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Duct tape Some people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce.

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Hiatus In case you were wondering, I'm still on dial-up until (hopefully) tomorrow around noon.

So that's why I havn't been around much nor posted :)  posted by Lord Nazh @ 20:02   | View blog reactions |

Touchy Towards Taiwan

a formal declaration of independence or a military alliance by Taiwan with a
foreign power, or foreign intervention in Taiwan's internal affairs. Delays in resumption of cross-Strait dialogue, and an unwillingness to negotiate on the basis of 'one China'. Taiwan's acquisition of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction internal unrest or turmoil on Taiwan

"We discussed the need to move forward and deepen our military-to-military
dialogue, including that on nuclear policy strategy and doctrine."

"We are furious"

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Fred on taxes

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson proposed an income tax plan Sunday that would allow Americans to choose a simplified system with only two rates: 10 percent and 25 percent.

Thompson's proposal, announced on "Fox News Sunday," would allow filers to remain under the current, complex tax code or use the flat tax rates.

Asked whether the plan would cut too deeply into federal revenues, the former Tennessee senator and actor said experts "always overestimate the losses to the government" when taxes are cut.

"We've known for years any time we have lowered taxes and any time we've lowered tax rates, we've seen growth in the economy," Thompson said.

Thompson added that money would be saved by his Social Security reform plan. He proposed that workers younger than 58 receive smaller monthly Social Security checks than they are now promised. Individuals could contribute 2 percent of their paycheck to a personal retirement account, an amount that would be matched by the Social Security trust fund. [link]

Some solid policy speak from Fred. Hopefully this will get his campaign back on track in time for the upcoming votes. I'll vote for the Republican nominee, but I'd feel much better if that was Fred :)

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Labels: policy, Presidential campaign, taxes

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UT vs UK (III) Great game (if you don't have a heart condition).

Kentucky should have won it in OT #2 but the field goal was blocked. In the 4th OT Tennessee scored and got the 2 point. Kentucky scored and missed the 2 point.

52-50 Tennessee! EMB: I tried to call you, was a great game, hope you got to watch it.

Tags:Kentucky, Tennessee, SEC, football, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: college sports, football, kentucky, sec, Tennessee

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UT vs UK 31-28 UT 6 minutes to go... tight game

The UK offense on track and UT has some drops that have hurt. UT ball (UK kicking off).  posted by Lord Nazh @ 15:55   | View blog reactions |

UT vs UK (half time) Tennessee 24
Kentucky 7




Halfway through the game and it's looking like the streak will reach 23 in a row for Tennessee. The offense is moving at will (one tipped interception that resulted in nothing) and the defense is playing inspired (intercepted Woodson next play after the Ainge Int.). If Kentucky doesn't find some 'fire' in the locker room, this game may get out of hand.

Don't worry EMB, they still get to go to a bowl ;)

Tags:Kentucky, Tennessee, SEC, football, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: college sports, football, sec

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The Death of English Manners

Soldiers who suffered appalling injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan were verbally abused as they swam in a public swimming pool.

During a weekly rehabilitation class at a council leisure centre, 15 servicemen – including several who have lost limbs or suffered severe burns – were heckled and jeered by members of the public.

One woman was so incensed that the troops were using the pool at Leatherhead Leisure Centre in Surrey that she told them they did not deserve to be there.[link]

Read the whole thing and weep for the country that was one of the greatest in the world for so long. (h/t stickydiesel)

Labels: honor, war

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Tragedy I give thanks for my family and friends this holiday season. And my prayers to the family and friends of these poor souls.

Labels: holiday, tragedy

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  posted by Lord Nazh @ 12:32   | View blog reactions |

Fred Interview Part 1


Part 2

Labels: politics, Presidential campaign

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Norris & Huckabee This is hands down the funniest and best political ad I have ever seen. It would be nice if more politicians would stop taking themselves so damned seriously and try to make people want to vote for them. Not against their opponent(s). This ad has been out for at least a few days. But I thought I would share it here just in case you guys missed it.

Chuck Norris Approved

Labels: Chuck Norris, EvilMidniteBombr, Huckabee, Presidential campaign

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Addition I would like to say Thanks to GSGF for blogging here with us at TDR and to ask everyone to make her feel welcome :)

I see the 2 items here have been also posted at her normal site (here) so now you get more choices for her wit and charm [heh]

We're still looking for 1-2 more people, drop me a line and let me know if you're interested.
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GSGF is a passionate writer who looks more on the middle east than internal politics and Iran more than any other place. I'll let her tell about her if she wants, but you can't go wrong reading her pieces (with links) and she has inside info on quite a few items (which hopefully she'll put on here for us to enjoy).

