Ta! (it was late so I just skipped to the site and bookmarked it for later perusal)

Gee, who needs TV when you can just watch everything online? Amazing! Now, if only someone could invent a small handheld device so I…

Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to…

i think that very much depends on the fields of operation in question.

NI, you could phone and ask them.

thanks for the link 3410, I'll call them Monday ...

NI, is this what you're talking about?

Yup!
"Buying the War," a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.

there are many aspects of 9/11 that don't add up.

I still can't get my head around that damned miraculously surviving passport

After being much reported, it seems to have almost disappeared from the official record.

I suspect high value targets in Nebraska and Omaha are vitally well defended.

And as the death toll proved, there were a lot of firefighters in the building – obviously doing nothing if the fire was allowed to burn uncontrolled.

More like knowing nothing. The breakdown in communication between agencies was a major problem on the day. I gather the NY police and…

My point is that given the inadequate partial sprinkler system, the use of lightweight long-span steel bar joists, deficient ‘fireproofing’ on the steel, and large open areas undivided by fire walls, any uncontrolled large area fire would have eventually produced the same total collapse. The importance…

two of which were rigorously constructed buildings yet somehow as a result of a short explosive blast from half empty plane fuel tanks fell at basically un-obstructed speeds an hour later exactly into their own footprint, generating all the hallmark chemical and physical symptoms of controlled demolition.

I think there…

If you're interested in US politics you might want to read Rahm Emanuel's
(D – IL) latest speech on the Bush Administration...

When you put it all together like that... damn.

I'm in no doubt at all that history will regard this period in American political history as a bizarre…

It is not just young activists who believe the circumstances around the collapse of the buildings is very fishy but also very…

Under this Administration, the federal government has become a stepchild of the Republican Party

And of course once they've got everyone toeing the Republican Party line they can then switch gears to have them follow the Christian Fundamentalist line.

And of course…

When you put it all together like that... damn.

I spoke with a half-dozen prominent GOP operatives this past week, most of them high-level officials in the Reagan and Bush I and Bush II administrations, and I heard the same devastating critique: This White House is isolated and ineffective; the country has stopped listening to President Bush, just…

That bloody Birch's pointy teeth are beginning to give me the willies. I've asked Thea to tell him if he calls again that I'm in the lav or having a nap.
Actually I was having a nap in the lav this afternoon when it came to me…

Speaking of over eager efforts to praise, I have been watching…

Peters called whining about sailors being tasteless brutes with no respect for expensive suits or hairdos.
Feel I'm on to something with sort of big pipe thing but keeping getting Winnie popping to mind. Pretty sure MacIntyre popped in too.
Had bad…

[cue:] ouch! [little cry]

in a nutshell, "first" followed a conversation in a pub with another commenter, and won't be repeated.

(no I didn't – what page?)

Che farted:
first.
Don't let PA System become one of those forums.
Please.

I'm with Robyn on this one. And if you think otherwise then maybe RB should place numbers next to each comment so that Che & Co. can claim the 'Hundy' when it arrives. Or the 'Fiddy'.

What's worse…

Sept. 11, 1986. "A city upon the hill." I can't believe those suckers bought that crap.

Wayne Anderson to Mao Tse Tung Blog?

March 1. Man. That was a seriously big walk.

Jan. 25. So I said, "what was your name again?" That shut the bastard up. God I hate journalists.

now if only Stalin or Nixon had blogs....

That could actually work.

Stalin Blog

April 24, 1942. Bit bored today. Drank a little, had some gypies executed.

April 26, 1942. Still bored. Hilter kicking ass in the west, again. I really hate that sneaky little bastard. Although, he does have…

now if only Stalin or Nixon had blogs....

pretty normal ranter in the blogaquarium

great last word there, by the way.

i was thinking that maybe the ranters are just frustrated somehow.

in a thread the other day d4j degraded into something like poetic psychobabble. it occurred to me that he just needed a chardonnay, a sit-down, and…

very wise Eusaman, very wise

he's a poet who needs to be outed

Are we doomed to repeat the Poetry purges of the past? Have you not seen the photos of cats sitting forlornly next to
mats, the magpies standing around with nothing to say, the Maori Jesus at home in bed???
Have you no…

my mind turns to the fact my father's 21st birthday was marked by the armed forced of the Third Reich trying to splatter his brain all over the sands of North Africa

Craig that's a pretty cheap shot. There are probably very few people here who don't have close relatives…

Oh cool, the antiBaxter.
Had to happen.

