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Good to see Gen. Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff (i.e. head of the Army) using his power and influence in such a pertinent way. :rolleyes: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2681695.ece Seriously, he made a nice realistic start in his new post, but this is just...

The reasons for his resignation are not yet clear. It looks like a power struggle within the IDF. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/world/middleeast/14israel.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/762414.html

quote: Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, military commander and politician: born Encarnación, Paraguay 3 November 1912; President of Paraguay and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1954-89; married 1940 Eligia Mora Delgado (two sons, one daughter); died Brasilia 16 August 2006. Ask most...

According to a report on air Wolf Blitzer (not on their website yet) CNN reports that top AlQueda leader and architect of 9/11 jailed in the U.S. since 2003 has criticized his boss Osama bin Laden as a lousy boss, arrogant and meddling micro manager, poor planner and says he has to go for not...

(Post moved to Another Saddam Lover... thread)

Still aiming for Mid-February or a bit later, for all (2 of you) interested in coming over/up/through/around my neck of the woods (outside Albany NY, about a 20 minute drive). I'd like to do someting the 19th (is that a weekend? Is that Friday or Saturday?) I was thinking maybe shelling over...

I recently saw on tv a scientist name an aborted fetus as medical waste. Is this true and what are your opinions?

I have gone to 'otherhealth.com' forum and tried to debate with homeopaths there, but I get sick of going round and round and round with them being hell-bent on giving the same answer over and over again such as "but the treatment just worked and that's all it matters”. I have argued about their...

In the USA, a lawsuit has been filed against ex-IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon for war crimes and other human rights violations, arising from a long-ago artillery-shelling incident at Kfar Kana in Lebanon. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/658545.html This is actually the second case filed...

A leader for our times. Plus he'd have a hothothot First Lady.

Just read this: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1470260,00.html and I thought it was amusing and truthful:

Seriously, nothing gets me more hot under the collar than what we have seen in recent days. Two sets of statistics come out, one of them is widely recognised as unreliable (the police's recorded figures) due to changes in recording techniques, levels of reporting e.t.c. The other is a survey...

My vote is for Labour's majority to be reduced to around 40ish. (However if the PPB I saw tonight is any indication of Labour’s election campaign I reckon I may have to change that to a 163 seat majority for the Conservatives!)

So my sources tell me! Councils are booking polling venue for the election on the 9th!

I was trying to be clever and think up a dbpc study that even homeopaths cannot think to be screwed in any way. Unfortunately i got disappointed my study still would not convince a homeopath upon a negative result. Here is the rough idea(a bit impractical though, please ignore this small...

From the excellent news source www.truthout.com: "There has been poor strategic thinking in this...poor operational planning and execution on the ground," says Zinni, who served as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000. Zinni blames the poor planning on the...

From Jane Chastain, World Net Daily: "...with all the gender norming – the lowering of physical standards for women in the military – and the pressure to assign and promote women to positions for which they are ill-suited and unqualified, all female officers now are viewed with suspicion..."...

He appears to agree with me. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/30/1067233319979.html The "no negotiations or easing of restrictions" policy is just a dead end. You can argue about moral correctness all you want, and how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin. You still have to...

Simply amazing. . . . http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uspent173498203oct17,0,2933140.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

What does General Clark know that we don't? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60629,00.html malc ;)

While Bubba Clinton was toking up and learning to be a marxist planning to take down our system from within, Wesley Clark was doing push-ups, shouting like a dog, and getting duct taped to his matress which was flipped and pounced on, the event never being reported in order to ensure completion...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7080916%255E1702,00.html I think he may have a case. The justice department got him fired from a job, etc. and yet they apparently don't have the evidenced to convict or they would.

Today once again the alert is moved to Orange. I have to fly tonight- won't that be fun! News is reporting that there is "chatter" Can somebody explain to me what that chatter means? if they follow the chatter, can't they just trace it to people and bust them? Anyway, they were saying they...

The Truth about D.A.R.E.

Hal's thread regarding a non-English section of the forum got me thinking. Instead of a non-English section I would like to propose a new section under General Academics called "Linguistics and Semantics". I would also like to suggest another section called "History". Here are some of my...