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How Bush Created a Theocracy in Iraq
Posted on Dec 2, 2005
By Juan Cole
The Bush administration naively believed that Iraq was a blank slate on which it could inscribe its vision for a remake of the Arab world. Iraq, however, was a witches' brew of dynamic social and religious movements, a veritable pressure cooker. When George W. Bush invaded, he blew off the lid.
Shiite religious leaders and parties, in particular, have crucially shaped the new Iraq in each of its three political phases. The first was during the period of direct American rule, largely by Paul Bremer. The second comprised the months of interim government, when Iyad Allawi was prime minister. The third stretches from the formation of an elected government, with Ibrahim Jaafari as prime minister, to today.
The oldest of these was the Dawa Party, founded in the late 1950s as a Shiite answer to mass parties such as the Communist Party of Iraq and the Arab nationalist Baath Party. Dawa means the call, as in the imperative to spread the faith. Dawa Party leaders in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed of a Shiite paradise to rival the workers� paradise of the Marxists, with a state ruled by Islamic law, where a "consultative council" somehow selected by the community would make further regulations in accordance with the Koran. The Dawa Party organized covert cells throughout the Shiite south. In 1980, in the wake of the Khomeini revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party cracked down hard on Dawa, executing many of its leaders, attacking its party workers and making membership in the party a crime punishable by death. The upper echelons of the Baath were dominated by Sunni Arabs who disliked religious Shiites, considering them backward and Iran-oriented rather than progressive and Arab. In the same year, 1980, Saddam invaded Iran, beginning a bloody eight-year-long war with his Shiite neighbor.
The real winners of the Iraq war are the Shiites.
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By labeai, October 21, 2006 at 7:56 am Link to this comment
neocon pointman, Dick Cheney
Neocon is slang for dirty jew. liberals love this word. now they cant have jews wear a star on their arms; as they say been there done that.
By Ed, August 20, 2006 at 1:34 am Link to this comment
IF you had a Brain Cell, you would be Dangerous.
Thank God you don't have a brain cell to speak of.
By Mike, August 19, 2006 at 10:11 am Link to this comment
Thank you!
By Jane, August 19, 2006 at 10:11 am Link to this comment
Thank you!
By Dixie, August 19, 2006 at 10:10 am Link to this comment
Nice site!
By glee, May 1, 2006 at 12:32 am Link to this comment
After reading all the comments I have come to one clear conclusion. The more one supports Bush, the poorer the writer's ability to use correct grammar, spelling and correct expression. Perhaps this merely reflects the intelligence and educational level of the typical Bush supporter, Therefore s/he is one who is less likely to be a fully informed and educated voter and far more gullible to believe those who know how to sway people. I would suggest those people read (or reread) the following two books: 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Hopefully they will be astute enough to understand the inherent metaphor of each. Then they should read all they can about the rise of Hitler, starting off with a rather easy to read Melissa Muller's Anne Frank, the Biography. Maybe they would begin to get an understanding of how easily it is to be swayed to willingly give up freedoms and rights. It is happening in 2006. Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.
By Duane Sample, January 9, 2006 at 6:28 pm Link to this comment
Better late than never! Very good info by Juan Cole…hopefully he has it approx. right. However, my view of this carefully prepared invasion observes that the natural resources of the entire Middle East need to be at the beck and call of the United States and it's brother ally, Israel. Further, their joint efforts will include a great part of Africa and portions of the prior Russian properties. So we will see much bigger bombings and invasions ahead. There is no stopping World Empire because it holds all the cards of weapons manufacturing and disposable humans (soldiers). When the Empire runs out of soldiers; they will use prisoners: both domestic and foreign. Our (the USA) conversion to full Plutocracy is fast happening; and the paper democracy is vanishing. We (of the proletariat) needn't worry. We should watch this as if we are reading a novel; and live our personal lives in happiness and pleasure. We who are aware of our very nature know that the leaders of our world are simply beasts: devoid of human qualities. So let them be.
By marvin, January 7, 2006 at 7:39 am Link to this comment
The U.S. is the proverbial bull in the china shop I'm afraid. You know what that does to the china shop.
By Vor Dire, January 1, 2006 at 3:02 am Link to this comment
<<<I believe it is leftists intetions to make it look it was all Bushs fault!>>>
Two things…
If it's not War President's responsibility/fault… then, where might the old proverbial buck stop? Are you accusing the neocon pointman, Dick Cheney of the FUBAR in Iraq?
Nevertheless, in all fairness to your contentions… the "leftists" and a ever-growing number of "conservatives" have a substantial amount of material to work with as re Bush's fault(s).
By F14 Pilot, December 31, 2005 at 1:50 pm Link to this comment
I believe it is leftists' intetions to make it look it was all Bush's fault!
Bush is a hero
By Vor Dire, December 20, 2005 at 2:46 pm Link to this comment
<<<Bush went to war to liberate Iraq, did u forget?>>>
Oh, no… the slobber-faced NASCAR Sunday Fundie non-thinkers bought that lie and are now flopping on the deck like a bunch of mullets on a trot line. Everybody else knows that Bush invaded Iraq so he can make senseless excuses about spying on his political opponents…
By Winston, December 20, 2005 at 11:37 am Link to this comment
Bush went to war to liberate Iraq, did u forget?
By nathan johnson, December 19, 2005 at 6:50 am Link to this comment
wow…..........they werent kidding about what the liberals were saying about the successful elections in iraq…........11 million iraqis vote and there is almost no violence….....and yet you die hard bush haters still cant get past your petty small minded hatred of bush and his "cronies" if iraq is so bad then how come 2 out of 3 iraqis feel next year will be better….how come over 70% feel their lives are going well….....maybe you people should actually listen to military people over their and iraqis themselves instead of you little whining groups…..and as for this stupid oil conspiracy need i remind you that the oil companies made record profits when demand was high and supplies were low…........for the ones that attended public school that means that if iraq starts pumping as much oil as saudi arabia then the oil companies will not make as much money ie the 90s
By VOR Dire, December 13, 2005 at 8:19 am Link to this comment
A fact of reasoning omitted… On November 1, 2000 Saddam Hussein converted Iraq's oil trading unit to the euro and away from the private banking family known to a few as the federal reserve 'system' currently ruling the United States and most of the world economies.
As the 2nd largest producer of oil on the planet, Saddam's crippling move to the euro shattered the smooth flow of the federal reserve's paper through the oil piplines and diverted the fiat paper into the sewer lines of the world economies.
The after effect continues to haunt the massive paper printing bank. Even a cursory look at the last five years since Saddam's brilliant shift away from the dollar and one can find the United States economy circling the proverbial drain.
Anyway, after the unilateral invasion, disguised as a coalition, the federal reserve banking family's first and foremost directive was to have the Bush administration replace the euro with its so-called federal reserve petrodollar. That was done quietly and without fanfare, yet it was done nonetheless.
Now the question remains, will the private federal reserve banking family be able to print enough paper to unclog the 'sewer' lines already jammed to capacity with worthless paper dollars? I believe the answer lies in the question itself.
Yet, in other words let it be asked this way—When was the last time in history that a nation was able to borrow itself out of debt by printing more worthless money?
Saddam was right about one thing. The United States government and its house of cards paper money scheme could be brought down without a single shot being fired. What he failed to realize though, was the fact that Bush's (the federal reserve's) invasion did not need a shot fired to inspire 'shots' being fired back.
