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:: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 ::

No Posting Tomorrow

Among other things, it's my mother's birthday.

One last entry for my Sept. 11 reflections ...


Dana and Zoe Falkenberg


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Retired fire chief Joseph Curry barks orders to rescue teams as they clear through debris that was once the World Trade Center Sept. 14, 2001, in New York. Photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Preston Keres, USN

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Naval Station Norfolk, Va. (Oct. 15, 2000) -- An injured Sailor from the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) shares a tearful reunion with her mother. 33 Sailors were injured when a terrorist bomb struck the U.S. Navy destroyer October 12th, 2000. All arrived at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, from Germany on an Air Force C-141 transport. Six remaining injured are stayed in Ramstein, Germany, until their condition becomes more stable. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Chris Pastol
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Flacking For Hizbollah

Robert Fisk continues to hit new lows, this time brazenly defending the Lebanon-based "terrorist" (his scare quotes) organization from the irresponsible jingoistic polemics of the Bush administration.

The Syrian Accountability Act, which accuses Damascus of supporting "terrorism", will come into force as President Bush is speaking and will follow only days after the State Department branded the Lebanese Hizbollah as the "A-team of terrorism", more dangerous even than Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. Like Iraq, the Hizbollah had nothing to do with the 11 September attacks – indeed, they were among the first to condemn them – but the White House now seems set on painting allies and enemies alike in the Middle East as a focus of evil.

Huh? Is he really suggesting that Hizbollah is even a potential ally? I'm sure the survivors of William Buckley and Lt. Col William Higgins will find that fact comforting.

Prick. I do hope someone in the blogosphere will be covering this dickhead's lecture at GMU today (not tomorrow). I was planning on it myself, but my job has me traveling today.
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A North Dakota National Guard F-16 fighter screams over a burning Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, in this painting by Rick Herter. The painting is now part of the Air Force Art Collection.
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Arlington, Va. (Sep. 12, 2001) -- Firefighters, rescue workers and military members prepare to unfurl the U.S. flag from the roof of the Pentagon on the day after the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. American Airlines FLT 77 was bound for Los Angeles from Washington Dulles with 58 passengers and 6 crew. All aboard the aircraft were killed, along with 125 people in the Pentagon. U.S. Naval photo by Photographer?s Mate 1st Class Michael W. Pendergrass.
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Arlington, Va. (Sep. 14, 2001) -- Aerial view of the destruction caused when a hijacked commercial airliner crashed into the Pentagon on Sep. 11th. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the Pentagon. American Airlines FLT 77 was bound for Los Angeles from Washington Dulles with 58 passengers and 6 crew. All aboard the aircraft were killed, along with 125 people in the Pentagon. U.S. Navy Photo Courtesy of DoD Photographer Tech. Sgt. Cedric H. Rudisill
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New York, N.Y. (Sep. 14, 2001) -- What is left of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, stands like a tombstone among the debris and devastation caused by the Sep. 11, terrorist attack. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres.
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Ground Zero, New York City, N.Y. (Sept. 17, 2001) -- An aerial view shows only a small portion of the crime scene where the World Trade Center collapsed following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Surrounding buildings were heavily damaged by the debris and massive force of the falling twin towers. Clean-up efforts are expected to continue for months. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Eric J. Tilford.
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Ground Zero, New York City, N.Y. (Sept. 17, 2001) -- An aerial view shows only a small portion of the crime scene where the World Trade Center collapsed following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Surrounding buildings were heavily damaged by the debris and massive force of the falling twin towers. Clean-up efforts are expected to continue for months. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Eric J. Tilford.
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New York, N.Y. (Sept. 14, 2001) -- A fire fighter emerges from the smoke and debris of the World Trade Center. The twin towers of the center were destroyed in a Sep. 11 terrorist attack. U.S. Navy Photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson.
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Blood Pressure Dangerously Low?

Then get a load of this.

Hey, you okay? Speak to me ...
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Our Friends The Saudis, Part 34,876

The Saudi Entity is trying to pin yet another spate of anti-Western terror attacks on (wait for it ...) Westerners.

British embassy staff in Riyadh have been accused by the Saudi Arabian authorities of coordinating a campaign of anti-western terrorist bombings in the kingdom, the Guardian has learned.

The accusation that the British embassy in Riyadh coordinated the bombings to destabilise the Saudi regime is the latest and most bizarre piece of information to escape the pall of secrecy behind which the Saudis have been conducting legal proceedings against seven westerners who say they have been tortured into making false confessions.

Outrage? Anyone? Why the fuck do I have to read about this in the Daily Wanker?

