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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060523_battlecry_ron_luce/ Saw the latest article by Sunsara Taylor today and...I...I'm both saddened, GREATLY saddened, that hatred, malice, ignorance, and infinite self-righteousness moves so many people. Did not Christ teach temperance? Turning the...

I've been in "campus" law enforcement for 25 years, after doing 10 years with the local county police. (yes, I am that old) Like everyone else, we had a spate of training and equipment purchase post 9/11, including moon suits, masks, and all that. For many years, emergency responders have used...

1: And it came to past, in the fifty third billionth year of the holy eternity. 2: Sayth Jesus Christ savior of man, to his father Yahwa, “my lord, hath not their suffering in hell gone on for long enough?” 3: And the Lord God said “is not my word eternal and does it not say that their damnation...

A fascinating article about British war debts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4757181.stm Apparently this year we will make the last payment on our WWII loans from the USA!

It's nice to see that the federal agencies are being kept on topic. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700898.html It just seems to get more surreal every day.

Just saw this in my local rag today. Seems that some preachers are now saying that prayer is like a 'hand grenade against the enemy.' Huh? Prayers ar the Lord's artillery, now? Why the smurf would an omnipotent being NEED artillery? Aren't they just admitting that their god isn't all that great...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2157116,00.html News or not? It was always a fear of mine that going after the wrong bad guy could inspire some terrorism. Was this a real worry?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=96953 Sad Day....Sad circumstances. I had a similar thing happen in my old unit, it is (unfortunately) all to common.

From today's Washington Post (may have to register) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041101888.html "On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by...

linky linky I don't know enough about this. Is China really protecting the Sudanese government, or is Geldof off his rocker? (Get it? Geldof! Rocker! It's a pun!) Seriously, it seems like this war will never end. Is it because China keeps it going? P.S. I don't know why this is listed under...

Is the Flaming Lips new album! It just came out and is pretty good (it is better with repeated listens) and they have a general skeptic/science theme to their music. Their best album was Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (do not be discouraged by the title, it is awesome!!!) and another good one...

Rachel Maddow this morning had as a guest a Rev. Rick Scarborough (sp?, no relation to Joe, apparently) who organized a conference in DC this week on the "War on Christianity" All the usual stuff from him (liberal courts, evolution, abortion, Tom DeLay is a victim of religious persecution). It...

In another thread a discussion began about american history and the civil war. Rather than pollute someone else's thread, I thought I would move the discussion here. Many years ago I was visiting a friend in New York for christmas. I left right after school let out and arrived about 10 days...

The latest big media meme on Iraq is civil war. This strikes me as odd since factional violence is nowhere near the scale of death as it was in old Iraq. First lets clear the air about the main factions. You have two ethnic groups in Iraq: Arab and Kurd The Arab group is comprised of Sunni and...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/16/eveningnews/main1414176.shtml One military mother is going to extraordinary lengths to pay tribute to her fallen son. Jerry Bowen reports on her journey in the fourth part of the CBS Evening News special series, "The Iraq War: Three Years and Counting."...

So I'm in the supermarket, walking the bakery aisle, when my glance happens to fall on a box of Freihofer's cupcakes. Being a cupcake afficianado, I stopped and peered inside the clear plastic cover. There, on top of the delectable treats, were numerous little green clover-shaped sugar pieces...

But, if it were one, we have a plan. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, testifying today before the Senate Appropriations Committee: "The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the, from a security standpoint, have the Iraqi security forces deal with it...

I haven't had time to be around much lately, and won't be able to contribute much to this discussion in the next few weeks (should it survive that long), but I've been mulling over some troubling ideas the last several days. Let's take a few items as self-evident, even even axiomatic: Whether...

It is perfectly true, of course, that most Muslims are not like the Islamists. The problem is that while this premise is true, it simply does not follow that Islam is not a threat to Europe (and the world), or that Islam is not backward and barbaric, or that the west is not at war with it. You...

So, at an average (country wide) house cost of something like $200,000 per house (I'm entirely guessing), how many houses could be paid off in full for the cost of the Iraqui war?

Every time I open Google News it seems I get a fresh news story that suggests Palestinians are going to be fighting really soon. Here is the latest: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1871447,00.html

OK, so that's the interpretation of a leaked pentagon report from Rachel Maddo, and I recognize she could be over the edge. And to be fair, she did say that the report says we can't win the war to the degree the president wants, apparently. However, she might not be that far off in her...

Heard an interview with Frank Gaffney today. Anyone else heard of him, or his book?

And I am not even quoting "fringe" extremists! And these are the Right's people in charge! Not some fringe group...

"There is nothing special to tell about this superfluous conflict. All wars are alike. They killed us and we killed them." -Joshua Ashenberg, in a letter to, and endorsed by, the editor of Tikkun, discussing the Yom Kippur war. Joshua is trying to paint a moral equivalency not only between...

Suppose there was an obnoxious site. Assuming that they dearly deserved more crap than a reasonable person could ever count, how would one most effectively promulgate their email address to maximize spam? I mean lots, not the odd penis extender or stock offering, I mean massive stuff, the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060111/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=Ao8TQ55Ot7xTOPvg8kV8J2.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM- Once again, the President has made a speech defending his Iraq policy. Once again he has implied – in spite of the requisite words that debate is a healthy thing in a...

Saudi Arabia's top cleric says: The sad irony is as these folks are celebrating their pilgrimage to Mecca and denouncing "Islam's enemies" suicide bombings killed 130 muslims outside a shrine in Iraq and suicide bombing killed 29 muslims at an Iraq Police celebration.

I used to find Oreillys rants on the evil "secualrists" to be comical. But Ive been thinking that a war on the bible thumpers would be a good idea! Someone needs to stand up to them. The religious right has become more organizied and I dont like it. I wouldnt mind going on the offensive...

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