Monday, October 5, 2009

C2 Morning Brew - OPEN

Posted by Corre∫pondence Committee at 11:00 AM
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  1. Here's a cheery thought to go with my coffee and shortbread cookies.

    N. Korea Has 13 Types of Biological Weapons

    North Korea is believed to possess 13 types of viruses and germs that it can readily use in the event of a conflict, a ruling party lawmaker said Monday, citing a defense ministry report.

    The North is believed to be one of the world's largest possessors of chemical and biological weapons.

    South Korea suspects the communist neighbor has up to 5,000 tons of chemical agents.

    The Norks are nice ad cozy with Syria, Iran, Burma and other upstanding member of the World Community!

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  2. There's my happy thought for the day. Thanks, JCM.

    Grrr...

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  3. JCM, you have to understand that the REAL problem is Israeli settlement-building.

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    (We do sarc tags here, right?)

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  4. Welcome across, OR.

    And yes, we must maintain our priorities!

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  5. Thanks, robomonkey. Actually, I started posting here Saturday. I still have to find myself an appropriate avatar.

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  6. OR,

    That's so true. Just the other day, my wife was complaining about how I had left my shorts tossed in the corner of the room, and yet when I helpfully explained "that the REAL problem is Israeli settlement-building"... she ignored it! She must be a zionist neocon or something.

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  7. I have an avatar on WordPress, but it doesn't show up here.

    I'm sure whatever you run up the flagpole will get saluted.

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  8. Meanwhile...

    The Neocons Make a Comeback
    Neocons are back because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin never went away.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574438831789972954.html

    "All this must, at some level, come as a surprise to an administration so deeply in love with itself. "I am well aware of the expectations that accompany my presidency around the world," Mr. Obama told the U.N.'s General Assembly last week with his usual modesty. He added that those expectations were "rooted in hope—the hope that real change is possible, and the hope that America will be a leader in bringing about such change." "

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  9. An after you got that Nobel Peace Prize for your Shorts-For-Peace plan and all...

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  11. "He added that those expectations were "rooted in hope—the hope that real change is possible"

    Hope! Hope and change! And, you know, stuff!

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  13. Kenneth:

    "Just the other day, my wife was complaining about how I had left my shorts tossed in the corner of the room"

    Tell her she should be thankful that they were merely YOUR shorts.

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  14. robomonkey,

    Sangria! It's on the buffet →

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  15. littleoldlady--

    The sun's over the yard-arm SOMEWHERE...

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  16. OR! :-)

    Thanks to blogspot I NEVER know what time it really is.

    /gives me A LOT of leeway ;-)

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  17. Hi everyone, just a drive-by for now, busy day!

    CALL FOR CONTACT INFO:

    For any of you who haven't sent your contact info or received any communication from me in the past, please click on my nic/avatar and send me an email with your info. We'll be moving shortly and I will be sending out invites to the new place (you will need this invite to enter). Thank you!

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  19. JCM said...

    Morning Brew ?
    When in blazes do you wake up ?
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  20. The sun's over the yard-arm SOMEWHERE...

    I've found it easier to simply lower my yardarm.

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  21. Hi LoL!

    I've found it easier to simply lower my yardarm. Robomonkey, I like they way you think. :-)

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  24. Speaking of coffee... on Saturday I visited a local gourmet grocery store. There was a man with a table set up offering samples of coffee. I needed a boost so I stopped and sipped a small cup (it was pretty good joe too!) The man gave me his well rehearsed sales pitch, when I was surprised to hear him say "We grow the coffee on our own farm in Zimbabwe..."

    "Zimbabwe?" I asked the man (who was white, btw), "hwo do you get along with the Mugabe government?"

    He visibly winced at the question. "We used to have 1000 acres. We bought the farm in the early 1990's, after independence. For a while we did very well. Then the government gangs came and took 900 of our acres. We're still trying to make a go of it with 100 acres. That's why I'm here now trying to sell our coffee. We used to go through a big broker, but now our crop is too small."

    I asked him what happened to the 900 acres the gangs stole from him?

    "They looted what they could take & burnt down the rest. Nobody farms anything on it. The government says they are taking farms from the rich white people and giving them to poor black people, but that all a lie. The gangs loot and burn and the poor starve."

    I bought some coffee.

    If you're interested in buying some fine coffee, and sticking your thumb in Robert Mugabe's eye while you are at it, here's their website:

    http://www.ashanticoffee.com/

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  25. Robomonkey, I like they way you drink. :-)

    FTFY.

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  26. Kenneth--

    "They looted what they could take & burnt down the rest."

    Ah, they're implementing Palestinian Development Economics, I see.

