<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574</id><updated>2011-09-05T03:46:50.165-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Hassan</title><subtitle type='html'>Political Arguments</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>262</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-114036387054151587</id><published>2006-02-19T10:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-05-02T09:59:18.106-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Whoever believes rubbish is going to get buried under it (and that goes for me too.) Do I speculate truth or falsehoods? Place your bets Ladies and Gentlemen. The roulette wheel is spinning.Firstly, The United States military was on the same side as Al Qeada during The Bosnian war. Bill Clinton approved shipments from Islamic Iran to Islamic radicals in Bosnia in 1994. Rep. Benjamin Gilman, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/114036387054151587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=114036387054151587' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/114036387054151587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/114036387054151587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2006/02/whoever-believes-rubbish-is-going-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-113917359548446365</id><published>2006-02-05T16:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T16:06:35.486-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.  02/05/06Dear Sen. Specter:A three star general such as a General Patton would have an intelligence officer on his staff.  And in fact, in the European theater of late 1944, General Patton’s intelligence officer, his G-2, supplied information of such relevance that the General anticipated the German breakout that came to be known as the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/113917359548446365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=113917359548446365' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/113917359548446365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/113917359548446365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2006/02/following-email-was-sent-to-sen.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-113258273730729193</id><published>2005-11-21T09:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-21T09:18:57.310-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Poor Ron BrownI read this really terrific book recently, 'Ron Brown's Body', by Jack Cashill.  (WND Books.  2004).  Ron Brown was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Commerce who died in a plane crash in Croatia April 3, 1996, flying into Dubrovnik, Croatia. Here are some interesting excerpts.'Immediate payback for Brown came in early spring 1993 in the form of a surprise invitation.  Hillary Clinton had</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/113258273730729193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=113258273730729193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/113258273730729193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/113258273730729193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/11/poor-ron-brown-i-read-this-really.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-112593698476190861</id><published>2005-09-05T12:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-05T12:16:24.766-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on the AOL message boards 9/5/05Aaron Broussard, President of Jefferson Parish just south of New Orleans, said on Meet The Press Sunday: 'Bureaucracy has committed murder.' And he's absolutely right.Mr. Broussard has earned the right to condemn Washington's slow response. Not Michael Moore (the colostomy bag of the American Left), nor the governor of Massachusetts, nor </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/112593698476190861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=112593698476190861' title='75 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/112593698476190861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/112593698476190861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/09/following-was-posted-on-aol-message.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>75</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-112395954543351840</id><published>2005-08-13T14:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-13T15:05:33.660-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Kasarin Kuinran is commenting on Tzar Chet's other blog BlogHassan Dear, sweet Tsar Chet.... you are so blisteringly paranoid. But it doesn't mean conspiracies don't exist, to paraphrase an old saying. The truth is out there, desu yo. Oh, and sorry about your monitor!KasarinDear Kasarin:You’re right, but you know, I really have to take exception to being characterized as paranoid. I'll cop to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/112395954543351840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=112395954543351840' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/112395954543351840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/112395954543351840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/08/kasarin-kuinran-is-comment_112395954543351840.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-112290041726566162</id><published>2005-08-01T08:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-01T08:49:44.340-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:How are you? I’ve been having my ups and down. I mean things aren’t bad, it's just I’ve been dealing with a lot of situations that occupy my time, reading and writing mostly. I don’t even go to the movies or watch TV now because I’m focused on getting the cash flow moving with the writing.And it turns out I’m posting stories on My Space and that keeps me busy. I’m cultivating a group of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/112290041726566162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=112290041726566162' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/112290041726566162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/112290041726566162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/08/dear-lg-how-are-you-ive-been-having-my.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-111669614278584087</id><published>2005-05-21T13:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-21T13:29:56.046-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following post was sent to Mr. Donald Trump 05/21/05Dear Mr. Trump:Yes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYes YesYou have the right idea.Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/111669614278584087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=111669614278584087' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111669614278584087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111669614278584087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/05/following-post-was-sent-to-mr.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-111386216869341166</id><published>2005-04-18T18:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-18T18:09:28.693-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Prediction: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger will be elected Pope on April 20, 2005.Let's see if I'm right.Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/111386216869341166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=111386216869341166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111386216869341166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111386216869341166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/04/prediction-joseph-cardinal-ratzinger.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-111042735600431964</id><published>2005-03-09T23:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-09T23:02:36.006-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear SweetiePie:How are you?  Nothing happen out here.  But life is good.  Hope you are too.Love,Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/111042735600431964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=111042735600431964' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111042735600431964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111042735600431964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/03/dear-sweetiepie-how-are-you-nothing.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-111042726584636697</id><published>2005-03-09T22:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-09T23:01:05.846-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Dan Rather, 03/09/05Sir:I'm going to miss watching you give the CBS Evening News.  There was something you did and did extremely well, and that was put emotion into the reporting.  Your broadcast was never simply a recitation of events, and that I appreciated.There were times I teared-up right along with you.Good luck, God speed, and good night.Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/111042726584636697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=111042726584636697' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111042726584636697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111042726584636697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/03/following-email-was-sent-to-dan-rather.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-111004267883496216</id><published>2005-03-05T11:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-05T12:11:18.836-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:How are you?  It's been awhile since I sent you a note.  I've been very busy with the writing.  Two little mystery stories and two romance stories one right after the other.  I need the money.  The funny thing with writing stories is, there's a lot of competition and most of it is good enough to fill all the slots in a monthly or weekly magazine.  So every sentence get the hairy eyeball, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/111004267883496216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=111004267883496216' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111004267883496216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/111004267883496216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/03/dear-lg-how-are-you-its-been-awhile.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110801111244160464</id><published>2005-02-09T23:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-02-13T21:40:34.070-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you? I’ve been thinking – is there anything worse than Sen. Hillary Clinton becoming President of The United States of America.Yes, I can think of something worse. You could have a situation in your apartment where you know something is wrong because for the last three weeks (ever since you put weather stripping in your front door to eliminate a draft) your brain has </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110801111244160464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110801111244160464' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110801111244160464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110801111244160464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/02/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-ive-been.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110572459374484937</id><published>2005-01-14T13:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-02-13T21:37:23.473-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Comment from Steve concerning Blog Hassan:Wouldn't the proper venue for questioning what happened on Flight 77 be the 9/11 Commission? If you may recall, President Bush opposed the creation of that commission, and then stonewalled it prior to eventually praising it. Who had something to hide? The evidence points to the administration. Suggesting that Hillary Clinton could somehow be behind </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110572459374484937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110572459374484937' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110572459374484937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110572459374484937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/01/comment-from-steve-concerning-blog.