The Jawa Report needs your help. Please go to HERE NOW and vote for Vince Aut Morire. You can vote once a day, so go back tomorrow.

I can't believe that other guy, who PUBLICLY delinked The Jawa, is winning! Here's a guy who claims to be classy and yet does the most unclassy thing a blogger can do. If you're going to take someone off your blogroll you should do so quietly.

I don't care if The Jawa wins our category because, frankly, I don't think we are the best conservative blog out there. However, I DO CARE if he wins. Besides, Vince Aut Morire is written by our own Mad Dog Vinnie! And I swear to Muhammed and his 72 virgins that if he wins then I will forever quit blogging!*

YIPES! from Vinnie Thank you Rusty, and thanks to all of you voting. However, Armies of Liberation (Jane) and Interested Participant (Mike Pechar) both post here as well, and our combined votes give the Jawa Report a comfortable lead.

So, in the interests of fairness, I will ask that you also vote for that other, classy blogger, in this category. Yanno, just to give 'em a fightin' chance.

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I had never heard of Blogniscient until I noticed a lot of referrals coming from them a couple of weeks ago. From time to time we at The Jawa Report do actual first-hand 'news', and these posts (or are they 'articles' when they're 'news'?) generate a lot of links. Unfortunately, most of the 'news' we bring is bad, and, unfortunately, in the last week or so there has been a lot of bad news of the kind we primarily cover.

So, it wasn't surprising to see that Blogniscient ranked several of our posts in the last few weeks as their 'Top Blog Article'. After all, we've had that distinction over at NZ Bear's TTLB dozens of times.

But 'Top Blog'? That's a stretch, isn't it? Well, not according to Blogniscient which ranks The Jawa Report 4th on their 'Top Blog' page. Only left-of-center blogs are ranked higher. And if you look at their 'Top Conservative Blogs' page you see something fascinating if not completely and utterly wrong: The Jawa Report is ranked the #1 conservative blog!! more...

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Left these out of my earlier post. My bad.

The Cotillion, for Best Group Blog (all female, all group, trust me, vote for them, they love you long time. They should consider changing the name to Hot Lesbo Star Wars Chicks though. Oh wait, that's taken)

And, defeating my own purpose, I'll be throwing a vote (when my 24 hours are up) to fellow Jawa Interested Participant.

Come to think of it, isn't it time we nominated the good Mr. Pechar for a munu blog?

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Despite rumors, started by Hugh Hewitt, of being picked in the fourth round by ABC News, Rusty Shackleford has opted to sit out a year and then enter the MSM as a free-agent. Fourth round? Who do you think I am, Wonkette!?!?!

See-Dub offers some more suggestions here.

Speaking of bloggy goodness, John Hawkins of Right Wing News has the annual warbloggers awards up. I'm pretty dissappointed at not being named 'Most Annoying Right-of-Center Blogger'. Personally, I think Andrew Sullivan is less annoying than he is predictable and trite. But that's just me.

Ever want to know what Rusty Shackleford looks like? The Commissar has made a RINO map with yours truly prominently featured as the left leg. And yes, I can occasionally tell my left from my right.

Confederate Yankee pimps the world's largest gun-porn.

The Autonomist has more on that jackarse John Murtha (D-France).

Last, Glenn Greenwald, of Unclaimed Territory, on Oliver Willis and Kevin Drum crying racist.

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First off, here's the graphic for Rusty to put in the sidebar, if he's so inclined:

And now, Vinnie's voting guide to the 2005 Weblog Awards:

The Jawa Report for Best Conservative Blog (duh!)

Vince Aut Morire for Best of the 501-1000 Ecosystem Rankings (double duh! and may I note that before I moved to mu.nu, I WAS in the 200's)

Armies of Liberation, also for Best of the 501-1000 Ecosystem Rankings. (I admire Jane's work so much, I'll be voting for her too)

Merri Musings for Best New Blog (triple duh! She's my wife, if I don't vote for her, I ain't gettin' any)

My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy for Best of the Top 250 Ecosystem Rankings (unfortunately, Wizbang turned down my request for Best Link Pimp)

Six Meat Buffet for Best Humor/Comics Blog (bastard)

The Llamabutchers for Best Culture/Gossip Blog (huh? Since when did they get culture?)

Michael Yon for Best Media/Journalist Blog (no comment necessary)

Iraq the Model for Best Middle Eastern/Africa Blog

Free Thoughts for Best European Non UK Blog

Those are my hard votes. Nothing or no one will dissuade me from them.

