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New Electric Motorcycle - Zero to 60 in 0.97 Seconds - Eric - 9/16/2007 4:20:13 AM
- Another Potential Darwin Awards Candidate - Donald - 9/16/2007 1:50:31 PM
- Yipes. - TB - 9/16/2007 4:42:51 AM
  - Which we would have been safer doing (n/t) - Eri - 9/16/2007 2:30:16 PM

Al Qaeda promises more assassinations in Iraq - TB - 9/15/2007 4:35:13 PM
- And elsewhere - TB - 9/15/2007 9:30:07 PM
- re: Al Qaeda plays into US psychology - Raoul - 9/15/2007 8:03:33 PM
  - re: Al Qaeda plays into US psychology. Not exactly. - Marcia - 9/16/2007 2:37:15 AM
- Stirring Al Queda's pot - Lindy - 9/15/2007 7:53:21 PM
  - "Secret Police" - TB - 9/15/2007 9:08:04 PM
    - That would have been like taking Communists.... - Lindy - 9/16/2007 12:19:01 AM
- How is that different than the US killing 'em? - Bowser - 9/15/2007 6:26:16 PM
  - I knew from the start........ - Lindy - 9/15/2007 7:59:44 PM
  - The US isn't killing 'em. - TB - 9/15/2007 6:38:36 PM
    - And it wasn't about oil and Bush deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. - Bowser - 9/16/2007 2:22:21 AM
      - You know, once, just once... - TB - 9/16/2007 2:51:15 AM
        
        Lessee. A reality and responsibility check. - Bowser - 9/16/2007 4:55:17 AM
        
        "gibbering like a meth monkey" - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/16/2007 3:25:39 AM
        
        re: "gibbering like a meth monkey" - TB - 9/16/2007 3:52:26 AM

Great site about Arctic Ice - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 6:38:13 PM
- Now, check out the SOUTH Pole - TB - 9/15/2007 9:53:12 PM
- That's the website I usually go to for that info. - TB - 9/11/2007 6:46:19 PM
  - Forget that...Who was sampling the salinity levels shortly before the last ice age? - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 8:19:12 PM
    - It's a theory - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 9:09:44 PM
      - re: It's a theory - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 1:41:09 PM
      - Art's right. - TB - 9/12/2007 12:24:44 AM
  - re: That's the website I usually go to for that info. - gbaikie - 9/11/2007 7:48:43 PM
  - re: That's the website I usually go to for that info. - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 7:02:40 PM

American Liberalism goes completely over the deep end. - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 5:00:25 PM
- Everything Kucinich says in this interview makes sense!!! - Raoul - 9/14/2007 9:14:37 PM
- Outsourcing torture to Syria - ER - 9/11/2007 6:56:02 PM
  - Did Kusinich help Syria go nuclear? - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 1:55:51 PM
  - So Kusinich was expressing support for terrorism and tourture? - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 7:48:38 PM
- "How could anybody seriously vote for somebody like these Left-Wing bozo's?" - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 6:42:32 PM
  - rDid the Saudi govenment have anything to do with 9/11? - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 7:53:50 PM
    - TAKAFSE, you're being a jerk again - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 9:14:02 PM
      - Like I said above... - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 1:46:24 PM
        
        Whoa...caffeine typos (n/t) - TB - 9/13/2007 5:29:36 AM
      - He has a point. - TB - 9/11/2007 11:25:51 PM
        
        Believe me - azstrummer - 9/12/2007 3:34:03 PM
        
        re: Believe me - TB - 9/12/2007 4:13:08 PM

Does Anybody have any thoughts on the new Russian bomb? - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 7:33:03 PM
- "Mine's bigger!" - TB - 9/14/2007 5:38:12 PM
- It's not a replacement or substitute for a nuke. - ER - 9/13/2007 2:54:08 PM
  - The catch... - TB - 9/13/2007 5:04:00 PM
    - re: this kind of weapon is built mostly because somebody can - TAFKASE - 9/13/2007 6:57:31 PM
    - BTW... - TB - 9/13/2007 5:08:01 PM
      - You have a point. - ER - 9/13/2007 5:39:54 PM
- Not really. - TB - 9/12/2007 8:48:13 PM
  - Yeah, BOOOOOM-ski!!!!! - carl - 9/13/2007 6:24:15 PM
  - I don't think they'll use it any more than we use the MOAB - TAFKASE - 9/13/2007 1:53:57 PM
- Look at it as part of a broader perspective. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/12/2007 8:47:33 PM
  - Maybe. But things change gradually. - TAFKASE - 9/13/2007 1:46:15 PM
- Certainly doesn't worry me - azstrummer - 9/12/2007 7:50:47 PM
  - Not necessessarilly. - TAFKASE - 9/13/2007 1:32:32 PM
    - P.S. Such weapons also pave the way for a future nuclear weapons ban. - TAFKASE - 9/13/2007 1:35:57 PM

