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A tale of logic:

CDR Salamander - Israel. Paris. Soccer hooligans. Black policeman. Gun. Stir.

No word on how many of them lost their cars to mysterious night-borne fires in the past 12 months or so. Meanwhile, the Dutch are having an election? Who knew!

Categories: Sports and Leisure

VCrisis - Venezuela: hundreds of thousands march to support Rosales

That’s a lot of people (click for picture). If it weren’t for my joint compounding — and now priming! — I’d have linked to this, this morning (and then I could have been ahead of the story! Augh!):

Wheat & Weeds - Fighting Words

The [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Curtsies to Brett McS for sending me this:

Asia Times - Jihadis and whores

Wars are won by destroying the enemy’s will to fight. A nation is never really beaten until it sells its women. The French sold their women to the German occupiers in 1940, and the Germans and Japanese sold [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - If your coffee tastes funny, you’re a target, by Graham Stewart

I think that’s the sort of thing James Taranto would file under “News You Can Use”.

Nikolai Khokhlov was given the job of executing a “wet affair” (in Soviet spooks’ parlance) on Georgi Sergeivich Okolovich, one of the NTS [a labour [...]

Categories: History

This one’s really late since I was joint compounding all day, looking for a tile store that sells decorative tiles that don’t have salmon on them all evening, and getting leftover Thanksgiving dinner into me before fainting and then sitting down to a Morse all night. But, here it is, and as it stands:

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Categories: Sports and Leisure

Aussie Brett McS sent this to me:

The Courier Mail - Pilot’s bravery rewarded

Major Scott Watkins was due to be presented with the medal by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. “He is the first Australian to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross since the Vietnam War and one of a number of [...]

Categories: War and Peace

LGF - IBD on Airport Imam Case

Here’s an Investor’s Business Daily editorial about those six airport imams currently serving as CAIR’s poster-clerics for prejudice, with some more interesting facts about their spokesman Omar Shahin: A Profiling In Courage. Then there’s the case of Muhammed al-Qudhaieen and [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Times Online - Fallout spreads from Russian spy death

The Cobra Cabinet emergency committee, which met after the July 7 bombings and the discovery of the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic aircraft this summer, convened after doctors found traces of polonium-210, a highly toxic radioactive substance, in the urine of Alexander Litvinenko, a [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

(I thought I’d do one thread per test, but nah, I don’t think I’ll be that stingy.)

Apologies for the late start. As it stands, it’s Oz 402-3. Hoggard to Hussey, fifth test fifty for Michael Hussey. Thoughts? Comments? Vendettas embarked upon?

Categories: Sports and Leisure

One of Peter’s former coworkers is coming over for some video games and dinner, and since he cooks (not compulsively like I do, but properly) and he’s had some of my stuff, and since this is my first one, I feel like I can go nuts. So, the menu:

French oven roast chicken (sorry but [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Since it was only one week ago that the headlines “Pope Considering Allowing Married Priests!” had to go away after “reflecting on the celibacy of priests” failed to translate into “Pope pauses to think long enough that he realizes how wrong he’s been” and already we’ve got “Pope may relax rules on condoms!, this made [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - So how does ‘engaging with Syria’ look now? by Michael Young (the opinion editor of the Daily Star in Beirut)

If political “realism” is about interests, then realists must prove that a country that has ignored successive UN resolutions demanding Syrian non-interference in Lebanon could somehow be a force for stability [...]

Categories: War and Peace

If my grasp of time zones is correct, the first test should be starting, in Brisbane, right now. Since it’s midnight in the UK and Australia will be otherwise occupied, I don’t know how “live” the commentary will be, but the thread is open, nonetheless.

You all thought I’d forget, didn’t you?

Update (Thanksgiving):

Rueful Red has [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Telegraph - Beckett: Basra hand-over by spring

Margaret Beckett today said she has “confidence” that British forces will hand over control of Basra to Iraqi forces by the spring.

Wow, that’s great!

Say, incidentally, I was listening to my Telegraph podcast a couple weeks ago and their Iraq correspondant happened to mention that the last time [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Awwww

Daily Mail - The first remarkable close-up pictures of animals in the womb

(You know, given the use of adjectives in the slide-show compared to those used when the same process was applied to human pregnancy, I bet these would do more for the pro-life crowd’s efforts than any number of human baby snaps.) (Given the [...]

Categories: Science and Nature