julescrittenden.com - 11/21/2008
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According to this U.S. intellgence assessment, United States influence in the world won't entirely go down the toilet under Obama. It will take until 2025. Let's see, that's four administrations. We're going to have Democrats that long? Anyway, guess who we get to share with then in a ...
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julescrittenden.com - 11/21/2008
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When your name is Jules, things happen. You
get mail addressed to "Ms. Jules Crittenden." Or, when...
you're moonlighting in an alarm call center in a bad part of a small New England milltown because your newspaper in that town doesn't pay enough, and a ...
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Man Up
julescrittenden.com - 11/26/2008
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Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George
Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of...
Defense. Politico: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. ...
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Thanks, George
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... Where's my bailout? (Image via Michelle). Related: The American auto makers need a bankruptcy to survive. Prof B The future of Cod in the North Sea A book: The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power (h/t, Wilkerson) The eHarmony and homosexual dating story, at Moonbattery Great news! The US is going down. Jules Shrinks doing less and less ...
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julescrittenden.com 11/15/2008 — Boston City Hall ... the Ugliest Building in the World. Boston Herald:
Bostonians didn’t need VirtualTourist.com and City Hall’s top billing on the World’s Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments list to figure that out. Residents have known it ...
Something Different
julescrittenden.com 11/29/2008 — Roggio, Long War Journal, with a long examination of how the Mumbai attacks differed from past terrorism attacks: military-style assaults on multiple targets led to three days of fighting:
The Mumbai attack is unique from past terror strikes carried ...
Do As We Say …
julescrittenden.com 12/7/2008 — Boston's border control chief busted ... for hiring illegals! Howie puts it best:
This town really does need an enema.
How corrupt has Boston become when we now have illegal alien maids from Brazil wearing wires against six-figure federal immigration ...
What?
julescrittenden.com 11/2/2008 — The military is apparently researching amnesia beams as a treatment for PTSD ... and probably other useful applications ... and scientists have already succeeded in making mice forget things. Danger Room rounds up military and civilian efforts:
A ...
It’s All Over
julescrittenden.com 10/26/2008 — Except for the voting. And the investigations. Roundup:
That it's over, a week and a half out, doesn't mean we get to know just yet who wins. Who's winning right now is irrelevant, though I suspect whoever is going to win is probably determined ...
So, What Next?
julescrittenden.com 12/30/2008 — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants "war to the bitter end." Hamas is on the run, its terrorist infrastructure and personnel being blown to bits as we speak. All good, but at the end of the day, all that gets you is a pile of rubble and a bunch ...
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julescrittenden.com 1/2/2009 — New Year's Day is a time for reflection, a time for charting new courses. I've advanced beyond weight-loss concerns ... which is to say I've accepted a moderate middle-aged paunch and could give a damn. Like the gray hairs and the wrinkles, I've ...
It’s Not What You Know
julescrittenden.com 2/13/2009 — It's what you plan to do about it. LA Times reads Obama's lips on Iranian nukes, notices he's admitted Iran's up to no good. This part is kind of funny, in a tragic, Middle East arms race, mushroom cloud kind of way:
As the administration moves ...
Two Down
julescrittenden.com 2/17/2009 — It may be quiet, but it isn't over. Two to be buried in Massachusetts this week.
Lance Cpl. Kevin Preach of Bridgewater died of injuries sustained in an IED attack in Afghanistan.
Like the title character of his favorite “Rocky” movies, ...
Great Depression
julescrittenden.com 3/9/2009 — A couple of comparisons, macro and micro, at the Boston Herald.
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