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04.09.08Iraq War, cost breakdownIn the wake of testimony by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker to both the Senate and the House regarding the state and future strategy of the Iraq War, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi posted an Iraq War cost breakdown on her blog (yes, she has a blog): The Cost of Iraq War Broken Down Second: $3,919 Minute: $235,160 Hour: $14.1 million Day: $338.6 million Week: $2.4 billion Month: $10.3 billion Year: ...
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03.24.08Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey makes some predictionsRetired Gen. Barry McCaffrey made these predictions in a brief to the military:Oof, those are pretty heavy. McCaffrey seems like quite the hawk for war and plays up to the fears of terrorist attacks and nuclear Iran.McCaffrey has been a continuously pro-war, even writing an optimistic report in June 2005. He's was also accused of misconduct and war crimes during the Gulf War, so you still have to take that into consideration when reading these predictions.Still, it's interesting to see how different brains and perspectives see the war and envision the future.
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03.19.08Questions the press should have asked about IraqOn the anniversary of the war, Greg Mitchell over at Editor & Publisher has a fantastic list of questions the press should have asked in the lead up to the War in Iraq.-- Why is the U.S. threatening an optional war if 59% of Americans do not support a U.S. invasion without the approval of the U.N. Security Council, according to a Feb. 24-26 USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll?-- If our allies have the same information on WMD -- and the Iraqi threat is so real -- why do some of our friends refuse to take part in your coalition?-- You praise ...
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03.19.085 years of war in Iraq, what is it good for?Today marks the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, as you have no doubt heard on every news station so far today. The NY Times has some good stuff up, as does WaPo and even my own paper The Orlando Sentinel. No doubt today you will see countless time lines, hundreds of pictures and hear pundits from both sides screech about how the war is or is not working. It will be a day of endless speculation and 20-20 hindsight. The thing to remember though is that during all of this time there have been men and women over there. Not ...
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03.04.08Hucka-beeotch!Just a quick thought on Mike Huckabee and his refusal to gracefully (*snicker*) bow out.Huckabee has stated that, despite it being mathematically impossible for him to become the Republican candidate, he will remain in the race until God tells him to drop out. He also says that he, "believes in miracles," and that is what he is counting on to win.Seeing that a miracle is a divine act of God making the impossible possible, and that the only thing that would make Huckabee the front runner would be if McCain suddenly drops out or dies. One has to surmise that ...
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02.25.08The other blogI normally don't do this, but I wanted to post a link to a post I did on the UCF blog on do for the Orlando Sentinel.This group just really grossed me out and I thought what they were doing was just inappropriate.
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02.24.08‘Wolverine’ movie turning into a bloated monsterRemember when you saw the first X-Men movie and were thrilled to see those characters come to life? Then, a few years later we were treated to X2: X-Men United and once again, we were all thoroughly impressed.When it was announced that Bryan Singer would not be a part of X-Men: The Last Stand we all knew that it would not be as great as the first two, that was a given. However, nothing could have prepared us comic-book nerds for the crap-fest that was to be unleashed upon us.Complicated characters with equally complicated histories, like Beast, Juggernaught, the Morlocks ...
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11.25.07Reading is fundamentalTom Scarritt (no, not that Tom Skerritt) talks about Creating lifelong readers:If you are reading this column, chances are you are more successful than the average person, more involved in your community and less likely to be in prison.That is not because of anything I have written. It is because you have chosen to read.A new study by the National Endowment for the Arts suggests that reading transforms lives. "Regular reading not only boosts the likelihood of an individual's academic and economic success -- facts that are not especially surprising -- but it also seems to awaken a person's social ...
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09.20.07The Riches.So Forbes released its list of the 400 richest Americans and no surprise Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and the Google kids are at the top. Now I could give a rat's ass about the 400, but what is more interesting is the few that have fallen from the list in recent years. However, as USA Today points out, they weren't dropped because their businesses tanked but because they gave too much of their money away.Forbes calls these the "Selfless" who fell off the list of the USA's 400 richest, not because their businesses went bust, but because they ...
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