Point taken, but around April 25th my mind turns to the fact my father's 21st birthday was marked by the armed forced of the Third Reich trying to splatter his brain all over the sands of North Africa. (Around the same time, real Stalinists were racking up their own…

are lunatics

i don't think dads4justice is a lunatic.

he's a poet who needs to be outed. he should move to the big city, grow his hair, write some poetry and just chill the hell out.

small towns have a lot to answer for.

Yeah, whatever gets you through the night and doesn't require AA batteries

Relax Craig, I would have added smiley face if it had helped.

The Kiwiblog comments threads show that there is only a small amount of regular contributors for whom that comment is appropriate and offensive, and those people…

You can toss the re-militarization of Japan into that list of yours too....an issue causing a great deal unrest here in Asia, far more so than Sino military expenditure or loopy old Kim.

Hum... Well at least Japan has a constitution and a functional democracy (both imposed under an American-lead…

Yes, I've only had the blog up for four days and am already considering 'resting' her off the blogroll – though given the bitch pack…

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Echo_chamber

So, the Echo Chamber is, like, the modern Star Chamber?

And they somehow managed all this with the US army occupying the country and the US air force…

A society cannot work effectively without mutually accepted sources of reliable information. Once you let your ideological preferences take over you've…

I reckon our time would be better spent tackling the homegrown right-wing insanity from the Deborah Hill Coddington types.

Damn straight! Did anyone Catherine Rich talking about early leaving exemptions (ELEs) the other night.

Reporter: The amount of [ELEs] have increased 62%...
Rich: The amount of [ELEs] have doubled...

Can…

They didn't so much refuse to believe Ritter as try and burn him to the ground.

same thing with the ever-so-slightly more nutty richard butler. although it was more his own stupidity that resulted in his credibility demise.

doesn't this whole theory smack of slightly freaked out chickenhawks looking to…

or calling liberals "communists". my real question is how come these people believe this dave gaubatz guy, but refused to believe another former weapons inspector called scott ritter?

They didn't so much refuse to believe Ritter as try and burn him to the ground. Sean Hannity actually accused him of…

FOX NEWS still run that "WMDs really are in Iraq" meme almost every day,…

*sigh* Yeah, whatever gets you through the night and doesn't require AA batteries.

Zzzing! And it's only Monday!

Personally, I'd rather leave the casual use of that kind of language to people who have some first hand experience of the real deal. Otherwise, it's all too much like being trapped…

Not wanting to defend the yanks or anything, but I dispute that DU is in any way a "radiological weapon".

Generally, an effective weapon will cause death or immediate, acute injury such that your enemy is removed from the battlefield and becomes a casualty requiring treatment. Something that…

*sigh* Yeah, whatever gets you through the night and doesn't require AA batteries. Personally, I'd rather leave the casual use of that kind of language to people who have some first…

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2472133.ece

I have it in my house! Is it an evil lurking?

They could be used in theatres where the russian influence is best kept secret.

The ones that don't do Chekov plays?

But it is quite fun to call the Righties "fascists" and sit back to watch the righteous indignation fly.

I had a rather "lively" discussion with a couple of American friends in the wake of the Don Imus hoohah about whether there was a word that would…

Mr. Gaubatz's new disclosures shed doubt on the thoroughness of the Iraq Survey Group's search for the weapons of mass…

or calling liberals "communists"

But it is quite fun to call the Righties "fascists" and sit back to watch the righteous indignation fly.

non-traceable weapons.

they could be used in theatres where the russian influence is best kept secret.

– see how easy it is to make shit up?

Che, I wish to sign up for your pamphlet and/or sect

Frankly, calling anything you don't believe a "conspiracy theory" is on a par with calling all your enemies "terrorists".

I call them "Conspiracy Theories" when they are a theory about a conspiracy. When it's true it becomes a "conspiracy".

And all of my enemies ARE terrorists, I'm very selective.

I…

it's always "no one believes farmer about what happened to his cows", or "poor medical practise hushed up to prevent lawsuit".

not, "country deprived of justification of multi-trillion-dollar war"

Why would the Russians want to gather up Saddam's collection of hopped-up V2s, unstable anthrax, leaky drums of home made organo-phosphates and insufficiently enriched uranium

non-traceable weapons.

they could be used in theatres where the russian influence is best kept secret.

– see how easy it is to make shit…

Why do people believe conspiracy theories?

I often wonder if maybe it's actually a secret, stubborn hope that humanity in general isn't as dumb as it appears.

Virtually every conspiracy theory requires the belief that the people involved are secret geniuses, manipulating current events and the media…

Well at least Japan has a constitution and a functional democracy

A bit like Singapore's......

