October 13, 2004
Iraqi SWAT Team
NRO:
When Iraqi SWAT commandos hit a target, they hit it hard. Racing forward in white pick-up trucks emblazoned with the unit's emblem — a black scorpion and dagger (an emblem designed by the Iraqis) — the raiders leap from the vehicles and rush toward their objective almost before the enemy has time to panic. The attackers — primarily in their early to mid-twenties — are armed with a variety of personal weapons including AK-47s and SIG Sauer assault rifles, shotguns, pistols, and grenades. They all wear khaki-colored assault suits (similar to zip-up flight suits) with an Iraqi-flag patch stitched on the shoulder. Khaki or black balaclavas cover their heads, concealing their faces. "The Iraqis like wearing balaclavas," says Douglas. "It makes them look fearless, and terrifies the enemy."
While the team is kicking in doors, observation helicopters are thundering overhead watching for bad guys attempting to escape or enemy reinforcements moving up. Attack helicopters and jets are flying on-station ready to suppress any resistance or a counter-attack. And within a few hundred yards of the assault, U.S. Marines are poised to move-in should the raid begin to unravel.
Over the past several days, this "swarming" technique has netted numerous enemy prisoners and weapons caches in the 24th MEU's area of responsibility. And the speed with which they attack actually keeps casualties low.
The success of the new unit has instilled "great confidence" in both SWAT-team members and regular Iraqi soldiers, says Col. Salaam Abdul al Kathom, the commander of the Iraqi SWAT team. It has also increased pride and a greater sense of security for the Iraqi people.
"With the Americans, we're the same team, no difference," Col. Kathom says, through an interpreter. "The training is very good. I am very, very happy with the progress. We will destroy the bad guys."
Jeff Quinton has an exclusive poster of these guys. Check it out. The NRO story + that poster gives me some hope--and let me tell you, these guys look like some BAMOFOs.
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Saint Edward's Healing Magic
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Cranky Neocon
John Edwards yesterday: "We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases. ... People like Chris Reeve will get out of their wheelchairs and walk again."
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Hey Rusty... on a some what off topic issue could you post your thoughts about Project for the New American Century. Just wondered what you thought about these NeoCon ideas.
Posted by: LMAO at October 13, 2004 10:52 AM (p5xDI)
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Sure. Wait. What? I'm not familiar with it other than in the abstract.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at October 13, 2004 11:16 AM (JQjhA)
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other than in the abstract? Whoa dude, can I have some of that acid you just dropped? I speak blue collar english here, can you slearify that?
Posted by: LMAO at October 13, 2004 08:13 PM (eAnrJ)
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slearify = clearify. Oooohhh! the irony.
As long as i can keep myself laughing I'm good.
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Reason #5,432 That the Border Needs to be Closed
From the people who brought you such acts of terrorism as
Moscow Theater Massacre and
Downing Two Russian Planes comes the long-awaited sequel to their recent blockbuster:
Beslan II: American Bombing Bugaloo U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.
Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.
(Hat tip:
Michelle Malkin and
John Little)
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This sounds so ominously familier to the "group of terrorists inside the country ready to strike the financial district of New York" scare mongering we heard in September.
But ofcourse Homeland Insecurity has spent 30 Billion of my tax money (Rather than 14 billion earlier) and shored up the borders that were NEVER secure in the first place. If they would spend a few million more on the border than we do giving tax breaks to the business assholes we might just get it done.
Posted by: Salamander at October 13, 2004 12:26 PM (F26eZ)
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If any Republican is now going to bitch about our border policy then they should be required to link to
this post of mine, written nine months ago, warning of exactly what is happening. (read the fourth and fifth paragraphs for my main argument in this regard)
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at October 13, 2004 01:03 PM (6/4eu)
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And once again both candidates avoid the issue in the debate.
Posted by: Digger at October 14, 2004 12:21 AM (FYEx6)
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Iraq's Killing Fields: Mostly Women and Children
Washington Times:
Investigators have unearthed a mass grave in northern Iraq containing hundreds of bodies of women and children believed killed in the 1980s.