By Wallsy, December 11, 2005 at 11:37 am Link to this comment
I am alway stunned by the claim that this war, or any military intervention, is about achieving democracy. The democracy card was pulled out when it became increasingly obvious that no one really believed the WMD threat-discourse. Indeed, it follows a pattern that, after all the intial arguments for intervention are spelled out, the peace and democracy discourse is applied as a sugar-coating at the end. It frankly disgusts me that in light of the destruction of Iraqi society during 12 years of harsh sanctions, bombing raids, causing the destruction of vital infrastructure and the death of 500,000 infants, that a new administration would lie about an Iraqi threat, knowing full well what the outcome of an invasion and occuptaion would entail. I do not need to illustrate the outcomes since they are all too vivid now. One thing is for sure, however, and that is the Bush Administration knew that invading Iraq would not be difficult militarily. However, their obvious disregard for the situation on the ground, the people, the culture and the political set-up, has bogged them down in a veritable quagmire. I agree too with the thesis that the Administration knew what it was doing, that it had a hidden agenda. HOwever, this had nothing to do with the welfare and well-being of the Iraqis, far from it. Indeed, how could Mr Rumsfeld, after having had presiously warm relations with Hussein, have suddenly witnessed a pang of conscience? But, stranegly enough, we are suppsed to believe that this war was predicated on altruism. Ridiculous.
By Winston, December 10, 2005 at 2:02 pm Link to this comment
Good Point, Tom!
Democracy is indeed taking place and shaping in Iraq and the fight, I believe, is over that.
By Tom Janzen, December 8, 2005 at 2:28 pm Link to this comment
Winston, the following excerpt from your comment indicates that you believe a "more probable outcome" is likely to occurr that is differenct from the one projected by Mr Cole. Aside from the circular logic in the comment (Iraq will be a democratic country if democracy is attained), what are the facts supporting your argument, and the logic of how that outcome is attained, or is it based simply on belief?
"The liberals do not try to understand that in the long run Iraq will be a peaceful and democratic country if the democracy and freedom the American & Iraqi soldiers are sacrificing their lives for, takes place."
By Winston, December 7, 2005 at 11:27 pm Link to this comment
I have got this in response
By JCanuck, December 7, 2005 at 5:47 am Link to this comment
I think that they thought they knew exactly what they were doing. If one looks at how politics have been carried on by the GW crowd domestically, it's very clear that one of the central pillars of how they operate is "divide and conquer".
Unfortunately, they seem to have looked at Iraq through the lens of an isolated country, instead of as part of the whole. The goal may well have been to splinter Iraq into three "mini-states" based on ethnic and religious lines, who would then spend a great deal of time squabbling amongst themselves. I have to wonder as well if the pressure put on Syria to withdraw from Lebanon didn't have the same purpose in mind for the various factions that exist in Lebanese society. It's not particularly difficult to see that dividing the stronger states in the area into many smaller and weaker states would create a situation in which it becomes much easier to pit one against the other and to stir up racial or ethnic tensions to keep them off balance and in fear. This eventuality would considerably strengthen the position of their main regional ally, and therefore the position of the US.
Too bad they forgot about Iran…something they are no doubt trying to rectify with the latest round of fear-mongering about nuclear states. Interesting to see that Russia has quietly stepped into the fray this time. I guess that Putin also saw into Bush's soul, and didn't much like what he saw.
By Winston, December 6, 2005 at 2:11 pm Link to this comment
@Lance Uppercut
What kind of popular government when milions of Iranians greeted their king after his return from Rome?
Dont you believe me? Do a google on that!
Never ever believe what the left wants you to believe. They spin the facts and feed us with what they think is the real truth.
By Lance Uppercut, December 6, 2005 at 10:35 am Link to this comment
I'm pretty sure that the CIA has admitted to installing the Shah. You can't overthrow a popular government without putting disidents in prison, or in a shallow grave. That's a fact.
By Hopi Elder, December 5, 2005 at 9:48 pm Link to this comment
Fast forward 10-20 years, and the surviving pockets of humanity will be huddled around their campfires, the scattered remnants of a vast and cruel diaspora, entirely man-made.
And one will ask: What was the cause of WWIII and the nuclear holocaust? Why did it have to happen?"
And no one will know the answer.
Will you?
By DeeEmseven, December 5, 2005 at 8:01 pm Link to this comment
What is it with these Presidents from Texas? It's now clear that the Vietnam war was started by Lyndon Johnson using lies and distortions. Now we have Dubya starting the Iraq war using lies and distortions. Do these cowboys think that they won't appear macho and get respect unless they kill thousands people?
By Tom, December 5, 2005 at 7:27 pm Link to this comment
Magix asked how do we can get out of this mess?
The best answer is that we should give a date certain when we will be gone from Iraq. This information will let the insurgents know how long they have to wait, but it will also let the other members of Iraqi society know how long they have to prepare. The Iraqis must develop their own solution and this action will immediately focus the minds of all involved on that reality.
By Winston, December 5, 2005 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment
I am from Iran and I disagree with what Cole says about the Late Shah of Iran.
The hoax of secret police and prisoners are what Ted Koppel made you believe.
Where is he now talking about Mullahs and their prisoners?
This article is another left wing BS.
By Rook, December 5, 2005 at 10:06 am Link to this comment
I hate history. I can't even stand to read about events from last year.
Yet, I read ever single word of this article. Thanks for educating me on the political developments in Iraq, something the MonoMedia has failed to report. And for doing it so well.
By ernest p. algorri, December 5, 2005 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
I say let our cigarette companies in there to generate the deficit-reducing revenue our defense contractors and oil companies couldn't from Iraqi oil. Thus, a new Republican 2006 campaign slogan (recommended for usage in red states in particular): "SMOKER'S RIGHTS SHALL WIN THE FIGHT!"
By Johnnei, December 5, 2005 at 7:50 am Link to this comment
Looks like yer story has lotsa them facts, and tries to make a point based in reality; Juan, Why do you hate Americuh? Don't you know this administration don't do no truth based thinkin'.
By Bill Clinton Podcast, December 5, 2005 at 1:23 am Link to this comment
I agree totally with your analysis. Not with the tone. Who says Bush and the Neo Cons don't want a Shiite theocracy in Iraq? It would counter the Shiite theocracy in Iran. Divide and rule. Sistani and the Iranian religious leader are rivals for the leadership of the Shiite religion. You probably know that Iraq is the traditional seat of Shiite learning and leadership. This also explains the new Iranian president's extremism, trying to be relevant in a Shiite world where the power is shifting to Najaf.
By alec hakim, December 4, 2005 at 11:54 pm Link to this comment
I believe the words allah akbar written on the Iraq's flag clearly deminishs any hope of a secular state ruling in Iraq.
By Raul, December 4, 2005 at 8:38 pm Link to this comment
So your thesis is? The average, unschooled American knows that the Shiites, by definition, get the biggest prize. Say something meaningful.
Would you prefer Saddam?
By Pawlr, December 4, 2005 at 8:28 pm Link to this comment
Juan - One of the best summaries of the insanity I've read to date. Enjoy your in-depth analysis on your blog as well.
By Robert, December 4, 2005 at 8:18 pm Link to this comment
Reading Richard Perle, it seems to me that there has been a plan to install friendly Shi'ites in Iraq going back at least ten years. My understanding is that Perle originally saw Shi'ites somehow loyal to Arab Hashemites rather than to Persians as the way to go.
