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Quotation for today from Ralph Peters:
(The terrorists) ask themselves, "What works?" We ask ourselves what the lawyers will say.
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check chart at NYTimes...
altogether now: It's Bush's Fault...
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88 Iranian professors to gov't:
“Nighttime attacks on defenseless student dormitories and daytime assaults on students at university campuses, venues of education and learning, is not a sign of strength,” the letter read in part. “Nor is beating up students and their mass imprisonment.”
Mousavi also protests the arrests and violence.

Iranian filmmakers versus the tyrannies...

Hillary surfaces long enough to make a comment.

in a related item: Tehran24 photoblog reports the gov't took them offline on Jan3...

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I should have stayed in New Mexico...lots of money being sent to non existent Congressional districts and non existent zip codes...

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Factoid of the day: The Amish and Old Order Mennonites will probably be exempt from having to buy health insurance.

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Essays to think about:
Cicero Superstar...
and Spengler on sovereignty.

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Solution: Get them a bus ticket to Lima.
It's not global warming that is causing the deaths from extreme cold: It's poverty...and if there is not enough to eat, it is because of primitive farming techniques can't supply adequate food to people living on marginal land.

All the crap about keeping them in their traditional lifestyles ignores the reality:
Traditionally, such people migrate to better areas...

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And the "It's good to be the king" story for today:
Zuma takes 3rd wife...