tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88520202012-01-28T10:43:02.745-06:00A site dedicated to the patriots of Machias, Maine who captured the British warship, Margaretta, on June 12, 1775 armed only with muskets, axes and pitchforks. This was the first ship-to-ship combat of what was to become the U. S. Navy. This action has been described as the "Lexington of the Seas".MachiasPrivateerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08329017970188406153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852020.post-83032140849713965292012-01-10T09:04:00.003-06:002012-01-28T10:40:19.515-06:00

When we last discussed the Deepwater Horizon on The American Thinker, Halliburton Under the Microscope, there were some comments about how the blowout could not be Halliburton’s fault because BP used only 6 centralizers instead of the recommended 21 centralizers. I can understand the confusion because the Obama administration blocked the Interior Department lead investigator, who did have

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FIGURE 2-7 Uncontaminated cement compressive strength tests (DP = differential pressure). Source: Committee.The most definitive report yet on the Gulf oil spill has just been released. This long awaited report by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on the causes of the Gulf oil spill has been buried like a document dump on the Friday before Christmas. This is the final report by the NAE.

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Remember President Obama dispatching attorney General Eric Holder to be the enforcer during the BP oil spill. The kind of guy who would “kick ass”, or in Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s phrase keep a “boot on the throat” of BP? Well it seems there is a little tiff developing in federal court in New Orleans between BP and the left’s favorite bête noir Halliburton. The Wall Street Journal

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Regular readers of the American Thinker know that I was employed by Grumman Aerospace during the summer of 1969 when the corporation’s Lunar Excursion Module Eagle carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Sea of Tranquility and then re-inserted them into lunar orbit to begin the journey home, in JFK’s immortal phrase “return them safely to the Earth”. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise

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Sirius made a positive comment about my post "Plagiarism Masquerading as Leading From Behind" below http://machiasprivateer.blogspot.com/2011/10/plagiarism-masquerading-as-leading-from.htmlNow that the real facts about the Fukushima Nuclear crisis are starting to come out in the Wall Street Journal http://tinyurl.com/6orrga2 , he ought to read the various Fukushima threads on The Oil Drum site!

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Adding to the previous post, I can imagine what Allah might do for the Persian people. He could send a sandstorm that would abrade an oil export pipe line, just as if it were sandblasted by a human hand. The blowing wind would induce a static charge, which would be likely to ignite the spilled oil.Oooops, a blown pipeline burning wildly in the desert and a country under trade sanctions which

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Anonymous posted a comment regarding the post below Iran's Electric Grid. I've linked above to a post I made at The Belmont Club with suggestions as to what the Libyan people should do with their new found freedom. Here's an edited version for Iran.Here is what the United States ought to expect of the newly freed Iranian people.1) They should guarantee “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”

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“Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.”The Obama administration has a modus operandi that has become quite familiar. They lurk in the background and wait to see how an operation develops before committing to ownership of the decision making process. If the process is working they claim credit for it, if it isn’t working they place blame elsewhere (It’s Bush’s fault!). Personal

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Conservatives may disagree with Karl Marx’s economic theories, but they must agree that he was right when he said “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”. The Occupy Wall Street protestors are a pallid echo of their forebears at Woodstock during August 1969. At least at Woodstock there were real injustices about, such as 19 & 20 year old draftees being sent to Vietnam without

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In a classic example of the projection of the left, President Obama has claimed America’s manufacturing sector has gone “a little soft” when it is actually government that has gone flaccid. Let us look at the record from International Geophysical Year July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis and the brutal repression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, America’s

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New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate in Economics Paul Krugman caused quite a stir with his recent comments on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS suggesting that inflation and an expansionary monetary policy to meet an attack by space aliens would pull us out of the economic doldrums in 18 months.KRUGMAN: Think about World War II, right? That was actually negative social product spending, and yet it

