tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99796362011-06-29T19:27:15.994-05:00<em>myth'-o-po-et', n.</em> A myth maker <br> <em>mir'ror, n.</em> That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar; as, literature should be a mirror of life.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12849414944244742158noreply@blogger.comBlogger1911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9979636.post-1113952488029507942005-04-19T18:14:00.000-05:002005-04-19T18:14:48.030-05:00

BUT FOR EVERY WEBSITE THAT GETS TAKEN DOWN... ...thousands more arise to replace it." Wrong. For every website that gets taken down, the same site rises back up again at a new location, or under a new name, in a process that can take 4 to 14 days. That is the typical scenario. Sometimes sites cease operation altogether due to factors ranging from simple weariness on the part of the webmaster

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Jacko's attorney practices pleading for clemency for his terminally weird client. H/T Netizen News.Posted by Hello

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I'm of two minds on the Tariq Ramadan visa issue. On one side, I want my country to encourage academic freedom and the study of all cultures, however attractive or repellent they might be. On the other hand, as I want my country to be safe I believe that no non-American who preaches in favor of terrorism should be allowed to visit America. In any case, this time Ramadan has done something pretty

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Wretchard on The Belmont Club has a terrific post in which he explains how because of her long suffering, her estranged and repulsively monomaniacal husband, her increasingly desperate parents, and the coldly logical, legalistic courts, Terri Schiavo is becoming a transcendent figure, a legendary character, a sort of hero. Her importance will transcend her own life. Read it. The bits about

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Yesterday morning, in New York, a woman led Muslim Friday Prayer Services for what the organizers claim was the first time ever on record. The Voice of America writes: Amina Wadud has now taken a step to change Islamic traditions. An Islamic scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University, Professor Wadud describes herself as a lonely scholar who took this most public of steps to symbolize the

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In Jurassic Park dinosaurs were cloned from blood cells inside a mosquito that was frozen in a chunk of amber. In real life, all the scientists had to do in order to isolate Cretaceous period Tyrannosaurus soft tissue and perhaps blood was to break a T. Rex thighbone in half. Scientists who had to break a dinosaur bone to remove it from its sandstone location say they have recovered 70-

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Max Boot at the L.A. Times is as incisive as ever about Petroleum prices and national security In absolute terms, today's [petroleum] prices are still half of the 1970s peaks, and the U.S. economy has become much less dependent on petroleum since then. (Computers run on electricity, not gasoline.) But imagine what would happen if Al Qaeda were to hit the giant Ras Tanura terminal in Saudi Arabia

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An excellent article from Atlantic Monthly about some ancient copies of the Quran that have been discovered in Yemen. The most interesting thing about them, from a historical point of view, is that they differ from current Qurans. This is blasphemy to conventional teaching about the Quran within Islam, which states that the Quran is the perfect word of God and that it has not changed since it was

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Read this story about a Canadian Muslim family who went to Afghanistan to run charities for orphans and lived and socialized in the same circle as Osama Bin Laden. One critical point to remember is what Maha and Zaynab, the mother and oldest daughter of the family, have to say about extremist and moderate Muslims. INTERVIEWER: I guess I had the impression that there are a lot of more moderate

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It's perfect! Valdis Krebs is an extremely smart man. Read it!Here's a money quote that describes the best strategy to use to disrupt future conspiracies, should they be discovered in time Although we do not know all of the internal ties of the hijackers' network it appears that many of the ties were concentrated around the pilots. This is a risky move for a covert network. Concentrating both

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I love to read Liberals Against Terrorism. They are smart people who think deeply about things. They are liberal and hopeful as all young people should be. Sometimes they underestimate the vastness of the problem we have before us with extremist Islam. And sometimes they underestimate the strategic wisdom of a president whose domestic policies and elocution they dislike.So I wrote something that

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Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian law professor and former judge, was the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel prize. George W. Bush said of her: the demand for democracy is strong and broad as we saw when thousands gathered to welcome home Shirin Ebadi - The regime in Tehran must heed the democratic demands of the Iranian people, or lose its last claim to legitimacy. Despite this, she had been prevented

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Today's phrase is eminence grise. Sometimes you just need a ten-dollar word, or a fifty-dollar word after cost-of-living increases, to impress the wife's parents or obscure something you're discussing so the kids don't get it. Today's word for the more plebian "advisor" or even "consigliere" is just way beefier than either.On the other hand, consigliere was all through Godfather, which is pretty

