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Yesterday I wrote about how I simply do not believe that the true motivation of some who speak out against intervening militarily in Iraq, or elsewhere, is quite what it claims to be. Now that does not mean I question the honour of all who counsel against war, though in some cases that is indeed what I do.
But when some, like Jacob Hornberger, claim that their opposition to war comes in any way out of concern for the well being of the people who live under ghastly regimes like that of Saddam Hussain or Stalin, then I do start to question whether ‘whiteman speaks with forked tongue’. I do not know if Hornberger honestly believes that (he is after all a politician) but even if he does, I wonder how he would react to the discovery reported today in The Times of London (sorry no link) of yet another mass grave in Russia dating from Stalinist times, containing 30,000 people. That is the equivalent of 10 World Trade Centers worth of innocent victims murdered by the NKVD between 1936 and 1939.
So please, if the exclusive reason Ron Paul and Jacob Hornberger at al want to avoid military conflict with far off tyrants is that they do not want members of the volunteer US military to get killed whilst earning their pay, well fine, I don’t agree but I can respect that. Just spare me the crap about worrying about ‘innocent Iraqis/Russians/Czechs/Slovaks/Koreans/Tibetans etc.’ who are or were living under the rule of mass murdering tyrants because it is complete bullshit.
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2. noun. A person who trolls.
Usage: “Justin Raymondo has just trolled the Warbloggers again.”
‘Troll’ is usually used as an epithet and the term is widely used in this sense in newsgroups and e-lists as well as blogs.
noun. See Reciprocal Link.
(coined by Dawson Jackson)
noun. If you blogroll (qv) link to our blog, we will blogroll to your blog. Also: Linky Love
phrase. An series of exchanges between two or more blogs contesting some factual, political or philosophical issue.
(coined by Natalie Solent)
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noun. A blog connoisseur.
noun. When a blog is published with incorrect html which resulting in visible code on the page, rather than a clickable link or special character or formatted text. The unintentionally visible code is ‘crud’.
noun. Over time any large list of links will contain an increasing number of dead links.
noun. The blog hosting servers operated by blogger.com. More blogs are hosted on blogspot than anywhere else.
tr.verb. To have your blog mentioned on Instapundit.com. Also: Instalanche.
Usage: “Holy shit, look at the hit counter! We must have been Instapundited!”
Also see: Slashdotted
1. noun. To be unable to think of anything to blog about, i.e. writer’s block for bloggers.
2. noun. To be unable to post an article on your blog because blogger.com is down yet again.
(meaning 2. coined by Jim Treacher)
verb. To write blog articles about blogging. Also: metablogging.
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