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Under a White House gag order not to publicize it, the Coast Guard posted the report of its Incident Specific Preparedness Review Group (ISPR) for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to its website on March 18, 2011. Given the intense scrutiny of the parts BP and its contractors played in causing the accident, this is the first serious insider effort to evaluate the government’s role in the

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The Chief Counsel for the President’s Oil Spill Commission (OSC) Fred Bartlit Jr. released his Chief Counsel’s Report 2011 without the usual fanfare and definitely without questions from the press or the American people. At some point the Congress needs to have him testify regarding both the Commission’s Report and his own report. Both ought to be given a thorough examination, but having read

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I see that you will turn thirteen this coming Fourth of July. Like nearly all of your peers, you are doubtless beginning to realize how embarrassing parents can be. Being First Daughter of the United States (FDOTUS) makes your plight unusually public. So I want to offer you some help in what has already been a remarkable effort to minimize the embarrassment your father causes you. First, I think

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January 20, 2011 marked the nine month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon accident. The President’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (the “Oil Spill Commission” or OSC) has recently issued its final report. The offshore drilling moratorium has nominally been lifted, but the issuance of new permits has been negligible amid concerns regarding spill

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Here is an excellent article at The American Thinker about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.Be sure to read my posts among the comments.

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Remember Sen Howard Baker's question at the Watergate hearings? "What did the President know and when did he know it?", a question given him to ask by his counsel and former campaign manager, future U.S. Senator Fred Thompson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_BakerMark Steyn's article at National Review Online draws a familiar parallel“This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew,” said the senator, in

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The Attorneys General of 18 states have banded together to ask a federal court to issue a judgment finding pure water to be an air pollutant. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-04-02-states-epa_N.htm “The plaintiffs in the latest court action include Massachusetts' Coakley and attorneys general from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New

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The point that jumped out at me from Barack Obama’s speech was his opening comment about “…this nation’s original sin of slavery…” That sounds like an attempt to induce white guilt, not a transcendence of our racial differences to me. The concept of Original Sin derives from the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve hade been commanded not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But Eve

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If you want to provoke the global warming alarmists ask them which they truly believe, chemical evolution or global warming. The two don’t fit together well.It seems safe to say that most people who believe chemical evolution would consider the Miller-Urey experiment a part of the scientific consensus that supports Darwin's theory of evolution. This was an experiment that created organic

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Wicked Witch: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.Codger: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come back when you do call for them?Wicked Witch: Why I can teach you, cousin, to command the Devil.Codger: And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil--- By telling the truth. Tell the truth and shame the devil.Shakespeare - Henry the Fourth, Part 1 - Act 3

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Google is a Democratic Party Front which is in constant violation of Federal Election Laws which will allow a prosecution by Patrick Fitzgerald to put all those punkass Zillionaires in jail and transfer their former wealth to the taxpayers!

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Now that Saddam has been legally convicted, the United States should do the Iraqis a huge favor and reassume custody of him. Then, in a proper public ceremony (where his statue once stood?), he should be executed by the Americans. This would relieve the Iraqis of any blood on their hands and allow the beginning of a reconciliation. The ceremony should be done with style. Perhaps Condoleezza Rice

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Here is a link to another article published on The American Thinker.Climate of Fear: From Nuclear Winter to Global Warming

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I received a comment which dealt in a per capita extropolation of the murder rate in Chicago vs. American losses in Iraq. I disagree with the concept because it wasn't consistent in populations. The key here is the actual numbers and the groups to which they apply. Put simply, the comment indicated 2.9 American deaths per day in Iraq (which includes accidents & suicides). Currently Chicago has

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I have a suggestion for the Iranian people, at midnight April 30- May 1, they should turn on every electric light they own. Why? To answer that question, we need to examine the strategic situation regarding electric power in Iran. The one undisputed fact is that Iran has inadequate supplies of electric power. The justification President Ahmadinejad gives for their nuclear program is the