Again, I'd like to give her special thanks for joining.  posted by Lord Nazh @ 18:54   | View blog reactions |

Bashar's Bridge to Burn

"It is clear that Assad will not be sending a representative to Annapolis to
grant legitimacy to a bilateral Israeli-Palestinian process that is meant to end
up with an agreement between the Zionist Entity and the Fatah-led PA.
Keep in mind that Damascus houses and fully supports Hamas, which is
ideologically opposed to any such process. Rather, Assad has a price for his
attendance and for moving away from Iran."

 posted by GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnD @ 16:19   | View blog reactions |

Real Gun Control

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Labels: 2nd Amendment, gun laws

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Joke

A man was at the country club for his weekly round of golf. He began his round with an eagle on the first hole and a birdie on the second. On the third hole he had just scored his first ever hole-in-one when his cell phone rang.
It was a doctor notifying him that his wife had just been in a terrible accident and was in critical condition and in the ICU.
The man told the doctor to inform his wife where he was and that the he’d be there as soon as possible.

As he hung up he realized he was leaving what was shaping up to be his best ever round of golf. He decided to get in a couple of more holes before heading to the hospital. He ended up playing all eighteen of course, finishing his round shooting a personal best 61, shattering the club record by five strokes and beating his previous best game by more than 10.

He was jubilant.... Then he remembered his wife. Feeling guilty he dashed to the hospital.
... [link]

H/T AJD Shootist

Click the link and read the rest, nothing like a good joke to make you appreciate everything more

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Labels: humor

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Suicide after Hoax

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Internet My satellite modem is dead. I have another on order ($180) and currently on dial-up, so most posting will happen from work if I post.  posted by Lord Nazh @ 15:28   | View blog reactions |

Sex in Iran This post is by GSGF:

"I don't know what the book is about. But when the government bans a book, there is something interesting in it." Ahmad Abbasi says, forking out twice the book's price at an undisclosed location.

Life under an illegitimate regime like Iran's mullahs does have one benefit. You know when the government bans a book - it's got to be good. Especially one that made it through a first edition before the "Culture Ministry" caught the error.

"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" a Persian translation of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel at first seems about as dangerous as listening to your 'rents Steely Dan box set.

Older guys trying to hook up with young hotties is the theme. Happens every Ladies Night in the Free World. Nothing major or government threatening - or is it?

In the Mohammedist preachers paradise of the Islamic Republic of Iran it is like Kryptonite in Smallville.

Culture Minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi has the sitch well in hand.

"Necessary measures have been taken to avoid reoccurrence of such a printing"

Such measures include sacking the censors for "negligence". Alas, the traditional despotic remedy may be too little too late. Over 5K copies have been printed and are selling out fast.

The novel of bummed out hoes deals with an old man who has been a customer of prostitutes his entire life. For his 90th Bday he wants to hook up with a 14 yo teenage virgin.

Just like a Steely Dan song - he falls hopelessly in love with her.

"The first edition has sold out but we were ordered not to publish the second edition," an employee with Niloofar Publications said Saturday, declining to give his name due to the sensitivity of the issue.

The Culture Ministry, whose censors are responsible to check the contents of books before print, said a "bureaucratic error" led to the government giving permission for the novel to be published.

Thankfully, Iran's faithful reported the oversight and the ban is now in place.

It was only banned after the Ministry of Culture received complaints from conservatives who believed the novel was promoting prostitution.

Far from driving the massess away from such blatant desire for Laffy Taffy literature, the ban may have actually backfired.

The ban has only provoked greater interest in the novel and on Saturday, copies of the book were being sold for more than twice their list price.

28yo Ahmad Abbasi says "I'm buying the book out of curiosity."
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Sources:
http://www.farsnews.com/English/farsnews.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/17/AR2007111700810.html?sub=AR
http://www.parstimes.com/gov_iran.html
http://www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2005/november-2005/culture_crackdown_261105.shtml
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/steely+dan/hey+nineteen_20130113.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGDHmDWe2iE

Labels: censorship, Iran

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(Illegal) Immigration Protests Seems a store-owner asked the police to patrol near his store for 'undocumented' workers (illegals for the non-pc) and that got 'immigrant rights' groups upset (illegal immigrant rights?):
see vid
Of course this injunction is only temporary, but at least 24 people have been arrested thanks to this citizen asking the police to do their job.

Labels: illegal immigration, protest

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Advice Karl with advice to whomever wins the Republican nomination on beating Hillary (via Newsweek):

Email the
Author
Biography
More by the Author

I've seen up close the two Clintons America knows. He's a big smile, hand locked on your arm and lots of charms. "Hey, come down and speak at my library. I'd like to talk some politics with you."