Lileks and others remember 9/11 - TB - 9/11/2007 4:11:21 PM
- One more 9/11 tribute - TB - 9/14/2007 5:33:48 AM
- Remembering 9/11- going back to 12/31/99 - REB - 9/11/2007 5:04:28 PM
- "The Wind in the Heights" - TB - 9/11/2007 4:36:02 PM

Mystery Plane Over White House on 9-11-2001 - carl - 9/13/2007 7:08:38 PM
- Umm.............. "Doomsday" plane? - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/13/2007 7:55:54 PM
  - re: Umm.............. "Doomsday" plane? - carl - 9/13/2007 10:10:49 PM
    - re: "Doomsday" plane - TB - 9/13/2007 10:37:32 PM
      - NOT Wierd, just had Secret Service SPOOKED - carl - 9/13/2007 11:23:18 PM
        
        re: NOT Wierd, just had Secret Service SPOOKED - TB - 9/14/2007 12:16:44 AM

Another f'riendly-fire' incident; this one in Iraq. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/13/2007 6:17:58 PM
- Initial news bulletin on the net was flawed. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/13/2007 6:53:36 PM
  - Tom's question was a good one: - alcaray - 9/13/2007 8:21:39 PM
- Where the heck did you dig THAT piece of fantasy up? - TB - 9/13/2007 6:28:53 PM

More analysis on al Qaeda videos - TB - 9/13/2007 1:05:50 AM
- They probably did. - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/13/2007 1:02:35 PM
  - The bugs also help them to attract chickens... (n/t) - TB - 9/13/2007 5:08:53 PM
    - Too bad the larger meat-eating raptors aren't still around. (n/t) - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/13/2007 7:47:51 PM

The next battleground - Biofuels - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 8:16:20 PM
- Yes!!! We are saved! - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 8:23:27 PM
  - re: Yes!!! We are saved! - Hans - 9/12/2007 7:50:46 AM
    - Coal to oil conversion - ER - 9/12/2007 3:47:02 PM
      - re: Coal to oil conversion - Hans - 9/13/2007 1:59:27 PM
  - re: Yes!!! We are saved! - Hans - 9/12/2007 7:50:44 AM
  - We covered the "water burning" here already - TB - 9/12/2007 12:56:59 AM
    - re: Bummer - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 1:37:48 PM
      - I should have said...The LACK OF EFFICENCY (n/t) - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 1:39:00 PM

Ranging shot - ER - 9/13/2007 11:19:32 AM
- Interesting if true. - TAFKASE - 9/13/2007 1:50:50 PM

Petraeus presentation - TB - 9/10/2007 6:23:33 PM
- What difference does it make? - ER - 9/11/2007 7:58:04 PM
  - So what do you propose? We leave Iraq and let a Civil war turn it into a Mecca for Al Queda? - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 8:05:04 PM
    - If we leave Iraq, the Shia will exterminate Sunni Al-Quaeda. - ER - 9/11/2007 8:14:00 PM
      - re: If we leave Iraq, the Shia will exterminate Sunni Al-Quaeda. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2007 4:24:47 AM
      - Is that the Democrat's plan? It might work if. - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 8:30:43 PM
- re: Petraeus presentation - James Brown - 9/11/2007 3:09:22 PM
- re: Petraeus presentation - James Brown - 9/11/2007 2:57:17 PM
- Technically very sound...and completely out of touch with reality - z - 9/11/2007 3:05:43 AM
  - That's funny. I thought the surge was doomed to failure. - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 1:45:01 PM
  - That has to be the most impressive reach I've seen yet on this. - TB - 9/11/2007 3:21:28 AM
    - The point is that the "progress" is an illusion - z - 9/11/2007 4:56:17 AM
      - Dream on... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2007 8:19:42 AM
- I will grant - azstrummer - 9/10/2007 9:23:03 PM
  - Nobody is asking the Democrats to buy everything he says with a complete pass on credibility - TAFKASE - 9/10/2007 10:02:18 PM
    - But you're discounting the credibility that I value the most - azstrummer - 9/10/2007 11:14:57 PM
      - Maybe Iraq was wrong from the start, but I am more concerned about the future than the past. - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 1:39:21 PM
        
