<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305</id><updated>2011-07-07T18:27:34.485-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Blog That Dare Not Speak Its Name</title><subtitle type='html'>I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>47</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-5839745277533160246</id><published>2008-11-18T19:48:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T18:49:50.929-06:00</updated><title type='text'>All We Are Saying ... Is It's Over and We Won</title><summary type='text'>... (crickets chirping) ...Zombietime says the war in Iraq is over, and we won.  This is a very dangerous thing to say in today's America.  It goes against all the existing narratives that our helpful media dishes out daily, ie., that the war was lost a long time ago, and only a moron or a President who doesn't listen to his advisers -- but I repeat myself -- would continue the charade.Turns out,</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/5839745277533160246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=5839745277533160246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5839745277533160246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5839745277533160246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/11/all-we-are-saying-is-its-over-and-we.html' title='All We Are Saying ... Is It&apos;s Over and We Won'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-1440164127993804735</id><published>2008-11-13T11:25:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T22:16:09.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Like a Canary in the Global Warming Coalmine</title><summary type='text'>When somebody posts a global warming climate change thread to fark.com, and I can read the first 40 or 50 comments without wanting to put a bullet in my brain, this tells me something.And what it tells me is this: that global warming, as a Pressing Issue That Will Kill Us All, Unless Brave Government Bureaucrats Save Us by Slowing Down Our Economy -- or, PITWKUAUBGBSUSDOE, for short -- is just </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/1440164127993804735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/1440164127993804735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/11/like-canary-in-global-warming-coalmine.html' title='Like a Canary in the Global Warming Coalmine'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-3425826248009255894</id><published>2008-07-10T16:51:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T18:50:24.901-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Scientists Stunned to Discover CO2 Helps Plants Grow</title><summary type='text'>Nobody hipped them to the photosynthesis thing, I guess.The French Press Agency reports that a group of German scientists has found that increasing exposure to carbon dioxide can actually boost crop growth.Researchers at the Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute spray plants with carbon dioxide jets so that the air around the plants is equivalent to with what some scientists predict will be the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/3425826248009255894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=3425826248009255894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/3425826248009255894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/3425826248009255894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/07/scientists-stunned-to-discover-co2.html' title='Scientists Stunned to Discover CO2 Helps Plants Grow'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-7128376096674719043</id><published>2008-07-02T14:24:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T15:26:25.115-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just To Clarify ... "Dissent" vs. "Slimy Lies"</title><summary type='text'>The main reason I can't really take Democrats very seriously is because they say stuff like this:And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians - they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities - the Iranians."Goodwill"?Um, no.  This statement is not just provably incorrect; no, it's much worse than that.If it is a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/7128376096674719043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/7128376096674719043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/07/just-to-clarify-dissent-vs-slimy-lies.html' title='Just To Clarify ... &quot;Dissent&quot; vs. &quot;Slimy Lies&quot;'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-4266171465677755507</id><published>2008-07-02T14:07:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T14:22:24.623-05:00</updated><title type='text'>"They Drilled Hell-on-Earth, and Put Up an Oil Rig"</title><summary type='text'>(sung to the tune of "Big Yellow Taxi")We've all heard alot about ANWR, and how we shouldn't drill for oil there because it is "pristine".In this case, "pristine" is another way of saying "bug-infested",  and "a vast, uninhabitable wasteland, even for the caribou".</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/4266171465677755507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/4266171465677755507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/07/they-drilled-hell-on-earth-and-put-up.html' title='&quot;They Drilled Hell-on-Earth, and Put Up an Oil Rig&quot;'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-8857134110384409667</id><published>2008-06-30T15:12:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T22:03:05.388-05:00</updated><title type='text'>On Obama</title><summary type='text'>You Can Thank Me LaterSince the entire country is abuzz and atwitter over the presumptive Democratic nominee for President, Sen. Barack Obama, from my very own state of Illinois, I suppose I should note my take on that whole situation, for all eternity.  This is the Internet, after all; opinions must be expressed!So, here goes. He has done nothing of note, in the U.S. Senate or at any level of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/8857134110384409667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/8857134110384409667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-obama.html' title='On Obama'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-3489949947241054919</id><published>2008-06-28T07:36:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T15:24:31.302-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama and Guns</title><summary type='text'>He is a Democrat, so he does what Dems do:"I think that the Second Amendment means something. I think that if the government were to confiscate everybody's guns unilaterally, then I think that would be subject to constitutional challenge," Obama said in 2004.In a separate interview, Obama said, "I have said consistently that I believe the Second Amendment is an individual right."So he can read. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/3489949947241054919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/3489949947241054919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-and-guns.html' title='Obama and Guns'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-6937664826025901316</id><published>2008-02-22T13:51:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2008-02-26T12:34:21.259-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Wake Up, Smell Coffee</title><summary type='text'>A while back, the Belmont Club offered a summary of this New Yorker article by Lawrence Wright, "The Master Plan", in a post entitled Al-Qaeda from the inside out.The article and post are must-reads, if one wants to understand the reality of the world today.Reading either exposes Al-Qaeda for what it is:  a political organization, using Islam to advance political goals.  This may come as a shock </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/6937664826025901316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/6937664826025901316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/02/wake-up-smell-coffee.html' title='Wake Up, Smell Coffee'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-7017423424471899251</id><published>2008-02-12T11:05:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T06:08:18.034-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, I Didn't Think So</title><summary type='text'>I'd love to hear some kind of reasonable explanation for this:  The White House wants a $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package…for Mexico (Michelle Malkin, February 11, 2008)I doubt that such an explanation is even possible though.To have one, you'd have to find legal and rational justification for a plan to give money collected from U.S. taxpayers to the government of Mexico ... to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/7017423424471899251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/7017423424471899251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/02/yeah-i-didnt-think-so.html' title='Yeah, I Didn&apos;t &lt;em&gt;Think&lt;/em&gt; So'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-4125879178739755312</id><published>2008-02-11T15:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-02-11T15:27:37.615-06:00</updated><title type='text'>"Supporting the Troops"</title><summary type='text'>Or "Insulting the Troops"?Back in Novemeber 2006, Charles Rangel opened his considerable cake hole and offered this pearl of idiocy about our military:"I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/4125879178739755312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/4125879178739755312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/02/supporting-troops.html' title='&quot;Supporting the Troops&quot;'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-5156389252884189032</id><published>2008-02-05T22:02:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T20:09:19.931-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Three People.</title><summary type='text'>CIA Director Names Waterboarded DetaineesQuoting:WASHINGTON (CBS News) ― CIA Director Michael Hayden publicly confirmed Tuesday for the first time the names of three suspected al Qaeda terrorists who were subjected to a particularly harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding, and why."We used it against these three detainees because of the circumstances at the time," Hayden said during </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5156389252884189032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5156389252884189032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2008/02/three-people.html' title='Three People.'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-2087252981723039420</id><published>2007-12-11T14:09:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T13:51:52.646-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Torture, for me, is listening to all the tender-hearts yammering about torture</title><summary type='text'>Waterboarding worked wonders, ex-agent says(1) Terrorist scumbag relents to extreme -- but temporary -- fright and discomfort.   (2) Said scumbag wises up, provides details of pending terror plots.  (3)  American lives are saved.What's not to like?I should be concerned because some terrorist prick loser shithead -- who wants to kill free people for sport -- feels like he might drown for a few </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/2087252981723039420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/2087252981723039420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/12/torture-for-me-is-listening-to-all.html' title='Torture, for me, is listening to all the tender-hearts yammering about torture'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-5458217331963618094</id><published>2007-11-26T16:16:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T13:26:42.603-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Pandering Ends; Minorities Hardest Hit</title><summary type='text'>From my reading of this article "Many factors fed housing breakdown", about the causes of the mortgage sub-prime market hysteria, it basically boils down to two factors:  greed and social engineering.If you're like me, you're not shocked by the first, but amazed by the second.GreedMarket speculators wanted a higher return.  Who doesn't?  So, this pressured lenders into accepting more risk.A smart</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5458217331963618094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5458217331963618094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/11/pandering-ends-minorities-hardest-hit.html' title='Pandering Ends; Minorities Hardest Hit'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-6969018599088638072</id><published>2007-11-07T11:50:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T14:08:33.032-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank God, the hugging nightmare is over!</title><summary type='text'>Maybe schools could focus on educating our children instead of ... oh, I don't know ... making up stupid rules like "no hugging"?  And then invoking said rule to suspend a 13 year old girl for hugging a friend goodbye on a Friday afternoon?Maybe it's just me, but I don't see much good that can come from rules like :"Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/6969018599088638072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/6969018599088638072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/11/thank-god-hugging-nightmare-is-over.html' title='Thank God, the hugging nightmare is over!'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-5594819043301417981</id><published>2007-11-06T01:38:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T10:53:59.563-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Scumbags like this ...