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In another first in Saudi Arabia, a writer who was sentenced to four months in prison and 275 lashes by the religious police (Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) has been rescued by the Ministry of Culture and Information. Dr. Ali [Hamza] Al-Mizeini, an Arabic language professor at King Saud University, was charged by the commission with allegedly questioning the

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Bukhari:V6B60N378 “‘O Mother of the faithful, did Muhammad see his Lord?’ Aisha said, ‘What you have said makes my hair stand on end! Know that if somebody tells you the following things, he is a liar. Whoever tells you that Muhammad saw his Lord, is a liar. [i.e., the Qur’an isn’t from God] Whoever tells you that the Prophet knows what is going to happen tomorrow, is a liar.[i.e., Muhammad wasn

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At Beautiful Atrocities. It's a smash!

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Mahmood, of Mahmood's Den has a terrific rant about Muslims who refuse to accept responsibility for their own stank countries. Of course it's because they will rise up against any non-Muslims who rule oppress their countries but try to reason and work with Muslim oppressors. I don't know about you, I do know however that I am absolutely sick of hearing the following phrases: This is not in our

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Way back in 2002, David Pryce-Jones, of NRO Online, wrote a terrific article tying Hitler together with the Palestinian leadership. Mein Kampf continues to sell well in Arabic, with the German dominated ladder of racial superiority conveniently excised. Read it.

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Natasha Tynes Mona Eltahawy revisits Shabina Begum’s suit against her school to be allowed to wear the jilbab. I argued that Shabina was taking to an extreme the interpretation of modest clothing that Islam orders for both men and women. I also argued that the judge should not have accepted this extreme interpretation.I was also angry that any discussion about Muslim women begins and ends with

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Following up on this article... From the Arab News. First, several opinions against the event: Sheikh Sayed Tantawi of Cairo’s Al-Azhar mosque, one of the world’s leading Islamic institutions, said Islam permits women to lead other women in prayer but not a congregation with men in it.Qatar-based Sheikh Yussef Al-Qaradawi, a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an influential

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Aliheydar Rzayev, Ph.D. profiles Islamic Terrorists for Global Politician. H/T Dak Bangla The extremists are absolutely assured that the existing world is incorrectly arranged, but there is an authentic world - created by Allah. They are assured that USA is not only the simple state, but also embodiment of world evil. It is the Satan appearing as sparkling skyscrapers, advertisements, large

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A.K.Faezul Huq writes in The New Nation: Bangladesh's Independent News Source (H/T Dak Bangla) about the creeping transformation of Bangladesh from a secular state (immediately after the revolutionary split with Pakistan) in 1972 to the current state of affairs, where the country has a Friday weekend (non-standard in the region, and making business difficult), Islam as an official religion, lots

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Herbert E. Mayer, in The American Thinker tells why dictatorships are toppling all over the world. He sums up with this parable. It is late at night in Damascus, or Teheran, or Cairo, or maybe even Moscow, and the general is sitting in his easy chair with his tie loosened, his shoes off and perhaps with a drink in his hand. He is exhausted, but he cannot sleep. All day he has been reading

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The Jamestown Foundation describes a textbook (Arabic) written by Abu Bakr Naji, an Al Qaeda strategist who is responsible in part for managing the Al Qaeda campaign to conquer the world via Jihad. This is not hyperbole. This is what Islamic Extremists really intend to do. The Management of Barbarism is one of the few works of jihadi literature devoted specifically to strategy. Jihadi literature

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From Faith Freedom International via KnowIslam or ElseMy name is Yagmur (it means "rain"). I was born in rural Turkey, in a village. Generally Turkish women enjoy many freedoms, which our Arab sisters can’t even think of. Rural Turkey is a different story. Honour killings take place every day, women don’t have much say (if any) in household matters and female employment is out of question.

