Yank in London
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"
Tom Paine - Common Sense
"A republic, sir, if you can keep it."
Benjamin Franklin
"War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"
Norman Whitfield / Barrett Strong
occasional musings on politics, culture and life in general from an american in exile
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"
"A republic, sir, if you can keep it."
"War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"
30 November 2007
Now why didn't I think of that?
"It is sometimes asserted that if human bones aren’t found with dinosaur bones, then dinosaurs and man didn’t live together. Creation scientists point out that this is a false assumption; if human bones aren’t found buried with dinosaur bones, it simply means they weren't buried together."
Found in the ever so enlightening Conservapedia article on dinosaurs. (Subtitle - "Why the Flintstones Isn't Fiction)
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Department of "who says Americans have no sense of irony"
Without further comment I give you an article entitled "Celebrities Unqualified to Give Political Endorsements".
Want to know who wrote it? One Pat Sajak - either with or without Vanna White's help.
Want to know who wrote it? One Pat Sajak - either with or without Vanna White's help.
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What's wrong with Indiana?
Compare and contrast.
Indiana
Sweden
I'm going for Sweden.
Indiana
Sweden
I'm going for Sweden.
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Dear Rupert
I thought you might be interested in this idea for a reality TV programme. You won't need any writers and you already have great contacts with most of the "stars" you would need for the show. Now that former Attorney General John Ashcroft has volunteered for waterboarding you could make a whole "reality" series out of former Bush administration officials having interrogation-methods-that-clearly-aren't torture demonstrated on them.
After the initial series of say a dozen shows (Karl Rove, Colin Powell, I. Scooter Libby and others all come to mind) you could also have a one off Xmas special after Captain Codpiece leaves office where user submitted methods are tried out on the Captain and his sidekick "I'm a Big" Dick. There could be a premium phone in line which viewers could use to select the techniques that would be proved not to be torture after being used on these two fine gentlemen. I smell big money!
I think you could also sell it to Sky. I know lots of folks over here that would pay to watch it.
Should you decide to go forward with this idea I will forward you my bank details so that you can pay in say a 5% royalty.
Yours in the torture business.
Yank in London
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After the initial series of say a dozen shows (Karl Rove, Colin Powell, I. Scooter Libby and others all come to mind) you could also have a one off Xmas special after Captain Codpiece leaves office where user submitted methods are tried out on the Captain and his sidekick "I'm a Big" Dick. There could be a premium phone in line which viewers could use to select the techniques that would be proved not to be torture after being used on these two fine gentlemen. I smell big money!
I think you could also sell it to Sky. I know lots of folks over here that would pay to watch it.
Should you decide to go forward with this idea I will forward you my bank details so that you can pay in say a 5% royalty.
Yours in the torture business.
Yank in London
Why don't we just as Texas to secede?
It really would make things simpler and it used to be a country of its own. Why not be one once again?
The head of Texas's state science curriculum, Chris Comer, has been more or less forced to resign after having been accused of "creating the appearance of bias against teaching intelligent design". Of course Ms. Comer should have been forced out for having such a position. She was not nearly strong enough and instead should "created the appearance of forbidding the teaching of intelligent design in an intelligently designed science curriculum".
While we're at it let's ban maths too! And what about physics? Gravity is just a theory after all! These needless courses, that only cause many children to get left behind (because they are harder than memorising the Bible), can be replaced with Bible study and Witnessing.
America no longer makes much of anything. Does anyone care to think about what is going to happen to the economy of this nation of 300 million plus people when those 300 million plus people are not longer capable of thought?
More here and here.
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The head of Texas's state science curriculum, Chris Comer, has been more or less forced to resign after having been accused of "creating the appearance of bias against teaching intelligent design". Of course Ms. Comer should have been forced out for having such a position. She was not nearly strong enough and instead should "created the appearance of forbidding the teaching of intelligent design in an intelligently designed science curriculum".
While we're at it let's ban maths too! And what about physics? Gravity is just a theory after all! These needless courses, that only cause many children to get left behind (because they are harder than memorising the Bible), can be replaced with Bible study and Witnessing.
America no longer makes much of anything. Does anyone care to think about what is going to happen to the economy of this nation of 300 million plus people when those 300 million plus people are not longer capable of thought?
More here and here.
Shorter Charles Krauthammer
"Once again I am proved absolutely right, as long as you ignore the facts!"
