Taliban releases video of captured American soldier

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Sunday July 19, 2009 · 4:04 AM PDT

2009/07/19 · 04:04

As a veteran myself and the mom of soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, this story brought forth a rush of emotions upon reading it.

The soldier is shown in the 28-minute video with his head shaved and the start of a beard. He is sitting and dressed in a nondescript, gray outfit. Early in the video one of his captors holds the soldier's dog tag up to the camera. His name and ID number are clearly visible. He is shown eating at one point and sitting cross-legged.

The soldier is interrogated on the tape...

Sharon Jumper

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Monday June 22, 2009 · 3:20 PM PDT

2009/06/22 · 15:20

As soon of you know, on June 15, my husband and I became "homeless." Don't pity us - we did it by choice and long term plan.My husband and I launched an "eeeevil plan" to spend a few years living and teaching abroad once Thing Two graduated from high school, which occurred on June 13. After 23 years (the age of "Thing One") of being responsible parents, homeowners, etc., we decided that we were entitled to be selfish and do what we wanted to do, when we wanted to do it. We also have known too many people who made plans to travel "when they retire," but were never able to do so because one or both of them became ill, impaired, etc. We make a living online, so we don't really have to live in any one place...no, we are not lottery winners or trust fund babies, we still work every day to fund our needs.

Sharon Jumper

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Wednesday April 16, 2008 · 8:52 AM PDT

2008/04/16 · 08:52

UPDATE - There's also a diary on the PA ad by Sheddhead here that predated mine (Sorry!) but I didn't see. :)

I guess we shouldn't be surprised at anything the Clinton "dead-ender" campaign does these days, but this should make for a fun exchange at the debate tonight.

It seems that the Carpetbagger Senator from NY has had to rely upon a registered NJ voter to pose as an outraged PA voter in the commercial response to "Bitter-gate." Here's the ad - look for the goatee-sporting dude in the raspberry polo shirt in the fourth quote:

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What will Hillary Clinton do next?

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What will Hillary Clinton do next?

Pull a mask off and reveal that she's Old Man WIthers

307 votes

Tie Obama to the railroad tracks

264 votes

Kill varmits with Mitt Romney

500 votes

Reveal that she's really Obama's long lost brother, Racer X

257 votes

Veterans react to Clinton's Bosnia lie (Updated w/video of C-17 pilot from trip)

Sharon Jumper

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 · 7:17 AM PDT

2008/03/26 · 07:17

When you're running to be Commander-in-Chief, it's never a good idea to lie, but to lie about coming under sniper fire in a war zone when in reality you were greeted by children and flowers is particularly offensive to veterans.

UPDATED 101PM - The pilot of the C17 that flew Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to Bosnia speaks out:

Summary of pilot's comments:

No evasive landing... There was a steep descent because the airstrip is surrounded by mountains.
No bullets or sniper fire...We never would have landed there if there were any such thing.
No "sitting on flackjackets.." The only place I've ever heard of that was in the movie Apocalypse Now.

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Why did Hillary Clinton lie?

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Why did Hillary Clinton lie?

Sleep depravation

21 votes

Bad translation

10 votes

Her lips were moving

2042 votes

She confused flower wielding children for snipers

185 votes

Someone screwed with the teleprompter

30 votes

The vast right-wing conspiracy made her do it

142 votes

The vast Rev. WRIGHT-wing conspiracy made her do it

230 votes

Shut up and eat your cake, peasant

458 votes

Pie

87 votes

To get free media time

206 votes

Why do you hate America?

200 votes

She confused the trip with other times she was actually under sniper fire in a war zone

148 votes

[UPDATE #3]...Asian markets have extended their slide...today will be baaad

Sharon Jumper

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Monday January 21, 2008 · 7:34 PM PST

2008/01/21 · 19:34

CBS Marketwatch is reporting on the early Tuesday trading in the Asian markets.

Read and weep, my friends:

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index slumped 6.2% to 22,347.02 in the early minutes, after tumbling 5.5% in the previous session. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index plummeted 8.1% to 12,440.57.
Japan's Nikkei 225 average tumbled 3.9% to 12,800.90, while the broader Topix index skidded 3.5% to 1,248.61. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 extended losses into the 12th straight session, slumping 5% to 5,303.70 and New Zealand's NZX 50 index lost 2.6% at 3,553.20, while South Korea's Kospi shed 3.9% at 1,617.23.
China's Shanghai Composite, which fell more than 5% in the previous session, sank 2.6% to 4,783.42, while Taiwan's Weighted index tumbled 5.6% to 7,658.71.

Guess what? Those figures were as of 9pm EST. In the past hour or so, these markets have declined even further.

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Where's your stash of dough?

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Where's your stash of dough?

stocks

67 votes

mutual funds

90 votes

CDs

71 votes

Money market

86 votes

401 (k), IRA, or pension

201 votes

What dough?

312 votes

My ex has it all

26 votes

I'm driving it

16 votes

Who needs dough?

20 votes

I gave it all to one of the Dem presidential campaigns

21 votes

I converted it to gold coins, arrrgh!

34 votes

I'm stockpiling ammo and fuel and will live off the land

84 votes

In my mattress

42 votes

Buried in the backyard

14 votes

In a wheelbarrow, waiting to go buy bread at the local bakery

57 votes

Meanwhile, over in Kabul...(Updated)

Sharon Jumper

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Monday January 14, 2008 · 9:49 AM PST

2008/01/14 · 09:49

Breaking news says that the Serena Hotel in Kabul was atacked by suicide bombers and AK-47 wielding terrorists. At least two were killed, and several others were injured. The Taliban is claiming credit for the attack.