The rest of the finalists, however, are more than welcome to suck up to me either in the comments or at vinceautmorire@gmail.com.

Good luck and let the (friendly!) blog wars begin!

One last thing. Two extremely good blogs did not make it into the finalists. You should be reading them anyway.

Clarity And Resolve

Something...and Half of Something

(sooper sekrit note to Rusty, yes, this is a shameless blogroll request for these two. You owe me for the award I gave you last year. Heh.)

(ps to the sooper sekrit note. Da Wife would like to be there too, which is to your advantage. I have cleavage pics to trade)

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It seems this guy here(don’t bother)Well he seems to think he’s on to a trend and uses Howie here as an example of a person who expresses a “highly unfavorable negative opinion” of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Ok I admit it I have a highly unfavorable negative opinion of terrorists. I especially harbor a highly unfavorable negative opinion of those who’s highly unfavorable negative opinion of me is so strong they want to blow me up or saw off my head. So in order to lift myself out the category of those who use highly unfavorable negative opinion speech I submit the following to his little word counter bot. more...

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Scott Baio's #1 fan and blog-son of The Jawa Report, Filthy Allah, finally makes the big Time. No, I mean that literally. He got a mention in Time magazine. And this actually made it to their print version. Yeah, I thought they had standards too. Apparently not!

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I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 and although I try to keep personal stuff out of this blog, can I just say how much I love Firefox. The Jawa Report looks so sweet with Firefox 1.5. That little glitch which doesn't allow IE users to copy and paste text from The Jawa Report is fixed in Firefox 1.5. Even writing this post seems like a better experience. And it is soooo much faster than my IE browser ever was!

And the best part? This little Jawa logo that the good folks at Mozilla have somehow managed to add to The Jawa Report url field:

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1 Dude, it doesn't take much to please you. Firefox didn't put that little icon there. Your webmaster did. Firefox just allows it to be displayed. IE will too if it's coded right in the head of your HTML.

Posted by: Oyster at November 30, 2005 03:16 PM (fl6E1)

2 Really? Cool. I didn't know that.

Posted by: Rusty at November 30, 2005 03:17 PM (JQjhA)

3 Konqueror is my browser of choice, it has a lot of the features that Firefox has, plus a whole lot more: 1. on the fly disabling/enabling of Java/Javascript/cookies via click on the toolbar, or a global per domain ACL of the above. 2. icon on toolbar allows me to change browser string, or I can configure it to do it on only certain sites (e.g sites that insist you use IE) 3. w3 tools (via konqplugins) ! 4. enable/disable caching using toolbar icon. 5. Tabs configured to have a close button, or favicon, can arrange tabs with Ctrl and configure to open new tab after current window or before. etc 6. Autorefresh, can select from toolbar menu to refresh page in 1/2/3/4/5/ minutes etc. good for webmail. 7. Speaking Plugin: sounds like a cross between Alf, and Robby the robot but speaks webpage! pretty small footprint in ram too, which is one of the reasons I do not use Mozilla, its quite a memory hog.

Posted by: dave at November 30, 2005 03:25 PM (CcXvt)

4 You what on the what?

Posted by: Rusty at November 30, 2005 03:31 PM (JQjhA)

5 One thing to remember about Firefox is that every so often it will spontaneously download and install the latest version, and if you don't have your bookmarks backed up, it will wipe them, and months of links to the best interracial tranny midget horse pr0n will be lost. Or so I've heard...

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 30, 2005 03:46 PM (0yYS2)

6 I also forgot the fact that it will store each of my bookmarks with the favicon (like the cool little jawa) which makes it really easy to visually go through the bookmarks to see what I want to select. It also has a built in "link checker" that goes through my bookmarks and shows me when the last time a page was updated, or if it's a 404 and needs deleting etc.

Posted by: dave at November 30, 2005 03:48 PM (CcXvt)

7 Welcome to my world Rusty.

Posted by: Chris Short at November 30, 2005 04:01 PM (0OCQY)

8 Been using Firefox for a while now, much better than IE.

Posted by: MathewK at November 30, 2005 04:02 PM (pVHqF)

9 I can see we'll have a lively discussion here on the merits of each browser - except Rusty. ;-)

Posted by: Oyster at November 30, 2005 04:53 PM (YudAC)

