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Tim Cavanaugh | June 13, 2006

Zarqawi's corpse goes cold, Duke investigators find fool's gold, NASA waits for pork to be unrolled, in Reason Express.

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|6.13.06 @ 4:22PM|#

I heard a rumer that Zarqawi's body was enbalmed with 3 gallons of pig semen? Can that really be true? I mean, 3 gallons is a lot of semen.

|6.13.06 @ 4:49PM|#

It is Buddy, but those boys in Gitmo have had a lot of time on their hands. The big question, is it torture?

|6.13.06 @ 4:57PM|#

Imagine the intel if they'd taken him alive.

Maybe they should have doctors along with the forward teams. Blow them up, keep them alive.

|6.13.06 @ 5:01PM|#

C'mon, joe, you of all these nuts should know there's no such thing as a Zarqawi!

|6.13.06 @ 5:31PM|#

A minimally competent prosecutor would see this. As Nifong is not one, he should be removed from office and disbarred as fast as possible.

Pithy, and dead-on. I like it.

|6.13.06 @ 5:32PM|#

Imagine the intel if they'd taken him alive.

Imagine the propaganda beating if we'd taken him alive. The torture, the poor facilities, the lack of a trial, etc.

Frankly, we'd be better off today if we had just put a bullet in Saddam when we dragged him out of his hole.

|6.13.06 @ 7:52PM|#

Maybe they should have doctors along with the forward teams. Blow them up, keep them alive.

And the award for the most uninformed statement of the day goes to... joe! Stand up, take a bow, joe. The people want to see if you can manage that without tripping over your shoelaces.

|6.13.06 @ 9:05PM|#

An interesting stance by the AMA (corn syrup free)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060614/ap_on_he_me/ama_requiring_insurance_1
What to do about "freeriders" and healthcare.

Jonathan Goff|6.13.06 @ 9:55PM|#

The problem with the whole NASA part is that most of those major projects that are being curtailed to pay for those evil "earmarks" are earmarks themselves. I mean, admittedly NASA probably shouldn't even exist (at least not as a tax-funded entity), but if it's going to exist, they could at least you know, buy off-the-shelf whenever possible instead of always insisting on designing and building their own rockets to boldly go where currently existing companies have gone before. They are doing some at least semi-commercial stuff with their COTS program, and their Centennial Challenge prizes are also pretty good (I'm biased on that one since the company I'm with is competing for one of the bigger prizes they have on offer).

But all this handwringing over earmarks when most of the big-ticket items are being jobs programs for rocket nerds seems really, really hypocritical. It's like "OH NO! Those nasty earmarks are keeping money from being spent on my favorite nerd-welfare program! How dare they!"

~Jon

|6.14.06 @ 12:13AM|#

The first two words of Clean Hands' link are "A medic..."

Trying way too hard.

|6.14.06 @ 3:15AM|#

Frankly, we'd be better off today if we had just put a bullet in Saddam when we dragged him out of his hole.

Yes, but we really aren't anywhere near that collectively smart.