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May 17, 2005

Reconstituted Iraqi Army Opens Headquarters

(Baghdad, Iraq) The Iraqi Ground Forces Headquarters was inaugurated yesterday in a ceremony attended by "a small group" of Iraqi and Coalition dignitaries. The location has not been revealed, obviously for security reasons. According to a statement from Iraqi Ground Forces commander Gen. Abdul Qadir Jassim,

"We are celebrating today a historical event and the rebuilding of the Iraqi army. Having the headquarters of our ground forces here is an indication of the Iraqi army controlling its own destiny."
"Our streets have been covered in blood, and we want to clean this place with the help of our friends the Americans."

In response, Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, commander of Multi-National Corps-Iraq, stated,

"As soon as you feel you are ready, we will hand over operations. And the coalition will return to their own countries."

This is the first somewhat formal declaration of an exit point -- when the Iraqi commander believes his army can do the job -- for the Coalition Forces go home.

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May 16, 2005

A New Neologism

Ace of Spades has been griping for a long time about how there's no noun available to replace the dreadful neologism "blogosphere". It's easy enough to ignore Ace, but now Maserati-drivin' Cornerite Warren Bell complains about it as well. Since both of these guys are apparently screenwriters of somewhat varying degrees of success, my sympathy is limited. Just make up your own word and stick to it, fellas.

Nonetheless, these simpering weiners may have a point. "Blogosphere" sounds sufficiently nerdy to describe most electronic media, but it doesn't go far enough. Too often we're grasping for a word that includes more than just blogs, and encompasses all the fast-turnaround pixel-based publications that fling new ideas and breaking news around like poo in a monkey house, leaving the old-fashioned media in the dirt. Drudge, Lucianne.com, Free Republic, NRO, Fark, Tech Central Station, DU, Best of the Web, all these need a word that distinguishes them, along with blogs, from those old-fashioned print and TV outlets creeping along in the left lane with their blinkers on, blissfully causing riots in Afghanistan and correcting them a week later, shaking their liver-spotted fists at us whippersnappers in our Maseratis passing them on the right.

So that word is: "The Immedia".

Yeah, Google gives many hits on "immedia" already. ("The Immedia" gets much fewer.) Someone's probably even copyrighted it. But who cares? The word does what it's supposed to do and there's no reason it can't be pressed into service, immediately.

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1 "The Immedia" ? No fucking way, you have got to be joking, LMAO, that is so art-house wanky, and so been there done that. Dude, way before your time as a blogger art schools throughout the land were setting up "Intermedia" departments. It was wanky then and it sounds even wankier now. At least those guys were nice peaceful harmless types - the worst one guy ever did was eat lightbulbs live in a performance peice. Go on, I dare you, call your log "Immediac" - haH HAH HAH. I CAN'T believe I am hearing this from a 40 year old lecturer. Ditch the "media". Really. Just go with the "I". Or the "me", the "Imesphere" - now that has a ring to it. Anyway, once the teenies start playing sounds and homemade animations en mass through their sites this whole print thing is going to start looking incredibly ratty and liver-spotted (like it doesn't already). Logs, these are just logs, electronic logs and diaries, nothing more, nothing less. A bunch of scrambled letters, that's all. It's just expressionism, that's all. Degenerate expressionism manifesting itself in a world at war. Or dadaism, lacking in coherence and logic. A bunch of mashed up articles and clippings selected at random and scattered across the web. "The Immedia" LOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL

Posted by: Republican at May 16, 2005 07:00 AM (zPCEz)

2 How about "Accountable Media Sources Of Principle Which Expose Bias" AMSOP-WEB No? Oh well. I tried.

Posted by: Oyster at May 16, 2005 07:07 AM (YudAC)

3 "Blog" and its derivatives always reminds me of Harrison Ford's comment to Carrie Fisher at their first reading of the "Star Wars" script. "You can read this stuff, but you can't speak it."

Posted by: Mr. Kurtz at May 16, 2005 07:41 AM (UmkWi)

4 I was trying to get my arms around Immedia, but just couldn't. It sounds too much like Immodium. And that comparison will not do us any good, no matter how apt it may be. http://www.imodium.com/

Posted by: Tom at May 16, 2005 09:01 AM (X/h0P)

5 I like blogosphere, why does it need a change? Blogosphere represents the new media and I am sure the MSM (old media)would love to see a name change fight er discussion. I dont think that the name blogosphere will ever go away, just get bigger. At lest I hope so.

Posted by: Bill at May 16, 2005 01:55 PM (xPftg)

6 One too many "o"s. Just Blogsphere. Tougher. Tighter. Much better than blogglobe. Blognet. Blogistan. Blogcadia. Heh. Immedia is pretentious beyond words to describe it. About 2 major layers of abstraction beyond anything relevant and usable. Anyway, these things cannot be "decided"; they happen. Wanna try another word? Run it up the Blogstaff and see who salutes!