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110571581721523372</id><published>2005-01-14T09:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-02-17T21:46:54.106-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:So you wondered how many terrorists might have been sent to meet their maker during the Tsumani? I thought of that. But I don't know if it would have been many active terrorists. The problem is, our intelligence agencies can't agree on what Al Qeada really is – a standing army of terrorists or a population of sympathizers ready to give money and resupply suicide bombers.It's not easy to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110571581721523372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110571581721523372' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110571581721523372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110571581721523372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2005/01/dear-lg-so-you-wondered-how-many.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110402757014510352</id><published>2004-12-25T21:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-02-17T21:00:09.576-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:How are you?I’ve a Christmas story for you. I’m walking down the street when I see a panhandler ahead. He’s this big able-bodied looking guy, nothing wrong with him a little honest labor wouldn’t cure. He looked at me and spit across my path. And as I passed him he said, “Hey buddy, can you spare some change?”I flipped him off. I don’t give money to people who look at me and spit.He </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110402757014510352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110402757014510352' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110402757014510352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110402757014510352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/12/dear-lg-how-are-you-ive-christmas.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110292004578451655</id><published>2004-12-13T01:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2005-02-13T21:49:23.640-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you? Today I turned 48 yesterday. 48 actually feels pretty good so I'm not sweating it.Reading a new book. 'What Happy People Know' by Dan Baker, Ph.D. Another good book. This guy as a no nonsense approach to dealing with life. What this guy says goes in my arsenal, so that whatever is being done to me I can handle.In other news, I saw a photocopy of Nathan Gale's drivers</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110292004578451655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110292004578451655' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110292004578451655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110292004578451655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/12/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-y_110292004578451655.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110239161741274695</id><published>2004-12-06T22:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-12-06T22:53:37.413-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:How are you?  Outsourcing.  Okay, the last time I took a stab at defending outsourcing I made what amounted to an academic argument, but as is usually the case coming off like a professor, abstract reasons don't cut much ice with folks needing to put food on the table.If I remember, I think I made the case along these lines – with free trade a company here in America can ship jobs </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110239161741274695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110239161741274695' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110239161741274695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110239161741274695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/12/dear-lg-how-are-you-outsourcing.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110205137566352119</id><published>2004-12-03T01:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-12-03T00:22:55.663-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you?  Not much going on.  I just finished a book called 'Loving What Is' by Byron Katie.  I found a lot of it interesting and some of it troubling.  Ms. Katie was a compulsive control freak working herself into what sounded like a nervous breakdown back in 1986.  As a result she had one of those moments of clarity that sometimes come to alcoholics at rock bottom.  From </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110205137566352119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110205137566352119' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110205137566352119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110205137566352119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/12/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-not-much.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110195736320082436</id><published>2004-12-01T22:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-12-01T22:16:03.200-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Tom Brokaw at NBC Nightly News 12/01/04.Goodnight Mr. Brokaw.  Job well done.Alex</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110195736320082436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110195736320082436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110195736320082436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110195736320082436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/12/following-email-was-sent-to-tom-brokaw.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110187840097350582</id><published>2004-12-01T01:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-12-01T00:20:00.973-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:How are you?  Well, my finger seems to be better.  I really did a number on it last week.  But fortunately I kept the cut clean and well bandaged and it healed up nicely.  Since it’s all closed up, today was the first day I didn’t keep it bandaged.So where were we?  One of you’re last emails you talked about the what was being said over at gARABage NEWS and you also mentioned a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110187840097350582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110187840097350582' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110187840097350582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110187840097350582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/12/dear-lg-how-are-you-well-my-finger.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110083527549318233</id><published>2004-11-18T22:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-18T22:34:35.493-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:What do I think our prospects for a successful outcome for The War On Terror is when we have the Marxist enemy within along with the Bush Haters worldwide who are hanging on our necks like a millstone? I think our prospects excellent.  I think they're excellent because I don't buy into the Arab Media's propaganda machine, and I don't trust American Media to get to the heart of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110083527549318233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110083527549318233' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110083527549318233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110083527549318233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/11/dear-lg-what-do-i-think-our-prospects.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110083395331879687</id><published>2004-11-18T22:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-18T22:12:33.316-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Sean Hannity.Dear Mr. Hannity:Heard your exchange with Janeane Garofalo this afternoon (11/16/04) concerning whether Michael Moore had ever said, ‘There is no war on terror.’  Actually on 10/07/03 on The Today Show, while promoting his book ‘Dude Where’s My Country’ Moore clearly stated ‘there is no war on terror’ and there was no equivocation concerning the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110083395331879687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110083395331879687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110083395331879687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110083395331879687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/11/following-email-was-sent-to-sean.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110049737821741058</id><published>2004-11-15T01:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-15T00:42:58.216-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:Thanks for the Andrew Sutterford article about Theo Van Gogh.  The best thing about it was the link in that article to Van Gogh's movie so I could see for myself what got him killed. A strange little film if you haven't seen it.  Not exactly a documentary, but 11 minutes of an actress as a veiled Moslem woman talking directly to Allah, telling three little stories: one about an </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110049737821741058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110049737821741058' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110049737821741058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110049737821741058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/11/dear-lg-thanks-for-andrew-sutterford.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110038705524976707</id><published>2004-11-13T18:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-13T18:04:15.250-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Ms. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, 11/13/04.Why don’t you write a column about Theo Van Gogh?Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110038705524976707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110038705524976707' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110038705524976707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110038705524976707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/11/following-email-was-sent-to-ms.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-110014366083544381</id><published>2004-11-10T22:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-10T22:27:40.836-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:How are you?  Have I been listening to the wailing and the rending of garments by the Democrats?  A little.  The last week I've been playing catch-up on my fiction writing - rewriting old story and putting them in the mail plus I've wrote a new story today (yea!). Right after the election I went to the message boards and saw little had changed - the Bush hating hyenas were still at it</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/110014366083544381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=110014366083544381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110014366083544381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/110014366083544381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/11/dear-lg-how-are-you-have-i-been.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109958159689554065</id><published>2004-11-04T10:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-04T10:19:56.