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Air Force Memorial, Arlington, Virginia

I agree with the conviction, but not with the penalty.

So, now my inbox is being Slashdotted by this JE. It appears that all 82 responses have gone to my inbox and have pushed off older messages that I wanted to get to.

Added bonus: I have not seen the karamel bump that one once got with a story acceptance. Actually, I am still getting negatives for something I thought was funny. Oh well.

Grande "Conservative" Blogress Diva Ann Althouse Among the "True Believers" --What Really Happened?

Gotta read the whole thing. It is one of those 'if you don't agree with me you are a racist' leading to 'if you racists don't agree with me I will cry' deals.

Oh, I get called an elitist and am not far from being called a racist in the discussion :)

Blogress Diva Ann Althouse posts a response to Ronald Bailey. I have only read a few paragraphs and she already sounds flaky, but don't judge her by my first impression.

Seems like the numbers stations are still broadcasting per this Washington Post story.

One-time pads and coded radio began in World War I, said Thomas Boghardt, a historian at the International Spy Museum. Little has changed since, judging by recent espionage cases involving shortwave radios, including that of a man detained in Canada last month and accused of being a Russian spy.

There was a station just south of me, in Remington, VA that was reported to have stopped broadcasting years ago. I got to see the complex, fromm the outside of the fence, a few times when I felt like driving by.

A couple of years ago I took my son to see it and all of the antennas had been removed, but the fence was still there, the blockhouse and camera, as well as the old historical marker. A local farmer told us that the antennas were removed about a year before we came by to look.

Just heard on the Paul Harvey radio spot: A giant 41 square mile hunk of North Pole ice is breaking up. Perhaps I unveiled an alternate explaination in an earlier JE?

I look forward to the receding sea level and increased fresh water through rain and snow fall.

Speaking of more fresh water, in Denver, CO a massive amount of show is falling. I hear that this is more 'global warming' evidence, since it has never snowed this much in Denver when Al Gore was paying attention.

Run for your lives! Or just run down to the beach to explore .003mm of newly exposed shoreline.

Let's begin with the 27 December 2006 home edition of the paper. The headline story was of Saddam Hussein with a color picture. Just above the fold was the death of President Gerald R. Ford, with a black and white photo.

The news stand edition dropped Hussein, but still had the bland black & white photo of the late President Ford nudged a bit higher up above the fold.

Today, Bob Woodward released an interview with President Ford sounding quite critical of President Bush and the Iraq liberation, which was complete with some convincing sound on Washington Post radio too. This interview is getting broad play in every outlet, so you should not have any trouble finding it.

Curiously, there is a conflicting interview making the rounds.

Ford was a few weeks shy of his 93rd birthday as we chatted for about 45 minutes. He'd been visited by President Bush three weeks earlier and said he'd told Bush he supported the war in Iraq but that the 43rd President had erred by staking the invasion on weapons of mass destruction.

"Saddam Hussein was an evil person and there was justification to get rid of him," he observed, "but we shouldn't have put the basis on weapons of mass destruction. That was a bad mistake. Where does [Bush] get his advice?"

Ford was predictably defensive about Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, his two White House chiefs of staff. Asked why Cheney had tanked in public opinion polls, he smiled. "Dick's a classy guy, but he's not an electrified orator."

But he didn't like Bush's domestic surveillance program. "It may be a necessary evil," he conceded. "I don't think it's a terrible transgression, but I would never do it. I was dumbfounded when I heard they were doing it."

So, the guy who claimed to get a death bed interview from William Casey has a differing account from that of one that sounds every bit like Ford, down to the not so critical bits. I do not have to wonder which one is more correct.

Interesting possible statistic I heard on the radio today: Domestic violence down by 50% since 1993.

First thought, men have been effeminized by 50%.

Second thought, women started listening.

Third thought, the definition was changed.

I reject the last two.

YEAAAAAAAAAAA! Cloned meat is now legal!

Now, perhaps, we can get some well marbled beef instead of that uber lean tasteless crap?

Next step: pork fat! Good, healty pig with fat and not fed on slop.

Juicy!*

*Copywrong StB, all rights reserved.

A product of my extensive, soon to be self-published, research concludes that the consensus among Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) researchers have determined that extraterrestrials exist among us.

More than a decade of research was conducted by listening to Coast to Coast on late-night AM radio, as well as other related forums.

Any disagreement with these conclusions should be met with great skepticism and should be questioned. For example, if a terracentric shill asks "How do they know?" the proper response "What if they are right you narrow minded ignorant flat-earth fool?"

