God hates Boy Scouts

http://stuffgodhates.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/28-the-boy-scouts-of-america/

They need to be more racist.

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Military confrontation in the Arctic?

Seriously. Russian saber-rattling.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=ac0d24df-dc10-43da-89f3-b3c3c0928ae7

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Why Joe Posnanski is one of the best writers on the web

Joe Posnanski is a well-respected sports columnist in Kansas City. A few months ago he started a blog that's unconnected to his newspaper, just so he can post about whatever he's interested in -- a lot of it is sports, but many other topics. Plus, he writes the longest blog posts I've ever seen.

Here's a paragraph from a post today that made me laugh:

"when Lebby asked me if I wanted to eat the best Italian food of my life, my first thought was, “OK, who do I have to kill? Is it someone I know? Because if it’s someone I don’t know, then yes, for the best pasta of my life, absolutely, I’m ready to do what has to be done, but if it’s someone I do know, then no, I’m not killing someone I KNOW just for Italian food, you know, unless they have a really good chocolate dessert too.”"

Who among us would not agree with that sentiment?

Good News From Iraq (if by good news you mean bad news)

It's a good thing that we've been training the new Iraqi Army for the last 5 years. Otherwise, who knows how many thousands of deserters there would have been in the fighting in Basra last week. The New York Times reports the good news that it was only a thousand or so.

More than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen either refused to fight or simply abandoned their posts during the inconclusive assault against Shiite militias in Basra last week, a senior Iraqi government official said Thursday. Iraqi military officials said the group included dozens of officers, including at least two senior field commanders in the battle.

The desertions in the heat of a major battle cast fresh doubt on the effectiveness of the American-trained Iraqi security forces. The White House has conditioned further withdrawals of American troops on the readiness of the Iraqi military and police.

Even as officials described problems with the planning and performance of the Iraqi forces during the Basra operation, signs emerged Wednesday that tensions with Moktada al-Sadr, the radical cleric who leads the Mahdi Army militia, could flare up again. Mr. Sadr, who asked his followers to stop fighting on Sunday, called Thursday for a million Iraqis to march to the Shiite holy city of Najaf next week to protest what he called the American occupation. He also issued a veiled threat against Mr. Maliki’s forces, whom he accused of violating the terms of an agreement with the Iraqi government to stand down.

Estimates by Iraqi military officials of the number of officers who refused to fight during the Basra operation varied from several dozen to more than 100. But three officials said that among those who had been relieved of duty for refusing to fight were Col. Rahim Jabbar and Lt. Col. Shakir Khalaf, the commander and deputy commander of an entire brigade affiliated with the Interior Ministry.

At this rate it sure looks like McCain isn't far off in his estimate that we will have to be in Iraq for a hundred years. We are doing just as good a job turning over losing the war to the Iraqis as we did in Vietnam.

Shocking news at washingtonpost.com

No way. Really? The Pope lead a service during Holy Week? Wow.

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I had to share this thought.

Are there French superheroes known as crèped crusaders?

You know what's lame?

Bloggers apologizing for not blogging.

I can't believe I care this much about a reality tv show.

That little <i>pisher</i> Christian won. I'll admit that he was the
most talented contestant, but he is so insincere and bitchy.

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Oh yes, things are getting better in Iraq.

Iraqi deaths up by a third in February.

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