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Poll: What will happen first?
It's time to peer into our crystal balls and predict the future. There are a number of things in the tech industry that should—or at...
Poll Question: • What will happen first?
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Poll: Where do you most want a high-DPI display?
High-DPI screens are all the rage these days. Apple deserves credit for starting the trend with the Retina display on the iPhone 4, and...
Poll Question: • I most want a high-DPI display on my:
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Poll: How will Kepler fare against the Radeon HD 7970?
If you've been paying attention to the GPU scene, you'll know that AMD's next-generation graphics architecture has already arrived in the Radeon HD 7970....
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Poll: To which new chip are you most looking forward?
One of the best—and worst—things about the PC industry is the steady trickle of new technology. There's always something better coming just around the corner,...
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Poll: What do you think of Bulldozer?
In case you haven't noticed, Bulldozer is out. Our review of the first desktop implementations of AMD's all-new microarchitecture isn't terribly positive. ...
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Poll: Gauging Bulldozer's performance prospects
If you believe the latest rumors, AMD's Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors will debut in just a few weeks. It's about time. More than...
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Poll: What's the best CPU/GPU hybrid?
After years of talk about how CPUs and GPUs are on a collision course, we finally have numerous examples of the two components sharing silicon...
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Poll: Where does Llano have the best chance against Sandy Bridge?
Earlier this week, AMD revealed that it has begun production shipments of 32-nm Llano APUs. This second wave of Fusion APUs combines integrated...
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Poll: What's the world's fastest graphics card?
As you may have heard, there's somewhat of a controversy brewing over whether AMD or Nvidia has a legitimate claim to offering the "world's fastest...
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Poll: What's the worst PC hardware bug?
Intel's 6-series chipset bug has dominated the headlines this week, and for good reason. The flaw has been traced back to a single transistor...
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Video content is available from a wide variety of sources these days. A lot of it is still broadcast over the airwaves or via...
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Poll: Are you upgrading to Sandy Bridge?
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Rumors suggest that AMD will soon refresh its Radeon HD 5000 series. Nvidia has also been hard at work extending its Fermi architecture down...
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AMD jettisons ATI brand name, makes Radeon its own
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Poll: Will Bulldozer deliver?
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Poll: Processor voltage madness
Today's processors, especially Intel chips with Turbo Boost, do a reasonably nice job of keeping power consumption down when they're idle and maximizing performance when...
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Lollapalooza 2013 Lineup Features Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age + More
The iconic Lollapalooza festival has finally announced its full 2013 lineup! The three-day event will host a massive lineup of rock acts, including Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, the Cure, Baroness, Ghost B.C. + many more.
Since Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell launched Lollapalooza in 1991, the festival has hosted millions of fans and countless legendary acts for over 20 years. Lollapalooza also made history in recent years by bringing the Chicago fest all the way down to Chile and Brazil multiple times. The 2013 edition of Lollapalooza was set to hit another international milestone by planting its stages in Israel, but unfortunately the event was cancelled earlier this year.
Along with the bands listed above, the full lineup includes rock and pop giants such as the Killers, Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, New Order, the National, Imagine Dragons + many more.
Legendary act The Cure will make their inaugural appearance at this year's Lollapalooza fest, which Lollapalooza creator Perry Farrell celebrated through a new quote. "The first time I ran into Robert Smith of The Cure was 1997 in New York City," Farrell recalls, "We were both going into the same club; and it was Halloween. I was dressed as myself and so was he. I am so happy The Cure have finally arrived at Lolla in Chicago!"
Lollapalooza will once again take over Chicago's Grant Park, delivering three days of music from Aug. 2-4. Tickets are moving fast, but single-day passes are still available through the official Lollapalooza website. Check out Lollapalooza's 2013 lineup video announcement below.
Lollapalooza 2013 Lineup Announcement

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The attributes and values list is the most interesting part of the Inspector. Each item in this list describes an attribute of the inspected object by displaying its name (the first field in each entry) and the printed representation of its value (the second field). For example, the inspection of a CLOS object yields a list of its slots and their values. The description is called an inspection .
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The object you created is inspected in the Inspector.
Figure 15.2 Examining an item in the Inspector
When inspecting instances of CLOS classes, you can choose to display only those slots which are local to the class. By default, all slots are displayed, including those inherited from superclasses of the class of the inspected object.
Because the
slot is the only slot defined locally for a
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Figure 15.3 Inspector showing local slots of a CLOS instance
As well as CLOS instances, other objects including lists and hashtables have multiple views available in the Inspector. For example, a list can be viewed as a plist, alist, cons or list if it has the appropriate structure.


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The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
The Department includes more than 300 programs, covering a wide spectrum of activities. Some highlights include:
HHS is the largest grant-making agency in the federal government, providing some 60,000 grants per year. HHS' Medicare program is the nation's largest health insuror, handling more than 900 million claims per year.
HHS works closely with state, local and tribal governments, and many HHS-funded services are provided at the local level by state, county or tribal agencies, or through private sector grantees. The Department's programs are administered by 11 HHS operating divisions. In addition to the services they deliver, the HHS programs provide for equitable treatment of beneficiaries nationwide, and they enable the collection of national health and other data.
HHS Budget, FY 2000-- $395 billion
HHS employees -- 61,654
Leadership is provided by the Office of the Secretary, and administrative support is provided by the Program Support Center, a self-supporting operating division of HHS. The Department's Headquarters is in the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C., 20201. HHS has a long history.
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I was out to dinner tonight and afterwards I stopped at borders to pick up my summer copy of 2600.
I'm a regular reader of 2600 but have only been reading it for the past 5 years or so.
Imagine my surprise when I see another periodical called Blacklisted 411 .
I had never seen it before and there was only one copy left.
I leaped over and snatched it right out from in front of someone... he then looked at me... then I snatched 2600. The guy was rather surprised... and I would be too... I was rude. I didn't say excuse me or anything... that is very unlike me. I later saw him at the checkout with 2600... Ah well... thats not why I'm posting this.
I have only dug through the first couple of pages of this periodical. They have been around for quite sometime, but this is the first time I've ever seen it or even heard of it.
I've never been in the "underground scene" and just got interested in security as a hobby.
Its since grown from a hobby to an obsession... I love it. I just have "strong ethics"... IMO.
Phrack is one I know of and read. I just haven't read over all the "outdated" zines.
How long have they been publishing this (paper copy)?
Why have I never heard of them?
In your opinion... is it better than 2600?
What other e-zines or periodicals do you regularly read?
Ah... and excuse this n00b post. Yes.. I'm still a n00b in many ways.


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I fully intended on making ricotta and writing about it for last week's Table Talk.
As sometimes happens in life, though, not everything worked out according to plan. I invested in some good whole milk, heated it up, made mozzarella (which also didn't turn out so well, but I'm not going to go into that), then heated the whey to 200 degrees and strained it, or tried to. In the end, the coffee filter I used barely let the whey flow through, and after an hour it had drained off less than half a cup.
So I gave up and, with some misgivings, dumped the leftover whey down the sink, vowing to try again.
Then I booked a last-minute train ride to New York and, in all the chaos, there was no time to make more ricotta. I put the failure out of my mind, then went home and ate a big New Year's meal with my family.
Coming back to real life is always hard after a vacation. I find that coming back to cooking for myself is even harder. There's something eating a good meal with my parents and my little brother that's just not the same as eating a good meal with my book and the cat for company. And since my roommate works in the evenings and I rarely have the energy to go anywhere but straight home after work, that's what ends up happening most weekdays.
With no one to share food with, it becomes just something to keep my stomach full, something to do while I'm reading or watching TV. I cook a whole meal and then eat the results in minutes, without really enjoying them. Sometimes while standing up.
But I've got lots of new cookware (you know you're an adult when you're overjoyed to unwrap a cast-iron pan on Christmas). I also got Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything which, as far as I can tell, is true to its name. And what's the good of having all that if I'm not using it?
Which brings me to the New Year's resolution that I actually thought up about half an hour ago when I realized I hadn't made one yet. It's got a couple of parts. The first is to stop what I'm doing and actually think about the food I'm eating. The second is to go back to the basics, learn techniques and actually follow recipes. Because even when I'm not sharing food with people, it never hurts to hone those cooking skills.
