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yellojkt2004 – A three-day hostage crisis in a school in the town of Beslan, Russia comes to a violent end when a gun battle between Russian security forces and the hostage takers erupts following an explosion. Three days earlier Chechen terrorists had surrounded and then taken over the school, holding some 1,200 children, parents and teachers, who had been celebrating the first day of school, in the school gym. The gym was then rigged with explosives as the terrorists demanded a Russian troop withdrawal from Chechnya. On the third day of the siege, an explosion in the gym, which witnesses later say was accidentally set off, sparks a firefight between the terrorists and security forces. By the time it is over, 31 of the 32 terrorists are dead, along with 331 of the hostages, including 186 children.
1783 – America is officially recognized as an independent nation with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolution. The last major battle of the Revolution had ended two years previously with the surrender of British General Cornwallis to French and American troops, but final peach negotiations had continued throughout 1782 and 1783. The final agreement granted America its independence as well as granting all lands from Florida to the Great Lakes and between the Atlantic and the Mississippi to the US, essentially doubling its size.
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All Things in Moderation 
OFFS.
http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/357462/pelosi-huddles-5-year-old-grandson-syria-andrew-johnson
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Really, she said this.
Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says there are “dozens” of nations supporting the United States’ intervention in Syria, but regrets she’s “not at liberty to say” which ones.
I ain’t crappin’ you negative.
http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/357429/wasserman-schultz-dozens-countries-back-us-action-syria-andrew-johnson
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The Debbie Wasserman Schultz comments aren’t entirely wrong. Arab states have a long history of advocating for one thing with the US and making public statements to the contrary.
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For Obama’s sake I hope he has another YouTube moviemaker he can arrest at 3:00 AM in case shit turns to fuck in Syria.
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Tweet of the Day.
@AceofSpadesHQ: Here’s my deal: I’ll support the Syrian Strike when the left confesses that everything it said 2003-2009 was a Gigantic Fucking Lie..
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Slate acknowledges what many of us have known for a long time: “You know that “women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar” line you’ve heard a hundred times? It’s not true.”
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So maybe all of our tilting at windmills isn’t a complete waste of time?
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jnc:
So maybe all of our tilting at windmills isn’t a complete waste of time?
Maybe not, but it sure is tough slog.
edit: corked!
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Still Scott, it’s an uphill climb:
“Is it that women are choosing lower-paying professions or that our country values women’s professions less?”
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BTW…I thought this one was particularly amusing:
The gap is even wider for women business school graduates who marry very high earners. (Note: Never marry a rich man).
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OT ..
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian_kids.php
worth a read.
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Yes, I think they miss the point of marrying a rich man is to work less.
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Bill Kristol went on MSNBC to support Obama’s bombing of more brown people.
http://freebeacon.com/kristol-no-vote-on-syria-takes-america-out-of-the-game/
Really. He did that.
I’m flabbergasted over this.
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McWing:
I don’t visit PL anymore. What are the likes of Bernie saying about the Syria situation? I imagine that if Kristol is for it, Bernie must be against it.
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the point of marrying a rich man is to work less.
Now you tell me. . .
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Believe it or not, they’ve used it as an occasion to rehash the Bush/Iraq arguments, as in:
“At least we know that Obama won’t do X like Bush did in Iraq”.
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v“At least we know that Obama won’t do X like Bush did in Iraq”.
Like trying to accomplish a defined goal? Yeah, we can be pretty sure O won’t be doing that.
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They got quite a brain trust going on over there.
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Greg did have a good observation this morning:
“By the way: Dems have practiced their own version of this, which the left at the time labeled “the incompetence dodge.” When things deteriorated in Iraq, many Dems who’d initially supported the war blamed George W. Bush’s execution for it, to avoid engaging in a debate over whether they themselves were complicit in supporting an idea that was fundamentally flawed, dodging accountability.”
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When things deteriorated in Iraq, many Dems who’d initially supported the war blamed George W. Bush’s execution for it, to avoid engaging in a debate over whether they themselves were complicit in supporting an idea that was fundamentally flawed, dodging accountability.
I think a more common tactic was to claim that they were tricked into supporting it…”Bush lied”.
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What’re the odds that Kerry testifies about Mobile Biological Weapons Labs?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory
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That too. Both are dodges.
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Nova: The libertarian candidate in the Virginia gubernatorial campaign actually was covered along with McAuliffe & Cuccinelli in the Richmond media.
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Yes, I think they miss the point of marrying a rich man is to work less.
Stay-at-home wives, like children, are a luxury good.
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yello:
Stay-at-home wives, like children, are a luxury good.
On the contrary, children are and have always been a necessity, not a luxury good. The modern welfare state makes them even more of a necessity, but as is its nature, the welfare state creates a free-rider problem.
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Funny Ace jab at Hagel:
@AceofSpadesHQ: Shorter Chuck Hagel: This is the first war in ten years that the Jews didn’t trick us into so we have to get in on this action.
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