Posted by: Brian H at May 21, 2005 12:46 AM (8AabM)

7 One too many "o"s. Just Blogsphere. Tougher. Tighter. Much better than blogglobe. Blognet. Blogistan. Blogcadia. Heh. Immedia is pretentious beyond words to describe it. About 2 major layers of abstraction above anything relevant and usable. Anyway, these things cannot be "decided"; they happen. Wanna try another word? Run it up the Blogstaff and see who salutes!

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8 Oops. Edit revision was a double. Sorry.

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May 14, 2005

Blogging from D.C.

Yo peeps. I'm blogging from an underground bunker deep in enemy territory. And by that I mean 'a squalid Capital Hill basement apartment. Unfortunately it's the place the Professor Chaos calls home.

The first thing you notice when coming from the backwoods of a Red State to the nation's capital are all the self-important looking young people. Wannabes of all sorts come to this modern Babylon to climb, claw, and sleep their way to the top. In many ways this place reminds me of L.A., my home town, with its hordes of young people willing to do just about anything to make big in Hollywood. But at least L.A. has a socially valuable product that people are willing to pay for.

This town is worse than Rome. At least Rome had some pretty interesting entertainment--you know, with that whole Colliseum thingy.

Here the goal is power. Here they forcefully rob the nation of its wealth and redistribute it amongst themselves.

In the Bible Rome is personafied as a whore. A whore is far too wholesome to represnt this town. Whores give you something in return and the exchange is voluntary.

What best represents D.C. then? A Rapist.

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May 13, 2005

Howdy

I am See-Dubya. I blog here now. We're gonna have us a grand ol' time, Margaret. And when I get out, I'm gonna come over there with an egg beater, and a live chicken, and some peach preserves!

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May 12, 2005

Note to Friends About D.C. Trip

Friends,

I'm heading out of here tomorrow for Washington, D.C. Last call for those in the area to meet at a small gathering set for Saturday, May 21st at about 8 p.m. at an undisclosed downtown location. E-mail me at mypetjawa-at-gmail.com for details.

I apologize for the lack of linkage to all my fellow bloggers of late. Just too dang busy. The same goes for answering a lot of e-mail. Trust me, finals week sucks twice as bad for us as it does for the students.

Anyway, I will be blogging some from D.C. Maybe I'll put up a photo or two, but posting will be very light for the next week.

Lucky for me I have some great people filling in. I know you'll enjoy what they have to say. See you in D.C.

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Sick Vacation Blogging

So I went to the doctor to get the pinkeye checked out. Spend two hours waiting. What does he do? Gives me some salve and sets up an appointment with an eye doctor. What a way to waste a vacation, eh?

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May 11, 2005

FedEx Bombs California

(Danville, California) No one was injured, but many people called police to complain when airplane parts fell from the sky in several residential neighborhoods. From the ContraCostaTimes:

Airplane pieces fell from the sky over Danville Monday night, surprising residents and FedEx and causing damages to at least one house, but injuring no one.
FedEx spokeswoman Sally Davenport said this morning the flight from Oakland landed safely as scheduled in Dallas-Fort Worth with two pilots and an assortment of packages aboard.
Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration said three pieces came off the MD11 jet.
A FedEx spokesman called the incident highly unusual and plans to be in contact with homeowners in the area about the debris.

So, despite missing some parts, including one that was about 10 feet long, the plane flew all the way to Dallas and landed safely. And, inexplicably, the pilots didn't know that their plane was falling apart. According to FAA spokesman Donn Walker, the parts came from an engine thrust reverser.

Maybe I'm being overly critical, but the fact that the pilots didn't know they had a problem is somewhat troubling. It begs the question of just how much of the plane has to become dismantled in flight to achieve the threshold for pilot awareness. Is it okay for five percent of the plane to fall from the sky without pilot knowledge? Ten percent? Twenty?

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1 If you look at WWII pictures of returning B17's, you'll see planes landing safely with 90% of the rudder shot off, major structural pieces of the wing missing, several of the engines not running, etc. and so forth. Modern aircraft are intentionally over-designed such that they can continue to fly safely even with some amount of damamge (after all, they can't just pull over and call AAA). The corollary would be you driving down the freeway, unaware that the reverse gears were stripped until you actually stopped and tried to back up. It's not so much the pilots I'm worried about as the maintenance crews that are supposed to check the plane between flights.

Posted by: dodgeman at May 11, 2005 07:55 AM (fRt6P)

2 Reverse thrusters are only used after touch down and all tyres have made contact with the runway, or during an emergancy and you have to abort the takeoff. It is not uncommon for a trailing edge to get ripped off and the pilot not even know it because of the force at which an actuator (along with force of air flow) will sever off a part from the plane. Parts fall off of aircraft, its a fact of life ... most of the flying population doesnt even know because 99.99% of those items were not mission critical or would even cause any situation to develop into a catastrauphic in-flight situation. you dont even want to tell the flying public about the number of incidents that occur national evey year from the following sitations that could just as easily bring a plane out of the sky: Bird Impacts, Storms (to include lightning, and hail), wind sheers, turbulance. Any one of these items could pull plane parts off in a heartbeat. The worst thing that the average passanger will most probably ever get during their whole life will be bad food, fat passengers, and cramped knees.

