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This BuzzMachine post argues that Google's rush toward ubiquity might backfire -- which we've all heard before, but it's particularly well-put in this post.
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Does anybody use it for anything else?
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They own blogger, of course.
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I'm staying away from the stock.
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I doubt the very few who actually read my blog have not come across this yet, but I figured I would put it out there anyways.
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John Donovan from Argghhh! has put out a excellent slide show on what was actually found and fought for in Fallujah.
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He makes some good observations on a few of the pic's.
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On the next two pictures he took screenshots of two beheading video's.
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On the other hand, it looks pretty cool.
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Iran says it is creating nuclear energy without wanting nuclear weapons.
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But there is no proof.
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I read an Article in Time magazine accusing the Iranian Government of being willing to start a nuclear war and I sympathise with the Article.
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They are certainly being nasty to the United Nations Security Council in connection with the anti-proliferation treaty.
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The President has also said he would like to see Israel wiped off the map which he couldn't even begin to try without nuclear weapons.
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But he has insisted that he wants nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
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Many people want to use diplomacy with Iran rather than military pressure.
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One reader pointed out that the President watched the Americans in the embassy when they took them hostage.
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He has denied this.
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We don't have to believe him.
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Angry crowds chanted anti-American slogans in the western city of Falluja (pop. 256,000) as the security police killed in a friendly fire incident by US troops were buried on Saturday.
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Reuters reported that "Sunni clerics in the town issued a'Declaration by the people of Fallujah' condemning the deaths of the security guards and police, announcing three days of mourning, and calling for a general strike today."
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The clerics demanded talks with local US commanders.
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Falluja has long been roiled by tense relations with the US soldiers there, since local Sunnis either remain committed to Arab nationalism or have become Sunni fundamentalists or even radicals.
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Cities such as Falluja received special treatment from Saddam and enjoyed a disproportionate share of the country's wealth and power.
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They know that the American advent implies for them a demotion, and an elevation of the Shiites and Kurds, and they refuse to go quietly.
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The Supreme Court announced its ruling today in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld divided along idelogical lines with John Roberts abstaining due to his involvement at the D.C. Circuit level and Anthony Kennedy joining the liberals in a 5-3 decision that is 185 pages long.
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BREYER filed a concurring opinion, in which KENNEDY, SOUTER, and GINSBURG joined.
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KENNEDY filed an opinion concurring in part, in which SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined as to Parts I and II.
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SCALIA filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO joined.
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THOMAS filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA joined, and in which ALITO joined as to all but Parts I, II-C-1, and III-B-2.
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ALITO filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA and THOMAS joined as to Parts I through III.
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Important news such as President Bush's miniscule calibrations on his marriage amendment/anti-gay (update: he's not against gays in the bedroom, just at the altar, where of course their relationships should not only be frowned upon but should be constitutionally excluded) has pushed Sudan not just off the front pages, or the A section, but out of the NY Times and Washington Post completely.
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I had to go to the BBC for this report.
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At that time, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan demanded steps be taken to end the ethnic violence in Darfur within 48 hours.
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And international donors have given only half of the relief aid that Darfur needs, according to the local UN officials.
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Warren Buffett is giving away 85% of his wealth, mostly to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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I assume his actual reason is that he's worried that Berkshire Hathaway just can't grow quickly enough to justify his usual charity policy.
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It doesn't change the company's intrinsic worth, and as the article notes, the company might be added to a major index once the shares get more liquid.
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em... no... the Gates foundation mainly invests in medical research and education, that means donating now adds a tremendous value compared to donating in ten years.
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He's not giving 85% away, he's giving a number of shares each year that decrease in number at the rate of 5% a year (until gone?).
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He mentions his wife's death having an effect on him.
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Bill over at The Fourth Rail has an excellent essay on how the MSM and the UN, even the leftist countries in Europe, are basically accepting terrorist organizations as legitimate forms of a political party:
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On the same day Palestinians protest in support of Hezbollah and Syria, the terrorist group Hamas has indicated it will participate in the scheduled upcoming Parliamentary elections.
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To the north in Lebanon, there is serious debate within Hezbollah about entering the Lebanese political process in light of Syria's promised withdrawal.
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Syria has agreed to withdraw under the conditions set forth in UNSC Resolution 1559, which has already begun.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has indicated it is time to "recognize Hezbollah" after easily being duped by "the message on the placards they are using".
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The media routinely obscures the lines between terrorism and legitimate resistance, as the recent article by Daniel Okrent of The New York Times demonstrates.
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The decision to sidestep the obvious to satisfy the need to avoid confrontation does not bring peace, but only delays the eventual conflict as the predators of Hamas and Hezbollah exploit the inherent weakness of the internationals and the media.
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I've been fuming over this fact for a few weeks now, ever since some organizations and governments suggested we need to accept the fact that Hezbollah will get involved in running Lebanon.
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The Iraqi Islamic Party lead by Muhsin Abdul Hamid, has been among the few Sunni Muslim groups willing to cooperate (even if rather lukewarmly) with the Americans.