It appeared to be the first direct attack on a hotel in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The 6:12 p.m. attack came on a night the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. An American inside said she saw a body she believed to be dead and pools of blood in the lobby, and hotel employees reported two dead. She said three foreigners were wounded.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told The Associated Press that four militants with suicide vests attacked the hotel—one bomber who detonated his explosives and three militants who threw grenades and fired guns and then fled. The claim could not be verified but came very soon after the attack. The bomber was not included among the count of the dead.

Sharon Jumper

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Friday January 04, 2008 · 6:00 AM PST

2008/01/04 · 06:00

The LA Times is reporting that: Clinton aides hint now things'll get nasty.

While you were sleeping, the chartered jet of the third-place finisher in the Iowa Democratic caucus winged its way from Des Moines to Manchester, N.H. And it sounds like some decisions were made on that plane that may alter the course of that party's presidential race.

At her concession speech in Des Moines Thursday night Hillary Clinton was all gracious and determined and smiling. But hours later on that flight someone named Mark Penn, who happens to be her chief political strategist, ominously told a gaggle of reporters, including The Times' Peter Nicholas, that the campaign's focus needs to shift now onto, you might have guessed, someone named Barack Obama.

It gets worse...

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Who's your candidate, baby? (in alphabetical order)

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Who's your candidate, baby? (in alphabetical order)

Armando

7 votes

Hillary Clinton

21 votes

John Edwards

82 votes

Mike Gravel

2 votes

Dennis Kucinich

7 votes

Pie

4 votes

Barack Obama

116 votes

Rex

1 vote

Bill Richardson

1 vote

Spongebob Squarepants

7 votes

Uncommitted (unlike Brittney Spears)

3 votes

Write-in

2 votes

Desperate candidates, desperate ads (not just another candidate diary)

Sharon Jumper

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Monday December 31, 2007 · 2:40 PM PST

2007/12/31 · 14:40

Well, the candidates might be desperate, but the following ads are spoofs I collected from Youtube...

This isn't your typical "candidate diary," I promise!!

First up - Mike Huckabee's message to Iowa:

Sharon Jumper

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Tuesday December 11, 2007 · 1:18 PM PST

2007/12/11 · 13:18

Who cares about Oprah, Madonna, and Harry Belafonte? Who are the "real" celebrities endorsing?

Shaggy and Scooby were no doubt in the Clinton camp during the 1992 and 1996 campaigns, but will their love for Bill transfer to Hill? I doubt it. They want a president who understands their needs. The ONLY candidate to even recognize these American icons was John Edwards:

Edwards says his favorite lazy-day activity is watching “Scooby Doo” with his youngest kids.

(Rumor has it that Old Man Withers is robo-calling for Fred Thompson.)

Sharon Jumper

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Wednesday August 01, 2007 · 6:13 PM PDT

2007/08/01 · 18:13

Words fail me. They call DKos a hatemongering site?

Look at what's happening in Freeperland right now:

To: Petronski
http://blogs.abcnews.com/...

Released on The Blotter an hour ago:

A new al Qaeda propaganda ad, headlined “Wait for the Big Surprise” and featuring a digitally altered photograph of President George Bush and Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf standing in front of a burning White House, was posted on the Internet today.

The brief clip from al Qaeda’s “as Sahab” propaganda arm juxtaposes the doctored photo of Bush and Musharraf along with previously seen images of al Qaeda’s top leadership — Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahri and Adam Gadahn — as well as a photo of an SUV in a motorcade.

There is no additional information provided in the ad, and it closes with the words, “Soon — God willing,” written across the screen and repeated several times.

519 posted on 08/01/2007 5:33:26 PM PDT by JoeBrooks

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What color should the terror warning be now?

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What color should the terror warning be now?

Red

5 votes

Orange

2 votes

Yellow

5 votes

Blue

5 votes

Green

0 votes

Purple

6 votes

Black

7 votes

Pink

22 votes

Chartreuse

76 votes

Beige

28 votes

We've lost our freakin' minds

Sharon Jumper

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Sunday July 22, 2007 · 11:21 AM PDT

2007/07/22 · 11:21

As many of you know from my recent diaries, I received an offer back in March to teach at a university in China for two months this fall. My wonderful husband told me to "go for it!"

Last weekend, we began preparing for my departure next month. Hubby convinced me to switch to MAC and bought me a MacBook. Thanks to all the Mac Kossacks out there who gave me great advice in this diary.

As the time for my departure grew imminent, I began thinking about the
actuality of being apart from husband, kid, and dog for 60+ days and was
beginning to get sad. On Wednesday, which was coincidentally the day that
our younger son was returning from a month in Europe, I received an e-mail
from the Dean in China who asked, "I know you mentioned that your husband
has an MBA and would want to teach for us in the future, but is there any
chance he'd be available to come over and teach during the fall with you?"

Sharon Jumper

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Monday July 16, 2007 · 7:58 AM PDT

2007/07/16 · 07:58

Giving into the threats of the Democrat-controlled Congress, Vice President Cheney announced this morning that he will begin releasing records to the public.

The first record dump was supposed to be released late last Friday, but alas, due to persistent problems with White House e-mail servers, there was a delay until this morning...

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Who's the biggest pimp?

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Who's the biggest pimp?

George W. Bush

8 votes

Dick Cheney

45 votes

Donald Rumsfeld

3 votes

Fred Thompson

8 votes

Osama Bin Laden

4 votes

Condi Rice

4 votes

Colin Powell

2 votes

Dead Ronald Reagan

9 votes

Joe Lieberman

30 votes

David Vitter

6 votes

Kos

7 votes

Armando

7 votes

Bob Johnson

7 votes

Rex

5 votes

Me, bitches!!!

12 votes

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