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I have received some e-mail about my absence. It's simple, spring has sprung and with it sailing season has started. So I have become quite involved with instruction of both adults and children. Our Junior fleet class has 29 kids, mostly between the ages of 6 and 10. Additionally, I have become interested in the thought of bringing the Bill of Rights to traffic court. I was given a totally bogus

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Click above for a link to an animated Washington's Cruiser Flag for sale. It owes a great deal to the inspiration of those citizens of Machias who captured the Margaretta & Diligent. Indeed the pine tree symbolizes the Liberty Pole that had been erected in town, that caused Britain's Lt. Moore to lose his temper. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Lots of good stuff over at Regime Change Iran (click above). I have posted several comments on items in Wednesday's daily brief. I suggest dog training Hezbollah for instance. But I think my favorite is the Forward Air Controller (Woman With Cell Phone) - FAC(WWCP). Go there and read it! It's under the Iran-Chavez alliance item. My editor at www.americanthinker.com did not publish it (he's got

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I've been kind of busy the last few days, especially with having to replace my car's ignition switch. But I did get some things done. I have been thinking about how we need to take charge of our own security. How about we start arming ordinary citizens with walking sticks? Think about it! When I just logged on, the news said that now we're going to ban cigarette lighters on airplanes. How about

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I’ve been a bit busy posting at Blackfive.net regarding Army vs. Marine policies. It seems possible that an army type will wander over here, so I’ve have assembled this list of topics that touched on the U.S. Army in 2004 alone! It will be a quick guide to what I’ve said about them, for very busy people. I have tried not to ignore the fine service of the U.S. Army.This was my fourth post. It

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Click above for a link to a discussion of a new movie about OIF and the debate on whether it will show the Army or the Marines in a better light (this before the movie has been released!). I have received an edited copy of my previous remarks back from the editors of Proceedings, so they may yet get published, but you've seen them already! Here are my comments on the latest debate at BlackFive...

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Today marks the occasion of the marriage of my very, very distant cousin Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles. I wish to offer them my congratulations. I particularly wish to honor the bride, who has displayed a traditional loyalty to her lord and liege for about thirty years now, and has done it with a reserve and dignity that can best be described as the traditional “straight upper lip” of

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Click above to go to Captain's Quarters for some juicy stuff! I made two posts, one each about Schiavo & Saddam, but check out his ongoing battle with the Canadian government. Those Minnestoans don't take much guff from the Canucks! Go Ed Go!

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My latest thought on the Terri Schiavo case was to contact the House Judiciary Committee (click above for link) and demand they hold hearings asking those involved why she could not get the same level of treatment that we are obligated to provide enemy prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. Let's start building the basis for impeachment trials for the judges involved!

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Click above for today's Regime Change Iran news, especially this post and my comment. But I must confess, this kicking around of tyrants is quite addicting and fun! They try to puff themselves up and we stick in the needle! SWEET!

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Click above for the latest news at Regime Change Iran. The continuing campaign to reign in the mullahs is meeting with ever more success! Now the opposition has set June 10th as their Independence Day. And 70 million more people will join the Free World! WELCOME!

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Click above for a post of mine that was printed in The American Thinker on Monday. It discusses the changing political environment in the suburbs of Chicago. I'd write more, but I'm so far behind in posting that I'll just put in the link. I'll also update the results of the election later. Update 3/7/05 4:40 AM - Here is my follow up post at The American Thinker.