America has been busy ridding Iran of its enemies and rivals. First the Taliban in the east, now the Iraqi Baathists, and no doubt soon Iran's Syrian rivals will be more fully marginalised. With Hezbollah, fatah and Hamas more or less legitimate political entities or soon to be, Iran can afford to concentrate on making serious oil money, playing off growing Chinese and Indian demands against western needs, with Russia providing its security credibility. Iran could Geographically, politically and theocratically wind up holding the powerful middle ground.
I expect to see Iran taking Saudi Arabia's place as America's influential regional Islamic go-to regime.
By DocHolliday, December 4, 2005 at 6:40 pm Link to this comment
What's wrong with theocracy? That way we can make sure that narrow-minded idiots control everything. Avoid all those elections and vote-counting strategies. Much easier this way.
By Wade Hudson, December 4, 2005 at 4:41 pm Link to this comment
Juan Cole's piece is a good, helpful summary, but I disagree that "The Bush administration naively believed that Iraq was a blank slate." Rather, I agree with Tom, who said "It is extremly unlikely that the people who drafted the plan were ignorant of the ethnic and religious dynamics within Iraq. Therefore, it must be assumed that the most likely outcome; i.e, a Kurdish state, a Shite state and a Sunni state was anticipated and desired."
When I was in Baghdad during the invasion with the Iraq Peace Team, high-level officials in the Iraq government told me and others that they believed that the Bush Administration intended a three-state scenario.
Recent foreign policy decisions in the Balkans and Africa also suggest that the West has a preference for fragmentation. Weak states offer less resistance.
Personally, as I told the CBS affiliate in Washington on live TV as the bombs were falling, I believe that the primary motivation behind the war was to get Bush re-elected. All other explanations fall short, but on that point Rove and company were successful.
By Betty J. Ellis, December 4, 2005 at 4:17 pm Link to this comment
I knew that Bush had no knowledge of other cultures. I had said since the Gulf I war by his father that when Saddam was gone that we would have another Bosnia situation because of the ethnic groups. All that I could visualize were more horribley wounded and dead people on both sides. If only our leaders would study history and learn some lessons from it.
By Jim, December 4, 2005 at 10:58 am Link to this comment
Great article!
By John Massie, December 4, 2005 at 10:27 am Link to this comment
I remind people of President Cheney's casual purchase of Dresser Industries and it's asbestos liability for $7.7 billion for Halliburton in the mid 90's during a weekend of quail hunting. Halliburton's stock plunge as a result and the subsequent rebirth of Halliburton in Iraq. And this is just one little sad tale.
By dan, December 4, 2005 at 5:56 am Link to this comment
Thanks for the interesting post.
I've noticed that there is a persistent train of thought amongst US neocon sympathisers which holds that Sistani's quietism is a threat to the clerical regime in Iran and that he is a US strategic ally on the ground in Iraq, as his "massive" influence amongst the Shia faithful in Iran would undermine the Khomeinists. There are still people trying to argue this line - in spite of the voluminous evidence to the contrary.
This has always struck me as at best a nonsensical piece of wishful thinking - especially in the light of Sistani's apparently uncoerced conversion to interventionism in June 2003. I'd appreciate it if you could discuss this issue.
By Wallsy, December 4, 2005 at 4:54 am Link to this comment
For an even clearer synthesis of events since the beginning of the war, in combination with Cole's excellent piece above, I would recommend that you read "Crude Designs", a British report on the real reasons for going into Iraq, namely, Oil and Profit (economic hegemony).
When I read Cole's piece following the report, I immediately experienced an epiphany regarding the function of estbalishing (con)fedral regions in Iraq. Indeed, it would appear that the dissolution of Iraq as a national entity in favour of ethnically coloured regions, serves the purpose of weakening any bargaining power Iraqis may have had in the face of the imminent privatisation of Iraq's oil resources and also of keeping these new regions busy with the indigenous insrugency, the members of which comprise those Iraqis likely to be left out of future oil profits. This does not mean, however, that Washington's Iraqi yay-sayers gain in the long term either since so-called the PSAs lock Iraqi oil resources into 40-year irrevocable contracts, the consequences of which we can only guess at, at this stage. Personally, I believe that this ostensible form of divide and conquer strategy will suit the short-term purposes of the neocons but will ultimately destroy Iraq. Now, couple that with what has emerged as the new power brokers in Iraq and we have an interesing new from of "stability" forming. Indeed, if Iran supports SCIRI's and DAWA's support of the constituion and thereby Bremer's Trojan horse, Washington will inevitably acquiesce in order to further its plans for profiteering in the future. I can't waait to see how Bush and Blair lie their way through Iraq's ultimate desecularisation when, in the next few years, we witness the inevitable human rights crimes arising from a fundamentalilst state(let) in Iraq.
By Ed, December 4, 2005 at 1:03 am Link to this comment
Where is your Proof?
Or is this all just Conjecture and Opinion, as is 99% of ALL Liberal "news".
By Ace Loves Gary, December 4, 2005 at 12:05 am Link to this comment
Thanks for the post Professor Cole. Very informative.
By baby-puppy, December 3, 2005 at 11:00 pm Link to this comment
Damn this is an excellent piece Mr. Cole. Straight out of the history books of the future. Should be required reading for some of our Senators and Congressmen, and yes even the State Dept. Thank you.
By bakho, December 3, 2005 at 9:18 pm Link to this comment
The initial Bush slogan was "shock and awe". Bush planned to unleash a military force so mighty none would oppose the political solution Mr Bush wished to impose: a democratic secular non-Baath government friendly to US interests and especially US oil companies. However, the military can achieve limited objectives and political objectives must be achieved by diplomacy.
Mr Bush achieved all his possible military objectives in toppling Saddam in 2003. Since then he has met political failure. Mr Bush will continue to meet political failure because he believes the US military can solve his political problems in Iraq. Only a concerted political effort can solve the problems of Iraq.
The US is stuck in Iraq with no good options to leave because Mr Bush is committed to his military solution. Mr Bush has FAILED to take those political steps that would be necessary to ease the US troops out of Iraq. Until Mr Bush understands that the US military is not the answer and that the troops need to be withdrawn, none of the necessary political steps to accomplish withdrawal will be made.
We are told Mr Bush is stubborn and he does not take contradiction, bad news or constructive criticism very well. We are screwed.
By JM, December 3, 2005 at 7:44 pm Link to this comment
My thoughts are reflected in the previous comments. Except this. The PNAP people, with their arrogant vision that only they understand global politics, were not seasoned by input from any other knowledgeable source. Consequently, they egged Bush and his supporters into something that even Bush's father was too savvy not to try. The main problem is simply GWB's gullibility. I'll always have to wonder if GHWB tried to talk him out of it and he plugged his ears and said "La la la la, I can't HEAR you!"
By Floyd Vaughn, December 3, 2005 at 7:29 pm Link to this comment
I agree whole-heartedly with Larry Uzarski,it seems as if every day we have to deal with yet another mistake and the funny thing about it,is Americans should live up to their right to vote,and do something about this mess.
By Orlo Makrovskovitchewsky, December 3, 2005 at 7:21 pm Link to this comment
Thank you, Mr. Cole, for this englightening article. It blows the pants off of every other explanation I've heard about the war. I object to the notion by other commenters that the religious right is creating a theocracy in the U.S. These scum are not truly religious. They merely use religion to dupe the a shockingly large number of dull, working-class Americans into supporting the largest theft of tax dollars in world history.
