It's the Army of Steve™ with a request for all you posters. Not to pick on anyone, but if your handle begins with the letter "Z" ("Zed" in Canada), pay attention, trooper! Please make sure that you supply a source URL when you post. Otherwise it goes to the holding tank for sure. When I see this I have to buck it up to Major Fred, thus delaying your post, as the Major may not roll into the mess hall til 0530 or so.
As Fred has noted previously, please post only original hard news articles from recognized on-line sources. Interesting opinion pieces should be posted with just the title and the source URL-- we can go there if we want. Exceptions generally are made for Victor Davis Henson and Mark Steyn.
Keep 'em short and cut the fluff so as to ease the strain both on all our readers and on Fred's server. Some modest formatting can save space; many newspapers assume you can't follow a paragraph that has more than one sentence. "EFL" = edited for length, always a good idea.
If you're new to Rantburg: indented comments with color backgrounds are written by --
| Fred (Chief Editor) | | Dan Darling | | Steve W. (me) |
Comments written by the poster have a yellow background but are not indented, like this.
Thx, AoS™
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#31 Ki Hee Lee! 395 online.
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Posted by: Shipman
2004-04-06 6:30:10 PM
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| #30 LOL ;-) unfortunately WOT and Politix are so-intertwined in an election year that they can't be separated. I'm one of the miscreants who posts both, but I agree with/like Fred's separation of the Home Front - Politix, WOT. That said, I'd like to hear your thoughts too |
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Posted by: Frank G
2004-04-06 6:28:35 PM
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| #29 My two pennies...I would like to see more news from WoT and less on domestic politix. Lots of blogs do politix...none even comes close to RB for hard news. I'd also like more straightforward headlines; they've been getting awfully clever lately. I like to think that decision makers read Rantburg and can come away with solid information that can help them choose the correct path. Fred, I have a couple ideas regarding an op-ed page. I'll email you about them separately. Associate editors, many thanks for your hard work and for the super groovy rainbow effect when you all chime in. It's magically delicious! |
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Posted by: Seafarious
2004-04-06 6:21:30 PM
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| #28 Steve W - BHLTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! |
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Posted by: Anonymous2U
2004-04-06 3:45:32 PM
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| #27 im thinking idaho. |
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Posted by: muck4doo
2004-04-06 2:46:30 PM
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#26 It's nice to be missed.
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Posted by: Norris
2004-04-06 2:41:32 PM
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| #25 Havana or Pongyang would be my guess. |
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Posted by: Steve
2004-04-06 2:32:22 PM
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| #24 Srebrenica? |
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Posted by: Frank G
2004-04-06 2:29:50 PM
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| #23 Dachau? |
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Posted by: Fred
2004-04-06 2:27:36 PM
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#22 Where do you suppose Boris goes on vacation?
Damn my infernal curiosity! |
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Posted by: Chuck Simmins
2004-04-06 1:59:28 PM
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| #21 Thanks Fred. Much appreciated. |
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Posted by: Rafael
2004-04-06 1:43:52 PM
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| #20 I'm "intemperate" - the same thing in super-polished-diplo-speak, lol! |
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Posted by: .com
2004-04-06 1:23:05 PM
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| #19 LOL, thanks....I've been called worse....by my family ;-) |
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Posted by: Frank G
2004-04-06 1:21:17 PM
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#18 Frank G - and you'd fill the bill nicely! Lol! Shoulda kept quiet - you've obviously forgotten the #1 maxim from your time in the service: never speak up - if there's work associated, they'll stick you with it! Lol! I like it: Our Chronic High Triglycerides Editor!
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Posted by: .com
2004-04-06 1:17:00 PM
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#17 you need a blue commentor to complete the Lucky Charms™ wallpaper theme
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Posted by: Frank G
2004-04-06 1:05:17 PM
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#16 Rafael - I fixed it so your posts should go through okay. Phil, you use Phil B and Phil_B. The underscore version was on the approved list. Now both are.
New posters should expect to spend a week or two stopping in the holding tank for review. That's just to make sure they're not really Boris in disguise. (It looks like he's on vacation now...) It also gives you time to learn the layout and what's on-topic.