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Arlington, Va. (Sep. 14, 2001) -- Agents from several federal agencies, fire fighters, rescue workers and engineers work at the Pentagon crash site on Sep. 14, 2001, where a hijacked American Airlines flight slammed into the building on Sep. 11. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. American Airlines FLT 77 was bound for Los Angeles from Washington Dulles with 58 passengers and 6 crew. All aboard the aircraft were killed, along with 125 people in the Pentagon. DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Cedric H. Rudisill.
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New York, N.Y. (Sept. 14, 2001) -- New York City firemen walk past the American flag as they work their way toward the heart of the devastation that was once the World Trade Center. U.S. Navy Photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres.

This story, and it's accompanying photo gallery are not for the squeamish. They aren't for the jaded, either.


Arlington, Va. (Sep. 14, 2001) -- A Clock frozen at the time of impact when a hijacked commercial airliner crashed into the Pentagon on Sep. 11. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the Pentagon. American Airlines FLT 77 was bound for Los Angeles from Washington Dulles with 58 passengers and 6 crew. All aboard the aircraft were killed, along with 125 people in the Pentagon. U.S. Navy Photo Courtesy of DoD Photographer Staff Sgt. Larry A. Simmons.
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This Is What We Need Just to Train Our Troops

We're completing another COMPTUEX at the Vieques training range, without benefit of live ordnance -- but don't worry, I'm sure they'll learn quickly doing it for real in the Persian Gulf.

Three Navy security personnel were hit by rocks - one by a rock hurled from a slingshot - during two separate incidents last night. To protect the safety of the Navy security forces, tear gas canisters were released at both of the disturbances.

In addition, more than 45 feet of fencing were cut at two separate locations and unknown persons set a fire along the fence-line at a third location. The fencing will cost nearly $5,000 to repair. This brings the total amount of fencing cut since May 2000 to 30,294 feet, adding to the more than $3 million of taxpayer funds that have been used to repair federal property damaged by vandals during this period.

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Maybe Harry Potter™ Is a Satanic Plot

This is just wrong.
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New York, N.Y. (Sept. 15, 2001) -- A tired search dog finds time to rest as rescue efforts at the World Trade Center in New York City continue just a few feet away. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres.
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Sure Glad We Got Rid of Those Guys ...

... they were really starting to get on my nerves.

Tim Blair says that anyone who hasn't yet read Andrea Harris' omnibus rant is banned from the internet.
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"Pouring Fuel on Radical Embers"

This gem just rolled off the UPI wires ...

A study by Martin Indyk, a former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, tracked the number of demonstrations in 21 Arab countries from Morocco to Dubai, since the start of the war on terrorism, until Nov. 2001.

During the first week of the campaign: nine demonstrations.

During the second week: three.

During the third week: one.

During the fourth week: two.

During the fifth week: zero.

And during the sixth week: one.

Why such lethargy?

Most Arab countries -- including Saudi Arabia, where traditional Wahabism dominates -- would, much as the West, prefer to see the Islamist fundamentalist menace disappear. The threats to their stability perpetrated by the likes of bin Laden hangs over the heads of Middle East rulers like the fabled sword of Damocles.

The piece goes on to give serious consideration to the threat of Arab oil and trade boycotts, which I think is a bit overstated, considering how many Nike™ and Addidas™ logos you see at said demonstrations.


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This is probably old news to most of you, but reader Mike Daley e-mailed me this link -- a Sept. 11 commemoration of sorts that I hadn't seen before. Despite the Enya soundtrack, it's quite succinct and moving.
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Must ... Fight ... Urge to Kill ...

THe London Times injects this spin in its coverage of the relief of the USS Kitty Hawk CO:

The giant aircraft carriers of the US Navy are run like modern cities, boasting 2,400 telephones, six-channel television, five dentists, four shops, two barbers’ shops, two lawyers and one post office. On any one day more than 17,000 meals are being prepared and served for the 5,600-strong crew.

Boarding one is like entering a time warp back to the former Deep South. In the bowels of the carrier, where the crew are cooped up for six months at a time, manual workers sleep dozens to a room. Most are black or Puerto Rican, paid $7,000 to $10,000 a year to work in the broiling temperatures of the kitchens and engine rooms.

As you move up the 11 segregated levels towards the pilots’ quarters beneath the deck, the living quarters become larger, the air cooler and the skin tones lighter. Officers exist in almost total ignorance of the teeming world beneath them, passing around second-hand tales of murders, gang-fights and drug abuse. Visitors are banned from venturing down to the lowest decks, which swelter next to the vast nuclearpowered engines.

