:: Netmarcos' Notes ::

:: Friday, October 13, 2006 ::

And then the guy tels me a story: Three elephants and a mariachi band walk into Brownsville...

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You just HAVE to see the political commercial that nobody will show!

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Now that's a relief. ANTI-W. $OROS: I QUIT POLITICS By MAGGIE HABERMAN - New York Post Online Edition: Seven: "'In the future, I'd very much like to get disengaged from politics,' Soros said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting on the Upper East Side. 'I'm interested in policy and not in politics.' "

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Russion governor launches "Give birth to a patriot" campaign.
Russians are urged to take the afternoon off, go home and make a baby

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Federal judge declares boating illegal in all US navigable waters: "Judge Robert G. James of the United States District Court, Western Division of Louisiana, has said that it is criminal trespass for the American boating public to boat, fish, or hunt on the Mississippi River and other navigable waters in the US."

:: Mark 9:30 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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FOXNews.com - Religious Leaders Across Mideast Rage Against Pope's Comments on Islam - Europe: "'Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence,' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said."

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CONSPIRACY CRANKS By JAMES B. MEIGS - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion: "In every single case, we found that the very facts used by conspiracy theorists to support their fantasies are mistaken, misunderstood or deliberately falsified. "

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OpinionJournal - Featured Article: "The second point makes me queasy, but cannot be ducked. 'We'--and our allies--simply have to become more ruthless and more experienced. An unspoken advantage of the current awful strife in Iraq and Afghanistan is that it is training tens of thousands of our young officers and soldiers to fight on the worst imaginable terrain, and gradually to learn how to confront, infiltrate, 'turn,' isolate and kill the worst imaginable enemy. These are faculties that we shall be needing in the future. It is a shame that we have to expend our talent in this way, but it was far worse five years and one day ago, when the enemy knew that there was a war in progress, and was giggling at how easy the attacks would be, and 'we' did not even know that hostilities had commenced. Come to think of it, perhaps we were a bit 'innocent' after all. "

:: Mark 3:30 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Just in case you haven't been paying attention...or you think this terrorism threat thing is a joke, Northeast Intelligence Network has a news flash for you. The liquid explosive in the baby bottle has already been attempted.

...a Muslim family of five- a husband, wife and 3 children, boarded American Airlines flight 109 at Britain’s Heathrow airport destined for Boston Logan airport on Sunday, 6 August 2006.

According to intelligence officials, the family checked in at the last minute, and as a result, only a superficial check of the children’s carry-on bags was conducted by airport security personnel.

Following the take off of the airliner, the check-in computer at the airport flashed a warning that a person under observation had boarded the flight. The airline staff informed immigration and security officials, and a background check found that the male adult member of the family was on a suspect list prepared by Scotland Yard subsequent to the 7/7 terror bombings in London. The pilot was ultimately alerted to the situation and after careful consideration, returned to Heathrow airport rather than continuing on to Boston.

Upon landing back at Heathrow, armed marshals boarded the aircraft and took the suspect and his family into custody. It was at that time a search of the children’s carry-on baggage revealed the deadly cargo.

:: Mark 9:19 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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You need to read and ponder what Michael Gerson had to say on How 9/11 Changed Bush and what is still at risk. Please read it all and consider what must be done if this nation - and indeed the civilized world - is to survive the crisis facing us.

the cynical, the world-weary, the risk-averse will not inherit the earth"

:: Mark 11:17 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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A great story. Read the whole thing.
How NOT to steal a SideKick II

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Poor Natalie. She still just doesn't get it.

'The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism,' Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. 'Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.'

:: Mark 10:06 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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A genuine, certified, verified group of global climate studying Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe

Carter does not pull his punches about Gore's activism, 'The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science.'

:: Mark 12:49 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Finally! There is proof that those mortgage companies are evil!USATODAY.com - Mortgage demand dips as 30-year rate hits 4-year high of 6.66%

:: Mark 8:48 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Look. Every country has its own set of heroes. Often, young children will believe in them to the point of attempting the impossible. Hey, even my own father was disapointed when his new Superman cape didn't make him fly (he was 4 at the time - give him a break - and he wasn't seriously hurt, more disappointed).

This guy did not have age as an excuse: Kung fu fan tries to stop train

:: Mark 12:44 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Bush Knows His History... Do you?

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Ouch!

People complain that the SAT is biased and that the bias explains why students don't do well. That's true--it is biased. It's biased against people who aren't well-educated.

:: Mark 12:57 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Daniel Henninger offers some advice : to General Hayden, should he win confirmation as DCI.

He will have to make clear that any official who finds internal dissent procedures inadequate to his or her 'moral obligation' to overturn strategic doctrine, affect election outcomes or destroy an intelligence operation should get out or be willing to risk criminal prosecution. And it would help this country's sense of purpose if he made that clear not only to the CIA but in public to the American people.

:: Mark 12:22 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Man, that Chris Muir is funny.

:: Mark 12:14 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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With the tax package just approved by congress, justhow much of the tax burden is carried by the poor in this country?

:: Mark 8:48 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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It's never a good sign when the say that charges “will be announced after the interrogations.”

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For those of you who think your vote doesn't count, I offer you this: Ohio Candidate's Sons Cost Him County Race

Two voting-age sons of a northern Ohio candidate didn't go to the polls Tuesday, and their father's race ended in a tie.