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From Dak Bangla, a very interesting source for intelligence information from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. I have been subscribing to the RSS feed for the good bits, but have recently noticed how patchy it is getting. This letter stirred up questions for me. Dear Dak Bangla,I am writing to you in regards to your article "Global Jihad" that was posted on one of the lists that I belong on. I

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Right now CNN is yakking up a storm about Scott Peterson and Robert Blake. 24 Hours of News has somehow degenerated to 15 Minutes of gossip, repeated 96 times per day.In the meantime, real news is happening all around the world. H/T Today's Winds of War. [UPDATE: This item has been proved false.] Today in Syria there is a military coup going on! Bashir Assad is holed up in Aleppo coordinating

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The Toronto Sun tells of a mother who discovered that the coat she bought for her 2-year-old boy at a used clothes sale at her church had more than 40 razor blades sewn into the lining. This is terrible. But there is something more terrible further on. This isn't the only incident of lethal pranksterism in the Toronto area. Similar incidents, described as acts of "community terrorism" by

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John J. Miller, in WSJ's Opinion Journal writes about H. P. Lovecraft, the man who inspired a million creepy short stories: Stephen King and just about everybody else in the know recognizes him as the 20th century's most influential practitioner of the horror story--a claim he arguably clinched last month with the publication of his best works in a definitive edition.If our country's literary

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A dissertation concerning Arab attitudes towards the Franks, before and during the reconquest and Crusades. H/T World History Blog.

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Robespierre was the greatest demagogue of his day, and he ended up beheaded by the same guillotine he cause do be used so freely against others. Now, what is the fundamental principle of the democratic or popular government-that is, the essential spring which makes it move? It is virtue; I am speaking of the public virtue which effected so many prodigies in Greece and Rome and which ought to

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At first this was primarily a historical site about Lebanon. But then the Cedar Revolution happened, and now it's the spot to be at. H/T World History Blog

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I haven't checked it for accuracy, but it promises to be useful. H/T World History Blog.

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They may be particles. They may be a new form of life. For now, they are called Nanobacteria, and they are very curious indeed and more than a little frightening. Olavi Kajander didn't mean to discover the mysterious particles that have been called the most primitive organisms on Earth and that could be responsible for a series of painful and sometimes fatal illnesses. He was simply trying to

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Geert Wilders, the Independent Dutch politician who has had to move into prison blocks in order to protect his life from all the Islamicist death threats he has received, introduces the platform for the new political party he plans to create in the Netherlands. God bless him, and keep him safe. The Netherlands, and indeed all of Europe need someone with some backbone to stand up to the intolerant

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Even the FBI no longer believes that lone wolf American scientists were behind the anthrax attacks of 2001. These days, almost everybody realizes that the anthrax attacks were indeed created by Al Qaeda or other Islamofascist elements. Dak Bangla Intelligence Scan assembles a great amount of evidence and data about Zawahiri's, Egyptian Islamic Jihad's, and Al Qaeda's quest to weaponize anthrax

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Way back in 1999, the Jerusalem Report broke this story. Ten miles from the sprawling Iranian industrial city of Tabriz, to the northwest of Teheran, says British archaeologist David Rohl, he has found the site of the Biblical garden . . . "As you descend a narrow mountain path, you see a beautiful alpine valley, just like the Bible describes it, with terraced orchards on its slopes, crowded

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Ayman al Zawahiri's full, unabridged speech of February 11, 2005, unintentionally lists the reasons why the onrush of democracy and representative government in the Middle East scares the hell out of al Qaeda. Here is the complete uncut and uncensored translation of the audio tape issued by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri on February 11, 2005. In this address titled “The Freeing of Humanity and Homelands

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Discarded Lies points to an article by Joseph Grant Swank, Jr. in the Conservative Voice. Allow it to evoke the aftereffects of terrorism for you as it has for me. Four days after Raymond was beheaded, his father, 66 year-old Farouk walked through the doors of one of Mosul's hospitals. He knew to head to the hospital yard where unidentified bodies are usually dumped.He searches through the

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Workers at Ground Zero, 9/13/2001, post World Trade Center collapse. Citizen Zombie has a wonderful collection of photos here. H/T Discarded Lies.

