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The 12 Nazi Commandments

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Bookworm

American Thinker has a little snippet about a long-forgotten historical fact — Hitler rewrote the Bible to serve the Nazis.  As part of this, he amended the Ten Commandments.  Instead, of stating moral absolutes, that remind the good Nazis to subliminate themselves to the State.  These are scary ideas, the

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World War II
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The Times simultaneously tells and buries to “Faux”togate story

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Bookworm

The Times did finally run a story about the Reuters/Adnan Hajj photograph scandal.  Instead of telling it as a story about media manipulation involving the major news story of the day, however, it buried it in the Technology section.  It’s not a bad story, it’s simply a very careful non-story

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Reuters is making lemonade re “Faux”togate

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

As I’m sure you know by now, the story about Hajj’s altered photos is hitting the MSM. The most recent story I read comes from the BBC. I found two things amusing. First, this “are they just being polite?” moment from Reuters: Mr Hajj, a freelance photographer working for Reuters,

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Sanity and insanity amongst the Democrats

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

Early reports from Drudge are that Lamont (with a third of precincts reporting) is winning and McKinney (with a tenth of precincts reporting) is losing. McKinney’s probable loss is scarcely surprising because she had a viable opponent and was becoming too nutsy to be of any value to her constituents.

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Democrats
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NPR picks up on altered Reuters photo

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

NPR ran a short segment on the faked Reuters photos, using an interview with a Reuter’s photoeditor. It soft pedals the whole thing, including omitting any mention about Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs, which exposed the fraud; and letting stand unchallenged the photographer’s new claim, not that it was a

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Hezbollah, Media matters
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A slight retreat to sanity in California schools

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

The Terminator, merely by raising his eyebrows, managed to get the California legislature to back down on a bill that would have required all California textbooks, starting in first grade, to include materials focusing on famous homosexuals — not because of their fame, but because of their homosexuality. Instead, it

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Education, Political correctness, Sex
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There’s nothing like crisis to bring out the good jokes

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

I got another email: Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad calls President Bush and tells him, “George, I had a wonderful dream last night. I could see America, the whole beautiful country, and on each house I saw a banner.” “What did it say on the banners?” Bush asks. Mahmud replies, “ALLAH

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Silly Stuff
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Hillary may be the mean girl at high school

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

You remember the popular mean girl at high school, don’t you? Lots of people wanted to be in her ambit, but no one really liked her. I was irresistibly reminded of that iconic American high school figure when I read this article about Hillary polling in New Hampire (hat tip:

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Democrats, Elections
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The Burkha

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

After Time Magazine did an on line puff piece extolling the virtues of burkhas, Michelle Malkin came back with a video attacking that piece. To be honest, I don’t think it’s a very effective comeback to the “burkhas are good” implications in the Time piece, consisting mostly of silly rock

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Bits and Pieces
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Hatred crosses party lines

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

As I know because I spent the majority of my life on the Democratic side of the political divide, the conservatives still can’t shake the reputation as haters that they picked up during the 1950s, thanks to the John Birchers. Interestingly, the conservatives also got tangled in the reputation of

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Capitalism, thugs and oil

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

Christopher Chantrill, writing at the American Thinker, has a quick rundown about capitalism’s civilizing influence in the world.  I don’t want to steal his thunder (because it builds well) by quoting any here, so I just suggest you go over there and check it out. FacebookTweet

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A movie classic

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Bookworm

Although we didn’t ask for it, TiVo decided to record Airport, the 1970 airport disaster movie that started a whole genre of movies about burning buildings and sinking ships, and goodness knows what. I’d never seen it before, although I’ve seen seen Airplane several times. As you know, Airplane, which

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Culture
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Israeli military sources reveal that Syria is directing Hezbollah combat

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Bookworm

From Debka: DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose: Hizballah’s rocket offensive against Israel is orchestrated from a rear command located in the Syrian town of Anjar August 7, 2006, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00) While Israeli officials keep on insisting that Syria must be kept out of the conflict, the fact is that the

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Hezbollah, Israel, Syria
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Disproportionate force

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Bookworm

Ball bearings. Ball bearings aimed at civilians are disproportionate force: The charred, dismembered bodies, and blood splattered against a stone wall, turned the stomachs of hardened emergency service workers. “Even in this war I have not seen a sight like this,” said Eli Peretz, an ambulance driver. “The wounded people

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Hezbollah, Israel, Media matters
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Reuters admits photographer’s fraud & removes all his photographs

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Bookworm

I’ve been getting a fair amount of hostile comments regarding an earlier post in which I discussed an AP story that accused half the American population for being delusional because it belived that Iraq did have WMDs. I’ve updated that post to support my belief that Iraq had WMDs at

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Anti-Americanism, Hezbollah, Israel, Media matters
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