Month: July 2007

Third US Carrier sent to Middlle East

Another worrisome sign, though I don’t know if it is directed at Iran, Turkey or Pakistan: The US aircraft carrier Enterprise has been deployed to a strategic area that includes waters close to Iran. The warship joins two...

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Doug Marlette 1949-2007: A Cartoon Memorial

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlargeFrom the Washington Post: Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who recently turned his incisive wit toward a budding career as...

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Fear

As I drove to Virginia today to visit my Mother, I had the car radio on C-Span FM. For a while I was listening to a hearing on Mental Illness in the House of Representatives, then they cut to a 15 minute speech by Holy Joe...

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Stickin’ it to the Face Shooter

I support this: Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney’s office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules. A Senate appropriations...

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Computer "Upgrades"

Two of the five year old computers in the lab have “died” and had to be replaced with P4 machines with XP. Hindsight is 20/20 and my optimal solution would have been to just buy the equivalent replacement motherboard...

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