I think the Sydney Morning Herald will get some ummm....feedback over this.

...the real fear driving climate alarmists wild is that a more rational approach to the fundamentalist religion of global warming may be in the ascendancy...

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Not a good idea to raise taxes during a recession (or anytime, really). Who knew?

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If you can set aside the turkey sandwiches.

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Is he going to help India find the culprits, or simply to find out how much India knows about the true genesis of the crime? I suspect the latter.

Ed Morrissey offers the sanguine take that perhaps this cat is going there to get the proof ISI was behind it, so as to purge that state-sponsored terrorist organization once and for all. That would be nice, but I doubt it. The ISI has been doing this forever -- death seems to be Pakistan's most popular export.

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Incongruous to follow another Mumbai update with this, but heck, laughing is good. more...

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I haven't been following it all day and will try to put up and update shortly but Indian TV is covering the helicopter-borne commando attack at the Nariman House (streaming video link).

They seem to think all the hostages are out of there but there are still two or three terrorists inside. (Eh, now they are saying they don't know who is in there. This is a building where a number of Israeli citizens live.)

Supposedly the government has approved this coverage but that seems odd.

30+ hours into this attack there are 125 dead (including 14 police officers and 6 non-Indian nationals), 320+ injured.

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As Dick Cheney (I think) said, just because you've forgotten about terrorism doesn't mean terrorists have forgotten about you.

The world's economic fears were violently pushed aside on Wednesday by another global threat -- terrorism.

A massive coordinated attack was launched in Mumbai, India just hours after the FBI warned that Al Qaeda may be targeting New York's subways and railroads.

If Al Qaeda terrorists have their way there will be chaos and mayhem here this holiday season, a mass transit bomb plot that would probably affect all the subway and train lines at Penn and Grand Central stations.

"The threat is serious, the threat is significant, and it is plausible," said Congressman Peter King, R-Long Island, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Uniformed officers, including this NYPD Counter Terrorism Squad members and Amtrak cops with M-16s, flooded Penn Station Wednesday after the FBI said it had received a "plausible but unsubstantiated" report that Al Qaeda operatives discussed a plan two months ago to bomb New York City's mass transit system.

The report said: "These discussions reportedly involved the use of suicide bombers or explosives placed on subway/passenger rail systems."

Sources told CBS 2 HD the plot involved the Long Island Rail Road. If the explosion went off in Penn Station, the source said, it would affect transportation of Amtrak's northeast corridor between Boston and Washington, LIRR service and New York City subway service.

"This is definitely linked to Al Qaeda and they had very significant details about exactly how they would carry out the attack, where they would carry it out -- that's what makes it sound so plausible," Rep. King said.

Remember the days of "I question the timing" after every quite-plausible terror alert was announced?

I give thanks for the Lightworker. Now that he's President, the world is safe for vigilance against terrorism once more. It turns out it's no longer such a "fictitious threat."

Thanks to WilliamA.

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Mistakes notwithstanding, he will be missed.

I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner today. Well, I made the stuffing. It was a first.

I give my thanks to you morons, for reading, and donating, and generally keeping me off the street, at least until I get my certification in home stereo installation.

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If you are fortunate enough to be able to spend this day with those you love, as I am, remember those who serve us, halfway around the world, who miss the ones they care about.

U.S. Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., Multinational Force Iraq commander, talks with Task Force Baghdad soldiers during the evening Thanksgiving meal at the Rock of the Marne Sports Oasis Dining Facility at Forward Operating Base Prosperity, Iraq, Nov. 24, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Andrew Miller

Now might be a good time to consider that donation to the 2008 Valour-IT Project too. DrewM reminded us today is the last day.

All the best to you and yours, morons.

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