</title><summary type='text'>(link) ... are why lynch mobs were invented.Michael Rebecca is "one of the most narcissistic, manipulative and perverted individuals we have ever seen," Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said Monday.Rebecca, 50, of 750 Court of Birch, Apt. 1, Vernon Hills, faces four charges of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, State's Attorney Michael Waller said, and will likely face many more.Each </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5594819043301417981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5594819043301417981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/11/scumbags-like-this.html' title='Scumbags like this ...'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-95346578983496370</id><published>2007-11-05T12:11:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-05T12:45:36.507-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Congressional Medal of Honor Awarded to Lt. Michael Murphy</title><summary type='text'>I'll wager that most folks, unless they explicitly follow military matters in the news, are not even aware that a U.S. Navy SEAL named Lieutenant Michael Patrick Murphy was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on Oct. 22.The Navy has erected an entire website in Lt. Murphy's honor.  Please, go read about him, and about his life, and about his sacrifice.Basically, he completely ignored any </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/95346578983496370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/95346578983496370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/11/congressional-medal-of-honor-awarded-to.html' title='Congressional Medal of Honor Awarded to Lt. Michael Murphy'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-5835770107996990630</id><published>2007-05-25T07:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T15:04:02.964-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Headline Arguments</title><summary type='text'>I'll Provide Context, Since the Media Refuses ToIn my local paper on a Sunday not long ago, on page 2, there appeared the two following AP articles, one just above and to the left of the other:    Anti-war rally draws actors, thousandsIran official: centrifuge installation under wayTwo articles, arguging with each other. Gotta love that. It's almost like an argument in your own head, between your</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5835770107996990630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5835770107996990630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/05/headline-arguments.html' title='Headline Arguments'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-3449756179986510795</id><published>2007-04-06T14:38:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T22:02:24.514-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just In Case You're Wondering What Evil Looks Like</title><summary type='text'>This pretty much covers it:A technique we saw this weekend is we saw a vehicle with two children in the back seat come up to one of our checkpoints, get stopped by our folks. Children in the back seat lower suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back.A couple of terrorist scumbags in Baghdad, so desperate to break </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/3449756179986510795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/3449756179986510795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/04/just-in-case-youre-wondering-what-evil.html' title='Just In Case You&apos;re Wondering What Evil Looks Like'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-2181604742447794905</id><published>2007-04-04T08:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-04T20:28:29.889-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Isn't THIS Precious</title><summary type='text'>Because Terrorists Should Always Be TrustedGuantanamo Detainee Makes Torture ClaimsWASHINGTON (AP) - A Saudi terror suspect says U.S. interrogators tortured him for five years and he confessed to involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole just to satisfy them and "make the people happy," according to a Pentagon transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay.  Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/2181604742447794905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/2181604742447794905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/04/isnt-this-precious.html' title='Isn&apos;t THIS Precious'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_g9iKvPaIjpU/RhPp-gzL8HI/AAAAAAAAAAM/MT39Z2GqTx0/s72-c/SEAL_hellweek.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-5205421061264242101</id><published>2007-03-17T09:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-17T09:48:14.953-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Headlines You Just Have to Make Fun Of - A Series</title><summary type='text'>Yesterday's banner in the Daily Herald:Al-Qaida chief likely stretching truthInvolved? Perhaps. But not 'responsible' for all 31 plots he claimsBecause, you know, a professional terrorist that plots only 10 or 15 terrorist attacks is just not to be taken seriously.  In fact, this whole "terrorist threat" thing is probably made up.  Terrorists are just lucky dumb bastards, except of course when </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5205421061264242101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5205421061264242101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/03/headlines-you-just-have-to-make-fun-of.html' title='Headlines You Just Have to Make Fun Of - A Series'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-5606070653359625175</id><published>2007-03-14T12:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-15T10:37:10.897-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lance Briggs:  "I'm A Huge Douche Tool"</title><summary type='text'>Dear Lance,So you didn't get the long-term deal for insane dollars that you really wanted.  No, make that deserved.Of course you deserved it.  Every weak-side linebacker with no pass-rush skills and a fragile ego deserves to make huge bucks over the long haul.But the Bears kept their word and instead offered you franchise player status, which guarantees you a salary next year of $7,000,000 plus, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5606070653359625175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/5606070653359625175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/03/lance-briggs-im-huge-douche-tool.html' title='Lance Briggs:  &quot;I&apos;m A Huge Douche Tool&quot;'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-116939736551474242</id><published>2007-03-10T10:46:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-03-15T08:09:09.205-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Facts Are Your Friend</title><summary type='text'>From time to time, we all encounter folks who hold opinions that strike us as a bit toward the under-informed side.  