tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115449832009-02-21T02:53:37.627-08:00"[T]hings aren't exactly B&W when it comes to accounting procedures." -- GWBBrave Soldat Svejkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16473580514213619788noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11544983.post-1140326763367655072006-02-18T21:24:00.000-08:002007-02-08T04:50:29.256-08:00

And moving to a new city. Somehow I think the world will do just fine without me for a month. Or two.

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The title of this post has nothing to do with the above pic... the pic is from a Danish site. It makes it pretty clear where the group of Imams that's been touring Lebanon and Egypt with the 15 cartoons of Mohammed got one of the so-called 'cartoons'. The Danish cartoons came to worldwide attention in part because of Ahmed Abu Laban, the religious director of the Muslim Society in Copenhagen.

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This is from firedoglake in Newport. God she's great! I've been wasting time leading mules to water. Yup. They still won't drink.

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Lots of discussion at Daily Kos about whether the Saudi Arabia theory is reliable. Did the Saudis take a dead issue and turn it into cause celebre in the Muslim world? Did their state run media push the Danish caricatures as a means of changing the subject from the hundreds of pilgrims killed in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj? Or is this just blogosphere garbage? Lots of charge and

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First! This uses Wikipedia as a source, and Wikipedia can be altered by anybody. So it's not reliable for controversial issues. And is this ever controversial! To the left are 3 cartoons that have been shown throughout the Mid-East along with 9 other cartoons. A Muslim religious organisation in Denmark, Islamisk Trossamfund brought attention to the cartoons during a tour of the Middle-East,

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Thousands of bloggers cheerlead the Iraq war... and the ones cheering the loudest are invariably service-age guys who never served in the military. But they KNOW they would've been Airborne-Ranger-Green-Berets if they had. Like the president and vice president, they avoid service but treat the military as the solution to all problems diplomatic and political. Iraq War cheerleaders coopt real

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Thousands of outraged Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, setting fire to both buildings. As thick black smoke rose into the air, police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators, who shouted, "Allah-u akbar," Arabic for "God is great!"I know very few Muslims. I lived next door to an apartmentfull of male Syrian and Iraqi students in

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On the good side... it hurts less when you fall down. On the bad side, you fall down a lot more. On the double bad side, kiss the shiny newness of that Tiffeny Milbrett jersey a muddy goodbye. But after 5 minutes of play and your first fall, you're warmed up AND muddy AND having a good time. Especially if you're playing with charged-up positive people like Renee! Renee organized this pickup game

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Sometimes it's pretty amazing the way the lefties and wingnuts talk past one another. For example, lots of anti-government wingers and libertarians are screaming and complaining about censorship in Denmark. The Danish government apologized to Muslims who were offended (and boycotting Danish products) by a Danish political cartoon showing the prophet Mohammed in a turban shaped like a sputtering

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Rule #1: Don't give it. Just don't. Friend wants to start long-distance relationship while he's in the middle of eating a 7-Course-Dinner-O-Stress: job hunting, ending an old relationship, jonesing for his daily workout which he can't do because he's reaggravated a case of tendonitis, trying to juggle a couple of fibs he's already told this girl about his employment status... So he asks me, "

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The SOTU was sooooo good! The president made many promises that he's already backtracking on. His aides have already clarifed that "America is addicted to oil" and his brave call for cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, wasn't meant to be taken as a literal truth but rather as an 'emotional truth', a la James Fray. The emotional truth, what the president really meant, they said was

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For the last three weeks, January 15, January 22, January 29, Jared Diamond's incredible "Collapse" has actually been the #1 bestselling nonfiction paperback in the country -- but has been listed as #2 behind James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces". Which is a work of fiction, whatever Frey's claims about the "emotional truth" of the book. And as Arianna Huffington says, "...in bestseller lists,

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Larry Johnson, terrorism analyst and former CIA agent, "There she goes again. Miss "Who Could Have Imagined an Al Qaeda Attack" Rice has struck again. Are you kidding me? Secretary of State Rice was "surprised" by the election results in Palestine? According to the New York Times: "Ms. Rice pointed out that the election results surprised just about everyone. "I don't know anyone who wasn't

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Read James Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces" a few weeks ago for a book club. At the meeting, I was one of the three out of fourteen who thought Frey had some major truthiness issue. I made a fool of myself, proclaiming, "My cousin was addicted to meth and HE did shameful things. Like begging his dealer to screw his girlfriend for a free fix. And leaving the apartment and walking around

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Katie Couric pulls a Deborah Howell . Which is fine, as long as she does what she promises, which is to follow up on her assertion that Jack Abramoff gave money to Democrats as well as Republicans. When Howard Dean told her "Not one dime.", Katie sighed, pulled a face and stated authoritatively, "We'll have to look into that." We'll see if she does. Here's where to write if she doesn't: Today

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When you see a jaw-dropping lie in the traditional media -- you CAN do something about it. Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell stated in a column published January 15 that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties."A few hundred people commented on a Washington Post blog. The Post was shocked, shocked, shocked by the harsh language

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Had clinicals this week. Surprise! It was fun! Attitude is everything and I had a couple of patients with incredible, postive, goal-oriented attitudes!My favorite! A post-op patient who knew the get-back-on-your-feet checklist by heart! She gave me an update on her deep breathing and Incentive Spirometer (the tube with the hose you inhale from to give your lungs a workout) every time I walked

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This is amazing! Wish we'd had this when I was in. "The sites, which are accessible to captains and lieutenants with a password, are windows onto the job of commanding soldiers and onto the unfathomable complexities of fighting urban guerrillas... Most captains now have access to the Internet at even the most remote bases in Iraq, and many say they’ll find at least ten or fifteen minutes

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A guy who wasn't afraid to try something and fail. He took the worst battalion in the Army and turned it into the best. He "understood the atmosphere of violence. That meant he knew how to keep his head, to think in danger's midst. In battle the worst thing is paralysis. He mastered his own fear and learned how to kill. He led by example, and his men followed."He was kicked out of the Army in

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Oslo Girl -- wow! When we Americans visit a foreign country, we're stylin' if we learn to ask for bread at the bakery and tickets at the train station, (ask me sometime about 'Je voudrais un billet.' and 'Wo ist die Kaserne?') . This American girl -- this Norwegian-American girl! -- has been living life All-the-way-Norway for years. Here in the land der-unbegrenzten-Möglichkeiten, 8 years after

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Too many sequins? Impossible! 

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Yeah, I know. It's been done. And better.There's a Victorian house, light olive with pine green trim, that I always hike by on my way to the pool. One sunny day, a hugely fat cat caught my eye there. The tabby-striped varmint was sunning itself on a concrete pillar next to the sidewalk. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty!"It didn't move. The largest cat I've seen in a year -- 18 or 19 lbs. Barely able to

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Dr. William Hammesfahr is making the media rounds (and being quoted by Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough), claiming that Terri Schiavo could recover with the correct treatment, based on his research. He also claims that he is a Nobel Prize Nominee, based on a note he got from some guy a few years ago. An LA radio show called him on the dubious nature of his so-called

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Poor lighting is the next best thing to Anonymity. 

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For not selling off our Treasury bills and letting the dollar plummet into the basement with the ruble where it belongs after 4 years of buying-on-credit craziness! Thanks to you guys, I'll be able to take a bike tour in Norway this summer... if China and Japan don't start selling off their T-bills.

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