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Posted by: Rusty at 02:29 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment
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1 Now there's a rogue's gallery of murderous despots if I ever saw one. But you forgot Attila, Ghenghis Khan, Tamerlane, Idi Imin, Nero, and a few others I could think of if I took the time.

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 31, 2005 02:49 PM (rUyw4)

2 Don't forget the Clap.

Posted by: Filthy Allah at October 31, 2005 02:56 PM (5ceWd)

3 wheres the pictures of hillary,bill,al gore,john kerry,harry reid,and other liberal demacrats i mean hillary as the wicked witch of the west

Posted by: sandpiper at October 31, 2005 02:58 PM (Zy1Y5)

4 Hey, I found a picture of a freaky two headed monster It won ugliest over at my site. Scurry over to view at your own risk. It may be to scary for children.

Posted by: thirdee at October 31, 2005 03:52 PM (Na40F)

5 Don't forget that on January 4th, 2005, in Pasadena, California...the Trojans will slaughter the Longhorns.

Posted by: Steve Sharon at October 31, 2005 04:21 PM (an9zb)

6 Don't forget that on January 4th, 2006, in Pasadena, California...the Trojans will slaughter the Longhorns.

Posted by: Steve Sharon at October 31, 2005 04:21 PM (an9zb)

7 You could add the UN logo to that list.

Posted by: Graeme at October 31, 2005 04:28 PM (MmTiX)

8 Wait! You for got Hallyburtin! He's responsible for millions in hios thirst for sweet, sweet, oil! Or at least thats what the Democratic Underground tells me!

Posted by: Dan S. at October 31, 2005 04:29 PM (TA+BL)

9 Steve, The Horns will kick V. Tech's ass in the Rose Bowl. The Trojans, like spent condoms, will wilt to UCLA.

Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 31, 2005 04:52 PM (TVaWo)

10 There's a picture missing from your rogue's gallery. It's a sweet little old lady from America who may be responsible for more deaths than Hitler: Rachel Carson. Who is she? She wrote the infamous book Silent Spring, which led to the banning of DDT and a huge increase in the yearly death rate from malaria. Most of those deaths are in Africa, and the majority of them are children.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 31, 2005 07:18 PM (CJBEv)

11 Add Mureen Dowd (photo at Drudge) - does 100 million bored count? I know bored is not the same as killed but ...

Posted by: hondo at October 31, 2005 07:21 PM (ymtSt)

12 My Gawd! Scumbags slaugthering gentle bovines! PETA! where are you!

Posted by: hondo at October 31, 2005 07:24 PM (ymtSt)

13 Since things done in Mohammeds religions name seem to count as acts of Mohammed, where's Jesus with his huge body count from Aztecs, Incas, [enter every Native-American tribe from South/Middle-America], heretics, "heretics" (most of your ancestry, non-catholic Americans), pagans, atheists, the people of Israel, Jews (notice the difference and yes, Catholic church hunted Jews, as in people wandering to Europe in hordes from the Russian Khazar kaganate whose king made 'em become Jewish so that they didn't have to pay the church or mosque or be obviously Russian by becoming Orthodox, in case you didn't know from my previous rants), both civilian and militant Moors across Europe and North-Africa, peoples of Middle-East, slaves and workers submitting to pain and death in fear of Gods wrath if they opposed their Christian masters instead of heavy labor, and of course all the European casualties from kings, queens, popes and emperors leading nations to power and glory with strenght and will from Christ? Oh yes, devout christians... Never mind. (Did you already go to "ignorant, eurotrash, liberal, communist, dhimmiscum. ignore context, ignore context, God bless America, Jesus loves me, Long live Führer Bush"-mode?)

Posted by: A Finn at November 02, 2005 06:34 AM (cWMi4)

14 Ahh Finn, Still looking backwards and playing the blame game just like my Senator DICK.

Posted by: Howie at November 02, 2005 09:05 AM (uThLp)

15 Perhaps, but that was meant to point out that you can't blame Mohammed for everything Muslims do unless you also blame Jesus/Pope for everything Christians do...

Posted by: A Finn at November 03, 2005 04:16 AM (cWMi4)

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If schadenfreude is delighting in watching someone else's misery, what's the word for taking delight in watching someone else's misplaced joy?

You'll know what I'm talking about if you read the leftie blogs.

Posted by: Vinnie at 06:40 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
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1 I know what you mean but I don't know the word for it. The leftards are just bursting with happiness right now because they've got 2000 dead American soldiers and a man named "Scooter" has been indicted. Whenever they get around to their precious revolution, I'm going to build a wall of their empty skulls.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 28, 2005 07:18 PM (0yYS2)

2 Vinnie: Thank you for not linking to anything in particular. I always feel so dirty after I go there.

Posted by: Oyster at October 28, 2005 08:14 PM (YudAC)

3 I'm not sure what the word is, but I think it's the same one that describes the feeling you get when you go into the monkey house and see the monkeys committing the sin of Onan.