By Tug, December 3, 2005 at 6:24 pm Link to this comment
Nicely done, Professor. Shout this one from the hilltops - these guys (the Bush Administration) are just simply incompetent.
By susan pierce, December 3, 2005 at 6:18 pm Link to this comment
Thank you for this fantastic article by Juan Cole. It contains so much important information. Would that every American could/would read it.
By ali, December 3, 2005 at 3:18 pm Link to this comment
excuse me ramakrishna, you suggest that muslims are religious fanatics. thanks for the gross generalisation, but you can keep your ignorant views to yourself.
The shias winning is not neccessarily a bad thing, seeing how their country is in such a bad state, they will be forced to sell that oil at the prices the west want, simply to survive!
By Kathy, December 3, 2005 at 2:56 pm Link to this comment
I think there is a 4th explanation for the Bush invasion. His father was embarrassed there. Sadam Hussein, by remaining in power, remained a thorn in the side of Bush the First. (The tile picture of Bush I on the floor of one of the palaces is a particularly graphic representation of this.) Bush II is avenging daddy. All the rhetoric, cooked intellegence, and especially the incompetent execution of the occupation, are manifestations of this. Psychology trumps reason, and we are now watching the unfolding of Greek tragedy, once again.
By Ar, December 3, 2005 at 2:26 pm Link to this comment
Tom Jantzen lists three possible real reasons for the war: 1) The Bushies had secret information that justified it, 2), the true reasons could not be disclosed for political reasons, or 3) The Bushies didn't know what they were doing, couldn't assess the ramifications and started the war based on ideological/religious grounds. He concludes that 3) was the reason.
Actually, it was all of the above. They obviously had information not available to the public, the real reasons for the war could never be disclosed publicly—wars never are—and they simply didn't have any idea of what they were doing or what they would unleash.
They didn't have any idea of what they were doing once they started it either, and if there were ever any chances of achieving positive results from it their colossal incompetence has lost them forever.
You'd probably have to go back to 1941, when Hitler invaded Russia without even making any contingency plans for fighting in the Russian winter, because he was so certain it would be over by then, to match the boneheaded decisions of the Bushies. But at least Hitler used all available forces in the attack.
By Steve C, December 3, 2005 at 1:55 pm Link to this comment
Ah…The irony of it all. Great post Professor Cole.
I'm not very familiar with Middle Eastern history, but, it seems to me that the last 500 to 600 years has been turned on it's head in the area. What this portends I do not know. I hope in the near future people who are familiar with the area and the culture can address this issue because I am sure what has happened over the last 4 years is going to have a major impact for a long time to come.
By Charles Martel, December 3, 2005 at 1:42 pm Link to this comment
I agree with all the facts presented by Juan Cole. But I strongly disagree with his logic. Bush is a religious fundamentalist himself. He didn't mistakenly help religious fundamentalists in Iraq. He did it deliberately. It's a great victory for him and for all those (in the US and in Iraq) who oppose atheism. You can read more about my opinion about Juan Cole's article here: http://charles-martel.blogspot.com/2005/12/illogical-cole.html
By left-coast, December 3, 2005 at 1:26 pm Link to this comment
We must remember that Bush is not in charge. He never has been and never will be. His vice-president selected himself and imposed his cadre of fellow-travelers on an incompetent and pliable moron.
It is certain, from what little we know of the energy policy meetings, that the primary reason for invading Iraq had to do with oil.
It is also likely that these over the hill cold-warriors thought they could emulate the British colonial model for governing Iraq, thus their willingness and ignorance in meeting with and including the parties they did.
They failed however to fully read the history books, extracting only what suited their purpose and deluded themselves into thinking they would do better because of their ideological superiority.
The folly in Iraq is the logical conclusion of their arrogance and greed. Unfortunately it is the soldiers on the ground, our citizens, and the stability of the world that will be paying the price.
We can not just hope for the impeachment of Bush, we must take down the entire political machine that subverts the constitution.
By Mike, December 3, 2005 at 1:18 pm Link to this comment
It is about time, we as Americans stood up and took responsibility for electing Bush as a president. Even if you argue that he was not elected and he stole the presidency, you have to admit we put him in close enough a race to do what he did. And then we elected him again. Given what we knew, I can not comprehend how this happened.
By George McJimsey, December 3, 2005 at 1:01 pm Link to this comment
Excellent article. As usual, Bush has constructed the worst possible outcome. Our only chance for an honorable exit would have been to strike our own deal with Iran and Syria and get out. Now the Shiites in Iraq will strike the deal and Iran's influence will increase and the USA will be left in the lurch. It is hard to see anything good from this: pressure on Jordan and the Palestinians against Israel, new bases for al-queda against Saudi Arabia; more massacres - of Sunnis and Kurds. I just hope we all remember who started this.
By julia, December 3, 2005 at 12:41 pm Link to this comment
Magix: I think there is real concern that without us the Sunni will take power at least in the Baghdad area because they have the martial traditions.
I don't know if they could move into the south, this is a more elaborate operation and needs logistics. And in addition to the Shiite militias they could face Iranians with heavy weapons.
This could be an open sore that draws in the middle east. I fear that we could become enforcers for the Shia as they build force. This conception is already strong in the middle east (I believe) and could worsen our relationships, seriously worsen them with other Arab countries. Countries which have the power to shut down the world economy.
I am glad that Bush at least admitted that the insurgency was primarily Iraqi. This is a real, if small step in the direction of a policy that admits the existence of militias, ethnic divides, divides within groups, massive crime, massive corruption and a large number of other problems, each of which is sufficient to break democracy in a third world country.
And of course democracy is not what we want, but they want. I believe the Bush administration fell into the same warm fuzzy thinking that they accuse naive multi culturalists of, that we all share a set of basic values and differences are superficial.
And of course some on the right share the opposite view, that these people are so different, the best thing to do is kill them.
Only if these recieve attention do they become priorities.
By Howard Garrett, December 3, 2005 at 12:27 pm Link to this comment
This report is like cool water on a hot day. Our media and politicians have totally ignored the historical and cultural realities that always and inevitably trump our "superpower" status that we are so proud of. Thank you Mr. Cole for this examination of the actual reality. Would you agree that in fact there is no longer a country that can be called Iraq? Rather, now there are three separate countries?
Would it be possible to provide a "prequel" to this story by going back about a hundred years to pre-WWI, to see how the Baathists, Kurds and Shiites related to one another, and how that was shaken up by the Brits after WWI? Memories in the mideast go back hundred of years and those previous realities are still powerful in today's world.
By SteinL, December 3, 2005 at 12:21 pm Link to this comment
If it wasn't a grand tragedy for the history books, played out in real life, we would all be having a laugh at the ludicrous plot unraveled before our eyes. Dario Fo couldn't have concocted anything as unlikely as what Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith and Cheney came up with.
The U.S., and the world, will be paying the price for decades for this folly.
By Bill, December 3, 2005 at 10:55 am Link to this comment
This article should be appearing in Time or Newsweek (or 20/20 or Dateline) so it can reach a wider audience. Public ignorance, especially on the bigger historical picture given here, continues to empower the administration's near-pathological lying.