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to The President of The United States of America 11/03/04.Dear Mr. President:Congratulations.  It feels good to back a winner.Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109958159689554065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109958159689554065' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109958159689554065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109958159689554065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/11/following-email-was-sent-to-president.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109958154212441900</id><published>2004-11-04T10:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-04T10:19:02.126-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following Email was sent to Sen. John Kerry, 11/03/04.Dear Senator Kerry:You fought the good fight.  Take it from an old political junkie, you made it a nail biter.  You even had some conservative pundits projecting you as the winner, so you must have been doing something right.I had this quote on file and now it seems appropriate:"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109958154212441900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109958154212441900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109958154212441900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109958154212441900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/11/following-email-was-sent-to-sen.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109926397783525315</id><published>2004-10-31T18:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-31T18:06:17.836-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you?This election is one for the books.  It's dividing families, I'm telling you.I'm up at my parent's place on Friday.  I'm in the kitchen, talking to mom.  Dad is in the living room watching the noon news on TV.  I don't know why I keep trying, but I keep pitching for the President in front of mom.  She's probably not going to budge from voting for Kerry, but I'm </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109926397783525315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109926397783525315' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109926397783525315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109926397783525315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-this.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109924085276838131</id><published>2004-10-31T11:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-31T11:40:52.770-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on The AOL Message Board ‘The Home Stretch’ 10/30/04.It used to be a pre-9/11 world.  People have forgotten what that was like, but the truth was America had no interest in terrorism.  We'd grown complacent.  Everybody.  We had been living with terrorism, and a lot of it, overseas for such a long time the American people had grown accustomed to the notion things would </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109924085276838131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109924085276838131' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109924085276838131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109924085276838131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/following-was-posted-on-aol-message_31.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109876643533836558</id><published>2004-10-26T01:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-10-26T00:53:55.336-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on The AOL Message Board ‘The Home Stretch’ 10/26/04.“Well, everyone can't be as perfect as your leader!”I just love the way the lazy whiners change the subject time and again.  They got nothing to say.  I was talking about Sy Hersh.  Have you ever even read him?Leftist sympathizers of Al Qeada here in America are feeding Bush Haters the script.  And I'll bet you'd </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109876643533836558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109876643533836558' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109876643533836558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109876643533836558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/following-was-posted-on-aol-message.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109786010700644924</id><published>2004-10-15T13:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-10-15T13:08:27.006-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you?With the final Presidential debate now done, I was wondering why America was this 50-50 nation with so many people rallying around the Democrats, especially when I can make a good case that in the last forty years, Democrats have created one foreign policy debacle after another.Vietnam is what happens when Liberals run a war.The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109786010700644924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109786010700644924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109786010700644924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109786010700644924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-with.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109776575956627382</id><published>2004-10-14T10:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-10-14T16:07:29.970-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>(The following email was sent prior to the Oct. 13, 2003 Presidential debate)Dear LG:How are you? A couple of things you asked me about in your emails I haven't gotten around to yet. Let's see.You asked me what I thought about the - who was it - UN observes coming to America to monitor our elections? I think it's just another example of the world throwing America the finger. I have two </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109776575956627382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109776575956627382' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109776575956627382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109776575956627382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/following-email-was-sent-prior-to-oct.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109724301712996187</id><published>2004-10-08T09:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-10-09T10:20:23.873-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Pie In The SkyThe problem with leftists is they keep selling this myth that life can be easy if you just elect them.The truth is life is hard.There are evil people in this world like the Jihadists who will kill you if you're not Moslem. (Come to think of it, they'll kill even if you are Moslem but are in way.) Or making a living is hard - markets are harsh places.Despite what leftists say</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109724301712996187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109724301712996187' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109724301712996187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109724301712996187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/pie-in-sky-problem-with-leftists-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109703707195509418</id><published>2004-10-06T01:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-10-06T00:31:11.956-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you?I got a couple of emails from L.G. and I even one from Whip Cream Girl needling me about my support for President Bush.  Also got an instant message from a fan of my blog out in Ohio called Mystikkraze.  We chatted politics for about an hour.  Busy week.In my last email-post response to L.G. I talk about the President Bush/Sen. Kerry debate and how, yes, Sen. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109703707195509418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109703707195509418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109703707195509418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109703707195509418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-i-got.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109684249675072282</id><published>2004-10-03T17:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-10-04T21:53:27.840-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:Now that I’m catching up on my email, I wanted to say I got around to reading that Linda Heard article you told me about: 'America Has Never Been So Polarized As It Is Now' . Outside the fact it's a moronic article considering America was more polarized during the Civil War, I had an interesting reaction to it. I started reading it and first, as you might expect, got a little hot under </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109684249675072282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109684249675072282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109684249675072282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109684249675072282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/10/dear-lg-now-that-im-catching-up-on-my.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109660285277242521</id><published>2004-09-30T23:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-30T23:59:15.130-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Dennis:Thanks for going to my blog and reading what’s there and posting to it. I recently updated the blog from the old format where I didn’t have comments. With the new format one can comment and you’re the first to respond.Let me answer you question ‘when did they find WMD in Iraq? and where? I never said WMD was found in Iraq. What I did say was ‘Dr. David Kay didn't find the weapons </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109660285277242521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109660285277242521' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109660285277242521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109660285277242521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/dear-dennis-thanks-for-going-to-my.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109638197005142723</id><published>2004-09-28T10:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-30T23:49:54.310-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Comments from Dennis</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109638197005142723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109638197005142723' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109638197005142723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109638197005142723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/comments-from-dennis.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109638191719853516</id><published>2004-09-28T10:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-28T22:14:19.406-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on The AOL Message Board ‘Rebuilding Iraq’ 9/28/04'I defended my country'Sen. Kerry says, 'I defended my country'.  But he has also called the Vietnam War in which he fought an 'absurdity.' Doesn't one statement cancel the other?On April 22, 1971, before The Senate Committee On Foreign Relations, John Kerry said, "In our opinion, and from our experience, there is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109638191719853516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109638191719853516' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109638191719853516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109638191719853516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/following-was-posted-on-aol-message_28.