Posted by: Salamander at May 11, 2005 08:26 AM (D4mP3)

3 Yeah, being an ex-employee of the Boeing Commercial Aircraft company I'll have to say this is pretty much SoP.

Posted by: Editor at May 11, 2005 10:07 AM (adpJH)

4 Salamander, Don't forget the flu or cold passed on by other passangers. I really hated to do it, but when I went to pick up my fiancee from Warsaw, I had a very bad flu. But had I not shown up at the U.S. Embassy, there would of been a good chance my then fiancee (now wife) would of not received her visa. So I had to travel to Warsaw and back to Dallas, blessing everyone in coach with my flu. When we took off, I was the only one coughing and suffering from the flu. When we landed, about 1/5th of the people in the plane was. Funny thing is my wife who sat beside me the whole way never got sick.

Posted by: Butch at May 11, 2005 11:13 AM (Gqhi9)

5 This is the begining, or end, of a divergent timeline. Did any of the debris hit Donnie Darko?

Posted by: ADMIRAL Rusty Shackelford at May 11, 2005 03:25 PM (PX+vn)

6 Question for Butch: Why on earth did you want to go to Poland? There's nothing to see or do there, unless you're into cheap box-like cars, WW2-museums, churches or Russian mafia and prostitution.

Posted by: A Finn at May 12, 2005 04:24 AM (cWMi4)

7 Oh, sorry, didn't read the text properly. So why was your wife in Poland? (surely you didn't buy her there?)

Posted by: A Finn at May 12, 2005 04:27 AM (cWMi4)

8 Finn, No I mailed order her out of Ukraine, but they said they could only deliver as far as Warsaw. (The US embassy in Ukraine is to small, so fiancee visas go thru Warsaw.)

Posted by: Butch at May 12, 2005 12:08 PM (Gqhi9)

9 ...Man, I never knew you could mailorder women from other places than southeast Asia.

Posted by: A Finn at May 13, 2005 01:52 AM (cWMi4)

10 FROM.MISS.ESTHER BAMBA 01 BP COCODY 01 BP ABIDJAN COTE IVOIRE. WEST AFRICA. E-MAIL/ estherbamba77@yahoo.fr HELLO, PERMIT ME TO INFORM YOU ABOUT MY DESIRE TO GO INTO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. I HAD THE REVELATION THAT YOU WILL SUCCESSFULLY ASSIST ME. I AM MISS.ESTHER BAMBA, AN IVORIAN (IVORY COAST) NATIONALITY.ME AND MY BROTHER MR.BOB BAMBA OF MR AND MRS. JOHN BAMBA OUR FATHER WAS A VERY RICH COCOA MERCHANT, BASED IN ABIDJAN; THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF IVORY COAST BEFORE HE WAS POISONED TO DEATH BY HIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATES ON ONE OF THEIR OUTINGS TO DISCUSS ON A BUSINESS DEAL . WHEN OUR MOTHER DIED ON OCTOBER 24, 2002, OUR FATHER TOOK US SO SPECIAL SINCE WE ARE MOTHERLESS . BEFORE THE DEATH OF OUR FATHER ON MARCH 26,2003 IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED, HE CALLED US SECRETLY TO HIS BED SIDE AND TOLD US THAT HE KEPT A SUM OF $16 500 000 (SIXTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) IN A BANK IN ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE HE ADVICED US TO RUN OUT OF THE COUNTRY IMMEDIATELY. MEAN WHILE THAT HE USED MY NAME AS THE NEXT OF KING IN DEPOSIT OF THE FUND . HE ALSO EXPLAINED TO ME THAT IT WAS BECAUSE OF THIS MONEY HE WAS POISONED BY HIS BUSINESS PARTNER AND THAT I SHOULD SEEK FOR A FOREIGN PARTNER IN A COUNTRY OF MY CHOICE WHERE I WOULD TRANSFER THIS MONEY AND USE IT FOR AN INVESTMENT PURPOSE, SUCH AS : REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT OR STOCK MARKET INVESTMENT . SIR, I AM HONOURABLY SOLICITING YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE AS FOLLOWS. : 1) TO PROVIDE A BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO. 2) TO SERVE AS THE GUARDIAN OF THESE FUND, SINCE I AM A GIRL OF 23 YEARS OLD AND MY BROTHER 19 YEARS. 3) TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR US IN YOUR COUNTRY TO CONTINUE OUR EDUCATIONAL CAREER AND TO PROCURE ME A RESIDENTIAL PERMIT IN YOUR COUNTRY. I AM INCLINED TO OFFER YOU 20% OF THE TOTAL SUM AS A MODE OF COMPENSATION FOR YOUR EFFORTS AFTER THE TRANSFERRING OF THESE FUND TO YOUR NOMINATED ACCOUNT OVERSEAS. PLEASE, SIR I WILL BE VERY HAPPY IF THIS TRANSACTION WILL BE CONCLUDED WITH IN SEVEN (7) WORKING DAYS FROM NOW. I AM EXPECTING HEARING FROM YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE .N.B: SIR, I WILL LIKE YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR REPLY OF THIS PROPOSAL MAY ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU DO CARE FOR US AMEN. THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING. BEST REGARD MISS.ESTHER BAMBA

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May 10, 2005

Blog Sabbath Caption Winners (UPDATED)

Is it just the pinkeye talking or does that photo seem just a little more gay on the second posting? Anyway, thanks to all for cheering me up in an otherwise dismal week.

