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Thanks to GregD.

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Even though he's eligible to be hanged in Pakistan, Musharref would apparently rather not deal with him.

Interestingly, he mentions Al Qaeda prisoners involved in the acquisition of anthrax in the speech announcing his extradition.

Could mean something. Could mean nothing. I've had my heart broken before.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM | Comments (10)
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Probably the biggest news of the day that I could give a rat's ass less about.

I've got to do a little Googling to confirm, but I think some project by journalism graduate students named Felt as the most likely Throat. If that's right-- hey, nice going, guys.

What does this mean?

Well, Throat was not entirely a fictional device as many have believed.

It also means that the media get to spend the next several days discussing their favorite topic-- themselves.

At least that means they'll have less time to pound on Republicans.

Correction: That journalism class didn't finger Felt (ahem); they fingered Nixon WH insider Fred Fielding.

So, journalism students are dumb. Breaking news. Must credit Ace of Spades.

Posted by: Ace at 02:04 PM | Comments (39)
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You can hear the show at Rightalk.com, by looking for the "Now Playing-- Channel One" button at four.

And you can call in. You morons seemed to have forgotten how to dial a phone last week. The call-in number is:

CALL IN NUMBER- 1-866-884-TALK (8255)

Maybe the problem was that "TALK" at the end of the number, and you couldn't figure out how to dial letters. Well, see, above each number is a group of letters, and...

I don't feel like explaining it out. Use "context clues" to guide you.

Anyhoo.

We'll be speaking with former Senatorial Candidate (and former Chairman of the Kansas Fed Reserve Bank, and former visionary CEO, etc.) and author of They Think You're Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do to Keep It, Herman Cain.

Who Karol says is just an amazingly inspirational speaker and quite an advocate of capitalism.

And then we'll be speaking with Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs fame.

Who everyone knows, of course.

Posted by: Ace at 10:42 AM | Comments (22)
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Oh, those zany British. They're either utterly humorless or just plain goofy. These soldiers fall into the latter category.

Thanks to VonKreedon.

Posted by: Ace at 10:35 AM | Comments (22)
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Indicted by the Romanians. They suspect him of setting up his fellow abductees and aiding the kidnappers.

Once again, the sort of story the MSM won't report.

Posted by: Ace at 09:09 AM | Comments (5)
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There's been a bit of this going on for a while now. Galloway is just stupid, arrogant, and maniac enough to make it official and put it on the record.

Posted by: Ace at 09:03 AM | Comments (17)
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Pretty unbelievable. The newspaper that got itself into such a tizzy about the supposed "outing" of stateside mom Valerie Plame now reveals all on the CIA's successor to Air America, the air fleet that ferries the CIA into hot zones and moves terrorists to interrogations sites.

It's one thing to speak of the dimensions of the project and the uses of the planes, but what, precisely, is served by revealing the names of all the shell companies used to keep the planes "clean" from CIA association, or even the man's name who incorporated the companies, or the precise models of planes in the fleet?

Is the New York Times actively attempting to undermine the CIA and serve as a free intelligence agency for hostile foreign governments?

I'm not naive. I know that a fairly decent foreign intelligence service would already some or most of this. But what about a terrorist organization?

And while semi-friendly governments may have played along with the CIA's ruse and allowed CIA planes into their airspace -- winking at them, permitting overflights while knowing they weren't really civilian jets -- now those governments are duty bound to refuse overflight permissions, as the whole world (including their anti-American populations) know knows, for example, that "Pegasus Technologies" is a CIA-front holding company, and that any plane owned by that shell is up to no good (or great good, depending on your POV).

Thanks a lot, New York Times!

They really consider themselves Citizens of the Global Journalism Nation, don't they?

Thanks to "someone."

Posted by: Ace at 08:30 AM | Comments (21)
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Great piece from The Therapist, who I should be linking more:

Iraq--Vowing to continue the Jihad in the "land of the two rivers," insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he was "Honored" to be bed-ridden under the bed-ridden leadership of Osama Bin Laden.

The statement came via a newly-released audiotape on an oft-used Islamic website.

"I rise to spit in the infidel's eye," said al-Zarqawi. "And I press my 'call nurse' button with all the vigor of pulling a trigger. Allah be praised."

Posted by: Ace at 08:14 AM | Comments (4)
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Rock stars-- is there anything they can't do?

I was amused to learn that Iron Maiden's lead singer Bruce Dickinson (no, not that Bruce Dickinson) was now a commercial pilot, flying 737's.

But now Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers is now a defense and counter-terrorism consultant:

His defense work began in the 1980s, when it occurred to him that much of the hardware and software being developed for military use, like data-compression algorithms and large-capacity storage devices, could also be used for recording music. Mr. BaxterÂ’s next-door neighbor, a retired engineer who worked on the PentagonÂ’s Sidewinder missile program, bought him a subscription to an aviation magazine, and he was soon reading a range of military-related publications.

Mr. Baxter began wondering whether existing military systems could be adapted to meet future threats they werenÂ’t designed to address, a heretical concept for most defense thinkers. In his spare time, he wrote a five-page paper on a primitive Tandy computer that proposed converting the militaryÂ’s Aegis program, a ship-based antiplane system, into a rudimentary missile-defense system.

On a whim, he gave the paper to a friend from California, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. To Mr. BaxterÂ’s surprise, the congressman took it seriously, and the idea proved to be prescient: Aegis missile-defense systems have done well in tests, and the Navy says it will equip at least one ship with the antimissile system by the end of the year.

“Skunk really blew my mind with that report,” Mr. Rohrabacher says. “He was talking over my head half the time, and the fact that he was a rock star who had basically learned it all on his own was mind-boggling.”

Note to self: Aid American war cause by 1) learning guitar, 2) joining several multiplatinum acts, 3) then thinking up cool shit involving computers and missiles.

The way I see it, #1 is the bitch of the bunch. But I've got basic music theory down from my days rockin' it old school on the bassoon in my marching band. I figure I can learn to wail on the guitar in just a couple of months.

And a few years after that I'll build a Terminator cyborg, but shaped like a Tyrannasaurus Rex.

Posted by: Ace at 08:39 PM | Comments (41)
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