Oh, and the third part: make ricotta cheese.


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Description of 48 South Battery, Charleston, SC 29401
The historic James Macbeth House, c. 1846, and charming c. 1790 carriage house are being offered together for the first time in decades. Known as one of Charleston's finest examples of Greek Revival architecture, the exquisite South of Broad main residence embodies Southern living and hospitality at its finest. Steps from the Battery, and in walking distance to all Charleston has to offer, this residence is perfectly located. Having a stately presence on the street, one is drawn to this beautiful home and to the Greek Key etched front door. Once inside you will be entranced with the beautiful mahogany staircase which leads to the main living areas. You will be stunned by the soaring ceilings, grand proportions, heart pine floors, wonderfully wide piazza, floor to ceiling windows, marble mantles, moldings and etchings steeped in history. You can imagine the parties and life stories that took place in these rooms, as well as sitting on the piazza enjoying the southern breezes and view of the Ashley River.Fortunately, the home has been updated and beautifully maintained for modern day living. The eat in kitchen boasts the finest appliances with abundant storage, finished off with a butler's pantry and wet bar. There are a total of 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths over 6000 sq ft.The ground floor is currently being used as additional living space consisting of family room, wine cellar, laundry room, bathroom and dining area. This could easily be converted to a mother in law suite as it has its own entrance and meter.The new bluestone courtyard, complete with outdoor kitchen, with 2 grills, ice maker and firepit is a private, urban oasis perfect for entertaining.Set back on the property , with its own secret garden sits the 2300 sq ft Carriage House , c. 1790, not only exudes and abundance of charm, but allows for a ton of flexibly. As a guest house or a rental property the possibilities abound. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 4 fireplace, updated kitchen, parking and garden is an oasis all of its own.
Property Features of 48 South Battery, Charleston, SC 29401
Charleston Single
Single Family Detached
South of Broad
Peninsula Charleston Inside of Crosstown
|Elementary school: Memminger
|Middle school: Courtenay
|High school: Burke
|Fireplace in dining room
|Fireplace in family room
|Fireplace in living room
|Central air
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|Off street parking
|Block exterior
|Brick exterior
|Wood exterior
|Lot acreage is: 0.13
|Lawn sprinkler
|Subdivision: South of Broad
|Wet bar
|Cable television available
|Ceramic tile flooring
|Wood floors
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The Outhouse's Primetime TV Poll for Friday 12/7
Welcome to The Outhouse's Primetime TV Poll for 12/7/2012.
Please vote for each individual show you plan to watch. You can vote for as many shows as you intend to (eventually) see via VOD, online or live.
Tonight look for the tenth Video Game Awards (on both Spike and MTV2), the series premiere of Pretty Bad Girls (on ID), the mid-season finale of Nikita (on the CW), the season finale episodes of both Hunted (on Cinemax) and 24/7 Pacquiao/Marquez (on HBO), and, you might also wanna catch Pt.1 of Sundance's new 2-part mini-series Restless (get a GetGlue sticker for it here).
Since Fridays are so fun I decided to post a few preview videos for your (and my) enjoyment!
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You're fired, motherfucker!
sign up
no worries, i can do it
i thought best debut that came out in the thread as a suggestion could work
wanna host another seasonal tourney?
;-; okay
Would you please be a reserve player for my next game? pretty please.
You more than likely won't need to play, but in the event of inactives threatening to ruin the game, I could really use the back up.
don't forget the touney bolid
if you need me to take over it's ok, but tell me
post smaller chunks of matches from now on
i used to post 4 at a time tops, i won't tell you to do the same but 9 is overkill
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Five decisive trends are driving changes in the media environment and forcing media companies to change their thinking and operations: media abundance, audience fragmentation and polarization, product portfolio development, the eroding strength of media companies, and a overall power shift in the communications process.
Abundance is seen in the dramatic rise in media types and units of media. The growth of media supply is far exceeding the growth of consumption in both temporal and monetary terms. The average number of pages in newspapers tripled in the twentieth century; the number of over-the-air television channels quadrupled since 1960s--supplemented by an average of about fifty-six cable channels in the average home; there are four times as many magazines available as in 1970s; 1.5 million new web pages are created daily, and created and stored knowledge (as measured by information scientists) is growing at a rate of 30 percent a year. We used to think of competition among newspapers or competition among television channels, but this media abundance has created competition not only among media but also competition between media and other leisure time activities such as sports, concerts, and socializing at cafes and bars.
The abundance has created fragmentation and polarization of the audience because people are spreading their media use across more channels, books, magazines, and websites. This produces extremes of use and nonuse among available channels and titles. In television, for example, there is a tendency for individuals to focus most use on three or four channels. Increasing channel availability does not create an equal amount of increased use. For example, if twenty channels are received in a household, the average viewed is five. When fifty channels are received, the average rises to twelve, and if one hundred channels are received, the average viewed by all members of the household is only sixteen. Advertisers understand this development and have responded by spreading their expenditures and paying less for smaller audiences. The audience-use changes mean that competition is no longer institutionally and structurally defined but is being defined by the time and money audiences/consumers spend with media, and the competitive focus is now on the attention economy and the experience economy.
The difficulties faced by individual units of media have led media companies to create and operate portfolios of media products. This response occurs because declining average return per unit makes owning a single media product problematic. The portfolios are efforts to reduce risk and obtain economies of scale and scope. These portfolios can increase return if they involve efficient operations and joint cost savings.
Despite the growth of portfolios and large media companies, the strength of the companies is eroding. Today no basic media content companies are in the top one hundred companies in the United States or in the top five hundred worldwide. Moreover, the reach of media companies is declining, even though they have grown bigger. Each has less of the viewers', readers', and listeners' attention than in the past, and their difficult strategic position concerns many investors. As a result, media companies are struggling with their major investors, and all major media companies fear they may become takeover targets.
Underscoring all of this is a fundamental power shift in communications. The media space was previously controlled by media companies; today, however, consumers are gaining control of what has now become a demand rather than supply market. And media consumers are not merely content to be passive receivers any longer, many are now participating in production through the variety of forms of interactive and user generated content. This shift is apparent in the financing of contemporary initiatives in cable and satellite, TV and radio, audio and video downloading, digital television, and mobile media, which is based on a consumer payment model. Today, for every dollar spent on media worldwide by advertisers, consumers spend three. In the U.S., that ratio is 1 to 7.
Media companies worldwide are struggling to understand and adjust to wide-ranging external and internal changes that are altering modes of production, rapidly increasing competition, eroding their traditional audience and advertiser bases, altering established market dominance patterns, and changing the potential of the firms. The need for media managers to perceive, understand, and adjust to the new conditions increases daily because such changes can lead to failure of both existing and new products and, ultimately, lead to the loss of value or collapse of firms.


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Despite their shoddy track record on Iraq analysis, O'Reilly trusts only "my military analysts, people paid by Fox News" for information on Iraq
Research ››› ››› JULIE MILLICAN
Bill O'Reilly declared, "I can't base my opinion" about the Iraq war "on anything" other than "what my military analysts, people paid by Fox News, say to me." O'Reilly added that he could trust only Fox military analysts because "[t]he newspapers ... all have an agenda" and "only give you a snapshot of the war." However, Fox News' military analysts made numerous wrong predictions and false assertions in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.
During the April 14 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly declared: "I can't base my opinion" about the Iraq war "on anything" other than "what my military analysts, people paid by Fox News, say to me." O'Reilly added that he could trust only Fox military analysts because "[t]he newspapers ... all have an agenda" and "only give you a snapshot of the war." Later in the broadcast, O'Reilly reiterated his position, saying, "I have to base my analysis on what our Fox News military analysts, who I think are the best and always been the best, are saying." Further, O'Reilly described as "ridiculous" a caller's efforts to base his view of the war by "reading the Internet and the newspapers and forming a definitive opinion [based] upon what they say."