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Sean Wilsey reviews Rats: A Year with New York’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan. Here is a brief extract to give the flavor of this wonderful review, very possibly better than the book that it is reviewing. Manuel painted in silence, until I asked if he ever encountered rats in the tunnels. ‘I see them all the time! They’re big, and they’re brave. They scare me. The other night I

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On 23 Feb 2005, Donald R. Hamilton spoke to the 2nd International Conference on Terrorism in Bogota, Columbia. This is part of what he said. Read the whole thing. Note that I made a few minor format changes to clarify the structure of the speech. Terrorists lie.To justify their actions they lie to their enemies; they lie to their friends; they lie to themselves. "We must eradicate the 'root

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Crossroads Arabia, in an article about Stephen Schwartz, provides a useful summary of the threads of Islamist thought that culminated in Bin Laden's religion of terror. Al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Jammia Al-Islamiya and other terror groups did not suddenly erupt from Saudi Arabia. They arose out of a noxious combination of extremist interpretations of Islam that originated in different parts of the

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The Islamic Commission of Spain has issued a fatwa against Osama Bin Laden for his unlawful acts. The fatwa said that according to the Quran "the terrorist acts of Usama bin Laden and his organization Al Qaeda ... are totally banned and must be roundly condemned as part of Islam." It added: "Inasmuch as Usama bin Laden and his organization defend terrorism as legal and try to base it on the

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Good news!

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By shooting himself in the head... TWICE!!!

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As the west studies Islam to determine what is the nature of this religion that seems to threaten violence against the west for no reason at all, every once in a while something other-worldly shambles from the mists obscuring the ways of other peoples. One of the strangest is the Tablighi Jamaat. They are a large missionary organization for extremist, fundamentalist Islam. Yet they have been able

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From Reuters, via Haaretz : HADITHA, Iraq - U.S. Marines are using a private Iraqi security force to help them hunt down insurgents and say the tactic, while little used so far, is working. [...]Getting betterThe Guard's leader, a 20-year-old Iraqi called Monir Captain, says his men are fighting to protect Iraqis across the country, including in his own neighborhood in Baghdad.'Life is starting

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Uncle Sam wants your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, to dare to triumph over tyrrany.Posted by Hello

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Imagine! A la Babelfish English: Uncle Sam Wants You! French: L'Oncle SAM Vous veut! German: Uncle Sam Wünscht Sie! Italian: Lo Zio SAM Li desidera! Portuguese: O Tio Sam Quê-lo! Spanish: ¡El Tío SAM Le desea! Learn English, learn teamwork and leadership, make friends who will be friends for the rest of your life, learn to field dress a wound, to fight, drive, build, and succeed at anything you

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Speed through a military checkpoint in a country bedeviled by car bombers, truck bombers, van bombers, donkey cart bombers, and ambulance bombers after the soldiers at the checkpoint wave you down and flash lights at you and fire warning shots over your head.Full of Crap has it right. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a moron if he really thinks he deserves any kind of explanation from

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Internet Haganah has an article by Reuven Paz of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center of THE PROJECT FOR THE RESEARCH OF ISLAMIST MOVEMENTS (PRISM) Since the end of the major phase of the war in Iraq and the collapse of the former Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein in May 2003, Iraq—like Afghanistan in the 1980s, and Bosnia and Chechnya in the 1990s—has turned into a

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Ralph Peters writes in the New York Post Online: World Terrorist No. 1 sent a message to Regional Terrorist No. 1: We're losing. We need a different strategy.Osama wants Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to shift his sights from Iraq's population, to help carry the struggle back to American soil. With the old order beginning to crack in the wake of Iraq's elections, bin Laden sees that his last, desperate

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From Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian Unlimited Not only did we set our face against a military adventure which seems, even if indirectly, to have triggered a series of potentially welcome side effects; we also stood against the wider world-view that George Bush represented. What should we say now?First, we ought to admit that the dark cloud of the Iraq war may have carried a silver lining. We

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From ABC News, via the Command Post. Jawa is also on the story. JAKARTA, Indonesia Mar 3, 2005 — The alleged leader of a militant Islamic group was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people but was cleared of more serious charges. The United States and Australia criticized the sentence. Wait a minute! Extensive US

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The Debate Link has an excellent summation of the political situation in and around the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and why it cannot be solved without either NATO or US intervention.