The Liberal Democrats' grip on power has also limited the dissemination of information. Here in one of the world's most wired countries, election law bars Web sites from promoting candidates for a specific election and…

Frankly, calling anything you don't believe a "conspiracy theory" is on a par with calling all your enemies "terrorists".

Or some perceived loss of rights to be "political correctness gone mad".

Why do people believe conspiracy theories?

Often it's the same reason that people might believe any other theory: because the evidence stacks up.

Frankly, calling anything you don't believe a "conspiracy theory" is on a par with calling all your enemies "terrorists".

Then someone pointed out that the US uses radiological weapons (the long but essential "Weapons of self-destruction", Vanity Fair, November 2004), so that bit got quietly dropped from the definition.

Welcome to the future.

Why…

Hum... Well at least Japan has a constitution and a functional democracy (both imposed under an American-lead…

Why would the Russians want to gather up Saddam's collection of hopped-up V2s, unstable anthrax, leaky drums of home made organo-phosphates and insufficiently enriched uranium when they already have:
this
and
these
and
(allegedly) some of these

Che farted

nice spotting on the flatulence problem. and you haven't even met me.

soz... was a issue formed at the pub on friday after a beer and whisky chaser. hadyn, *in your face!*

Don't let PA System become one of those forums.

Please.

Oh come now, you get better at getting the first post the more you practice!

We could always do what Fark.com does and have "First post" filtered to "Boobies" and twelve hours added onto the timestamp of…

first.

Don't let PA System become one of those forums.

Please.

It seems well on the way to becoming an article of faith.

We'll have to disagree there for the time being about how much the the conservative commentariate is taking this up. LGF don't have anything about it, but the're probably too busy baiting Muslims.

But Gaubatz sure is mad.…

I think Dissonance Reduction theory with an overlay of Confirmation bias goes a long way to explaining it. Of course other intellectual shortcomings and psychological maladies help too…

oh how i wish that were true.

Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. (You may recall her as the journalist plagiarised by the Maxim Institute's Bruce Logan)

perhaps that explains why John Key is now trying to do a flip-flop…

These people should be focusing on the real issue, viz. Why online games are corrupting our society and turning gamers into psychotic slave soldiers ready for the new world order.

Yes Melanie Phillips' is crazy here but it doesn't look like it is being picked up by the usual suspects

Malkin's pretty close to the mainstream of the US right and the phrase "seems credible" is on her site (albeit tempered by a warning about "truthism") as a description of…

Yes Melanie Phillips' is crazy here but it doesn't look like it is being picked up by the usual suspects. It's yet to reach the levels of madness the left got to. Truthout etc. Maybe it will though.

Technorati is showing page after page of winger blogs taking it seriously,…

I seriously think some people are wired to believe conspiracy theories. I can't explain it any other way.

what else explains the popularity x-files?

sure as hell wasn't a lot of occam's razor on that show...

Not exactly dismissive, is it?

But neither is it 'more or less embraced by the whole gang'.

At The Corner the only mention is this by Jonah Goldberg –

I have no idea what to make of this, but it seems a healthy dose of skepticism is a good way…

Yowsuh. Few things can match the initial rush of discovery that Everything You Know Is Wrong. Never again will you be made to feel inferior by a bunch of pointy-headed professors who…

I seriously think some people are wired to believe conspiracy theories. I can't explain it any other way.

Glenn Reynolds doesn't sound particlularly convinced –

"I FOUND SADDAM'S WMD BUNKERS:" Er, wouldn't this be news if it were true?

Maybe there's other evidence but it doesn't appear to have been embraced that much.

You left off the last line of Reynolds' post:

Maybe not, these days. . .…

Michael Moore peddled a Left wing conspiracy theory about 9-11 that went down pretty well with many on the left. That was far more influential than Melanie Phillips' craziness

The part about flying out the Saudis on Sept 13, on account of the Bush family's links to the Saudi royal…

the neocon commentariat is almost universally up for it. The story has been more or less embraced by the whole gang: Instapundit, Malkin, Powerline, Pajamas Media

I don't know what "neocon" means anymore but glancing thru those sites there's not really any indication that they are taking this seriously. Instapundit…

"It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their ears,
And seemed almost too good to be true.
Then followed a torrent of laughter and cheers:
Then the ominous words "It's a Boo-"

Then, silence. Some fancied they heard in…

In fact conspiracy theories about 9-11 have come mostly from the Left.

WMDs aeh?

bit like the hunting of the snark really.