By LARRY UZARSKI, December 3, 2005 at 8:48 am Link to this comment
Larry Uzarski
By magix, December 3, 2005 at 8:39 am Link to this comment
As always, your pieces provide me with significant new insight into the war as well as the entire region. Thank you.
My Marine corporal son served his second Iraq tour in Ramadi. A grunt, he barely survived to return home last March. His own, politically unsophisticated perspective is that the Baathists will regain power, because as he sees it, they are the only ones that care enough.
What have we done…?
How do we get out of this mess?
By ed_finnerty, December 3, 2005 at 7:40 am Link to this comment
I was in the 3 camp until Tony Blair and Colin Powell threw in with the pro-invasion group. I assumed that they had seen the secret intelligence. In retrospect, I guess all they saw was a future as outsiders which scared them into allegiance.
By C.M. Ramakrishna, December 3, 2005 at 4:55 am Link to this comment
Why theocracy in Iraq only, George W. Bush, with his religious right conservatives, is laying the foundation for theocracy in our own country. Once the Supreme Court is lined with religious conservative justices, even dictatorship may be declared constitutional in the name of national security. Right now, how much money and time we are wasting on conservative religious issues like anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-euthanasia, neglecting many urgent social issues like poverty, education and healthcare. In religious fanaticism, we are no better than Muslims.
By Tijer, December 3, 2005 at 3:08 am Link to this comment
How about "How Bush Created a Theocracy in the US" ?
It seems like practically every leading figure in the administration have to be some sort of twice-born christian-follower, personally endowed by the spirit of God.
By Tom, December 2, 2005 at 8:24 pm Link to this comment
The plan to invade Iraq was completed long before the attack on September 11 provided the specious justification. It is extremly unlikely that the people who drafted the plan were ignorant of the ethnic and religious dynamics within Iraq. Therefore, it must be assumed that the most likely outcome; i.e, a Kurdish state, a Shite state and a Sunni state was anticipated and desired. This is not to say that high level personnel in the Bush Administration were not duped.
By Brian Williams, December 2, 2005 at 7:39 pm Link to this comment
Tom Janzen offers three possible reasons for the disastrous bushista invasion of Iraq. I submit that the real reasons were and continue to be a combination of 2, (drive for oil, empire) and 3, (incompetence driven by religious and political delusion).
And I add another and extremely compelling reason: the fast-forwarding of arms sales. It is a shamefully EVIL fact that the USA is far and away the world's largest and most technololgically innovative arms merchant. Basically, WE GOTTA KEEP MAKING MARKETS FOR OUR MAIN PRODUCTS: "WHD" or 'weapons of human destruction". So we need wars! If people die, they die. Business is business.
Welcome to the current Shiva aspect of the Godhead! (this last for Hindu cosmology buffs).
By jock gunter, December 2, 2005 at 7:39 pm Link to this comment
Because oil is NEVER mentioned, it has to be the main reason for the invasion: to create a "friendly and reasonable supplier" of oil from the country with the 2nd highest proven reserves after Saudi. But ironically, it looks as if al Qaeda will end up with great influence in western Iraq—just a short commute from the Saudi oilfields.
Not only has the 2nd biggest potential oil supplier been plunged in to chaos for the forseeable future, the 1st oil supplier—Saudi—has been placed in much greater danger than ever before. And, if you remember, one of Osama's main goals is to topple the house of Saud in his homeland.
Nice work, Bushies! - Soon, it will be out of those SUV's and onto your bicycles!
By guillaume, December 2, 2005 at 5:57 pm Link to this comment
Great piece of information, thank you! Westerners always get a bad bargain in the Bazaar. Why did Bush's handlers think they could possibly understand the intricacies of political horse trading in the Middle East? I am not sure which is worse, the lies, the arrogance or the callousness of the administration in the face of the slaughter?
By wolly, December 2, 2005 at 2:18 pm Link to this comment
tragedy meet hubris
Dude! where's my Power of Pride bumper Sticker?
By Grim, December 2, 2005 at 1:48 pm Link to this comment
Losing a few legions in the northern forests seems tame by comparison. I'm still in denial that somehow a Democratic victory in 2008 will magically restore this nation to a pre-GWB state. At the very moment they tried to boldly demonstrate the actions of a world-striding imperial colossus, they burned decades worth of soft power, moral standing, goodwill and influence that doomed their efforts with their arrogance. It sucks to live a bad cliche.
By Tom Janzen, December 2, 2005 at 1:36 pm Link to this comment
The most troubling aspect of the Bush Administration's decision for an Iraq invasion and occupation is that the most probable outcome of such an invasion, as described by Mr Cole, certainly should have been understood by the Bush Administration at the time it was taking this momentous decision. Most informed and reasoning persons, even those outside government (see, B. Scowcroft and R. Scheer), certainly understood this was the most probable outcome at that time, why wouldn't the Bush Administration? None of the reasons given for the invasion seemed to add up as favoring invasion. This resulted in the conclusion of most informed reasoning persons that either:
1. The Bush Administration had some very credible classified intelligence which could not be disclosed, of such great weight that it would support justify a high stakes gamble in the face of the most probable outcome,
When the invasion occurred, I assumed either of the first two possibilities were most likely. I am now convinced that, sadly, it appears the third is most probable. Sadly because, at the least, it does not auger well that the Bush Administration has the skill and knowledge to depart the region with our national security being greater, or even equal to, what it was before the invasion for a very long time and, as Senator Kennedy predicted, at a very high cost in blood and treasure.
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Unintended, meet consequences.
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I'm not in Texas. However tonight I met a trainer in my store that's in town and I was hoping someone may have heard of them. Name of the company is NO F.E.A.R. They do a lot of different training. I checked out their website (www.teamnofear.biz) and they work pit bulls. However he knows I have a GSD and is willing to come do an instinct test for what I believe is a fair price. Just wondering if anyone out there has heard of them or anything about them?
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Finding a trainer is like finding a lawyer. Initial consult shouldn't cost anything
Valid point. I'm waiting to hear from one of my local police officers in K9 on whether or not he will be able to do the instinct test for me. This is just a back up option depending on what if any feedback I receive on here.
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Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
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2. Communicate more effectively with some rephrasing and circumlocution with native speakers accustomed to dealing with nonnative
3. Recognize and interpret cultural behaviors and attitudes within the Japanese speaking world in relation to ones own cultural perspective.
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5. Respond to selected authentic materials in the target language.
