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Funny Terrorist News of the Day: Terrorist "Suicide Underwear"
Goes along with using other social and cultural strictures as weak points to attack, like men searching women has created 16 known female suicide bombers this year alone from the inability or social restriction at security check points. Guess that's not really that funny.
Funny Political News of the Day: Ego + Hubris = "O - Force One"
Kind of like Obama's presidential seal that his campaign was blaming on some nebulous campaign volunteers and lack of time to review. I think that this makes that claim...oh, I don't know...a pile of manure at a fertilizer factory? I believe we are starting to see a pattern here.
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies
H/T on two to Hot Air - Kat
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I think Pelosi is slipping a few cogs: What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the handmaidens of the oil companies.
I'm sure she wanted to say "handmaidens of Satan", but didn't want to start being accused of being one of those Evangelical, fundamentalist Christians which I believe in San Francisco speak is also code for "handmaidens of Satan"; Satan = George Bush. We lowly voters who would just like to stop paying more for gasoline than we do to eat are just "Satan's Imps" I'm sure. -Kat
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Another embed to be sent packing, this time though its not for violating OPSEC, but a new law passed by her Government. Via The Thunder Run
Korean filmmaker faces criminal charges - Korean documentary filmmaker Kim Young Me has been directed to stop production of her current project by U.S. Army media officials. Kim has been ordered to return to Baghdad where she faces criminal charges for allegedly violating a new Korean law that prohibits travel inside Iraq. (READ MORE)
But her return from Iraq to Korea isn't going very smoothly.
Dust storms delay Korean filmmaker's removal from war zone - Korean documentary filmmaker Kim Young Me is being housed on a forward operating base in Diyala province, Iraq. Repeated efforts by the U.S. Military to deliver Kim to Baghdad have met with delays. Recent dust storms have grounded helicopters across central Iraq. (READ MORE)
As some are won't to say....developing... - David M
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I never thought I'd end up putting Lex and Dr. Seuss in the same sentence, but there you go... - FbL
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires. Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute. Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is. The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now. Of course, now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is Free Fire Zone.
NO SHIT!
(well, none that could be identified, but its presence is not disputed)
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You doubt Mistress Pelosi's ability to change you for the better? How heretical.