September 12, 2004
DEFINITIVE?
A
thorough post from a typographer.
Thanks, Hud.
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This is totally bogus. The font has been around since 1931 according to the company that created it. It has been available in proportial spacing on commonly available office IBM typewriters since the 1950's. This is so tiresome. The memos are authentic.
Posted by: MRE at September 12, 2004 04:40 PM (AaBEz)
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Source? Links? ANYTHING? Oh, right, you attended the Dan Rather Explanation School. Sorry, MRE, clearly you and your unnameable sources know ALL.
Posted by: Oda Mae at September 12, 2004 06:39 PM (nacee)
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Yeah they're authentic... including the pressure from a guy already retired the year before. Gimme a break. And commonly available? Have you got one?
Posted by: chris at September 12, 2004 07:14 PM (VDzYB)
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Available...only to th Times of London, who owned the font. They later licensed it to Microsoft.
Posted by: Mike at September 12, 2004 09:05 PM (+sj2x)
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If it's a computer generated forgery as you freepers claim, they why is it that nobody can come up with an exact replica of the document? The reproduction by LGF is only similar.
Posted by: Robert at September 12, 2004 10:09 PM (msYRN)
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Where are the originals?
Posted by: John at September 12, 2004 10:26 PM (crTpS)
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This is interesting. Bush in a photo with his wife on campaign liturature. In the copy Bush is out and out lying about the extent of his military service claiming to have served in both the US Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard.
Posted by: MRE at September 13, 2004 02:32 AM (s6c4t)
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Sorry, I forgot to add the link. Here it is:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=821450&mesg_id=821450
Posted by: MRE at September 13, 2004 02:33 AM (s6c4t)
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If you understood military training you would know that the year he spent in pilot training was on active duty.
Posted by: Mike at September 13, 2004 03:06 PM (MqNKC)
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Drudge has the PDF showing Bush was on active duty in the Air force.
MRE is probably the same person that Lt Smash is talking about in his post from 9/13. He obviously doesn't have a clue about anything military.
Give it up and talk about something with substance. Vietnam is not relevant to the future of this country.
Posted by: John at September 13, 2004 06:08 PM (+Ysxp)
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September 10, 2004
HEART ATTACK
This latest
Cox & Forkum made me really sad.
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The WTC's dead. Get over it.
Posted by: Dufus Galant at September 13, 2004 04:36 PM (1ygH8)
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America will win. Get over it.
Posted by: Moor at September 14, 2004 11:56 AM (xvwyL)
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My comment was inspired by the "Wellstone's dead, get over it" bumperstickers that are being driven around Minnesota. I guess they're cruel too.
One way to take my original comment is that we cannot keep using violence to justify violence. Yes, it was a sad day, and a pretty building, and lots of good folks were killed, but a rational response to that has yet to be delivered by our leaders.
I'm pretty sure they don't hate us for our freedoms. I'm pretty sure that if we don't try to understand what's really happening - what people on the other side of the line on the map think and feel and how we can all get along on this planet together - that things can only get worse.
Please realize that Iraq is not going well for us, through no fault of the brave people doing their duty over there. They and we both been mislead by the specific folks in power here. Our leader's shown the world that there are limits to our intelligence gathering ability, our diplomatic skills, and, yes, our military power.
I think the 28 characters I typed can't possibly be as cruel as what our power, wrongly applied, is doing and continues to do, while we cheer.
"The blood of one mother is the same as any other"
Moor, we *can* win. This just isn't the way. The way we're on is the way to extinction.
Posted by: Dufus Galant at September 14, 2004 09:56 PM (1ygH8)
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HEROIC
I smile at the fact that English,
in Vietnamese, is the "heroic language"...
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Hebrew is:iếng Do Thái ‘still great language. That was fun.
Posted by: Rachel Ann at September 10, 2004 05:38 AM (S0cFr)
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Before anyone gets the wrong idea, the Vietnamese names for countries are made up of word *pieces* (like Latin and Greek affixes in English) in most cases rather than independent words.
So anh is a word component meaning "heroic" but can't be used by itself to mean "hero(ic)" - "hero" is 英雄 anh hùng, literally "heroic male."
英 originally referred to a flower (the graph contains the "grass" radical 艹 on the top) but then expanded in meaning to mean "excellent" and excellent males were, in turn, heroic.
In the case of 猶太 Do Thái "Jewish," neither 猶 do "still" nor 太 thái "great" are independent words.
Do is out of use in modern Vietnamese - at least according to my dictionary - and so I think most Vietnamese have no idea what the two parts of Do Thái means. It would probably be just syllables to them rather than something obviously meaningful like "Stillgreat."