This ground breaking information sheds new light on the man-made moon theory, which may well be a base for extraterrestrials and exist only for that purpose. New research to investigate the similarity between the 'moon' and the "Death Star" has begun, with a focus on a movie producer with no real track record of creativity or financing, other than what has been fabricated by his press releases.

Preparations should be made immediately to welcome our visitors to show we mean no harm.

In other news, a massive killer hurricane is heading for Manhattan Island at this very moment. Well, not at this moment, but the global warming consensus warns that one could be heading there as soon as next week.

Early reports say that Senator Kerry, the highest decorated sailor from both sides of the Vietnam War, made a recent visit to Iraq and was generally ignored. Even by the press.

Some of the reports indicate that at a Kerry press confrence only two reporters appeared, he worked out alone (I can certainly see that being by his choice) and he generally ate alone unless he was placed at a long table, etc.

On a brighter note, apparently his grades were good enough to not be stuck in Iraq as he could leave whenever he wanted.

Looks like TNR had another good article recently. Found it over here. The actual name of the production is "My Name is Rachel Corrie". Must admit, I certainly did not expect this to be good or honest, but it seems like both.

If the linkage below does not work, see if a useable one comes up here.

The staged legacy of Rachel Corrie.
Girlish Figure
Why Rachel Corrie is not the new Anne Frank
by James Kirchick

For a one-person show to sustain itself, its subject must either be humorous (think Elaine Stritch), possess some sort of intellectual severity (Spalding Gray), or both (Hal Holbrooke as Mark Twain). Rachel Corrie did not have any of these. Corrie's bouts of moral indignation overshadow a few moments of humor, which are nothing more than girlish flightiness anyway. She was a simpleton when it came to world politics, and yet the play sanctifies her as some sort of sage witness to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In part, due to the epistolary basis of "My Name is Rachel Corrie," comparisons have been made to "The Diary of Anne Frank." This is partly true. The villains in both plays are heard from but, for the most part, not seen; they are nevertheless omnipresent and threatening. But the comparison ends there: With Corrie, the bad guys are Israelis; with Frank, they are Nazis--hardly equal purveyors of horror. And Anne Frank was a probing character whose blameless observations of fascist Europe demonstrated the cruelty of a period in which children were perfunctorily murdered. Rachel Corrie was a know-it-all who deliberately placed herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. What's more, there is an issue of moral culpability among antagonists. Obviously, Frank's murderers had it. But Corrie died, accidentally, after giving intellectual (and actual) cover to those who are, essentially, the heirs of Frank's killers.

Another good account can be found here.

Rachel Corrie, the 'martyr' who keeps on serving.

Mr. Kirchick makes an informative note about the video of Corrie at ten years old, that runs at the end of the play: Corrie at 23 was just like Corrie at ten. And that is what's so tragic and so telling about those who wish to change the world without really trying to understand it.

Unstated, perhaps unknowingly, this is some good advice to parents too. Try talking to your children about the world in reality, not in utopian theory. It will serve them well and they may avoid the error of trying to bullfight a bulldozer.

A Technorati search reveals this gem on the "jihadist news service" called "Global War": Zionazis Cancel Freedom of Speech on (World) Stage. To some, every play cancellation is a Zionist conspiracy.

"Hola Bambe, Hungala Dimba Gerald Ford. (1913-2006)"

I am getting a little fed up with people whining about Secretary Rumsfeld.

The guy took the job when things were generally calm and had a vision for making the ground forces lean and mean. He did that. On a purly biased level I agree with his idea on the big bumbly field artillery piece, that he and others were able to get the Congress to get rid of. I disagree on the Striker, but that is just me. Recent users I have spoken with love it, so I am trying to warm up to it.

So, when the shit hit the fan, he was the guy and his vision was something like 'we have enough people, let's get them better stuff' and he did that pretty well too.

Some of his critics I have heard in daily life say "he is one of those bastards that just wants to send people into the grinder and does not give a shit". Well, he is the lone voice left saying we have enough troops there already. The only official who wants fewer troops there is a Congressman from Ohio, or Mars. The rest want to send more in (and I agree with more). However, sending none in does not even win at Jeopardy.

From where I sit, all warm and comfy in my beltway job and my never-used oak leaf clusters, the man did a great job. Perhaps someone else would have done *marginally* better in that environment, but I doubt it. I am proud to have been a Soldier under the command of Secretary Rumsfeld, even if I never wore a uniform during his term.

I wish the best to the new Secretary and hope that he is a different, but effective, hard-ass as the Honerable Mr. Rumsfeld.