10 Admiral Rusty, Seven times we have come to you, olive branch in hand, only to be rebuffed and to meet you on the field of battle. We come now before you, the eighth time. If you rebuff us again you might consider the following: The life of an insur-gent is cheap by your standards. American lives have much more value, even to an insur-gent. You have your high tech gadgets and we, our toys. But we are willing to die by the millions if necessary. 5 digits and you're out. So it's a situation of bidirectional asymmetry. Ultimately, you will feel the weight of our penal code if you persist in your ways. We bring the convicted to the main square, in a cage. The children and elderly then pelt the convict repeatedly with water balloons. Kids, huh, huh. Sometimes they fill the balloons up with urine. The women stay home. They have seen it before and have better things to do. The men look on, smoking their pipes and taking in the scene. They remark on the athletic skills of little Billy or Bobby. We are a peaceful people but we will take up the balloon if provoked. We offer the following suggestions: 1). Come up with a clear set of rules. Define the limits of discourse. Delineate acts that are grounds for banishment. (Might we suggest that Posing should be one such act.) 2) Enforce the rules even-handedly. We will think you just and you will have our blessings.

Posted by: Insur-gent at November 30, 2005 05:12 PM (KzOsW)

11 this is his site faggot he doesn't have to do one thing you suggest, if he does not like you he can moderate you, ban you or whatever he feels fit. if you don't like how he runs his site feel free to go elsewhere. You would be better over in the echo chamber of dailykos anyway, where you could feel free to don your tinfoil hat and talk about the j00o0s and 9/11 and whatever nutcase conspiracy theories you all have.

Posted by: dave at November 30, 2005 05:22 PM (CcXvt)

12 If we're taking a vote, off with his head, I say. I assure you, the "olive branch" has thorns. He has no honor.

Posted by: Oyster at November 30, 2005 05:29 PM (YudAC)

13 Greg is nothing but a troll, and should have a lifetime ban imposed on him.

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 30, 2005 05:40 PM (rUyw4)

14 So now I can copy and paste from Jawa and pretend it came from me? I wondered why I couldn't do that before. Schweet! PS Thank you for the nomination of honorable mention for my Cindy Sheeman caption. It's an honor. *tears of joy* Did I win any cash or something cause I've been waiting to hear back?

Posted by: thirdee at November 30, 2005 05:44 PM (WE00T)

15 Thirdee: "Sheeman"? Did you do that on purpose? Because it's pretty funny.

Posted by: Oyster at November 30, 2005 05:49 PM (YudAC)

16 Gregorio, Dude, what is your fascination with my blog? We enjoyed having you around for awhile, but you have overstayed your welcome. Your childish antics were annoying but your comment spam is abusive. I have unbanned you in the past, but your present abusive behavior is too much.

Posted by: Rusty at November 30, 2005 07:40 PM (JQjhA)

17 Give me all the info you have on him Rusty, I'm gonna make a road trip to Vegas next year, and I could swing by his way to personally limit his internet usage capabilities.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 30, 2005 08:01 PM (0yYS2)

18 Rustito, There are too many lies to discredit. The 9-11 truth movement was recently bolstered by a paper in press, authored by Dr. Jones of BYU. http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html He has a testable hypothesis that explosives, such as thermite or RDX, were pre-positioned in WTC1, 2 and 7, thus, bringing them down on 9-11. He actually proves the hypothesis in the course of his paper. The official version of 9-11 is a lie. Americans must understand the nature of the beast that governs them.

Posted by: Insur-gent at November 30, 2005 08:43 PM (KzOsW)

19 Hmmm...could have sworn this was a comment area on the browser topic...Or did I miss the sign that said "Idiot Libs with no balls to comment in other posts for fear of getting ripped a new one post here" sign?... The site looks great in SAFARi as well Rus !

Posted by: Tarheel at November 30, 2005 09:13 PM (GYxT8)

20 I get all of that with Safari...

Posted by: Ariya at November 30, 2005 10:10 PM (noCGr)

21 Ariya: Of course you do, and here's why: In kicking off the Macworld Expo keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a new Macintosh web browser named Safari. Jobs said the browser was "based on standards", "works with any Web site", has much-improved performance over IE (page-loading speed is "three times faster", JavaScript performs twice as fast and it launches "40% faster" - comparisons to Netscape 7.0 shows similar performance gains on the Macintosh platform). The KDE connection: "[f]or its Web page rendering engine, Safari draws on software from the Konqueror open source project. Weighing in at less than one tenth the size of another open source renderer, Konqueror helps Safari stay lean and responsive." The good news for Konqueror: Apple, which said that it will be "a good open source citizen [and] share[] its enhancements with the Konqueror open source community"

Posted by: dave at November 30, 2005 10:31 PM (CcXvt)

22 The 9-11 truth movement was recently bolstered by a paper in press, authored by Dr. Jones of BYU. Yes Greg, along with his paper about Jesus being in North America? http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/jones/rel491/handstext and figures.htm Im guessing that means it happened to right? because the illustrious Dr. Jones "bolstered" the theory by writing a paper on it. damn you're a moron.