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109617150947340734</id><published>2004-09-26T01:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-29T22:20:21.573-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:I'm glad liked my bit on Cat Stevens. I wasn't sure what people would make of it. Believe it or not, it’s a slightly rewritten excerpt from my novel where two characters go through a box of music cassettes over twenty years old and talk about what they used to listen to. So when Yusef Cat showed up in the news, I said, "Hey, I could run that in my blog."But getting back to your other </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109617150947340734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109617150947340734' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109617150947340734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109617150947340734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/dear-lg-im-glad-liked-my-bit-on-cat.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109586562620427109</id><published>2004-09-22T10:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-22T11:12:22.013-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Cat StevensSo as of 9/22/04 Yusuf Islam, former known as the rock singer Cat Stevens, has been denied entry into the United States. Gee, what a shame.What in the hell happened to that there singer Cat Stevens, 'The Moon Shadow guy'? Cat once put out an album called 'Catch Bull At Four', the only cassette of his I ever bought. The cover art had this kid touching a bull’s snout - that’s why I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109586562620427109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109586562620427109' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109586562620427109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109586562620427109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/cat-stevens-so-as-of-92204-yusuf-islam.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109495111972259201</id><published>2004-09-11T20:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-22T10:54:12.546-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was a response to the Sept. 10, 2004 post on Samablog titled Political FUD.Dear Rob:A terrific piece of analysis on all counts. I'm not that familiar with Sullivan (so many spielers, so little time, us included), but FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) puts into words my initial reaction to this entire mess. Confusion, doubt, Kerry's campaign under suspicion, news outlets made to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109495111972259201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109495111972259201' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109495111972259201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109495111972259201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/following-was-response-to-sept.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109482805201564738</id><published>2004-09-10T10:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-11T20:50:05.320-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Mr. Bob Herbert of the NY Times, in response to his column of 09/10/04.Dear Mr. Herbert:Disgraceful editorial. I hate to say it but liberal columnists lack imagination.So imagine this: Saddam and sons still in control of Iraq, aiding and abetting Al Qeada's attempt to topple a common enemy, the Saudi Royal Family. Then with Saddam in Baghdad and bin Laden </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109482805201564738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109482805201564738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109482805201564738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109482805201564738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/following-email-was-sent-to-mr.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109479273423327034</id><published>2004-09-10T01:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-10T01:05:34.233-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on the AOL message board for NY Times Columnists in response to comments made by the Vice President Dick Cheney that America would be less safe if it makes ‘the wrong choice’ in November.I agree with the statement made Vice President Cheney that America will be less safe if we make the wrong choice in the voting booth in November.  I don't trust the current group </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109479273423327034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109479273423327034' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109479273423327034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109479273423327034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/following-was-posted-on-aol-message_10.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109465133181991591</id><published>2004-09-08T09:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-08T09:48:51.820-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on the AOL Message board Cheney Warns Against Kerry Vote.We are less safeThe Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush? You closed down a friggin' weekly newspaper, you great giver of freedom and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109465133181991591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109465133181991591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109465133181991591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109465133181991591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/following-was-posted-on-aol-message.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109434966424391839</id><published>2004-09-04T21:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-14T09:41:55.466-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:How are you? Tax Cuts? Here comes The Big Debate. Yippee.Now I understand that no economic policy from either Republicans or Democrats is a-be all or end-all solution. No matter what anybody tries, there are always going to be benefits and drawbacks.So when a Democrat like Kerry restores the taxes on the upper '1%' of the population, yes that acts as a short-term solution with a big</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109434966424391839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109434966424391839' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109434966424391839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109434966424391839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/dear-lg-how-are-you-tax-cuts-here.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109413511573484855</id><published>2004-09-02T10:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-02T10:25:15.733-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you?  I've been watching the major speeches of the Republican National Convention this week and all have been uniformly excellent.  Monday night Sen. McCain reiterating the rightness of America's actions in the War on Terror and the steadfast leadership of President Bush was a powerful lead into Mayor Guilaiani's description of finding himself at the absolute center of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109413511573484855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109413511573484855' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109413511573484855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109413511573484855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-ive-been.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109413280147613046</id><published>2004-09-02T09:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-03T10:16:32.966-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Do I smell desperation?Recently I saw the latest 527 ad from Moveon.org and all I can say is this it the most dishonest piece of self-serving rhetorical crap yet from these socialist cry-babies.In the ad a woman identifying herself as a financial planner and a Republican is voting for John Kerry this election cycle.  According to her, we are in an era when dissent is considered unpatriotic.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109413280147613046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109413280147613046' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109413280147613046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109413280147613046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/do-i-smell-desperation-recently-i-saw.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109404851223464404</id><published>2004-09-01T10:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-01T10:21:52.236-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 08/31/04 on the AOL Message Board ‘War on Terror Victory Not Possible?’True BluePresident George W. Bush speaks from the heart.  In the war on terrorism you're not going to get a formal surrender on the battleship Missouri and he's letting you know this.  President Bush is true blue.Michael Moore is a power hungry slob with a capital S who wants to take all the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109404851223464404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109404851223464404' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109404851223464404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109404851223464404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/09/following-was-posted-083104-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109396052708971782</id><published>2004-08-31T09:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-09-01T10:18:46.673-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Got VX?Before the spring of 2003 The Iraq Intelligence Service aka The Mukabarat, was in Iraqi embassies around the world dispensing money and training to terrorist organizations. There is a good possibility they supplied the C4 that blew up the USS Cole - Al Qeada had to buy it from a country with a standing military willing to sell. Also, in Oct. 2002 an Iraqi diplomat was kicked out of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109396052708971782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109396052708971782' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109396052708971782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109396052708971782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/got-vx-before-spring-of-2003-iraq.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109382592588412542</id><published>2004-08-29T20:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-30T00:53:15.283-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:I was going to write you at length a little later but you seem in a state over the vacating of the Ali Iman Shrine, so I'll give you my quick take on the situation.Actually I'm greatly encouraged by it. I mean from what I understand this is very important place, holiest site for the Shiia of Islam. Shiia are all over the Middle East and I hear they and Sunni Muslims have at each other</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109382592588412542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109382592588412542' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109382592588412542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109382592588412542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/dear-lg-i-was-going-to-write-you-at.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109361739482783732</id><published>2004-08-27T10:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-27T10:36:34.826-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Subj: Re: What has President Bush done for America?Date: 08/27/04From: Attila The HunTo: HassanDear Hassan:Why didn't georgie boy invade Saudi Arabia?Attila The HunSubj: Re: What has President Bush done for America?Date: 08/27/04From: HassanTo: Attila The HunDear Attila:Well, let's see.  We didn't make war with Saudi Arabia in 1991, like Iraq.  