Every time I see one of the current spate of AOL television ads portraying their customers as clueless morons I want to scream. It’s not that I have some sort of deep-seated respect for the intelligence of AOL users, but rather, these ads represent, far too well, the current industry mindset, which treats computers as home appliances.

"Don’t worry about viruses and spyware," AOL explains, "we’ll take care of that for you... Plug it in, turn it on, and disengage your brain..." [Read More!]

I'm a soldier currently stationed in Mosul. I'm getting ready to redeploy back to Germany. I was in a Mosul chow hall when the attack took place, not the one that got hit, though. Another soldier from our warehouse came down to our chow hall to make sure we were allright when he heard the news the chow hall got hit. After lunch, we walked down to the combat support hospital where all the wounded were being treated to give blood. They said they didn't need any but thanked us for our concern.

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AIR RAGE
By Michelle Malkin
This post will be unusually long. That's because I've decided to use my bandwith today to combat a government agency's self-serving--and dangerous--spin campaign. The great thing about the blogosphere is that I can give over as much space as necessary to others who don't have a voice.

And nobody at the Transportation Security Administration, at the Federal Air Marshals Service, or in the White House can stop me.

Last week, I wrote a column on the idiotic dress code policy instituted by Thomas Quinn, head of the Federal Air Marshals Service. Quinn promptly dispatched his flack, David M. Adams, to the cable networks this week to accuse Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson and me of spreading "patently false" reports and "misinformation."

Can you spell C-Y-A?
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In one of its first efforts in 1949, the UNESCO textbook, titled "Toward World Understanding," used to teach teachers what to teach, said:
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To all who say - The soldier shouldn't be there (for whatever reason)... I say:

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Little was done last year and today the movement to strip all semblance of Christmas is stronger, thanks to the ACLU. [Read More!]

We read and hear warning cries alerting us to the supposed incipient fascist threat quite often nowadays. Many of these "alerts" inform us that our freedoms and liberties are at risk, that the American democratic-republic is gradually giving way to an authoritarian or totalitarian establishment, and that our leaders are reminiscent of Nazis. Thus we have Internet threads comparing George W. Bush with Hitler, or at the very least, with Mussolini or Leonid Brezhnev. By extension of the Hitler analogy, America may be like Germany in 1939 -- on the cusp of embracing fascism if it hasn't completely done so yet.
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December 3, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
In mid-November 2004, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he would be taking the prominent role in cementing a powerful coalition of regional as well as superpowers consisting of India, Communist China, Russia and Brazil. The purpose of this coalition is to challenge the supremacy of America and the European Union. Putin is best known as the "Gray Cardinal" for his brutality while leader of the KGB. Putin is also much feared because of his alleged control of the Russian Mafia and the drug trade.

Putin visited Brazil from November 21-23, 2004 to discuss economic issues with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio de Silva. There is speculation that Putin has bigger plans in wanting to get a Russian foot hold in Latin America in order to expand Moscow's geopolitical influence in the region. The Communist Chinese express worries about America's influence over the world. Should these plans come to fruition, the size of this coalition would make up three fourths of the world's population and have an overwhelming voice in the United Nations.
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