Posted by: dave at November 30, 2005 10:38 PM (CcXvt)

23 Well, at least greg finally gave himself a befitting name.

Posted by: Oyster at December 01, 2005 08:41 AM (fl6E1)

24 McGovern attacks the press. More importantly, he goes further than any high ranking government official has gone before on 9-11, and on identifying the real criminals behind our money system and our government. Note: This audio interview was not available live on the 29th due to "problems with the computers", so it was rebroadcast on the 30th, but again "problems" occurred. And it is not available on the GCN archives as of the 30th! Could it be that some group is worrying that too much serious information is making it to the public? Please download and post these audio files! http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviewsMcGovern.html

Posted by: Insur-gent at December 01, 2005 12:52 PM (KzOsW)

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Although I'm not sure what this 'Christmas' thing every one seems to be supporting these days, I have always been a big fan of X-mas. Except for that killer robot Santa. Anyway, I'll axe all of you to sign the petition to save X-mas.

I, for one, welcome our new Messiah overlord in Iran.

Osama bin Laden is dead. I know becaue Harry Reid told me.

I've been following the case of Joel Henry Hinrichs closely and have read all of the documents released from the FBI which Michelle Malkin has archived. Although I agree with Michelle and Jason that the MSM reaction to Hinrichs was baffling, to say the least, given the context of a hot war against Islamist extremists, I find that the documents are exculpatory rather than damning. In fact, given the large number of e-mails read by the FBI in Hinrich's Yahoo account, you would expect that if a larger Islamist plot existed that it would be in these e-mails that such a plot would be revealed. The FBI--at least in its public statements--have found no such evidence. Further, the documents reveal that Hinrichs Muslim room mate cooperated with the FBI and allowed them to search his room. So, in my opinion: case closed.

Happy Birthday Winston Churchill

Saddam's top prison complaints include: "The rape rooms in this prison are way different, and far less enjoyable, than the ones I used to run."

A new pro-Iraqi democracy blog written by Nibras Kazimi. Cool.

Need I remind you that failure is not an option in Iraq?

The Man has evidence of photoshopping by Moveon.org to cover up their ignorance of the American military. Personally I'm glad they replaced those gay British shorts with some American pants.

Fwance imploding.

New Orleans to become largest free-porn city in America in effort to attract residents to move back in.

Bill Moyers believes that it is a myth to call the media 'liberal' since, you know, focusing reporting on how the government ought to spend more on welfare programs is just 'good reporting'. (hat tip: Joe Goat)

Rusty Shackleford is hoping to displace his Imperial Highness as Most Annoying Right-Of-Center Blogger. So any blogger involved in this year's RWN poll, please remember just how annoying I have been this year.

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Yeah I reckon I had best rant about something. So first of all my dog who is black as coal but won’t leave me alone since I put that deer in the freezer. He says he wants a deersicle. Bad dog, daddy’s deer meat, go lay down!! Then we have old DUKE who is not a dog but forgot who his master is. Really DUKE who did you work for? Can’t say much for the way the system is running right now look what it did for old DUKE. I pretty much figure that about 534 others need to take a look at this. I can understand the salary that “we the people” pay you pales in comparison to the real money in politics. That might lead to a little confusion about who you are working for, so let me remind you. It’s the people who you represented dipshit. Nothing pisses me off like scraping around all year for nickels and dimes only to see this crap. And it’s not just one side of the isle. People like Jackass Abramof lobby both sides. Maybe the people should put a boot up both sides ass to you know kind of remind them. It’s hard to forget who you are working for when he has a size 13 shoe up your rectum. Speaking of rectum, DUKE a word of advice I hope you saved back a few bucks for rectum protection. So look at what greed has done in this case. Taken a fine man and 8 term congressman and made him into a slave to the money and left the people holding the bill.

So while IÂ’m all pissed and stuff we have another big giant rectum out there somewhere hacking Grey EagleÂ’s site. Mr. Right emails again today that Anna, his co-blogger (see got that right this time), is calling our attention to Grey Eagles plight again. So another size 13 boot should be fit snugly in some hack bastardÂ’s sphincter.