6. Employ an understanding of the Japanese syntactic system to read and compose colloquial Japanese texts in Japanese Kana
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Outcome Assessment Strategies
Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:
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3. Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading, writing, cultural, and aural competencies, including reading and and writing of syllabaries
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5. In class, interactive student role-plays
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1.Foods, beverages, flavors, and cooking terms
2. Basic compound verbs using Miru, Shimau, Iku, Kuru
3. Past tense of Verbs with Moo and Mada
4. Shops and stores
5. Colors
6. Shopping
7. Clothes
8. Travel
9. Transportation and schedules
10. Sightseeing and travel planning
11. Describing situations using Dake
12. Transportation and schedules
13. Making a suggestion using Tara Ii
14. Temporal clauses ending in Toki
15. Indefinite pronoun: No
16. Conditional using Tara
17. Commands
18. Giving reasons using ...Shi, ...Shi
19. Using the particle Ni to express purpose
20. The adverbial use of adjectives
Additionally, the following topics and themes will be reviewed:
1. Verbs in non-past, mid-level formal speech
2. Verbs in past, mid-level formal speech
3. Verbs in non-past, informal speech, affirmative and negative
4. Polite and humble polite form of nouns.
5. Self-Introductions in a culturally appropriate manner
6. Family
7. Hobbies and pastimes
8. Multiple particles in negative statements
9. Interrogatives with Ka, Mo and Demo
10. Potential forms of verbs
11. Nominalizers: Koto and No
12. Describes progressive
13. Verbs in gerund
14. Personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns
15. Daily and weekend activities
16. Telephone conversations
17. Invitations in a culturally appropriate manner
18. Conjunctions and disjunctive conjunctions
19. Positional words form of verbs
20. Predicate using the Copula, I-adjectives and Na-adjectives, in past
Competencies and Skills
1. Recognizes basic linguistic and cultural differences between non-Indo-European and Indo-European worlds.
2. Writes short paragraphs using syllabaries and 120 Kanji.
3. Reads for general meanings in texts using combination of syllabaries and Kanji.
4. States when something happens
5. Makes if-then statements
6. Expresses purpose
7. Reports hearsay
8. States whether or not something is true
9. Supports opinions
10. Describes level of difficulty of situations
11. States decisions to do something
12. Describes a conditional state
13. States admonishment and prohibition
14. Describes sequential events using concepts of before or after
15. Expresses obligation or duty
Additionally, the following Competencies and Skills may also be acquired through review:
1. Describes abilities
2. Describes a change in state
3. Describes state of being
4. Describes weather, climate and makes comparisons.
5. Makes and responds to compliments in a culturally appropriate manner.
6. Recognizes the concept of in and out group and introduces family members.
7. Discusses about hobbies and pastimes using family members
8. Asks questions about the language in Japanese.
9. Recognizes tones and pitches.
10. Writes sentences expressing cause and effects.
11. Describes objects, people, action and events using relative clause
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13. Expresses an opinion
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How to Survive a Google Reader Shutdown
It's official. Google announced that it was time for a Google Reader shutdown, the RSS aggregator used by millions to keep up to date with countless blogs, like mine. I have a plan.
In case you missed it, here's a bit of the announcement that came from Google about the Google Reader shutdown.
We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months.
As an avid user of Google Reader, this news really blows! It's probably my most used Google tool. It's a simple, clean interface that allows me to quickly peruse a number of articles, yet keep up with the content of each site that is important to me.
Other services are eager to fill the gap. Feedly announced its method to migrate your Google Reader subscriptions to its services, but I'm just not feeling it. Not only because Feedly doesn't seem to run on Safari (my preferred browser), but for a more important reason that's revealed by the Google Reader shutdown.
You Can't Trust a Middle Man
Here's the crux of it. When you put some business between a provider and a consumer, the middle-man has no loyalty to either side. It's just there to serve its own interests. That's not a bright way to do business, even if the business is free. As we see, Google is shutting down its middle-man service. That leaves millions of users and web content providers out in the cold. The conduit for consumption just got yanked out from under their feet. It hurts the reader and the content provider. Google doesn't care about either.
What options do you have left? Are you going to visit each one of those sites every day to see if there's new, fresh content? Unlikely. The advantage of an RSS service is that it brings the content to you when it's available. If only there were some other Internet service that could to the same thing. Hmmm.
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Here's my advice, both as a user of Google Reader and a web content provider who delivered content by RSS. Don't sign up for Feedly, Flipboard or any other service that's going to try and take advantage of the gap that the Google Reader shutdown just created. All that does is move your vulnerability from one pothole to another.
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If you look at the top of my web site, you'll see a big Subscribe button. Go ahead, click it and subscribe. When I create a new post, you'll get it delivered right to your email. You can read it on practically any device that connects to the Internet. It's old-school and direct. Not only that, but you can easily keep articles from web content providers that you like and delete the rest. Your old RSS subscription didn't make it that easy to go back and find the stuff you liked, did it?
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Just recently, the lovely Katherine Firth (@katrinafee on Twitter) asked what I'd suggest if she wanted to read more from Asian voices in Australia on various sociopolitical issues.
Specifically, she outlined the genres of text she was interested in as "Sociology/ reportage / special editions journals / activist polemic".
I started crafting a few tweets in my head, and thought of several links and articles straight away, then realised that it was probably much more useful – and user-friendly – if I just blogged it!
At first, when I thought about what Katherine had asked for, I felt overwhelmed. I couldn't think of what might be the best places to get started or which articles to read. I'd been immersed in Asian Australian Studies perspectives on everything for so long, I had to take a deliberate step back to see how a (savvy, highly intelligent, research-oriented) newcomer might most usefully find a way into the diverse and multi-voiced material that's out there.


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You'd think, wouldn't you, that a team like the Black Caps would need as many friends as possible.
Cricket is at a low ebb in this country. The national team is performing ordinarily, at best - beating up on the minnows and being beaten up by the big boys. Their tenure in the World Cup seems, well, tenuous.
Fans must be turning off in their droves. It is not exaggerating to say New Zealand Cricket is at a life-altering crossroads. It is in the entirely contradictory state of being awash in money but increasingly threadbare in support.
Every week, I hear more people express sentiments like: 'Why do the media give cricket so much space when we are so crap at it?'
The answer, so far, has always been that cricket is a large part of New Zealand's traditional sporting fabric and it is still followed keenly by thousands upon thousands of fans - even if they do not attend test matches; even if there is some weariness over one day cricket and even if the ugly slog that is Twenty20 is wearing thin as more and more people come to believe it is more about money than anything else.
The problem is also that New Zealand cricket in recent decades had won a well-earned reputation for being gutsy, competitive and able to make the best out of what they had. Note the past tense. Few people believe it of this team.
That's why the Black Caps' performance off the field after the capitulation against Sri Lanka was worthy of note. Fans don't normally get to see it.
After the match, touring journalists normally get the chance to speak to the player or players put up by the team management. This is a good chance for the team to front up; to talk about what happened and why; to give their side of things and even - as some sporting forces do very well - impart their spin on things.
It's also an integral part of representing your country. The national representatives turn up and talk openly about results; issues; incidents.
What do the Black Caps do after Sri Lanka? Coach John Wright won't talk until after training the next day. Stand-in skipper Ross Taylor talks for nine minutes and says little of significance. Tim Southee also speaks. For less than three minutes.
When Herald on Sunday cricket writer Andrew Alderson protests, team media manager Ellery Tappin tells him they are in a hurry to go back to the hotel with wives and girlfriends.
Says it all, doesn't it? Fair enough, the Black Caps are in a poor patch. Fair enough, they will be a bit gun-shy after all the recent criticism following that enormous and disheartening string of one-day losses. Fair enough, they may not know what to say or what to do to win.
But you never win friends or influence people by hiding in the hotel with the WAGs. We can exempt from this Brendon McCullum, who spoke with candour and no little charm in his interview.
Media arrangements on tour are sparse, to say the least - for this newspaper anyway. Having made the considerable sporting and financial decision to send a man on tour to cover it, he gets access to players in a "scrum" with competing media.
They number exactly two - a man from Fairfax who writes for competing daily newspapers and our competition on Sundays; and a man from radio, who gets access even to desired private chats involving the other journalists because he is a "rights-holder" (meaning his company has paid money to NZC to secure the radio rights). Why this enables him to sit in on print media work is a mystery indeed.
Alderson gets one chance a week to have a precious, one-on-one interview.