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The Free World lost a fine man with the passing of Pope John Paul II. I offer my Roman Catholic friends my sincere condolences. I would also offer the suggestion that some of their sadness could be lifted by listening to Emmy Rossum sing “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” from the soundtrack to the move The Phantom of the Opera. The United States would be well served if we asked her to repeat

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Those of us old enough to remember the Broadway show, Man of LaMancha, know the song "The Impossible Dream". It seems our fight to save Terri Schiavo was such a dream. But the honor is in the effort more than the result. We fought a good fight. We did our best. This is the third time I have been involved in a situation where someone's life was in doubt and I went to the rescue, but failed. Time

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Over at Blackfive (click above) there is a discussion of the conviction of Army Capt. Manulet. I recommend you go there and read it all. I have two posts, this is the second, written in response to some other comments posted there..."Every day on America's highways over 100 people die violent deaths. We can infer that police officers find grievously wounded Americans, fated to die. We do not

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I have tried a few ways to rescue Terri Schiavo. My latest foray was to email Gov. Bush and ask him to have the state attorney general threaten the mayor and board of Pinellas Park with negligent homocide if they don't call off their police force and send an ambulance to take her to an emergency room. Once she gets to a hospital, she will be given basic life support while her current medical

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Click above to get the latest at Regime Change Iran. Today's news (3/25) reflects increasing unrest as the people take to the streets. I've posted a few ideas for a plan of action. Here is an update on the situationhttp://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2005/03/update-on-protests.htmlGO PERSIANS, GO!!(For new Persian readers of Machias Privateer, here is the link to the story of the capture of the

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My suggestion is to prepare a divorce petition for Terri Schiavo and challenge her to make her "X". If she is sufficiently sentient to understand that this is the only way to save her life, we can assume she'll try her best. If she succeeds, she has an argument to make in court. If she fails, then her husband's position that she is not sentient is correct. Let her prove she wants to live! Update

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Here is the most interesting post at Regime Change Iran today..."Intelligence sources claim Iran has developed a new liquid fuel version of the Shihab-3 that can travel significantly farther than previous models and carry a much larger warhead. The Shihab-3A reached a range of 1,700 kilometers, by far the longest distance of the missile."I added a comment about the "South West Asia Painted Desert

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Regular readers will note that I've been posting less than normal. Real life has intruded! However, I am mulling a unified theory of cardiovascular disease. I am considering describing blood as an emulsion of a lipid mixture and an electrolyte (sort of like oil & vinegar). Reliable measures of the state of the blood might predict the likelihood of a heart attack and could be derived from

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Click above for another great story at Regime Change Iran. It details all the arguments and counter-arguments for war with Iran. Once again I've added two comments. The first deals with our ability to use Standard 3 anti-ballistic missiles on our navy ships in the gulf to counter any future Iranian nuclear attack on us or Israel. The second details with a plan to re-use destroyers originally

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Click above for an old post at Regime Change Iran. They have a story about how Iran is digging tunnels to protect their enrichment capabilities from "bunker busters". I accidently pulled up this post and decided to make some new comments! I had noted that we could always use a Trident 2 D-5 "silo buster" to defeat the tunnels. Go there and read all three comments. So, just as Scylla & Charybdis

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Click above for the latest negotiating posture of Iran as reported on RegimeChangeIran. Here is an excerpt... "Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, said the Islamic Republic's nuclear negotiators have definitively and officially told Europeans that Iran will never accept a permanent halt to its enrichment programme."Iran's negotiating team has openly told Europeans Iran will not accept

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Yesterday, in Washington D.C., we saw two examples of Irish tribalism and how it causes so much trouble! The first was the visit to The White House by the five McCartney sisters of Belfast. Their brother was brutally murdered by the IRA, which has since tried to impose the Irish version of "omerta", the code of silence, on the 70 witnesses present! The world, and even some Catholics in Northern

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A young lady of my acquaintance recently graduated early from college with a liberal arts degree. While she waits for the next school year to begin at graduate school, she is looking for a job. This has left her with time on her hands and a chance to reflect. There’s the rub! She has been asking her friends if they know of any jobs that are available. They have a habit of asking, in turn...“What

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As usual there is much excitement and news at Regime Change Iran (click above). They note that the OPEC oil ministers are meeting in Iran. I posted a comment with a modest suggestion. The Iraqis should take the OPEC ministers hostage until they get a democratic government!Yes, I know, it's just the imp in me coming out again! :-)

