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Posted on February 10, 2011 | Comments Off on Heh

Mubarak to Obama: Drop Dead!

Via Simply Jews.

UPDATE: Does anyone in Washington know how to play this game? Barry certainly doesn’t.

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Egypt, Israel and a Strategic Reconsideration

Posted on February 10, 2011 | Comments Off on Egypt, Israel and a Strategic Reconsideration

Stratfor’s George Friedman says in an interesting analysis that whatever the apparent democratic tenor of the ongoing Egyptian uprising, it is being fueled by the Egyptian military’s young officer class which wants Mubarak and his aging officer cronies retired.

So far, GF adds, the Middle Eastern trend to Islamism isn’t dominant in Cairo, but if the Israelis don’t find a way to make peace with the Palestinians, that could well change. There is some heart to be taken in the fact that Egypt’s military (like Israel’s) now depends on American resupply, which will help control the war-making of both. But, then, Israel only has to lose once to be annihilated.

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Could Washington shut down the Internet?

Posted on February 8, 2011 | Comments Off on Could Washington shut down the Internet?

You know, like the Egyptian government did during the riots? Probably, if it wanted to, but there’d be an enormous economic and political cost:

“The next few decades will likely be a contest in which the outcome depends on who is exaggerating more: those proclaiming the potential of new technologies, or those proclaiming the power of governments to constrain them.”

So said the Instapundit, in a law review paper five years ago. Worth a read. Download is free.

Plus, ways to fight back, from dial-up (shutting down the whole phone system is harder, even for a government), to shortwave radio.

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Comment spam

Posted on February 7, 2011 | Comments Off on Comment spam

This stuff is getting out of hand, at the rate of ten to fifteen a day around here.

In six months, since moving the Scribbler from Movable Type to WordPress, I’ve collected (and deleted) almost more than 10,000 examples. A fatal pox on all their pathetic, English-mangling houses!

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Return of the Sandmonkey

Posted on February 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Return of the Sandmonkey

Mahmoud Salem, aka Sandmonkey, outs himself as he returns to blogging from Cairo and on Twitter.

“Now, I am not a leader of this movement, and god knows I would be loathe to name myself as a spokesperson for the 5 million individuals nationwide who have joined these protests. If anything, I am simply a promoter and a participant who is way too proud of the fact that this is a movement with no leaders or representatives.

“In many ways this has helped the cohesion and unity of those protests: people agreed on a set of demands that promote general democracy, accountability and freedom. Demands that promote self-governing and personal rights no matter what your ideological leanings may be. We thought that was enough, and now we are thinking it might not be after all.”

Hope it works out for you, MS, and that you stay healthy.

Via Simply Jews.

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Nate Hawthorne, failed humorist

Posted on February 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Nate Hawthorne, failed humorist

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“Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Hawthorne intended The Scarlet Letter to be a work of humor, and was bitterly disappointed when no one seemed to get the joke.

“In a letter to his friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, he wrote that he would have to make the comedy much broader in his next novel, The House of the Seven Gables.”

Via Dr. Boli’s encyclopedia of misinformation.

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Colder than a Dallas woman’s heart

Posted on February 4, 2011 | Comments Off on Colder than a Dallas woman’s heart

We have a thin covering of ice and snow at the rancho where it’s 22 degrees F.

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