The only other time he can talk to players is as part of the group at practice and after the game - and we have already visited yesterday's "gab-fest".
Precious, did we say 'precious'? We meant it with the meaning of 'rare'. But there is another meaning. Scott Styris, for example, has made it clear he will not be doing print interviews on this tour, although he may have graced the electronic media with his presence; a medium with which he has become more associated towards the end of his career.
Overall, these are the actions of a sporting body which doesn't really seem to want print media coverage or the connection it offers to fans.
As for the players, sodding off to the hotel to join the WAGs sends the worst of messages - like they earn so much money from IPL and their NZC contracts that they can enjoy the five-star accommodation and trimmings and not have to worry about media and fans.
Let's be a little understanding. It is never easy examining one's own deficiencies, particularly when someone else is leading the questioning.
Siege mentality is a familiar element in sport (usually counter-productive).
But New Zealand cricket and cricketers need friends right now. Real friends, not the back-slapping, high-fiving, cheerleading sort who grin in your face and ask questions which suggest that everything is all right.
Let's park the whole John Wright issue. The people's choice; the media choice as coach with an avowed intention to fix the batting? Most of us agree he needs time to repair it - but it has now lurched from trying to hit sixes and getting out tamely; to trying to milk runs - and getting out tamely.
More than anything else right now, the Black Caps need friends. They will find, in time, such assets are precious.
We mean 'precious' as in valuable. Not 'precious' as in rare. What we've got is 'precious' as in let's go and hide in the hotel with the women.


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Crystal serial number:(found at the back of the tablet) ex."A NOVO7CRYSTAL121108.."
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On the back of your tablet you will see a serial number that looks like this A NOVO7CRYSTAL121008G08473 with the portion I highlighted in red being the build date.
It appears that the 120908 and 121008 dates are batch 1 and 121108 would be batch 2, and 121208 batch 3.
Update:There are two kinds of Batch 3 (121208) Crystal's, the first has a grady.wang kernel and is really just a Batch 2. The second has a chengen.tan kernel and is the real Batch 3.
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同盟 means allegiance and the tagline is 'Making waking up everyday fun!'.
You have the option of choosing between analogue and digital clocks for massive customization. You set your wake up time and if it's the same as other people's, you can form allegiances. You have to touch the spinning avatar to stop the alarm clock.
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Volume 8 (1981), Issue 1-2, Pages 21-25
Solder Paste Process of Hybrid Circuits
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Manufacturing Development Lab., Amagasaki, Japan
Copyright © 1981 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper describes the critical factors required for the solder paste process and its applications to Hybrid Circuits (Solder Paste Process). It also describes the fine solder printing of substrate pads for flip chip IC and the simultaneously thick printing of solder paste for chip capacitors and/or other parts.
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MMMM, sounds like a bloody nightmare this Aviva place. Say, if you're keen / desperate / ready for a change, my friend owns a Guest House in the Northern Suburbs and I'm sure she's love to help you out with a room etc. - but not sure of your set up / costs or who's paying for your accommodation etc. But doooo let me know if you're keen.
I guess you could say it's all part of the adventure hey! Sounds like you're having an interesting time my friend!
Oh, and I too have a pic of me standing under the SF 16690 (or whatever it was) sign at the Waterfront. Looooooong way from home you and I both are!
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there seems to be a huge lack of common sense among these young ladies and it's slowly driving me insane. our room is full so there are 14 ladies sleeping in there (on 7 sets of bunk beds that are not the sturdiest beds i've encountered in my life). you need to have some sense of common courtesy in this situation. we all have work in the morning but the volunteers for Home of Hope leave earlier than the penguin people. one girl was running in and out of the room in her flip flops at 6:15am. can't she take her shoes off? last night, i was awakened by snoring all over the room and then the light was turned on at 3:15am to see how to help the woman throwing up. are you kidding me? do you not have a flashlight? is there a reason the sicko isn't leaving the room so the rest of us can sleep?
as Laura and i had breakfast before SANCCOB today we had a few laughs about how living in the house could become a season of Survivor. who will get voted out first? we have a few candidates that come immediately to mind!
needless to say, i was really cranky when i got up at 6:30am to get ready for the penguins. i was awakened from a deep sleep that could have lasted another few hours and i would have been very happy. instead, i arrived at SANCCOB to find out i was working on penguin adoptions. that would not have been a problem since i enjoy the work but the woman running it today was ridiculously disorganized. between Laura and i, we were done with the work by 11am and spent the rest of the day looking for something, anything to do. my all time low point in the day was when we were told that we could move dead birds from one freezer to another. really? i nearly cried when two really frozen penguins fell out of the plastic bag and smashed into the bottom of the freezer. i was too tired and annoyed to see the humor in the situation which is too bad really.
i'm booking a week on the Garden Route that will have me staying in a single room with en suite bathroom. i can't wait to NOT share with the group! this entry makes it seem like i'm not having fun but really, despite all the insanity, i am enjoying it. i may need a vacation from my vacation though.
now that i have that off my chest, let's talk funny bird moments, shall we?
i restrained the white pelican for the first time on Saturday afternoon. it's easy to do if you toss a towel over his head so he can't see. he pulls his head down and you grab his beak, throw one leg over his body and use your knees to pin his wings. it's an awkward but effective position. as i was holding him, i asked if i could hold his beak shut since i had more control that way and Richard said "well he can't breathe if you do". right, sorry about that mr. pelican.... you learn something every day now don't you?
penguins have an uncanny knack for knowing where you boot ends and your skin begins. you may be wearing slickers but they have this crazy sense to know right where to peck you for the maximum effect. penguin 007 really got me on Saturday afternoon. i was walking by her and our stumpy penguin (she has no feet) reached out and bit me. my right calf will never be the same.
penguin 491 is named Houdini and he is hilarious. he makes me laugh every day. if there's a way to get out of his current location, he will find it.
we have a few penguins with foot problems. this makes it interesting to put them down after you feed them. you try to help them balance before you let them go but face plants are very common. i feel so badly when that happens but it's not intentional.
- 007 has no feet (we don't know why) but she has been seen having several successful breeding seasons at Boulders Beach.
- 001 has a hurt foot so he lists toward the left and since he's in the process of moulting, he looks uncomfortable for many reasons.
- 013 is a newer penguin who is really feisty despite having only one foot. we're not sure how he lost his left foot but the stump is longer than 007's. watching him try to balance and walk around is so fascinating. i'm amazed at how tough these birds are!
- 012 has both feet but his right foot was wrapped in fishing line to it has a fresh cut in it and he favors his left foot at the moment. he's stronger than 001 but he spends a lot of time on his belly instead of standing.
i'm very fond of a few of the penguins and i need to seriously think about who i am going to adopt. this is my next project now that i have my week away booked. who's it going to be?
Hey Tera
Sorry to hear about your trials and tribulations in the share house. Does sound very crowded. We managed very well in our small apartment in Paris!
Your stories about your penguins are a delight to read. Got your postcard with Mr Elephant - totally cute, I agree. Sally comes this weekend - v. exciting.
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Seattle U's Hannah Mittelstaedt Named Runner of the Week
Oct. 27, 2011
NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Seattle U's Hannah Mittelstaedt has been named Great West Conference Runner of the Week after her outstanding performance last week at Oregon State's Beaver Classic. The award was announced Thursday by the conference office.
