March 2003
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Monday, March 31, 2003
Thank you lord, I managed to get my college app. in! Huz-zah!
Expect major upload tomorrow, for now, visit Townhall.com. I'm enjoying the articles today.
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Sunday, March 30, 2003
Major upload. Cleaning out my inbox!! Cheers!
History or Hysteria?
Victor Davis Hansen
Instantly televised images are broadcast with no in-depth analysis. A national television audience sighs and cheers second-to-second — not unlike the mercurial Athenians lined up on the shore of the Great Harbor at Syracuse, who in dejection and euphoria watched their fleet lose, win, and lose in the sea battle against the Sicilians.America the liberator
By Jeff Jacoby
The campaign to liberate Iraq is going well, though you might not know it from the shock and awe of the media, which apparently found out only this week that war - even for a winning army - is hell.'You're late. What took you so long? God help you become victorious'... 'I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand'
James Meek in SafwanI was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam
By Daniel Pepper
I was shocked when I first met a pro-war Iraqi in Baghdad - a taxi driver taking me back to my hotel late at night. I explained that I was American and said, as we shields always did, "Bush bad, war bad, Iraq good". He looked at me with an expression of incredulity.'Huge' Chemical Weapons Plant Found in Iraq
A senior pentagon official has confirmed to Fox News on Sunday that coalition forces have discovered a "huge" suspected chemical weapons factory near the Iraqi city of An Najaf, which is situated some 90 miles south of Baghdad.
Foxnews.comRussian Dealers Provide Iraq With Supplies, Electronics
Liza Porteus
Foxnews.comStupid Academy Award
By Mike DunnaganA Leftist Addresses the Antiwar Protesters
By Victor EremitaIraqis Execute American POWs
By Rowan ScarboroughTreason in Ithaca
By Joseph J. SabiaProtesters Fly Iraqi Flag at Texas Capitol
By Charles Ganske
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Thursday, March 27, 2003
Operation Shoe Box:
Welcome to Operation ShoeBox. The purpose of our operation is to encourage citizens to support their fighting men and women deployed overseas in these dangerous times.
Take time today to send a package. If you don't have a family member deployed overseas, check with your friends, colleagues, or church members to get the address of someone who is serving. (Note: See our Links page to get names and addresses of service people.)
Check our web site for information on what to send.
If you don't have anyone to send to, then gather up some items and send them to Operation ShoeBox. We will package the items and mail them to service members who are deployed in Kuwait, Afganistan and other areas where there are not a lot of services available to the troops. We also need help with postage.
Our goal: A package for every soldier, sailor, airman, and marine. Please help us spread the word.
Please support our troops!
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Thursday, March 20, 2003
Stealing valuable time as a teacher's aid to update my website with some stuff that is old and new. It's interesting to look at the older stuff and compare it to how things have turend out.
All articles below are from: FrontPageMag.com:
A Grateful Briton
By James Black
Dear America, you quirky mix of 280 million misfits that have somehow blended into the strongest nation in the world, I write to offer you four apologies and two vows.France and Germany Abet Genocide
Older Stuff:
Gulf War II to be Much Quicker
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Sunday, March 9, 2003
Iraqi Soldiers Surrender to British Troops
(Before War Starts)"Terrified Iraqi soldiers who thought the war had already started, crossed the Kuwait
border and tried to surrender to British forces, according to a report in the London
Sunday Mirror. "The drama unfolded last Monday, when a dozen troops waved the white flag as British
paratroopers tested mortars and artillery weapons to make sure they were working. The
Iraqis found a way across the fortified border, which is sealed off with barbed-wire fencing,
watchtowers and huge trenches.The stunned troops were forced to tell the Iraqis they weren't firing at them, and ordered
them back to their home country, telling them it was too early to surrender."The British guys on the front-line could not believe what was happening. They were on
pre-war exercises when all of a sudden these Iraqis turned up out of nowhere, with their
hands in the air, saying they wanted to surrender."They had heard firing and thought it was the start of the war,'' a British Army source in
Kuwait told the Mirror.''The Paras are a tough, battle-hardened lot but were moved by the plight of the Iraqis. There
was nothing they could do other than send them back. ''They were a motley bunch and you
could barely describe them as soldiers – they were poorly equipped and didn't even have
proper boots. Their physical condition was dreadful and they had obviously not had a
square meal for ages. No one has ever known a group of so-called soldiers surrender before
a shot has been fired in anger,'' the source said.Other than "this is a prime example of what our soldiers are going up against" I don't know what to say. Pray for the soldiers who surrenedered, their "president" isn't going to be happy, and in that country it can get your family killed.
