Daily Archives: 04/09/2007

Hamas: Unchanged murderers

I really don’t understand why Ynet says that the IDF prevented this suicide car bomb attack from happening when it’s clear that it was divine intervention, but at least there was no Passover Massacre this year: A major suicide attack … Continue reading

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Shire Network News is up

This week’s podcast features an interview with Egyptian Sandmonkey, who talks about how Mubarak feels able to repress his citizens even more now that Bush is ignoring the steady erosion of human rights in the country. I talk about Nancy … Continue reading

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Burying the news

Funny how neither major wire service can manage to spread widely the news that yet another Palestinian internecine firefight has broken out—this time in Nablus, the West Bank—not Gaza. That means the civil war is spreading. I found the story … Continue reading

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Long time coming

Here you go: A story about a woman who hit her first-ever hole-in-one—at age 102. Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the … Continue reading

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Minor site problems

The Comments Quicktags script is buggy at the moment, so I’ve disabled it until we can figure out what’s wrong. You’ll have to enter the tags yourselves, folks.

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Fifth Columns

Let’s say you are a member of parliament of a nation with many enemies. Let’s say you regularly make trips to those enemy nations. Let’s also say that you call on the enemies of the nation whose parliament you are … Continue reading

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More on the British sailors

Okay, I know the Sun is a tabloid, and I know Faye Turney got paid to tell her story, but this is despicable: Earlier it was revealed staff from the Iranian embassy in London phoned Faye’s mother-in-law to try to … Continue reading

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