        There is no plan - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 4:44:47 PM
        
        There is a plan. - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 5:09:11 PM
        
        Oh man - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 6:49:21 PM
        
        wow... No occupying nation? god save the Queen dude. - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 8:02:03 PM
        
        What? - azstrummer - 9/11/2007 9:57:51 PM
        
        The whole concept of the US as "occupiers"... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2007 10:37:45 PM
        
        None of the mercenaries.... - azstrummer - 9/12/2007 3:43:18 PM
        
        "This current situation is unprecedented in any history I've ever read about." - TB - 9/12/2007 4:15:25 PM
        
        re: "This current situation is unprecedented in any history I've ever read about." - azstrummer - 9/12/2007 9:07:31 PM
        
        Not the same as the American Revolution? Agreed. - TB - 9/12/2007 10:08:13 PM
- Advice to the press from Michael Yon - TB - 9/10/2007 8:58:53 PM
  - On interviewing battalion commanders - dtb - 9/10/2007 10:16:39 PM
    - Good post. - TB - 9/11/2007 1:49:29 AM
- The Crocker presentation - TB - 9/10/2007 8:44:40 PM
- All I have to say about this: Term Limits... - TAFKASE - 9/10/2007 8:16:48 PM
  - We've got them - Eri - 9/10/2007 8:21:05 PM
    - WELL THEN GIVE BUSH 4 MORE YEARS! - TAFKASE - 9/10/2007 9:54:06 PM
- Jeez, hear the man out! - Eri - 9/10/2007 8:07:03 PM

Liberal peace activist kills student (mistaken for an american soldier) in the name of peace - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 7:46:00 PM
- This is all the proof I need. I'm becoming a conservative! (n/t) - ER - 9/11/2007 8:46:17 PM
  - Praise the Lord! ER has seen the Light! ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2007 9:10:17 PM
    - Amen! Hallelujah! Ooorah! - ER - 9/12/2007 12:46:13 AM
      - I love that worm song. - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 1:56:54 PM
- The media is an accessory to that murder - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2007 7:58:36 PM
  - Yeap. Don't leave out the Democrats who lied to get elected. - TAFKASE - 9/11/2007 8:03:24 PM
    - Who told what lie, exactly? - alcaray - 9/12/2007 3:33:58 AM

No good deed goes unpunished department - ER - 9/11/2007 11:31:45 PM
- Let me guess...he worked at Applebees? - TAFKASE - 9/12/2007 1:50:26 PM
- I hope the friggin' restaurant goes out of business! - Eri - 9/12/2007 3:08:35 AM

"serious injury and death from prescription drugs" - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2007 7:43:47 PM

Final part of Michael Yon's "Ghosts of Anbar" is online - TB - 9/7/2007 6:25:12 PM
- And Michael Totten reports from Ramadi - TB - 9/11/2007 4:30:25 AM

You Might Help Find Steve Fossett - Eric - 9/8/2007 5:30:33 PM
- I found something - Eric - 9/11/2007 2:59:49 AM
  - Okay, I'm not seeing it. - TB - 9/11/2007 3:47:15 AM
    - its covered with a heavy layer of dirt - Eric - 9/11/2007 4:25:55 AM
- re: You Might Help Find Steve Fossett - James Brown - 9/10/2007 2:12:36 AM
  - Another very similar albedo feature only 136 m NE - nick hoffman - 9/10/2007 2:09:55 PM
- Google photos are years old. - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/9/2007 4:07:08 PM
  - They said these particular shots were updated. - TB - 9/9/2007 4:17:11 PM
    - re: They said these particular shots were updated. - Eric - 9/9/2007 4:30:53 PM
      - And have they run a crude "old vs new"algorithm? - n - 9/10/2007 3:09:36 PM
        