But those same analysts in whom O'Reilly expressed unwavering trust -- whether for analysis of the current situation in Iraq or a potential military strike against Iran -- made numerous assertions and predictions in the lead-up to the Iraq war that were baseless and in many cases later proved false.
Col. Oliver North
An avid supporter of the Iraq war, North is the host of Fox News' War Stories, an occasional guest host for Sean Hannity on Hannity & Colmes, and a Fox News military analyst. North is a Marine veteran, famous for his leading role in the Iran-Contra affair. He served as an embedded reporter in Iraq for Fox News with the 1st Marine Regiment.
During the run-up to the Iraq war, North repeatedly made false or misleading claims that supported Bush administration justifications for invading Iraq. For instance, during the January 9, 2003, edition of Hannity & Colmes, North stated that "there's no doubt that the Iraqi regime is hiding weapons of mass destruction," but United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix would not find them because failure to find weapons "is part of this man's chemistry." North also "predict[ed]" that "you're going to see democracy work in Baghdad very, very quickly."
North repeatedly claimed, as he did on the January 14, 2003, edition of On the Record with Greta van Susteren, that an "Iraqi resistance" comprised of "all of the parties -- the Shi'a, the Sunni, the various Kurdish factions" would "declare a free, independent provisional government in northern Iraq." According to North, the provisional government would be established on the "20th, 21st, or thereabouts" of January 2003. According to North: "It is going to be big news. It may the kind of thing that pushes Saddam over the brink" and causes him to seek reprisal against the "provisional government."
On the January 20, 2003, edition of On the Record, when the "independent provisional government" had still not been established, North revised his claim, stating that "Iraqis of nine different factions representing the full political spectrum except for the fascist Ba'ath Party" were going to "declare independence, declare a free and independent ... provisional government ... in the next 30 days." North suggested that this provisional government would attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein and it would be America's responsibility "to help them take their country back." Of course, no such "independent provisional government" materialized before the U.S. invasion.
Additionally, on the February 7, 2003, edition of Hannity & Colmes, North declared that despite France's refusal to endorse the U.S.-sponsored U.N. Security Council resolution allowing the use of force against Iraq, "what's undoubtedly going to happen is that the French ... are going to come aboard at the last moment." During the same show, North also predicted that since "the regime in Baghdad is so inherently evil ... it's more than likely that Saddam's own people ... are going to take him out." North also claimed he would "be the most astounded person on the planet Earth if day three after this whole thing Saddam Hussein is still alive."
McInerney is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and founder the consulting firm Government Reform through Technology who has served as a Fox News military analyst since before the Iraq war. McInerney also served as CEO and other executive positions for defense contractor Loral Defense Systems-Eagan.
Prior to the Iraq war, McInerney also made a series of predictions regarding the impending invasion that later proved false . On the December 20, 2002, edition of On the Record, McInerney predicted that, should U.S. forces invade, "I think he's [Saddam] going to use chemical weapons and biological" weapons on the Iraqi people because "he wants the collateral damage on his own people." During the January 3, 2003, edition of On the Record, McInerney declared that "in the final analysis, France and Russia roll in" to assist in the Iraq war "even if it's outside the U.N." He concluded: "There's no question if it's inside the U.N., they'll be there."
McInerney also asserted during the same episode that invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam would actually improve public opinion of America in the Arab world, and predicted that the "jubilation in Mosul, Basra, and Baghdad" after the invasion "will silen[ce] the Arab street." According to McInerney: "There has not been a family in Iraq who has not been hurt by that man [Saddam], and so, once that is opened up, once those weapons of mass destruction that are exposed over there, once all this evil that this man has done, they're going to go dead quiet, as will the critics in the United States." Further, McInerney claimed on the February 3, 2003, edition of On the Record that the Iraq war would last "at the most one month," but it would "probably [be] a two-week campaign" -- a prediction shared by another Fox News military analyst, Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, who claimed on the January 2, 2003, edition of On the Record that "it's going to be a very quick campaign, within 30 days."
Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales Jr.
Scales is a retired major general, having served longer than 30 years in the U.S. Army. Scales served as president and CEO of Walden University in 2000 and as president of Capstar Government Services. He is a military analyst for Fox News and National Public Radio.
As with most other Fox News military analysts, Scales supported the invasion of Iraq and made several assertions prior to the war that later proved to be false. For instance on the February 3, 2003, edition of On the Record, Scales claimed that since "this operation is going to go so quickly," and would "be over so fast," the U.S. military wouldn't have to worry about "suicide attack[s] or even a conventional defense, for that matter." Additionally, Scales asserted that "[o]nce the campaign starts," it would last "weeks, certainly not months," and "[t]he only thing that would cause the campaign to last any length of time are the distances that are involved" between Iraqi cities.
Maginnis is a retired lieutenant colonel who has served as the Pentagon's inspector general and as an adviser to the Defense Department Military Working Group, set up in 1993 by the Department of Defense to address the issue of gays in the miliary. Additionally, Maginnis served as a policy adviser for the conservative Family Research Council. Maginnis has been a Fox News military analyst since at least 2002, during which time he reportedly was a member of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's Military Analyst Group.
In the months leading to the Iraq war, Maginnis frequently appeared on Fox News and made various misleading and baseless claims. For example, Maginnis suggested on December 19, 2002, that chemical warfare was going to be a large component of the war and claimed that the Iraqi military was "going to have ... almost booby-trapped use of some chemicals in some built-up areas where civilians are going to be casualties." Maginnis repeated this assertion -- that Iraqi leaders were booby-trapping residential areas with chemical or biological weapons -- on the January 15, 2003, edition of On the Record, stating: "[N]ot only [do] they develop them, they hide them. ... They know exactly where these things are. ... [T]hey are in residential areas, and they probably have some of the things that we've heard about," such as "smallpox material that's been weaponized." On the January 30, 2003, edition of On the Record, Maginnis responded to a Gallup poll indicating that a majority of Americans said "they expected thousands of deaths" from the war, claiming that while "we can't dismiss" the possibility that thousands of deaths would occur, "the reality is that we're not going to see that." On February 3, 2003, he suggested that the reason U.N. weapons inspections turned up empty was "because some of the information somehow got out to the wrong people, and they were able to sanitize the site before the inspectors arrived," perhaps because Iraqis "infiltrated" the inspection teams.
Hunt, according to his Fox News biography, "has over 29 years of military experience including extensive operational experience in Special Operations, Counter Terrorism and Intelligence Operations," where he worked in national intelligence and national security fields.
Hunt, whom O'Reilly has described as "the feistiest guy we have" [The O'Reilly Factor, 3/27/03], repeatedly attempted to link Saddam to terrorism, predicted that the U.N.'s refusal to support U.S. military action in Iraq signaled "the end of the United Nations" [The O'Reilly Factor, 3/7/03], and suggested that Saddam would "torch[] his country in facing the United Nations inspectors" [The Big Story with John Gibson 12/19/02]. Hunt added that the Pentagon's mere assertion of that possibility "is all we need" to invade Iraq. Additionally, Hunt leveled harsh attacks against mainstream newspapers, which he said did not portray a sufficiently positive picture of the initial fighting. On the March 27, 2003, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Hunt called the reporting by The New York Times and others "treacherous, one step below traitorous ... [b]ecause what they're distorting, heroic action on the part of men and women of the services, to back up their own very stilted point of view." Further, Hunt mocked retired Gen. Wesley Clark's apparent suggestion on CNN that the troops lacked sufficient armored vehicles, a claim that was later proved to be accurate, stating: "Excuse me. There aren't enough armored vehicles? Wah, wah, wah."
From the April 14 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: No, listen. And, and that's the way it is, not only in the military, as you know, [caller], but in any company. If you go into the CEO's office and say, "Hey, look, you're an incompetent boob," the guy's gonna move you out. You're gonna get in trouble.
But there are a bunch of retired generals -- Tommy Franks among them -- who say the opposite of these generals. Now, to be fair, I don't know. I, again, just as I said, I have to go on what my military analysts, people paid by Fox News say to me. That's what -- I can't base my opinion on anything else. I'm trying to get across to [a previous caller] -- [the previous caller is] reading the Internet and the newspapers and forming a definitive opinion based upon what they say. That's ridiculous.
