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OK - time to stir things up - right wingers vs lefties - let's see what trouble I can cause. Things have been pretty boring lately.
I found this really interesting site on the net: http://www.nationalprioriti...
It provides a continuous, running estimate of the money being...
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I hate being wrong. Worse than that I hate admitting I was wrong, but I am not above doing so. SO..I was wrong. It pains me even to pen the words. I had to practice..do a few rough drafts, check the spelling. I have yet to say it aloud, but I know that, at some point, I will have to do it.
I...
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Others will better dissect the politics of this mess, with greater intelligence and whit than I will. I have already written about the disservice we do to our returning vets in regards to mental health care~ in fact our disservice to all vets. What more can I say? What can I do to make...
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It Works
I've been hanging up clothes for 35 years. My mother showed me how to do it before that.
Whether you are trying to prevent "war for oil", save some money, lessen air pollution, make your clothes seem fresher, or reduce your carbon footprint; drying your clothes on the...
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The Surge in Iraq: One Year Later
by Lt. Gen. Raymond T Odierno
Heritage Lecture #1068
I returned from Iraq a little over two weeks ago, and trust me, it's great to be in Washington and in your company today. After...
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The media sure has a way of ruining things. Have you ever noticed? I read a story this morning about how Prince Harry's being in the army caused the other soldiers to be more at risk than they otherwise would have been. What a load of crap! What would have caused a...
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www.snopes.com , the urban legend buster, describes this as containing "degrees of truthfulness" and also, of course, subjectivity. Listed also are two other sites (one called "Crossbearer," which certainly suggests a subjective perspective) that it says one can go to to...
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I have had it with the psychos in our country. Why is it that cities like San Francisco and Berkeley harbor so much hatred towards the great principles of our country?! Maybe it is our fault for voting for those who don't effectively support our American principles. When cities...
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One of my favorite WW2 movies is The Train, with Burt Lancaster and Jeanne Moreau from 1964. The private art loot of a Nazi Col. being moved out of France on trains and the citizens who stop it from happening~ more for the hate of the Nazi’s than the love of art and antiquities....
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Bakersfield's biggest gang problems come from those enforcing the law.... There were no East side crips in the 70s WHO MADE THESE BOUNDARIES???.THESES GROUPS OF PEOPLE WERE NOT CREATED BY THEIR SELVES, ...this is a small town easily provoked in to rebelling!! they make laws it seems...
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When will religious people get it in their head that what others believe has nothing to do with them? NOBODY knows for sure what is on the other side of death, but most if religions want to continue to force their beliefs on others that believe different. History has shown us that if...
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So aside from whether or not there is even a war in Iraq or whether it's an occupation, aside from partisanship, I have a very simple question for the blogging community:
If someone said we could gain peace in Iraq and have democracy and flowers and ponies for everyone, what would you be...
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postings below from expat g.t., hugely creative not just musically, but (i didn't know this) with political thought. don't throw the baby out with the bathwater on this one -- g.t. (i mean, joe green) gives us some good fat to chew on here. too bad he went and moved to brussels, but i...
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Over the summer, we posed this question to the community — and specifically asked several parents of soldiers serving in Iraq.
We received a ton of responses at the Your Words site: http://people.bakersfield.c...
On Sunday, The Bakersfield Californian will print...
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I've been hearing a little bit of buzz regarding a speech Newt Gingrich gave this past week in which he said, "We are engaged in a phony war". When this quote is put into context it makes a little bit more sense so I have posted a link where you can view some of his...
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How many times should the United States initial peace talks with leaders of the Middle East? Is it a waste of time? Hasn't it always been the same old story: One step forward, and two steps back? Given the intensity of hostilities between enemies, is peace even possible? ...
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Some friends of mine just posted this video on YouTube. Its a good rendition of Lennon's "War is Over-if you want it"
From their website:
It's Springtime, a new birth. Music video presented by JTMP.ORG and performed by Op-Critical featuring the Harmonic Angels. Imagine Peace!...
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http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Watching the Today show as I do most mornings, the news after four years, with too many lives lost, so many more changed beyond recognition, seems bleak and hopeless. Then the familiar chords of breaking news interrupted the mornings flow. My heart sunk to my chest, my body immediately entering...
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It seems that the insurgency is alive, well and growing in Afghanistan, just as I have been saying it was and would all along. While the anti-war and anti-Bush crowd have been distracted by all the crap in Iraq, they have(again as I said they would)lost focus on the war on terror and now it's...
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Clark and Soltz of VoteVets.org have created a YouTube Video about their new website: StopIranWar.com
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Polls..Have you ever seen one? I don't mean the results, I mean the poll itself? I have. They go something like this..
Do you approve of the war in Iraq? Y or N
Do you approve of the way the president is handling the war in Iraq? Y or N
Do you think we should committ more troops to the war...
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this is certainly interesting...
Which U.S. presidents of the past 50 years will be remembered as best and worst? Two opinions are presented below.
Ratings: 4= A; 3=B; C=2; D=1; 0=F
Abbreviations: JFK= kennedy; LBJ= johnson; RN=nixon; GF=ford; JC=carter; RR=reagan; GB=bush the elder;...
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I read an article today on the "orgy of commercialism" surrounding Christmas and how Harriet Beecher Stowe had written a simialr pice 150 years ago. The fact that this madness we call the Christmas Season has been going on for, according to the article, 250 years, is not news to me....
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Very interesting interactive map of the world and the wars engaged in by the U.S. It will tell you which party or President was engaged in the deadliest conflicts and a plethora of other facts. Check it out here.
You might or might not be surprised at which party is the most prolific in terms...
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this is rough but important stuff... will someone please follow up by posting happy thanksgiving bunnies or something? does give one pause, i think... there is a lot of work ahead to overcome so many of these things WSB says we should give thanks for...
http://www.youtube.com/v/C7...
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I read today about Iraqi police forces torturing and killing detainees. Hmmm..It wasn't us, and I guarantee you, they didn't just learn how to mutilate and kill each other since 2003. These people have been doing this since the first two muslims looked over a dune at each other and it won't...
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Many extreme liberals love to equate the war in Iraq to the war in Vietnam. When they do ask them if they support the troops. Most of them (unless they have a death wish by the rest of America) will say they do. A common mistake among conservatives is to ask how they support...
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This writeup in WaPo continues a story I saw last night on Countdown. The soldiers are making use of a legal protection afforded by the Military Whistle-Blower Protection Act, which provides that members of the military, acting in their capacity as citizens, can send a protected communication to...
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After Pat's Birthday
By Kevin Tillman
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
Editor's note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005,...
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This is my reasoning for why none of these conflicts work. I am sure people will be able to "shoot" holes in my argument, but that matters not.
The "bad guys" for want of a better term, do not fight a traditional war. This fact was painfully obvious in Vietnam.
You can...
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