See-Dub: While North Korea may soon test a nuclear warhead, White House sources reported, their manual delivery systems remain primitive and easily blocked.

Carlos: Starving N. Korean hordes fight desperately for the last remaining food aid donated by the U.S.A.

Graeme: In this rare photo, North Korean military personnel attempt to split Uranium - 235 atoms to initate a fission reaction during an above ground test of the country's first nuclear weapon. The IAEA has since prohibited the exportation of Red Bull to North Korea in an attempt to stop its nuclear weapons programme.

UPDATE: D'oh! I never announced last week's winners from the Blog Sabbath Caption Contest: Worship Me Edition. Sorry.

Amicus Curae: No, honestly, who called for the proctologist?

Lookitup: ...and suddenly George Lucas realizes to his embarrassment that this indeed was NOT Star Wars convention. Quickly he consults the convention map and realizes that this is the Ostrich Impersonators Convention in the next hall over.

Buckley F. Williams gets the most offensive, yet funny award: And remember, whoever finds my Barry Manilow tie clip gets a sturdy goat and a one month supply of chick peas.

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Me Love You Long Time

Go here. Scroll down. Put down all liquids. Watch video.

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Pink Eye Blogging Day 4

Beig sick sucks. Finals week sucks. Being sick during finals week really sucks. I apologize for not e-mailing many of you back the last few days.

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May 09, 2005

Pink Eye Blogging

Never use worcester sauce after midnight. Trust me.....

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1 Sounds very personal

Posted by: Tom at May 09, 2005 03:23 PM (FtOhk)

2 Reminds me of the time I was cutting up peppers and scratched my eye. Ouchies.

Posted by: phin at May 09, 2005 05:42 PM (DGPlf)

3 When I was about 11 we were eating lots of salsa-slathered Tex-Mex of some kind. Then I had to pee. Aiieeeeee! They always said to wash your hands after, but...

Posted by: Mr. Kurtz at May 09, 2005 05:47 PM (cCPcl)

4 You guys have nothing on me: I was chopping jalapenos for a salsa once...forgot to wash my hands before taking a piss (all the coronas I was drinkin') and my stuff caught on fire. I panicked and jumped in the shower, which only spread it around. I remembered that dairy products help, so this leads to me screaming in pain as I'm pouring a gallon of milk on my dick in the tub just as my girlfriend walks back in from the store...yup. Top that.

Posted by: steven baber at May 09, 2005 07:11 PM (ruF1Q)

5 Steven WAY WAY to personal... But it sure has me laughing.

Posted by: Tom at May 09, 2005 07:44 PM (FtOhk)

6 Steve; did you offer to share? Maybe that would have doused the fires!

Posted by: Brian H at May 09, 2005 08:10 PM (8AabM)

7 This is my first time to participate in this, im an arab sunei Iraqi and now am living in dubai but i used to live in abbadan in iraq, i just want to say to all arabs just leave us alone. our people were killed by thousands and thousands by the fucker saddam and no one of you have ever done or even said anything and now you love us soo much and wants what good for us!!! the picture is clear the arabs have a black cloud covering their eyes they cant c the right from wrong they call his two pussies= his sons shohadaa they say they were killed for good cause. thats the mentality that youre dealing with (if U say the sky is blue they'll say no its red) thats why we did not move even one step for the last hundred year im an arab and ashamed to say this but this is the truth,leave islam out of this mess because its the only good thing that is left in our region. All those who says that they represent Islam they are not they only represent themselves. And i was the happiest man on earth when president Bush was re elected im saying again and again for all arabs and dump extreemest who made all the world hate the name of Islam because of their act stop this, and start building ure country rather than thinking of killing all the time. last thing i wanna say is that those people who R shown in the media covering their faces and calling themselves jehadyeen are either arabs who never knew what really is happening inside iraq for the last 20 years or some ex iraqi militant especially who call themselves fedaayee sadam (army of sadam) who used to have all the power before at the time of his regime and now they've lost everything. We the iraqis know those assholes who i swear to god feal fun when they kill someone and thats not a joke because they were like this from an early age. fainally i say again for all arabs mind Ure own business.

Posted by: kathem Ali at May 10, 2005 12:51 AM (vBN2f)

8 I hope these recent Arab writers aren't fake. It would be extremely interresting to get a point of view that isn't influenced by western way of thinking.

Posted by: A Finn at May 10, 2005 04:02 AM (cWMi4)

9 Never heard of any illness like pink eye here on the other side of the Atlantic ocean. What's it like? Well, eyes go pink I guess, but other symptoms?