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Click above for the PACOM article on the departure of USNS Mercy dated March 16... "U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy and German military units will leave Aceh, concluding relief efforts in Indonesia's westernmost province, the area hardest hit by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami.The departure is taking place as the Indonesian government plans to start reconstruction this month in the

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Long time readers will remember my post of 1/23/05 regarding the complete lyrics to the National Anthem. I’m glad to announce my support for a new initiative, The National Anthem Project. I will be joining some great company:Honorary Chairperson – First Lady Laura BushThe American LegionGirl Scouts USANational Association for Music EducationThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of American HistoryThe

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It seems the Chinese have voted to try to resist Taiwan's desire for freedom. Click above for the full story. I have a proposed solution, but a little history first. The island was called Formosa and its people the Formosans. After the Communists prevailed in the post-WW II civil war, the Nationalist Chinese moved to Formosa and pushed aside the Formosans in matters of government. So here is my

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On the wall of the marines' conference room hangs a sign quoting Lawrence of Arabia. "Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly," it reads in part. "It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them . . . . " Abizaid drove home the same point. "The hardest thing your successors need to do is take their hand off the wheel. What we have to do is set the Iraqis in

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The March 2005 issue of Proceedings from the U.S. Naval Institute has an article on pp 92-94 by Lt. Col. Gian Gentile, U.S. Army, entitled "The Army Can Fight Small Wars, Too" with which I have several disagreements. Proceedings has a regular feature column entitled Nobody Asked Me But... Here is my submission to the editor."I was quite disappointed by Lieutenant Colonel Gentile’s attitude

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Today’s Regime Change Iran has a post “Down With Stability” here is my comment… “The Onion has an article “Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: We’ll Go Through Iran”. The statement reads “coalition air units will leave forward air bases in Iraq and transport munitions to undisclosed locations in Iran. After 72 to 96 hours of aerial-bomb retreats, armored-cavalry units will retreat across the

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Click above for today's update on Iran at Regime Change Iran. They still seem to be a bit feisty. And elsewhere we heard that China was threatening Taiwan. Well, threatening is a two way street. Here is the text of my comment at Regime Change..."So Mr. Mullah, now that we've established you cannot force the closure of the Straits of Hormuz, would you like to talk about the Straits of Mollucca? It

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Remember F-Troop?How it is possible to become a leader by standing still while everyone else takes one step back? Well the Blue Staters have just handed the Red Staters a victory!While they and their useful idiot friends in the mainstream media were telling us how noble Bill Clinton was to let George H. W. Bush sleep in the only bed on their plane while he slept in his chair or on the floor (Wow,

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Here is one post from Regime Change today (with minor spelling corrections - click above for the whole blog)..."Iranian presidential candidate, Dr. Moein, faced a barrage of protests by students in Isfahan university yesterday. At the beginning of the proceedings, the Islamic Republic anthem was played, but the students instead of singing the official state anthem, stood up and sang the

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There is an unbelievable quote at Regime Change Iran (hat tip Adventures of Chester) from the Secretary of the Iranian Security Council, Hasan Rouhani. He thinks the U.S. does not have the ability to attack Iran!!! Here is the comment I posted there…“It's spinach time! Everyone who is familiar with Popeye the Sailor knows where we are. "I've had all that I can stands, I can't stands no more"! So

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A central observation for the success of terrorist organizations has been the plausible deniability of operations in "failed states". Who can we hold responsible if no one is in charge? The Sudan was one such state. And Afghanistan. And Palestine. And now it appears that the Bekaa Valley will be returned to Lebanese sovereignty. As Queen once put it..."Another one bites the dust!"