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From the Arab News: Every society in the world has laws as part of its structure. These laws are written and codified so that anyone who wants can look them up in public libraries. Every citizen in those countries knows the law; if they don’t, they can easily find out. Unfortunately, there is much vagueness about Saudi law, especially when it comes to social conduct. Worse still, there is a

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On townhall.com, Kamal Nawash writes a "Wake-up call for my fellow Muslims." Every single word is worthy of being quoted. Given the abundance of quote-worthy material, I could go the easy way and simply reprint the whole thing. But I won't. Nawash chastises those who refuse to acknowledge the dark side of Islam, those who blame the Jews for every problem in the world, those who claim that the 9/

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I like Crossroads Arabia a lot. Recently John at the site wrote that he didn't think the story about the Islamic Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia, of which Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is on trial for conspiring to assassinate the President of the United States, was the 1999 valedictorian, was all that big a story.Firstly, any tangential story off a story of a plot to assassinate the President is a

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Take a peek. See if any appeal to you.

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Peggy Noonan writes about the Patron Saint of the Internet in Opinion Journal: The obvious patron saint of the internet is St. Joseph Cupertino. St. Joseph was a great man of the 17th century, and is my second favorite saint. Many saints were deeply intelligent, and some were geniuses, but St. Joseph Cupertino, God bless him, was a bit of an idiot. ... Why is St. Joseph Cupertino the obvious

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One could get a case of whiplash reading a recent piece in the NYT Movies Update in which David Kehr opines about Aslan the Lion in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He starts his article like this: As the residents of Narnia like to whisper, "Aslan is on the move." And so he is. But for the moment, Walt Disney Pictures has him on a very short leash.He gives a summary from a 10,000 foot view

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From the Northeast Intelligence NetworkPalTalk - Fundamentalists Threaten to Kidnap U.S. Journalist Laura Mansfield, Associate Director, Senior Analyst 21 February 2005-- Surveillance conducted overnight of an ongoing chat in Arabic on PalTalk – the Internet chat room portal popular among Islamic Fundamentalists, found participants discussing possible plans to kidnap a high-profile U.S. or

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People Eating Tasty Animals is a jokey kind of web site. Once upon a time it was hosted at PETA.ORG. No longer, sadly. It's stagnant. It has been sitting in place for nine years without an update. It's a deliberate thumb in the eye of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. With sections on Meat, Leather, Fur, Taxidermy, Hunting, Fishing, Pets, and Animal Research it offers something to

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From NPR, a tale of a giant white-tailed buck with a rack the size of a small tree.

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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. - Ivy Compton-BurnettPosted by Hello

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From an article in the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners Journal, Volume 31 Number 4, Fall 1999, via Firearms Identification, as blogged in The Smallest Minority: America's military is about to lock and load with new ammunition that's tough on enemies but easy on mother earth. It's known as the "Green Bullet", which is a new lead-free projectile that defense officials say is just as

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In the past few weeks I've noticed the popularity of this meme exploding to the level of cliche. What, exactly, are unintended consequences?From the Library of Economics and Liberty: Unintended Consequencesby Rob NortonThe law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have effects that are unanticipated or "

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From BBC NEWS, via BuzzMachine The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers. The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on Tuesday to the 'Free Mojtaba and Arash Day'. Arash Sigarchi is still in Lakan prison in the Iranian city of Rashat. Fellow Iranian blogger Mojtaba

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On New Sisyphus, Al-Jazeera Shows Video of Iraq Suicide Bomber Using Ambulance. Also on CNN, and here, here and here. Related here and here.Well, they have once again used an Ambulance for a truck-bomb. Did anybody think that strapping a bomb-belt onto a young man with Down's Syndrome was the lowest the terrorists could go?How about a show of hands... Anybody really think they are glorious

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Beautiful quote about I.D.Intelligent design creationism, like “morphic resonance” and conspiracy theories about HIV-OPV, relies on people's willingness to believe that science is a secretive priesthood. That scientists are just imposing their world-view, and that different theories should be evaluated independent of their broad context. Should we ignore unpleasant truths? No. But we should

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From Le Sabot Post-Moderne: Self-defeating Socialists: There are two nuggets here: 1. The folly of many who believe that economics that 'work' in a nation of 9 million relatively homogenous people will be equally efficient in a massively diverse one of 280 million. 2. Socialistic economics only work even fitfully when there's a very strong shared sense of community and purpose. It's ironic that

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From WRAL TV, so far three Fort Bragg solders have died from the Flu after recently returning from Afghanistan or Iraq.

