of the discovery of Taha's work with camel pox that the U.S. and British intelligence services feared Saddam Hussein may have been planning to weaponize the smallpox virus. Iraq and weapons of mass destruction

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* - Spell-checking is built into Firefox and the ieSpellplug-in has been around for quite some time as well.

Yeah. Don't they use a spell checker?

Try this: http://www.iespell.com/
or this: http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
or this: http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/opera/spell check/

I know I will be flamed for this, but i'm ok with that. I find it helpful for folks with poor spelling and grammar to be very, very brief in what they write. It doesn't take long for my focus to stray from the content of your writing to a game of "hunt the next error". Especially when you make the same gross misspelling twice in a row, thereby making it all the more obvious.

Here's a friendly little piece of advice, you can take it or leave it, my feelings really wont be hurt. There are a lot of free spell checkers out there. For instance: http://www.iespell.com/. If you want people to read your posts, it really isn't hard to learn a few basic grammatical rules and put a decent spell checker to work. If you don't care, please pretend this response never happened.

Oh you mean like this downloadable add-on extension... for IE.
http://www.iespell.com/

At the very least, the editors and article-submitters alike could install SpellBound or IE Spell and check their text fields before approving/submitting.

Since you already have Firefox running, just install the SpellBound extension and spell check your blog entries as you submit them.

For MSIE users, get ieSpell.

For Firefox there is a great plugin called Spellbound. You just right click in a textarea or input box and select "Check Spelling". There is also a plugin for IE called IESpell which works well for those who still use IE for some reason.

Spell checker for Firefox (open source)

Spell checker for Opera (open source)

Spell checker for Internet Explorer ($15)

http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/

It has been around for a while and was recently accepted into the Mozilla trunk. Don't think it's just a cheap hack.

Alternatively, quick search turned this up for IE. With the right design, something as simple as a spell check should be quick and painless. Some IM clients even have a live spell check built in which can be of great use. Nothing can beat the live spell checker for helping you pick up on your own problem words. Or do what I recently did and parse through the last five years of IRC chat logs to find your most common mistakes. That was ugly, let me tell you! I can't make the rest of the world love my crappy spelling so fixing it is all I've got. But at least after doing that I felt a little better about myself.

But seriously, learn how to type ;)

I give you this - freeware

I hadn't read much about Thunderbird yet...

Annoyance Eliminator Aside from preventing popup windows, Mozilla Firebird will also stop a number of other actions. Mozilla Firebird puts an end ... status bar tricks ... and spoofing that prevents you from seeing where links really go.

Sweet! I also read that it offers built-in one click downloading. The only thing I use, that isn't included in Firebird, is a spell checker for forms, etc. Currently, I'm using iespell(free) for Internet Explorer, but I haven't really looked for a Mozilla spell checker yet..

Caleb

so post from Internet Explorer and use ieSpell .

not that you will look any less an idiot for not knowing that the it's elderly, the disabled, the house bound, the working poor, who most benefit from these subsidies.

and that it's damn tough to get--and keep--a job--anywhere--without a phone.

Spell-checking in textareas. No tpyos in this post!

Although I haven't used it (because I don't use IE), this app received a positive review in PC Magazine this month (and is free).