From the people who brought you such acts of terrorism as Moscow Theater Massacre and Downing Two Russian Planes comes the long-awaited sequel to their recent blockbuster: Beslan II: American Bombing Bugaloo

U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.

Members of the group, said to be wearing backpacks, secretly traveled to northern Mexico and crossed into a mountainous part of Arizona that is difficult for U.S. border security agents to monitor, said officials speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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Christopher Reeve dead? No. He joins the ranks of Elvis, JFK, and Sasquatch in their banishment. His crime? Look, it's not so much that he was a smoothe criminal as the fact that he was a selfish prick who became a martyr, a hero, and a poster child for the Oprah-ization of America. You're next Michael J. Fox. Can I make another inappropriate observation here? I suspect that the amount of grief suffered by the average American citizen in learning that Reeve is dead is proportionately related to their probability of voting for John Kerry.

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The debate? Who the hell cares. I didn't watch it. The debates are unimportant. All they show is who is the best debator. We are not electing the Debator in Chief. The clips I saw showed John Kerry lying and trying to come off as a moderate when he's really an anti-death penalty, radical abortion supporting (he voted against partial birth), anti-military, maggot infested Yale version of a hippie. And yes, he is a great actor. He sure knows how to act like a moderate.

I have only seen one post on the debate, no time right now to get the blogosphere reaction. Let me just plug the one post I have seen. Professor Chaos introduces a first to the blogosphere: crackblogging. Drunkblogging is just so last year, and liveblogging? Fahget about it!

Go check out the post: Crackblogging the Debate

Much more important news than last night's non-event is that the Afhanistan elections are on and the Conservatives have won again in Australia. Way to go!

I'm going to spend the rest of the day with my family. I suggest you do the same.

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I just got finished watching Prince's newest video for Cinnamon Girl (via NEIN). You can view the video by clicking this link.

Let's just say you're not going to believe what the man who used to party like it was 1999 has to say about the GWOT. Some of you may already know that Prince gave up his little red Corvette to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses. That's cool. I respect a faith where extremism is limited to pacifism and the occasional refusal to give blood. You ever hear of an extremist Jehovah's Witness blowing people up? No. That's funny, I thought all religions were basically the same?

Anyway, with his new found insight into God Prince has produced a disgusting song with an equally disgusting video. The story line goes something like this:

Normal looking American girl, happens to be Arab. 9/11. Arab girl gets harassed by intolerant classmates. Arab family gets harassed by intolerant neighbors. Arab family demands Arab girl dress more like an Arab. Arab girl turns to Allah. Arab girl walks in through the out door. Arab girl gets harassed by Homeland Security at airport. Arab girl blows up self and everyone at airport up.

Moral of the story: Intolerant Americans to blame for cycle of violence.

And to think I once thought Prince was cool--not da bomb like the greatest band that ever was, you know, Morris Day and the Time--but cool nonetheless.

Allah has the photoshop, Malkin has the commentary.

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U.S. Marines Replaced by French Troops in Spain's Columbus Parade

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How did I miss the original Guardian piece? Thanks to reader JSmith for pointing this Jewish World Review article out. In the original article Margaret Drabble says:

"My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world. I can hardly bear to see the faces of Bush and Rumsfeld, or to watch their posturing body language, or to hear their self-satisfied and incoherent platitudes."

Drabble is right to compare her America-hatred to a disease. There is something sickly about the European approach to the world. There may even be something suicidal in it. Europeans excoriate America even as they stand on quicksand. In what Middle Eastern scholar and JWR columnist Daniel Pipes calls the biggest story of our time, Europe is disappearing.

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I just checked the latest live pic from Mount St. Helens. Either she's blowing her top again, or it's really-really foggy.

UPDATE: Ricky V. drops this comment: I found this at the bottom of the volcano cam picture...

Weather Note - October 06, 2004 at 9:00 am PDT - There is nothing wrong
with the above image. You are viewing rain and clouds at Mount St.
Helens right now as a weather front moves through the Pacific Northwest.

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Oh, the humanity.....the sheer and utter humanity of it all!!

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Took me awhile to get around to linking this. But Sparse Matrix has the goods.

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Remember the good old days when followers of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide terrorized their opponents with the more civilized lacing (that's where they put a tire around your neck and then light it on fire)? Yes, this is the same ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide that Clinton restored to power by invading Haiti--without going to the UN for authorization. CBC News:

Supporters of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide have begun to imitate the insurgency in Iraq, using machetes to decapitate officers in their clashes with police.

Seven police officers are among at least 18 killed in violence that broke out in the capital Port-au -Prince last week, said judicial police chief Michael Lucius. Another officer is in hospital with a gunshot wound to the head.

