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Why go through the time and effort to force your way inside a secure building, when you can just mow the Jooos down in the street, without ever leaving your car?

Hugh Hewitt - Terrorist Attack in SF? (no link because his new “blog” is retarded. yeah, thanks dude for writing the book on it, then [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - ‘We miss you so much, Molly, we just want you back home’ By Shirley English, Jwad Naeem in Islamabad and David Lister in Tong Mother issues tearful plea after her daughter is abducted from Scottish island and taken to Pakistan by estranged husband

Four days after Molly, aged 12, was allegedly abducted [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Hahaha!

You scored as British and the Commonwealth. Your army is the British and the Commonwealth (Canada, ANZAC, India). You want to serve under good generals and use good equipment in defense of the western form of life.In which World War 2 army you should have fought?created with QuizFarm.com

And are we really surprised?

Curtsy: CDR Salamander [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Not only do they get it over there, but they say something about it! And read blogs!

The Australian - Downer accuses media of Lebanon hoax

In particular, he singled out the London-based Reuters news agency over an incident in which a photographer deliberately manipulated a digital image so that the effects of an [...]

Categories: Business & Media

That smile is so mega-watt the pounds are just falling off of her as she stands there!

Media Bistro - Katie’s Extreme Makeover?

Update (8.30):

snigger

FOXnews - Katie Couric Altered to Look Thinner in CBS Promotional Photo

And what kind of message is CBS and Katie Couric sending to our young girls about their body image?

Categories: Business & Media

Telegraph - Sectarianism in Labour’s rotten burghs. By Alan Cochrane

Very interesting. I won’t bother quoting any of it, but to give you an idea what it’s about, if you’re interested:

Devolution was supposed to finish the Nationalists. It hasn’t. But it may just end up finishing Labour.

Categories: Politics

So, I’m having a crisis, and I need advice. It’s about my cable. And since my cable is your ninme, who better to ask for the advice.

I have a man coming to crawl around beneath my desk again today. Because the modem has to be power-cycled every single time one steps away [...]

Categories: Wildcard

JPost - Column One: Terrorist theater tricks

Sunday afternoon released hostages and Fox News journalists Steven Centanni and Olaf Wiig spoke before the cameras. The fact of their release and their statements were reported by more than 1,000 news organizations throughout the world. At the press conference, Centanni and Wiig, who [...]

Categories: Business & Media

You’ve got a bit of a read ahead of you, but it’s important. (If you must skim, at least skim all three.)

The Sunday Times - How right wing the left sounds after its moment of racial truth, by Rod Liddle

It is amazing how a few by-election shocks and some madmen with explosive [...]

Categories: Politics

CDR Salamander - Marines with too much time at sea

Johnny Cash would be proud.

Categories: War and Peace

Wikipedia - List of meanings of countries’ names

I am such a dweeb.

Update:

‘Ere’s another one:

Wikipedia - Longest word in English

(Psst: antidisestablishmentarianism (which, I’ll have you know, I used in conversation last week) makes an appearance)

Update II:

English is a language which permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Ugh.

Mere Rhetoric responding to the NYT:

Two journalists kidnapped in Gaza were released unharmed today after being forced at gunpoint to say on a videotape that they had converted to Islam. … You idiot! You total blistering idiot! Being forced to convert is a harm. [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times - Queen of the world The talent that has taken Zara Phillips to the top

A brilliant young rider won gold for Britain in one of the world’s most dangerous sports yesterday. Displaying great nerve, exceptional skill and physical courage that only those who have been dwarfed by proximity to a cross-country fence [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

I mean, who can be bothered about a bunch of Turks? Even if there were 10 Britons hurt. What would 10 Britons be doing in a foreign place like Turkey anyway?

LGF - Turkey Terror Update

UPDATE at 8/27/06 6:44:16 pm: Can’t help noticing the media’s incredibly blasé reaction to [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Telegraph - Arrested thinking

We are even seeing the creation of a new category of crimes that would be tried, not under any national law, but under the direct authority of the Union - rather as, in the US, there are state and federal offences. All this is being done [...]

Categories: War and Peace