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I promised myself I'd lay off the blogging for the long weekend and to celebrate my Sainted Mother's birthday today, but I got a message from Dave at Garfield Ridge about a blogger in need.

Jennifer, of Demure Thoughts, has a sick little girl and could use some donations. Please donate via pay pal if help if you can.

I figure this is ironic justice since I had been joking all week about voluntarily getting my gall bladder removed so that my body wouldn't absorb any more fat calories. It seemed funny at the time when directed at a colleague who couldn't eat my wife's pecan pie. Karmic justice is life's little bitch.

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What fraternity does Rusty Shackleford advise at the University of Texas, Arlen? Why Alpha Kappa Qaeda, of course! Trust me, click the link. It's that funny.

Thanks to Ghost of a Flea for sending the link.

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Happy Blogoversary to the second best blog written by fictional characters out ther--The Llama Butchers.

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Okay, so Instapundit has cornered the market on referral posts. I'm not Glenn Reynolds, but I do play one on T.V.

Project Hero: 1LT Brian R. Chontosh receives Navy Cross. God bless our heroes serving in Iraq.

Don't question Murtha's patriotism! Ever. Any one who would question Murtha's patriotism cannot be, by definition, a patriot. More Murtha lunacy here. Fellow Jawa blogger, Chris Short, discusses last Friday's vote.

Plame-gate continues. Am I the only one that finds this 'story' a little boring.

Why Republicans are such pussies when it comes to fighting illegal immigration.

Me on a deck of cards? Awesome-o! Vote for Jawa!!!

Help Meryl Yourish find a job. No, 'professional blogger' is still not a 'job'.

Decision '08 turns numero uno. And to think I knew Mark when he was just a twinkle in Glenn Reynold's eye.

Judicial tyranny in....wait for it...Israel. Apparently the repurcussions of Marbury v. Madison know no boundaries.

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Howie does requests so here we go with this one from Mr. Right vacation be damned.

I apologize for the mass e-mailing, but this is just too disgusting for words!

My co-blogger at The Right Place, Anna (also of A Rose by Any Other Name, ), has twice written about the plight of a small MilBlog run by Grey Eagle. First, Anna asked people to drop by and post some encouraging words after she noticed some very rude and disgusting comments being left there by leftwing trolls.

I thought that was the end of it, but Anna has just recently posted again about Grey Eagle's blog after she visited once more and saw the newest post Grey Eagle had at the top.

I couldn't find a permalink at Grey Eagle's site, A Female Soldier 2, but as of my writing this, it was still the top post.

I can certainly understand that. Seems some trolls just don’t know when to quit. I seem to remember one calling the queen of England a fat beotch on a London bombing thread. So I can see how it gets to a person. So blog on Anna and you know to troll an “Honor the Dead Thread” just plain sucks. So I hope Anna keeps it up. Mr. Right sent me a copy of the post and I’ll post it in the extended entry but really surf over there and show your support for Anna.

Update: Me Screw up duh

Thanks for the links, Howie!

Just to clear things up a bit, Anna is my co-blogger and was writing ABOUT a MilBlogger named Grey Eagle who runs A Female Soldier 2, which is the blog that has been under assault.

It is Grey Eagle who needs the words of support and encouragement, not Anna.

Sorry for any confusion my letter may have caused.

Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. I was in a hurry on dialup and I sucked. But I'm used to that so Support both bloggers and Mr Right. I now return myself to my regularly scheduled vacation.

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For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes.

Rusty returns to blogging?

I decide to throw up a post here?

We post one minute apart?

The 2005 Weblog Awards nominations?

Coincidence, sheer coincidence I tell you

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OSMTM (Open Source Media), a new online venture designed to bring together top online writers, journalists and commentators under a single umbrella, officially debuts today at a New York City launch event that features a discussion on the future of blogging and journalism, details on the company's content and the official launch of the new portal to the best of the blogosphere.

The Jawa Report is one of 70 top blogs now a part of Open Source Media.

Today's launch event will include comments by Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds and Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Judith Miller, who will discuss the "Shield Law" bill currently before Congress and broader issues facing bloggers and journalists alike.

The launch will be broadcast live at 10:00 a.m. (ET) and can be heard via Windows Media here or via Real Audio here.

Other speakers will include David Corn (The Nation), Larry Kudlow (CNBC's "Kudlow & Company"), John Podhoretz (The New York Post) and Claudia Rosett (contributor to The Wall Street Journal), all of whom are noted bloggers and members of the Open Source Media Editorial Board, plus an appearance via audiocast by the noted Baghdad bloggers Iraq the Model.