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  27. A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.

    The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee."

    The husband said, "You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee."

    Wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."

    Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me."

    So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says:

    "HEBREWS"

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  28. So tell me OR, are you flotsam or jetsam?

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  29. Kenneth said...
    So tell me OR, are you flotsam or jetsam?

    Remind me of the difference?

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  30. Russkilitlover is here?!! Welcome.

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  31. Flotsam is what is left over after a wreck, jetsam was thrown overboard. I trust you catch my metaphor...

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  33. Hey, Russ did see the post at zombietime. Welcome!

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  35. Flostam or jetsam... hmm... Neither. I'm a manly, masculine man, part of this manly, masculine crew!

    (I'm been getting a lot of mileage out of "Miles Cowperthwaite" lately.)

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  36. Russkiltlover! BOOYAH! Good to see you!

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  37. Thanks, turn for "turning" me on to this place!

    Now that I'm here and all giddy and everything, I...uh...have nothing to say!

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  38. Iran's Big Victory in Geneva by John "the 'stache" Bolton

    We are now even further from eliminating Tehran's threat.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703628304574452933624279114.html

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  39. Kenneth, I think I have your e-mail address stashed away somewhere (maybe?), if so, I'll e-mail you my flotsam/jetsam story.

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  40. Hey Russ, just spread the word about C2 ... ok?

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  41. Russkilitlover welcome.

    Maybe some down time from the lunch rush.

    C2 is feeling more like home everyday.

    OK...on to more serious news...did we get the Olympics?

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  42. Hey Kenneth, beaver is popular in Texas, too ...

    Bucees

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  43. Turn, was you over at zombie's?

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  44. Kenneth,

    I went to school with a white refugee farmer from Zimbabwe. Her parents decided it was untenable to try and stay, hats off to your coffee grower.

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  45. Jorline said...
    Russkilitlover welcome.

    Maybe some down time from the lunch rush.

    C2 is feeling more like home everyday.

    OK...on to more serious news...did we get the Olympics?

    America got the Olympics, yes.

    Hurrah for our hemisphere!

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  46. Russkilitlover said...

    WELCOME!

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  47. The Age of Nice, or Politics as Psychiatry

    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-age-of-nice--or-politics-as-psychiatry-15235

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  49. Kenneth, I think I have your e-mail address stashed away somewhere (maybe?), if so, I'll e-mail you my flotsam/jetsam story.

    I'm happy to facilitate email exchanges with permission whenever I am here -- which will only be for a few more minutes. Let me know.

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  50. Hi all.
    Still basking in the knowledge that BC, Notre Dame and The Patriots all won this weekend. Doesn't happen often.

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  51. Occasional Reader said...
    Flostam or jetsam... hmm... Neither. I'm a manly, masculine man, part of this manly, masculine crew!

    (I'm been getting a lot of mileage out of "Miles Cowperthwaite" lately.)

    Sounds more like "The Raging Queen".

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  52. Russkiltlover! Welcome to C2!

    Make sure to drop by the lounge earlier ....lots of manly-man manliness in that place. ;-)

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  55. JCM,

    The unusual thing about his guy is that he & his wife moved to Zimbabwe AFTER independence (from Canada) and bought the farm at fair market prices of the day. They worked hard, built a business, employed local people to work the farm and developed an export business for the growing economy of independent Zimbabwe. Now the government has destroyed it.

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  56. Joreline, yeah fist time posting there today. I was amazed at how many ex-lizards were there. Threw in a shout for C2 (after getting my licks in on a few “It’s a good life” devotees if you catch my drift)

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  57. OneLoudTexan said...

    America got the Olympics, yes.

    Hurrah for our hemisphere!

    IMHO...pick three winter and three summer locations. Enough with the BS spending that goes on every two years.

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  58. I saw it...looked good. I'm glad you're at C2.

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  59. OR,

    For a limited time, my email addy is visible if you click my beaver... er, my avatar,... well you know what I mean.

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  60. Thanks, yeah I had to vent it out.

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  61. click your beaver, oh nooooes

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  62. Kenneth,

    And we can thank that pimple on a hemorrhoid, Rabbit Bait for Mugabe.

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  64. Russkilitlover, so glad to see you! We have a happy little crew here, and there's always something good to eat or drink. I hope you'll stick around.

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  65. So much of what's wrong in the world and the troubles facing America today flow back to that failed presidency... Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea's nuclear program, Zimbabwe, and the financial meltdown... Carter had his hand in all of it.

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  66. Kenneth,

    And history is repeating itself now........


    D'Oh!