And her? She tends to be, well, hard and brittle. I inherited her West Wing office. Shortly after the 2001 Inauguration, I made a little talk saying I appreciated having the office because it had the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing, which gave me a chance to improve my rumpled appearance. The senator from New York confronted me shortly after and pointedly said she hadn't put the mirror there. I hadn't said she did, just that the mirror was there. So a few weeks later, in another talk, I repeated the story about the mirror. And shortly thereafter, the junior senator saw me and, again, without a hint of humor or light in her voice, icily said she'd heard I'd repeated the story of the mirror and she … did … not … put … that mirror in the office.[link]

Some good strategy and advice to be had there, even if you think Rove was up to every decent into madness that has happened in politics in the past decade.

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Labels: advice, Presidential campaign, republicans

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Campaign '08

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Labels: Presidential campaign, push polling, smear

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34th Empty Table Fund hoping to hit $50,000 goal

The Empty Table Fund will try again this year to raise $50,000 to help local families in need.

The campaign began Friday and will take donations through the end of the year. It fell short $14,500 from its $50,000 goal in 2006.

Money raised through the fund is used by the Salvation Army to help families in Colbert, Lauderdale and Franklin counties who are in need of food.

Since 1973, the Empty Table Fund, initially known as the Empty Stocking Fund, has collected monetary donations. The fund joined the Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign Friday, and the Angel Tree project that begins today. [link]

If anyone wants to help this charity out, leave a donation in the sidebar and tell me it's for the Empty Table Fund and I'll make sure it gets to who needs it (or mail it to them at address below)

"This is our biggest time of year for fundraising," he said. "My hope is that we can help as many people as we possibly can and not have to turn anybody away. It's hard to say we're out of funds for the month."

Contributions to the Empty Table Fund may be brought to the TimesDaily office at 219 W. Tennessee St., Florence, or mailed to TimesDaily, P.O. Box 797, Florence, AL 35631.

Kenda Williams can be reached at 740-5720 or kenda.williams@timesdaily.com.

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 posted by Lord Nazh @ 18:27   | View blog reactions |

SEC Roundup Ok, Tennessee came back to beat Vandy (1 win away from the SEC Championship now and Vandy still 1 win from boal contention); Georgia came back to beat Kentucky, LSU handled Ole Miss, Arkansas had an easy day with Mississippi State and Florida destroyed FAU (Tebow, the front-runner for the heisman now, had his 20th rushing TD on the year, 1st major college player with 20 rushing and 20 passing td's).

Game of the day (heh)

No words for this one, just the link Ala 14 - ULM 21


tag: Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Arkansas, SEC, football, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: college sports, football

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tag: headlines, Iraq, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: AP News, headlines, Iraq

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Bus Crash follow up

Follow up to the crash from here.

tag: Huntsville, Alabama, Lee High School, crash, follow up, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: Alabama, bus crash, Huntsville

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Art for the troops

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Labels: art, Iraq war, troops

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Drinking laws

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Healthcare Debate

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Labels: debate, democrats, health care

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Blood Libel

The al Durah blood libel

Wednesday,
14th November 2007

I am in Paris where I have attended the Court of Appeal special session called to witness the 27 minutes of hitherto unseen footage of the ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah which the court had required France 2 to produce. For readers who are unfamiliar with this scandal, I wrote about it here, here and here.

Suffice it to say here that the iconic image of the child Mohammed al Durah, pictured crouching with his father behind a barrel next to a concrete wall in an
apparently vain attempt to shelter from the gun-battle between Israel and the
Palestinians that was raging around them before he was allegedly shot dead by
the Israelis, served to incite terrorist violence and atrocities around the
world after it was transmitted by France 2 at the beginning of the second
intifada. Yet it is clear to anyone looking at this in detail that the whole
thing was staged, not least from the devastating evidence here which shows the boy
raising his arm and peeping through his fingers seconds after the France 2
correspondent Charles Enderlin said he had been shot dead. [link]

In a hurry so can't comment atm.

*update: This scene was partially (if not wholly) responsible for the 2nd infitada against Israel and is utterly fake. It behooves responsible news people everywhere to not only look at what they have, but to check and make sure they are actually reporting and not making it up (yes I'm looking at you Dan). No one knows if things would have been different without this heinous video from France2, but that doesn't stop one from wondering exactly how much bloodshed this newsman and his camera man have on their hands.

Will they pay for it? I seriously doubt it. In the minds of the public they may get raked over the coals for a few weeks or months, but it is very hard for me to believe that the government will pose any severe penalties on these monsters.

