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Did Kim Chong Il just blink?

A North Korean ship being tracked by the United States Navy on suspicion of transporting weapons to Burma has turned around, US officials have said.

They said they did not know where the ship was now heading, but South Korean media said it was going home. It has [...]

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Buck Fever, a Microfiction

The young aviator looked down into the woman’s upward turned eyes, saw her tremble a bit in the winter moonlight despite the fact that she was wearing his heavy motorcycle jacket, thick cowhide over a quilted lining. Too large for her slender frame, but still carrying his own body heat – he’d only just [...]

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60

Minnesota voters and their supreme court have sent Al Franken, career comic and host of blockbuster progressive radio network Air America to be the Democratic Party’s 60th US senator, thereby guaranteeing the party a filibuster-proof majority to go with their solid majority in the House of Representatives, so long as Harry Reid and majority [...]

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Left to Sarah

“I wish I could quit you.”

I kind of wish they could too. It’s unhealthy, this degree of obsessiveness. Unseemly.

Mommy issues, I’m guessing.

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Reflections on the ARVN

Might be useful as American combat soldiers fall back to rural encampments in Iraq and take on a support and training role.

Might not. Cultures vary.

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Ruth Madoff’s Pain

I feel it.

Distantly.

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Holiday in Iraq

Most US combat troops redeployed outside Iraqi cities today as scheduled:

Iraq declared a public holiday Tuesday to celebrate the official withdrawal of American troops from the country’s cities and towns, emptying the streets as many people stayed home because they feared violence.

As Iraqi officials’ celebrations went on, the American military announced the [...]

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Road Trip?

Count me out. Don’t care who’s driving.

Note: I believe this is before we reform the health care system.

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Carrier Quals

You’re doing it wrong.

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They’re Joking

Right?

NKorea criticizes US missile defense for Hawaii

North Korea criticized the U.S. on Monday for positioning missile defense systems around Hawaii, calling the deployment part of a plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal in retaliation.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he ordered the deployment [...]

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