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It is now threatening to pull out of the Allawi caretaker government.
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The IIP had also been the main force urging Sunni Arabs to participate in the elections scheduled for January, and had been opposed in this stance by the Association of Muslim Scholars.
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In a communique, the AMS said that for Iraqis to take part with "raiding forces" in the assault on a city, the population of which is Muslim (such as Fallujah) would be considered the most mortal of mortal sins.
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The Sunni AMS told Iraqis, "You sinned when you participated with occupation forces in the assault on Najaf, and beware lest you repeat this same sin in Fallujah.
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The radical Shiite Sadr movement issued a statement forbidding the participation of Iraqi troops in the attack on Fallujah, as well.
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The statement said, "We direct an appeal at the men in the Iraqi forces, whether national guards or others, the majority of whom are Muslim, calling upon them to refrain for commiting this enormous sin under the banner of forces that do not respect our religion or any principles of basic humanity, and we ask them to view this war as illegal."
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It called a "ploy" the assertaion that the attack was merely on foreign fighters at Fallujah.
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The convergence of views among the more militant Sunni Muslim clerics of AMS and the radical Shiites of the Sadr movement has been seen before, last spring during the initial US assault on Fallujah and during the US attack on Mahdi Army militiamen in Najaf.
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President Bush pinched a few nerves yesterday with his choice of words:
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U.S. Muslim groups criticized President Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.
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U.S. officials have said the plot, thwarted by Britain, to blow up several aircraft over the Atlantic bore many of the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
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"We believe this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counterproductive to associate Islam or Muslims with fascism," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group.
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By using the word "Islamic" as an adjective Bush was purposely not associating Muslims with fascism, hence the qualifier.
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And if you haven't heard by now, the roster of suspected terrorists has not a Tom, Dick or Harry among them:
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We've got a Steven, the one word that didn't crash my spell-check, despite it being followed by a Vikash Chand Abdul Shakur.
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On the internet site of Monotheism and Holy War (al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad), the group allegedly declared, "We announce that the Tawhid and Jihad Group, its prince and soldiers, have pledged allegiance to the sheikh of the mujahideen Osama bin Laden."
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One witness at the Moutasaddiq trial in Germany alleged that Zarqawi had not allowed Monotheism and Holy War to share resources with al-Qaeda in the early zeroes of the 21st century.
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They also had a special connection to some extremists in Jordan and Germany.
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Monotheism and Holy War obviously does have a violent interpretation of Salafism, rather as the the leaders of the so-called German Peasant Rebellion among early Protestants did.
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These have been sighted among Iraqi crowds on Haifa Street in Baghdad and in Samarra.
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So now there are hundreds of al-Qaeda members in Iraq where there had been none before.
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It notes 10 points at which the US made key mistakes that might have stopped Bin Laden's plot.
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Bush came out today and said that if he had known what was coming, he would have expended every effort to stop it, and that so would have Clinton.
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We now know that Bush and his administration came into office obsessed with Iraq.
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Cheney was looking at maps of Iraq oil fields and muttering about opportunities for US companies there, already in January or February of 2001.
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Wolfowitz contradicted counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke when the latter spoke of the al-Qaeda threat, insisting that the preeminent threat of terrorism against the US came from Iraq, and indicating he accepted Laurie Mylroie's crackpot conspiracy theory that Saddam was behind the 1993 World Trade Towers bombing.
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Even after the attacks on September 11, Bush was obsessing about Iraq.
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Wolfowitz lied to him and said that there was a 10 to 50% chance that Iraq was behind them.
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Rumsfeld initially rejected an attack on al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, saying there were "no good targets" in Afghanistan.
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The Pentagon did not even have a plan for dealing with Afghanistan or al-Qaeda that it could pull off the shelf, according to Bob Woodward.
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Bush did not have his eye on the ball.
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They were playing Captain Ahab to Saddam's great white whale.
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Imperial Hubris makes the case that lots of people in the CIA and counter-terrorism divisions elsewhere in the US government knew all about Bin Laden and the threat he posed.
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Bush demoted Dick Clarke, among the most vocal and focused of the al-Qaeda experts, from his cabinet.
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Clinton had worked out a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in summer of 1999 that would have allowed the US to send a Special Ops team in after Bin Laden in Qandahar, based from Pakistan.
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I presume you need the Pakistan base for rescue operations in case anything went wrong.
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But in fall of 1999, Gen. Pervez Musharraf made a coup against Nawaz Sharif.
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Musharraf told Clinton he couldn't use Pakistani soil or air space to send the team in against Bin Laden.
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Clinton tried, and tried hard.
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i don't think so.
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i used to have one.
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i was thinking somewhere that requires a jacket, like tony's.
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yeah, i was thinking somewhere like mcdonald's.
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really, i have no idea what you're talking about.
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i don't even like a&m, i wouldn't bet on them.
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i know you remember the bet.
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i got her number though.
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i want to hook up with that girl paige in the brown leather jacket.
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i had a blast that night.
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no i am not lying.
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