All right. The newspapers, number one, all have an agenda, and number two, they can only give you a snapshot of the war. Only a snapshot.
But you're right, there is, there is a parallel between Iraq and Vietnam. And there is a parallel there, but Iraq is so much more important than Vietnam was. Oh my God. Although it didn't feel so at the time, but if you look back in history, this is just vital, vital. Which is why I'm giving the administration, cutting them a little slack.
O'REILLY: Now, subsequently, two full years, the United States made mistake after mistake. Now, some of those mistakes were political, all right? Some of them were putting people in positions of authority; you didn't know what they were doing. But they didn't, we didn't get anywhere, anywhere at all. For two years, two full years. We made no progress in Iraq toward pacifying the country.
All right. Now that's on Rumsfeld and Bush. It's on both of them. Screw up huge. But in the last year, things have started to change according to all of our military sources. Even the guys who think that this whole thing is crazy, like Colonel Hunt. Even those guys say it's getting better. They reorganized; the Iraqis are getting trained at a much faster clip; the Army is OK now, where it was a disaster before. They got some generals in charge, and things are looking up, OK? Things are getting better.
Al Qaeda's been hurt; the Sunnis are on the run, even though they're bombing still. It's not nearly as intense as it was. So I believe those reports. I could be wrong. I have to base my analysis on what our Fox News military analysts, who I think are the best and always been the best, are saying. And they're saying things are getting better.
From the February 7, 2003, edition of Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: Meanwhile, Hans Blix says Iraq is showing some effort to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors. Is Saddam up to his old tricks again? Joining us from Washington is the host of the great TV show, War Stories, Fox News military analyst, our good friend, Colonel North.
Colonel, as you see here, this is a defining moment for the United Nations. Both you and I are on record. They're anti-Semitic, they're anti-American. This may be one of the great side benefits of this whole thing is that they render themselves impotent.
NORTH: Well, on top of that, your answer to your first question was, is Saddam up to his old tricks again? And the short answer is: yes. The good news is that within a matter of days we will have in position sufficient force with or without the French, with or without anyone except the British. We can easily deal with the situation on the ground in Iraq.
And what's undoubtedly going to happen is that the French, who have been doing everything they can to delay and delay and delay the inevitable, are going to come aboard at the last moment.
NORTH: Well what you are also hearing nowadays, of course, is that the United States shouldn't be doing this. You are hearing that from the Susan Sarandon left here in this country. You are hearing it from the French, you're hearing it from the Germans, all for different reasons.
The reality of it is that this the regime in Baghdad is so inherently evil that it's more than likely, according to some that I have talked to, that Saddam Hussein isn't going to pull a Noriega, as some are now saying. Gosh, look how long it took us to get Noriega out of the Vatican consulate down in Panama. The fact is, it's more than likely that Saddam's own people, as we're closing in on him, are going to take him out.
NORTH: Let me try a name. [Inaudible], remember how he went? Didn't take an American bullet. He was taken out by he his own people. And I will tell you, Sean, I will be the most astounded person on the planet Earth if day three after this whole thing Saddam Hussein is still alive. I think he's going to die at the hands of his own people.
From the January 20, 2003, edition of On the Record:
NORTH: Well, it just strikes me, [Dr.] Jim [Jennings], and it's good to see you again, Jim, I'm glad that I could have served the U.S. Marines that defended your right to protest and some died face down in the mud defending it.
I just challenge your thinking on this thing, Jim, as to what you would do having been to Baghdad, having seen that setup over there, what you're going to do and what the movement is going to do when at the end of this month, Iraqis, not Americans, but Iraqis of nine different factions representing the full political spectrum except for the fascist Ba'ath Party, declare independence, declare a free and independent provincial government -- or provisional government, what are you going to do when they decide that they want their country back? Are you going to stand aside and say, we have no right to help them take their country back?
JENNINGS: Well, I think that whether the Iraqis change their regime or not is the decision the Iraqis should make.
NORTH: But if they ask for our help, if this provisional government, which is likely to come about here in the next 30 days, if this provisional government, without instigation by the United States -- in fact, I'm told that our State Department has done everything possible --
From the January 14, 2003, edition of On the Record:
NORTH: Well, look, I mean, this guy's survived 31 coup attempts thus far. And there's no doubt that there are people are plotting that right as you and I are speaking now, sitting in Baghdad somewhere or somewhere else in Iraq, planning that very thing. What I think is a distinct possibility -- the 19th, the leaders of the Iraqi resistance are going to go into Iraq. They are going to sign, they say -- as of Friday, they've got 65 signatories to their declaration of independence, if you will. They expect that all of the parties -- the Shi'a the Sunni, the various Kurdish factions -- will all sign and they will declare a free, independent provisional government in northern Iraq.
VAN SUSTEREN: In the Kurdish area.
VAN SUSTEREN: And they -- OK, and there were many thousands who were killed back in 1995. Why would they do that again, unless they have some U.S. assurance that they will get back-up this time?
NORTH: I'm told, Greta, that they've gotten those assurances out of the Pentagon, that there's resistance at the State Department right now to proceeding this way, but my expectation is, Greta, we're going to see a provisional government announced probably on the 20th, 21st or thereabouts inside Iraq. It is going to be big news. It may be the kind of thing that pushes Saddam over the brink, and he reacts like he did in '95. On the other hand, there are many who believe that Saddam Hussein will simply sit back and say, So what? Now what are you going to do? And at that point, they've got to launch military operations against him.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, so that's -- that's January 20, or about that time. And we're hearing about all these deployments and that the military -- the U.S. military will be ready mid-February. If, indeed, this happens, the trigger is pulled January 20, now what?
NORTH: The units that I have seen that are now going, and some of which are already over there, about a third of the troop strength is now on the ground. We've just committed another carrier. Carl Vinson just left last Friday out of Bremerton. What we're about to see is a major deployment offshore in both the Mediterranean and in the Persian Gulf, southwest Asia, Arabian Sea area, and the Indian Ocean. You're going to see a lot of capability to keep them there for a protracted period of time. The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday announced every single person on active duty in the United States Marine Corps remains on active duty for at least a year.
VAN SUSTEREN: So we -- we could this time -- if they do do that and if the trigger gets pulled, so to speak, January 20, we can give them the cover that they need, these people who would be rebellious and us?
NORTH: There are special operations troops on the ground right now, able to do so, and in the area. There are Marine capabilities out there. Very soon, there'll be Army capabilities with light infantry and with units like the 101st.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, we'll have to -- January 20, we'll all be watching.
From the January 9, 2003, edition of Hannity & Colmes:
NORTH: Well, Alan, there's no doubt that the Iraqi regime is hiding weapons of mass destruction and the evidence that would lead the inspectors to conclude that.
One must ask themselves how sincere Inspector Clouseau is -- I mean Hans Blix is -- about actually trying to find this stuff.
You may well know, and perhaps others need to know this as well that the military organizations like the Special Republican Guard, which is headed by Saddam Hussein's son, Qusay, the heir apparent to the throne. The Special Republican Guard isn't even on the list that Hans Blix has to go look for things, because it's a, quote, "military unit."
COLMES: What is Saddam --
NORTH: Wait, wait, this is important now. If you're not going to look in the military units that are most likely to have the weapons -- and there appears to be several hundred of them missing from the inventory that was left off in 1998, then you're never going to find them, as Ari Fleischer said.
COLMES: Well, apparently the United States is now just starting to share more intelligence with the inspections teams. They've held back on sharing some of that intelligence information up until now. Are you accusing Hans Blix --
NORTH: For good reason.
COLMES: But are you accusing Hans Blix of purposely not wanting to find anything? Is he purposely not doing his job?
NORTH: I don't think it's purposely. I think this is part of this man's chemistry.
Can you name one weapon that Hans Blix has ever found? This is the guy who gave a clean bill of health to the North Koreans back in 1994. This is the guy who's been supposedly in charge of looking for war crimes and weapons of mass destruction all over the world. His entire 74 years of diplomacy, has never found any.