Founded last year under the Pajamas Media name, OSM has been one of 2005's most widely-discussed new blogging developments, due both to the scope of its vision and the support it's drawn from respected mainstream media journalists and bloggers.

Today, Open Source Media will detail its plan to become the new meeting ground for thoughtful opinion and news online, and a unique home for the growing movement of citizen journalism that will include important webloggers from across the world with mainstream media journalists sympathetic to its goals.

"Our most important goal is openness via the free and respectful exchange of ideas expressed through citizen journalists, coupled with a dedication to honesty and the truth," said co-founder, noted screenwriter and blogger Roger L. Simon. "When we talk about citizen journalism, we mean journalism not created by elites, as in the 'top-down' traditional media, but from the 'bottom-up,' by citizens using their observations and knowledge, informed by a desire to speak honestly. Citizen journalism at its best means the pursuit of the truth above all things, above partisanship or the financial interests of the medium publishing it."

Today's announcement comes as the blogosphere maintains staggering growth. According to a January 2005 report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, blog readership increased by nearly 60 percent in 2004 to approximately 27 percent of all Internet users. More recently, analysis by the Newspaper Association of America found that the average weekday circulation of U.S. newspapers is continuing to decline, falling 2.6 per cent over the six month-period ending in September 2005. But, while cognizant of these trends, Open Source Media's vision remains one of evolution and cooperation.

Open Source Media currently features content from more than 70 bloggers worldwide, primarily focused on political and current events. However, the goal is to expand its scope to eventually include all forms of coverage, from local news to pop culture to sports, fashion, food, hobbies and more. Advising the company and its bloggers is an Open Source Media Editorial Board that includes Reynolds, Corn, Kudlow, Rosett, Michael Barone and 10 other noted journalists and bloggers announced on October 17.

Today's event will take place at The Rainbow Room, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be audiocast live beginning at 10 a.m.

BEGINNING AT 10:00 AM EASTERN: STREAM LIVE AUDIO WITH WINDOWS MEDIA OR REAL MEDIA

Compiled from OSMTM and other sources.

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Yesterday afternoon here at the office we were all told to go down to the lowest level and hang in the hall. Sirens had been going off for a bit. It was pretty much like your school drill except for the storm had already passed and it was not a drill. So while we had fun hiding in the hall and talking several tornaders did occur. LetÂ’s see we have Cannellburgh IN, Davies Co In, Gibson Co KY, Hopkins Co KY. Homes destroyed phone and power interrupted. Heck it even got the Kangaroo Express in Cannellburgh. My son explained it to me this way. You got your hot air here and your cold air here and boom it just explodes like a volcano. So at least these were during the day. Lake Gitche Gumee ainÂ’t the only place the Gales of November are a problem.

Here are your White Trash Wednesday bloggers

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Carnival of Liberty XX is up at Ericgrumbles.

Also see the latest Jihadi matchmakers here at Vonski.

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1 Just heard that the latest news from Iraq is that some Iraqis claim that US soldiers forced them into cages with lions. Yep! That's what we do. General order number 14. A Marine must haul a pen of lions with him to torture prisoners. Worst part of this fairy tale is that idiots like Greg the traitor and Downing Street Moron will swear it true.

Posted by: greyrooster at November 15, 2005 01:33 PM (ZaAd/)

2 Lions in Iraq. A lady down the road had one a big male about 800 lbs. They had seval big cats. It's paws were as big as a plate. It played with her husband one day till he was dead. No it liked him he was just so fragile. My advice don't screw with lions.

Posted by: Howie at November 15, 2005 01:46 PM (D3+20)

3 Did anyone notice how ugly that bitch was that failed to blow herself up in Jordan? No wonder the husband was keen to get his 72 raisins. I think the principal behind jihadi dating is to hook up with an ugly arab bitch so that you are inspired to die.

Posted by: Jester at November 15, 2005 02:15 PM (JDzHB)

4 Good one, Jester. And I think that's what wrong with Greg, too. Haha!

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 15, 2005 02:20 PM (rUyw4)

5 And you know that thing with the goats that Allah advised his horny guys to try, well, I see why Allah offered that advice after looking at that old gal at Vonski. She would make a locomotive take a dirt road!

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 15, 2005 03:41 PM (rUyw4)

6 I am lion. Hear me roar!

Posted by: Ariya at November 15, 2005 03:52 PM (noCGr)

7 JJ, no doubt about it. I think these dames wear a burkha so they can trap a man...without one they would have no chance.

