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A large group of Al-Qaeda fighters are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune:

“One MARINE is better than ten Al-Qaeda fighters “.

The Al-Qaeda commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the dune where upon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence.

The voice once again calls out:

“One MARINE is better than one-hundred Al-Qaeda fighters.”

Furious, the Al-Qaeda commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again Silence.

The MARINE’S voice calls out again:

“One MARINE is better than one-thousand Al-Qaeda fighters.”

The enraged Al-Qaeda commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the dune. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and Cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought …. Then silence.

Eventually one badly wounded Al-Qaeda fighter crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander …….

“Don’t send any more men …… it’s a trap. There are two of them.”

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(c/p at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)

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These converts to islam don’t meet the ‘profile’ we generally think of which makes them ‘unlikely but prized’ converts for use in the holy war against the west.

They remind me of lost youth of every generation who gravitate to the most outrageous groups/religions/actions they can think of in rebellion against their preoccupied, inattentive or over indulgent parents. Once they were beatniks, then hippies, now they are jihadists. Same types but much more dangerous to society.

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To send a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon urging him to take the lead on pushing for UN Security Council action on Burma - Click Here Now!

How refreshing for Hollywood to be on the side of the oppressed rather than the side of the oppressors for a change!

See Related: Free Myanmar - Birmania Libera - Burma Frei

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Apparently, Moveon.org has sic’d attorneys on some CafePress operators who satirized MoveOn.org. I guess in their minds they are the only ones allowed to make fun of other groups of people. That’s pretty typical, I think. They tell US how to live our lives, what to think and what to say. They decide what is proper and what isn’t. Its okay to make fun of an Army General, a United States President, the Jewish or Christian faiths, but don’t make fun of them or any of the groups they deem are off limits.

Talk about asking for satire, laughing and pointing fingers! That’s all the reason anyone should need to make vicious fun of them!

Hot Air has put out a call to photoshop mock moveon.org. Hey - sounds like a good time to me not to mention, a worthy cause.

Here’s my contribution …

Check out some really good ones at The Pirates Cove (where I found this fun activity!)

Check out Michelle’s post on why we should fight the smear merchants.

Blue Crab Blvd got the whole thing started.

The World According to Carl has been having fun with this!

See more of the photoshops and commentary at: 186 K Per Second.com, Right Voices, Protein Wisdom, Bloodthirsty Liberal, The Cutting Edge

(c/p at MVRWC)

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What do you use to access your PC when you are away from home? I was looking around the internet to see what is out there that provides remote access for a home computer. There are plenty of ways big businesses can manage to do this, but for a small business or a home computer the prices can be too much to make it worth doing.

Its easy enough to access online accounts, but what about actually accessing your PC. RemotePC does that for a very reasonable price. You can access anything that is on your personal computer from anywhere, including pictures, documents and email. They have customer packages for as low as one user up to 100 users starting as low as $4.95 per month! They offer a service for desktop conferencing for up to 10 users on one PC.

Some of the features that are offered with RemotePC include: fast logins, secure data viewing, desktop sharing (you can invite up to 10 people to view your desktop from remote locations!), firewall and proxy servers, you don’t have to have a static IP address, remote printing, easy file transfers, and more.

Easy to download, easy to install, easy to use, inexpensive, fast (5 seconds to log on) and easy to access support services. That sounds like my kind of application! Whether you are someone who is looking to access your computer while you are away on vacation or someone who needs to access it while on business trips, RemotePC can work for you.

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[The following is copied in full from here, this was passed on by MVRWC who found it via a Technorati search on Burma.]

Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post.

This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in Burma by adding your blog and asking others to do the same.

By passing this meme on through the blogosphere hopefully we can generate more awareness and avert a serious tragedy. As concerned world-citizens this something we bloggers can do to help.

How to participate:

1. Copy this entire post to your blog, including this special number: 1081081081234

2. After a few days, you can search Google for the number 1081081081234 to find all blogs that are participating in this protest and petition. Note: Google indexes blogs at different rates, so it could take longer for your blog to show up in the results.

THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US

There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out. Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking. I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.

The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule. While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.

This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades. It’s an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence. Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.

The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities. Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue — and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.

Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community. As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.

In this modern day and age violence against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to happen again somewhere else. If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.

Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence. And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.

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Mary Katherine Ham does her own video in answer to the recent onslaught of PETA ads.

HamNation… Not Vegetarian!

Mary Katharine Ham shares her life-changing experience with a balanced diet in an homage to Alicia Silverstone’s nekkid PETA ad.

Go Hunting!!!!!

hahahahahahahaha

My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has the video.

My Beloved Curmudgeon had a fairly sudden and urgent need to have surgery today. The surgery was minor for what could have been a major problem. Fortunately, they were able to quickly, efficiently and effectively take care of the problem. By all reports he’s going to feel better than he has in a long time. So in the end it had a very good result.

I spent most of the day at the hospital which as anyone who has ever done that knows is pretty much a miserable and excruciatingly boring way to spend the day. Any day. He’s still there but will come home tomorrow.

My mother and one of my sisters came up and set with me during the morning while Beloved Curmudgeon was having his surgery. We chatted about a lot of things, one of which was my mother’s habit of shopping at Salvation Army. That might sound a little strange to some people, but I know several people who love to shop at the Salvation Army in our town. The uber wealthy around here donate there so people have been known to get some incredibly good deals on some incredibly nice products. For instance, I know one person who bought a beautiful designer handbag for $5 - $10 that would have cost around $500 retail. It was hardly used if it had been used at all. That is why people around here shop at the local Salvation Army. My mother is one of those people. I’m seriously thinking of it myself.

