Via Pajamas Media, LGF has word that CENTCOM and Iraqis are planning to address the Capt. Jamil Hussein matter tomorrow:
Sir:
I have just learned from Mr. Costlow, mentioned below, that Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the official Ministry of Interior spokesmen, will begin his regularly scheduled press conference at noon tomorrow with a statement that Capt. Jamil Hussein, is not a Baghdad police officer or an MOI employee.
See Dub points out that the AP, in its rewritten "burned alive" story, implied that the blog storm set off by questions about Hussein might have been, umm, encouraged by a P.R. company paid to represent the American military.
The dispute comes at a time when the military is taking a more active role in dealing with the media.
The AP reported on Sept. 26 that a Washington-based firm, the Lincoln Group, had won a two-year contract to monitor reporting on the Iraq conflict in English-language and Arabic media outlets.
That contract succeeded one held by another Washington firm, The Rendon Group. Controversy had arisen around the Lincoln Group in 2005 when it was disclosed that it was part of a U.S. military operation to pay Iraqi newspapers to run positive stories about U.S. military activities.
Interesting, fake anti-U.S. news in the media?
Hrmmm...
With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade.
Barring a last-second surprise from the tropics, the season will end Thursday with nine named storms, and only five of those hurricanes. This year is the first season since 1997 that only one storm nudged its way into the Gulf of Mexico.
Tamp Bay On-line
Going from global warming and the disasters of 2005 to global climate change and the big fat nothing of 2006 I have to say damn those scientists renaming things and screwing this up for us. Now we have to wait another year and hope and pray that some big disaster hits before "W" gets out of office so we an blame more death and destruction on him. How can we whip the mindless masses into a hearty frenzy if the scientists do not cooperate??
What was wrong with global warming anyways?
Even if it gets colder we can still call it that, not like the average American pays attention to it anyways.
Well, here it is - "Thanksgiving 'Eve'" and things are NOT going as planned. It seems like everything I've planned to do for tommorrow is hitting the skids. I've even chewed out Muddy a few times today for what seemed liked ligitimate reasons - at the time. Of course, there's fault enough to split two ways. So I guess the challenge for me now is to keep in mind what this holiday is *suppossed* to be about. Counting your blessing. With me - it's easy to count my blessings. Unfortunately what's hard is keeping my mind in the present and not dwelling on the future where my mind tends to live a lot. I hate that! I thank God for my kids who I get to stay home with everyday. However, my mind goes to a place where they will someday leave the nest and have families of their own therefore putting mommy as the "not so center" of their world. Which is the way it should evolve to be. I thank God for my grandma (mamaw) who is 82 years old. She's my last surviving grandparent and as fiesty as ever! (and I wouldn't have her any other way). However, my mind tends to drift to a time when she will no longer be here to celebrate these holidays with us anymore. This *could* be her last Thanksgiving with us. (of course as stuborn as she can be, I wouldn't be surprised if that characteristic alone kept her around for another 10 years!). I also think of my father who now lives with our heavenly Father. I can still hear his voice, his laugh, his politically incorrect comments (I loved that about him!), his "jokes" at the Thanksgiving table that sometimes only he would get (and laugh at). I miss him.
I guess the whole point to this *long winded* - whatever - is to just dwell on today. It doesn't really matter what items you bring or don't bring to the holiday table, what matters is the *heart* you bring. Loved ones are not here forever but the time they are here for is NOW and NOW is the time to live.
First half of the game is up, second half should be up by this evening.
*edit*
Second half is up and seeding, enjoy.
1st Half is up, enjoy.
(as always, click the torrent link above to download)
2nd Half is done and up.
Leading Senate Democrats revived a plan for the "phased redeployment" of American troops out of Iraq, even though the plan did not get unanimous support among Democrats when it was first introduced in June.
Meanwhile, Bush spent time behind closed doors with members of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel of former statesmen appointed by Congress to give the situation in Iraq a fresh pair of eyes.
*rolls eyes*
You can quote me on this in the future, feel free as I'm beyond confident that it's true.
"If we pull out of Iraq before the job is done, chaos will reign like we've never seen in recorded history."
(AXcess News) S. Orange, NJ - In late October I attended a luncheon briefing in New York sponsored by the Middle East Forum. The speaker was R. James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and currently a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton. The room was filled with men who represent a class of citizenry known as "influential." Woolsey's topic was "Energy Alternatives and the War on Terror."
Normally, I give men like Woolsey a lot of respect because they've earned it. However, it didn't take long before I began to hear views that made me begin to question, not just the wisdom of what Woolsey was saying, but why he was saying it.
"The way strategically over the long run to weaken the enemies of Israel, such as Ahmadinejad, is to weaken the role of oil," said Woolsey. "Oil makes it harder to avoid genocide in Darfur because the Sudanese have a deal with China, and it makes it harder to deal with Iran, because China and Iran have an oil deal."
Say what? Weaken the role of oil? Genocide in Darfur has something to do with China? Iran will not pursue its lunatic Islamic apocalypse because it has an oil deal with China?
Found this interesting read, sad you don't read much truth in the media today, nice to find some sensibility from Mr. Caruba.
View Pics @ Fredrik and Crew on Maiken
Wow, this is intense.
Also there is an interesting bit on it Here
This is weird, but interesting and certainly true.
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Absolutely not! The deal that Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer has announced with Novell will involve Microsoft handing out thousands of vouchers for what he called "Novell's version of Linux" running on Windows servers. But as Ballmer said in San Francisco: "We're still competitors," and: "The right answer is Windows, Windows, Windows."
For the past four years, Microsoft has been trying to resolve its conflicts with other companies. It has already done deals with Sun, AOL and Real Networks, and the Novell agreement is another step forward, though it doesn't end the anti-trust suit that Novell filed in 2004 alleging anticompetitive practices that hurt its WordPerfect Office business.
Well it seems to me Microsoft is still doing what it can to destroy Linux, only this time It's the old if you can't beat em', buy em', line of thinking.
Yes, I realize nobody can 'buy' Linux, however creating deals like this with all the major players will put their dirty little mitts into more slices of the pie, so to speak.
If these companies really want virtual, they should just use vmware, that is where the smart money is, imho.
Yes! It *is* election day!! Do you know what that means?! It means that after 7pm tonight, muddy and I will no longer have to put up with those 10,12 to 15 a day political phone calls we've been bombarded with!!!! (well, at least not until the next election "season"). Of course, that's what we get for being "unaffiliated" when it comes to a party platform. But hey! No more stupid phone calls!
Oh, Happy Day! Sing along....