Has Totten won the Pulitzer yet?

Why not?

What happened to the quagmire?

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Totten's pics are worth a thousand pics.

and let's hope that little Hitler in the first photo got his

Oh, I understand: he tells the truth that things have improved considerably in Iraq, and the we won the war, essentially.

Move along here, nothing to see.

This would make a great movie- it'll just need some tweaking- a massacre by US troops, some raping and behavior reminescent of Genghis Khan. Plus we lose at the end.

re: #4 zombie

Oh, I understand: he tells the truth that things have improved considerably in Iraq, and the we won the war, essentially.

Move along here, nothing to see.

Hopefully that doesn't change.

re: #2 NJDhockeyfan

What happened to the quagmire?

/Murtha licked it clean

So they would barricade one door and leave one open. And they'd put a bunker and a machine gun down that main hallway. They would sit in the back corner of a room and soon as you kicked open the door they would just keep firing.

I hate campers!

Here's a key paragraph:

I hear criticism of Iraqis of some kind almost every day when I'm in Iraq. There is a lot to criticize. Iraq is a broken country. Its infrastructure and economy are shot, its political culture dysfunctional. In my experience, though, contempt for Iraqi culture specifically, and Arabs and Islam more generally, is far more prevalent in the American civilian population, even in liberal coastal cities, than it is among American soldiers and Marines who interact with Iraqis every day, forge sometimes intense personal bonds with Iraqis, eat Iraqi food, and speak at least a little Arabic. Stereotypes about racist and psychotic Marines, as well as fanatical and psychotic Iraqis, can't survive a lengthy trip to Fallujah, at least not to the Fallujah of late 2007.

re: #1 zombie

Has Totten won the Pulitzer yet?

Why not?

Because they're too busy giving 'em to terrorist propagandists like Bilal Hussein.

Wow.

That photograph. Grrr.

I'm out of here to Italy, back 3 days after Christmas. I used to live there, haven't been ther for 7 years, I'll let you know if the place feels much different.

None of the 3/5 Marines – in India Company or any other – have been killed or even wounded since their current tour began in the summer this year.

Amazing! And the msm has touted this how many times?

I always love seeing his pictures of the Iraqi children smiling at our troops, because it's exactly what we want to see- the future of Iraq looking to Americans as friends and heroes. Another great report, Michael.

There is a discussion that involves some Beeboids at Biased BBC blog:
[Link: www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com...]
They are challenging people to provide examples of bias of anti-Israel bias.

They say: " Good news is no news..."

/wait

re: #12 MandyManners

What kind of file are you uploading for an icon? You seem to have found a glitch in the system that causes a blank white square, but I'm not clear on why it's happening.

re: #10 lawhawk

re: #1 zombie

Has Totten won the Pulitzer yet?

Why not?

Because they're too busy giving 'em to terrorist propagandists like Bilal Hussein.

And because he doesn't slam Bushitler and supporting the impeachment of Darth Cheney.

re: #1 zombie

Has Totten won the Pulitzer yet?

Why not?

The Pullizter committee is still trying to categorize his reports since they dont fall into either the "quagmire" or "grim milestone" categories for war reporting.

“I definitely think it was necessary,” he said. “I don't have any regrets. I'm glad I did it, and I would do it again. It's good to see the city the way it is and to go to the same neighborhoods. They're so much cleaner now. These people are doing things on their own, they're taking care of their own stuff. When I was here three years ago, I never would have imagined this place would ever be like it is now. It reminded me of Tijuana. When we got here it just seemed like everything you could think of that was bad, this city had it going on. Now they have regular families thriving in the city. There are people working neighborhood watch, working together. It has turned around a lot. I didn't even want to come on this deployment, but now seeing the city the way it is, I'm glad I did. It's like a closure on everything.”

That says it all.

This guy is one of the best. I hope all of us can send him a check, no matter the size.

re: #17 Charles

re: #12 MandyManners

What kind of file are you uploading for an icon? You seem to have found a glitch in the system that causes a blank white square, but I'm not clear on why it's happening.

Maybe Mandy has surrendered?

Seriously - Michael Totten is a national treasure. If he's reading this thread, Thank you Michael, and congratulations on your work!

re: #17 Charles
thats a polar bear in a snowstorm on an ice flow.

re: #17 Charles

The photograph I was talking about is the one of the contractors' deaths.