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Friday, March 7, 2003
Here's a Big Daddy of a Linkage Update. Enjoy, cause I've accidentally filled my inbox with interesting stuff and must therefore get rid of it all.
Mara, this one is for you:
Birth of an Urban Legend
"Man Arrested for 'Peace' T-Shirt" read the headline on the Tuesday Reuters dispatch.
"Marchers Protest Arrest of Man for Wearing Peace T-Shirt at Crossgates" the Albany Times-Union reported the next day. (Crossgates is an Albany-area shopping mall.) Sounds like an outrageous case of censorship, doesn't it? But it turns out to be an urban legend.
First, as even the early news stories made clear, the man in the shirt, Steve Downs, was arrested not for wearing a shirt but for trespassing. According to Reuters' "report," a mall security guard asked Downs to remove his "Give peace a chance" shirt or turn it inside-out. "When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing."
Although the mall may have the legal right to eject someone for wearing an offensive shirt, the action as described by Reuters certainly sounds like overkill. But Reuters leaves out a crucial part of the allegation, which appears on the arrest report, obtained by The Smoking Gun: The security guards had received complaints that Downs and his "partner" (actually his son, according to the Times-Union) "were stopping other shoppers." The security guard's deposition says that a customer had complained "that the two gentlemen [sic] were having a verbal dispute with another group of individuals in the mall. The customer was afraid of what may come out of the dispute, so she wanted to let someone know." Sounds more like disturbing the peace than protecting it.
There's another odd angle to this story: The New York Law Journal reports that Downs is the chief lawyer for the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct. "Last month, U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd in Utica, N.Y., shot down as unconstitutionally vague provisions in the Code of Judicial Conduct that restrain the political speech of judges and judicial candidates." Downs's office had prosecuted a judge for taking part in political activities. The law journal notes that "there are no allegations that Downs violated any ethics code -- he is not a judge, and therefore not subject to the Code of Judicial Conduct."
NCI Workshop 'Stamps Out' Abortion/Breast Cancer Link: Researcher Calls It 'A Very Big Fix'"
From: AgapePress.org"Seven Al Qaeda Killed, Two Bin Laden Sons Reported Captured"
From: FoxNews.com"New Evidence Alleges UNFPA Supports 'Coercive Abortion' in China"
From: CNSNews.comFacts on Who Benefits From Keeping Saddam Hussein In Power"
From: The Heritage Foundation"The Liberal Case for War"
From: FrontPageMag.com"100 Years of Saving the French"
From: FrontPageMag.com"The Ten Most Dishonorable Americans"
From: FrontPageMag.com"Hollywood’s Patriots Step Up to the Plate"
From: FrontPageMag.com"Castro on trial for U.S. terrorism: Court considers damages for '96 shoot-down by Cuban MiGs"
From: WorldNetDaily.com"Security adviser Rice weighs run for governor; Former Stanford provost rules out Senate bid against Boxer in '04"
From: SFGate.com"Unconstitutional filibuster"
From: Townhall.com"Firemen beware!"
From: Townhall.com"Protect American Interests -- and Forget About 'World Opinion'"
From: AgapePress.org"Socialism of Fools"
From: FrontPageMag.com"The passing away of mother Russia"
From: Townhall.com"Affirmative action bake sale"
From: Townhall.com"The future is Muslim, European or American"
From: Townhall.com"World media bash U.S., study reports"
From: WashingtonTimes.com"France's Five Cardinal Sins Over Iraq"
From: FrontPageMag.com"The French Should Shut Up!"
From: FrontPageMag.com"Leftist Sugar Daddies"
From: FrontPageMag.com"The march to save Saddam"
From: Townhall.com"Iraqi Women Brutalized by Saddam"
From: FrontPageMag.com"Gut Time: Colin Powell Has Persuaded Me"
From: OpinionJournal.com