        Good idea. - TB - 9/10/2007 3:21:15 PM
- Tried it for a while. - TB - 9/9/2007 4:58:00 AM
  - Ah, but the LIGHT is better - nick hoffman - 9/10/2007 3:11:47 PM
    - Not from what I can see. - TB - 9/10/2007 3:19:50 PM
  - Something found - Eric - 9/9/2007 3:13:17 PM
    - re: Something found - TB - 9/9/2007 4:29:05 PM
      - I'm wondering about Walker Lake - TB - 9/10/2007 1:47:04 AM
    - ha, that might be a search plane flying low. (n/t) - Eric - 9/9/2007 3:58:02 PM
- Cool! I pray he's found - Eri - 9/8/2007 11:06:13 PM
  - Pray, Don't pray. No difference... - nick hoffman - 9/10/2007 3:18:37 PM
    - Prayer doesn't change circumstance or events - Eri - 9/10/2007 8:19:53 PM
      - I agree. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2007 10:05:51 PM
        
        re: I agree. - Eri - 9/11/2007 3:13:19 AM
    - It's a colloquialism. No need to haul out the Inquisition. (n/t) - TB - 9/10/2007 3:35:34 PM

Bin Laden's latest speech - TB - 9/7/2007 7:39:03 PM
- Lileks comments on this - TB - 9/11/2007 3:26:56 AM
- Much more useful link and transcript - TB - 9/9/2007 5:29:27 AM
- I don't buy it - Lindy - 9/8/2007 12:20:43 AM
  - psy-ops, to what end? - McFly - 9/9/2007 3:47:01 AM
    - Embarrassing Manhunt - Lindy - 9/9/2007 3:54:11 AM
  - Okay, to bring you up to speed... - TB - 9/8/2007 12:40:55 AM
    - "The adjustability range of your credulity defies description... " - Lindy - 9/8/2007 6:25:03 PM
      - re: defies description - TB - 9/8/2007 7:44:31 PM
        
        If you think the guy under the beard is Bin Laden.... - Lindy - 9/9/2007 2:55:16 AM
        
        So you finally bought that bridge from someone? Not surprised... (n/t) - TB - 9/9/2007 5:00:10 AM
        
        Tom, if you think that video IS Bin Laden, then you are more myopic than I thought.. (n/t) - Lindy - 9/10/2007 4:36:27 PM
        
        Didn't say that. - TB - 9/10/2007 7:26:12 PM
- Bin Laden and Techie have the same speech writer - azstrummer - 9/7/2007 9:29:58 PM
  - re: Bin Laden and Techie have the same speech writer - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2007 11:00:59 PM
    - "Besides, most folks never read my posts fully through anyway." - ER - 9/8/2007 2:48:16 AM
      - Not bad, not bad. (n/t) - TB - 9/8/2007 3:29:16 AM
        
        LOL - Lindy - 9/9/2007 2:53:47 AM
        
        More like Scylla and Charybdis. (n/t) - ER - 9/9/2007 12:58:49 PM
- I think I found "The Bin Ladin Code" - SEN News - 9/7/2007 9:28:33 PM
- OK, I read it... - McFly - 9/7/2007 8:39:39 PM
- The more sobering news - TB - 9/7/2007 8:28:44 PM
  - I hope the germans are beating information out of the dung eating cockroaches that they caught. - TAFKASE - 9/7/2007 8:32:59 PM
- ok... I can't go on... I completely lost it when he compares Al Queda's myrterdom to that of John F. Kennedy - TAFKASE - 9/7/2007 8:10:18 PM
  - re: ok... I can't go on... John Lecarre.. Bindladen and homoeroticism - andrew - 9/10/2007 3:11:29 PM
  - Allright,,,I went back for more! Bin Ladin wants to cut taxes to 2.5%??? - TAFKASE - 9/7/2007 8:22:30 PM
    - I think Bin Laden may be trying to entice those red-neck, gun-loving, government hating home-grown terrorists. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/8/2007 6:06:35 PM
      - "How many?" - The Silent Majority - 9/9/2007 7:31:15 AM
    - Bin ladin gave praise to Allah and Noam Chomsky in the same speech? - TAFKASE - 9/7/2007 8:24:46 PM

Terrorist responsible for Yazidi bombings has been killed - TB - 9/10/2007 2:23:04 AM
- re: Terrorist responsible for Yazidi bombings has been killed - James Brown - 9/10/2007 9:25:09 PM
  - A fancy word for punching a lot of hot metal through something. - TB - 9/10/2007 9:47:42 PM
- Good (n/t) - Eri - 9/10/2007 3:35:02 AM

60% of Iraqis Support Attacks on U.S. Troops - Donald - 9/10/2007 1:27:58 PM
- The Poll - Donald - 9/10/2007 1:32:09 PM
  - A few comments... - TB - 9/10/2007 3:16:10 PM
    - Colonizing Iraq ? - Raoul - 9/10/2007 4:28:28 PM
      - re: Colonizing Iraq ? - TB - 9/10/2007 6:19:04 PM
        