As for my avatar, I uploaded this as practice. It's a jpg file. Now I can't get the thing to go away. I'll work on it more tonight and tomorrow when I don't have to work.

re: #22 Peacekeeper

re: #17 Charles

re: #12 MandyManners

What kind of file are you uploading for an icon? You seem to have found a glitch in the system that causes a blank white square, but I'm not clear on why it's happening.

Maybe Mandy has surrendered?

This is what is on my "Manage your account" page when I look.

re: #1 zombie

Has Totten won the Pulitzer yet?

Why not?

That is a GREAT question Zombie!

And I also nominate you for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism!

re: #25 MandyManners

OMG! LMAO, Mandy!

Great post. I will take one Totten over all the MSM hacks running aound the world today.

You can go back to the default green football by unchecking the box labeled 'Show my personal icon in comments' in your account page.

re: #26 MandyManners

I still think the cheer outfit with a .44 would be nice

re: #26 MandyManners

Mandy, I think it is TOO large file. It has to be at most 16 KB...that is kilobytes not megabytes.

re: #5 Peacekeeper

This would make a great movie- it'll just need some tweaking- a massacre by US troops, some raping and behavior reminescent of Genghis Khan. Plus we lose at the end.

I'm sure Mikey the pusbag Moore is working on that angle already.

re: #17 Charles

re: #12 MandyManners

What kind of file are you uploading for an icon? You seem to have found a glitch in the system that causes a blank white square, but I'm not clear on why it's happening.

Leave Mandy alone! She and I aren't as computer literate as you are. It's possible that she used up a bottle of Wite-out.

re: #26 MandyManners

re: #22 Peacekeeper

re: #17 Charles

re: #12 MandyMannersWhat kind of file are you uploading for an icon? You seem to have found a glitch in the system that causes a blank white square, but I'm not clear on why it's happening.

Maybe Mandy has surrendered?

This is what is on my "Manage your account" page when I look.

Vista bug?

re: #27 Psaturn

That is a GREAT question Zombie!

And I also nominate you for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism!

Thanks, but...I think Satan himself would have a better chance than me.

Come to think of it -- if Satan did start publishing revisionist reports from Hell, saying how they just had a different culture down there, and really, in many ways it's better than American culture -- the MSM would just love it, and Satan would have a Pulitzer on his mantlepiece in no time.

OT

F*cking CNN... After describing the couragious actions of the female security guard at that Colorado church yesterday, they conveniently mention that the church was started by somebody who was ousted (I think they said last year) after accusations of a sex-for-money relationship with a male prostitute (isn't sex for money the whole point of prostitution?)...

What the hell does that have to do with yesterday's shootings? Nothing at all -- just an opportunity to take a jab at Christians (or the religious in general, murderous jihadis excepted, of course, as CNN and the MSM in general support them) , as usual...

re: #32 Psaturn

Mandy, I think it is TOO large file. It has to be at most 16 KB...that is kilobytes not megabytes.

Killjoy.

/who are you to say Mandy can't have 16 megabytes, if that's what she wants?

This will lead the evening news!
Good news from Iraq, gains in the WoT.

/who put the crack in my coffee?

re: #1 zombie

Has Totten won the Pulitzer yet?

Why not?

Um, because he tells the truth instead of editorializing?

JAFLW

“What do you think of the media coverage?” I said. “I don't mean generally, I mean specifically about Fallujah. Or did you even see any of it?”

“We had Fox News,” he said. “They were with India Company. We had Max Becherer from Time magazine. He went everywhere with us. He actually saved my life. He pulled me up over a building. I was starting to fall and he grabbed me and pulled me over. During that time the coverage was actually pretty accurate.”

Wow, Max! Thank you. Maybe the ap could learn a little something from Time.

/Never thought I'd write that sentence.

Mandy: yes, that file is too large to upload -- it's 40K. In fact, when I tried to upload it I got an error message, which is what's supposed to happen.

Did you scale it with some kind of graphics program?

FUNNY how the donk media stays away from the truth during an election year.

No, it's not a Vista bug. It's my computer savvy.

Gonna' go uncheck my box.

re: #26 MandyManners

re: #22 Peacekeeper

re: #17 Charles

re: #12 MandyMannersWhat kind of file are you uploading for an icon? You seem to have found a glitch in the system that causes a blank white square, but I'm not clear on why it's happening.

Maybe Mandy has surrendered?

This is what is on my "Manage your account" page when I look.

You now, Visine is really good at getting the red out.

I'm just saying.

re: #42 Charles

Mandy: yes, that file is too large to upload -- it's 40K. In fact, when I tried to upload it I got an error message, which is what's supposed to happen.

Did you scale it with some kind of graphics program?

I have no idea how to scale anything. I'm just gonna' go back to my little green football.

re: #35 stevieray

Oh, right. Blame it on the much maligned Vista OS...

re: #46 MandyManners

re: #42 Charles

Mandy: yes, that file is too large to upload -- it's 40K. In fact, when I tried to upload it I got an error message, which is what's supposed to happen.

Did you scale it with some kind of graphics program?

I have no idea how to scale anything. I'm just gonna' go back to my little green football.

Mandy,

I've switched my nic to email, send it to me I'll send back a scaled one.

re: #37 christheprofessor

OT
F*cking CNN...

I figured they'd try to play up some angle where the security guard was only there to protect the donation money and thought the perp was trying to hold up an armored truck. Then segue that into the cost of million dollar settlements for child abusing ministers. I guess CNN was pressed for time.

Is it gone?

re: #47 Cap'n DOC

re: #35 stevieray

Oh, right. Blame it on the much rightfully maligned Vista OS...

Fixed that for ya!

JAFLW

re: #46 MandyManners

Are you using Internet Explorer?

No more avatar stuff for me for now.

re: #47 Cap'n DOC

re: #35 stevieray

Oh, right. Blame it on the much maligned Vista OS...

If it's being maligned that much, there's probably a reason.

re: #47 Cap'n DOC

re: #35 stevieray

Oh, right. Blame it on the much maligned Vista OS...

Heh. That's just the way I roll.
And now, I've gotta roll on back to work. Catch y'all later!

re: #42 Charles

Charles, is that the "Gorn" as your avatar? If so I love it!

re: #46 MandyManners

Mandy to scale it, all you have to do is open the picture in any graphics program and then save it as a jpeg. When the dialog box asks you if you want to compress the image, just select a smaller file size. Easy-peasy!

re: #49 EC Marm

They probably were pressed for time -- it was just the top-of-the-hour radio news break... Can only squeeze so much bias in a couple of minutes' time...

re: #52 Charles

re: #46 MandyManners

Are you using Internet Explorer?

Yes.

Great article. It should be a must read for all. I like how humanizing it is for the Iraqi civilians.

re: #56 kayawanee

Charles and James T Kirk dancing?

OT
Storagemanager, come back. Drama queen is gone. She left her magnum opus and detailed instructions on how to contact her. I think I'll pass. Least till hell gets a little lot colder.

Profssional Socialist Alcoholic Asshole Chris Hitchens got both barrels from readers of the National Post today for his deeply anti-Semitic screed about "backward, tribal Jews" last week. Hitch was a communist for most of his life, and has never formally repudiated this vile creed. It surprises me little that this drunken stumblebum harbors deep resentment toward Jews, as well as Christians. His "anti-jihad" stance is looking more and more similar to that of VB et al.

From today's paper:

Christopher Hitchens infuriated many readers last week after he dismissed the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah as “childish” and “the triumph of tribal Jewish backwardness.”

“Every once in a while we have our new saviour, Christopher Hitchens, to redeem us from the evil and fallacy inherited with Judaism and its little brother, Christianity,” added Monique David. “He is the new shepherd of humanity and will instruct us in the enlightening power of atheism.”

I hate to see another fracture develop in the anti-jihad community, but you can count me out of any support for this Jew-hating socialist lush from now on.

re: #54 JamesTKirk

re: #47 Cap'n DOC

re: #35 stevieray

Oh, right. Blame it on the much maligned Vista OS...

If it's being maligned that much, there's probably a reason.

I hear it can be nice if you have a monster of a system to run it on. Unfortunately a lot don't and XP just runs much faster at this point.

Charles

You may have been asked this already and I didn't see it, but any thoughts about scaling the avatars up a bit such that they are more visible?

re: #26 MandyManners

re: #22 Peacekeeper

re: #17 Charles

re: #12 MandyMannersWhat kind of file are you uploading for an icon? You seem to have found a glitch in the system that causes a blank white square, but I'm not clear on why it's happening.

Maybe Mandy has surrendered?

This is what is on my "Manage your account" page when I look.

Obviously, divine miss MM, your avatar is possessed.

re: #46 MandyManners

I resized it for you. Check your e-mail.

/11K, good to go

How will the democrats wiggle out of their surrendering now that it appears the tide has turned in Iraq? Any guesses?

re: #38 Killian Bundy

re: #32 Psaturn

Mandy, I think it is TOO large file. It has to be at most 16 KB...that is kilobytes not megabytes.

Killjoy.

/who are you to say Mandy can't have 16 megabytes, if that's what she wants?

Dear Killian Bundy...it is NOT ME who decided that Mandy could not have 16 megabytes...you have to ask Charles about that! He is the one who set the limit at 16 kilobytes...I was just passing the information that her file was too large.

re: #65 christheprofessor

Charles

You may have been asked this already and I didn't see it, but any thoughts about scaling the avatars up a bit such that they are more visible?

Is that really necessary?

I can clearly see that your avatar is Opus from Bloom County and it looks marvelous.

Totten: After the Battle of Al-Fajr

Great story. Very calm, thoughtful, and insightful. A Christmas present (via PayPal) is on its way to Mr. Trotten (as well as to MEMRI and LGF).

re: #61 Desert Dog

Whoa! I see an interspecial kiss coming on!

CNN will just ignore this one as they always do. It'll be filed under "no usable political meaning". "Usable " in this context meaning "usable for Bush-bashing". Still, one can take heart in their plunging ratings. CNN: how low will they go (content and ratings both)?

OK, I slightly altered my avatar, making the head fill the frame more, and uploading the bigger image so it's visible in my profile. Let's give it a try!

Say what?

Florida public school science director fired for bias towards science...
Former science director speaks up about losing her job

Castillo-Comer had forwarded an email. It was literally an FYI about an author speaking in Austin. The author wrote a book critical of Creationism. Another state education employee not on the forward list got hold of it and took it to the TEA.
...
An an internal memo TEA supervisors wrote that Castillo-Comer should remain neutral on issues like evolution and that her email indicated a bias on behalf of the TEA. Castillo-Comer and many state educators disagree. She says teachers from across the state have emailed her support and tell her they have been pressured not to teach evolution.

Oh yeah, "Save changes."

Let's try it now.

re: #74 zombie

OK, I slightly altered my avatar, making the head fill the frame more, and uploading the bigger image so it's visible in my profile. Let's give it a try!

Much better! Is that a zombie?

re: #70 tripster

Heh. You are mistaken -- that's not Opus, it's the Godpenguin...

re: #77 zombie

Oh yeah, "Save changes."

Let's try it now.

Don't forget, you'll need to refresh.

That's better!

re: #74 zombie

Lookin' good.

re: #63 Pro-Bush Canuck

You got a great point! His position is looking more similar to VB...

I am glad that Charles noticed and pointed out the danger of VB and white supremacist ideology that could be dangerous in the Anti Jihad community (and could be anti semitic to boot).

December 3, 2007 -- About 150 students wearing colorful T-shirts competed in a bicycle race last week in Fallujah, an unimaginable event a year ago...

Testing Avatar, whatever that is. :)

re: #77 zombie

Oh yeah, "Save changes."

Let's try it now.

Browser cache -- you need to refresh the page, maybe twice for Safari.

Sorry for the early OT, but it's a good OT ...

The Cell Phones for Soldiers program was started in April 2004 by 13-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her 12-year-old brother Robbie of Norwell, Massachusetts.

Robbie and Brittany's goal is to help our soldiers serving overseas call home. They hope to provide as many soldiers as possible with prepaid calling cards. Through generous donations and the recycling of used cell phones, Robbie and Brittany have already distributed thousands of calling cards to soldiers around the globe.

    [Just think about those soldiers able to call home this Yule because of this program, etc.  And what a good example these kids are showing!

}:)     [And now I'm all mushy w/the holiday spirit ... ]

re: #78 coquimbojoe

re: #74 zombie

OK, I slightly altered my avatar, making the head fill the frame more, and uploading the bigger image so it's visible in my profile. Let's give it a try!

Much better! Is that a zombie?

Yes, it's a zombie in Haiti in 1937.

A real zombie. Not a stupid movie-monster zombie.