Posted by: A Finn at May 10, 2005 05:34 AM (cWMi4)

10 A finn : Pink eye comes from cows or somtimes just from getting dirt in your eye. Yep its pink. It itches and when you get up you have a lot of goop in your eye. Its an infection of the tear ducts. Eye drops or a salve is required to cure it. Bet Rusty got it when he had to pick up his young un from school. I went to the gas station once and put some gas in a gallon milk jug for the mower. My jug was leaking a bit near the top. Not wanting to drip gas on the nice carpet in the car I let the drips fall on my leg while I held the jug on the way home. Only had about 2 miles 4 or 5 minutes till I got home. First minute OK. Next four very long. Inside of right leg & scrotum exposed to gasoline. I made a trip to the shower very much like steven there except it was my mom asking me what the hell I had done. Had to be 20 years ago and I I'll never forget that lesson learned. Mr Ali. Best of luck to you and your people. You are a credit them. A thinking arab, neat.

Posted by: Howie at May 10, 2005 08:39 AM (D3+20)

11 A Finn Dont you get a programme called South Park over there?

Posted by: sparky at May 10, 2005 05:53 PM (F1nba)

12 Yes, South Park had a good pink eye episode. Think its cancelled in here these days. Did they stop making it?

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May 07, 2005

Blog Sabbath Caption Contest: Rusty Has Pinkeye Edition

Caption this photo of North Koreans celebrating May Day. I'm off for the rest of the weekend. I have pinkeye and suddenly I'm craving brain.........

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May 05, 2005

Openly Pro-Terrorist Website NOT 'Hate Speech'

So, The Jawa Report is dropped for 'hate speech' but the openly pro-terrorist website Jihad Unspun isn't?

I guess it's who you hate that matters to Google News.

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Courtesy of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Gay!

Apparently I've caught the gay. From the mail-bag:

Hello,

We indexed your site in www.spidergay.com's database. We hope your indexation will provide you with a greater number of GLBT Internet surfers and that you will use Spidergay for your own needs.

I might be gay, but at least I'm not all the way gay.

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May 04, 2005

Jawapalooza in D.C. Update

It looks like Jawapalooza is tentatively scheduled for May 21st in the p.m. E-mail me for location if you're in the D.C. area and want to hang out. If you can't make it for the shindig but are in the area we might be able to hang another night between the 14th and 21st.

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Washingtonienne: The Movie

Ok, I get a lot of e-mail, but this is a new one. I do a post about how butt ugly Jessica 'Washingtonienne' Cutler is and I get a free book! Oh, the power of being a blogger......

Hi,
Your favorite D.C. blogger's book is due out in a few weeks and after coming across this loving article (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/043682.php), I thought I would send you a copy. If you're interested in receiving a copy of THE WASHINGTONIENNE by Jessica Cutler, pass along your mailing address and I'll put it in the mail.
xxxxxxxxxx
Hyperion
212.456.xxxx

77 W. 66th St, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10023

Sorry, I think I'll wait for the movie.............

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May 03, 2005

Bleg for Help: Guest Posters/Collaborators Needed

With finals and such I'm finding I have less and less time to blog. This summer things look worse. I'm just about finished with a book length manuscript, but I've been putting it off for awhile.

The truth is, I love blogging. More people read The Jawa Report in a day then will ever read all of my academic work combined. So, I've let my academic research slide a bit of late. I need to get back to it.

Any one out there who would like to contribute to The Jawa Report on a regular basis or who would just be interested in guest posting over the summer let me know by e-mailing me at mypetjawa-at-gmail.com.

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1 What would really spice this blog up is more sex posting. Embrace the hot lesbo star wars chick pundit in you. Of course, you'd have to dress all the posts up as serious news coverage and put some sort of terrorism or islamic bent to it but it could be done. I just might know somebody who could help you in that department.

Posted by: Wittysexkitten at May 03, 2005 04:01 PM (2iQWh)

2 I'd guest for you Rusty, my first posting will be a photoshop of Greg's cojones ... under an electron microscope.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at May 03, 2005 09:44 PM (xauGB)

3 Aye, matey! If'n ye are wanting a Privateers bent (duly appointed by Emperor Misha for the Empire). Yer book learnin' is more important than ye may think, so keep thinkin' about it. My crew is at yer service! Hoist the Jolly Roger and standby for heavy rolls as the ship comes about.

Posted by: ZiPpo at May 04, 2005 07:06 AM (P7XXv)

4 Where do I sign up? I'll be glad to contribute, but can't guarantee any regularity of posting, though it shouldn't be too bad.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 04, 2005 08:09 AM (0yYS2)

5 I'll do it Rusty. I guarantee your site will see more traffic than Robin Roberts' vagina.

Posted by: greg at May 04, 2005 10:22 AM (/+dAV)

6 Robin Roberts, Hall of Fame pitcher for the Phillies? I met him once, and he seemed all man. Wow, you think you know people and then WHAM.