Posted by: Jester at November 15, 2005 04:35 PM (JDzHB)

8 Where in God's name would Marines find lions? I can't find them in the CAV or any service/supply catalog! They probably could get their hands on some Vietnamese potbellied pigs (plenty of those around)or even a German boar. Wow! Imagine a jihadist in a cage with 400 pounds of nasty angry wild German pork with an attitude!

Posted by: hondo at November 15, 2005 04:36 PM (Jvmry)

9 Wow! Imagine a jihadist in a cage with 400 pounds of nasty angry wild German pork with an attitude! Or in a cage with that gal from Vonski...I don't know which would be the better form of torture.

Posted by: Jester at November 15, 2005 04:44 PM (JDzHB)

10 I bet they order them on the flight over from skymall.

Posted by: Maureen at November 15, 2005 05:00 PM (ny5O/)

11 Now ya'll know that PETA and the SPCA would never allow those poor lions to be abused in such a manner. Please! The WWF would literally have a cow! Or perhaps a pig in this case.

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 15, 2005 05:14 PM (rUyw4)

12 At last something the greyrooster and the muslims agree with. Cover those hoes up or beat their butts.

Posted by: greyrooster at November 15, 2005 06:28 PM (ZaAd/)

13 Actually, arranging meetings between lions and jihadis sounds like a good plan to me. Imagine the fight that would erupt between PETA and all the other lib groups about which party has suffered more - the innocent, exploited lions or the "resistance fighters". Heck we might even be treated to a brawl between Pam Anderson and Ted Kennedy which should be somewhat entertaining on a slow night.

Posted by: Graeme at November 15, 2005 07:28 PM (r2qQp)

14 "The Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja." http://news.bbc. co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4440664.stm (TAKE OUT SPACES-"questionable content")

Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 15, 2005 08:32 PM (eYI8D)

15 Yes, yes, Greg, the Pentagon has never denied the use of white phosphorus. Good God, man, this story has been around for a week and all the ludicrous claims that WP is a chemical weapon have been debunked.

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 15, 2005 08:48 PM (rUyw4)

16 Who cares if they used white phosphorus or chemical weapons for that matter. Since when has fighting muslims had to be subject to rules...the muslims tore up the rules long ago and I'm sure they wouldn't mind a bit of "eye for an eye"...afterall it's in the koran.

Posted by: Jester at November 15, 2005 09:09 PM (JDzHB)

17 Hey dumbass, WP has been a standard in all nations' arsenals since WW2. It's used for target marking and incindiary purposes, and sometimes just to blow the hell out of people. It's totally standard you subwit fucktard.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 15, 2005 09:13 PM (0yYS2)

18 It wasn't public knowledge, in fact the military had DENIED using WP (see below). THECK OUT THESE COOL PICS http://www.urukn et.info/?p=m10211&l=i&size=1&hd=0 (TAKE OUT SPACE AFTER urukn) Don't it just make you want to wack off? "The US earlier denied it had been used in Falluja at all. Col Venable denied that the substance - which can cause burning of the flesh - constituted a banned chemical weapon. White phosphorus is an incendiary weapon, not a chemical weapon Col Barry Venable Pentagon spokesman US military interview Washington is not a signatory of an international treaty restricting the use of white phosphorus devices. Col Venable said a statement by the US state department that white phosphorus had not been used was based on "poor information". The BBC's defence correspondent Paul Wood says having to retract its denial has been a public relations disaster for the US military."

Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 15, 2005 09:57 PM (eYI8D)

19 The BBC is full of shit and everyone with a brain knows it. Damn, this story has been vetted numerous times. Go find some new propaganda, Greg, we ain't buying this load of manure.

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 15, 2005 10:21 PM (rUyw4)

20 Joe, The story hasn't been vetted. The State Dept. has made a RETRACTION on the part of the military that formerly was claiming that no WP was ever used in Fallujah. Can we at least agree on one thing? GO HORNS, GO COWBOYS!

Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 15, 2005 10:30 PM (eYI8D)

21 Yep!

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 15, 2005 11:24 PM (rUyw4)

22 goggle col venable - waded thru 1st 10 pages and gave up - couldn't find ghost's Venable material. goggle Paul Wood BBC - waded thru first 5 pages - found numerous pages (from the Left no less) attacking him for failure to support and document their claims. uruknet ????? - an outspoken pro-Saddam, pro-insurgent, pro-anything anti-American site of the ultra-left based in Italy. Young wannabe new-communists eager for the babble of revolutionary BS from the comforts of the Cafes. Oh, and very objective of course. They have off-shoots that sing the praises of lil' Kim and NK (that glorious paradise) and Slobadon and the boys from Serbia to name a few. Ghost and his kind are a joke - don't let them get to you or raise your blood pressure. for them a papercut in the service of their cause counts as their Red Badge Of Courage. They fantasize about storming the barricades and waving the red flag in victory ala les Miserables - as long as it is without risk or conflicts with their busy schedule like (Tues: release the lab rats - "Flee my lil' mammalian bothers! Flee! You are liberated! Ooooochhh! Who bit me!") De lions! De lions Ghost! Tell us about de lions!

Posted by: hondo at November 16, 2005 02:23 AM (Jvmry)

23 I looked at those pics when they first came out. Lot of missing limbs there. Didn't know WP could blow limbs off. And most of those corpses look more like they've been out drying in the sun for a while than WP victims. Then we see the corpses lined up next to a building and funny .... doesn't look like any of them were burned. I'm skeptical - very skeptical and I remain unconvinced. Feeling sorry for them greg? They're terrorists. Get that? It's them or our guys. I suppose greg would rather it was our guys. Greg thinks he can look at a picture and tell you what someone died of. Tell me, greg, where did you get your medical examiner's degree? uru knet (of ALL sites) tells him something and he swallows it, hook, line and sinker. He demands that we ask questions, be skeptical, yet never saw a conspiracy he didn't completely fall for. Yawn.

Posted by: Oyster at November 16, 2005 06:06 AM (YudAC)

24 BTW. On the subject at hand - eJihadi was funny as hell.

Posted by: Oyster at November 16, 2005 06:13 AM (YudAC)

25 I thought I'd be at a point where liberalist hypocrisy doesn't suprise me, but everytime I come across it, it makes my head spin. WP may cause burns. Really? That's a hell of a lot worse than conventional RDX which makes people mell like roses. And just to put it in perspective, is using WP really worse **than jihadis killing a kid and putting a bomb in the corpse just to target the parents** (feel free to insert any liberal approved jihadi attrocity here)? Oh and for the record, about the use of WP: It's got my approval.

Posted by: Graeme at November 16, 2005 06:45 AM (f5hNz)

26 Cool pics! Looks like it wasn't a good day for jihad.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 16, 2005 11:08 AM (0yYS2)

27 Oyster:"I looked at those pics when they first came out. Lot of missing limbs there." You lie, Oyster. Not one of the pics shows missing limbs. http://www.urukn et.info/?p=m10211&l=i&size=1&hd=0 (TAKE OUT SPACE AFTER urukn)

Posted by: menenzes' ghost at November 16, 2005 01:33 PM (eYI8D)

28 Okay, I lied. One has a missing limb. Sue me.

Posted by: Oyster at November 16, 2005 01:59 PM (fl6E1)

29 No missing limbs, but lots of crispy critters. I like my jihadi served up well-done, with a side of oh snap!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 16, 2005 02:20 PM (0yYS2)

30 So ghost isn't just a troll, but a stupid troll? What's it like going through life as a mental cripple, ghost? Since you still believe in magic, you'd better get out of here, or we'll put a hex on you.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at November 16, 2005 03:27 PM (n5eDP)

31 IM: number (I think ... the page won't load now) 404 04 f04 has a missing limb. Bone sticking out where an arm should be.

Posted by: Oyster at November 16, 2005 03:49 PM (fl6E1)

32 Ah, good call Oyster. I didn't look too closely the first time; I was too busy thinking HA! No jihad for you!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 16, 2005 07:27 PM (0yYS2)

33 Yes, Robert, greg, AKA ghost, is a certifiable idiot. He posts on a Yahoo group where they discuss the benefits of tinfoil hats against Jooooish mind control rays, and how it's a Jooooish conspiracy that none of them have ever lain with a woman, and all live in their mothers' basements, and deliver pizza for a living.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 16, 2005 07:30 PM (0yYS2)

34 IM: Ha, Ha, Ha. You win this one. Hands down.

Posted by: greyrooster at November 16, 2005 09:13 PM (ZaAd/)

35 What gets me is that every now and then greg will sound rather sane and patriotic, but then the spell passes and he's cheering for Osama again.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 17, 2005 11:23 AM (0yYS2)

36 Osama and little 8 year old boys. You forgot the little boys so favored by Greg the traitor.

Posted by: greyrooster at November 20, 2005 06:45 AM (ZaAd/)

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