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SMH - Australians repel Iranian gunboat

The Defence Department has confirmed a report Iranian naval forces in the Persian Gulf tried to capture an Australian navy boarding team but were repelled in the face of machine guns and “highly colourful language”.

You Brits might want to go do something else for a little while.

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Categories: War and Peace

This is London - We’d have more power in EU if Germans hadn’t ‘reduced our population’ in World War II, says Polish PM

Given the accompanying graphics, I’d say the This is London folks are inclined to think he’s got a point.

I do love these EU summits.

Categories: History

Corner - Clueless Brit-Lits, by Stanley Kurtz

Apparently, the committee that recommended Salman Rushdie for a knighthood had no idea that Rushdie’s selection would be taken as an insult by vast sections of the Muslim world. On the contrary, they believed that honoring Rushdie would actually improve Britain’s relations with countries like Pakistan. Whether [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

This is a hoot:

Telegraph - Our parents have always been green. By Alice Thomson

Comparing myself to everything in there, I have absolutely nothing in common with her (yesterday I threw out half a cup of uneaten rice and it almost killed me) and everything with her mother (someone tell my mother I’m not cluttered, I’m [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

The Times - Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are In a battle between flaming fundamentalists and mute moderates, who do you think is going to win? By Irshad Manji (Senior Fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy, creator of the new documentary Faith Without Fear and author of A Senior Fellow with the European [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Let’s learn from the instransigent Poles Britain must be tough at the Berlin summit, by Camilla Cavendish

The Brits and the French know how to play the game, a German diplomat embroiled in the European Union treaty negotiations told me last week. “We know we can rely on them. But the Poles, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

‘Tis the first day of Summer here. We can expect AM showers and clouds through the weekend. The tractors belonging to the road crews working outside (have I mentioned we’ve been getting new water mains lo, these four months or so?) insist on backing up (“beeeep beeeep beeeep”) and our windows (did I [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Financial Post - Read the sunspots The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling, by R. TIMOTHY PATTERSO (professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University)

My research team began to [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Telegraph Blogs - Holy Smokes - Allah on Friday, Jesus on Sunday

An Anglican woman priest has become a Muslim but is also remaining a Christian. So she’s both at the same time. No, seriously. … “It wasn’t about intellect,” explains [her bishop] Redding. And, having read her account of her [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Alfred Hitchcock and the Zionist plot The struggle for peace in the Middle East, by Daniel Finkelstein

Let me start with Alfred Hitchcock. No Hitchcock film could get going without a MacGuffin. The master explained it thus: “It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Spectrum online - Cohousing Can Help Reduce Global Warming

“Cohousing” must be the inclusive term for it. Which means they’re also against gay marriage!

Categories: Science and Nature

This is getting repetitive.

The Times - Fury as presidential hopeful urges women to throw off ‘veil of invader’

By yesterday, however, Mrs Patil’s name was on the lips of Muslim leaders, who accused her of insulting Islam. Outraged by her comment that the veil has been imported to India by Muslim invaders, they are [...]

Categories: History

“wrrrrr…….”

Categories: Catblogging

Hillary Clinton somehow managed to find the other most annoying woman on the planet to do her campaign song. Remarkable.

Update:

Oh lord. It was written by an adman for Air Canada. Oh lord.

ninme dies laughing

Update II:

Well, this ties in apparently. I was going to ignore it (Hillary does the Sopranos finale! I [...]

Categories: Politics

Well that was fast. It was just Sunday that dad was telling me I should look up the new Nike ad that was playing during the Open for Father’s Day (which is here bottom box on the right, “this father’s day give the gift of golf”), and is pretty darned cute).

Reuters - Tiger Woods’ [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure