Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:24:43 am
The last thing one knows is what to put first. — Pascal
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:51:24 pm
Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know... In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a “rebel” willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But ...
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:45:00 pm
Well, I left registration open all day, 8+ hours, but since I didn’t announce it there are only 51 hatchlings on the delousing deck tonight. Welcome, hatchlings, and fear my unblinking eye. Unannounced openings evidently result in fewer hatchlings.
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:04:29 pm
Here’s a thread to discuss John McCain’s appearance on the Bill O’Reilly show...
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:49:49 pm
Not completely confirmed but looking good: Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Arrested in Mosul. BAGHDAD —  The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of al-Masri, also known ...
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:35:37 pm
Allen Forkum of the much-missed cartooning duo Cox & Forkum emailed to point out that he and John did a cartoon related to a subject we’ve been discussing a little bit recently at LGF.
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:35:31 am
If it isn’t civil war yet, it’s pretty close, as Hizballah flexes its muscles in a show of power: Fighting rocks Beirut, Hezbollah defiant. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its ...
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:05:58 am
Here’s an open thread, as I install the Microsoft Truetype “core” fonts in Ubuntu and Fedora 8. This is the font package that’s on nearly every Mac and PC, including Verdana, Arial, and Georgia — fonts that are used on 90%+ of the web pages in existence, but don’t come installed ...
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:11:09 am
The Communist government of Vietnam would like us all to know that they are committed to counter-terrorism. They said this at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, of which they are a member. Vietnam is committed to counter-terrorism and the non-proliferation of mass destruction weapons under international treaties ...
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:10:27 am
Things are heating up in Lebanon after the government began a crackdown on Hizballah’s illegal telecommunications network: Hezbollah says Beirut government declares war. BEIRUT, May 8 (Reuters) - The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government had declared war by targeting its communications network. Hezbollah launched a ...
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Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:12:01 am
Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
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Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:02:02 pm
From a glance at the PHP error logs I can see that more than a few registered lizards are having trouble uploading an image for their personal icon. The most common causes are: * Trying to upload an image that’s too large. We don’t have unlimited storage space for images, so ...
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Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:07:52 pm
The Kos Kids are doing that lovable armchair analysis thing again, demonstrating with relentless logic that George Bush Fits Clinical Profile of a Psychopath to a Tee. The research of Dr. Hervey Cleckley and Dr. Robert Hare exploring the personality and character traits of psychopaths, when applied to George Bush, ...
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Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:17:45 pm
Today’s message comes to us from Como (a beautiful town on a lake in the Lombardia region of Italy), site of a new outbreak of the Troofer virus. The subject line of this appeal for Troof: “The evidence demonstrates that 911 was deliberately allowed occur.” Come on, tell me why ...
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