The Thunder Run has a nice roundup of news from the MSM, the front and bloggers: here

Labels: Israel, palestineans, terrorists

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San Francisco, Mexico Can we start the process of annexing SF to Mexico yet

?(11-13) 15:56 PST San Francisco - -- The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to
issue municipal identification cards to city residents - regardless of whether
they are in the country legally - and to double the amount of public money
available to candidates running for supervisor.

Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who authored the ID card legislation, said the program is a smart public safety measure because it would make residents living on the social margins of San Francisco more likely to seek the help of police and could give them more access to banking services.

"People are afraid to report crimes," Ammiano said, referring to illegal immigrants who avoid local law enforcement authorities over fear of being arrested or deported by federal immigration officials. [link]

'Smart' legislation to help ILLEGAL immigrants get police help (the border is south) and access to banking... That's awfully nice of the scumbagsupervisor isn't it? Of course you knew that the kooks would have to one-up Spitzer's plan to get all illegals driver's licenses (even Spitzer has given up now), I wonder if this plan will carry the same backlash as that did [this is Cali, so doubtful].

With the blatant disrespect for the country, it's laws, it's values and it's people; San Francisco once again shows it is on the cutting edge of insanity. The main reason ILLEGALS are not reporting crime is because it doesn't make sense for a CRIMINAL to report illegal activity and get involved with the police. I would like to think that this ID card is the first step to finding the ILLEGALS and removing them from US soil; of course I'd like to think that the lottery is going to pick me to win (without a ticket even) but wishes don't always come true.

Now Folsom can have it's annual S&MDeviantFreakGay Pride festival with an Illegal float, at least there's something to look forward to heh. [h/t drudge]

tag: San Francisco, illegal immigrants, idiot Democrat politician, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: idiocy, illegal immigration, Mexico, San Francisco

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Travel A co-worker of mine has started his own travel business and I told him I'd post about it and see if anyone might be interested. It pretty much has everything the big guys have (Expedia, Orbitz, etc.) and a few things they do not (tickets to events, golf packages, etc.).


Click the pic to goto his site. If you are planning to travel and this will help you any, please leave me some feedback here or through the email.

If you visit the site and notice anything 'out-of-whack' or somewhere an improvement could be made, let me know that also and I'll pass it on.

[Expedia and Orbitz are copyrighted by their respective owners]

tag: travel, travel deals, Seed Discount Travel, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: travel deals

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Veteran's Day - link Pics too big for keeping on front page :)

Click here to see the pictures from my Veteran's Day post.

Labels: remembrance

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Illegal Immigration Control = Racist?

Kos: Is Rahm Emanuel A Racist?

Yep! Just one big happy political party destined to run the table over there. With things in Iraq getting better, it's more difficult to bash Bush. Maybe they've resorted to eating their own. As regards the Netroots greater influence, I've yet to see convincing evidence that most of America responds to the type of negative emotions associated with so much of their posturing.[link]

I'll let you go over to Dan's place and read the quote (and of course no linky to Kos)

tag: racism, politics, Dan Riehl, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

Labels: politics, Racism

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Mukasey Vote
The AP feed of the Senate Vote.

tag: senate, democracy, Blogpower, Lord Nazh

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 posted by Lord Nazh @ 09:52   | View blog reactions |

Immigration

Seems I got a letter in the mail today from my employer. They want me to sign a form showing that I am 1) a US citizen or 2) a LEGAL immigrant. (I work nominally for the government)

I have no problem with this and am actually glad to see them doing it. It’s about time enforcement of the law became something an employer would want to do. I was looking at the form to figure out why me (I’ve worked there for 4+ years now) and saw that it was policy that everyone hired after April 2002 had to submit the form.

This makes me both happy and sad. Happy that something is being done at my employer for legal immigration (even though it is not a ’hotbed’ of illegal activity) and at the same time very sad that it took over 5 years to implement this simple form.

Friday Free-for-all at StoptheACLU!

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Pakistan

And that’s the problem. After nearly 10 billion bucks in cash from the Great Satan and 6 years of nothing but love - Pakistan is coming apart. Martial Law, media blackout,
independent judiciary under house arrests. A true Military government with a military crackdown on everyone except, well, the new improved Super Villian Caliphate. What the heck is going on?

Imported Al Qaeda Talibanish pocket caliphates developing abilities and tactics, targetable leaders and a surging offensive rolling up Pakistans Federal Tribal areas.

While comparisons to the Shah of Iran back in the Pre Islamic Republic days exist, perhaps the Philippines are a better example. Long ago, an essential sovereign ally of the Great Satan was ruled by a simularly ineffective leader. Maintaining power required traditional remedy’s: faux elections, unfree media and the secret police.

In the Philippines - the Great Satan was at her best. Refusing to confer legitimacy (thanks in large part to a