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Operator get me Jesus
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has a direct line to God. No, really, he does.
(Via Rolling Stone)
(Via Rolling Stone)
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The good fatwa
Iraq's most venerated Shi'a cleric, the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has issued a fatwa barring the killing of Iraqis and makes special mention of Sunni Iraqis. His is quoted as saying:
"I am a servant of all Iraqis, there is no difference between a Sunni, a Shitte (sic) or a Kurd or a Christian".
This is clearly important news and may be a meaningful step towards a reduction in the sectarian violence that has lead to widespread ethnic cleansing and added to the numbers of exiles and the internally displaced.
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God kills
It is always tragic when someone dies an unnecessary death. It is doubly tragic when that person is young and should have a long life in front of them. The scope of the tragedy is beyond measure when the person is young and dies because of a decision based on beliefs that they have had brainwashed into them. We should all mourn the unnecessary passing of 14 year old Dennis Lindberg of Washington State who died because the Jehovah's Witness belief system that had been pumped into him by his aunt and legal guardian told him that he should not have the blood transfusion that would have saved his life.
Shame on anyone around this, undoubtedly brave young man, who stood by and allowed this murder, and that is clearly what it is, to happen. This is inexcusable and how those who were responsible for this young man's well being can escape prosecution is beyond me. As far as I am concerned this is no different than using religion to justify any killing including acts of religious inspired terrorism, be they the bombing of abortion clinics or flying airplanes into skyscrapers. This should not be allowed to occur to a minor in the name of religious freedom. Where are the right to lifers on this bloody issue?
Anyone who disagrees should go read the chapter from Christopher Hitchens's book
entitled "Is Religion Child Abuse?". Then I suspect that your head will explode.
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Shame on anyone around this, undoubtedly brave young man, who stood by and allowed this murder, and that is clearly what it is, to happen. This is inexcusable and how those who were responsible for this young man's well being can escape prosecution is beyond me. As far as I am concerned this is no different than using religion to justify any killing including acts of religious inspired terrorism, be they the bombing of abortion clinics or flying airplanes into skyscrapers. This should not be allowed to occur to a minor in the name of religious freedom. Where are the right to lifers on this bloody issue?
Anyone who disagrees should go read the chapter from Christopher Hitchens's book
entitled "Is Religion Child Abuse?". Then I suspect that your head will explode.
Today in infamy - Sarf London edition
Seventy one years ago today London's famed Crystal Palace, originally erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and later moved to Sydenham burned to the ground. (Did you know that crystal could burn?) We are left with a town named Crystal Palace that hasn't got a palace of any sort, a park named Crystal Palace without a palace of any sort (but with some Victorian dinosaurs!) and a rubbish football team, which I support, that plays in South Norwood.
Seventy one years ago today London's famed Crystal Palace, originally erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and later moved to Sydenham burned to the ground. (Did you know that crystal could burn?) We are left with a town named Crystal Palace that hasn't got a palace of any sort, a park named Crystal Palace without a palace of any sort (but with some Victorian dinosaurs!) and a rubbish football team, which I support, that plays in South Norwood.
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Israeli Prime Minister threatens to wipe Israel off the map
At least that is how I interpret his statement that if the two state solution fails Israel, at least in its current racist form, will "disappear".
I"f the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished".
Well God willing he will be able to maintain the current state of play in which some are very much more equal than others.
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Supporting the troops
The surge comes home.
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Don't you D.A.R.E.!
The police department in Suffolk County New York is dropping the much vaunted D.A.R.E. school anti-drug programme because it doesn't work. Now if we could just put local police in charge of America's school sex education we might get somewhere.
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Does Blackwater's Iraq record deserve an asterisk?
Among other problems it seems as if many of Blackwater's hired killers are pumped up on steroids. No wonder they can't find anyone to play their baseball team.
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"But I've really got to pee"
Not this is what technology should be used for. Westminster Council have launched a text based service, costing 25p to the user, that will direct you to the nearest public convenience.
The downside of this is that given how many public toilets Westminster Council has shut down you may be directed to somewhere in Cardiff.
The downside of this is that given how many public toilets Westminster Council has shut down you may be directed to somewhere in Cardiff.
