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TOLEDO, Ohio – Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel's "'Average Joes' share their story."

Because if there's any one perspective that's not being presented to America's conservatives, it's that of Israel's "Average Joe's."


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Craigslist

So i've started selling a few extraneous items on Craigslist. And the first one is being purchased by someone whose bank has inexplicably sent me a check (or so she claims) for about 25 times the actual agreed upon price, but i'm supposed to cash the check and take an extra hundred bucks or so for my troubles before sending her the balance or something like that.

Probably to Nigeria.

UPDATE: Yep, just checked my drivers license and confirmed that i wasn't born yesterday.

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Who knew?

I feel better about the future of America already.

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Noted without comment

Because, really, anything i might add would be superfluous.

A New Jersey couple can't understand why a local supermarket has refused to paint their child's name in frosting on a cake they ordered.

Deborah Campbell says she phoned an order into the ShopRite in Greenwich, near Phillipsburg, and spelled out her son's name: Adolf Hitler Campbell.

The store refused to complete the order. A spokeswoman for ShopRite said the request was inappropriate.

The couple ended up getting their 3-year-old son's name written on a cake at a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart instead.

Campbell and her husband, Heath, also have a daughter whose middle name is Aryan Nation.

Heath Campbell says he likes the name Adolf Hitler and it doesn't mean he's raising his son to hate minorities.

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Stumped!

I will entertain your thoughts as to what this means.

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Sicker people

WTF?

A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said.
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Maintenance workers reported about 7:45 a.m. finding a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout near the Catamount statute at the entrance to campus, said Tom Johnson, chief of university police.

“It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head,” Johnson said.

University police called in N.C. Wildlife Resources officials to remove the body and help in the investigation. Bear season is currently under way in Western North Carolina.

Core values, i guess.

UPDATE: WRAL has a story saying this was a prank, and that a bunch of WCU students "found" the bear, already shot, in the woods. The Obama signs were picked up at random and wrapped around the head wounds to keep "blood from spilling into the bed of the truck they were driving."

WCU chancellor John Bardo is quoted in the story as saying "I am pleased to hear that this situation appears to be a stupid prank."

Yeah, right.

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Thinking out loud

Has anyone in the Durham DA's office given any thought to how embarrassing it's going to be when they call Satan to the witness stand, and he doesn't show?

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I get mail

Dear Barry,

On Thursday Oct. 31st DHS Secretary Chertoff will join Sen. Collins to unveil a bill aimed at addressing the IED threat within U.S. borders. Indeed, a recent research report by Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC), 2008-2012 Global Counter-IED Markets and Technologies Forecast, analyzing current and evolving Counter-IED efforts, predicts that if IED does indeed infiltrate our borders, the market for counter-IED technologies will see unprecedented growth. The outlay for counter IED efforts will more than triple over the next 5 years, from a total of around $5 billion in 2007 to around $18 billion in 2012



This growth will be driven by the changes in the nature of the response to the IED threat within our borders. Such a response will be completely different from that used to face the threat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Consequently, the technologies and tactics used in this conflict will have to undergo radical transformations, creating unprecedented opportunities for newcomers with innovative technologies

For more details on this research please use the link below to examine the TOC:

2008-2012 Global Counter-IED Markets and Technologies Forecast



The research provides the most comprehensive analysis and forecasts of counter-IED markets, technologies and trends covering, among many topics, the following:

1. Global Counter-IED Business Opportunities - New market entrants with a technological edge are presented with market entry opportunities in several multi-billion dollar markets
2. Analysis of 71 current and emerging Counter-IED technologies by segments
3. 2008-2012 Global Systems Procurement, Services and Upgrade Market forecasts - 2008-2012 aggregate market totaling $23.2 billion
4. Country/Region 2008-2012 analysis and forecasts (e.g. U.S., Europe, India, Israel, China)
5. Global Counter-IED Market Growth opportunities segmented by country/region

The report includes 279 pages of data and analysis, 92 figures and graphs, and 144 tables. It is indeed one of our most extensive and comprehensive research works to date.

To give you a better insight of this market research, please click HERE for Table of Contents.

To order click here , or call (408) 295-4000.

For a complete list of our Homeland Security publications, visit our website.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly with any questions that you may have.

Kind regards,
Doron Pely
Vice President
Homeland Security Research Corporation

e-mail: dpely@hsrc.biz
601 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C.20004
www.hsrc.biz
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This growth will be driven by the changes in the nature of the response to the IED threat within our borders. Such a response will be completely different from that used to face the threat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Consequently, the technologies and tactics used in this conflict will have to undergo radical transformations, creating unprecedented opportunities for newcomers with innovative technologies

For more details on this research please use the link below to examine the TOC:

2008-2012 Global Counter-IED Markets and Technologies Forecast



The research provides the most comprehensive analysis and forecasts of counter-IED markets, technologies and trends covering, among many topics, the following:

1. Global Counter-IED Business Opportunities - New market entrants with a technological edge are presented with market entry opportunities in several multi-billion dollar markets
2. Analysis of 71 current and emerging Counter-IED technologies by segments
3. 2008-2012 Global Systems Procurement, Services and Upgrade Market forecasts - 2008-2012 aggregate market totaling $23.2 billion
4. Country/Region 2008-2012 analysis and forecasts (e.g. U.S., Europe, India, Israel, China)
5. Global Counter-IED Market Growth opportunities segmented by country/region

The report includes 279 pages of data and analysis, 92 figures and graphs, and 144 tables. It is indeed one of our most extensive and comprehensive research works to date.

To give you a better insight of this market research, please click HERE for Table of Contents.

To order click here , or call (408) 295-4000.

For a complete list of our Homeland Security publications, visit our website.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly with any questions that you may have.

Kind regards,
Doron Pely
Vice President
Homeland Security Research Corporation

e-mail: dpely@hsrc.biz
601 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C.20004
www.hsrc.biz

About Homeland Security Research Corporation Homeland Security Research Corp. is a Washington, D.C. based international market research and strategic consulting firm serving the homeland security community. Our company provides premium market, technology and industry expertise that enable clients around the world to gain critical insight into the business opportunities that exist within the Homeland Security market. Some of our government clients include U.S. Congress GAO, DHS, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, EU, UK Ministry of Defence and NATO, among others. HSRC serves over 300 private clients including many Fortune 500 companies, as well as security decision makers worldwide.

Awesome. Global terrorism as a business opportunity. No wonder i'm still working for a living.

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