Felicia Felix-Mentor was her name.

re: #67 Killian Bundy

re: #46 MandyManners

I resized it for you. Check your e-mail.

/11K, good to go

Actually, why leave perfectly good kilobytes on the table?

Check your e-mail again for "mandy1"

/14K

re: #61 Desert Dog

re: #56 kayawanee

Charles and James T Kirk dancing?

Damned paparazzi. At least we were both wearing underwear that time.

re: #86 Charles

re: #77 zombie

Oh yeah, "Save changes."

Let's try it now.

Browser cache -- you need to refresh the page, maybe twice for Safari.

Yeah, I refreshed, and everything is hunky-dory!

re: #88 zombie

re: #78 coquimbojoe

re: #74 zombie

OK, I slightly altered my avatar, making the head fill the frame more, and uploading the bigger image so it's visible in my profile. Let's give it a try!

Much better! Is that a zombie?

Yes, it's a zombie in Haiti in 1937.

A real zombie. Not a stupid movie-monster zombie.

Felicia Felix-Mentor was her name.

So, uh, what she doing now? (Did you like the movie Serpent and the Rainbow?)

re: #81 zombie

Don't you have a better picture of yourself?...One with your eyes open perhaps, and maybe a smile?

re: #65 christheprofessor

Charles

You may have been asked this already and I didn't see it, but any thoughts about scaling the avatars up a bit such that they are more visible?

I have to keep it at this size, to minimize the bandwidth hit and maximize loading speed, especially on large threads.

re: #79 christheprofessor

Danny Devito ?

OT: Saudi Arabia gleefully taking in Gauntonamo jihadists:

Another former Guantanamo detainee, Khalid al-Hubayshi, 32, now works in the customer service department of a local Saudi Internet provider. He was married in February with the help of $20,000 from the Saudi government, which bought him a white Toyota Corolla upon his release and continues to provide him a monthly stipend of $800.

Hubayshi was a self-proclaimed jihadist enraged by images of Muslims massacred during the wars in Bosnia and went to the Philippines to fight. He was training in Afghanistan when U.S. forces began bombing there, and said he was sold to Pakistani authorities and was later turned over to U.S. officials.

‘I was young. I was idealistic. I was full of zeal’
"I was not there to fight Americans, but if the Americans had come into ground battle in Afghanistan, either I would have killed him or he would have killed me," Hubayshi said. "I was young. I was idealistic. I was full of zeal."

Hubayshi said he is unsure why he was sent home ahead of others with less involvement in Islamic insurgency. He said he told U.S. interrogators during more than 100 sessions that he was not a member of al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

Unlike Dossari, Hubayshi — among a small group of Saudis to leave Guantanamo in 2005 — was imprisoned for nearly a year after his return to Saudi Arabia. But ultimately senior Saudi officials told him that he had learned his lesson.

Whether that turns out to be true is the central question for everyone, experts said.

"The proof will ultimately be in the pudding," said Bradford A. Berenson, a Washington lawyer who was associate counsel to Bush from 2001 to 2003. "If a lot of them end up in terror cells and on battlefields, we'll know that it doesn't work well enough to trust."

re: #92 coquimbojoe

So, uh, what she doing now?

Back to being dead, I think.

(Did you like the movie Serpent and the Rainbow?)

A little hippy-dippy for me, to be frank!

Capitalism buys a lot of carbon offsets...
Al Gore is criticised for lining his own pockets after £3,300-per-minute green speech

Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.

The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

Many of the audience at last month's Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.

re: #94 Charles

re: #65 christheprofessor

You may have been asked this already and I didn't see it, but any thoughts about scaling the avatars up a bit such that they are more visible?

I have to keep it at this size, to minimize the bandwidth hit and loading speed, especially on large threads.

Yeah. Larger, better looking avatars would not be worth the additional drain on bandwidth and refresh times.

re: #94 Charles

Makes sense, thanks for the response...

re: #95 tripster

re: #79 christheprofessor

Danny Devito ?

Very nice... (raises coffee -- salud!)

re: #13 Ojoe

What part of Italy are you in? I've been in Italy twice in the last few years, and this last trip was in June hiking around Mont Blanc for two weeks. Did you notice that smoking has been banned in bars and restaurants?

Cashmere sweaters are calling!