Quite obviously, these two slobbering jackasses haven't been anywhere near a Navy vessel in about 30 years.
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What's The Deal With Airline Couscous?

Mike Moynihan has a good post on the Jackie Mason/Palestinian opening act flap, comparing the coverage of that incidence of "censorship" to the coverage -- or lack thereof, discounting the blogosphere -- of the Manchester Institute of Technology's boycott against all Israeli academics, and firing of two professors who snuck in before the ban.

Apart from that, I feel I was cheated by those rat bastards at Phillip Morris. Nowhere in the pamphlet-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution they mailed me (to convince me that the tobacco lawsuits were wrong) does it say anything about a right to open for Jackie Mason.

I think I'm entitled to open for Dave Atell. It's my birthright, dammit.

But take a gander at the jilted comedian's Web site. Here are a few his comic stylings, but be warned: they're about as funny as Margo Kingston is beautiful ...

When in Rome, do as the Romans ...

My dad always used to say he loved this country. You could do anything you wanted in America, he'd say. When my father first came to this country, the immigration officer at Ellis Island directed him to shave his beard and get rid of the long flowing Arab robes. "When in Rome, do as the Romans," the immigration officer told my dad.

So, dad shaved off his beard and replaced the long flowing Arabian robes with a three-piece pinstriped suit, and went right out and started pillaging and raping ... He just retired, after 35 years, as an officer with the Enron Corporation ...

Just a silly question ...

Q: How many Arab/Jewish comedian duos does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: We don't know yet.

Q: How many Arab/Jewish comedian duos does it take to screw up comedy? ....

Airport security leads to rise in relationships ...

It used to be that the best place to meet your future "significant other" was at the grocery store. Nowadays, the best place is at airport security. Airport sources say that security searches have led to a greater level of intimacy and many passengers are now meeting their security agents at the nearby bar. Said one, "A cavity search can go a long way to cut through the idle chit chat and mindless banter you find at a bar, grocery store or even an Alcohol Anonymous meeting."

President Bush says no more impromptu press conferences

President Bush will no longer hold impromptu press conferences. His staff says the President needs at least three days to translate the documents from Hebrew into English before he will read them to the press.

Arafat office siege impacts his conduct

Palestinian President Yasir Arafat was under siege for six weeks. The Israelis destroyed most of his compound at the Presidential Palace in Ramallah.

Arafat's aides complained that President Arafat couldn't shave, shower or change clothes during the military blockade.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he was shocked by the revelations, adding, "I was hoping we would have changed his life a bit."

Siege of Arafat compound destroys his services

CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviewed Arafat during the siege and asked him how things were going.

ARAFAT: "They destroyed my cable. They destroyed my cable."

AMANPOUR: "You mean you can't watch Al-Jazeera TV?"

ARAFAT: "Al Jazeera? I'm talking about Jayree Springer. Jayree! Jayree!"

It was big pootie week on the Jerry Springer Show.

Hyuk. Brings to mind the guy who claimed he couldn't get hired as a radio announcer because he was J-J-J-Jewish.
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A Grand Idea

I have to agree with you, Damian. Jonathan Last's modest proposal is the best idea out there for a Sept. 11 anniversary. Sure would beat candlelight vigils and people holding hands (and if I see one Maya Angelou poetry reading, someone's getting kicked in the nuts).

But I also agree with Last that it won't happen.

Which is why I've been doing my part, posting these old photos, without comment, and will do so through the 10th.


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The Politics of Pissing

According to some blithering idiot, my use of a toilet is the root of misery in the Third World.

The TV special, hosted by hosted PBS's Bill Moyers, was taped on Tuesday and is set to air Friday night.

A female panelist from India complained that the flush toilet encourages excessive water consumption around the world and is not ecologically friendly.

The remark prompted an associate of Smith, CEI's Chris Horner, to ponder what alternative the woman would suggest. "Presumably the preferred solution to human waste problems is now abstinence," Horner quipped.

That actually isn't too far off the mark. I recall similar politicization of the urinal. Archfeminists in Sweden (where else?) moved to ban these emblems of male oppression, arguing that pissing while standing was a "nasty macho gesture."

The right took this so seriously that they interpreted a move by the U.S. Navy to replace urinals with toilets on aircraft carriers as part of the creeping feminization of the armed forces. This is almost as absurd as the position of the Swedes, as I, unfortunately, can personally attest.