HANNITY: Do you think that -- you're involved with the people, this exiled government that's going to come out tomorrow for Iraq. Do you believe they're the people that will help democratization, if you will, in Iraq?
You know, people have been asking, what's going to happen after we topple Saddam? Because I believe it's inevitable, and probably within a month.
NORTH: I don't have the gift of prophecy, but I would predict to you, that you're going to see democracy work in Baghdad very, very quickly.
They have a remarkably well-educated population, it's very urbanized and it's very secular. There are a lot of expatriates who are going to return to help that country and they've got the resources.
Unlike Afghanistan, which relies on a lot of international aid, this is a country that has the resources in the oil, because it's the second-largest, you know, puddle of oil in the world.
And so what you're going to see is a country where democracy works. Then the real challenge -- and I'll give this to Alan, because he keeps asking that question and many on the left do, with good reason. What then?
Because the real challenge after democracy works in Baghdad is what happens in Riyadh [Saudi Arabia] and Damascus [Syria].
COLMES: That we're somehow less interested in our well-being of defense. I resent it. You're absolutely wrong.
And furthermore, what Bill Clinton talked about in 1998, was pinpoint attacks. He was not talking about an all-out war, which is what Bush is talking about. Stop misrepresenting what Bill Clinton did and what the left stands for.
NORTH: Alan Colmes, those weren't pinpoint attacks, they were pinprick attacks.
COLMES: He wasn't talking about an all-out war like this president is.
NORTH: It was a waste -- it was a waste of 75 perfectly good Cruise missiles that were dumped on all over the place and did absolutely nothing --
COLMES: And whenever Bill Clinton talked about doing anything --
NORTH: -- to stop Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction.
COLMES: ... you said he's just diverting attention from Monica Lewinsky. Every time he tried to respond, every time he did something, you guys accused him of doing it as a diversion and not doing it as a reaction to what's going on in the world.
NORTH: Alan, it wasn't my zipper that was down, it was Bill Clinton's zipper that was down that caused and created the diversion.
COLMES: That has nothing to do with defending our country. You diverted our attention for years because of that. That's all you wanted to talk about. And when Bill Clinton tried to respond to terrorism, you attacked him for wagging the dog. That's hypocrisy.
NORTH: He cranked that finger at us, the same one he used to tell us that he hadn't had sex with that woman --
COLMES: You can't stop bringing it up.
NORTH: -- and he warned everybody six times about people like --
COLMES: Get over it, Ollie. It's over!
NORTH: Six times, he wagged his finger at us and said that the people who blew up the World Trade Center and killed Americans were going to be punished for it. It ended up taking George W. Bush and, of course, 3,022 dead at the World Trade Center and here in Washington --
COLMES: Blame that on Bill Clinton.
NORTH: -- to make it out. Yes, I do.
From the January 3, 2003, edition of On the Record:
McINERNEY: Yes, I think they will. And I think that they will because they want to be involved with the reconstruction of Iraq and the future of what that holds for that region and the wealth that can be created through a democratic, secular Iraq. And so I think that's why you'll even see, in the final analysis, France and Russia roll in, even if it's outside the U.N. There's no question if it's inside the U.N., they'll be there.
JOHN LEHMAN (former secretary of the Navy): Well, this is, of course, a historic way of affecting morale on the home front, and it has had largely a very useful record in World War II and in Vietnam, we used to call them the "bull bombers." And it does have an effect. And the way we measure it is through our normal intelligence analysis and gathering in the region. And all -- from what I have heard, the indications are there's very widespread support among the people for getting rid of Saddam, and they fully expect that there's going to be military action.
And I think that they -- the critics who say this is going to turn the, quote, "Arab street" against us are really totally wrong. I don't think there's going to be any targeting of civilians. I think there's going to be huge effort to limit collateral casualties and that Saddam and the regime are clearly the target here, not the Arab people or -- or Islam. So I think that the net result in Arab opinion around the world after we get rid of Saddam will be a net increase in -- in approval of American action.
VAN SUSTEREN: You know, Mr. Secretary, I hope you're right.
But, General, let me ask you this, is that even as -- even today in Pakistan, burning President Bush in effigy. Across Pakistan people were demonstrating against the United States, not Iraq, but, nonetheless, related to our pending action against Iraq. What -- you know, what's this going to do for us?
McINERNY: Well, really, the secretary is right. I think John got it right on. There will be and there are problems in Pakistan. We fundamentally have got to understand [Pakistani President General Pervez] Musharraf has a challenge in Pakistan which needs to be dealt with separately. We need to help him.
But, clearly, when the jubilation -- and I spent five hours with an opposition general officer yesterday. When the jubilation in Mosul, Basrah, and Baghdad is seen in the Arab street just like when it was in Kabul [Afghanistan], that will silent the Arab street.
VAN SUSTEREN: What if it doesn't? I mean, I'm --
McINERNY: Well --
VAN SUSTEREN: -- I'm hopeful you're right, but what if it doesn't?
McINERNY: Let me tell you, it will. And here's why it will. Because all those reporters that are going to be over there and go in and start talking to the people -- and they can talk honestly to the life they led under Saddam Hussein.
There has not been a family in Iraq who has not been hurt by that man, and so, once that is opened up, once those weapons of mass destruction that are exposed over there, once all this evil that this man has done, they're going to go dead quiet, as will the critics in the United States.
From the December 30, 2002, edition of On the Record:
McINERNEY: Well, I think he's going to use chemical weapons and biological, and that's why the campaign that I would conduct or others would conduct, I believe, will -- and he wants the collateral damage on his own people, so if you conduct a campaign that bypasses cities, that does not put you where his people are.
And that's the other reason why Bret Baier and other of our [Fox News] anchor people are going out there, Greta, because the government wants our reporters, our TV people, sitting there and filming directly, any of this chemical or biological warfare, or, as soon as we discover their weapons of mass destruction, so we can beam this to the world. Now we can conduct a campaign in which we avoid most of those cities.
Now, as far as Colonel Maginnis's comment, he's talking about the worst-case option. I think you're going to find that there will not be a major battle in Baghdad.
From the February 3, 2003, edition of On the Record:
VAN SUSTEREN: In five seconds, General McInerney, give me your hypothetical. What date does the first bomb drop?
McINERNY: Well, somewhere between the first and 15th of March, and it's two weeks to at the most one month, probably a two-week campaign.
VAN SUSTEREN: General Scales, to you. A senior Iraqi official is quoted as saying that there will be suicide attacks carried out on Americans in Iraq in the event that we attack Iraq. Your thoughts on that.
SCALES : Well, I -- you know, the -- this operation is going to go so quickly, and it's going to be over so fast, because of our ability to approach Baghdad from so many different directions and in so many different dimensions, that it just seems to me that this thing will be over long before the Iraqi military has time either to organize a suicide attack or even a conventional defense, for that matter.
VAN SUSTEREN: General McInerney, do you agree? You're not worried about these sort of futile words from a weak enemy?
McINERNY: Well, remember, it was going be the great battle for Baghdad, and I agree with what General Scales said. It's going to be fast. There will be onesies and twosies, but it will have no impact on the length of the war or the overall warfare.
VAN SUSTEREN: Why are you so confident about that?
McINERNY: Well, because we have the most awesome capability in the history of mankind against an adversary that is at best 30 percent what he was last time and it took us four days last time. It's going to be longer than four days
SCALES: It's -- it's hard to say. I would say that, as the president said, within weeks, this thing will go down, as soon as the forces are in place, and the forces are moving very quickly in the region, will be in place soon.
Once the campaign starts, weeks, certainly not months. The only thing that would cause the campaign to last any length of time are the distances that are involved.
Remember, if you approach Baghdad from three different directions, from the South in Kuwait, West in Jordan, from the North in Turkey, the route to Baghdad is 200, 200, and 300 miles, respectively. So there are large distances involved, much longer distances than we saw in the first Gulf War, and it takes a while to get there.
And the other -- of course, the key factor that everyone is concerned about is what if there is a last stand by the Republican Guard on the streets of Baghdad? How long will that take to culminate that campaign?
