Where Was Rusty?

I was fishing* sick. more...

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Open Thread

Rusty is out today, We'll have some posts but if you have links. Go ahead.

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Me? A Columnist?

Why yes, yes I am. Well sort of anyway.

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Open Links and stuff

***Sticky until you run out of links****

It turns out you can work 10 hours on posts that are original, informative, and important. Are those the ones that get read? Nope.

Any one have any links they want to recommend? I got nothing. Absolutely nothing. I'll put links in posts below for the day.

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Bloggers Talk to Bush on War

Bill from INDC journal is in Fallujah and talking to President Bush. I'm jealous. Go read it here.

UPDATE: Roundup here.

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Phylum Democrata

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Hat Tip: Mark.

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Jawa Report on Rush Limbaugh!

First O'Reilly and now Rush Limbaugh? It's like all those years of hard work are paying off. Or something like that. Rush's website has the transcript:

Then the Jawa Report on July 17th of this year:

"Hillary/Schumer want $1 Million For Hippie Museum -- How many Troops will have to go without supplies, armor or food because Hillary and Schumer want to fund a church to hippies? 'The grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today released a list of Senate earmarks slated to be included in the Fiscal Year 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill. The 1,016 earmarks total nearly $392 million, and include millions for questionable projects such as $1 million in tax dollars for a museum dedicated to recreating the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival..."

All of us here are honored. Can we start collecting that crazy blog money now?

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Is That All You Got?

Sixth Anniversary of 9/11 and the only thing al-Qaeda supporters were able to take down was The Jawa Report. And they didn't even do that very well.

Oh, and I almost forgot, they released some more crap videos.

You can email the Jihadi DDOS network here.

Adil W, email is el_fatak@hotmail.com

Adil? Hmmm, where have I heard that name before? Taliban webmaster? No wonder. After all, Adil is our bitch.

Loser(s).

Update: Pixi Misa Via Ace:

Sorry about that, folks. We had another little server meltdown there.

I have a shiny new server with 3x the awesomeness ready to go, and we'll be migrating across to it next Sunday. That should mean a lot fewer little accidents.

Pixi reportedly fixed the problem with a little Duct Tape.

Alternate theory: It was the boobie post that brought down mu.mu. Therefore, it was Ace Dave that broke the internet.

So now the Jihadis can't even take credit.

Double Loser(s).

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Goldfarb on Beauchamp

The return of Vent! Go watch. Hurry, before I break the internet again.\

UPDATE: Bob Owens interviews Major John Cross, who led the U.S. Army’s investigation into Private Beauchamp’s claims.

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Happy B-Day

Vicki's blog, Not Ready for My Burqa, is one year old today. Vicki and I share a passion in ending the brutal and disgusting practice of taking hostages.

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Wordpress Blocked in Thailand, Turkey

According to the watchdog website Don't Block This Blog (DBTB.org), the nations of Thailand and Turkey just recently blocked the entire Wordpress.com domain for all Internet users.

In Thailand, visitors to the blocked websites will see a message in Thai which translates as follows.

"Sorry. TOT Plc., as an organization of Thai people, has restrained the access to this website as it contains content, text, and/or picture that is unappropriated which affects the mind of Thai people all over the country and cannot be accepted."

Therefore, the government has determined that the "mind of Thai people" is affected by "unappropriated" material at Wordpress.com. It's not clear what "unappropriated" means.

Regarding Wordpress being blocked in Turkey, it appears that one blog owned by a proponent of creationism prompted a court order to block the entire Wordpress domain. However, an effort has been launched to collect signature on a petition to unblock blogs in Turkey.

Meanwhile, it appears that all Blogspot blogs are still banned in Pakistan. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority initially instituted the ban in March 2006 on Blogspot as a result of one blog carrying the infamous cartoons of Muhammad. However, a savvy blogger block workaround for determined bloggers has been developed using Google Docs.

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Novak: Bloggers Suck!

I really wish Hawkins had gone after Robert Novak for his dissing bloggers. Sure, there's a lot of crap on the internet, but so what? There's also a lot of crap in the New York Times, and presumably they do fact check.

RWN:

Robert Novak: I think it [blogging] had a hugely negative impact for several reasons. A lot of the bloggers just put out whatever comes to their mind....

The other aspect is that good, honest reporters are told that it's not enough to do their story for their station or their newspaper, that they have to get out and do a blog on it right away. It puts a high credence on speed, rather than care. A lot of things are said without due diligence being given to how accurate they are and how complete they are.

Read the rest. As opposed to the MSM which puts a high value on.....er....what exactly? When even carefully crafted and researched pieces are full of errors or bias, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the methodology. At least blogging is an iterative process where we fact check each other. Instead of one or two editors we have an army of editors always ready to pounce when we make the slightest error.

And unlike the MSM none of us are masquerading as 'objective' journalists. Our agendas are clearly known and readers are usually sophisticated enough to tell the differences between our own blustering opinions about the facts and the facts themselves.

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Army Worse than Bloggers

Looks like the Army is worse than bloggers when it comes to violations of operational security policy. So does this mean that my point about Scott Beauchamp being not a major douche, but only a minor one for violating OPSEC rules make more sense now?

PS--TNR editorial staff? Major douchebags.

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Slow Jawa *Sticky*

I don't know what the problem is with the Jawa today. May be another ddos attack. Hopefully we'll have things resolved soon.

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I'm Baaaack.....