My first job in the Navy was as R (repair) Division officer on a large amphib, which gave me ownership of the ship's CHT (collection, holding, and transfer) system: all urinals, toilets, related piping systems, tanks and the aerators and comminutors (grinders that chopped up the "brown trout" before it was pumped over the side -- oh, don't worry, they only do that outside of 12 Nautical Miles from land).

Because of the "water conservation" of the urinals, my hull technicians would have to waste hours each week blowing out CHT piping to remove calcium buildup (that's what the cakes are supposed to reduce, more than reducing foul odors. But the truth is they do a lousy job at both). My employees would have welcomed such a move toward "feminizing" the ship's commodes.

I guess the Luddite Left would have us all squat over bidets. Sorry, not happening. You'll get my American Standard™ when you pry it from my cold, dead ass.
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Are There Any Pardoned Criminals Who Haven't Weighed In On the Iraq Issue?

Moments ago on Fox News, former National Security Advisor Robert "Bud" McFarlane was asked whether he thought the American people had "the stomach" for going it alone in a war to topple Hussein.
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Idiot

Stockholm Syndrome poster child Yvonne Ridley recently did an interview with Islam-online.

Did you have any knowledge about Islam before your encounter with the Taliban?


- Nothing more factual than would fill the back of a postage stamp. Of course I'd subscribed to all the myths about women being subjugated and how it was an evil and violent religion full of fanatics.

Which would explain why the Sunday Express sent her to Afghanistan to cover a war against an Islamic fundamentalist regime. Funny. She looks a bit older than 14 years.

What are your views on women's rights in Islam as compared to secular Western society?

- The first thing I scrutinized when I read the Qur'an was property and divorce laws. I was amazed. I thought it could have been written by a Hollywood divorce lawyer! In fact, that's probably from where they got their inspiration. I was also pleased to see that women are equal with regards to education and spirituality, but the Qur'an does acknowledge we have the extra burdens of childbirth, breast-feeding and periods. I like to think we are the deluxe model of the human form since we have so many additional functions!

Tee-hee. I wish Ridley well. I really do. But someone with such a flimsy self-image has no business practicing journalism.



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Robert Fisk, Take Note

On its face, this Reuters report looks like just another story confirming what we already knew about the Islamo-fascist movement that is either coddled or promoted by our so-called allies:

CAIRO (Reuters) - The right-hand man of suspected September 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden has been invited to take part in a Cairo conference this weekend on the future of Islamic movements -- by telephone or the Internet.

But once you get past the brazenness of the invitation of this mass murderer to a seminar, you'll be interested in the reason why they want his input ...

"We told him (Zawahri) he should speak. He should write his reasons, his view on September 11 and the way out of the crisis the Islamist movement is now in," said Zayat, who condemns violence and says militants should make peace with the state.

"Do we stay with the same methods, do we only shout and curse the United States? Is that the only thing that will realize our objectives?" Zayat said, adding he had little doubt al Qaeda was behind the September 11 attacks.

"We don't want just to criticize. We want an objective evaluation of the way out. I hope there will be a response (from Zawahri)," he said.

Crisis, eh? Jeepers, I thought our conquest of Afghanistan, as well as our failure to pressure the Israelis into entering a good-faith agreement with people who murder them, and not to mention all of our sabre-rattling directed toward Iraq, would only make these movements stronger? What's with all the self-doubt?

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No Dateline Soldiers from the 769th Engineer Battalion clear dangerous areas at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Photo by Spc. Eric Hughes, USA
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Arlington, Va. (Sep. 12, 2001) -- A piece of debris is embedded in a tree close to the site where a hijacked commercial airliner crashed into the Pentagon. American Airlines FLT 77 was bound for Los Angeles from Washington Dulles with 58 passengers and 6 crew. All aboard the aircraft were killed, along with 125 people in the Pentagon. U.S. Naval photo by Photographer?s Mate 1st Class Michael W. Pendergrass.
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You Don't Say!

" 'America's Army' Targets Youth"
Only Three more days until Taranto returns. Don't know if I can make it.
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Sorry, But You Just Don't Fit the Profile of Our Political Refugees

This outrage brought to you by our, uh, staunchest allies:

Britain has infuriated human rights campaigners by deciding to begin extradition proceedings against a Zimbabwean opposition figure who says he was tortured by President Robert Mugabe's secret police.

Supporters say that if Michael Dube is returned to his country, his life will be in danger and he cannot hope to have a fair trial.

Dube, 29, has described to The Observer how members of Mugabe's feared Central Intelligence Organisation beat him, kept him awake for days and applied pliers to his testicles. He was repeatedly urged to inform on fellow opponents of Mugabe's brutal rule but he refused to do so.

