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Thursday, April 1, 2010
U.S. Navy Captures 5 Pirates After Gun Battle
"American naval ship the USS Nicholas captured five suspected pirates Thursday off the coast of the Seychelles after exchanging fire, according to the U.S. Naval Forces Africa. The Nicholas reported taking fire at 12:27 a.m. local time (8:27pm GMT Wednesday) from a suspected pirate skiff and returned fire before pursuing it and eventually disabling it."
Shrinking California....
"Tammy Kassis' 11-foot tall Victorian doggie mansion sits in her backyard for her dogs Chelsea, Darla and Coco Puff, in Winchester, California."
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Prescriptions for Disaster Now Covered
by "On the "Today" show this Tuesday, President Obama claimed the massive government takeover of health care the Democrats passed without a single Republican vote was a "middle of the road" bill that incorporated many Republican ideas.One Republican idea allegedly incorporated into the Democrats' health care monstrosity is "medical malpractice reform." Needless to say, the Democrats' idea of malpractice reform is less than nothing. Until trial lawyers are screaming bloody murder, there has been no medical malpractice reform.
The Democrats' "malpractice" section merely encourages the states to set up commissions to "study" tort reform, in the sense that frustrated mothers "encourage" their kids not to slouch. By "study," the Democrats mean "ignore.""
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A Letter to President Reagan
"Dear President Reagan,
If there are horses to ride where you are, or if you have wood to chop and brush to clear, I know you’re busy so I’ll be brief. Reminds me how you used to begin some of your speeches with, “As Henry the Eighth said to his wives, ‘I won’t be keeping you long.’”
I’ve been thinking about you a lot, Mr. President, especially since the Democrats’ health care reforms passed and became law. When the bill passed I cried for the first time since you left us, not just because of what it portends for the future of our country but because it begins such a shocking reversal of the America you fought so hard for and achieved.
You nailed it back in 1961 when you said, “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. From here it’s a short step to all the rest of socialism.” You saw a Barack Obama coming."
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If there are horses to ride where you are, or if you have wood to chop and brush to clear, I know you’re busy so I’ll be brief. Reminds me how you used to begin some of your speeches with, “As Henry the Eighth said to his wives, ‘I won’t be keeping you long.’”
I’ve been thinking about you a lot, Mr. President, especially since the Democrats’ health care reforms passed and became law. When the bill passed I cried for the first time since you left us, not just because of what it portends for the future of our country but because it begins such a shocking reversal of the America you fought so hard for and achieved.
You nailed it back in 1961 when you said, “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. From here it’s a short step to all the rest of socialism.” You saw a Barack Obama coming."
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Frustrating, Stubborn Facts
By Tony Blankley"The late, splendid Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously asserted, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." The senator was wrong. (Of course, for those of us who still believe that objectivity is objective, a fact is still a fact, though the heavens may fall.)
The key word here is "entitled." In today's entitlement-crazy Washington, not only do folks believe that about half the country is entitled to other people's money and health insurance policies, they feel they are entitled to their own facts to support their claim to their own entitlement to other people's money and health insurance policies.
Not only that, they believe they are entitled to their own facts to describe the character and conduct of their political opponents. The Democratic Party collectively smeared scores of millions of American Tea Party participants as racist, homophobic, violent terrorists in the absence of a single verified fact in support of even one such incident being attributable to a single individual. Nor did their media pals even bother with the word "alleged.""
If Guam gets too overpopulated, it might tip over?
"My fear is that the island will become so overpopulated that it will tip over and capsize."
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"Final Flight"
"Chief Warrant Officer 5 Donald Washabaugh pauses before making his final flight in an Army helicopter from Camp Taji, Iraq, March 25, 2010. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Travis Zielinski."
The Growing Threat from Female Suicide Bombers
By Steven Emerson"Two women believed to be Chechen rebels blew themselves up in Moscow's metro during morning rush hour Monday, killing at least 35 people and injuring 100 more.
Law enforcement officials in Washington and New York beefed up security in their respective subway systems in response.
The attacks at Lubyanka and Park Kultyry stations come on the heels of a recent threat assessment issued by the Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
The Investigative Project has reviewed the sensitive, but unclassified, assessment, Female Suicide Bombers, which puts the attacks in Russia in the context of a broader threat. Referencing open source reporting, the primary finding of the threat assessment is that:
"al Qa'ida terror cells have trained a group of female suicide bombers to attack Western targets including airlines. These women may have a non Arab appearance and may be traveling on Western passports."
These "bombshells" are part of an evolving terrorist threat challenging U.S. law enforcement to reassess not only the physical and psychological characteristics of terrorists but also the methods available for concealing explosives."
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