Today, this editorial board resolves to sacrifice another word – "insurgent" – on the altar of precise language. No longer will we refer to suicide bombers or anyone else in Iraq who targets and kills children and other innocent civilians as "insurgents."Read it all.
The notion that these murderers in any way are nobly rising up against a sitting government in a principled fight for freedom has become, on its face, absurd. If they ever held a moral high ground, they sacrificed it weeks ago, when they turned their focus from U.S. troops to Iraqi men, women and now children going about their daily lives.
As an American abroad, I applaud your decision to relegate the word "insurgent" to the dustbin. We live in a time when we can truly be proud to be Americans – when the brave men and women of our Armed Forces are the ones spreading freedom throughout the world. Those who kill the innocent to prevent the march of freedom cannot be called insurgents or militants. Whether in Iraq, Israel, the UK or elsewhere, they must be recognized for who they are.
[01] AI methods for ethnographic analysis through blogs.
[02] Blogosphere vs. mediasphere; measuring the influence of blogs on the media.
[03] Centrality/influence of bloggers/blogs; ranking/relevance of blogs; web pages ranking based on blogs.
[04] Crawling/spidering and indexing.
[05] Human Computer Interaction; blogging tools; navigation.
[06] Multimedia; audio/visual blogs processing; aggregating information from different modalities.
[07] Semantic analysis; cross-blog name tracking; named relations and fact extraction; discourse analysis; summarization.
[08] Semantic Web; semantic blogging; unstructured knowledge management.
[09] Sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction.
[10] Social Network Analysis; communities identification; expertise discovery; collaborative filtering.
[11] Text categorization; gender/age identification; spam filtering.
[12] Time Series Forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on blogs.
[13] Trend identification/tracking.

Those people desperately need to spend a year living in the mideast building schools, roads, digging wells, and getting a smack upside the head... but NOOOO - cant bring them out of their little fantasy world can we?Looking at this, it is clear that it is not a personal threat (and not even hateful), but an expression of disgust at the way certain liberals insult the US armed forces.
This is the mentality of the HOWARD DEAN set... in a nutshell. I know. I grew up with it, went to school with it learned everything I need to know about it to reject it intelligently. This is the mindset that my own stepfather is still firmly entrenched in as he approaches 60 years old.
Fascinating!
No I am not a blogger, never have been. The quote was made in the forum thread you noted and nowhere else.
Rall? Shoddy Journalism? Imagine my shock and surprise, and please note my severe sarcasm. [...] Rall is a hack [...] with no morals or ethics whatsoever. He is a shock-jockey with pen and ink. He is a junior-Michael-Moore, biting at the teat that feeds him to force out more milk-money.
Thanks for pointing this out. I wonder when the death threats from the the 'peaceniks' will start flooding my inbox!
Cheers,
Domh
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