Three of the killed police officers were shot then decapitated during clashes last week with pro-Aristide demonstrators.

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Yesterday I ran with this story about the murder of Bangladeshi journalist Dipankar Chakrabarty. Since Bangladesh is a Muslim country, and beheading has long since been used as a form of punishment under Sharia law, I jumped to the conclusion that this was the work of radical Islamists. Jane points out that Rezwan of 3rd World View blogs from Bangladesh and notes that several other journalists in the area have been murdered by Marxist rebels. My bad. I'll have to add Commies to my list of suspects the next time another beheading video emerges.

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I just got back from class and checked the lates pic from the volcano cam in my earlier post. The pic in that post is updated every time the Forest Service updates refreshes the live cam pic. Pretty cool, eh? She's steaming again, and the Seattle Times reports "Mount St. Helens blew off a spectacular cloud of steam and ash this morning, the latest indication that a larger eruption may be in the works."

Other posts: Mount St. Helens Erupting
Mount St. Helens Erupting. Awesome, totally awesome!
Mount St. Helens Volcano May Erupt

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Financial Times:

North Korea has trained as many as 600 computer hackers to be capable of launching a cyber-war on South Korea, the US or Japan, South KoreaÂ’s defence ministry said on Monday....

North KoreaÂ’s military command has 500 to 600 hacking staff who have undertaken a five-year university programme, the report said. Their main task is to gather intelligence from - or launch a cyber attack on - the US, Japan and South Korea.

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I just got through reading John Kerry's 1971 book The New Soldier. You can download the whole thing for free in PDF at Free Kerry Book. The thing that struck me most wasn't all of the upside down American flags. No, it was the hair. The hippies in the photos have the most disgusting, lice infested, matted, hemp-smelling gross hair I've ever seen. Check out all the photos of John Kerry in the book and one theme emerges: he's always at least a foot away from from a potential lice infestation. One photo shows a fellow 'new soldier' saying something in JFK's ear, but if you look closely you will notice that this isn't one of the unbathed tools--no, the one guy Kerry gets close to appears to be a fellow blue-blooded Yalie, recently washed.

Now excuse me while I go wash my hands. I sort of got the heebie-jeebies from looking at all that stuff. Hat tip: Charles Johnson

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I went to Sweden once. Really. It was the middle of winter. We took the slow boat from Riga, Latvia, on Christmas day 1995. We then took a train from Stockholm up to some town in northern Sweden. Oh, the joy of spending Boxing Day at IKEA and eating $10 burgers in the land where the sun never rises!

So, on the way back to Stockholm, this time on a bus, we sit next to this lady. Young, maybe mid-thirties. She invited us to stay at her house rather than at the youth hostel we were booked in. Then she starts crying, literally, because the government was going to stop paying her workers compensation claim. What was her injury? I quote: "Working makes me nervous." We turned down her invite. That youth hostel was the best investment I ever made.

And in case you're wondering--four hours on the bus and every song was ABBA. Serious. It was on a loop. You ever hear ABBA in the original Swedish?

So to recap: Northern Sweden, in the dead of winter, on a student budget, ABBA in Swedish, and welfare moms.

Let's just say I didn't have the highest opinion of Sweden going into this post by Jeff (via Brian B.).

I might just add that Canada has a similar censorship law. It's the PC domino affect.

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Just like Anne Rice's novel, only not so gay. Dean Esmay scores an interview with a real-live Swiftie!

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Let me clarfy my thoughts on Islam just in case the Malaysian government is monitoring this site: Islam sucks. That is all.

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Information and links to live feed by clicking here. Duane is reporting another eruption happening during a USGS press conference. Below is a real time image of the volcano. Check for updated images by clicking 'refresh' or 'reload' on your browser. 12:24 CDT: I'm no expert, but that looks pretty big to me! 1:05 CDT: This was just a burp, as they say. But the eggheads are predicting a bigger one "within hours or days-- not weeks".

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AP:

A Singapore Airlines passenger jet bound for New York was diverted to Manchester Airport in northern England on Monday after a bomb threat, police said. The Frankfurt to New York flight landed safely at 11 a.m. without a military escort, Greater Manchester Police said.

The pilot of Singapore Airlines flight SQ26 declared a "full emergency" mid-flight, a spokesman for Manchester Airport said. The Boeing 747-400 was carrying 293 passengers and 19 crew.

"Early indications are that it could be a hoax but we cannot confirm that one way or another until full checks are carried out," a spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said.

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USGS now raises threat level to 'red'. Duane has the updates. My original post here.

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