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My likely distant cousin, Doug Hanson, has another brilliant pice in The American Thinker (click above). It seems that the Russians may be deeply involved in all the mischief in Iraq, Syria & Lebanon! I'm Shocked! Shocked! The intelligence reports suggest that Russia was the supplier for Saddam's WMD programs, help move them out of the country to Syria and the Bekaa Valley during the early

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Click above for a story (hat tip - Little Green Footballs) stating that Iran has threatened to end all confidence building measures and start processing fuel to make weapons grade material, if the United States succeeds in getting its actions referred to the United Nations Security Council. What! I thought the whole world wanted the "cowboy" leader" of the United States to act multilaterally

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Found an interesting letter by Chris Buckley in the American Spectator (click above). Here is my letter in response..."We should make the grunts of the North Korean Army an offer. SURRENDER OR DIE (of starvation)!Tell them they can choose one of the following options1) Walk home, leaving their posts deserted.2) Remove their uniform shirt exposing a white t-shirt, walk slowly toward the nearest

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Click above for Doug Hanson's latest post at The American Thinker (we've decided we aren't second cousins, but probably are distant cousins of some sort). Be sure to follow his links http://newshome.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=17181and you'll see pictures of Bonhomme Richard's LCACs in action. These were the photos you did not get during her tsunami relief operations! These craft

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Via Adventures of Chester - click above for report of French commandos approaching the Eastern Mediterranean! Will wonders never cease! "March 1, 2005: Without much publicity, France has moved the replenishment ship Var to the eastern Mediterranean. The Var contains facilities for running commando operations, as well as facilities for about 200 commandoes and their equipment. France apparently

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Click above for a Chicago Tribune story (Hat dip - Discarded Lies which once again shows excellent technical skills!) that describes a technological advance which will dramatically improve our Homeland Security through the ability to detect nuclear materials in shipping containers“Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a muon cosmic ray screening device that can accurately

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Click above for Bummer Dietz's "Spun Duckie Woo Woo" post with comments! Here is the text of my comment... "Hey Bummer! It occurred to me that you must be a "people person" as in "have your people email my people". Does everybody in Hollywood think Amy Lumet is a spun duckie woo woo? Do you know her people?Here's the pitch! She produces a remake of her dad's masterwork - "Network II - The Dan

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Click above to link to a new Hollywood celebrity blog with a sense of humor!

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After linking to yesterday’s post Solving Iran, Tom Lifson at The American Thinker expressed some skepticism that Iran could be so vulnerable to internal forces that it “could withstand a serious American invasion of Iran for only a few days”. That, in turn, caused me to email him with a quite different perspective and ultimately this appeared on The American Thinker. So today, let’s carry on our

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I was stunned to watch the “pundits” on the Sunday morning shows discuss the deal between Russia and Iran regarding the supply of nuclear fuel for power plants. I guess it is necessary to be totally technically illiterate to be a pundit. What they all missed is the quid pro quo in the deal, Iran gets processed fuel from Russia in exchange for a equal amount of burned fuel. It’s sort of like the

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The Questing Cat & the Jersey Cowboy are safe back in Germany from their tour in Iraq. If you want to read why our soldiers are proud of their efforts in Iraq, this is the place! If you want to learn why you should be proud of them, find my previous posts on the Questing Cat. I want to try something because it is so hard to build an interactive, relational database of blogging here on Blogger.

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Click above for an excellent piece by my old buddy Bummer Dietz as a Pilgrim in a foreign land (Hollyweird). As always, he has a well written piece. But is is more of a question, which alternative makes more sense in trying to decode weird behavior? My vote is for cognitive dissonance. Be sure to check out his Ann Coulter post with my attempts to be "helpful" in the comments section, since I

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Click above for a brief item on a high rise fire in a 23 story building in Taiwan. I saw a snippet of video on TV. The report indicates 4 dead with more rescued by helicopter from the roof. So the problem presists. This one was above the reach of outside hose streams, so it just burned toward the roof. I'll see if further reports add more detail, but the standard curtain wall around a central

