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Archive for December, 2005

Iraq: Back to Business

Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

So the election’s over, back to the same old grind: assassinations, car bombings, regular airplane bombings, attempted overruns of Iraqi army and police posts. Tom Lasseter has the must-read articles of the day, though, as he interviews Iraqi Army units in northern Iraq and finds out (surprise!) they’re pretty much just rebadged peshmerga militia fighters [...]

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Christmas Loot

Posted in Uncategorized on December 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Assorted goodies gotten:
Two trade paperbacks of one of the best manga out there: Blade of the Immortal. These two feature one of my favorite characters, Makie, the ex-lover of the series’ antagonist and the deadliest fighter in Blade’s universe. Since this is manga, she is naturally a beautiful, 90-lb., excessively submissive former prostitute. The latter [...]

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Iraq: Not like Vietnam, but it should be!

Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2005 | 3 Comments »

Former Nixon Defense Secretary Melvin Laird has gotten some attention with his recent Foreign Affairs article recommending a repeat of Vietnamization in Iraq. Essentially Laird endorses Bush’s “Iraqis stand up, Americans stand down” course in Iraq, with the focus on training Iraqi security forces to take the place of American forces. Laird considers the American [...]

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Democracy on the march

Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

No, really.

“The Islamic militant group Hamas won sweeping victories in local Palestinian elections held Thursday in some of the West Bank’s largest cities, according to preliminary results released Friday.
The voting, six weeks ahead of crucial parliamentary elections, was a considerable blow to the Fatah faction that has dominated the Palestinian Authority but has fractured in [...]

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Hello dere!

Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Well, let’s get this thing started.
I started this blog to have a place to record my daily thoughts about the different stuff that interests me. This includes U.S. and world politics, books, movies, video games, fitness — all the typical crap people blog about.
Facts for those interested:

28 years old
Work in the New York financial industry
Just [...]

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