From the January 2, 2003, edition of On the Record:
VALLELY: These people that have just been there that have defected within the last six months, the psychological operations program that is going on now with Commando Solo, the broadcasting, the leaflets, the feedback I got today is very positive so far. So you're going to have a number of the Special Security Organization, 8,000 to 10,000, however many is there, the Special Republican Guard -- he's got some dedicated people that are there going to -- there -- and they're going to guard him.
But the information just over the last 10 years and as recently as today, the war of liberation will work. It's going to be done very skillfully by the coalition partners, and it's going to be a very quick campaign within 30 days.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Well, I - I --
VALLELY: And Saddam Hussein will probably try to escape to Libya.
From the February 3, 2003, edition of On the Record:
VAN SUSTEREN: What -- what do you mean fairly compelling? I mean, that -- I mean, here's the thing that strikes me, is that if this -- if there's this so-called fairly compelling information, why didn't we hand it over to the inspectors in December so that they could go out and find the stuff so at least we could convince the allies? It would be a lot better if we're going with people.
MAGINNIS: Well, Greta, we have given some to the inspectors, and, unfortunately, some of it didn't get quite accomplished as we would like to have had it done. What we don't want to happen --
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, why not?
MAGINNIS: Well, because some of the information somehow got out to the wrong people and they were able to sanitize the site before the inspectors arrived.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, wait a second. Back up. You think the inspectors -- that they're infiltrated by the Iraqis, that they're getting the information, or --
MAGINNIS: Well, whether they infiltrated or they got it through some sort of cyberlink or whatever, the information was compromised, and that's the sort of thing we have to preclude if we can.
Unfortunately, we're dealing with people that are fairly sophisticated at doing precisely this anti-inspector sort of routine. Qsay Hussein has been doing this for years. So they've been taking it out the back door as we arrive in the front door.
And the reality is that we don't want to compromise to the Chinese, the Russians, and other people who may use the information, the necessary information that we could provide, I think, a far more compelling case of signal intelligence, satellite intelligence, and other types of information.
We compromise that, and, as soon as we compromise it, it's not going to be able to be used against Saddam because he learns very quickly.
From the January 30, 2003, edition of On the Record:
Bob, our war planners -- are they doing what we may think is sort of the unthinkable, making estimates now as to what they expect the casualty loss will be if we go to war?
MAGINNIS: Well you absolutely have to. [Inaudible] stations have to stockpile coffins, they have to have enough body bags, they have to have enough medical equipment to treat the wounded, try to, you know, make sure we minimize the number of deaths. So, certainly, they put together those numbers.
You know, the -- there's a political calculation the administration has to consider. You know, how much pain is the country willing to take? You know, a recent Gallup poll indicated that, you know, a large part of this country -- I think it was 57, 58 percent -- said that, you know, they expected thousands of deaths.
Well, you know, I think the reality is that we're not going to see that. But we can't dismiss that outright.
From the January 15, 2003, edition of On the Record:
VAN SUSTEREN: But we can just do so much. If he uses -- if he uses civilians as human shields, if they -- if he has hidden -- suppose he's hidden anthrax and smallpox in the basement of civilians, I mean, and he's got mosques and hospitals.
I mean, in some ways, he's almost -- he's had four years to almost booby-trap -- I guess that's not the right word -- but make it a very difficult war for us, if we play by the rules, and we will.
MAGINNIS: Yes. Qusay Hussein, who is running the SSO, which is, you know, the special organization that's really secretive that is doing all of this, not only they develop them, they hide them, and they're going to prevent the UNMOVIC [United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] people from finding them. They know exactly where these things are.
Yes, they are in residential areas, and they probably have some of the things that we've heard about -- some of the smallpox material that's been weaponized in a place that he will never reveal until his -- after his death and somebody happens to say, oh, I just found this.
From the December 19, 2002, edition of On the Record:
VAN SUSTEREN: We've looked at his strategy. How do we switch gears to prevent him from doing massive damage to our own troops, biological, chemical weapons, the Scud missiles into Israel and Saudi Arabia, but more -- and also, of course, to his civilian population?
MAGINNIS: Well, short of a coup and the removal of that Revolutionary Council, right up front, that's going to be difficult because they're going to have these things that are pre-charged as a general outline on bridges. They're going to have dams that are pre-charged to flood the plains. They're going to have, you know, almost booby-trapped use of some chemicals in some built-up areas where civilians are going to be casualties.
From the March 27, 2003, edition of The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: In the "Impact" segment tonight, I'm doing my analysis of the war. I rely on the Fox News military analysts, as you just heard two of them, and our guys in field, who really have been excellent.
So when I read the newspapers and see the exact opposite of what we are reporting, I get a little anxious, and then I find out the newspaper is distorting stuff, I get angry. With us now is one of our go-to guys on the war, Colonel David Hunt.
Since you are our feistiest, you know, I mean, I'm sitting there, and I know the military doesn't read The New York Times and make policy about it. But between the newspapers, the L.A. Times and The New York Times, you're reaching five million people, a lot of those people are going to believe this stuff? You know?
And If I'm a military commander and after eight days I've got 14 KIAs [troops killed] in combat, that all, I mean, that's a magnificent performance. And these guys, fierce fighting, all of this, how do you read it?
HUNT: Well, first of all, the guys on the ground aren't reading this. I mean, there's nobody in the lead tank in the Third Brigade -- Third Infantry Division -- on the great Marines on the soft guys out in the west killing scuds that see The New York Times. That's a good thing.
I read it as treacherous, one step below traitorous, in that they know better. These are very intelligent men writing this. And they're lazy. It's Journalism 101. You know better than I do about that. They get an "F". They didn't even bother to check.
And when you break it down, the deaths as we just have, how after all the 300,000 deployments that the distance we have moved, the people we have had to fight, look, the only -- the first hospital we opened up in the field -- Marines opened up -- the first person we operated on was an Iraqi soldier. I mean, this -- this is the most unbelievable operation we have ever seen.
HUNT: Because what they're distorting, heroic action on the part of men and women of the services, to back up their own very stilted point of view. That's treacherous. I mean, here we have a phenomenal fight going on. Phenomenal. Moving 300 miles. We had units moving through that sandstorm. And then to turn around the next day and they say, well, they had this fight. None of our guys were killed. It was like -- rather than say, Marines heroically move forward, they say they're in some kind of horrendous battle, and that's the headlines.
O'REILLY: The other thing it does is that The New York Times service goes all over the world. All right? It goes to all of these things, and they're making these Iraqi fighters out to be heroes. The fierce resistance, the Fedayeen, when they're thugs. I mean, they're thugs. The only way they kill our guys, all right, again was faking a surrender.
HUNT: You can only get away with it once. You haven't noticed it happen again. They got lucky the first time. Again, we have been fighting this with restraint. Humanity. We captured entire divisions. You can let them go home. We operated -- the first guy who was operated on in the field is an enemy soldier.
O'REILLY: Right.
HUNT: Unheard-of. The first thing we do is we give candy to the kids. We brought humanitarian aid in before fuel. We've done everything we can to make this war a liberation, and we have some people treacherously lying in press. It's -- it's almost treasonous. It's one step below treason, as far as I'm concerned.
O'REILLY: Well, here's a country, because it gives a perception that, number one, our war machine isn't effective. I mean, you know, this Iraqi resistance was -- is, you know, keeping us from accomplishing our goal, which isn't true. What's keeping us from accomplishing our goal is that we don't want to hurt any civilians.
HUNT: We're restraining ourselves. Let me add something to this. We have some retired four-star generals on other networks that are carping, and that's not helping.
O'REILLY: Well, Wesley Clark from CNN --
HUNT: He's running for president.
O'REILLY: Well, he's going to lose. But maybe he has a point. I want you to address this. He says there aren't enough armored vehicles in the theater.
HUNT: No. Excuse me. There aren't enough armored vehicles? They're outside of Baghdad. What do you mean? If that's -- you see the guys are doing -- you're not fighting the war the way I fought it. Wah, wah, wah. You're not fighting the way -- hey, Wes. Let me run it down for you. Eighty percent of the Yugoslav army drove away after you bombed them in Kosovo and all the other ones -- again it's terrible for them to do that -- back fighting their own brothers in arms while they are in combat. After combat, let's have a discussion. While they're there, shut up.