"It is my personal opinion that this is a killing field," Greg Kehoe, a U.S. investigator working with the Iraqi Special Tribunal, told reporters in Hatra, south of the city of Mosul.
Nine trenches have been located containing hundreds of bodies believed to be Kurds executed and then bulldozed into trenches during Saddam Hussein's repression of 1987-88.
"Someone used this field on significant occasions over time to take bodies up there, and to take people up there and execute them," Kehoe said.
The body of one woman was found still clutching a baby. The infant had been shot in the back of the head and the woman in the face, the BBC reported.
Iraq's human rights ministry has reportedly identified 40 possible mass graves across the country.
Note to uninformed readers who think the US was a major backer of Iraq in the 1980s:
Imported weapons to Iraq (IRQ) in 1973-2002
Country $MM USD 1990 % Total
USSR 25145 57.26
France 5595 12.74
China 5192 11.82
Czechoslovakia 2880 6.56
Poland 1681 3.83
Brazil 724 1.65
Egypt 568 1.29
Romania 524 1.19
Denmark 226 0.51
Libya 200 0.46
USA 200 0.46
(Source: Parapundit--I have verified these numbers)
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Not being a major supplier of arms to Iraq doesn't mean that the U.S. didn't back Iraq in the 1980s. If that's what you think, it's being pretty narrow-minded. A backer would be one who supported the regime of Saddam Hussein, be it with weapons, financial aid, or other material help. As such, evidence like the $1 billion given to Iraq in 1989 (used to precipitate the arms buildup that led to the first Gulf war), the $500 million guaranteed by Federal Import-Export Bank in 1984 (used to build pipelines), Agriculture Department loan guarantees in 1988 of $1.1 billion - all of these are pretty convincing that the U.S considered Iraq an ally worthy enough to help where it could. This is just some of the support Iraq received from the U.S. (though let's forget about the fact that it's been widely documented that a fair bit of the aid the U.S. gave Iraq was used to buy weapons - from other countries). Again, you don't HAVE to give a country weapons to be supportive.
By the way, all of this is pretty available to the public, so it's not like it's a big secret or anything.
Don't get me wrong, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator and once everything is settled in Iraq, they'll probably be better off for having him gone. But, let's look at ALL the facts when making a point, not just those which seem to fit a theory.
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Also there is the fact that the $200M you are listing is FMS (Foreign Military Sales), the hardware we gave Saddam from the stacks of weapons and equipment being decommisioned from our arsenal and sold for scrap weight or given for free isnt included in that number.
Posted by: Salamander at October 13, 2004 02:45 PM (D4mP3)
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Saddam unquestionably murdered considerable numbers of people, including many potential secessionists, such as these Kurds.
However, there is nothing to indicate the number is 300 to 400,000, as we were told. Your story is "hundreds", most of the other sites are much smaller again.
And killing secessionists or opponents in a Civil War (eg Saddam in 1991) is entirely acceptable to the rogue nation - their Civil War cost twice as many dead, 650,000, and the perpetrator is a national hero.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1263901,00.html
PM admits graves claim 'untrue'
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor Sunday July 18, 2004 The Observer
Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
...... It comes amid inflation from an estimate by Human Rights Watch in May 2003 of 290,000 'missing' to the latest claims by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, that one million are missing.
...... While some sites have contained hundreds of bodies - including a series around the town of Hilla and another near the Saudi border - others have contained no more than a dozen.
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When Spam Goes Bad
I thought you guys might get a kick out of this spam e-mail I got. Note to self: If you dont want people to stereotype you it's probably not a good idea to act exactly like the stereotype. Also, from my good friend Bill Dauterive, "The only reason stereotypes last so long is 'cause their
mostly true."