This is quite understandable, really, because most of the news presented by the mainstream media is context-free, or more accurately, wrapped in a context defined by (1) politics and (2) a perpetual state of amoral, values-free conflict.Propaganda, in other words.  Which is just </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/116939736551474242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=116939736551474242' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/116939736551474242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/116939736551474242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/01/facts-are-your-friend.html' title='Facts Are Your Friend'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-117324085525070765</id><published>2007-03-06T22:03:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-03-06T22:16:54.846-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Remarkably Obtuse</title><summary type='text'>Health reporters seem shocked that it isn't possible to rehabilitate perversion:  Therapy’s Benefits for Sex Offenders Is Disputed.“It has never been regarded as a legitimate and recognized topic for research by psychologists,” said Robert A. Prentky, director of research at the Justice Research Institute in Boston. “There is a very strong undercurrent of disrespect for this area of research and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/117324085525070765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=117324085525070765' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/117324085525070765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/117324085525070765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2007/03/remarkably-obtuse.html' title='Remarkably Obtuse'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-115559334010727745</id><published>2006-08-14T17:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T14:27:44.026-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What Could It BE ... ?</title><summary type='text'>After the recent plot to bomb planes in mid-air was uncovered in Britain, I've read a few different stories, and seen one or two on the TV news, asking "where do these seemingly normal Muslim men get their radical politics?""We just don't understand it.  They go to school, they have jobs, they don't drool openly.  What is going ON here?  Sure, they go to mosques that preach hatred and murder, but</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/115559334010727745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=115559334010727745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/115559334010727745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/115559334010727745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2006/08/what-could-it-be.html' title='What Could It BE ... ?'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112248421088836073</id><published>2005-07-27T11:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T12:10:10.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ugly Folks!  Relief Is Just An Operation Away ...</title><summary type='text'>Face transplants.Yes, you read that right.  Actual tranplanting of human faces.I suppose this is good technology for burn victims, and the like.  And we all remember some folks from our past that could have used a new face.  Perhaps some of us were those very same people.But still.  Face transplants?  Is this really a good idea?How long before some lawyer sues an insurance company on behalf of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112248421088836073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112248421088836073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112248421088836073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112248421088836073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/07/ugly-folks-relief-is-just-operation.html' title='Ugly Folks!  Relief Is Just An Operation Away ...'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112129112377634116</id><published>2005-07-13T16:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-13T16:45:23.913-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Stupendous Opacity</title><summary type='text'>"White House Silence on Rove's Role in Leak Enters 2nd Day"That headline is a real prize.  The White House stalls a rabid press corps for one day, and it's got a timer on it already.I anxiously await day 12, myself.  Though day 284 can be good, too. And as we all know, it's always good to see headlines that start timers until somebody resigns.  This is what the First Amendment, after all, is all </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112129112377634116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112129112377634116' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112129112377634116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112129112377634116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/07/stupendous-opacity.html' title='Stupendous Opacity'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112120085019000561</id><published>2005-07-12T14:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-12T15:54:38.066-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey LOOK!</title><summary type='text'>That rarest of birds!  A Lefty with common sense ...  Are we perhaps witnessing a watershed moment in the Loony Left's slow, grinding descent into insanity?  Nick Cohen, the  author of the above, raises some excellent points. In these bleak days, it's worth remembering what was said after September 2001. A backward glance shows that before the war against the Taliban and long before the war </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112120085019000561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112120085019000561' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112120085019000561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112120085019000561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/07/hey-look.html' title='Hey LOOK!'