It sounds like the sort of thing you'd try just to get a lower Purity Test score.

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Though I wonder if it's something people get their jollies talking about, but like nobody actually does.

I only wish I thought this was true. Sadly...there are some very different lids for some vewy, vewy different pots out there. Not that there is anything wrong with that...

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Though I wonder if it's something people get their jollies talking about, but like nobody actually does.

Like the donkey punch? (didn't that prove to be fictional due to impossiblity?)

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Like the donkey punch?

Back to Wikipedia . . .

I'm sure this isn't what they meant when they said the Wiki was educational.

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It sounds like the sort of thing you'd try just to get a lower Purity Test score

There are so many things you can do to lower your score that don't smell that bad, though.

I only wish I thought this was true. Sadly...there are some very different lids for some vewy, vewy different pots out there. Not that there is anything wrong with that...

I have to say--I think it's incredibly gross, and I'd like to ask people that enjoy it (especially on the receiving end) what's in it for them.

But I don't think it's sad or anything. Just NAST.

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It seems to conclude that the Democrats are right in that the war in Iraq has fueled jihadist and that the Republicans are right that we shouldn't withdraw from Iraq. So basically we screwed up big time in invading Iraq, but now we're stuck there.

Umm no. It says:

perceived jihadist success there would inspire more fighters to continue the struggle elsewhere.

Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves,and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight.

Al-Qa’ida, now merged with Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi’s network, is exploiting the

situation in Iraq to attract new recruits and donors and to maintain its leadership role.

It argues that staying and winning would be better than staying and losing or leaving and losing. I'm sure staying and winning and getting a pony would be even better. But given that things are getting worse the longer we stay, staying and "winning" (whatever "winning" means) is not an option: how do the two remaining options - staying and losing vs. leaving and losing constitute a dilemma? If the choice is to continue to kill and occassionally torture Iraqis or stop killing and occassionally torturing Iraqis and both options increase terrorism, obviously the option where you stop killing and torturing is the correct one.

t on edit

Note the three paragraphs quoted are three seperate quotes from the declassified summary.

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Really. What do you possibly get out of the receiving end...no pun intended honestly.

I can imagine some responses and they all sort of make me sad. But I'm with you on the NAST.

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Hey, following on the Iraq discussion this morning...

Fela is partially responsible for this newly released poll on Iraqi citizen attitudes about the war. [link]

He's very excited about the coverage.

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Today is the 23rd anniversary of Stanislav Yefgrafovich Petrov saving the world.

Anyway, at 40 minutes past midnight on the 26th Petrov looked up and saw a missile launch from a United States silo had been detected by one of his satellites. Now you might expect panic at this point but missile command tends to attract the serious, sober type, probably the type of people who smoke a pipe and sew leather patches on their jackets, and Petrov kept his head.

He knew the satellite had been reported as suspect and decided to hold off on informing the high command. Then a second missile launch was picked up, and shortly after another, and another and another. Petrov knew that if he waited until he could confirm the launches with ground radar it would be too late for his country, he and his family would die and the Yankees would win the Cold War.

Thankfully for us he thought before acting. He reasoned that it was illogical for a surprise attack to launch missiles one after the other – instead you’d launch everything you had and hope to wipe out the enemy before they reacted. He left the launch button alone and thankfully the missiles proved to be ghosts.

He was reprimanded for his (in)action.

[link]

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What a great story! Prayers of thanks to Stanislav, where ever he is.

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