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October 12, 2004
No Blood for Oil: Mordor invaded for Aragorn-Haliburton contracts
Go check out
Fellowship 9/11 over at IFILMS:
Michael Moore's searing examination of the Aragorn administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events at Helms Deep. With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering - or if necessary fabricating - the facts, Moore considers the reign of the son of Arathorn and where it has led us. He looks at how - and why - Aragorn and his inner circle avoided pursuing the Saruman connection to Helms Deep, despite the fact that 9 out of every 10 Orcs that attacked the castle were actually Uruk-hai who were spawned in and financed by Isengard.
TC Leather Penguin dubs his link to the film
Strider Lied, Orcs Died while Rob at Say Anything wants to
blame Gandalf. Who do I think is to blame for Middle Earth's
illegal invasion of the sovereign country of Mordor? It was all a conspiracy started by Bilbo Baggins, the well known war-profiteer.
UPDATE: Treebeard, man. It's all Treebeard!
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Posted by: Juliette at October 13, 2004 03:02 AM (6xvAR)
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cee's up b's down killin bloods in our town thas how we crips get down leave em 6 feet under ground x tw an me we'll throw ur slob body over the gwb
X TW C-DOP AND RKILLA
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x tw and rKILLA cuz's 4 life i love my baby girl jamie 4 ever!!! NOTHING is gunna come between us she gunna b my wife.....cause thas just how i want it 2 be so thas how it gunna b i love u so much jamie
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Welcome to the Dark-Side: Paleo-Con Endorses Bush
Long-time friend
Professor Chaos has endorsed Bush. I think it was the sheer brilliant weight of my arguments for Bush that overpowered his puny objections. Either that or he is finally seeing Kerry for the warmed over hippie that he really is. Either way, I'm happy. Welcome aboard!! Expect your Rove/Haliburton checks to be deposited in your Swiss account ASAP.
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Nigerian Court Sentence Two Women to Death by Stoning for Having Sex
Earlier today
I reported that a band of rebels calling themselves The Taliban want to break free from Nigeria and set up their own Islamic state because, you know,
stoning women to death for fornicating just isn't Islamic enough for the purists. Folks, this is Sharia law (Hat tip: Cindy).
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Words escape me on this occasion.
They're gonna let the woman have the baby and THEN stone her to death?
Well, that makes sense, wouldn't want to appear to be TOO barbaristic (is that a word?)
Do you ever get the feeling you're rowing against the tide in this world?
Posted by: Red Devil at October 12, 2004 03:41 PM (XZCCz)
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Every day man. Every day.
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Now Rusty, you well know the only reason women are stoned in Nigeria is because President Bush all by himself invaded the poor, kind and merciful Islamic people in Iraq. Or is it Blair's fault? Has to be one of them.
Posted by: greyrooster at October 13, 2004 08:58 AM (bULCA)
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It's ok for these pathetic asshole guys to have sex with anything that walks and these guys carry HIV and that's OK? They suck! They should cut off their dicks or balls, just like they cut off the womans clitoris aka "circumcision"-to keep them in line. Maybe Bush can go after them next-We can only HOPE!
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New Beheading Video from Army of Ansar al-Sunnah: Shiite Follower of Muqtada al-Sadr Beheaded for 'Working with US'
This is an archive page. For the latest news on The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah and other terrorist groups in Iraq please go to the MAIN PAGE HERE.
UPDATE 5/10: Army of Ansar al-Sunna website releases images of Japanese hostage Akihiko Saito. Images, story, and link to website.
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Very very odd. The man who is murdered is identified as a Shiite cleric named Al-Sayed Alaa al-Malki, a follower of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Perhaps there are other, less apparent, reasons that al-Sadr has made this latest deal with the Alawi's Provisional Authority? Is it possible that al-Sadr's Shiite Muqti Army is already engaged in sectarian violence against the Sunni Army of Ansar al-Sunnah and Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group? Just yesterday I reported a new beheading video released by the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah included one man who identified himself as a member of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad terrorist organization. Both are Sunni based terrorist organizations. Yahoo News:
A videotape surfaced on the Internet Tuesday showing what was said to be the confession and beheading of an Arab Shiite Muslim, presumably Iraqi, who was accused of serving the U.S. Army by "assassinating Sunni leaders."
