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Times Online - How to solve the Italian Job, by Camilla Cavendish The way to stop corruption is to shut down the EU’s crazy schemes and repatriate the cash

BRAVO! THE PRESIDENT of the EU has offered €60 million to French towns affected by riots, under the “framework of an urban programme”. All those disaffected [...]

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Loyal ninme fans: the blog is currently going a bit haywire. Hopefully things will be back to normal by tonight. Your prayers to the tech gods are appreciated. -peter

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Vodka Pundit - Needed: Hobbits With Hyperdrive

Forget about Darth Vader–here’s a real Dark Lord. The Hubble space telescope has located Sauron. Here’s a larger picture.

ninme quakes

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Interesting things are afoot in Britain. Michael Howard has hired John Howard’s Rovian Lynton Crosby.

The Edge of England’s Sword - Speaking for Britain

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President Bush, right, speaks with Sen. John Kerry, D-Ma., at a ceremony for the Boston Red Sox on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, March 2, 2005 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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This is my new battle cry.

Via PoliPundit:

Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor

DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts.   The pair were ordered to [...]

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It’s been an incredibly lazy Sunday, and I feel like I need to post something, so here’s a rant I was working on yesterday, pared down to the basics.

What is wrong with everyone trying to figure out what Bush meant with his speech? For crying out loud, people! He meant what he [...]

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Okay all you out there. The old buddies, the RSS readers, and the lurkers, I’m talkin’ to you.

I’ve had to your right a link “About Me”. Above the amazon ads. It’s clickable. It’s got a picture. But just filler text. It’s been there since before Christmas sometime, and I’ve [...]

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I wonder what Leif Ericson (of the first Atlantic Crossing (sort of)) would think if he could see us now.

RUN SILENT, RUN NUKE, by Peter Brookes

IMAGINE the thoughts going through the minds of the captain and crew of the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, when it put to sea for the very [...]

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This man’s mother must be rolling… No, I shan’t bring her into this. It would be too upsetting for her. She should be left alone to her eternity of peace among the communion of Saints.

Kerry Trashes Bush in Baghdad

While he has his idiot goons, Boxer and Tubbs Jones, make a tragic farce out [...]

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Go read this Seattle Times article, then vote in the poll.

See the results? Pretty spooky, eh?

If you’re too lazy to vote, or the results have changed since writing this:

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He was old, but I’m finding this a little hard to believe. He’s been working. Maybe you feel like someone who’s working doesn’t die unless they’re forced into retirement. And he was all over the TV just a few months ago talking about the new L&O as his golden parachute, and being [...]

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I know it’s tempting to think that our military really did scramble fast enough to shoot down that plane over Pennsylvania, at a nice enough moment when it was over some guy’s deserted field, especially now that Rummy’s said this:

And I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind [...]

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Reciprocal Boost for Israel and Italy in Joint Weapons Production

Screw the Canadians. They’re too busy looking for mechanics to work on their submarines, much less weapons development.

We like Geopolitical Realignment.

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This Thanksgiving, the dominant debate seems to be about whether or not children in public schools are having religion crammed down their tender wee throats by reading such radical evangelicalism as the Declaration of Independence. As that debate progresses, it turns into Atheists against all mention of God (including in the Declaration of Independence) [...]

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