Shopping at Salvations Army entered into the conversation because of one purchase in particular. ‘I bought a snow sled at the Salvation Army.’ she mentioned.

I laughed. What a strange thing I thought. I actually thought she was leading up to some kind of joke or something. It rarely snows where we live and while my mother is very active and always seems interested in new hobbies, snow sledding just didn’t seem like her.

Now, you have to understand that my mother has taken up a lot of activities over the years. A few years ago she bought a basketball goal and put it in her driveway. She shoots baskets out there on her own and with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Yes, I wrote great-grandchildren. My mother is not a spring chicken and we all thought it was a hoot that she got a basketball goal for her driveway. But she used it, and still does and really, we think its pretty cool. Her neighbors think its pretty cool too. Most people my mothers age are not shooting basketball. I wonder if any are.

She also recently bought a piano so that she could take lessons and learn to play. I genuinely hope that I managed to get some of her good genes.

Even with all that though, I was still puzzled about the snow sled and must have looked at her funny because she explained, ‘I bought it for Carol’. Okay, this is getting stranger by the second. Why would she buy my sister a snow sled at Salvation Army. It just seemed like a very strange thing to do.

She explained that when she was pregnant with me the family moved from one state to the other after my father completed his bachelors degree at a college out of state. I was their sixth child and I won’t say what year it was, but they moved five children across several mountainous states without expressways, air conditioning or seat belts. The photo in the post was taken during that trip.

Mother went on to explain that Carol had cried for her snow sled that was left behind all the way from beginning to end of that trip. ‘Why was she crying for her sled?’, I asked. I was imagining that it had been something that had been forgotten. That was coming from the mind of someone from a different era who would just run to the store and buy another one if needed. They had left it behind because they didn’t have room for it in whatever they had used to move. ‘Wasn’t that a miserable trip with her crying all the way?’ I asked, being sympathetic and again thinking within my own life experience.

Mother looked at me and with a matter of fact tone replied, ‘It was just how things were.’ and smiled. I felt that she knew that I was not really comprehending what her life had been like at that time. She went on to say that when she had walked into the Salvation Army the other day she had seen the sled and knew that it was Carol’s sled. She said she remembered exactly what the sled looked like. When she saw it she knew she would buy it for Carol. She joked about the price of it.

My mother replaced a lost toy for her daughter who is a grandmother herself now. A toy that had been left behind 50 years earlier out of necessity. Mother was stoic about the need to leave the sled behind, but never forgot her daughter’s tears. When she saw the exact same sled in the Salvation Army, she was finally able to replace the left behind sled.

We had this short seemingly insignificant conversation early this morning and I’ve thought about it off and on all day. I guess no matter how old your children are, they are still your children. The relationship changes, but it doesn’t change.

Oh, and the sled is not named ‘Rosebud’ as far as I know.

Just like beauty, art is in the eye of the beholder. When I first met my Beloved Curmudgeon he had a nude on black velvet painting hung in his very nice house. He had been single a while so it didn’t seem that out of place. Still, a black velvet painting? At some point in time I learned the history of the painting. He had bought it in Tijuana on leave just before he left for Vietnam. That painting went with him to Vietnam and back and stayed with him in the subsequent years through many moves and changes in his life. He still had it when I met him.

I understood his attachment to the painting, tacky as it is. Over the years the painting has gradually made its way to less and less prominent places in our homes. It is currently prominently displayed in our garage. He’s okay with that.

The painting has meaning for him and for me because of him. I appreciate that its important to him. We’ve found a common ground.

The point is, what is art to one person is not necessarily art to another. That is the philosophy behind the many years that Park West Gallery has been in business auctioning one of the largest collections of fine art in the world. Park West Gallery conducts art auctions throughout North America and their affiliate company, Park West at Sea conduction fine art auctions on cruise ships around the world.

You can see what’s in their current catalog and what’s on sale through their website.

You can search through the exhibits by artist. Many styles are represented. I even found a Neil J. Farkas Elvis, although he wasn’t painted on black velvet.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A senior leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a US air strike in Iraq this week, a US military commander said Friday, calling it a key loss to a group already fractured by US operations.

Brigadier General Joseph Anderson identified the man as Abu Usama al-Tunisi, a Tunisian described as a in line to succeed Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s Egyptian leader.

Tunisi also led a cell in Yusifiyah that kidnapped and killed two US soldiers June 16, 2006 — Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Thomas Tucker, 25, according to Anderson.

“Abu Usama al-Tunisi was one of the most senior leaders within Al-Qaeda in Iraq,” said Anderson, the chief of staff of Multi-National Corps Iraq.

The general said the September 25 strike that killed al-Tunisi was a “significant blow” to al Qaeda in Iraq, which he said has been severely disrupted by US operations and may now be reassessing its position in Iraq.

He said his opinion was that Al-Qaeda will shift its forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and try to expand its operations there.

Hopefully, we haven’t and never will forget what al-Tunisi and al-Qaeda did to Tucker and Menchaca. I hoped then that we would send a clear message that we would not stand for this torture, mutilation and murder of American Troops.

HOOAH!!!! for our Troops for killing this monster.

Busy, busy, busy quick links today. I’ll add more during the day as time permits …..

• Planck’s Constant - Mychal Bell is an idiot and a thug
• Texas Fred - Navy to Modify Barracks Complex That Resembles a Swastika From Air
• The Bullwinkle Blog - John Edwards On The Dole?
• Basil’s Blog - Okay, I think I get it now…
• My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - Friday Lounge Lizard
• Political Pistachio - During a Time Where Everyone Seems to be Offended
• Thoughts by Seawitch - People Everywhere Just Wanna Be Free

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