The video's authenticity could not be verified, but it was posted in the name of the Ansar al-Sunna Army, on a Web site where such militant content is often released. It showed a man, who identified himself as Al-Sayed Alaa al-Malki, kneeling in front of two masked gunmen.
Two identification cards were hanging from the man's gray shirt. One of them bore the name al-Malki and said "local sheik." It also had a photograph that showed him wearing a black robe and a white turban similar to those worn by Shiite clerics.
With a bruised face and dark circles beneath his eyes, the bearded, heavyset man spoke in a shaky voice of ties to a Shiite militia and to a former U.S. military commander in Iraq. Then, he was shown held down on his back, his face covered with a white sheet and his head being cut off. Afterward, the sheet was removed to show his face....
In the video posted Tuesday, the man, whose accent was Iraqi, said he was a follower of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He said he "had close relationship with the Sadr army ... and relations with political leaders such as the (Lt. Gen. Ricardo) Sanchez."...
The video also showed the man confessing to working with an American military officer named Paul, with whom he allegedly established a "Citizens Claims Office" that was used as a cover "to collect and buy weapons from the street, and sell them to the American army."
A statement purportedly from Ansar al-Sunna Army that accompanied the video said al-Malki was killed because "he used the Citizens Claims Office as an underground tunnel — during his work with the American forces — to assassinate a number of Sunni leaders."
I have the video and images from it are posted below. You can download it from the
Terrorist Media website, but there is a subscription required. Chad Evans at In the Bullpen is also hosting the video, just
CLICK TO THIS POST and scroll down for it.
And if one more person e-mails me explaining that beheading is 'un-Islamic', I'm going to pop a nut. Seriously, beheading is a prescribed and accepted method of execution in Sharia law. Perhaps it went out of vogue for awhile, but it's back and with all the force of an Islamic pop-culture revolution. How else do you explain a ten year old Muslim boy in England playing the beheading game?
In addition to the videotaped murder of an Iraqi Shiite cleric released today and the videotaped murder of a Turkish reconstruction worker and his Iraqi translator yesterdy [information, links to video, and images here], the Army of Ansar al Sunnah murdered an Iraqi named Barie Nafi'a Daoud Ibrahim on Oct. 2nd [images, link to video, and information here]. The same group murdered three Iraqis on September 16th (information, links to video, and images here). On August 31st, these terrorists executed 12 hostages from Nepal, one of them by beheading (information, links to video, and images here). On August 11th the group beheaded a man they claimed was a CIA agent (information and images here) and on August 25th the group beheaded a second alleged CIA agent (information and images here). May God speed the victims' souls to heaven, and may His wrath reign down upon the spineless terrorists in the form of a MOAB or other appropriately large ordinance.
Images: Above right: An image of Al-Sayed Alaa al-Malki 'confessing' to cooperating with the Coalition Authority. Left: An image from the beheading video showing the man's name and identifying him as a "local sheik".
WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES IN EXTENDED ENTRY. Do not proceed!!
Others Blogging: Check out the fatwas issued below for other news and commentary.
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"May God speed the victims' souls to heaven, and may His wrath reign down upon the spineless terrorists in the form of a MOAB or other appropriately large ordinance."
This is precisely the kind of crap that isn't needed here.
God can speed whatever he likes but if this is a war of "our god against your god" then leave me out of it. I ain't fighting for any god. I'm fighting for reason.
This is rationality vs irrationality. Not Christianity Vs Islam.
Take all mention of God out of the Declaration of Independence, and you have a pretty good formula for living.
Posted by: Red Devil at October 12, 2004 04:40 PM (XZCCz)
Posted by: lahcen at December 02, 2004 09:23 AM (g1P6m)
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why do these people just kill inoscent lives when they know that the american government wont show any emotion for these incidents. This is not right. It is not here aults that they were brought up to be against the insurgents im sure im they had a choice they would bargan for thier lives by not interfering with something that is not thier problem. I hope the morons that execute inoscent victims will be executed the same way
Posted by: julia at February 02, 2005 12:47 AM (IsH0M)
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Team America: I am Jawa Hunter
I have been
saying for months that the election will not turn on Michael Moore's F-9/11 as the fat man has planned for so long. No, this election will be won by Bush because of another, much more important, film.