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We now know what the Mary Mapes & Dan Rather escapades cost CBS News’ parent company, Viacom. The answer is a “…non-cash impairment charge of $18.0 billion…”See page 16 here http://www.viacom.com/pdf/qr4q04.pdf Update 2/25/05 4:36 PM - It seems the official explanation is they are writing down goodwill for the Blockbuster & the CBS Radio (bye-bye Howard Stern) parts of CBS. So that means they

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Click above for Maureen Dowd's latest Moonbat rant! Now she is trying to get the Bush Administration and the AARP to fight over personalized Social Security Accounts! Listen, Maureen, it is very simple! If we use a phased elimination of the mortgage interest deduction to fund personal accounts, the Bushies and the AARP can have a "Common Cause"! Retirees don't use the deduction (they've either

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CLICK ABOVE TO READ MY COMMENT TO BUMMER DIETZ- SPREAD THE WORD!!!STICK WITH WWW.SCYLLACHARYBDIS.BLOGSPOT.COM FOR THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS AND LEGAL COUNTERATTACK STRATEGIES!! Update 2/25/05 4:34 PM - As the sergeant on Hill Street Blues used to say "Be careful out there!" http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271

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1) Click above for some more hilarity at Rathergate.com !2) Be sure to go to Bummer Dietz at http://scyllacharybdis.blogspot.com/ for the latest Google News news! He just broke 100,000 looks!3) Captain Ed at captainsquartersblog.com is celebrating a successful transplant for his wife, and 5,000,000 looks! http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/ I did my share! Congrats!3) Thanks to the two

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I took the occasion of President’s Day to call my niece and nephew. They’re fine! So I told them that I wanted to talk to them on the day when we all remember their eighth cousin nine times removed, George Washington. It seems that Mom has finally figured out a way to get my nephew online so he can do schoolwork! So I told him to send me an email so we can communicate. I figure he can become my

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Click above for a thread on Discarded Lies about Messianic Jews. I believe most, if not all, of the authors of this blog are Jews. This question about Messianic Jews struck me as quite honest and worthy of an attempt at an honest response. You have to look way down to number 84 of the comments section to see my first response, then the counter response and now my counter-counter response quoted

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Click above for a Fox News story on the proposed retirement of the aircraft carrier, John F. Kennedy CV-67. I have a modest proposal. Transfer the ship to the Active Reserves and redesignate it CV(H)-67. Then keep an active duty crew about to enable the ship to deploy on short notice and add a reserve crew consisting of helicopter pilots and mechanics, SeaBees and other specialists knowledgeable

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Click above for an idea I had to help Colin Powell find a new job. He's had a bit of time off as Condi Rice has eased into his old job. It's time for him to get serious about finding out what he wants to do next. So I've posted a comment at the Belmont Club with a suggestion. Here is the complete text of my comment(s), the second of which applies to Colin Powell.. "From the night shift at

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The latest from PACOM... Indonesia's president has named several new military chiefs, replacing a tough-talking nationalist general who headed the powerful army with an officer seen as a moderate… Santoso won praise for helping implement a peace pact between warring Muslims and Christians in the volatile eastern Moluccas islands. Santoso took over as military commander after the deal was signed

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Mayor Daley’s challenge in dealing with the unions can be illustrated in the situation with the firefighters. Here is a quote from the Chicago Sun-Times on the desires of management with regard to the firefighters and the paramedics…“Chicago Fire Commissioner Cortez Trotter wants firefighters and paramedics to work the same shift -- 24 hours on duty and 72 hours off -- to speed the pace of

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The challenge in teaching kids history is that the people and places seem so anachronistic. Maybe what we need is to tap into the kids sense of fun and do the American thing and update history. So here is a look at my likely distant* cousin’s "Paul Revere‘s Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. PastYou know how it was originally written and then modified by us kids when I was in grade school…“

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Click above for old old friend Bummer Dietz' tryout of some suspicious activity. He is intrigued by the rumors tied to the TWA 800 incident. He is skeptical of the government investigators from the NTSB. The bloodhound on the trail... Here is my post"WHOA BOYS!!!!Go to a hardware store and look at a plastic gas can. You will see a label (the anti-lawyer) that says something to the effect that '

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Click above for a report from The American Spectator on the evolving situation in Lebanon and Syria. Let's cut to the chase...Who's up for a pre-emptive strike against Syria? Turkey? Syria supports the Kurdish rebels.Israel? Enough said!Jordan? Don't want to upset Uncle Sam do you?Iraq? Syria is the safe haven of the insurgents!Lebanon? There is already rioting in the streets of Beirut!France?