They didn't violate all the terms</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109361739482783732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109361739482783732' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109361739482783732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109361739482783732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/subj-re-what-has-president-bush-done.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109357765984809720</id><published>2004-08-26T23:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-26T23:36:07.736-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Downsize MikeHere's something from page 6 of Michael Moore's book, 'Downsize This':'It is not pleasant when a homeless person actually knows you and calls out, "Hey, Mike!" as you are trying to walk quickly past him and his shopping cart. This happened to me on 46th Street in New York City in front of the Paramount Hotel. I was with a vice president of NBC and the producers of my show "TV </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109357765984809720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109357765984809720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109357765984809720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109357765984809720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/downsize-mike-heres-something-from.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109344395822255411</id><published>2004-08-25T10:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-25T10:25:58.223-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Los Estdos UnidosDear Bug:So, another round with ol’ Hassan huh?  You want an argument you’ve come to the right person.“Ok, fine, (sez Bug) but what about other "terrorist groups"? seems to me that if they're not "terrorizing" the US, then they're a-okay. We're not too worried about disarming the Hutus and Tutsis, are we? Or what about some of the small groups in Africa? If we're all about</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109344395822255411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109344395822255411' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109344395822255411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109344395822255411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/los-estdos-unidos-dear-bug-so-another.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109335936800558207</id><published>2004-08-24T10:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-25T00:10:42.386-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 08/24/04 on the AOL Message Board for the story ‘New Bush Ad Criticizes Kerry on Taxes.’Tax CutsBush Haters are always whining about President Bush’s tax cut and how they are only a give-a-way for the rich.Now that depends on what you mean by rich. (I watched the Democratic National Convection and I heard John Kerry’s definition of ‘rich’: incomes of $400,000 and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109335936800558207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109335936800558207' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109335936800558207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109335936800558207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/following-was-posted-082404-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109335922506810775</id><published>2004-08-24T10:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-24T10:53:45.066-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Peaceful Freedom of AssemblyThe First Amendment of The Bill of Rights guarantees Americans the right to peaceful freedom of assembly.  That means people are allowed to congregate and organize for the purposes of participating in the political process.The Democrats have embraced Michael Moore, man who has equated General Motors tearing down factory in Flint Michigan with the Oklahoma City </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109335922506810775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109335922506810775' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109335922506810775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109335922506810775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/peaceful-freedom-of-assembly-first.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109328116006621726</id><published>2004-08-23T12:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-23T13:12:40.066-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear LG:Wow.  Driving towards Hurricane Charley for rest and relaxation?  You must lead a busy life.  But I’m glad you ended up with sunny weather.It is surprising how The Swift Boat Vets for Truth story has been picking up steam in the last week.  Like you, I first saw these guys a while ago.  I saw a streaming video with John O’Neil   right after Sen. Kerry's Iowa win.I've of two minds on</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109328116006621726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109328116006621726' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109328116006621726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109328116006621726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/dear-lg-wow.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109306052600325476</id><published>2004-08-20T23:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-20T23:55:26.003-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>What Has The President Done That’s Good For America?He has decided America must lead the fight to dismantle the international terrorist network.  This is not only good of America but also good for the world.  People in the rest of the world protesting this course of action would rather pay the terrorists extortion than take them on militarily.If anybody bothered to listen to what the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109306052600325476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109306052600325476' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109306052600325476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109306052600325476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/what-has-president-done-thats-good-for.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109227806431838391</id><published>2004-08-11T22:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-14T16:31:57.743-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Old Heave-HoIn my blog I refer to myself as a ‘free trader’.  What do I mean by that? Well, an explanation could get involved, but let's see if I can do this without going totally textbook. Basically a free trader is somebody who believes in lowest possible tariffs and import duties to stimulate trade. He'd be the opposite of a protectionist who believes in high tariffs and import duties </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109227806431838391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109227806431838391' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109227806431838391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109227806431838391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/old-heave-ho-in-my-blog-i-refer-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109211199047622441</id><published>2004-08-10T00:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-10T00:26:30.476-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 08/09/04 on the AOL Message Board the War on Iraq.Bush Lied to The Nation?People are still going on about not finding any Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.  But what did everybody expect to find?  Pallets of artillery shells with biohazard symbols on the side?  Saddam knew there would be a war since Oct. 2002 when The UN voted on resolution 1441.  As Gen. Tommy </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109211199047622441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109211199047622441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109211199047622441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109211199047622441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/following-was-posted-080904-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109206048272803756</id><published>2004-08-09T09:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-14T09:36:13.470-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you? When the big news is I accidentally bought a pack of tuna sushi instead of the salmon I prefer, I guess you could say it was a slow week.I hadn't heard from my email pal LG in a couple of days, and I was wondering if my last email about the primitive crescent and star on the rudder of the airplane seen at the end of 'American Graffiti' freaked her. Apparently not</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109206048272803756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109206048272803756' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109206048272803756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109206048272803756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-when-big.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109189142209416049</id><published>2004-08-07T11:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-07T11:10:22.093-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 08/07/04 on The AOL Message board US Politics and Government News - Congressman switches parties.  Democrats reacted to the news by calling Rep. Rodney Alexander (La)  a ‘coward.’Hmm"Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America — there’s the United States of America.":  Illinois State Senator Barack Obama at the Democratic </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109189142209416049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109189142209416049' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109189142209416049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109189142209416049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/following-was-posted-080704-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109185147140196495</id><published>2004-08-07T00:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-07T00:04:31.400-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 8/06/04 on The AOL Message Board Business News, Discuss The State of The Job Market.Summertime, and the living is EZI used to do computer aided drafting as a temporary for 12 years.  When you're a temporary doing CAD, a job usually lasts for six months.  Then the temp agency sends you on another job interview where you compete with other temps from other agencies for</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109185147140196495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109185147140196495' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109185147140196495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109185147140196495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/following-was-posted-80604-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109175894978026721</id><published>2004-08-05T22:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-05T22:27:25.596-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Bruce Springsteen via Move On.org.Dear Bruce Springsteen:You ain’t the boss. The boss would know Saddam Hussein was an active participant in the international terrorist network. The boss would know Saddam gave sanctuary to Sabri al-Banna (a.k.a. Abu Nidal), who carried out terrorist attacks in 20 countries, killing or injuring almost 900 persons, including </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109175894978026721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109175894978026721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109175894978026721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109175894978026721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/following-email-was-sent-to-bruce.