Team America: World Police.
This site basically says the same thing, only better.
Bill at INDC has the DU reaction to the upcoming flick. It's funny because it's true.
The dating game question for Dr. Rusty Shackleford: Bachelor #2, if you were any character from Team America: World Police, which one would you be.
Rusty Shackleford's answer: Jawa Hunter.
On an semi-related note, Cameron asks this great question: If the fringe (I'm looking at you Michael Moore) becomes the norm, do we redefine the fringe? I told my upper division students that Michael Moore was, and I quote, "Full of shit and a purveyor of the kind of conspiracy theories that would normally get your ass kicked." They were shocked. They had never heard one of their Profs say anything bad about Michael Moore. Never.
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I really believe so strongly that the $120 billion we're spending on Iraq would have been much better spent in defending us against Iran and North Korea who at this point have nuclear weapons and are giving them to the terrorists.
Posted by: Ace Parsi at October 12, 2004 06:13 PM (SLq4K)
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So, Ace, can't you read a map? Which two countries abut Iran that the US has invaded recently?
For that matter, what type of defense would you be able to buy for $120 Billion?
Posted by: Mark at October 12, 2004 07:10 PM (nrYPg)
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Agreed. Iran really started this whole shebang years before during Carter's regime. Does anyone remember that whole hostage deal in '79? The Ayatolla asshole?
Lest we forget I think the beginnings of terrorism really had its roots there.
Posted by: Laura at October 12, 2004 09:07 PM (ptOpl)
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Irrelevant Question
Not that anybody except
Gordo the Cranky Neocon cares, but is
paypal down across the blogosphere or are they just screwing with me? Oh, FYI--MPJ has collected almost $8 in total contributions this year!!
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No, it's pretty much screwing with everyone who has the same style button, at least. I took my down last night.
Posted by: Editor at October 12, 2004 12:53 PM (adpJH)
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Yup, lots of problems, not just you.
~C
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at October 12, 2004 01:46 PM (D39Vm)
Posted by: SparseMatrix at October 12, 2004 02:22 PM (935pb)
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I'll see your $8 and raise you another $8!
Posted by: Preston Taylor Holmes at October 12, 2004 04:28 PM (w74Ft)
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Tip Jars are shit. I don't think I've ever gotten even $1. You're lucky to have gotten $8. While I don't expect to make a killing, just a token amount to cover all the time spent would be nice.
Seems that advertising is still where it's at even with the dot com collapse.
Posted by: Digger at October 13, 2004 11:36 PM (FYEx6)
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Troll Hunting
I've
already mentioned that I forwarded some e-mails to various law enforcement agencies, including one that threatened the President's life. I also e-mailed several host companies in the UK letting them know some of their subscribers are violating terms of usage. I really didn't expect to get anything back, but the webmaster over at NTL got back to me within hours and is busy hunting down one of the culprits. Thanks for everyone's input and advice.
On a related note, Jane pointed me to this great article by American Warmonger on how to hunt trolls the right way. The good news is that no dogs, tree stands, or orange vests are required! One advantage of MT over Blogger is that it records IP addresses of everyone who comments.
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Point #1: What if I
like hunting from a tree stand, wearing an orange vest? (Actually, it's a blaze orange camo anorak, or parka)
Point #2: As a Blogger blogger (as opposed to a Blogspot blogger, which is a different beast entirely), I don't use Blogger comments because they're still substandard to Haloscan, which also provides Trackbacks and has been around for a relatively long time. And with Haloscan, I have your IP address, Rusty. [evil grin here]
Posted by: Boyd at October 12, 2004 11:11 AM (VeBwJ)
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Hi Rusty,
Some of the UK bloggers seem to have a personal investment in flaming me....see the blogs on Kenneth Bigly...the one with over 300+ posts.