O'REILLY: Shut up. All right. Colonel, the feistiest guy we have. Thanks. I think everybody got the message, and we appreciate it.
From the March 7, 2003, edition of The O'Reilly Factor featuring guest host Cal Thomas:
THOMAS: [Then-White House press secretary] Ari Fleischer said today, and we only have about 30 seconds, Colonel, we really don't need, ultimately, the Germans and French and some of these others. We've got enough coalition forces, friends who support us to go ahead and do this anyway.
Should we in fact go ahead and do it anyway, even if the U.N. doesn't come along?
HUNT: Sure. I think there's two things that are going to happen. We're going to find out not going to war with the French is like bear hunting in Maine without a piano. It doesn't matter, one.
Two, I think that's going to be the end of the United Nations as it was, as you know back in the 1930s, with Italy. But, yes, I think we can.
THOMAS: Thanks very much for joining us. Appreciate it as always.
From the February 1, 2003, edition of On the Record:
VAN SUSTEREN: Shep, we'll all be watching. Thank you.
Let's bring back retired Marine Colonel John Garrett, retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash, and retired Army Colonel David Hunt.
Colonel Hunt, [Fox News host] Shep [Smith] just mentions this issue of pause that's been all over the media. Explain to me -- I -- let me explain my thought first. What's wrong with pausing even if they were pausing to sort of catch their breath and let the supply catch up and sort of get reorganized? I mean what's the big deal about that anyway?
HUNT: Nothing. And you can't -- the reason that it was crap coming out of people's mouths is that the people want to criticize this plan, this war. People who fought in the last war and should know better and shut up thought they had an issue by saying we've gone too far, and the supplies weren't catching up.
You just heard Ollie North and his Army units. There's nothing -- the supply train is always long. You always -- it's always a case where you want more fuel for your tanks and more water for your guys and more bullets so that somebody decided -- it got to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, pause means problem. Wrong.
Instead, they had to -- you have to refuel. A guy's got to get some sleep. They were seven or eight days without sleep. There's nothing wrong.
From the January 27, 2003, edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
HUNT: Well, the fear is that we lose any soldiers on coalition side. I also think the fear - my other fear would be we don't complete it as we didn't do 11 years ago.
NEIL CAVUTO (host): What do you mean?
HUNT: Well, I think 11 years ago when [inaudible] went -- once we kicked him out of Kuwait we should have done pivot steers with tanks in Baghdad and we wouldn't have this problem. We've got to be willing to complete the task. These are great airmen, sailors and marines. In the coalition, we've got Australia in there now. We've got - and the French will probably be in later, that deserve to get this job done right. So my fear would be that anybody gets killed on our side, and that we don't finish this guy off when we get to do it.
CAVUTO: Colonel, there does seem to be some argument back and forth, do we need U.N.? Do we need Germany and France and China and Russia to go along? What do you think if we ultimately do go, primarily on our own, obviously with help from England and Australia and a smattering of other countries, but without those big guns, does that make a difference?
HUNT: Well, I think from that -- I think we start from 9-11, then we've got the moral impetus, and clearly the ability to take care of whatever Saddam Hussein has on the ground. His military is not as good as it was 11 years ago. Any war is dangerous, but from a military standpoint this should not be difficult. I think what the French - the British are giving us some 30,000 great guys, the Australians are on board. I think the French are getting ready to give 12,000 plus a couple of ships even though they're talking like they won't. I think now that we've got Turkey in the north, it should not be difficult. But I think on the question of Hussein, this 6,500 chemical weapons that are missing, anthrax and VX is serious stuff. And what your guest is talking about is Ansar al-Islam, is the terrorist group in Kurdistan that is linked to the incident in England.
From the December 19, 2002, edition of Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson:
JOHN GIBSON (host): More on Iraq.
Pentagon intelligence says Saddam Hussein is liable to do just about anything if he's backed into a corner, and he could torch his country's infrastructure and then try to blame it on the Americans to get worldwide sympathy. He could also unleash chemical and biological weapons on our troops and whoever else is in the area. So what is the best offense against a scorched-earth defense?
Retired colonel and Fox military analyst David Hunt joins us from Boston. Now, first of all, just this calculation that Saddam Hussein would inflict a scorched-earth policy on his own country, is that a reasonable assumption on his part based on what he did in Kuwait?
HUNT: Sure. I mean, he proved that he did it-- he proved that he can do it. He's willing to do it.
Just the fact -- can you imagine a leader of any nation saying things -- by the way, people that worship me, if things get bad, I'm going to torch you.
I mean, it's incredible that, in this day and age, we've got people leading countries that can actually say that type of a thing, and the way to prevent it is scorch him first.
GIBSON: Well, OK. Let's move on that. If the Pentagon believes he might do such a thing, how do you get there ahead of him?
HUNT: One thing which we've started to do is to tell the leadership of his military, his intelligence community, oh, by the way, they -- you know, crimes against humanity, we're going to come after you with, after we finish taking care of your boss. You tell people that's wrong, one.
Two, you're -- you target their ability to do this, and, if they so much as blink at doing something like this, we would have to do a preemptive strike, and it would, obviously, be from the air. It would, obviously, probably have to do with some kind of special-operations mission.
But we would -- you have to move very quickly, and we have the forces right there in theater in Kuwait with the Third Infantry Division -- we've got them in Turkey -- we've got them all over the place -- that we could move in in advance to stop something this horrific, like he did in Kuwait, and, this time, he's talking about torching his own country.
GIBSON: Well --
HUNT: It's amazing.
GIBSON: Well, what actually -- what do we think he is planning to do? I mean, what are we talking about when we say scorched-earth on his own country?
HUNT: Yes. Well, he blows up his infrastructure. He destroys hospitals. He does -- if the article's correct, he wants to do things that he can blame us for. So that would mean killing innocent noncombatants, innocent people -- men, women, and children -- not soldiers. It's horrific to think about.
And what you do -- what he'd do is you -- he could preset explosives. He could use his own air force. He could use his own artillery. He could simply blow up pipelines. I mean, there's a lot of terribly sadistic things that any leader could do to his own country. He knows his infrastructure.
The fact is this guy's talking about it ahead of time. I mean, we've got the secretary of state talking about, you know, another material breach. I think the article today is all we need. I mean, if you've got some guy talking about torching his country in facing the United Nations inspectors, it's time to have him go away.
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Three People from Omaha Arrested for Counterfeiting in Sioux Falls
Three people from Omaha are facing counterfeit-related charges after they were caught with what Sioux Falls police say was counterfeit currency.
Officer Sam Clemens says the first instance was reported over the weekend at Club David on West 11th Street:
Arrested on charges of possessing a forged instrument and passing a forged instrument were 18-year-old Amann Johnson, 22-year-old Candace Evans and 37-year-old Eduardo Anchondo-Arzola, all of Omaha.
Clemens says similar bills were later located at several fast-food restaurants and other businesses, notably along South Minnesota Avenue. He says Evans had a counterfeit $100, and he says eight of the bogus twenties had been passed at Club David.


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Conde Nast's print properties aren't the only ones slowly dying, apparently. Now, popular user-driven news site Reddit, which Conde Nast bought in 2006, is asking users to donate money so the website can hire more staff.
In a sad blog post, Reddit programmer Mike Schiraldi asked Reddit to donate to the website in a new program called "Reddit Gold" because its four engineers are being worked to the bone. "The bottom line is, we need more resources," he writes.
What's weird about this that Reddit is a massive success, audience-wise. It currently boasts around 280 million pageviews/month. (Gawker, in comparison, clocks in at around 41.2 million pageviews/month.) Conde Nast is a giant corporation currently considering moving to a pricey new Manhattan headquarters. So why doesn't Conde just cough up some dough?
Schiraldi writes:
Here's the thing: corporations aren't run like charities. They keep separate budgets for each business line, and usually allocate resources proportionate to revenue. And reddit's revenue isn't great.
