This is a fascinating picture of a mammatus cloud formation:
More pictures by the same fellow can be found here.
If tornado pictures are your deal, check out Twister Chasers.
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This is a fascinating picture of a mammatus cloud formation:
More pictures by the same fellow can be found here.
If tornado pictures are your deal, check out Twister Chasers.
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This post is in: Military
Remember that video yesterday of the soldier who was shot in the chest, with the bullet knocking him to the ground after being deflted off of his body armor? The story is even better than just that (video here):
During a routine patrol in Baghdad June 2, Army Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer, a medic, was shot in the chest by an enemy sniper, hiding in a van just 75 yards away. The incident was filmed by the insurgents.
Tschiderer, with E Troop, 101st
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This post is in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Gonna be a rough spell in the big house for this one, I think:
Saying his words steered young men into terrorist training camps that are the lifeblood of a movement that plants bombs on subways and trains, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema sentenced an American Islamic scholar to life in prison Wednesday.
Ali al-Timimi, 42, of Fairfax, Va., who had ties to a now-defunct Pittsburgh-based magazine that advocated holy war, was convicted in a lengthy jury trial in federal court here last spring of recruiting a group of northern Virginia men to travel to Pakistan and train to take up arms for the Taliban. The men, who played paintball and went to shooting ranges to train for holy war, were dubbed the Virginia Paintball Jihad.
Before the trial, nine of al-Timimi’s followers were convicted or pleaded guilty in the conspiracy prosecutors said grew in the shadow of the nation’s capital in the days before 9/11 and blossomed on al-Timimi’s advice in the week after the terrorist attacks.
Al-Timimi’s conviction for soliciting treason and other charges marked the first post-9/11 trial in which the government won a terrorism verdict for actions tied to words designed to aid the enemy, rather than actual deeds such as providing money, equipment or engaging in combat.
Am I the only one who missed this?
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This post is in: General Stupidity
Thank goodness for MoveOn.Org, because without them, companies that make indelible markers and poster-board might go out of business.
Does anyone know anyone who is in MoveOn? Could you ask them if there is anything, any left-wing issue or topic, for which they WON’T whip together a protest?
And just for the record, I hate all rallies and protests, whatever the reason.
*** Update ***
Here is a protest slogan they won’t be using any time soon:
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This post is in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
A federal appeals court has sided with the Bush administration:
In a significant victory for the Bush administration’s antiterrorism policy, a federal appeals court ruled today that military commissions could resume war crimes trials of detainees at the American naval base at Guant
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It appears that Laurence Simon’s cats have some strong opinions about the Palestinian-American rapper (the Arabic Assasin) who got fired from his Airline security job for rapping about terrorism.
Smart cats.
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Maybe this is why Rehnquist is waiting to resign- he is waiting for grass roots support for Roy Moore to build:
My friends, this is a crucial moment in the history of the American republic. The character and the undaunted courage of one faithful man seated on the U.S. Supreme Court could bring about a turning point in our jurisprudence and in our culture, back to Biblical morality and forward to a restoration of the Constitutional design and system of liberty set forth by American’s founding fathers.
I speak of that great patriot, that exemplary jurist, God’s man for these times, the Honorable Roy Moore.
Roy Moore sacrificed his position as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court rather than submit to an unconstitutional demand by Federal judges to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building…
I have been encouraged by the enthusiasm of the many thousands of freedom-loving, God-fearing Americans who have rallied behind this great man and his righteous cause.
More and more God-fearing, freedom-loving Americans correctly see Roy Moore as a man of principle standing up for faith, freedom, and the rule of law, as America’s Founding Fathers understood it.
Already more than 85,000 have signed Petitions urging President Bush to appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court.
What a great victory for God, family, and country it would be if Roy Moore were nominated and confirmed as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court!
As a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Judge Moore would strictly interpret the law according to the U.S. Constitution.
I can’t come up with anything snarky enough to top the actual press release, although the idea of sharing a condo in Paris with Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand does sound more appealing than it used to. We could listen to the Dixie Chicks and eat freedom fries.
Phew- still got some snark left.