Seems they are all attacking me for my views on the war in Iraq. That's okay, I'm from NYC originally, and can defend myself. Where it gets scarey though, is one poster who calls himself "Satan" and says that I am HIS.
Maybe I should watch what I say, since you said that ISP's, email addy's are easy to obtain. Not that I have anything to hide, I just don't want to get a threat from any of these wackos.
What if any of them are from the Mid East and are reading our comments?
Scarey, huh?
Posted by: Laura at October 12, 2004 11:55 AM (ptOpl)
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Yeah, pretty scary stuff Laura. I saw some of the comments about you, but they mostly centered on your crack about nuking them all or something. Personally, I've never minded when some caring Christian folk tell me I'm not forgiving enough or whatever.
Boyd, yeah I know about the haloscan IP thingy. I guess it's just the risk I take when I comment at people's site. I trust in their decency not to out me.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at October 12, 2004 12:01 PM (JQjhA)
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Yeah, I'm a big girl and I don't mind being attacked or flamed, but when they start saying shit like "I am Satan, and your soul is mine"....stuff like that, it begins to worry me, that maybe I have gone over the threshold.
Surely, there are others with the "nuke em mentality" that have said much worse than I have, but have disappeared from the blog, only to make their presence known once or twice. I, however, have managed to stick around, thus their attempts at making me leave the blog are futile, making them even more pissed off!
I don't see anyone saying what they would've done about the war on terrorism, only attacking every word I've typed. Others now, have read the comments and are joining the bandwagon, even if they agree, I seem to be the easy target lately...hmmm...because I have identified myself as a female, so I'm "easy pickins"??
Who knows, who cares....well I do, if it turns out that someone really is out to "get me".
Thanks for listening.
Posted by: Laura at October 12, 2004 12:50 PM (ptOpl)
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Actually I was Jeremy's first commenter. He wrote a post called "She Popped My Cherry" and I've had a special fondness for him since then.
Posted by: Jane at October 12, 2004 12:53 PM (hoo48)
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Jane,
You never forget your first. Love ya' babe.
Rusty,
I've got a good suspicion that some of these guys are of arab decent. Not many non-arab or islamic types use the word "halal" in regular conversation frequently. So when we beat them back, the terrorists lose!...just a thought.
Thanks for the shout out. And remember, the offer still stands for any and all who need a hand. (Network security is actually my day job.)
Posted by: Jeremy at October 12, 2004 02:41 PM (farnf)
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Hey Jeremy, who has used "halal"? Most of the obnoxious people who have attacked me seem to be from the UK, and they are hell bent on trashing their Blair for joining forces with Bush in his invasion of Iraq.
I just received a very nice email from a British gal, apologizing for those guys, and says they're not really representative of the folks in UK. She said she was very enraged at their attacks of me, even though she may disagree on some of my views, she wanted to let me know she respected me, praised me for hanging in there and speaking my mind without fear of reprisal, and wanted to let me know the people in the UK aren't all that bad, just that some are idiots.
Nice lady. I've received a few others too. Too bad they are being scared off by the likes of COOgarUK and Cas, to name a few.
Good night.
Posted by: Laura at October 12, 2004 09:12 PM (ptOpl)
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Laura,
I doubt very much you have received such emails, who are you trying to kid?
when us over in the UK are mostly all thinking the same way!!!
People always the use the old trick of 'I have support' people are sending me supportive emails.
The problem is that you talk out of your backside and it enrages people.
You are typical of the Americans that have been blinded by their government and made to believe what you want to believe.
No I am not a what you call that racist comment people keep making,...oh yea 'Raghead' and not I am not male I am very much female and I am white and one of the ones that are sick of your 'nuke' mentality which you still do not deny or take back.
Nuke em...
Posted by: Law_Raw at October 13, 2004 03:43 AM (4YWe7)
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Just look how that sounds...
Such a controversial blog is going to attract people from all places.. and you shouldn't let them think that Americans have this NUKE mentality it is far too dangerous!!
You are saying this to the ordinary Iraqi people who could be reading this and thinking.. They don't give two shits for us really do they!!