:: Mark 4:03 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Tom Tancredo on National Review Online imagines the other side of A Day Without an Illegal Immigrant

:: Mark 12:49 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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What can we learn from the man called "A Sage in Christendom" in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed? A great deal, it seems.

"Make no mistake, those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future."

:: Mark 9:46 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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A touching and honest comment about United 93 from someone who knows a bit about the subject. Please read it and pay attention.

:: Mark 8:41 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Wow. It is hard to select an excerpt from this in the Wall Street Journal. You should read the whole thing - slowly and carefully.

The press is also inventing a preposterous double standard that is supposed to help us all distinguish between bad leaks (the Plame name) and virtuous leaks (whatever Ms. McCarthy might have done). Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie has put himself on record as saying Ms. McCarthy should not 'come to harm' for helping citizens hold their government accountable. Of the Plame affair, by contrast, the Post's editorial page said her exposure may have been an 'egregious abuse of the public trust.'
It would appear that the only relevant difference here is whose political ox is being gored, and whether a liberal or conservative journalist was the beneficiary of the leak. That the press sought to hound Robert Novak out of polite society for the Plame disclosure and then rewards Ms. Priest and Mr. Risen with Pulitzers proves the worst that any critic has ever said about media bias.

:: Mark 8:08 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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TCS Daily - Fear of Confrontation: "One can view Islamic militants as armed versions of unruly teenagers. We should not feel guilty toward them. We should demand reasonable and decent behavior from them, rather than excuse their tantrums or their crimes."

:: Mark 5:34 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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...and they complain about the crazy soccer fans in the U.K.!
Rugby fan cut off his own testicles | This is London
Sheesh.

:: Mark 12:45 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Myths, exagerations, and lies.
Many of the most dearly held beliefs of the disloyal opposition in this country and anti-American pundits worldwide are falling apart.Investor's Business Daily: Declassified Truth

Among the enduring myths of those who oppose the war is that Saddam, though murderous when it came to his own people, had no weapons of mass destruction and no terrorist designs outside his own country. Both claims now lie in tatters.
As we've reported several times, a number of former top military officials in Saddam's regime have come forward to admit that, yes, Saddam had WMD, hid them and shipped them out of the country so they couldn't be detected. And he had plans to make more.

Update:

And then there is this:
Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden See Translation

In the Name of God the Merciful
Presidency of the Republic
Intelligence Apparatus
To the respectful Mr. M.A.M
Subject: Information
Our source in Afghanistan No 11002 (for information about him see attachment 1) provided us with information that that Afghani Consul Ahmad Dahestani (for information about him see attachment 2) told him the following:
1. That Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan are in contact with Iraq and it that previously a group from Taliban and Osama Bin Laden group visited Iraq.
2. That America has proof that the government of Iraq and Osama Bin Laden group have shown cooperation to hit target within America.
3. That in case it is proven the involvement of Osama Bin Laden group and the Taliban in these destructive operations it is possible that American will conduct strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. That the Afghani Consul heard about the subject of Iraq relation with Osama Bin Laden group during his stay in Iran.
5. In light of this we suggest to write to the Commission of the above information.
Please view? Yours? With regards
Signature:??, Initials : A.M.M, 15/9/2001
Foot note: Immediately send to the Chairman of Commission
Signature:????.

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Bill Frist gets one right.

Thomas Jefferson once quipped that, “Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” But despite his low opinion of the press, he also observed that, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

From the earliest days of our republic, freedom of speech and freedom of the press – be they anonymous pamphlets, celebrated essays, or local newspapers – were understood to be fundamental to the practice and defense of liberty.

Without the ability to convey ideas, debate, dispute, and persuade, we may never have fought for and achieved our independence.

Ordinary citizens – farmers, ministers, local shop owners – published and circulated their views, often anonymously, to challenge the conventional order, and call their fellow citizens to action.

Indeed, as Boston University journalism professor Chris Daly points out, “What we think of as reporting – the pursuit, on a full time basis of verifiable facts and verbatim quotations – was not a significant part of journalism in the time of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine… In historical terms, today’s bloggers are much closer in spirit to the Revolutionary-era pamphleteers.”

And, today, it’s bloggers whom we now have to protect.

There are some who, out of fear or shortsightedness, wish to restrict the ability of our modern day-Thomas Paines to express political views on the World Wide Web.

They seek to monitor and regulate political speech under the guise of “campaign finance reform.” They argue that unfettered political expression on the Internet is dangerous, especially during the highly charged, election season.

Needless to say, I stand firmly against these efforts to hamstring the Internet and squarely with the champions of free speech – whether that expression takes place in the actual, or virtual, town square.

:: Mark 3:48 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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An experiment in civil obedience as a form of protest in Atlanta.

:: Mark 9:51 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Ouch!

When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press -- an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms -- would be among the first to surrender.,

:: Mark 8:49 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Ann Coulter says,

Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back.

:: Mark 3:11 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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I'm a Chevrolet Corvette!

You're a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You're all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do.

Find out for yourself - Which Sports Car Are You?

:: Mark 6:00 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Partisan hypocrisy at the New York Times?! Say it ain't so!

:: Mark 6:33 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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