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112082485552539380</id><published>2005-07-08T06:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-08T07:14:15.533-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tipping the Scales</title><summary type='text'>Wretchard, of Belmont Club, on the London terrorist bombings:The Al Qaeda have characterized the attack on London as 'punishment' for  Britain's temerity to resist the inevitability of Islam. It is the kind of  punishment these self-ordained masters of the universe are accustomed to meting  out against harem women and insolent slaves. A few administered licks,  and no doubt the cowardly kuffar </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112082485552539380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112082485552539380' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112082485552539380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112082485552539380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/07/tipping-scales.html' title='Tipping the Scales'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112048827420293224</id><published>2005-07-05T07:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T07:37:50.823-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bravery and Honor at the Library</title><summary type='text'>Somehow, with all the ways terrorists are surely trying to subvert our security, the American Library Association imagines itself at the front lines: simultaneously protecting the precious library rights of both foreign nationals and American citizens, to read up on how to build nukes, without the bother of government jack-booted thugs storming in to arrest everybody on a whim.Happens all the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112048827420293224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112048827420293224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112048827420293224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112048827420293224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/07/bravery-and-honor-at-library.html' title='Bravery and Honor at the Library'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112039529585489083</id><published>2005-07-03T07:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-03T15:10:07.340-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Things Are So Stupid ...</title><summary type='text'>... Only an Intellectual Could Believe ThemResolved:   that Justice Stepehn Breyer is the most ridiculous and sorry excuse for a Supreme Court Justice in, well, forever.The competition, however, is fierce, especially of late, with the Ten Commandments decision, followed by the Eminent Domain decision.Even so, Mark Steyn's column in today's Chicago Sun-Times makes the case:His grounds for doing so</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112039529585489083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112039529585489083' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112039529585489083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112039529585489083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/07/some-things-are-so-stupid.html' title='Some Things Are So Stupid ...'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112024851105359663</id><published>2005-07-01T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-07-01T15:08:31.080-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Even Money</title><summary type='text'>Pink Floyd is having a reunion this weekend, for the first time in over 20 years.And the big question, of course, is this:  can the other bandmates resist the urge to drive a pair of scissors directly into the throat of Roger Waters?  Don't bet on it.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112024851105359663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112024851105359663' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112024851105359663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112024851105359663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/07/even-money.html' title='Even Money'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-112013665087408670</id><published>2005-06-30T07:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-30T08:05:02.823-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Knocking Me Over With a Feather</title><summary type='text'>So Iran's newly "elected" president is allegedly one of the captors who held American hostages for 444 days from 1979 until 1981?This would mean that a man elected president by an Islamic-run country that has preached American hatred for more than 25 years actually elected one of the men who led the hostage-taking operation.What are the odds?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/112013665087408670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=112013665087408670' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112013665087408670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/112013665087408670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/knocking-me-over-with-feather.html' title='Knocking Me Over With a Feather'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111995845654055588</id><published>2005-06-28T06:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-28T06:34:54.726-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Supreme Court Decides to Use Polling to Decide Constitutional Questions</title><summary type='text'>This is how ridiculous our Supreme Court has become.  Power Line says:This morning, after learning that the Supreme Court had deemed unconstitutional the display of the Ten Commandments inside two Kentucky courthouses but had upheld a similar display on the state capitol grounds in Texas, I surmised that some absurd hair-splitting had occurred. It turns to be worse than I thought.As one might </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111995845654055588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111995845654055588' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111995845654055588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111995845654055588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/supreme-court-decides-to-use-polling.html' title='Supreme Court Decides to Use Polling to Decide Constitutional Questions'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111944233216387639</id><published>2005-06-22T06:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-22T07:25:40.880-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Senator Apologizes For What He Might Have Done</title><summary type='text'>'Cuz, Like, He's Really Not Sure   Durbin finally says he's sorry                By James G. Lakelyand Stephen Dinan       THE WASHINGTON TIMESSen. Richard J. Durbin yesterday said he was "sorry" after parsing words for a week about his remarks comparing U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to those of Nazi and Soviet regimes. He apologized on the Senate floor."I'm sorry if anything that I said </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111944233216387639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111944233216387639' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111944233216387639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111944233216387639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/senator-apologizes-for-what-he-might.html' title='Senator Apologizes For What He Might Have Done'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111909995983743272</id><published>2005-06-18T07:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-18T08:11:06.996-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Finally, It Tumbles Forth</title><summary type='text'>I've been steaming mad ever since I read about the comments of Dick Durbin, wherein he compared interrogation techniques at Gitmo to the tactics of Stalin, the Nazis, and Pol Pot. Really, really angry.  