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109171545451858867</id><published>2004-08-05T10:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-05T17:25:46.766-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 08/05/04 on the AOL message board NY Times Columnists in response to a NY Times article ‘Chords For Change’ by Bruce Springsteen, and the AOL message board on the The Vote for Change Musical Tour.That’s Show BizSome show business performers are exploiting their celebrity status to run cover for leftist philosophies that desire a weaker America.There is a code word </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109171545451858867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109171545451858867' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109171545451858867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109171545451858867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/following-was-posted-080504-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109167434443373554</id><published>2004-08-04T22:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-05T00:05:12.580-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear L.G.:I went to Google and typed in "taqiyya” like you said and found this fascinating web page at ci-ce-ct, an Australian site dedicated to counter terrorism issues. I got a good overview of the concept of taqiyya and kitman, which all came as news to me.  Although I can’t say I’m surprised to read there are Jihadists terms for purposefully lying to non-Muslims. Islam is a warrior </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109167434443373554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109167434443373554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109167434443373554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109167434443373554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/dear-l.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109150794958338811</id><published>2004-08-02T23:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-08-03T00:50:43.050-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>BafflegabI took the time to watch the prime time speeches of the Democratic Convention. I even watched a streaming video of Reverend Al. (Reverend Al can work a crowd). But as I was sitting there listening to every piece of oration, time and again I couldn’t escape the feeling that the Democrats at that convention were seriously nuts - surely they were aware of the truth even while pretending </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109150794958338811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109150794958338811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109150794958338811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109150794958338811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/08/bafflegab-i-took-time-to-watch-prime.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109123845656637694</id><published>2004-07-30T21:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-30T21:47:36.566-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Bug:I read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article you linked to, and I saw it opened with a summation of the Bush Administration's foreign policy towards Cuba, characterizing it 'devoid of moral seriousness'.  The article makes a pretty a serious charge, adding in the next paragraph that the policy 'has more to do with the politics of pleasing a segment of Florida's Cuban-American vote before</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109123845656637694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109123845656637694' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109123845656637694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109123845656637694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/dear-bug-i-read-pittsburgh-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109116435080109998</id><published>2004-07-30T00:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-30T21:53:38.900-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 07/29/04 on the AOL Message Board The War Against Iraq.Down the ChuteIf America ever goes down the chute, it will be because a sizable fraction of the citizenry insisted on wallowing in its ignorance.So Sayeth Hassan Subj: Re: Down the ChuteDate: 07/29/04From: D. John MustardTo: HassanDear Hassan:You're so right.  I wish that the republican faithful could </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109116435080109998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109116435080109998' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109116435080109998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109116435080109998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-072904-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109107987803736609</id><published>2004-07-29T01:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-29T01:44:38.036-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Sweetie Pie:How are you?Sunday was interesting.  I noticed on AOL their Newsmakers section ran a story on George Lucas informing his fans the name of the next Star Wars installment will be 'Revenge of the Sith.'  Well, since they had a link to the AOL Star Wars message board, here was an opportunity too tempting for me to pass up.  So I posted my standard Lucas rap about THX 1138 and THX</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109107987803736609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109107987803736609' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109107987803736609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109107987803736609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/dear-sweetie-pie-how-are-you-sunday.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109094809194463597</id><published>2004-07-27T13:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-27T13:08:11.943-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to former President Bill Clinton 07/27/04. Dear President Clinton:I heard your speech before The Democratic National Convention on Monday night.  You mentioned being in a higher income bracket, and the guilt you seem to be carrying as a result of your windfall from President Bush’s tax cut struck me.  What was that you said, “I almost sent the White House a note </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109094809194463597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109094809194463597' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109094809194463597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109094809194463597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-email-was-sent-to-former.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109094016511385735</id><published>2004-07-27T10:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-27T10:56:05.113-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>AnimusSo why do some people hate President Bush so much?  That's not easy to answer.  Part of the problem with getting a handle on what makes your average Bush Haters tick is they come across as hysterical and more often than not, irrational.  Confront most of them with a positive fact about what the President has done and they'll just change the subject.  So what's driving these jokers to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109094016511385735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109094016511385735' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109094016511385735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109094016511385735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/animus-so-why-do-some-people-hate.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109088948335589868</id><published>2004-07-26T20:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-26T20:51:23.356-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 07/26/04 on the AOL Message board Rebuilding Iraq. A HypotheticalHere is a hypothetical situation for you.  Imagine that the US Military had gone into Afghanistan and Afghanistan only, no liberation of Iraq.Would foreign fighters from other places in The Middle East have traveled to Afghanistan for the purpose of killing US Military personnel?If you concede </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109088948335589868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109088948335589868' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109088948335589868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109088948335589868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-072604-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109087841565103022</id><published>2004-07-26T17:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-26T17:46:55.650-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 07/25/04 on The AOL message board Star Wars open discussion: A place to discuss every aspect of Star Wars.  This post, which had a five star rating, was pulled almost immediately. 1:57:30My copy of ‘Return of The Jedi’ is the 1995 remastered edition.  At 1:57:30, what is Harrison Ford grabbing?If the Stars Wars movies are kid friendly, then George Lucas is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109087841565103022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109087841565103022' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109087841565103022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109087841565103022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-072504-on-aol_26.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109085431634169680</id><published>2004-07-26T11:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-26T11:05:16.340-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Sen. John Kerry 07/26/04.Dear Sen. Kerry:The new smile looks great.  That fang might have cost a voter or two.  And in an election this close, I’d have gotten it filed down.Have a great convention.Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109085431634169680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109085431634169680' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109085431634169680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109085431634169680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-email-was-sent-to-sen.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109084846958972132</id><published>2004-07-26T09:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-26T09:34:10.330-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 07/25/04 on The AOL message board Star Wars open discussion: A place to discuss every aspect of Star Wars.   Crypto fascist   George Lucas.  His first feature film was 'THX 1138'.  (Released in 1971 on 3/11 no less).  In his movie 'American Graffiti', the license plate on John's yellow hot rod reads THX 738. November 7, 1938, (11/7/38) is the date German SS </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109084846958972132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109084846958972132' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109084846958972132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109084846958972132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-072504-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109079180226041520</id><published>2004-07-25T17:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-25T17:43:22.260-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Subj: Bravo Hassan question for youDate: 07/24/04From: Mr. HealthyTo: HassanDear Hassan:Do you know if federal and state employees pay their own health insurance, or portions of and if any comes from tax money?  