        NATO - Raoul - 9/10/2007 8:55:06 PM
        
        The USA should remove itself from Europe - Pat Buchannan - 9/10/2007 6:57:08 PM

Y2K is coming this Tuesday night; September, 11, 2007. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/8/2007 6:27:01 PM
- My profound regrets - Eri - 9/8/2007 11:01:57 PM
  - Why. What is significant about 9/11? - Ima Liberal - 9/10/2007 3:57:49 PM
    - What? - Eri - 9/10/2007 8:15:34 PM
      - "Ima Liberal" is a satirical character. - TB - 9/10/2007 8:52:03 PM
    - Uh.... yeah! - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/10/2007 6:03:52 PM
  - Here is what you do.... - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/9/2007 6:35:09 PM
    - We usually do that anyway - Eri - 9/9/2007 10:27:20 PM

Mosques in Britain - TB - 9/8/2007 2:12:59 AM
- Somebody should give him his myrterdom. - TAFKASE - 9/10/2007 3:59:11 PM
- Freedom of religion - Buck Galaxy - 9/8/2007 5:51:36 PM
  - re: Freedom of religion - TB - 9/8/2007 6:29:29 PM
    - Freedom of thought - ER - 9/9/2007 3:04:21 PM
      - The Real path is the Path... - nick hoffman - 9/10/2007 3:41:25 PM
        
        My point exactly... - ER - 9/10/2007 5:03:19 PM
      - Are these your own thoughts and words? - nick hoffman - 9/10/2007 3:25:51 PM
        
        Yes, they are my own thoughts and words. (n/t) - ER - 9/10/2007 3:35:36 PM
- re: Mosques in Britain - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/8/2007 11:54:45 AM
- They need to run him out of Britain - Eri - 9/8/2007 5:22:14 AM

Has Steve Fossett's luck finally run out? - TB - 9/4/2007 6:05:41 PM
- Steve Fossett Still Missing Near Area 51 - Eric - 9/5/2007 2:23:30 PM
  - re: Steve Fossett Still Missing Near Area 51 - Fragrep - 9/9/2007 4:26:29 PM
    - re: Steve Fossett Still Missing Near Area 51 - AlieNegrOrganization - 9/10/2007 5:36:39 AM
  - Are you insinuating that Steve will never be found? - Jacob Samorodin - 9/5/2007 4:41:13 PM
    - I'm pretty sure the aliens got him. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2007 5:43:20 PM
      - Nope, STARGATE VORTEX got him - carl - 9/5/2007 7:00:37 PM
    - More importantly, Area 51 is nowhere close to Reno. (n/t) - TB - 9/5/2007 5:11:58 PM
    - Who's "laws of physics"? (n/t) - Adam Bomber - 9/5/2007 4:51:10 PM
- Fossett - Raoul - 9/5/2007 5:35:54 AM
  - It would be weird if they never found him, like Earhart. (n/t) - TB - 9/5/2007 2:50:40 PM

Yahooooo, Justine beats Venus after eliminating Serena, in the US!!!!! - Raoul - 9/7/2007 10:23:27 PM
- So is this just a flagrant display of nationalism or is it racism? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/7/2007 10:56:48 PM
  - Justine made history - Raoul - 9/9/2007 8:55:11 AM
    - re: Justine made history - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2007 12:45:00 AM
  - You know, sometimes a sports fan is just a sports fan. (n/t) - TB - 9/8/2007 12:19:09 AM
    - C'est vrai! - Eri - 9/8/2007 12:50:13 AM
      - Yah, I liked that Russian girl... - ER - 9/8/2007 1:22:57 PM

Fossett thoughts - Bowser - 9/7/2007 2:35:07 AM
- re: Fossett thoughts - Eri - 9/7/2007 3:50:56 AM
  - re: Fossett thoughts - Laurie Street - 9/7/2007 5:01:45 AM
    - ELT's - azstrummer - 9/7/2007 2:58:52 PM
      - Maybe he tried to fly around the world again. (n/t) - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/7/2007 5:23:19 PM
    - I say this with all due respect - New Age Vapors - 9/7/2007 12:49:55 PM
      - That's how I feel.....like Steve Irwins' death, also. (n/t) - Jody - 9/7/2007 2:54:16 PM
        
        Don't count him out yet! - Eri - 9/8/2007 12:53:07 AM

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