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  68. And just like we're still paying for Jimmy Carter's failed presidency, 40 years from now we'll still be paying for Obama's already failing presidency.

    Elections have consequences, and they don't all go away in four years.

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  70. Wow, that coffee smells good! I brought Bailey's and whipped cream...to hell with the diet, I found all of my favorite people and I am celebrating!

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  71. Russ, you can put their quote in italics if you like (remove the *'s.

    <*i*>QUOTEGOESHERE<*/i*>

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  73. Russkilitlover said...

    How does one "reply"?


    Cut & Paste

    Surround the text you want to italicize this way, but remove the asterisks.

    <*i*>I want to italicize this text.<*/i*>

    Leave no spaces in between the brackets - just take out the asterisks. Same works for bold, just use a "b" instead of an "i".

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  74. Thanks PBJ, it really is great to see everyone.

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  76. Welcome Steel Magnolia...long time no see.

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  78. Good afternoon, everyone. 6 yr. old son gave us a 4am wakeup call so I need the java, thank you.

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  79. Russkiltlover and Steel Magnolia! Huzzah!

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  80. Kenneth--

    Per your instructions, I clicked your beaver.

    Was it good for you, too?

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  81. This is better than a family reunion! Bailey's anyone?

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  82. Kenneth - Honey, it is great to see you but I am not clicking your beaver. I will however, give you a big, old hug! {Kenneth}

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  83. I'll take a splash of that Bailey's, thanks. WTH

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  84. New faces - awesome! Welcome all of you! (I like Bailey's, S/M!) Russkilit, Texan, everyone - we are simply delighted to see ALL of you.

    Squatch, blame me for the time thingy. Musicians' hours, you know. : )

    I'll put up something new in a minute.

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  85. *Pours PBJ a big shot of Bailey's, tops it off with a mountain of whipped cream*

    Cheers!

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  86. This is better than a family reunion!

    If you knew my family, that's not saying much.

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    Welcome!

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  87. Damn, all this huggy lovey-ness is starting to get a little cloying.

    So: "The Passion of the Christ"-- good movie, or not? Discuss.

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  88. Spenser--

    "Huzzah!"

    You're obviously looking for the RenFair Blogspot, which is over yonder.

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  89. Occasional Reader said...
    Damn, all this huggy lovey-ness is starting to get a little cloying.

    So: "The Passion of the Christ"-- good movie, or not? Discuss.

    Cartman, izzat you?

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  90. *Pours PBJ a big shot of Bailey's, tops it off with a mountain of whipped cream*

    Thanks! To the Committee!

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  91. re: "Damn, all this huggy lovey-ness is starting to get a little cloying."

    Richard Dawkins is an annoying and not-brilliant blowhard with a chip on his shoulder. Discuss.

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  92. USOC fights Olympian newspaper's trademark

    The U.S. Olympic Committee is fighting a trademark application filed by The Olympian, the daily newspaper in Olympia.

    The USOC filed a notice of opposition last month to an application submitted to the U.S Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark was sought by The McClatchy Co. after buying the paper from Knight-Ridder.

    John Meares named the Olympic Mountains in 1778.
    Olympia, WA was incorporated on January 28, 1859.
    The newspaper started in 1859, changed it's name to Olympian in 1927.
    The USOC started in 1894.

    Go fish says I to the USOC.

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  93. Just taking a quick apple break & thought I'd pop-in

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  94. Beer Drinking Victory Monkey

    Hiya! heard a rumor you had stopped by, Welcome!

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  95. "Just taking a quick apple break & thought I'd pop-in"

    Whenever you post on your apple breaks, BDVM, it's a Golden, Delicious moment for the rest of us.

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  96. Nice to see you here BDVM!

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  97. Richard Dawkins is an annoying and not-brilliant blowhard with a chip on his shoulder. Discuss.

    That may be true, but his episodes of The Family Feud were the best.
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  98. Work calls. See everyone later.

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  99. "Just taking a quick apple break & thought I'd pop-in"

    "Whenever you post on your apple breaks, BDVM, it's a Golden, Delicious moment for the rest of us."

    Yep, he's a Pippin, isn't he?

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  100. After this Olympic Failure, I can't wait to see what Stupid Politician Trick President Hussein tries next. :D

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  101. So, I don't know what the rules are on this sort of thing, and if I commit some sort of tecnical fault here, please (administrators) advise:

    While many of us may not see eye to eye with LGF on a lot of things these days, we can probably still agree on the excellent reportage of Michael Yon. So, hat tip to LGF for posting his latest dispatch, which includes some information about the FOB that was hit the other day, resulting in eight of our people being killed.

    http://www.michaelyon-online.com/two-firefights-one-video.htm

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  102. Yep, he's a Pippin, isn't he?

