Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Stuff below the fold

Remember the Vendee....170 thousand killed...in one of the original genocides.....

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Could Ethiopian peacekeepers solve the Somali pirate problem?

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a terrible war in Gaza: StrategyPage notes a lot of Arab countries hate Israel, but see Hamas as Iranian, and worry that a Persian empire is trying to take them over...again...
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LATimes reports:

Word came this weekend that a new USA Today - Gallup Poll found the 44-year-old Palin, a mother of five, is the nation's second most-admired woman, behind only Hillary Clinton and ahead of someone named Oprah Winfrey.


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