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Not exactly hard time
Today's headline of the day comes from the Guardian and tells us "Berezovsky jailed in absentia". I think that this is taking the virtual world just a little too far. I cannot see this being very effective as a deterrent.
Labels: crime, headlines, oddness
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Is that a vote in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
Parties in Thailand stand accused of handing out Viagra in exchange for votes in the upcoming (pun not intended) election. A happy electorate is a docile electorate.
Labels: southeast asia, world politics
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Dead or alive?
Peggy Fossett is an impatient woman. She is unwilling to wait the normal period to have her husband, multi-millionaire and adventurer Steve, declared dead. Mr. Fossett disappeared after his plane went missing in September and Mrs. Fossett has asked a court in Chicago to declare him dead. I am certain that the value of Ms. Fossett's estate being in the hundreds of millions of USD has no impact on Mrs. Fossett's decision. It may help Mrs. Fossett's argument that the Guardian has just published her husband's obituary. However the website Dead or Alive has, as of yet at least, failed to take the same decision.
Labels: in memorium, oddness
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Am I bid One No Trump?
As I noted yesterday The Donald's plans to build a £1 billion hotel & golfing complex in Scotland were scuppered after Aberdeenshire council failed to give it approval. Today's Guardian quotes George Sorial, Trump's international development director as saying that The Donald was "very shocked" and angered that council had "chosen to protect a pile of sand". Mr. Sorial put forward the argument that the Trump team was "not arrogant" and then immediately disproved his thesis by saying:
"It may be incomprehensible to smaller minds, but we have always set high standards. We presented them with a plan and hoped they could open their minds, but it was too much for them." (Emphasis mine.)
There is little doubt that Mr. Sorial is working for the right man, is there?
Labels: british life, schadenfreude, The obscenely rich
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Think of the children!
The good folks at Faux News are outraged, outraged I say, over an art exhibit at the New York Public Library that includes faux mug shots of Captain Codpiece and "I'm a Big" Dick Cheney. Intellectually challenged Steve Doocey was worried about "little kids thinking, 'Oh, is that a picture of my president?'".
What about little kids turning on Faux News and asking there parents "is this really news?" Steve? How could they possibly answer that one?
What about little kids turning on Faux News and asking there parents "is this really news?" Steve? How could they possibly answer that one?
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29 November 2007
There's always a cynic, isn't there?
Just to make sure that no one gets too elated over this story that tells us that for the first time in a quarter of a century Americans aren't getting any fatter the story contains the following quote from Glenn Gaesser, a physiologist at the University of Virginia: "You can only get so fat".
He really knows how to ruin a mood doesn't he? I think I better have some Twinkies and think about it.
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He really knows how to ruin a mood doesn't he? I think I better have some Twinkies and think about it.
It is official!
Any attack by the United States on Iran "would throw the Middle East into chaos while leaving Iran’s nuclear program largely intact". Don't believe me? Ask Newsmax.
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"So what's the inflation number this month?"
"We don't know. We haven't found anything to buy."
Something has to happen to rid Zimbabwe of Mugabe and it has to happen soon.
Something has to happen to rid Zimbabwe of Mugabe and it has to happen soon.
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A defence I will never use!
Not because it isn't, possibly, maybe true but because I wouldn't use it. However Michael Carney of Stockton-on-Tees had no qualms about attempting to argue that his willy was too small for him ever to wave it about.
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I never expected more less from them
Is anyone surprised that Faux News has titled an interview with the head of Hamas Mahmoud Zahar "Dr. Terror"?
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WARNING: the following post contains maths
Does one hundred minus fifteen hundred equal victory in the Eternal Global War on Terra?
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Breaking Schadenfreude alert!
Plans for Donald Trumps proposed £1 billion hotel complex in Scotland have been rejected by Aberdeenshire council.
Have I ever told you how much I like the Scots?
Now he can take his bloody comb over (we know you're bald Donald) and go home!
Have I ever told you how much I like the Scots?
Now he can take his bloody comb over (we know you're bald Donald) and go home!
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"The good news is....
...you don't have cancer - yet - but I wouldn't have any more CT scans if I were you."
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But not if the technique is administered by a woman undressed as Justice!
Former US Attorney General and confirmed mammophobe John Ashcroft has told students at the University of Colorado that he is willing to be waterboarded if only to prove to them that the technique is not torture despite what the US military says. I see no reason to argue with him!