I looked at IRS page but was too complicated.  Thanks again for your informative factual posts.  It's refreshing.Mr. Healthy Subj: Re: Bravo Hassan question for youDate: 07/</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109079180226041520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109079180226041520' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109079180226041520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109079180226041520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/subj-bravo-hassan-question-for-you.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109068228865642095</id><published>2004-07-24T11:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-24T11:18:08.656-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following email was sent to Mr. John McLaughlin, host of 'The McLaughlin Group', 07/24/04. Dear Mr. McLaughlin:Please inform Mr. Buchanan that the 'why' to his question why was America attacked by the Jihadists can be found in adherence to such Islamic notions as Shaira (domination) and Dhimmi (second class status for non-Muslims) and Izhar ud-Deen (world conquest by Islam).He himself </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109068228865642095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109068228865642095' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109068228865642095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109068228865642095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-email-was-sent-to-mr.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109054996433441011</id><published>2004-07-22T22:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-24T17:28:00.136-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 07/22/04 on The AOL message board saying, ‘Talk about the finding of the 9/11 Commission.  Do you think the report will help prevent future attacks?’ John Kerry – Hat In HandIslamic ideas like Shaira (domination) and Dhimmi (second class status for non-Muslims) must be singled out for what they are - Fascism.  It's easy to identify these as fascism because </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109054996433441011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109054996433441011' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109054996433441011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109054996433441011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-072204-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109042423435111679</id><published>2004-07-21T11:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-22T09:12:36.323-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on 07/21/04 on The AOL Message Board ‘Weapons Inspectors Return to Iraq.’    John Kerry - Scammer    In his latest campaign ad, John Kerry says, "We should not be opening fire houses in Baghdad while closing them down in our communities."       Do you know where he gets that?  When he was in Pittsburgh he heard about firehouse closings under a budget plan called Act</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109042423435111679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109042423435111679' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109042423435111679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109042423435111679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-on-072104-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109033322854999063</id><published>2004-07-20T10:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-20T21:50:31.956-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on The AOL Message board War On Terror, Al-Qaeda may recruit non Arabs.  The FBI is cautioning that Al-Qaida may be recruiting non-Arabs that are less likely to attract notice as they carry out attacks in the United States.  Discuss it here.     Recruiter?       In 2000 I was approached by someone I believe was doing advance work for terrorists, someone who was </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109033322854999063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109033322854999063' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109033322854999063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109033322854999063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-on-aol-message_20.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109010180093013371</id><published>2004-07-17T17:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-25T17:51:49.063-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Subj: 21 Century War Date: 07/17/04 From: Zoso To: Hassan Dear Hassan: If you think the US can win the "war against terrorism" with brute force you're mistaken. 9/11 proved the effectiveness of asymmetric warfare. Your desire to use ancient wisdom as a template for now ignores the reality of the Internet, Al Jaeezera, and propaganda. The old models of war are shot the future is total war </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109010180093013371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109010180093013371' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109010180093013371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109010180093013371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/subj-21-century-war-date-071704-from.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-109010097006738323</id><published>2004-07-17T17:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-17T17:49:30.066-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Following was posted on The AOL Message board Philippines to Pull Out Troops.  What kind of precedent does this set?  Will other countries follow suit?You don’t careIs there a Bush Hater out there who has read Osama bin Laden's letter to The American people of Nov 2002? "Letter to America" Attributed to Osama bin Laden (Nov. 24, 2002) - Full Text' In it, bin Laden says:What are we </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/109010097006738323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=109010097006738323' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109010097006738323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/109010097006738323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-on-aol-message_17.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108998811779817785</id><published>2004-07-16T10:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-16T10:44:31.383-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Read 'Sun Tzu'Here is the question that should be posed to all countries, whether in the collation or not.  Are you interested in rolling-up the international terrorist network of which Saddam was obviously part and parcel?  Read ‘The Art of War’ by Sun Tzu.  General Sun clearly explains why Saddam’s Iraq was the next logical target.  If you’re not interested in rolling-up the international </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108998811779817785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108998811779817785' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108998811779817785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108998811779817785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/read-sun-tzu-here-is-question-that.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-10898660694740237</id><published>2004-07-15T00:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-15T00:34:29.473-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Subj: (no subject)Date: 7/14/04From: HPTo: HassanDear Hassan:Fact based remarks good work!: My learned friend you are right on! People do not want to hear what you say even tho its more factual then what you read in the papers or hear on TV. People follow, we follow and as sheep reap the toil of our apathy with no remorse. What this country needs is a revolution based on TRUTH&gt; It will </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/10898660694740237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=10898660694740237' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/10898660694740237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/10898660694740237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/subj-no-subject-date-71404-from-hp-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108981411643542499</id><published>2004-07-14T10:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-14T10:25:40.123-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dear Bug:Read the articles on Cuba with great interest.  The G. Jefferson Price piece brings up the question about why is it The American Government has relations with other Communist regimes such as China and Vietnam, yet still maintains the embargo against Cuba?  A fair question, and after giving it some thought it hit me - not all Communist regimes are created equal.  More might have to do </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108981411643542499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108981411643542499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108981411643542499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108981411643542499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/dear-bug-read-articles-on-cuba-with.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108978184101755525</id><published>2004-07-14T01:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-14T01:10:41.016-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 07/13/04 on The AOL message board asking the question: Will the US find Osama bin Laden. “There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.”Isaiah.  48:22.Hassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108978184101755525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108978184101755525' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108978184101755525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108978184101755525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-071304-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108964383444585679</id><published>2004-07-12T10:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-12T21:37:46.906-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted 07/12/04 on The AOL Message Board War on Iraq, Insurgent Attacks.43,000 DeadBush Haters use the causality figures in The Iraq War as evidence that the war was a mistake.  Yet 43,000 Americans were killed on our Nation’s highways in 2003 and I don't see any Bush Haters getting upset over those numbers, and those deaths were truly senseless.I don't believe Bush </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108964383444585679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108964383444585679' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108964383444585679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108964383444585679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-071204-on-aol.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108959276611802039</id><published>2004-07-11T20:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-11T22:00:08.276-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on the AOL message board of 07/11/04 that asked the question: The US Senate released their report finding that the US overplayed the Iraq threat based on false or overstated CIA analyses.  What does this mean for the War in Iraq?End of A RopeThe case against Saddam begins with his attempted assassination of former President Bush on a visit to Kuwait, and ends with </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108959276611802039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108959276611802039' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108959276611802039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108959276611802039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-on-ao_108959276611802039.