Sunday, June 11, 2006
NEWS BRIEFLETS
* Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, optimist: “Hopefully from meeting us, these politicians can see that we’re not these crazy, wild-eyed radicals that some people like to think we are.”
* An Investor’s Business Daily editorial: “Those who equate Haditha with My Lai, and Iraq with Vietnam, would do well to remember the last time we gave peace a chance. For millions of innocents, it was the peace of the grave.”
* Acidman catches the travel bug: “I want to go to Australia, even though I think the airplane ride would KILL my bony ass today. Plus, if I ever got there, some deadly critter probably would bite me or sting me and give me an agonizing death.” Oh, sure; come all the way to Australia and never leave your hotel room.
* Somalia’s Sharia courts forbid viewing the World Cup. Fair enough.
* Phillip Adams suffers memory failure: “There wasn’t much anti-Americanism in Australia or Europe during the Kennedy era, or when Bill Clinton was in the White House. There was very little after 9/11. The problem was and remains George W. Bush and will largely evaporate with a new administration.”
* Speaking of Phil, Mike Carlton reports that lawyer John Marsden once “threatened, with the usual solicitors’ boilerplate bombast, to sue me for libel on behalf of that champion of free speech, Phillip Adams.”
* Hank Reardon notes that we’re eleven days into the month and Webdiary has still failed to provide its usual management update: “How can Webdiary claim to be ‘Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent’ if these crucial updates are not forthcoming?”
* Australia—the new East Germany?
* Civil war latest: “Gunmen shot dead a Palestinian security officer loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday ... Inter-factional fighting has become commonplace in the Gaza Strip since Hamas, an Islamic militant group dedicated to Israel’s destruction, assumed power after crushing Abbas’s long-dominant Fatah faction in a January election.”
* Canadian views on terrorism have changed for some reason.
* Senator Andrew Bartlweet finds a new online home.
* Tex uncovers further crazy Zark reactions, including: “Bush must really need a boost to his popularity rating for them to kill off this useful imaginary character.”
* Also via Tex, this obvious explanation for those Canadian terror arrests: “I understand a police sting tricked a young teenage muslim into ordering three tons of fertilizer online.”
* Real men bake.