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From Arab News, via Crossroads Arabia Why So Many Mosques? Ali Al-Suwaigh • Al-Watan An investigation into how local culture influences people’s behavior would reveal that the overwhelming majority of our philanthropists and do-gooders spend their money on building mosques. Huge amounts continue to be spent to build mosque all over the Kingdom. ... Charity is not limited to one specific field

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I love this storyWe know that 80% of the town of Meulaboh in Aceh was destroyed by the Tsunami waves and 80% of the people also died. This is one of the towns that was hit the hardest. But there is a fantastic testimony from Meulaboh. In that town are about 400 Christians. They wanted to celebrate Christmas on December 25th but were not allowed to do so by the Muslims of Meulaboh. They were

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If the last two ex-Presidents don't hate each other venomously, why can't everybody else get over it?

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Steven Hill writes in the NYT concerning the Governator's plan to attack gerrymandering in California. Mr. Hill explains in his piece that in the other states that have election districts picked by non-elected persons, votes are not any more competitive than they are in California, and often less.The problem appears to be that the party lines have hardened at the edge of the city. Inside the city

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Editorializing in the NYT, Rick Moranis has a wonderfully inspired, satiric, loony dream about The Gates I had a dream last night. I was 5 years old. It was summer. There was no air-conditioning in our little bungalow on the small crescent-shaped street in the suburbs of Toronto. And so to cool ourselves, we ran through the freshly hanging sheets on the backyard clotheslines. I had no idea that

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Suicide Seeds are not Suicide Bombers but something just as frightening.For thousands of years, farmers have gathered up seeds from one year's crop to be planted for next year's crop. It is part of the eternal rhythm of agriculture, reflected in stories about Isis and Osiris, the birth agonies of Dionysus, and other mythologies. Every fall, one part of the harvest is stored away, the seed corn

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The Weekly Standard digs into the sordid history of Jersey City NJ. Jersey City is not just your average all-American city. Alkhifa, a precursor organization to al Qaeda, had one of its main offices in Jersey City. the first bombing of the WTC, in 1993, was carried out by a local terrorist cell from Jersey City, under the direction of Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian blind sheikh and terrorist

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In his latest editorial, Thomas L. Friedman pens a monologue worthy of John Milius writing for Arnold Schwarzenneger. Message from the Syrian regime to Washington, Paris and Lebanon's opposition: "You want to play here, you'd better be ready to play by Hama Rules - and Hama Rules are no rules at all. You want to squeeze us with Iraq on one side and the Lebanese opposition on the other, you'd

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JihadWatch has some exclusive content on the Armanious slayings. The Rev. Dr. Keigh Roderick spoke after the Armanious Family press conference in Washington DC today, and he also released a letter to the US Dept of Justice.A great deal in the media has been made of the potential conflict within the Christian and Muslim communities if the investigation leads to a religious motive. The central

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Your Center for Armanious NewsThis is a work in progress. It will continue to be modified and kept up to date. Thanks to Michelle Malkin, whose links I followed to JihadWatch's exclusives, which inspired me to start blogging this.This post takes the form of a long, densely hyperlinked outline of the facts of the case and tangential materials, some speculative, some historical, relevant to

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Warhammer! In a culture dominated by virtual diversions and mass marketing, Warhammer has acquired an ardent following by being tactile and mysterious, using no advertising at all. Games Workshop, the British company that makes it, has licensed two video-game versions, but it is usually played with three-dimensional figures by opponents who face each other across a real-life table.The armies

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Finally a book that cuts the shit and lets you know in the title that it is all about bullshit. Since the NYT saw fit to cut all the "bullshit" out, and replace it with "[bull]", I have seen fit to put the bullshit back in. Enjoy this review of a book about bullshit... meta-bullshit.Between Truth and Lies, An Unprintable UbiquityBy PETER EDIDINPublished: February 14, 2005Harry G. Frankfurt, 76,

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al Qaeda website image Release Date: March 2004"By its very nature, the Internet is in many ways an ideal arena for activity by terrorist organizations. Most notably, it offers easy access; little or no regulation, censorship, or other forms of government control; potentially huge audiences spread throughout the world; anonymity of communication; fast flow of information;

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Very interesting article over at smartmobs. In a study conducted one week before the 2004 presidential election, a representative sample answered a series of survey questions about John Kerry and George Bush, including their vote intention. ... In the new Bush/Kerry study, participants always saw photographs of Bush and Kerry side by side. We had three conditions. 1) Self is morphed with Bush,