Posted by: Wine-aholic at May 04, 2005 11:11 AM (Wsn+K)

7 Different Robin Roberts. This ones got a $500 per day cock habit (yes, that's cock not coke).

Posted by: greg at May 04, 2005 11:36 AM (/+dAV)

8 Robin Roberts was in Wham?

Posted by: Leopold Stotch at May 04, 2005 12:10 PM (HB3IL)

9 Robins Roberts, cock habit, Wham... I think we have some full circle here with Six Degrees of George Michael.

Posted by: Wine-aholic at May 04, 2005 12:55 PM (Wsn+K)

10 So that was George Michael's partner's name! All this time I thought it was something Garfunkel.

Posted by: Buckley F. Williams at May 04, 2005 12:56 PM (O2fD/)

11 Should I?

Posted by: Laurence Simon at May 04, 2005 02:09 PM (uBCxH)

12 Greg is taking advantage of the fact that there are no consequences for his filthy mouth, rank cowardice and room temperature IQ.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at May 04, 2005 04:36 PM (xauGB)

13 I'll do it. I'm a teacher and have no plans this summer. Bring it on.

Posted by: Labosseuse at May 06, 2005 01:34 PM (FVj+H)

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April 30, 2005

Blog Sabbath Caption Contest: Worship Me Edition

Caption this photo of the return of Qetzocoatl to Iran. Winners announced next week.

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Fight Club Homework Assignment

The Commissar turns the tables on the Guardian's efforts to affect the 2004 election. Your Fight Club homework assignment: Write a Brit and get him to vote. Or, at least write the Guardian UK and let them see how it feels.

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Google News: Equating Israel to Nazi Germany NOT Hate Speech

Un-be-freaking-lievable!!

FYI-I've e-mailed Google News at least a dozen times now without a single response asking them exactly what was said here that qualified as 'hate speech' that got us kicked off.

Posted by: Rusty at 05:08 PM | Comments (29) | Add Comment
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1 you guys (LGF & others) crack me up, always frustrated what google says and categorizes. So what if it IS hate speech? that's no longer free speech?

Posted by: Leo at April 30, 2005 05:20 PM (wj1p4)

2 Serves you right.....

Posted by: Larry at April 30, 2005 05:27 PM (qmqIj)

3 Rusty, I don't think you personally advocate hate speech or anything of that sort, but your readers do - e.g. "I really think it is time to outlaw Islam. The civilized nations of the world should ban together and get rid of this disease." "All muslims are not terrorists. But all terrorists are muslim. Enough for me. Ban the sickos from modern civilization until they evolve enough to cope with it." "...actions like initiating bioterrorism in the Third World, which is infested with these vermin (muslims) would be worthy of consideration. " There is more like this, and you know it. Now... of course they have a right to say if they think, thats their opinion, but you can understand why Google thinks to drop your site.

Posted by: Larry at April 30, 2005 05:54 PM (qmqIj)

4 Larry, replace the word muslim in those comments with 'christian', and you have a very typical comment on Daily Kos or DU.

Posted by: Carlos at April 30, 2005 09:07 PM (8e/V4)

5 Yeugh. Now... of course they have a right to say if they think, thats their opinion, but you can understand why Google thinks to drop your site. Google doesn't care about the comments. Google doesn't aggregate comments, it aggregates the articles. And they will not respond to emails asking for clarification.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 30, 2005 09:08 PM (+S1Ft)

6 We all hate. Only difference is it's cool to hate christians, not muslims.

Posted by: Carlos at April 30, 2005 09:08 PM (8e/V4)

7 Remember, we're talking about Google News here, not the Google search engine. All Google News sources are individually approved by Google staff. Someone at Google thought that it would be a good idea to include "Conspiracy Planet" in their News offering. Someone at Google decided to remove The Jawa Report. And no-one at Google will respond to email.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 30, 2005 09:29 PM (+S1Ft)

8 Rusty: Keep putting up the good fight we at CitzCom are behind you.

Posted by: jwbrown1969 at April 30, 2005 09:30 PM (YLesG)

9 Interesting. There's an observable prejudice that Google uses in what they include and do not, in what they cache and do not. I have a gallery of paintings, among which are two, three that have identified (and in one case, visually identifiable) references to Christ and Christian theology. ALL of my paintings -- the entire gallery -- is included in the Google cache/shows up in any search results (related to me, etc.) EXCEPT those three. I appreciate being included in Google's process but I find the omission of these three paintings specifically, while the entire other range is included (nothing distinguishes the omitted three paintings from any of the others in page design, information, appearance other than the omitted three make reference to Christ and Christianity). It does indicate a very particular "editing" of the Google results and about a very noticable issue. The pages and content, also, contain nothing political in issue or appearance. They simply contain mention of "Christ" and "the Holy Trinity" and then the paintings that are, themselves, entirely conceptual (one of them features a painting of Christ while the other two don't). So, although I have nothing related to a pointed opinion in my gallery along socio-political lines (it wouldn't be possible for anyone to realistically exact a "hate" reference from my gallery), the three images omitted simply refer to Christ and Christianity and are omitted from the Google cache system.