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at October 29, 2005 12:59 AM (RHG+K)

4 How about "blue balls?"

Posted by: j.d. at October 29, 2005 12:10 PM (1skgY)

5 The real partying won't begin unless Rove or Cheney are indicted. What are you guys afraid of? Powerful, corrupt people being bitch-slapped by justice? The current administration gives true Republicans a bad name. Most politicians don't represent the hardworking, honest people of America and it's a total sham that they get away with as much as they do. If they have violated the law, let the hammer fall.

Posted by: osamabinhiding at October 29, 2005 12:46 PM (pzxxR)

6 I think it's a phrase you're thinking of, like "dog in the mangerish" or "sour grapes." Personally, I prefer crapweasel.

Posted by: tee bee at October 29, 2005 01:10 PM (q1JHF)

7 Who cares what the worms do? I don't pay any more attention to them than I would a piss ant. I don't go to their blogs, I don't watch their news, I don't mingle with any of them, and for all intents and purposes they don't exist in my life. I feel a lot cleaner that way!

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 29, 2005 02:09 PM (rUyw4)

8 osama you are subhuman scum and I would like to watch you bleed out slowly while I remove your skin with a shard of broken glass. Have a nice day!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 29, 2005 03:08 PM (0yYS2)

9 Osama, not to worry. There's a new election coming up in three years and you can start bitching soon enough after that about the new admin. as well. What you should be rooting for is a clean sweep of the CIA, FBI and DoD much more so than even the executive branch. Doesn't matter who's in the Oval Office as long as those departments remain infested. Porter Goss sure caused a shake up, didn't he? I'd like to see more of that.

Posted by: Oyster at October 30, 2005 06:11 AM (YudAC)

10 Ah, nothing like IM to spice things up. I'd rather you use the lid from a rusty sardine can to cut my flesh...but only if you stop the bleeding enough to keep me alive and let me savor the torture. Oyster...I'd like our whole "gubbamint" to be turned upside down and cleaned out. I think voting is an illusion. Merry FItzmass!

Posted by: osamabinhiding at October 30, 2005 03:22 PM (0MmSd)

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Everyone, give a warm welcome to Jane from Armies of Liberation to the Jawa Report staff.

And if any members of the Yemeni Islamofascistpricktocracy care to monitor her here like they do there, bear in mind that she is now even more carefully watched by her Uncle.

And you don't want to mess with Uncle.

Posted by: Vinnie at 11:28 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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I'm just checking in to let you all know that I am alive. I appreciate the work Howie, See-Dubya, Vinnie, Mike Pechar, Traderrob, Chris Short, Bluto, & the Demosophist have been doing in my absence. It looks like my book project may go a little longer than I anticpated, but only by a couple of weeks. I will be back, so please have patience.

What have I learned from writing this thing? Absolutely nothing. Oh, except, never write a book-length manuscript before submitting chapters to your editor. Trust me on this one.

On another topic, Spoons says goodbye to blogging. Wait, you mean Spoons was a lawyer? I never knew that.

This reminds me of a bit of advice I've been meaning to relay to academic bloggers: follow Chomsky's lead.

Follow Chomsky, you say, why that's an odd bit of advice coming from the Right?

Indeed it is. What I mean by that is you need to separate your academic work from your polemic work. Chomsky, as you may know, is a noted linguist. But, is Chomsky famous because he is a linguist? No. Please name his linguistic theory? He is famous because he is a critic of U.S. foreign policy. He is not an IR specialist nor does he have any training in political science. His tenure at MIT is based on his linguistic work, not on his foreign policy analysis. His foreign policy analysis is basically a polemic shaped by an ideology and world view. It is blogging before the advent of blogs.

If you are an academic blogger, follow Chomsky's lead and do not blog on your field of expertise. This may come as quite a shock to some of my readers, but I am not an IR specialist nor is my academic work related--even peripherally--to the Global War on Terror and Islamofascist ideologies.

In my role as a blogger I am just like you: I am a citizen journalist.

So, note to fellow bloggers in academia: leave the "expert opinions" to the peer reviewed journals. As for your blog, keep it simple, know its limitations, and do not tout your academic credentials in order to give some authority to your pontifications.

As for that last recommendation, do not follow Chomsky's lead. I'm not sure that it's Chomsky's fault that his followers rely on the logical fallacy of resorting to authority when quoting him. You can't say Chomsky's theories are stupid, they say, Chomsky works at MIT. As if the fact that Chomsky works at MIT as a linguist gives his theories on why U.S. foreign policy is (and has always been) bad mmmmmkay, some extra credibility.

The truth is that I started blogging using the name "Dr. Rusty Shackleford" as a joke. Give Dale Gribble a Ph.D. and this is what you get. Only recently have I begun to realize how much faith people put in that "Dr." aspect of my fictional name. Ultimately, the validity of this blog rests not on my education level or my professional activitiy, but on the quality of the posts and the facts or theories presented therein.