Reddit users to the rescue... right? Well, it seems that they're not too keen on propping up Reddit financially. One user helpfully offered to buy the site; others wondered if they were just subsidizing Conde Nast's tone-deaf decision to starve one of the biggest user-driven websites on the Net.
And, yeah, Reddit has robust pageviews, a diehard community and strong growth. Instead of forcing Reddit to trade on that loyalty in what amounts to a fund-raising drive, Conde should realize that a few extra resources could go a long way to increasing profitability. Maybe they could cut back on those sweet holiday gifts?


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Men's tennis senior Ugur Atalay and women's lacrosse senior Sarah Phillips are the outstanding senior student-athletes of the year, nabbing the top prizes at today's Senior Honors Luncheon.
Atalay, who was named to the A-10 first team April 26, took home the J. Dallas Shirley Outstanding Senior Male Student-Athlete award, given to a graduating male senior who demonstrates achievement in athletics, academics and community service. Atalay earned a 21-9 singles record and a 18-8 doubles record this season for the A-10 champion Colonials.
Phillips was awarded the Lynn George Outstanding Senior Female Student-Athlete award after earning first team honors April 27. Phillips, who is the women's lacrosse program's all-time leader in points and assists, paced the A-10 and ranked in the top 10 in NCAA Division I in assists this season.
Senior rowers Eric Anderson and Mackenzie Hovermale captured scholar-athlete of the year honors at the luncheon, and 24 student-athletes were named the most valuable players for their respective teams. Senior guard Tiana Myers took home MVP honors for the women's basketball team, and, for the second straight year, senior guard Tony Taylor is the most valuable player for the men's basketball team.


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Roane State Community College students Rebecca Staton and Mason Van Horn will be featured during the college's sophomore recital at 6:30 p.m. April 12 in downtown Harriman's Princess Theatre.
Staton, a mezzo-soprano, and tenor Van Horn will perform classical and musical theater selections, including duets, with faculty pianists Geol Greenlee and Slade Trammell.
Admission is free.
In September 1926, the Princess Theatre opened its doors in downtown Harriman.
Eighty-seven years later, the former movie house has been fully restored and is the centerpiece of the Princess Performing Arts, Education and Conference Center.
The East Tennessee Preservation Alliance and Roane State Community College will host an open house, recital and panel discussion about the restoration project from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 12.
The free event will take place in the Princess Theatre Complex at 421 Roane St.
Last Sunday, Carolyn Griffin, Jill Johnson, Julia Harris, Alicia Harris and I joined the Rev. Tony Cannon and his church family at River View Baptist Church in Lenoir City to see an Easter play.
This play was based on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Children, adults and three men from New Covenant Baptist Church in Knoxville took part in this play. Music was provided by the choir. This was a great play, and all enjoyed it.
The FCE Club met Wednesday in the Community Center in Kingston with 14 members present.
Roane Choral Society invites the public to its studio audience at the "WRCS radio station" for favorite music and commercials of the good old days.
Venue choices in Spring City and Kingston are offered for performances of "Turn Your Radio On."
Spring City activities will be in Tennessee Valley Theatre at 184 W. Jackson Ave. on April 20.
A barbecue dinner will be available for $7 beginning at 5 p.m. The after-dinner concert starts at 7; admission is $10 per person.
Particular things come to mind as we look forward to spring and warmer days to come. One early spring idea for those of us with sugar maples in our gardens is tree tapping.
"Sugaring" is truly an American enterprise.
Most of us are familiar with the 19th century Currier and Ives lithographs, with their sentimental depictions of rural New England life.
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More on the fast-food front: A new Taco Bell — the first for Roane County — was scheduled to open soon on Harriman's Hwy. 27. A joint venture between Bill Seiber and Mack Wolcott, the restaurant was projected to employ 35-40 people. Wolcott was in Taco Bell management training in Knoxville and Atlanta in anticipation of managing the restaurant, due to open in July in a new, modern-style building designed specifically for the company. Only Farragut and Morristown restaurants had the modern design at that time.
Roane County General Sessions Court Judge Jeff Wicks, far left, administers the oath of office to new Court-Appointed Special Advocates volunteers, from second left, Kyle Little, Jasmine Askins and Andrea Beatty.
CASA volunteers are appointed by the juvenile courts to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
More volunteers are needed.
Call 717-4186 or visit www.casaninth.org for details.
Lauren Elizabeth Ladd of Kingston is among the 44 young women from throughout East Tennessee who will be presented during the Dogwood Ball.
The 51st annual ball of the East Tennessee Presentation Society will be on April 20 in Knoxville Coliseum.
Ladd, a graduate of Roane County High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zane Ladd of Kingston.
She attends the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Roane County's Southern Appalachia Railway Museum will have narrated one-hour spring colors trips and a Murder Mystery dinner train this month.
The spring colors trips will depart at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. on April 6 and 20. Tickets are $19 for adults, $15 for ages 3-12.
Reservations are suggested and can be made by calling the museum at 865-241-2140.
During the rides, a short narrative will describe the historic Manhattan Project and the historical significance of the railroad serving it.
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Radar in Mars Orbit Maps North Polar Deposits
A ground-penetrating radar instrument that NASA helped develop for the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has completed a five-month campaign of observing subsurface layering in the north polar ice cap of Mars. The campaign is a highlight of the orbiter's extended mission. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) made observations from altitudes as low as about 233 miles (375 kilometers) during several hundred passes over the pole. The MARSIS team is analyzing the data and plans to publish findings. For more information, see
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=49771 .
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=49771 .
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Hi guys, I hope this finds you well. I've had an eventful time in London and have lots of things to share with you about my week. In addition to my weekly blogs, I have also been writing for my local newspaper during Wimbledon. I am really enjoying it but it is also very time consuming as you have to check results and draws regularly and double check that everything is correct, including foreign names which is a bit of a challenge. At the moment the four `picks' that I said would do well are into the second week, so that is a relief.
My week started when Coach Hyde arrived on the 24th. Despite the long flight, she didn't seem to struggle too much with the jet lag. Although she might tell you different. The temperature dropped slightly during the week and even though it was a little chilly, Jen told me she welcomed the cooler weather because of the intense summer in Tallahassee. We actually practiced inside one morning to her delight. The week also consisted of her extended British Birthday celebrations! As well as having a meal, I managed to get some cupcakes from a bakery after training, not quite Lucy and Leo standard but pretty close. They tasted amazing and Jen even managed to stash an extra three in her backpack for later in the day! Very smart!
With Wimbledon being well under way and there has been some great matches and a few surprises in the draw. There has also been a lot of controversy about the dress code for competitors. Wimbledon is known for requiring competitors to wear strictly all white clothing and no other grand slam is like this. However this year there has been a significant clamp down on the all-white rule. So much so that multiple female players have been forced to go braless! Officials have asked the women to change their bra tops because of the slight color, resulting in few having to go without. Another story has also been published about a male player who was asked to refrain from wearing dark underwear. When he started to sweat his white shorts began to go see through resulting in his dark underwear becoming more visible. I think some of the players didn't expect the rule to have been taken so far that they would have to reorganize their underwear drawer! In previous years some players have said they don't mind the clothing rule because it is a strong tradition for the tournament, however, it could have been taken too far. This year the white clothes are only allowed to have one cm of color trim around the sleeve and neck, and many have had to color in their tennis shoes with white pen. I know The All England Club loves tradition, but this could be too far.
On the 28th I took part in a mini tennis event called Touch Tennis, and Coach Fodor would have loved it! The sport is played on a mini tennis court with mini racquets and a specially designed sponge ball. The game is very popular with many tennis players as it is great fun and emphasizes the skill of tennis rather than power. I'm good friends with the founder and he does a great job setting up tournaments all around the country and even some overseas. It's quickly expanding and I am not surprised. If you want watch how it is played check out this link or search touch tennis on YouTube.
After two great weeks in London, I travel back up North to visit my family and friends and I'm very excited to spend a week at home, especially as my brother will be there. The last time I saw him was Christmas. Unfortunately I won't be playing any Touch Tennis or watching Wimbledon live but it will be so nice to relax, be with my family again and see everyone.
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