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Click above for the latest from Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters Blog! He is in fine form, and there is nothing I need to add except BRAVO ZULU ED!!!Incidently, he is doIng this with his wife lying in the hospital recovering from a transplant operation! A real pajamahadeen, if I've ever seen one! He does more in his spare time then most MSM journalists do in a week at their jobs! There is also

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Today I'd like to introduce you to Illinois' Political Green Zone, the hotbed of democracy in action, where politics really does make strange bedfellows. First, you'll need a scorecard. So here are excerpts from the February 8 article by Scott Fornek of the Chicago Sun-Times about the upcoming Democratic mayoral primary in Berwyn..."Alex Bojovic might be the first political candidate to claim

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The time has come for a joint Senate-House committee hearing into charges that American servicemen have “targeted” journalists during combat! The obvious leaders for the minority would be Sen. Christopher Dodd and, from the House, Rep. Barney Frank! This promises to be the most riveting testimony since the McCarthy hearings! It seems that, once again, it is time to defend the honor of the United

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Click above for a nice summary of the Wall Street Journal's place in L'Affaire Eason Jordan.I guess the key question now is has the video of Jordan's remarks been used for propaganda purposes in the Arab world? To get closer to an answer you could ask1) Whose camera was it? Who has custody of the tape?2) Since the proceedings were allegedly confidential who approved a camera?3) Similarly, who

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We’ve had some discussions on a site counter. I noted that the data in my profile view was so inaccurate as to give rise to the question, is it worth the bother? Now Little Green Footballs has reported inconsistencies in their counts as it applies to the Darling of Wall Street that supports my host (He That Shall Not Be Named - AKA “Slytherin” - Hat Tip - Harry Potter). Here is the latest “To

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A quotation from the book Reckless Disregard by Renata Adler, Vintage Press, Copyright 1986, pp244-245 paperback edition.“In the Sullivan case…held essentially that criticism of public officials in the performance of their official function is for the most part (and in the absence of clear and convincing proof of “actual malice”, in the new sense of “knowledge of falsity” or “reckless disregard”)

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Click above for a story from today's Chicago Sun-Times regarding the new Airbus A380 super jumbo airplane. They note that "It's one thing to build a really, really big airplane. It's quite another to find a place for it to land.U.S. airports from Seattle to Atlanta say accommodating Airbus SAS's new superjumbo A380 in anything other than an emergency would require major construction. Runways

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Long time readers of this blog know I've dealt with the unresolved issues of fighting high rise fires. I have made the point that we need to improve our ability to fight fires above the reach of water sprayed from street level. We've had two fires in Chicago, the Cook County Administration Building and the LaSalle Bank Building, where the Chicago Fire Department was able to get water on a high

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It seems the United States is on the road to closer relations with Europe. Condi Rice’s trip is being hailed as a success. But what are the underlying truths here?1) The United States is the world’s only superpower. There was a little drama as her plane arrived in Belgium. A Secret Service man pushed the Belgian "Protocol Chief" around. If the roles were reversed, we’d be outraged. As it is, we

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What a day yesterday was for accountability! First we have the departure of Eason Jordan from CNN. There was excellent work by the bloggers of Easongate, But I do believe it was the credible threat of a massive libel suit against him and CNN’s parent, Time Warner, that forced his hand. Good Riddance! In Chicago, Mayor Daley has announced some really tough policies to deal with those who act

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