Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Wednesday Nov 29th, 2006

ree stories today, my good friends, on happiness -- which, as I say, stuns me, given the fact that I thought everybody was delirious after the elections. I haven't heard of any Post-Election Stress Trauma, such as after the '04 election a bunch of south Floridians needed to go get counseling over the fact that Bush won. They needed counseling after the Bush election victory. I haven't heard of anything marginally like that at all, yet apparently there is a lot of misery, and so all the stories on happiness are out. The three headlines are: "Researchers Seek Routes to Happier Life;" another headline is: "Study: Money, Happiness Link is Complex," and then there's: "The Secret to Success -- A hit Internet movie claims to reveal centuries-old secrets to getting what you want in life."

Links for the breaks:

Third-quart GDP up 2.2
percent, up from 1st estimate

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy grew faster than first thought in third quarter on strong business investment, even as the housing sector posted its biggest decline in more than 15 years, the government said Wednesday. Gross domestic product, which measures total economic activity within U.S. borders, expanded at a 2.2 percent annual rate during the third quarter, higher than the 1.6 percent gain first estimated and above Wall Street expectations for a 1.8 percent gain.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=2006-11-29T133136Z_01_N28228124_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-USA-ECONOMY-GDP-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=BizArt-C2-NextArticle-1

The Post-retreat Return to Iraq

On November 27, 2006, the media stepped up their demands for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq by officially naming the incursion a civil war. While questioning their motives, Americans must also be extremely concerned with how quickly these same voices will demand our military be sent back in a humanitarian effort to halt the inevitable post-retreat genocide.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/11/the_postretreat_return_to_iraq.html

The Nancy I Knew
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/11/the_nancy_i_knew.html

A Defeatist Strategy
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/11/a_defeatist_strategy_1.html

When Killing is Enough to Defeat America (The MSM)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/11/when_killing_is_enough_to_defe.html

Revisiting (and Reliving) 1938
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/11/revisiting_and_reliving_1938_1.html

Pelosi, Dorgan Help
Grandma Cheat the Grandkids
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_shlaes&sid=aypZjfpQoEBs

A stitch in time saves nine

Funny, now that we learn that Iran has given the finger to the UN and is installing the latest in surface to air missiles to protect their burgeoning nuclear plants, that Hezbollah is refulgent, that Gaza is throwing more off kilter missiles at Israel than Ryne Duren threw out of control fast balls at Yogi Berra, and that Jimmy Carter has blamed the United States for every ill except Athlete’s foot and mastitis, the Democrats are beginning to flesh out their plans for the exponential number of investigations designed to cripple our military response, and render us more vulnerable to attack. Living up to their reputations...

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/burtis112906.htm

Sharia law is spreading as authority wanes (UK)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/29/nsharia29.xml

Prophets of Iraq defeat
are rushing judgment
http://www.examiner.com/a-425645%7EProphets_of_Iraq_defeat_are_rushing_judgment.html

Mob Rule on College Campuses
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/11/29/cstillwell.DTL

Background files missing;
immigrants OK'd anyway
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/158171

What is a 'moderate' Muslim?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2476832,00.html

In Following His Own Script, Webb May Test Senate's Limits
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801582_pf.html

Testing for Citizenship
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25621

Panelists See Nation's Closing Door
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBGWZE93VE.html

Gingrich: Free Speech Should Be Curtailed To Fight Terrorism
http://www.nysun.com/article/44302

Compare with this:
Gingrich calls Iraq war a 'failure'
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/11/29/gingrich_calls_iraq_war_a_failure?mode=PF

The Wronged Man
(re: Al Masri. Dana Priest, who else)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801810_pf.html

I guess Dana handed off the putting out of intel to this guy:

European Report Details
Flights By CIA Aircraft
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801443_pf.html

Here we go again:

U.S. Troops Kill 5 Girls
in Assault on Insurgents
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html?pagewanted=print

N.Korea takes a sporting chance (Mkay)

Seoul, South Korea - North Korea has extended an olive branch to South Korea to revive cross-border exchanges deadlocked over the North`s recent nuclear test, in an apparent bid to secure food and fertilizer aid from the South. In the latest move, Pyongyang has promised its 'strong support' for South Korea`s bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, according to South Korean officials on Tuesday.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/article_1227165.php/N.Korea_takes_a_sporting_chance

Disembowelled, then torn apart: The price of daring to teach girls
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2023831.ece