    That gets to the core of it.

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  103. "Just taking a quick apple break & thought I'd pop-in"

    "Whenever you post on your apple breaks, BDVM, it's a Golden, Delicious moment for the rest of us."

    Yep, he's a Pippin, isn't he?

    I wonder if he posts using a Macintosh?

    /out of here, relief has arrived

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  104. Add this to my first post about Nork bio and chem weapons.

    NKorea got $2.2B under failed disarmament deals

    North Korea has received the equivalent of about $2.2 billion under deals aimed at persuading the isolated nation to dismantle its nuclear facilities, a South Korean lawmaker said Monday, in what his office says is the first accounting of the cost of the failed strategy.

    The U.S. promised the North two light-water reactors that would produce nuclear power under a 1994 deal to freeze its atomic program, which Washington and its allies feared was meant to create weapons not energy. Until the reactors were built, the powers agreed to furnish the impoverished North with an annual supply of 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.

    When the U.S. accused North Korea in 2002 of restarting its atomic program, the deal was scrapped and Pyongyang expelled nuclear inspectors.

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  105. "Yep, he's a Pippin, isn't he?"

    I'll bet BDVM's posts are enjoyed even by famous Hollywood celebrities, such as Will Smith. And even by his father's mom, Granny Smith.

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  106. "and if I commit some sort of tecnical fault here"

    Other than, of course, typo-ing "technical", that is.

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  107. Occasional Reader said...

    So, I don't know what the rules are on this sort of thing, and if I commit some sort of tecnical fault here, please (administrators) advise:

    OR, I don't think you will find anyone here that would object to a Michael Yon link.

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  109. New thread upstairs. Please populate. For new members: It's okay to say "FIRST!" : )

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  110. Apple puns are not appealing! I must stem the tide!

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  111. "Apple puns are not appealing!"

    Are you getting saucy with me, JCM?

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  112. OR, from your Michael Yon link...thanks.


    We need more gear and more forces now. We can outfight these enemies and we can win the war, but at this rate a favorable outcome is difficult to imagine. This war shows signs that it will become more intense than Iraq at its peak. As with my twelve dispatches from 2006 warning that we were losing this war, the warnings over the past couple of years seem to be falling on incredulous ears. We will lose the war unless we get more troops and more gear soon.

    Psssst Mr. President, do you think you can give more than 25 minutes to your commanding general?

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  113. OR, Michael Yon has my utmost respect - stay safe young man.

    It was terrific seeing all of you again. I have hors d'oeuvres to prepare so I am off to the kitchen. Take care y'all!

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  114. Occasional Reader said...
    "Just taking a quick apple break & thought I'd pop-in"

    Whenever you post on your apple breaks, BDVM, it's a Golden, Delicious moment for the rest of us.

    Late for the pun-fest. Well, Fuji-t!

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  115. speaking of lovey-ness getting a little cloying ... did granny smith show up yet?

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  117. We reserve the right to remove comments we deem offensive or inappropriate, or cloying , at our discretion.

    FTFY!

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  118. Obama's Dilemma

    "If the regime falls, two of Obama’s toughest decisions–and some others as well–will magically improve. Deprived of Tehran’s finances, weapons, intelligence, training camps and safe havens, our enemies in Afghanistan will be weaker, and our chances of success improved. The leader of the opposition Green Path of Hope, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has long said that any government he heads will terminate support for terrorism and open the country’s nuclear facilities to international inspection, thereby ameliorating all three of Obama’s major headaches with Tehran. For extras, Hezbollah–the world’s most effective and murderous terrorist organization–will be gravely weakened, as will Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, which provides much of the territory from which Hezbollah operates. And the mullahs’ new friends in South America will be weakened as well, as will Russia’s ability to forge an international alliance against the United States.

    A miracle indeed. And all it requires for fulfillment is an administration that does what any normal American would do in the circumstances: support the democratic opposition in Iran. It does not require any bombs or bullets, nor does it risk the body and soul of any American soldiers. It only requires Obama, Hillary, Dennis Ross, William Burns and the others to call for a free Iran, to begin any negotiation with the mullahs by reading out a long list of political prisoners and insist they be released, to cry out for equal rights for Iranian women, and to appoint a staff at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that will redouble their efforts to bring the real news about their own country to millions of Iranians.

    But Obama does not seem to recognize the golden opportunity that has fallen into his lap."

    http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/10/01/what-if-god-sent-a-miracle-and-was-told-faggetit/

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  119. The leader of the opposition Green Path of Hope

    If he'd just change that to Red, he'd be IN.

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