Just in case you didn't notice, I'm back. Yes, I was gone. What, you didn't even notice? Thanks to every one for pulling double duty while I was gone.

Now, let the suckiness begin! Hey, suckiness is a perfectly promulent word.

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Sandcrawler PSA #3947

INDC Bill is going back to Fallujah.

If you can spare some coin, I'm sure he'd appreciate it.

Via HotAir headlines.

Sandcrawler PSA #3948:

Comments are shut off on my posts unless or until we get some sort of comment moderation or registration going on this blog. Sorry, but, you know where my email address is.

Thanks and have a great day.

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Vacation Alert

I need a vacation from my grueling summer vacation, so I'm heading to California for the weekend. Actually, my brother is getting married. So, you'll have to find your war porn (or regular porn) elsewhere.

Now if I could only get the Zionists to sponsor my vacations, then I'd be really happy. more...

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Congrats...

...to longtime friend Rob Port. Now he can finally put to rest all those "ghey" rumors.

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Blogger Labor Union

The idea of a blogger labor union seems to make as much sense as having a union for people who sing in the shower. Nevertheless, there is an effort underway.

In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labour union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards.

The effort is an extension of the blogosphere's growing power and presence, especially within the political realm, and for many, evokes memories of the early labour organization of freelance writers in the early 1980s.

Organizers hope a bloggers' labour group will not only showcase the growing professionalism of the Web-based writers but also the importance of their roles in candidates' campaigns.

"I think people have just gotten to the point where people outside the blogosphere understand the value of what it is that we do on the progressive side," said Susie Madrak, the author of Suburban Guerilla blog, who is active in the union campaign. "And I think they feel a little more entitled to ask for something now."

But just what that something is may be hard to say.

Typically, a labor union has some leverage by threatening to strike against management. Bloggers threatening to strike would probably be greeted with a ho-hum or maybe even applause.

Of course, one must also consider that utopia is only achievable when the workers of the world unite.

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On My Hopes Being Dashed

My hopes were just dashed. Lesson here: Never hope.

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Taliban "Retard" Caption Contest Winners

What started out as a post about "Martyred" Taliban Commander Abdullah Mehsud, quickly became a caption contest. Looking at this "innocent" Gitmo prisoner who went back to Pakistan only to become a top Taliban emir, can you blame us for making fun of him?

Winners in no particular order

Watergate: Dude, will you get off the radio and give me my shoe back? Why do you keep losing one shoe, anyway? Who does that?

Romeo 13: But Osama, I just done know which ones to wear... both pairs just clash with the vest... so hard to accesorize out here...

Darth Bacon: All you orphaned shoes are belong to us.

Honorable mention because we kinda have to goes toEditor: Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal... Uh, we had a slight weapons malfuntioin, but uh... everything's perfectly all right, now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

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World's Most-Read Blogger

Last week, the Beijing News reported that Chinese actress and director, 33-year-old Xu Jinglei (pics), became the world's most widely-read blogger when her site logged 100 million page views within about 600 days.

Interestingly, her blog (Mandarin or English) focuses on her career as a director of films and everyday life, not the usual celebrity sleaze. Xu has transitioned away from acting to be behind the cameras. A bit of trivia, her favorite movies are The Godfather and Schindler's List.

To celebrate the 100 million page views, Xu has chosen 20 of her online fans to join her at a blow-out party.

The 100 millionth hit occurred on July 12, according to www.sina.com.cn, a popular Chinese website which provides blog services to many Chinese entertainers, including Xu who started hers in October 2005 and published a book of her blogged articles in March 2006.

Notably, Xu Jinglei was interviewed last week by reporter Ellen Lee of the SF Chronicle and she discusses her attitude toward politics and the impact of the Internet on Chinese culture. Listen here in either Mandarin or English.

It's worth mentioning that Technorati, which classifies blogs based on the number of incoming links, had Xu's blog ranked at 47th last week. Nevertheless, the Chinese believe they have the world's most popular blogger.

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Sad

Condolences to Jeff G. on the passing of his grandmother.

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Google's Blogger: Terrorists=OK; Counterterrorists=Spam

Apparently The Gates of Vienna was being listed by Google owned Blogger as a "spam" blog for about 18 hours. Thankfully, the blog is back online. In a related incident, Atlas Shrugs seems to be blocked in some areas as well.

So, Google's Blogger and Blogspot platforms are taking complaints against antijihadi sites seriously enough to take them offline, at least for a time, wheras dozens of terrorist websites remain up?

Need I remind people some of the scum and filth Google is hosting on their blogspot sites?

Caliphate Voice Channel -- pro-al Qaeda propaganda from the Global Islamic Media Front--al Qaeda in Europe.
Press Release--al Qaeda in Iraq's English language al Furqan Media Front.
Islamic State of Iraq/al Qaeda in Iraq support blog
Juba Online -- Islamic Army in Iraq website celebrating Baghdad sniper (related site here)
Nuruddin Islamic Media Network -- An official website of Al Qaeda's affiliate in the Russian Caucuses (related blogspot sites here, here, here, here, here, here, and here)

The list just goes on and on and on and on........hypocrisy, thy name is Google.

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Jawa: What's Old is New

Trackbacks and comments are back. Phin decided that a temporary fix for the problem was to just go back to haloscan. Which is funny, because one of the main reasons I moved from blogspot was because MT had trackbacks and comments as a standard feature of the platform. It's just like going back in time. Makes me feel like trolling for readers in Charles', Allah's, and Ace's comments sections once again.

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