So angry that it was hard to write anything on it.This excellent post by Baseball Crank, and particularly this point within it, got me to thinking:Isn't it obviously the fact that the bulk of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111909995983743272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111909995983743272' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111909995983743272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111909995983743272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/finally-it-tumbles-forth.html' title='Finally, It Tumbles Forth'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111895627160641216</id><published>2005-06-17T07:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-17T07:25:32.413-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Um, DUH!</title><summary type='text'>Boys and girls have different brains!Wait!  Really!  No shit.  We are totally serious here.Now, of course, we await the thunderous cascade of contrition and apologia directed towards Larry Summers, president of Harvard University, who said much the same thing earlier this year; he was nearly forced to resign, after the ensuing idiotic brouhaha by the supposed "intellectuals" inhabiting that </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111895627160641216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111895627160641216' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111895627160641216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111895627160641216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/um-duh.html' title='Um, DUH!'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111867332901973242</id><published>2005-06-13T09:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T09:35:29.026-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How To Tell If A Neighbor Is Trailer Trash</title><summary type='text'>A Handy GuideStrong Clue:  Immediately upon moving in, they dig up their entire front lawn AND front walk, and replace it with pallets of bricks and piles of dirt, and a gaping hole where the walk and front stoop used to be.  As I write this, lawyers are probably out recruiting folks to fall into those holes.Very strong clue:  When they leave it that way -- for 8 months.Another very strong clue:</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111867332901973242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111867332901973242' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111867332901973242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111867332901973242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/how-to-tell-if-neighbor-is-trailer.html' title='How To Tell If A Neighbor Is Trailer Trash'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111835169231087534</id><published>2005-06-09T15:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-10T06:10:25.763-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Keep This In Mind Next Time You Read "Scientists say ..."</title><summary type='text'>At the same time, these two articles appear on Yahoo News:  Many Scientists Admit to Misconduct, and Stem Cell Advocates Meet, Plan Strategy.From the misconduct article:     The new survey also hints that much scientific misconduct is the result of frustrations and injustices built into the modern system of scientific rewards. [...]    "Science has changed a lot in terms of its competitiveness, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111835169231087534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111835169231087534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111835169231087534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111835169231087534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/keep-this-in-mind-next-time-you-read.html' title='Keep This In Mind Next Time You Read &quot;Scientists say ...&quot;'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111825539676342120</id><published>2005-06-09T06:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-10T06:12:23.133-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Shiny Happy Platitudes</title><summary type='text'>Speaking of old song lyrics from the early 70s, this morning I heard a song that, for me, has to be the most trite and useless piece of faux-social-consciousness trash ever put on tape. And there is lots of competition for that particular title.You've heard it a quadrillion times:  "War" by Edwin Starr.  The lyrics are here.Ohhh, war, I despiseBecause it means destructionOf innocent livesOK, time</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111825539676342120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111825539676342120' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111825539676342120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111825539676342120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/shiny-happy-platitudes.html' title='Shiny Happy Platitudes'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111824868475793618</id><published>2005-06-08T11:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-08T11:39:52.773-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fun With Old Michael Jackson Lyrics</title><summary type='text'>Stop! The jizz you save May be your own Junior look both ways Before you touch itYou're headed for a danger zoneHow about:I'll be therrrrreI'll be therrrrreJust call my nameAnd I'll be thereGiving you oral love in the shower but please please PLEASE don't tell anybody!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111824868475793618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111824868475793618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111824868475793618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111824868475793618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/fun-with-old-michael-jackson-lyrics.html' title='Fun With Old Michael Jackson Lyrics'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111807693101650495</id><published>2005-06-06T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-06T11:55:31.020-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That Giant Sucking Sound</title><summary type='text'>... Is the Sound of Media Removing Lips from Jackson's AssI'm literally COUNTING THE HOURS until this stupid Michael Jackson trial is over, so that the media will QUIT TALKING ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME.Seriously, it's time to retire to the veranda, and have a tall frosty glass of Shut The Fuck Up.I try to ignore this coverage at every pass.  