While I still cringe at the insensitivity of the Camel Method’s name (or perhaps at my own hyper-sensitivity), I am finding some positive comments: From a missionary’s blog: The Camel method sure is a hot topic right now! I am amazed at how much heat it is generating in the blogosphere. In the training we …
Category: America
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Oct 08 2007
Ticking Clocks and “Accidental” War
http://joshualandis.com/blog/?p=418 In addition to furthering our conversation/speculation about a coming war with Iran, this article by Alistair Crooke is interesting in that it mentions yet another idea about the recent IDF “attack” on Syria (one you won’t likely hear from American or Israeli news sources). If you’ll read the comments afterwards, you’ll notice one by …
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Sep 16 2007
Pathological stupidity
On September 6th, there was an op-ed piece in the New York Times by L. Paul Bremer (the 3rd) titled “How I Didn’t Dismantle Iraq’s Army.” I trust you already know this, but in case our national obsession with OJ and Britney has lapsed your memory, Bremer was head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq from …
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Sep 11 2007
Horse beaters
Did anyone watch Glenn Beck on CNN last night? I did not, but someone who did was able to recite its premise almost verbatim today. In short, Muslim extremists are among us and planning a “Perfect Storm” that will make the Beslan school attack (near Chechnya) from a couple of years ago seem mild by comparison. Beck …
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Sep 11 2007
Background noise
I was flipping channels a few minutes ago. Faux News had a “Breaking News” banner below their bobble-head anchor of the hour, trumpeting that Petraeus’ Iraq report was calling for a 30,000 troop reduction by next summer. I switched to C-Span and started watching the general’s questioning in the Senate. Jack Reed, a Democrat from …
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Sep 11 2007
A Moment of Silence
A poem for 9-11 By Emmanuel Ortiz, September 11, 2002 Before I begin this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. I would also like to ask you to …
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Sep 04 2007
Hey Joe
Would you please… …just SHUUUT UP for a few minutes and let the other people on your show talk? Last week was really bad. You had the two females sitting across from you — one was a famous blogger now moved on to Time Magazine — but we rarely heard anything they had to say because …
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