Posted by: -S- at April 30, 2005 11:41 PM (nK9xP)

10 I see the apologists and propagandists are becoming very active on this site, and they always manage to point out any shortcomings of anyone OTHER THAN terrorists scum and those that support them. They are blind to truth and fact. You want hate you apologist scum? I'll give you hate. Anyone who condones the murder of innocent people in the name of some sick political or religious ideology should be taken out and shot, dumped in a pit, and have dirt pushed over them by a CAT bulldozer. For all those to whom this applies, do the civilized world a favor and have a nice glass of Drano, on me.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 01, 2005 12:00 AM (0yYS2)

11 "I see the apologists and propagandists are becoming very active on this site..." Improbulus - You are correct, sir. This site is overrun and badly in need of a roach hotel or a can of Raid.

Posted by: Dan at May 01, 2005 12:50 PM (hi8LV)

12 >>>"Equating Israel to Nazi Germany NOT Hate Speech" Of course not. It's just moronic. "Hate speech" only exists in the totalitarian minds of Leftists, and only when uttered by a rightwinger.

Posted by: Carlos at May 01, 2005 08:27 PM (paKD6)

13 To the good Doctor here, our host: I'm going to stop participating here, including reading. It's not that your site isn't entertaining and informative (it is) but that, after looking into a certain group of websites by a certain commentor, and after earlier emotionally odd content from the other polar direction from another site referenced, I'm now concluding that there is a strange community on the website of warring factions. People calling others 'trolls' who write, themselves, with false identities always puzzle me. However, since I write with my own name on the internet and don't engage in that sort of behavior otherwise (I consider it dishonorable when someone uses the pretense of anonymity to criticize others, and I'm comfortable with those conclusions). However, no one is anonymous and their content and language does give them away if someone just tracks references and the allusions left by others. I'm just saying that the entire warring thing between a certain highly aggressive set of opposing interests on the internet is too much for me. For me, a voter and netizen. My memberships in all and any are as a Christian in the Catholic Church, a few mail servers and domain registrars, and some financial things and a political party as to voting. I really find all the racial/religious/sexual/gender factions just too much and am resigning myself to reducing the blogroll and complaining to Google and Yahoo when/if I find reason to (there are reasons, you're right about that, along with other instances similar). Not to criticize you, not at all, or your site, but to try to explain. I realize even explainations get flamed but that's the downside of using the internet. Unfortunately, it's a big downside. Be well, thanks for the entertainment and best wishes... -S-

Posted by: -S- at May 02, 2005 12:46 AM (nK9xP)

14 Hate is fear, and fear is respect, therefore only hate people you respect if you don't want to pick on the weak and minorities. So everyone should just hate white men, they seem to be the strongest ones among humans, since no-one protests when white men are being picked on, except groups that instantly get the rest of the world against them, like KKK, fascists, nazis and skinheads. Or perhaps just go hippie and love everything else, but hate soldiers, governments and wars, and die of std:s.

Posted by: A Finn at May 02, 2005 04:08 AM (cWMi4)

15 S is your real name? What an odd rant.

Posted by: Carlos at May 02, 2005 07:26 AM (paKD6)

16 God forbid you offend someone. By the way, the terrorists are muslims and they are dirty people.

Posted by: Harold T. Fancypants at May 02, 2005 08:12 AM (yBHNA)

17 It is an interesting tidbit that S chooses to complain to say Google or whatever when he could simply choose to change what he reads. Hmmm very interesting. I'm afraid that when Rusty tried to make a point some people out there can't tell jest from serious comments. I'm sure there have been some radical sentenced when taken out of context. But some people just can't seem to read. Also shame on Rusty for saying what he want's to say. Shame on Rusty for having an origilal thought once in a while. Looks like you may be right about Syria Rusty. Just seems too much of a coincidence that the insurgency seems to have increased its activity just at the some time Syria left Lebbanon. Maybe my hopes for Assad have been a pipe dream. See I was challenged to think for a minute and wow I may have learned somthing. No shame on Rusty Shame on the censors. For sure Shame on S for being a whiney little tattletale. If I need S to censor my internet for me I'll drop him a line.

Posted by: Howie at May 02, 2005 08:52 AM (D3+20)

18 fingers still sleeping this AM.

Posted by: Howie at May 02, 2005 08:57 AM (D3+20)

19 I agree that the post by "S" was weird, and having read it through three times, I am only now confused and have a strange urge to go stand on the streetcorner and babble maniacally at passing cars. On a related note, I have some advice for A Finn: You seem intelligent enough, possibly even moreso than average for a younger fellow, if that's what you are, but I can tell that your English, while good, is limited, since you likely learned it mainly from TV. At least this is how a Finnish friend told me he learned English. Anyway, I highly recommend polishing your English by reading Rudyard Kipling, as his use of English is perfect, and his work is pleasurable enough to read that you learn without realizing it. Ta-ta!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 02, 2005 09:12 AM (0yYS2)

20 You might try purchasing a single share of google stock so you can attend the annual meeting of shareholders. REgister to make a comment. Then read what they call hate speech by you and then what they don't consider hate speech.Then you can ask the chairman to explain the distinction to all the shareholders. And of course you can liveblog.....