Then get all scared and start making little Osamas!
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Laura,
Mine was from some college in Japan it appears. However, it turns out it's an international college. The guy made reference to polish kielbasa not being "halal". Sounded like an arab student in Japan to me.
I think your breed of troll more closely resembles what some call the "soccer hooligan". Mosly just a bunch of pompus asses and not limited to Europe. They usually run in packs.
Law_Raw,
...blinded by their government and made to believe what you want to believe.
I'm sure you just mistyped this but, how exactly does the government FORCE free will? Perhaps you meant to say "made to believe what they want you to believe? (I'm not trying to insult you but some extra time on grammar could have done you some good.)
One last thing: the beauty of a "blog" is that you don't have to be politically correct. In fact, the opposite is implied in many cases. Although "nuke em" may be a highly unpopular solution, it is one that would be successful: No more people, no more problem. But what would I know about what "blowing up ragheads" would really do? After all, I'm just another stupid American Warmonger. You on the other hand have information sources that are so much better, right? (sarcasm implied)
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Rusty, is there a prob with posting? I'm getting error messages again.
Posted by: Laura at October 13, 2004 11:32 AM (ptOpl)
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Law Raw, don't have to prove anything to you really, but I have several emails I can forward to you if you don't believe me. MissBrit is one of them, who formerly posted on here, but unfortunately, she is afraid of being attacked for her views.
She said not everyone in the UK is like that and she is ashamed that people would gang up on me for my views, instead of discussing it intelligently.
She's actually Scottish descent but is tired of people representing the whole bunch as "UK". She says that a lot of Brits think Americans and stupid and being misled by our govt.
I would like to know who the British feel is capable of running their country, if they don't like Blair? If Blair didn't enter Iraq with us, would they still like him or would they find another reason to attack him?
Wait till the terrorists hit your soil, Law Raw. You may think differently. So far, I am the only one who is personally involved in 9/11, knowing victims in the attacks and having friends that lost loved ones there as well.
You all can say and think what you want, because you have not personally been involved and are talking out of your "arses", easy to do when you can sit back in your English gardens, drink tea and eat crumpets and dare to come on here and attack us Americans.
Shame this has turned into a UK vs US debate, and for the ones that aren't from the UK but agree with them, I put you in their group as well.
Posted by: Laura at October 13, 2004 11:37 AM (ptOpl)
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Rusty..... I know you must have thought of this and maybe I missed it... Why didn't you ad a CHAT room to this enormous site you have here. Would save you email overflow. You could do it as a sign up in order to chat... With confirmation email addy as to collect ISP's. I KNOW there would be chaos sometimes.. do to issues of discussion, but also give those of us with big ideas and big mouths room to do so... C'mon wut do ya think????
Andrea Let me be room monitor hehehe
Posted by: Andrea at October 13, 2004 11:53 AM (AaBEz)
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A chat room would be great! But then, we'd never get anything else done, now would we? You can be the monitor Andrea, and when the UK bloggers get too insulting, we can "toss" them out just like they do in the AOL chats!
hehe.
Posted by: Laura at October 13, 2004 12:03 PM (ptOpl)
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LAWRAW: You're not fooling anyone. Now adjust your veil and shut up.
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Game On! TTLB Ecosystem Back Up
NZ Bear is now declared Sith Lord and Imperial Undesecratary! Have you guys seen the
new ecosystem design? It is truly amazing, awesome, cool, neet-o, etc.
The Commissar describes the enhancements this way:
- a graph showing your rank and # unique links over time
- an expandable tree menu showing the links which the blog has received from other blogs
- an expandable tree menu showing the blog's ten most-linked-to posts and who linked to them
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I noticed! I went from Microbe to Large Mammal in one day! Now, I just wish I had the traffic to warrant such an illustrious title. LOL
Posted by: Ricky V at October 12, 2004 10:52 AM (9BReq)
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It Rocks Rusty. I commented on it yesterday.