Some but not all of these terms carry over to other Asian languages as well: e.g., English is also "heroic" in Chinese (英語 Mandarin yingyu), Japanese (英語 eigo), and Korean (英語/영어 yOngO).
Japanese and Korean don't use the "still great" word for Hebrew: in Japanese, Hebrew is ヘブライ語heburaigo (語 go = language) and in Korean it's 히브리어 hibUriO (어 O = language).
I just found Hebrew lessons in Korean, with Hebrew written phonetically in the Korean alphabet:
http://worldnet.kbs.co.kr/israel/learn/learn2/main.htm
Posted by: Amritas at September 10, 2004 07:21 AM (NLPaJ)
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I understood that it didn't
literally mean "heroic", but I smiled anyway...
Posted by: Sarah at September 10, 2004 10:04 AM (pLh/m)
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Sarah,
It gets better. If you spoke to your husband in Vietnamese, you would call him "anh," literally "older brother," a native word homophonous with but unrelated to 英 anh "hero(ic)" which is from Chinese.
I forgot to mention that 英 Anh "hero(ic)" for English is short for 英吉利 Anh Cát Lợi "Heroic Lucky Profit."
There is another French-based word for English, Ăng Lê (from anglais, of course), but that's just a sequence of two meaningless syllables, so it's not as fun.
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September 09, 2004
September 07, 2004
August 31, 2004
ELECTION
"It's an election year, and America stands at a crossroads." Thus begins CavX's
great new post.
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Sarah - that is a great site. Thanks. I hope the movie comes out - can't they do it as a preview or commercial in movie theatres?
Posted by: Kathleen A at September 01, 2004 12:20 PM (vnAYT)
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EUREKA
This will take about 10 seconds, but the eureka moment will be worth it. (Make sure you click on the green headline.)
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What exactly are you referring to? That Theodorakis interview is jam-packed with malignant memes.
Posted by: Amritas at August 31, 2004 09:04 AM (GB57s)
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Nah, click on the Klan headline. That's what I meant.
Posted by: Sarah at August 31, 2004 10:41 AM (wMd0O)
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Ah, I see what happened. Any link one's mouse is over turns green at Allah's. I just so happened to have my cursor over the second link, so that one was green and the one you were referring to was red.
This dumb American thinks he knows why anti-Semitism is up. Wait, did I say "thinks"? Only European intellectuals can do that. And apparently some of them can't figure out this mystery.
Posted by: Amritas at August 31, 2004 11:19 AM (GB57s)
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August 30, 2004
PEER REVIEW
Deskmerc explains the importance of
peer review in an excellent post.
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NASTY
You know, I've seen some pretty hateful stuff in my years of being glued to the blogosphere, but oh...my...
god.
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Yup. The Left has hit bottom and is digging furiously.
On the bright side, if this is the best (worst?) they can do, things are looking pretty good for the Right.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at August 30, 2004 05:51 AM (MzH7h)
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Just when I'm convinced that the left has hit the bottom of the barrel, I'm reminded that UNDER the barrel still exists. If they weren't such drooling idiots, they'd know that this sort of crap isn't going to win any converts in middle America.
Posted by: physics geek at August 30, 2004 11:04 AM (Xvrs7)
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They're not interested in winning converts. They simply want to pat themselves on the back for how brilliant they are.
Posted by: Mike at August 30, 2004 11:36 AM (MqNKC)
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I like to think that I have a very healthy sense of humor. I can laugh at damned near anything, but this is sickening.
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August 27, 2004
OVERLAP
I've only taken two days of statistics so far, Stephen, so I can't explain this
polling overlap either. It is pretty funny though.
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August 26, 2004
OPTIMIST
Could it be true? Could John Kerry "
go down in history as the man who made Dukakis look good"? I'd like to hope so...
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LINKS
OK, there are a lot of things out there that I think you guys should be reading, but I'm too drained to write anything about them. So just take my word for it and go read
this and
this and
this and
this and
this. And this, about
how pro-wrestling is political. I have homework to do.
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August 24, 2004
WOW
I for one have been brainwashed and hoodwinked.
A lot of this is
news to me.
It's a shame that party stereotypes continue to trump reality.
(via Avery)
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Sarah - I read this link through Instapundit http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml
Maybe someone should ask the Boston Globe to CORRECT the record.
This by far goes farther than simply 'seared, seared in me' - it even has FAKE details!
