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January 19, 2005
Random Morsels
h my gawd! This man was invited to speak by the principal of a middle school within 10 minutes of where I live! That principal wins this week's Penguin Dope Slap.
- One writer in Washington state calls for clean elections.
- The naked and the zapped.
- Okay, so we have officially ended our search for WMDs in Iraq. Am I the only one who remembers the trucks that took material into Syria just before the war started? Hello? How can we conclude there were no WMDs in Iraq?
- I didn't want any balloons for my birthday last week, but it got me to thinking: When Ricky Ricardo has a birthday, does he get baballoons?
- In case you missed it, here is a superb article written by a Lieutenant Colonel in Iraq on what a terrible job the U.S. domestic media is doing in their reporting on Iraq: Aiding and Abetting the Enemy: The Media in Iraq. I'd be upset too if it were my life on the line.
- Some people just don't take noise-reduction efforts seriously.
- That Lieutenant Colonel's letter mentioned above, by the way, is at the best, award-winning military blogs: Blackfive--The Paratrooper of Love. Spend some time dipping into the archives. It's quite an education on what's really going on with the military and their work in Iraq.
- Be careful what you say, especially to God.
- If you saw Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 and accepted its "message" uncritically, you might consider investigating one of the many websites that detail misprepresentations and outright lies in the movie. Michael doesn't seem inhibited by facts. But I have to admit, he can be funny, and knows how to "edit" a film to maximize crafting his "message." It just goes to show that we can take anyone's life, and with judicious editing and editorial commentary, make that life to appear to be anything we want it to be.
- Fly like an eagle.
- Michael Moore. You have to wonder about a guy who says, "The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win." (From a letter on his own website.) How out of touch can a guy be?
- Here's a perfect Valentine's Day Teddy Bear for a grumpy spouse.
- Don't you think it's time for Western media to Stop showing terrorists videos? Especially of the killing kind?
- In case you missed it, the Darwin Awards.
- And yes there is Good News from Iraq, although you probably haven't heard about it.
*** Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
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Posted by witnit at January 19, 2005 5:20 AM
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