Mittelstaedt finished sixth of 91 competitors at the Beaver Classic, running the fastest time of her career and claiming her second top-10 finish of the season. She shaved 10 seconds off her season best and 30 seconds off her time from the same meet last year. Mittelstaedt completed the 6K race in a time of 22:31, and it was the fourth time this season that she finished as Seattle U's top runner in an event. The sophomore from Maple Valley, Wash., led the Redhawks to a second place finish behind Portland and finishing ahead of teams such as Oregon and host Oregon State.
GWC teams will next be in action at the 2011 Great West Conference Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships on Saturday, October 29, as North Dakota hosts the event at Ray Richards Golf Course in Grand Forks, N.D.


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The Vista Coal Project, located in Alberta, Canada, will process approximately 11.2 million tonnes per year of marketable coal, up from previous guidance of 9 million tonnes per year, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
The company said the increased production rate of 11.2 million tonnes per year could be achieved through enhanced mine planning, increased clean coal yield and the optimisation of mine infrastructure.
Managing director Gene Wusaty said the increased production volumes would render Vista an important first-world alternative supplier of export thermal coal to the rapidly expanding Asian Pacific economies.
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D: I like that this movie didn't suck. I feel like all the "big" comedies as of late have been pretty disappointing, so I was sort of dreading watching this one. Luck me, I was pleasantly surprised.
I found myself laughing pretty consistently throughout this one. What I think this one did well was use all different types of comedy. There was witty, verbose wordplay, goofiness, physical comedy and it was dirty as hell, but not to the point of being disgusting.
The film follows Jason Sudekis as a drug dealer who has to smuggle a shit-ton of weed from Mexico to the US. He takes his dorky neighbor, a runaway street kid and a stripper along to pose as his family. Hilarity ensues.
Ironically, the entire drug operation is based out of Denver, basically making a film that came out a few months ago outdated due to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado. Basically the entire basis of the film was entire negated. It's such a "meta" joke. Completely unintentional but funny nonetheless.
Also, someone finally used Jennifer Aniston properly in a film. She was a main character, but wasn't asked to be the funny or quirky character who has to carry the story. She was as far from Rachel on Friends then in any of her other films and because of that she seemed to finally be able to really embody a role that didn't require callbacks to her signature one.
Sudekis is the main draw here and he delivers. When given the right kind of material, this guy is really funny. He reminds me of early 80's Bill Murray in that no matter what he says, you can't get too mad at him because there's an inherit sweetness to him. When he's a total ass to everyone it's ok, because he's just a big ol' kid.
There are some great supporting players in the film, especially Ed Helms as the drug kingpin. He owns a an orca. It's pretty awesome. (he's never seen Blackfish I bet. Neither have I) Katheryn Hahn and Nick "Ron Swanson" Offerman play a couple that end up traveling with the Miller's sporadically throughout their trip. I like that there's this pretty large group of comedic actors who seem to show up in everything, are hysterical and don't overstay their welcome. It's interesting because I think this is a very good time for comedic actors who have a pretty wide range of talent, but a very weak time for funny films. It's like the performers are there, but the material isn't.
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A new scientific study has identified why colorectal cancer cells depend on a specific nutrient, and a way to starve them of it. Over one million men and women are living with colorectal cancer in the United States. The National Cancer Institute estimates 4.5% of all men and women will be diagnosed with the cancer during their lifetime, making it the third most common non-skin cancer.
In the study published online in Nature Communications, researchers showed how certain colorectal cancer cells reprogram their metabolism using glutamine, a non-essential amino acid. Many cancer cells rely on glutamine to survive. How they become so dependent on the molecule is hotly debated in the field.
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|R. da Madalena, 1100 Lisbon, Portugal
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The peculiar charisma of this open loft room provides guests with a unique cultural experience. Warm and inviting, the room features a double bed, abundant artwork and rustic architecture. Guests are welcome to enjoy a healthy Portuguese breakfast every morning, and are also free to use the kitchen facilities.
Excellently located, the surrounding area is bursting at the seams with historical attractions and great restaurants. Lisbon Cathedral is just a 2-minute walk away, and Saint George Castle is less than a 10-minute walk away from the room.
For those wishing to explore other parts of the city, the nearest Metro Station is just a 5-minute walk away and the nearest bus stop is right outside of your door.
House rulesNo pets.
Please clean up after yourself.
Guests must be respectful of the neighbours.
Guests should be aware that the host owns a cat.
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Sofia is a warm, friendly host. She receives you in her nice, clean flat in the centre of Lissabon. Although you share this flat with her, she is very discrete and gives you all the privacy you need. The simple breakfast she serves each morning shows her hospitality. The climb to the roof of her apartment is for the brave ones amongst us, but the breathtaking view is worth the while! Thank you Sofia, we enjoyed it very much!
Katrijn and Mik
It was a very nice stay in Lisbon.... :) .....
The sun always shines at Sofia! Sofia was a fantastic host! She is a very nice, lovely and helpful person.
Sofias apartment is centrally near Alfama. It is an ideal location for visiting Lisbon and be able to go every day to discover the city. We really enjoyed our time and are very thankful for staying there...
Monika & Artur
Unforgettable stay in Lisbon and especially in Sofia! Simple and friendly welcome, Sofia is a warm and generous person. His apartment is quite the image of Lisbon! While height and colors! A beautiful view where one feels good. Tito, chat Sofia is very nice! The breakfasts we were able to walk the streets of Lisbon very full belly! Moments of sharing remain very friendly to us some of the best moments spent in Lisbon (meals, Fado and laughs). Obrigada Sofia soon. We embrace you. Chantal and Louison
Séjour inoubliable à Lisbonne et particulièrement chez Sofia! Accueil simple et conviviale, Sofia est une personne chaleureuse et généreuse. Son appartement est tout à fait à l'image de Lisbonne! Tout en hauteur et en couleurs! Une vue splendide où l'on s'y sent bien. Tito, le chat de Sofia est très gentil! Les petits déjeuners copieux nous ont permis de parcourir les rues de Lisbonne le ventre bien plein! Des moments de partage très amicaux resteront pour nous parmi les meilleurs moments passés à Lisbonne (repas, Fado et rigolades). Obrigada Sofia et à bientôt. Nous t'embrassons. Chantal et Louison
Very good stay in Sofia. Very friendly and fussing.
Tres bon sejour chez sofia. Tres sympathique et au petit soin.
But after I could not start my trip at the last second, but the room had been booked and paid for 2 days, I would have been happy about some feedback on the cancellation.
Nachdem ich meine Reise in letzter Sekunde doch nicht antreten konnte, das Zimmer aber schon für 2 Tage gebucht und bezahlt hatte, hätte ich mich über ein kurzes Feedback auf die Absage gefreut.
We had a wonderful stay at Sofia's place ! she's one of the best host we've ever met, and we look forward to coming again, soon. The flat is very beautiful and typical. We loved the paintings, sofia is very talented, Tito the cat, and the amazing view from the windows. Thank you for everything sofia and see you soon !!
We had a great time in Sofia, the apartment was perfect. Lisbon is really beautiful. Thank you again :)
Nous avons passé un très bon moment chez Sofia, l'appartement était idéalement situé. Lisbonne est vraiment magnifique.
Merci encore :)
Thx Sofia for everything. we had a great time in your beautiful appartment on a great location in Lisboa. you'r a very nice person. greatings Bas en Ivonne
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