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http://pandagon.net/2007/05/05/cbscom-has-to-shut-comments-down-on-obama-stories/

Sun, 06 May 2007 02:20:06 -0700

CBS shuts down comments on Obama stories as people can't keep their racist remarks to themselves.

Gen. Wesley Clark Weighs Presidential Bid: &I Think About It Everyday&

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:21:10 -0700

General Wesley Clark:
"I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."

So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"

The Loom : Evolving Robotspeak

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:26:17 -0800

Robot evolution!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A640207

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:24:21 -0800

Sesquipedalian Obscurantism

| Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:02:59 -0800

Zombies speak netspeak. Who knew?

Neil Gaimans Journal: the last last word

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:41:32 -0800

Libraries

Blind Liberty | AfterDowningStreet.org

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:47:13 -0800

Impeachment by the People | The Progressive

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:45:25 -0800

"The story of the American Revolution is usually built around Lexington and Concord, around the battles and the Founding Fathers. What is forgotten is that the American colonists, unable to count on redress of their grievances from the official bodies of government, took matters into their own hands, even before the first battles of the Revolutionary War."

Nation &World | Womens Day a distant dream | Seattle Times Newspaper

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:30:07 -0800

"KABUL, Afghanistan -- Qamar laughed bitterly at the idea of International Women's Day, as if it were a cruel joke.

As a woman encouraged by relatives to marry her stalker -- who was 20 years her senior, had three other wives and now beats her regularly -- Qamar found it preposterous that anyone would ever celebrate her existence.

"No one will bring me flowers. My husband won't even bring me a stone," Qamar, 45, said with a cynical smile as she recounted her woes. "March 8th is for foreigners because they have good lives. I don't know anything about March 8th."

What Dolls Can Tell Us About Race in America - ABC News

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:20:00 -0800

Really sad.