Later, Lizards.

re: #93 Ringo the Gringo

re: #81 zombie

Don't you have a better picture of yourself?...One with your eyes open perhaps, and maybe a smile?

Sorry. This is the only picture I got.

By now I'm probably pretty much decomposed, anyway.

re: #75 zombie

Say what?

Don't go messin' wit da voodoo.

re: #98 Killgore Trout

Capitalism buys a lot of carbon offsets...
Al Gore is criticised for lining his own pockets after £3,300-per-minute green speech

Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

Many of the audience at last month's Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.

Who would've thought this lisping fool would've been an arrogant prat?

re: #104 zombie

By now I'm probably pretty much decomposed,
anyway.

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout

Be merry my friends
Be merry

re: #88 zombie

re: #78 coquimbojoe

re: #74 zombie

OK, I slightly altered my avatar, making the head fill the frame more, and uploading the bigger image so it's visible in my profile. Let's give it a try!

Much better! Is that a zombie?

Yes, it's a zombie in Haiti in 1937.

A real zombie. Not a stupid movie-monster zombie.

Felicia Felix-Mentor was her name.

For those interested here is a more recent photo of her.

Lord of the flies...
Homosexuality Turned On and Off in Fruit Flies

A new study finds drugs or genetic manipulation can turn the homosexual behavior of fruit flies on and off within a matter of hours. While the genetic finding supports the thinking that homosexuality is hard-wired, the drug finding surprisingly suggests it's not that simple.

Fabulous science!

re: #98 Killgore Trout

And, he flew there in his private jet, drove to the speech in his limo, followed by his entourage, then back to the luxury suite for champagne and cavair...using more "carbon" on that trip than I will in a year...YET he still wants us to use florescent bulbs and take the bus or ride a bike to work...he is truly amazing. The gall and nerve and outright hypocrisy these jet set eco-warrior exhibit is stunning. I do not begrudge these phonies the wealth they have, it is the "do as I say, not as I do" crap they try to get away with.

Charles - why does LGF convert images that are already JPEGs? I uploaded a 24x24 JPEG deliberately saved with low compression/loss, but the one being displayed is completely blotchy.

re: #98 Killgore Trout

Well, what else did they think he was doing it for...?! --'cept a sense of power --nobody could believe that gunk he spews...

re: #106 coquimbojoe

Who would've thought this lisping fool [Al Gore] would've been an arrogant prat?

/raises a hand

re: #109 Killgore Trout

That's "fruit" flies, what about manly testosterone flies?

re: #106 coquimbojoe

$200,000 dollars per 1/2 hour is pretty amazing. Pavoratti didn't even pull in that much money.

re: #98 Killgore Trout

He's greenish. After flying in to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Prize, he's jetting off to Bali to participate in the global warming conference there.

Yes, that's quite the way to reduce your own carbon footprint there. Buying indulgences isn't going to save the environment one bit. You're still polluting. You're still bespoiling the environment. You're still a hack who did nothing on global warming when you had a chance to do something in the 1990s, and your Administration opposed Kyoto and prevented the US from joining that ruinous racket.

Of course, your tune has changed greatly since you can personally benefit from going green; the green you seek is for your pockets.

You are a charlatan Mr. Gore. (well, that's the polite term).

re: #107 Ringo the Gringo

My theme song, of course, is:

Back to back, belly to belly
I don't give a damn, 'cause I done dead already
Back to back, belly to belly
At the Zombie Jamboree

re: #108 tripster

LOL!

re: #109 Killgore Trout

Lord of the flies...
Homosexuality Turned On and Off in Fruit Flies

A new study finds drugs or genetic manipulation can turn the homosexual behavior of fruit flies on and off within a matter of hours. While the genetic finding supports the thinking that homosexuality is hard-wired, the drug finding surprisingly suggests it's not that simple.

Fabulous science!

A drug that causes creatures to mate with partners they would not normally find attractive... Isn't that called "alcohol"?

re: #114 Desert Dog

The fark headline for that story was pretty funny...

Homosexuality can be turned on and off in fruit flies, allowing them to just be flies

re: #114 Desert Dog

re: #109 Killgore Trout

That's "fruit" flies, what about manly testosterone flies?

We're on a roll, I tell ya!

LoL!

re: #119 JamesTKirk

A drug that causes creatures to mate with partners they would not normally find attractive... Isn't that called "alcohol"?