Posted by: Kathleen A at August 24, 2004 06:14 PM (vnAYT)
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I learned a lot from it. Oh, and thank you. Another part, though, was connecting dots I already knew about, and some things that should have been obvious, I mean I knew that the Republicans opposed slavery and that the Democrats supported it, but for some reason it never occurred to me that of course the first black government officials and politicians would have been Republicans.
Great link, and thank you.
Kalroy
Posted by: Kalroy at August 24, 2004 10:40 PM (q1aeu)
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I knew quite a lot of these things. It's because the Democrats have always (with the willing help of the news media) been able to use the media very artfully. They are masters at it.
On the Republican side - Reagan is about the only one who has ever understood how the media works and how to do end runs around them. That's really very frustrating from my point of view. I figured someone must have learned something from Reagan, but once he was gone... it was business as usual for them. *sigh*
Posted by: Teresa at August 25, 2004 11:35 AM (nAfYo)
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August 20, 2004
August 18, 2004
LINKS
There actually were
heroes in Hollywood. At one time.
And read Bjorn Staerk's post on Islam and all of the comments.
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The pro-ban, Islamocidal types in Staerk's comments are like Leftist cartoons of Rightist hawks. As one commenter wrote,
"This is not a conflict of civilisations, it's a conflict of lunacies."
Those deskbound lunatics are a far cry from the military personnel fighting the war on terror for real who know that this isn't armageddon. The US can win this war without sinking to the level of the Islamists.
As for the Hollywood link, here's my favorite comment by "kfflint":
"But I don't think its fair to disparage the actors for not joining the military ...
"I do not look down on my many friends who have never served. They have accomplished great things in their own many ways.
That said, if some great calamity such as WWII arose, do you not think the young of today, those kids with piercings, loud music, unkept hair and such would heed the call? I think they would. I think just like that generation in the 1940's...a group of slacking young men no one would have ever expected greatness from in a different reality....the kids today too would achieve legendary greatness ...
"Heroes come in many forms folks. Remember, people don't have to carry a rifle or storm a beach to be a hero."
Of course, that doesn't justify celiberal behavior. Hollywood stars can do better, and that doesn't necessarily mean joining the military. They can show their support in other ways.
The fact is - for better or worse - that people on the whole do not perceive this war as an existential struggle for America. They haven't necessarily forgotten 9/11; they just don't think terrorism could touch them, and even if it, 99% of the nation would still be intact. If America's very existence were threatened, everyone would be signing up. But America has never encountered such a grave threat, and I hope that it never will.
Posted by: Amritas at August 18, 2004 12:09 PM (lzw32)
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They haven't necessarily forgotten 9/11; they just don't think terrorism could touch them, and even if it, 99% of the nation would still be intact.
I live in NYC and I was there on 9/11. New Yorkers have not forgotten.
The interesting thing is that even though we lived through it, most NYCers are mad as hell with GWB and his false war. Don't believe me? Watch...The City will speak for itself.
Posted by: rfidtag at August 18, 2004 05:03 PM (4M6f+)
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Sarah, what did you think of the Bjorn Staerk post?
Posted by: Coriolanus at August 19, 2004 01:00 AM (KZeI/)
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I would like to add Glenn Miller to the list of heros, if possible. What a guy!
Posted by: heidi at August 19, 2004 12:02 PM (jTJ4z)
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August 17, 2004
RACISM
Some people can find
racism in anything.
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August 14, 2004
LINKS
Links to keep you busy:
On Loathing Bush, by Victor Davis Hanson
"Journalists are our brothers," says a spokesman for al-Sadr. You don't say?
Bunker writes on altruism.
Now this is a cool photo.
Avery writes about ebonics.
And isn't the timing of the FL hurricanes just a little too...convenient?
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Sarah - that was hysterical about the timing of the hurricane being a little bit too convenient. I'm glad to see you've still got your sense of sardonic humor. :-))
Posted by: Toni at August 14, 2004 10:34 AM (WgzvD)
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August 12, 2004
GAME PLAN
Stephen Green's
Game Plan is a good read. I didn't even want to pull a passage out because the whole thing has to be read as one whole. But I gasped when I read this:
We fought at Bull Run, too. And we fought at Kasserine Pass, and Manila, and Bastogne, and Hue, and on Flight 93. We even won at a couple of those places, even though the cause seemed lost.
But we fought.
I've written about both Bastogne and Flight 93 before; both of them give me chills, but it wasn't until I saw them juxtaposed like this that I realized how they're related. In both cases, Americans fought even when they knew the odds were overwhelmingly against them. And they succeeded.
They fought anyway. That's an American value.
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