FBI: Fake boarding pass site legal
(Sheesh, just like bombmaking sites are legal... sheesh)
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S20320.html?cat=1

Marshals decry imams' charges
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061129-121812-1240r.htm

Fresh rocket attacks on Israel
despite Gaza truce
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1227234.php/Fresh_rocket_attacks_on_Israel_despite_Gaza_truce

Chad considers itself at war with Sudan: official
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061128.wchadd1128/BNStory/International/home

Chavez supporters await call to arms
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=RFBR5JOCK1BJNQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/11/29/wvenz29.xml

Muslims defend behaviour of
six imams booted from US flight
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061128/ts_alt_afp/usattacksairline_061128203915

Report: Los Alamos Security Flawed
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2686070

Paper: Iran Leader Writes to Americans

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to the American people that will be released at U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday... The newspaper gave no details of the letter, an apparent attempt by the firebrand president to reach out to Americans over the head of their government.--snip--"Many American people asked me to talk to them in order to explain the views of the Iranian people," Ahmadinejad told reporters...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061129/D8LMLTR00.html

Bush and Maliki
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009314

Losing the Enlightenment
http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009312

Baker's Sellout Plan
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11292006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/bakers_sellout_plan_opedcolumnists_dick_morris__eileen_mcgann.htm

For House Dems, Personal Trumps Popular
http://www.observer.com/20061204/20061204_Steve_Kornacki_politics_wiseguys.asp

Doctors tell Castro to miss
birthday party opening
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2686232

Private road named for Muslim is focus of Christian group's bid
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149191890479&path=%21news&s=104585

New charges in Hollywood wiretaps case
(Yep, Hillary needs Pellicano out of the way)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Hollywood_Wiretaps.html

Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells Nato
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=RFBR5JOCK1BJNQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/11/29/wafghan29.xml

Pentagon investigates soldiers' YouTube clips
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/pentagon-investigates-soldiers-youtube-clips/2006/11/28/1164476193376.html

Mother in coma laughs
at her children's jokes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2474891,00.html

Library yanks Web over porn
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061128/BIZ04/611280312

Top U.S. scientific journal pledges to curb fraud
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-11-29T023815Z_01_N28264649_RTRUKOC_0_US-SCIENCE-JOURNAL.xml

Must read blogs for today:

Hallelujah!
When Parkinson's Just Isn't Enough
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10684

Al-Sadr Must Be Removed
http://www.redstate.com/

Too much to tell...
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/

Bill takes apart the latest MSM leak
"Another partially leaked report on Anbar province"
http://www.indcjournal.com/

For those following the Russian spy poisoning:
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/

The media, in all of its glory, wholeheartedly participating in the celebration of a new weapon designed to kill Jews:
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/485-Cheerleading-for-the-Terrorists.html

7,000 Terrorists Killed or Captured in Iraq in Two Years
(Oh, and the UN extends the troop mandate in Iraq)
http://www.lifelikepundits.com/index.php/site/7000_terrorists_killed_or_captured_in_iraq_in_two_years/

Children of Men
http://www.lifelikepundits.com/index.php/site/children_of_men_hollywood_goes_prolife/

From the Spectator's 'The Government is Here to Help' file:

The wonderful, benevolent government of Fairfax County is requiring that kitchens that handout food to the poor be approved by the county.
(Maybe because it's not halal?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801583.html?nav=rss_metro/va

Two Double Sets of Footsteps
(Beautiful, on fathers and sons... sports)
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10685

On Darfur, Baker
http://www.danegerus.com/weblog/Right.asp

Target bans Salvation Army again
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/11/target_bans_salvation_army_aga.html

Libby case delay possible
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/11/libby_case_delay_possible.html

ROFL
And They Have Tiny Little Helmets With Horns Too!
(As sperm donations in Britain slow to a trickle, Denmark has become the sperm powerhouse of Europe?)
http://www.nicedoggie.net/2006/

Target bans Salvation Army again
(They donate a million to them this year instead)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/11/target_bans_salvation_army_aga.html

British Sharia Watch
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Chester says Go Native in Iraq
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=112806G

Always worth reading:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

They Have a Scheme: Kramer Meets Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton
http://debbieschlussel.com/

Post 2, same site as above:
UPDATE: Lawyer for Deportee in New Jersey Cop Case Indicted for Immigration Fraud

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