I've done some pretty ugly women with my beer goggles on but I've never switched teams.

re: #117 zombie

re: #107 Ringo the Gringo

My theme song, of course, is:

Back to back, belly to belly
I don't give a damn, 'cause I done dead already
Back to back, belly to belly
At the Zombie Jamboree

Have your heard Coulton's "re: your brain"?

Heya Tom, it's Bob, from the office down the hall
Good to see you buddy, how've you been?
Thing have been okay for me except that I'm a zombie now
I really wish you'd let us in
I think I speak for all of us when I say I understand
Why you folks might hesitate to submit to our demand
But here's an FYI: you're all gonna die screaming

re: #121 zombie

I wonder if they same drug could help me decorate my house and color coordinate my wardrobe.

re: #114 Desert Dog

re: #109 Killgore Trout

That's "fruit" flies, what about manly testosterone flies?

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAA

re: #122 Killgore Trout

I've done some pretty ugly women with my beer goggles on

Here in Haiti we call them "rum goggles."

It's the only way we zombie girls can get any action.

re: #115 Killgore Trout

re: #106 coquimbojoe

$200,000 dollars per 1/2 hour is pretty amazing. Pavoratti didn't even pull in that much money.

It gives hope for the rest of us talentless hacks...

re: #119 JamesTKirk

Lager Goggles! We've all worn a pair or two in our lives...

re: #121 zombie

We're on a roll, I tell ya!

I see Gates of Vienna people.

/call it self amusement but for whatever reason, that cracks me up

re: #122 Killgore Trout

re: #119JamesTKirk

A drug that causes creatures to mate with partners they would not normally find attractive... Isn't that called "alcohol"?

I've done some pretty ugly women with my beer goggles on but I've never switched teams.

Neither have I, but I've seen it happen. (With women... I'm sure the phenomenon also occurs with men, but I've never had any desire to be involved in monitoring those experiments.)

Next open reg I may become "Pro-Reagan Canuck" instead.

re: #124 Killgore Trout

I wonder if they same drug could help me decorate my house and color coordinate my wardrobe.

More likely that same drug would have you flying around the neighborhood holding wings with Bruce as you scouted for dog cr*p.

re: #129 Killian Bundy

re: #121 zombie

We're on a roll, I tell ya!

I see Gates of Vienna people.

/call it self amusement but for whatever reason, that cracks me up

Laughing about anything can be quite helpful for your rock hard abs.

re: #131 Pro-Bush Canuck

Next open reg I may become "Pro-Reagan Canuck" instead.

Or just be dodgy about which Bush you're in favor of. Is Jenna still cute?

I'll bet the "Hate the United States and All It Stands For" ratbags just wish patriots like Michael J. Totten who present events that do not agree with the party line would just disappear. However, as evidence that MSM journalists are not all bad, we have Max Becherer from Time, who is also a patriot.

I believe people like Mr. Totten have prevented the left from polluting our sources of information with its vicious hatred for patriots who put their lives on the line to defend the United States and the Free World from tyrants and thugs, the way the left did during the 'Nam War. Back then the left could lie so many times the lie became what was perceived to be the truth. "We lost the Vietnam War" is one such lie.

Michael J. Totten, thank you.

re: #131 Pro-Bush Canuck

Next open reg I may become "Pro-Reagan Canuck" instead.

perhaps pro-shrubbery Canuck?

re: #119 JamesTKirk

re: #109 Killgore Trout

Lord of the flies...
Homosexuality Turned On and Off in Fruit Flies

A new study finds drugs or genetic manipulation can turn the homosexual behavior of fruit flies on and off within a matter of hours. While the genetic finding supports the thinking that homosexuality is hard-wired, the drug finding surprisingly suggests it's not that simple.

Fabulous science!

A drug that causes creatures to mate with partners they would not normally find attractive... Isn't that called "alcohol"?

Actually this is potentially useful as a weapon. Imagine a "gay-love-drug" that could be deployed on enemy troops, turning the enemy camp into a massive homos3xual love-fest! Believe it or not, the US almost worked on such a weapon in the 90s:

The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.

