So that’s where he is. Apparently they’ve been harboring him in British Columbia.
A middle-eastern-looking man with a credit card in the name of “Osama bin Laden” used it to steal gasoline in Vancouver.
He was driving a Jag. No word as to whether or not Mullah Omar was with him, or if he was living in the car.
[Via Reason Express]
The renowned satirist, Iowahawk (aka David Burge) emails:
To honor Earth Day and Al Gore’s latest enviro-gibberish, I dusted off this moldy oldie for you…
Gore Attacked By Angry Muscle Cars
And he further threatens:
BTW, I’m gonna do the blog thing soon; more of an archive of old stuff like this. I’ll let you know when it’s up.
You don’t scare us, Burge.
You will be assimilated. We told you that resistance was futile.
They’re making a biopic about John McCain.
They’re talking up Ed Norton, Jr. for the lead role. My suggestion is in the title. What’s yours?
I’d heard budget rumors about this a few days ago, but now Space.com has a story on it. NASA is terminating the office that monitors space debris.
No, not asteroids–it’s things like tools, and payload shrouds, and loose screws, and flaked-off paint, and the results of the occasional satellite explosion. This is a very real problem–as the article points out, we often have to change out windows or thermal-protection tiles in the Shuttle Orbiters because of strikes from these things–at differential velocities of thousands of miles an hour, a paint chip is like a bullet.
They may restore funding, and I wouldn’t be shocked if this turns out to be a “Washington Monument” threat (you, know, like when the government is threatened with a budget cut, they pull out some popular thing that they’ll threaten to cut, to fend off any cuts at all). It might be just part of the overall agency posturing to defend as much of their budget as possible, by threatening cuts in vital programs (while ignoring internal pork and hobby shops).
We’ll just have to see how it all plays out.
There’s an eminently sensible (and timely, considering the recent anti-globo funfest in DC) column in today’s Times of London by Mick Hume (presumably not closely related to either David or Brit) on the reflexive anti-Israeli posture in much of the west.
Attacking the Israelis has become a way to vindicate any petty prejudice. It unites my German friend?s right-wing grandmother, who has waited 50 years for an excuse to criticise ?the Jews?, with left-wing protesters who imagine that the Palestinian struggle is on a par with them vandalising a burger bar.
Sympathy with the terrible plight of Jenin is no reason to endorse the anti-imperialism of idiots. Populist anti-Israeli rhetoric is cheap, but offers no solutions to the long-suffering peoples of the Middle East. And climbing on the backs of the victims to strike moralistic postures is just, as the diplomatic French might say, merde.
That’s my first suggestion for the campaign slogan.
Another might be, “Three chickens on every plate, and an electric car in every garage.”
Go ahead, come up with some of your own, to get ready for the Michael Moore Green Party gubernatorial run.
Go for it, Mike! Anything to make the Green Party seem even more ridiculous and irrelevant, I say.
Can’t wait until Tim Blehh gets hold of this one…
That’s my first suggestion for the campaign slogan.
Another might be, “Three chickens on every plate, and an electric car in every garage.”
Go ahead, come up with some of your own, to get ready for the Michael Moore Green Party gubernatorial run.
Go for it, Mike! Anything to make the Green Party seem even more ridiculous and irrelevant, I say.
Can’t wait until Tim Blehh gets hold of this one…
That’s my first suggestion for the campaign slogan.
Another might be, “Three chickens on every plate, and an electric car in every garage.”
Go ahead, come up with some of your own, to get ready for the Michael Moore Green Party gubernatorial run.
Go for it, Mike! Anything to make the Green Party seem even more ridiculous and irrelevant, I say.
Can’t wait until Tim Blehh gets hold of this one…
Now the headline is “Brutal, Yes. Massacre, No.”
“Demolishing the homes of Arab civilians… Shooting handcuffed prisoners… Forcing local Arabs to test areas where mines may have been planted…”
These sound like the sort of accusations made by British and other European officials concerning Israel’s recent actions in Jenin. In fact, they are descriptions from official British documents concerning the methods used by the British authorities to combat Palestinian Arab terrorism in Jenin and elsewhere in 1938.
That’s the fascinating beginning of an article in the Jerusalem Post, that describes how there are no new things under the sun.