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LGF - Denmark Celebrates Diversity

The Danish embassy in Lebanon was attacked in February by a Muslim mob enraged over the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy. And Ahmed Akkari, the Danish imam who toured the Middle East inciting Muslims against Denmark, has just been evacuated from Lebanon—by the same embassy he helped [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Hmmm.

The Times - Shooting the mediator Why mocking America has become a team sport

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, spent yesterday dashing across Israel and the Palestinian Authority in an attempt to secure an “urgent and enduring” ceasefire in Lebanon and a solution to the stand-off in Gaza. … Yet in certain quarters, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

In The Times:

President Chirac of France told Le Monde that his country could play a major role in an international force, though disarming Hezbollah should not be part of its mandate. He said that Nato should not be involved in the force because “like it or not, it is perceived in the region [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Times Online - Annan points finger at Israel over UN peacekeeper killings

Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, accused Israel today of ignoring repeated warnings from United Nations staff before the bombing of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon that killed four peacekeepers. … Speaking after Arab and Western ministers agreed [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I thought I’d missed them!

Times Online - Poland prepares purge of communist collaborators

Teachers in Poland are sweating their way through a nerve-wracking summer holiday. The new Government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is preparing a purge of hundreds of thousands of Poles suspected of collaborating with the communist secret police, including headmasters and university chancellors [...]

Categories: Politics

Boy it seems like everything these days is part of a series.

The Telegraph - Modestly embarrassed

The “Yo, Blair” exchange overheard in St Petersburg revealed a surprising modesty on the part of our Prime Minister. He rightly recognised that America was best able to restore peace on the Israeli-Lebanese border, whereas [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - Seeking a ceasefire Any plan for Lebanon must be durable and involve all sides

Few would disagree with Tony Blair’s assessment that what is happening in Lebanon is a catastrophe. Few do not, like him, “deeply regret” the deaths of innocent civilians — in Lebanon as in Israel. He called yesterday for [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Times - Mother-in-law made to pay £35,000 for inflicting four wretched months

A WOMAN who endured what a judge described as “four months of hell” living with her domineering mother-in-law was awarded £35,000 damages in a landmark case yesterday. Gina Singh, 26, told a court that she was bullied, isolated [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

So my servers keep blipping out. I do not know why. Peter emailed them Sundayish and asked them what was up and they said they were “working on it” and that it should be fixed, but I don’t know what time frame they had in mind with that statement. Obviously not a [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Wheat & Weeds:

Something’s up.

Categories: War and Peace

The P-G (after a regrettably long absence) has turned the Geneva Conventions upside down and given it a good shake:

Infinitives Unsplit - The world’s a sea of “shit”

The most interesting part:

6. Attacks against the civilian population or civilians by way of reprisals are prohibited. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph - Pipers are curbed by safety code

Soldiers learning to play the bagpipes have been told to limit their practice sessions to only 24 minutes a day, or 15 minutes when indoors. Pipers will also have to wear ear plugs under the new guidelines brought in by health and [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

Telegraph - Dresses reveal Queen’s ‘model-perfect’ figure An exhibition of the Queen’s wardrobe at Buckingham Palace reveals that supermodel slimness is nothing new. By Hilary Alexander

God, just lookit the pictures.

The exhibition, curated by Caroline de Guitaut, is a stroll through fashion history. It begins with the conventional, small-bodiced “crinoline” gowns of [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

CBS News - Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative

(Now, excuse me, but the venerated Mr Buckley is a bit before my time.)

No you moron he’s a Compassionate Conservative. Think back these past 6 years. If you can.

Update:

Okay, as announced by RC2, Jonathan Sandys called up the Rush Limbaugh show today, to say a [...]

Categories: Politics

Wheat & Weeds - Equal Time For Dogs

I know what he’s thinking. He’s thinking “You’re still not a cat though, are you.”

Categories: People and Current Events