Please don't post pure opinion pieces. As noted, there's an exception for Steyn, Hanson, Lileks, and the like. That's mainly because I wilt in the presence of good writing. But it's best to excerpt the good parts where they bear on WoT (and occasionally politix). Posting the entire article's a copyright violation, unless you're doing a thorough commentary on it.
Feel free to post your own research articles, as long as they're on-topic. Mike Sylwester's got a good series going on the Oklahoma City-Manila connection, well worth reading. If I ever get time, I want to write a couple myself.
I'm thinking about an op-ed page, but I'm still fuzzy on how it'd work. It would be Page 3, though, and the posts wouldn't appear on the main page. You'd have to specifically go read it. I'm thinking of doing the same with Page 2 articles, too, with Page 1 devoted to WoT. Let me know what you think... |
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Posted by: Fred
2004-04-06 12:33:08 PM
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| #15 There seems also to be a Lileks Exception. If there isn't, there should be. |
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Posted by: Mike
2004-04-06 12:06:24 PM
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#14 Zenster, I think it might have to do with Java settings
Nah, its his browser thats the problem. |
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Posted by: Phil B
2004-04-06 11:09:31 AM
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#13 Amen to the Hanson and Steyn exceptions.
A minor note to Dan Darling: you post interesting articles, but do do some editing, unless it's password protected. |
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Posted by: Ptah
2004-04-06 11:05:44 AM
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| #12 I like "AssEds", myself... |
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Posted by: mojo
2004-04-06 10:47:34 AM
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| #11 Nice BlogAd, Chuck! Not that I needed any more incentive to visit your titillating site to keep abreast of current events, as I've discovered months ago it's a veritable treasure chest of news and opinion. Maybe Fred will put up a Rantburg ad on your site--tit for tat, so to speak? |
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Posted by: Dar
2004-04-06 10:30:26 AM
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#10 With the BlogAds blogs are looking more and more like small weeklies from say... 1800. Neato. Is there already a Saturday Evening Blog? If not why not?
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Posted by: Shipman
2004-04-06 9:55:50 AM
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#9 Zenster, I think it might have to do with Java settings or something like that. For the longest time I could only post from home and not from ... er ... another place I have Net access. Monkeyed with browser settings and voila.
Say, who's that good looking gal in the Blogads? |
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Posted by: Chuck Simmins
2004-04-06 9:41:19 AM
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| #8 InterAOS Snarkiness Yes! |
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Posted by: Shipman
2004-04-06 8:35:32 AM
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| #7 Rafael don't take it personally my articles do as well, although occasionally one gets posted right away. |
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Posted by: Phil B
2004-04-06 8:14:55 AM
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#6 the other, smarter Steve
With age comes wisdom, young Jedi. |
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Posted by: Steve
2004-04-06 8:11:32 AM
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#5 I'm not one of the Rantburg editors, but I believe the policy here is that RB is NOT a place for posting one's own essays.
Like the AoS said: only original hard news articles from recognized on-line sources. |
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Posted by: Dave D.
2004-04-06 6:17:14 AM
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#4 Steve, thank you for the heads up. I attempted to supply the URLs for my quotes about Mulslim condemnation of terror. For some reason the straight URLs would not post (I tried three times). As a newcomer, I also have a great deal of difficulty with your link codes. Most of my previous experience is with Vb (V Bulletin) coding.
The most recent text I submitted "A Credible Deterrent to Terrorist Nuclear Attack" is my own writing. Please know that I would never submit someone else's work without a source link. You probably already know that I take great pains to distinguish between cited material and my own contributions.
Would you please clarify about submissions. Is personal work pertinent to major topics allowed? Or must all material be connected to a specific published news article?
Thank you. |
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Posted by: Zenster
2004-04-06 4:24:42 AM
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| #3 My posts always seem to go the holding tank, even though I always supply a source URL (and my name obviously doesn't start with "Z"). Is this a subtle hint that I'm not wanted here? Or am I just stupid and doing something wrong... |
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Posted by: Rafael
2004-04-06 3:48:08 AM
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| #2 Now I'm scared. What should I do? Meds? |
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Posted by: Lucky
2004-04-06 1:16:38 AM
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| #1 Indented comments brought to you by the Rainbow Coalition. Heh heh. |
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Posted by: Alaska Paul on the Road
2004-04-06 1:00:14 AM
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