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-1089592598987021</id><published>2004-07-11T20:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-11T20:36:38.986-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on the AOL message board of 07/10/04 that asked the question: The US Senate released their report finding that the US overplayed the Iraq threat based on false or overstated CIA analyses.  What does this mean for the War in Iraq?Iraq War A Lie?Here's an undeniable fact: the 1991 Gulf War never ended.  Saddam never honored any of the Post war agreements he was forced</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/1089592598987021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=1089592598987021' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/1089592598987021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/1089592598987021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-on-aol-message_11.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108949239731014307</id><published>2004-07-10T16:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-10T16:47:45.646-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on the AOL message board of 07/10/04 that asked the question: The US Senate released their report finding that the US overplayed the Iraq threat based on false or overstated CIA analyses.  What does this mean for the War in Iraq?Silly PuttyBush Haters have no argument on whether the intelligence used to justify war in Iraq was 'good' or 'bad'.  All intelligence </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108949239731014307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108949239731014307' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108949239731014307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108949239731014307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-on-aol-message_10.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108942629460636737</id><published>2004-07-09T22:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-17T19:52:45.603-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Subj: Re: HassanDate: 07/09/04From: HassanTo: A Boy Named TsuDear Tsu:In April of 2002, right before the Israeli army when into the Jenin refuges camp, I saw a news report with a Palestinian gunman taking a position next to a building.  There was a fresh stencil of Che Guevara on the wall beside the shooter and I said to myself, “Marxists and Jihadists are allies.”  That is the inspiration</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108942629460636737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108942629460636737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108942629460636737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108942629460636737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/subj-re-hassan-date-070904-from-hassan.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108925364541660704</id><published>2004-07-07T22:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-07T22:27:25.416-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The following was posted on an AOL Message Board, 07/07/04, asking the question ‘What Conclusions will the 9/11 panel reach?’  Bill Clinton, Iraq &amp; Al QeadaIn the fall of 1998, Bill Clinton gets a Congressional resolution authorizing regime change in Iraq, which he signs into law on October 31.  Here's a question for Bush Hating Idiots: If Bill Clinton says his administration did everything </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108925364541660704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108925364541660704' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108925364541660704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108925364541660704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/following-was-posted-on-aol-message.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108899270409213244</id><published>2004-07-04T21:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-05T01:41:26.996-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Subj: The World Hates UsDate: 07/04/04From: WeepyTo: HassanDear Hassan:Because of the policies of George W. Bush, the world hates us.WeepySubj: Re: The World Hates UsDate: 07/04/04From: HassanTo: WeepyDear Weepy:“The world wants to be deceived.” – KierkegaardHassan</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108899270409213244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108899270409213244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108899270409213244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108899270409213244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/subj-world-hates-us-date-070404-from.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108874314093372685</id><published>2004-07-02T00:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-07T22:24:52.216-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Basic InstinctAh ha.  I've uncovered the secret reason for the War in Iraq.  The Pulitzer should be arriving in my mailbox any day now.Critics of the War are quick to make statements along these lines - that this was a war of choice, not necessity.  That this is President Bush's folly and he took us into Iraq on hyped intelligence, (or worse).  Yet at the same time, the critics cleave Bill </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108874314093372685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108874314093372685' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108874314093372685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108874314093372685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/basic-instinct-ah-ha.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108865893373406512</id><published>2004-07-01T01:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-01T01:19:31.823-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Poor Ron BrownI read this really terrific book recently, 'Ron Brown's Body', by Jack Cashill.  (WND Books.  2004).  Ron Brown was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Commerce who died in a plane crash in Croatia April 3, 1996, flying into Dubrovnik  Here are some interesting excerpts. 'Immediate payback for Brown came in early spring 1993 in the form of a surprise invitation.  Hillary Clinton had </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108865893373406512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108865893373406512' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108865893373406512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108865893373406512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/07/poor-ron-brown-i-read-this-really.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108857028527472664</id><published>2004-06-30T00:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-30T00:38:05.273-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>CubaMuch controversy recently involving the change in travel rules to Cuba, which apply to Cuban Americans with family on the island.  Personally I don’t understand the necessity for the changes in the rules.  From a public relations standpoint these changes seem punitive, and from my talking with a liberal friend who believes sanctions against Cuba should be lifted and travel restrictions </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108857028527472664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108857028527472664' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108857028527472664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108857028527472664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/06/cuba-much-controversy-recently.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108843058995997935</id><published>2004-06-28T09:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-28T09:49:49.960-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Hillary and Mike‘Here is a woman who has raised a bright, sweet girl in extremely abnormal circumstances.  White House aides have repeatedly tried t get Hillary to let them use Chelsea in situations that would enhance the Clinton “family image’ with the voters.  She has consistently refused to let this happen.  That is why, until March 1996 (when Hillary took Chelsea to Bosnia and they sang </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108843058995997935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108843058995997935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108843058995997935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108843058995997935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/06/hillary-and-mike-here-is-woman-who-has.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108830487367752710</id><published>2004-06-26T22:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-28T09:40:01.380-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Hillary in '08I predict John Kerry loses in November.  And my reason is the Democrats have already let the cat out of the bag because they're talking about Hillary Clinton running in 2008.  But she won’t be able to run in '08 if Kerry is elected, because he'd run for reelection in '08, correct?  Which means Hillary won't get her shot until at least 2012.  By then she'll be 65 and I'm guessing </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108830487367752710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108830487367752710' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108830487367752710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108830487367752710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/06/hillary-in-08-i-predict-john-kerry.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108821983221882549</id><published>2004-06-25T23:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-28T10:05:02.803-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Poor Al GoreSo now we see in news reports former Vice President Al Gore is out on the lecture circuit bad mouthing the Bush administration every chance he gets, saying they lied to the American people about our reasons for going into Iraq.  I’ve seen videotape of some of the speeches, and all I can say is what I’ve said in this blog once before - if Big Al did that Foghorn Leghorn routine </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108821983221882549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108821983221882549' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108821983221882549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108821983221882549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/06/poor-al-gore-so-now-we-see-in-news.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101574.post-108813241455087097</id><published>2004-06-24T22:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-24T23:01:51.256-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The beliefs of the Bush haters must be challenged as if Socrates were confronting them.  Personally I don't see any other way.“The White House refuses to admit that, as far as U.S. security was concerned, Saddam was more bark than bite. As Hans Blix put it, Saddam had put up a "Beware of Dog" sign, so he didn't bother with the dog.” - Maureen Dowd. NY Times, 06/24/04“Iraq's WMD programs </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/feeds/108813241455087097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5101574&amp;postID=108813241455087097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108813241455087097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5101574/posts/default/108813241455087097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bloghassan.blogspot.com/2004/06/beliefs-of-bush-haters-must-be.html' title=''/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10257436665202248426</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