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"I'll be out back clearin' brush if ya'll need me"
In an effort to save the planet from the scourge of global climate change Captain Codpiece has opted to telecommute should he be needed to bring peace to the Middle East. He hasn't been to Israel since he was Governor of Texas.
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I'm still waiting
When those of my friends from the American Christian right have finished defending Richard Dawkins's right to publish his book in Turkey I am certain that they will want to attack Dutch MP Geert Wilders for his anti-Qu'ran movie!
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When will Richard Roberts be sectioned?
Now the voices in the head of the former president of Oral Roberts University are telling him to do stuff. How long before they tell him to buy an assault rifle, dress up like a postal worker and go to a shopping mall or even worse run for President of the US?
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Flying whilst ethnic
The members of calypso band who were escorted off of a Ryanair flight in Sardinia because another passenger alleged that he or she had seen a blind member of the band reading a newspaper and therefore he must be a terrorist who was only playing blind are suing the budget carrier. I hope they bloody win. (Why are the accusing passengers never the ones escorted off the plane?)
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Isn't this why the wing nuts attacked Carter and Tutu?
If I am reading this correctly isn't increasingly irrelevant US Secretary of State Conocoleezza Rice comparing Israeli treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid?
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"OK Bullwinkle I need you to blow into this here balloon"
Today's touching Xmas story comes from Anchorage Alaska where a bull moose got pissed, tangled itself up in Xmas lights and hung out outside of a bar hoping a fetching young cow moose might happen by.
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28 November 2007
Judge goes too far - gets sacked
American Judge Robert Restaino jailed 48 people for contempt after no one would own up to the fact that it was his or her mobile phone that went off during a trial. He did go to far and lost his job because of it but how I wish I had the same powers!
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This year's must have Xmas present
The Pet Rock Baby Jesus. (Personally all I see are some yellow dots on a pebble.)
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The good, the bad and the surprising
The good news: On Monday US Vice President "I'm a Big" Dick Cheney was found to have an irregular heartbeat.
The bad news: "I'm a Big" Dick's irregular heartbeat was fixed by his taxpayer financed medical care.
The surprising news: "I'm a Big" Dick has a heart.
The bad news: "I'm a Big" Dick's irregular heartbeat was fixed by his taxpayer financed medical care.
The surprising news: "I'm a Big" Dick has a heart.
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Bienvenue à un automne long et chaud
As if he hadn't enough difficulty with the strikes French President, and recently appointed Bush succubus, Nicolas Sarkozy now has to face riots in the banlieues.
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Question of the day
Now that Pakistani military dictator Pervez "The General" Musharraf is officially Pakistan's civilian dictator what everyone wants to know is - what will Bush call him now? After yesterday it is obvious that he won't be able to get "Pervez" out of his mouth (although we all would get a chuckle when he called him "Pervert"*). So what is it going to be?
*How he ever managed to talk about Iraq allegedly buying uranium from Niger without the obvious mispronunciation I'll never know.
*How he ever managed to talk about Iraq allegedly buying uranium from Niger without the obvious mispronunciation I'll never know.
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In which I posit that God disagrees with Herself
It is certainly clear from the Bible and the position of the Israeli government that God gave Palestine to the Jews and only the Jews so help Her God. So why is the Vatican suggesting otherwise? I looked but failed to find an explanation at the American Catholic League.
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Something rotten in American jurisprudence
How is it that one can end up with a sentence of five years or more for possession of a little marijuana but manage to get away with only one year after stealing millions, defrauding the US government and financing a member of the "Axis of Evil(TM)"?
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Who will the Democratic candidates be voting for?
Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, coincidentally the state where I was born, apparently.
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How did I miss this?
It seems that I agree with Captain Codpiece on one little thing (and even then I have to infer what he meant). In his opening statement at the Annapolis "peace" conference before he left to clear brush he said the we need "to confront terrorism and incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or Israels". (Emphasis mine.) Predictably, and to my great personal amusement, this has made Pam's head explode. Captain Codpiece is now guilty of a blood libel and will not be offered the opportunity to have Pam bear his children.
I reckon he's blown his chance there.
I reckon he's blown his chance there.
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Just in time for Xmas!
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has launched his own panto.
Unanswered question. Do Mormons celebrate Xmas?