I don't post on my academic area of expertise for the very same reason Chomsky does not lecture outside of MIT on his: I know the difference between peer reviewed theories put under academic scrutiny and theories about world politics driven by my ideology. Hopefully, the latter--my opinions about the war on terror--are accurate. What they definitely are not, though, are rigorously thought out analysis in the same manner as my academic work is. None of my posts--as far as I can tell--has ever produced a hypothesis that any one -- as far as I can tell -- has tested.

So, to fellow bloggers in academia remember what your blog is and what it is not. It is a place to post random thoughts and observations. It is a place to stroke your own ego. It is a place to editorialize. It is a place to say inane, meaningless, and occasionally offensive things. It is a place where on a rare occasion you might just get an important point across. However, it is not a place to further your academic career nor is it a place that your credentials have any meaning.

Blogs are the great levellers of our day. Whether auto-mechanic or nuclear physicist, the opinions of both are of equal importance in the blogosphere. Blogs have made Chomskys of us all. And that, believe it or not, is a good thing.

Posted by: Rusty at 11:34 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
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A while back I told you about having to make our cubicles all neat and stuff. I had to take down the tower of stupidity. I gave some big speech how it was going back up. Well there have been some problems. First the tower was deconstructed leaving a large empty area in my cube. The teenage mutant frogs and the lizards were in charge of grounds keeping and damaged two philodendrons. While I’m nursing them back to health Aussie decides to put his apple core in there for fun. Killed them suckers dead. Then Quailman and Johnny Bravo who were in charge of the redesign and construction can’t decide how many spires go on top or if the base is protected against flying “yogurt lid of death” projectiles. This has resulted in weeks of delay and haggling, meanwhile the empty spot just sits there. Roy looks so lonely up there on his magnet without characters in the Tower of Stupidity to keep him company. It just doesn’t feel right. On other news Jack Frost visited Bumfuct Egypt for the first time day a full 10 days late. I siphoned off a fifth of that home made wine last weekend. Had to be tested you know. Good stuff, I’ll bottle err uh plastic jug that this weekend.

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Carnival of RINOs is up at LA libertarian. Yep heÂ’s back Hurricane and all.

Carnival of Liberty XVII starts tomorrow at Eriscgrumbles.

For your reading pleasure.

T Jefferson: When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Today is my wife's birthday.

On my behalf, check out her blog.

Trust me, you will go back more than once a year.

Thank you, we now return you to your regular irritable bowel syndrome.

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Yes the whole state, See The Right Place for details.

"Travis County, Texas Prosecutor Ronnie Earle issued a press release earlier today stating that he had sought and obtained an indictment against millions of Texas residents on charges of "Conspiracy to Elect Republicans." He also charged them all as "Accessories to Murder" in the case of Casey Sheehan, son of professional protester and media-whore, Cindy Sheehan. Earle stated that he will seek the death penalty against all of the defendants, cutting Texas' population roughly in half.

Related: Do I look worried???

She don't look worried either. Or her or this one.

Trying to blog goodr, cheap I know But that's what Iowahawk said to do.

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Nedd Kareiva of Stop The ACLU will be on WRWL Radio with Pastor Ernie Sanders to discuss the ACLU and how the Stop the ACLU bunch intends to thwart the ACLU's plans to crush America. Nedd Kareiva will be on at 9:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PM PDT.

For those not in the WRWL coverage area you can use this audio feed to tune in to the program.

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So I pulled a late one last night & get early boot up. Then some detectothingy says I have a bad file and needs to go. SoÂ’s I get rid of it. ItÂ’s a library. Errr..ooops. SoÂ’s I get to run that one forever program on that thar shiny winders disk. Then the little woman starts fooling with the breaker box(hair dry and what no that's this breaker dear??) and I get to run that blue screen stuff over my disk again! Yep now I gets to run winders update.

Please stand byÂ…..

(under breath mumbling %$$#%$# delays, delays get me dual boot or reload yer ass with Red Hat you %$%$# stupid detectothingy)

Posted by: Howie at 09:33 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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RINO sightings XI is up at politechnical.

Ah, the three things that are true about Raging RINOs is that weÂ’re outspoken, non-conformist, extremely intelligent, and incredibly good-looking. Four thingsÂ…

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Where's Rusty? Since there is no way I'm going to meet my editor's deadline I have employed a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters to help me finish it. Here is what they have produced so-far:

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times? This is going to take longer than I expected. I'll be gone for the next few weeks.

Posted by: Rusty at 08:52 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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Menenze's ghost has been busted, banned, and now sits in a high-votage ectosplasmic container field. Unless the EPA shuts us down, we shouldn't be hearing from him again any time soon.

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Just a little reminder that I'm away writing a major research project. Ok, well it's major to me. I'm getting the feeling that some of you aren't quite getting the stress related posts. If any of the other Jawa writers want to post, this is my long promised absence.

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