I don't even watch TV news, and I rarely choose to click on</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111807693101650495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111807693101650495' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111807693101650495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111807693101650495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/that-giant-sucking-sound.html' title='That Giant Sucking Sound'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111772199637958443</id><published>2005-06-02T09:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-02T09:21:49.816-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Your Name "Ima Dumbass", By Chance?</title><summary type='text'>There are few things in this world more frightening than an SUV-driving female yapping on a cell phone. Controlling 6500 lbs. of steel often takes up a bit of the driver's attention, and, let's be honest here, there are lots of women who shouldn't be driving anything more dangerous than a scooter, for all of our sakes.One of the few things that is more frightening, though, is a punky lesbian </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111772199637958443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111772199637958443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111772199637958443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111772199637958443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/is-your-name-ima-dumbass-by-chance.html' title='Is Your Name &quot;Ima Dumbass&quot;, By Chance?'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111754201959755852</id><published>2005-06-01T06:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-06-01T11:06:31.940-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Can't Undo the Past</title><summary type='text'>Mark Steyn,  EU just won't take 'no' for an answer - Following Sunday's vote in France, on Wednesday Dutch voters get to express their opinion on the proposed ''European Constitution.'' Heartening to see democracy in action, notwithstanding the European elite's hysterical warnings that, without the constitution, the continent will be set back on the path to Auschwitz. I haven't seen the official </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111754201959755852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111754201959755852' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111754201959755852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111754201959755852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/06/cant-undo-past.html' title='Can&apos;t Undo the Past'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111757588336049193</id><published>2005-05-31T16:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T16:44:43.363-05:00</updated><title type='text'>FORD  =  GLAAD</title><summary type='text'>It's amazing, the thinks you can think, when you click over to a news site that has family and religion as its central premise.  Kinda crazy, eh?Let's take a spin to Crosswalk.com, for instance.  Did you know ...   Ford Motor Co. donates up to $1,000, for every purchase of a Jaguar or Land Rover, to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation? (link)       The Saudi government routinely "</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111757588336049193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111757588336049193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111757588336049193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111757588336049193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/05/ford-glaad.html' title='FORD  =  GLAAD'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111756679424588780</id><published>2005-05-31T14:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T14:13:14.263-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ewwwwwww</title><summary type='text'>Picture this.  You're on the phone with some guy, and his voice has a bit of an echo behind it.Hey, haha, guess what?  He's talking to you on his cell phone while using the fucking URINAL.One hand on the phone, one on his winky.  Shit happens. Brought to you by the Wonderful World of Cell Phones!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111756679424588780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111756679424588780' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111756679424588780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111756679424588780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/05/ewwwwwww.html' title='Ewwwwwww'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111745846804011659</id><published>2005-05-30T07:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T08:07:48.050-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Re-Memorial Day</title><summary type='text'>Some local items honoring heroes past and present ...Living Memorial Day every day  --   Last Memorial Day, Cpl. Christopher Zimny visited his parents, Ted and Barbara, in Glenview, enjoying the three-day weekend before heading back to Iraq.  On Memorial Day this year, his parents plan to visit his grave. For the Zimny family, the holiday is not a kickoff to summer, but a time to remember their </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111745846804011659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111745846804011659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111745846804011659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111745846804011659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/05/re-memorial-day.html' title='Re-Memorial Day'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11339305.post-111736840330973519</id><published>2005-05-29T06:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-29T07:06:43.326-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Here's a shocker</title><summary type='text'>Decadence-glorifying Hollywood director Oliver Stone was arrested and charged with "suspicion of drug possession and driving while intoxicated" last Friday.  In 1999, he "pleaded guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence and was ordered into a rehabilitation program".In Hollywood, he fits right in.  Which is why Red America -- the "values" voters -- hates Hollywood.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/feeds/111736840330973519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11339305&amp;postID=111736840330973519' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111736840330973519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11339305/posts/default/111736840330973519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darenot.blogspot.com/2005/05/heres-shocker.html' title='Here&apos;s a shocker'/><author><name>rufus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16077122994090536536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