Posted by: David Anderson at October 12, 2004 11:50 AM (g23uN)
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Not to rain on your parade, 'cause I was able to check out some of the upgrades and your excitement is most certianly warranted, but it definitely seems to be having issues at the moment. I'm sure N.Z. is on top of it.
Posted by: Editor at October 12, 2004 12:56 PM (adpJH)
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I'm actually kind of bummed about it, I went from an adorable little rodent to a slithering reptile and my chart looks more like a sine wave than an ever increasing popularity chart.
Posted by: Jeremy at October 13, 2004 07:31 AM (farnf)
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Too Hot for the UK: Steyn's Censored Column
Mark Steyn's publishers at the Telegraph thought that readers in the UK couldn't handle this piece of solidly British advice.
Here's a tidbit.
I’d written about Kenneth Bigley, seized with two American colleagues but unlike them not beheaded immediately. Instead, sensing that they could exploit potential differences within “the coalition of the willing”, for three weeks the Islamists played a cat-and-mouse game with Mr Bigley’s life, in which Fleet Street, the British public, governments in London and Dublin and Islamic lobby groups in the United Kingdom were far too willing to participate. As I always say, in this war the point is not whether you’re sad about the dead people, but what you’re prepared to do about it. What “Britain” – from Ken Bigley’s brother to the Foreign Secretary – did was make it more likely that other infidels will meet his fate.
It gets better from there. I echo his sentiments that we do not honor the memory of Kenneth Bigly by mourning for him, we honor his memory by hunting down and killing those that murdered him in cold blood. (Hat tip:
James Joyner)
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I'm a Telegraph reader. Not a bad paper, probably the best broadsheet in the UK. Pundits such as Steyn are nothing but self publicists. Even though Barbara Amiel, excuse Lady Black is no longer there, Steyn still carries her torch. At the risk of being banned I will state Steyns hatred of anything Arabic or Muslim is comparable to Hitler's hatred of the Jews. And of course he is also never wrong, has an opinion on everything, in other words, he's a loud mouthed shmuck.
Never the less, I read his piece with interest. Nothing there really, it's what you would expect from the man. I would suggest that the next time another person is taken hostage (God forbid) Steyn offers to take his place and show's us how he would face such a grizzly end.
Posted by: James at October 12, 2004 10:06 AM (4PPsx)
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J-Dawg's Lost Dog
Any readers in the Plano, Texas area?
Jeff Quinton has lost his dog.
UPDATE: Slapping forehead!! Jeff lives in South Carolina. Trust me, I knew that. We've had many a discussion on who the real 'SC' is!!! It was actually Chad Evan's dog. Chad was just guest blogging over at Backcountry Conservative. The good news is that Chad found his dog!!
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It was actually my dog that was missing and Jeff let me cross-post the information. Anywho, good news. I found Vedder this morning and she is safe, sound and asleep next to me at this moment. Thank you for your concern.
Posted by: Chad Evans at October 12, 2004 12:48 PM (monhK)
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African 'Taliban' Take Hostages
Holy shiite!! There's a freaking 'Taliban' in Africa?
All Africa:
ISLAMIST rebels have attacked a police patrol and taken a number of hostages at Kala-Balge in Borno State close to the Cameroon border, according to the police. The state Police Commissioner Ade Ajakaiye said he could not yet confirm the number of casualties among the 60-man squad which was attacked on Friday, but that some policemen were known to have been taken prisoner.
"We received information that members of the Taliban group attacked our men on patrol around Kala-Balge bushes," he said on telephone. The self-styled "Talibans" are a small group of militant Islamists who were inspired by their Afghan namesakes and who claim to be fighting to create an independent Muslim state in that part of the country. "The nature of the attack and the fact that our men were taken hostage clearly show that this must be the handiwork of the Talibans," Ajaikaye said.
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Oh yeah, they've been there for awhile now - you see reports over the past months about them attacking police stations, taking them over, attacking another police station and so on. seems no one has really picked up on this although it was quite clear who was doing it and why. It seems they don't care who they kill; they have their own radical agenda.
~C
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