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I'm waiting
I am certain that all of those on the American right who feel so strongly about free speech issues that they laudably leaped to the defence of the Danish newspapers after the publications of the cartoons of Mohammed and also of Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk over his difficulties in Turkey as regards the genocide in Armenia are certain to be in the forefront of the fight to defend Richard Dawkins as his publisher faces an investigation, once again in Turkey, over his book The God Delusion.
That's funny. I can't hear a thing.
.That's funny. I can't hear a thing.
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People who read are people who think
And that, in the eyes of the Bush administration at least, makes them dangerous people indeed. Fortunately they have had to withdraw a subpeona that they had filed against Amazon.com that would have forced them to divulge the identities of over 20,000 people who had bought used books using the company's portal.
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It would be worse to not have a war in Iraq than to live in a yurt
Don't believe me? Just ask ideologically challenged Tucker Carlson. (How the hell did he ever get a job on the telly?)
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Oops!
The Yanks just don't get that hearts and minds thing do they? They managed to kill at least 14 Afghan road workers in an air strike yesterday. Rumours that the air strike was called in by the Afghan Road Workers Union because the workers were actually working cannot be confirmed at this time.
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Peace 2008! (But will England qualify?)
I don't know why any of our prior Presidents didn't think of this. Captain Codpiece has managed to get the Palestinians and the Israelis to promise to make peace before he leaves office. I reckon no one has ever tried treating the two sides like misbehaving school children. I wonder if he read them My Pet Goat first.
If this works maybe he'll get one of them there Nobel things just like Al Gore.
If this works maybe he'll get one of them there Nobel things just like Al Gore.
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Mighty mouse II
Well technically they are calling it a Super Mouse but why quibble over details.
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If it's November it must be Pennsylvania deer hunting season
And that can mean only one thing: it's not a good time to be a hunter in Pennsylvania. I certainly hope that the man who shot himself in the foot took the foot to an official foot tagging station. I'm sure that he wouldn't want to jeopardise his foot hunting licence.
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First we'll talk a little talk...
...and then we'll kick a little arse. Why Israel's "longing for peace" with their Palestinian subjects neighbours can't be taken seriously.
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Your tax pounds at work
Sometime next April the 147th inquest in the death of Princess Diana will end. We will then know nothing that we did not know before, at least as regards the cause of her death, and the British taxpayer will be out about £10 million.
Thanks very much indeed Mr. al Fayed.
Thanks very much indeed Mr. al Fayed.
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A voice to be listened to
Today's Independent carries an excellent article about and interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali the Dutch immigrant whose life has been threatened in the Netherlands because of her outspoken apostasy from Islam. What her right wing American supporters fail to notice is that she is an articulate voice speaking out against not just fundamentalist Islam but religious fundamentalism of all varieties.
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Can't you smell that smell?
A lorry carrying chicken fat on the Eastern Shore of Virginia leaked onto the roadway due to an open valve for around 20 miles before the driver noticed. At least four road accidents resulted and I don't even want to think about the smell.
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Department of not really news
That up and coming superpower and member of the axis of skin cancer the Bahamas is to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty. Perhaps the world would have to more to gain if someone would work on getting China, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States to sign up.
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Today in infamy - short person's edition
Sixty four years ago today Randy Newman was born and the lives of short people have never been the same. (In the department of "do they know something that we don't" I note that the MTV website lists his active years as 1967 - 2009!)
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And another thing that's wrong with socialised medicine
Once America surrenders to the forces of darkness and adopts socialised medicine (I'm sorry to say that it is inevitable) we should expect to see things like this happening more and more. Patients in hospice care who are covered by Medicare and therefore feel liberated from the influence of the omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent hand of the free market seem to think that they can take as long as they want to die. Adam Smith must be spinning in his grave like a top.
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Are they or aren't they?
Scientists say that flying foxes in Australia are dying in droves due to the effects of global warming. Australian farmers beg to differ.
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Rest in peace
Dr. J. Robert Cade, formerly of the University of Florida who gave the world Gatorade has died at the age of 80. I hope he didn't die of thirst.
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27 November 2007
Today is Jimi's day
On this date sixty five years ago a blessed event occurred, Jimi Hendrix (my personal saviour) was born, and the universe has never been the same.
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Today in infamy
Nine hundred and twelve years ago today Pope Urban II launched the Crusades and we've been living side by side with Muslims in peace ever since.
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