Beeb

re: #117 zombie

The best version of Zombie Jamboree can be found on this excellent CD: Dip and Fall Back: classic Jamaican Mento from Dr. Kinsey to Haile Selassie

BTW - The track listing at Amazon is incorrect. It's a 2 disc collection but Amazon only lists the songs from disc #1, Zombie Jamboree is on disc #2.

re: #138 Ringo the Gringo

re: #117 zombie

The best version of Zombie Jamboree can be found on this excellent CD: Dip and Fall Back: classic Jamaican Mento from Dr. Kinsey to Haile Selassie

BTW - The track listing at Amazon is incorrect. It's a 2 disc collection but Amazon only lists the songs from disc #1, Zombie Jamboree is on disc #2.

Thanks -- I'll check it out! I have a big collection of mento mp3s. Can't get enough of it!

re: #138 Ringo the Gringo

The best version of it was the Kingston Trio Live at the
Hungry I in 1956. That was a really great album.

re: #140 Mike in Georgia

re: #138 Ringo the Gringo

The best version of it was the Kingston Trio Live at the
Hungry I in 1956. That was a really great album.

Eh, I have gotten weary of the Belafonte and Kingston Trio and other major-release versions of these Caribbean folk (and semi-folk) songs. Now I always try to seek out the originals (if possible!).

I saw the Kingston Trio perform at the Hungry i in 1965--can't remember if they sang that song however

re: #140 Mike in Georgia

Oh no, the best version is the one that I say is best.

/...of course, you're entitled to your opinion.

re: #143 Ringo the Gringo

The best version is the one the me and my friends sing in the middle of the night -- in a Queens cemetery!

re: #141 zombie

This one is very good too...and this and this too.

Also worth buying is the Trojan box which has both mento and calypso.

zombie,

While I'm at it: These collections contain some of the best music I've picked up in years. Highly recommended...Especially vol.II

re: #137 me

DARPA is great. I worked under a couple DARPA MTO grants back in 2000-2002 while I was a part of Draper Laboratories in Cambridge, MA developing bioweapon defense sensors.

Some of the projects they throw money at are incredible...and lots of it works but lacks manufacturing money from the DoD/private industry to make it commericially viable.

re: #145 Ringo the Gringo

re: #146 Ringo the Gringo

Thanks for the recommendations!

Scanning the playlists, I see that I already have some of those exact tracks in mp3 form, uploaded by people to various specialty sites and blogs (and -- ahem -- other places on the internet). I'll see if I can round up more! Or -- gulp -- actually buy something.

I've also discovered a few obsessives who literally digitize their own 78s from their private collections, and upload either whole songs or snippets. Stuff that's never been re-released anywhere.

re: #148 zombie

If you really like rare old recordings check this website: Vintage Recordings.com
You can buy CD's of Vaudeville acts, Medicine shows, old blues & jazz, even opera and marching band music.

Great stuff.

This album is great too: Good for what Ails You

re: #36 zombie

re: #27 Psaturn

That is a GREAT question Zombie!And I also nominate you for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism!

Thanks, but...I think Satan himself would have a better chance than me.

Come to think of it -- if Satan did start publishing revisionist reports from Hell, saying how they just had a different culturedown there, and really, in many ways it's better than American culture-- the MSM would just love it, and Satan would have a Pulitzer on hismantlepiece in no time.

I think you are very right!

Especially when you consider how Al Gore got his Oscar and his Nobel Prize...I could NOT believe he got Nobel prize! GEE WHIZ!

That really made the Nobel Peace Prize a joke...after the 'mistake' that Arafat got his Nobel Peace Prize...

Thank you Totten ... this time for the subjective coverage of our US Marines view of the job they were ordered to perform in Fallujah' !
Their first hand perceptions ARE very meaningful for us to read and hear.

Freedom IS NOT Free!
Neither is the work of an independent multimedia correspondent!
Please SUPPORT our Marines and Michael Totten's courageous and dedicated work.

re: #1 zombie

Has Totten won the Pulitzer yet?

Why not?

Totten's work is valuable, but I'm not sure where it rates on a journalistic scale. It's a little too raw and random. It's data, not info, as they say.

I read a lot of what he reports as saying we've had very poor military leadership. Not the guys on the line, but the commanders who put them through it.

Maybe things are getting better, and whatever happened in Fallujah can just stay in Fallujah. Maybe we've all learned some stuff, troops and commanders, friends and enemies. Everyone but Democrats, and maybe even some of those. But Totten's Pulizter is held up by the continued "ambiguity" on all sides. Maybe if peace truly breaks out, he gets one then.