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Thomas Friedman in the New York Times writes:By adamantly refusing to do anything to improve energy conservation in America, or to phase in a $1-a-gallon gasoline tax on American drivers, or to demand increased mileage from Detroit's automakers, or to develop a crash program for renewable sources of energy, the Bush team is - as others have noted - financing both sides of the war on terrorism. We

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I am certain there are people who will not enjoy Christos' new art installation in New York's Central Park. I'm certain there are those who will ask, "what is it?" or "what does it mean?" But for the life of me I can't understand that attitude. It is beautiful. It is a beautiful Valentines Day present to the city that was, is, and ever shall be the home of the World Trade Center.From the New

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Sometimes when wandering around the net you find something old that suddenly, because of new developments, has taken on a new importance that was never suspected. August 09, 2004 How to get rid of imported Imams, by Guest Contributor KianBAs a citizen of Holland for decades, I have a very interesting story to tell you about how Dutch Government assimilated the threat of mosques by training

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I had read a summary of this story somewhere on the net. But the text , translated by evariste of Discarded Lies, makes it far more horrifying!SummaryKUWAIT: 26 January 2005A Kuwaiti member of Al-Takfir Wa Al-Hijra (Excommunication and Exile), an Islamist terrorist gang considered more radical than Al Qaeda, returns home to his family in Kuwait after having gone on the Hajj. His 13 year old

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NYT spins the Islamist Threat to Europe into a Belgian Political Threat against ordinary law-abiding Islamists whose only crime is to dream of turning Belgium into a Muslim Caliphate. Irony intentional. Check this juxstaposition out:Fear of Islam's transforming presence is so strong that even many members of Antwerp's sizable Jewish community now support Mr. Dewinter's party, even though its

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John David Powell presents the PRO side of the argument for keeping a lid on the Armanious Murders. Kudos to the much-maligned Mainstream Media (MSM) for their remarkable restraint in reporting last month’s massacre of a Jersey City, NJ family. Unless you live on the east coast or get your news from Internet sources, you probably have no idea of what happened.... Despite evidence the killings

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From an article in NJ.com about threats of violence in the religious chatrooms on Pal Talk, an anecdote about Hossam Armanious. In the Jersey City case, investigators have removed the computer from the bedroom the two daughters shared, and FBI investigators are scouring it for clues. It was the only computer in the house, and family members say Armanious, like many parents, often relied on his

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Released on the Internet on February 2 and broadcast on Al Jazeera on February 10 around 2PM, Al Qaeda's own Ayman Al Zawahiri had a comment on the recent elections in Iraq and Palestine, and the upcoming ones in Saudi Arabia. In the midst of his speech, in a section that Al Jazeera deleted from their English language version of the speech but that Joseph Braude of TNR Online translated, he

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Sometimes you don't need to read anything after the headline.Innit the truth?You mean you didn't click it yet?OK, if you must...Entertainment - ReutersActor Tom Sizemore Fails Drug Test with Fake Penis2 hours, 24 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Tom Sizemore has been jailed for violating his probation by failing a drug test after he was caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the

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A commentor on Pipes' blog writes an explanation of why prosecutors appear to whitewash the Jihadist motivations of obviously Muslim Jihadist killers.From the viewpoint of criminal investigators and prosecuting attorneys, recognizing a connection to Islamist ideology may be a useful investigative tool. But, it is often not useful to introduce such connections at trial. Where a case can be made on

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In the cognitive dissonance category:UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been barred from having sex with locals after reports of sexual abuse of girls as young as 13, the United Nations announced.In a letter to the Security Council, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said the "non-fraternisation" policy had been put in place along with a curfew for military

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A user responds to an article about suspicious Moslem killings at Daniel Pipes' blog. Enlightening when it comes to understanding what happened to Hossam Armanious and his lovely family. The signature attacks of people like the Hossam Armanious family, hostages in Iraq, and Theo Van Gogh should be self-evident that Islamic terrorism is involved. Perhaps you should educate your readers about the

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The relatives of the Armanious family are behaving with grace and strength. They will be holding a press conference in Washington DC on Feb 15 at 3:00 PM EST to address the status of the investigation and express their point of view. Relatives of Slain N.J. Family of Four Speak Out for First Time in Washington, D.C. Press Conference 2/10/2005 1:35:00 PM Contact: U.S. Copts Association, 202-737-

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