Posted by: vivi at May 02, 2005 09:27 AM (nTEvo)

21 Should I link less sentences together? I've noticed most my posts, no matter how long, are composed of just 2-5 really long sentences. Kipling... I've seen all his short stories (and the Jungle Book in it's many versions, personally liked the one made in early Yugoslavia the best, very gory, even had a huge war between the wolves and red hounds) as cartoons spoken in Finnish and English, and also few of them in Swedish, so I pretty much know all his interresting works, and I'm not into poetry. (the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn seems interresting, mostly because of the Futurama and Simpsons episodes that had it, and the mention of it in "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" when the albino was insulting all the countries in the world)

Posted by: A Finn at May 03, 2005 02:12 AM (cWMi4)

22 A finn, English basically is just 2 to five really long sentences. I can read you, no worries. Just keep writing and screw them. I'm reading the ideas not the grammar.

Posted by: Howie at May 03, 2005 11:32 AM (D3+20)

23 Carlos...the user display links to my real name, real site, domain that equates with my real name. Pretty straightforward.

Posted by: -S- at May 03, 2005 03:03 PM (nK9xP)

24 And, "a rant"? I see that sort of juvenile behavior on boards whenever a point is made...you can dismiss what I wrote as "a rant" but you can't discuss the points I communicated. And lift your finger on your little mouse to look select an I.D. displayed to consider who expressed what. So far, points for you: less than zero.

Posted by: -S- at May 03, 2005 03:05 PM (nK9xP)

25 If that's "a rant," then what you're writing is gas.

Posted by: -S- at May 03, 2005 03:06 PM (nK9xP)

26 And more gas from "howie" who can't read, either! Howie "wrote": No shame on Rusty Shame on the censors. For sure Shame on S for being a whiney little tattletale. If I need S to censor my internet for me I'll drop him a line. Did you even read what I wrote? I wrote in agrement with Rusty/jawareport -- a site I enjoy without certain commentors trolling around calling other people trolls -- that Google edits search results, and I provided a realtime example of them doing so. I don't criticise Google or any site owner for doing what they chose to do with their content. It's Google's search process, let them do what they decide they can and want to. The only point is that, yes, they DO edit responses to EDIT OUT certain religous content of a sincere sort. They EDIT IN content that ridicules certain religions and even denigrates religious sites, and yet they EDIT OUT content that isn't even political, just -- as in my example -- religous (Christian). Since I'm neither Jewish nor Arabian/other Middle Eastern races, I am not keenly, inherently involved in the Israel/Palestine issue as to taking sides so much as I am sympathetic to Israel based upon my religious beliefs (that's allowed last time I checked, it's still an opinion and that should be acceptable as an individual opinion) but I am even now hated by some (who hate, so it's a statement about them, mostly) because I'm a Christian who sympathises with Israel, and from many polarized sources. I'm not affiliated with racist groups of any sort and those sorts are found among any/all polarized groups lately on our planet, so it isn't the issues that are racist, but individuals making a lot of noise from all of them. Does that clarify for you? Please try reading the comments before you go insane about what you imagine they might say, or perhaps represent, or project upon through your own troubled emotions. Some of us are tired of the haters in our world and in my experience, they're found in all areas, all polarities, among human groups. Again I write, it's a case of individual mental and emotional troubles by those who hate, not always inherent to the message of the groups with which they affiliate. I've met hateful racists who were Palestinian, who were Chinese, who were Cuacasian in America/elsewhere, Hispanics and Negroids in Europe, who were Jewish, who were... the point is that hate is not the type, the race, the nationality, but the individual, in my experience. It's just that sometimes certain racists/haters get into positions of power and then you get the nations on missions to erase others from the earth.

Posted by: -S- at May 03, 2005 03:17 PM (nK9xP)

27 And, Improbulous, you are already babbling nonsensically at passing readers, so I can assure you that passing cars or not would make no difference to the source: you're still babbling nonsensically. You're also a very troubled person, based upon what you've written here. You are also not anonymous, just so you know...some of us can discern the source behind the babbling, and pretty easily.

Posted by: -S- at May 03, 2005 03:19 PM (nK9xP)

28 I agree that Google has an odd decision about what represents "hate speech."

Posted by: -S- at May 03, 2005 03:21 PM (nK9xP)

29 Nonsensical Improbulus: Based upon your example, "learned" equates with psychosis. You appear to be one of those persons who assume "studying English" bestows special powers... I attended the University of California, and majored in both English Literature and Biological Sciences, so there goes THAT babbling argument of yours. I think you'll be more successful if you just stick with cars as to your babbling. Your comments and some by others here well represent what I wrote and that is that often it is a case of individual human troubled pscyhology that lends to attraction to certain militant factions. You get hateful individual upset using greater issues, expressing hate that originates in a troubled person's mind moreso than in that with which they affiliate. But, case closed, I like Rusty's site and Rusty but the site. I agree with Rusty that Google edits search and content results. I agree that it's non productive after a point to attempt to continue to participate here. Improbulus, Carlos and Howie, you are very troubled people.

Posted by: -S- at May 03, 2005 03:29 PM (nK9xP)

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