After two weeks of torture Dube's resistance evaporated and he told his captors he was ready to sign anything. 'I thought I was going to die,' he said.

Eventually, he signed a confession admitting involvement in a demonstration against the seizure of a white-owned farm, which led to clashes with Mugabe's supporters, one of whom died.

Released on bail, Dube fled Zimbabwe and reached Britain two years ago. He was forced to leave his wife behind. As a fellow activist with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), she was also arrested and tortured. She claims she was raped in front of the couple's two small children.

I don't know what's more shocking: that the Brits would be so callous, or that human rights activists would actually notice -- though no specific organizations are mentioned as voicing their outrage. They do have reputations to uphold, you see, and they can't be seen defending those who engage in such subversive activities as ...

In response to the famine gripping Zimbabwe, the MDC this weekend announced the formation of the Feed Zimbabwe Trust to import maize, the staple food, writes Andrew Meldrum in Harare .

The party has bought 28 tonnes of maize in South Africa, which was expected to reach the border yesterday, said the MDC's Shadow Agriculture Minister, Renson Gasela.

The attempt to import the food is a challenge to the Mugabe government, which has decreed that only the state-owned Grain Marketing Board can bring in maize. 'If they refuse to allow it in, they are condemning people to die of hunger,' Gasela said.

Ant to think, if this fool had just spent his time in Semtex labs instead of trying to feed people, he could be in a four-star hotel overlooking the Mediterranean right now.

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The Pentagon’s America’s Heroes Memorial is dedicated to the 184 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon. The names of the victims are engraved on black acrylic panels inside the horseshoe-shaped memorial. A book containing photographs and biographies of each of the victims is at the center of the memorial under the "United in Memory" seal. DoD photo by Helene C. Stikkel. (Released)
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Those Rabid Jingoists at the LA Times

From today's editorial:

As the world debates whether to topple Iraq's Saddam Hussein and, at the environmental summit in Johannesburg, how to lift the poorest nations, it should not forget the immense risks and needs in Afghanistan. The United States is living up to its promise of aiding the Kabul government, but too many nations are not.

Keep it up, and you may lose the visionary talents of Robert Scheer.

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The Headline Says It All

Should you still have any credence in the Daily Fisk ...

"Submarine could prove US started Pearl Harbor"

What's left to say about this putrescent fish-wrapper?
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Finally, Some Recognition For Their Contributions

This is a real no-shitter:

Johannesburg - African and Asian farmers, and hawkers from across South Africa handed over a "Bullshit Trophy" (yes, that is the trophy's real name) to Greenpeace, the Third World Network and BioWatch for their contribution to the "preservation of poverty" in developing countries.

The trophy comprises of a piece of wood on which two heaps of dried cow-dung - "unfortunately not elephant dung" - are mounted.

Barun Mitra of the Sustainable Development Network (SDN), a coalition of non-governmental organisations which believes, among other things, that sustainable development is attainable only through free trade, officiated at the symbolic handing-over in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

(Via Cracker Barrel Philosopher)
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New York, N.Y. (Sept. 15, 2001) -- Baby strollers are found abandoned in Battery Park, as a U.S. Coast Guard cutter patrols the south side of Manhattan after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center days earlier. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres.
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Murawiec Update

One of my, er, fellow operatives, Jack Shafer, has the latest on estranged LaRouchie and Rand Corporation briefer who "rocked the Pentagon" (actually, it was the media who were "rocked." I don't think DoD was moved very much at all). The whole thing has taken a turn for the macabre, and Shafer's reporting has caused him to be outed by LaRouche's publication.

Agent Shafer to neoconservative controls Perle, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Pipes, Ikle: Send instructions for next covert op. And, please, more money.

He's tuned into the right frequency.


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Human Being First, Journalist Second

Milosevic Trades Courtroom Blows with War Reporter

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic clashed on Wednesday with a war reporter who questioned Serb assertions that NATO bombs killed Kosovo prison inmates, as a wider debate escalated over journalists testifying at war crimes trials.

Milosevic challenged the objectivity of the BBC after its former Belgrade correspondent, Jacky Rowland, gave evidence at the ex-Yugoslav president's trial amid mounting concerns over war reporters' safety if they are seen as potential witnesses.

The British reporter told of two visits she paid to Dubrava Prison in May 1999, where she saw dead bodies and was told they were victims of the NATO raids launched in response to a Serb crackdown on the majority-Albanian Serbian province of Kosovo.

"I have strong doubts that all those prisoners were killed as a direct result of the NATO bombing," Rowland told the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, where Milosevic has been on trial since February accused of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Balkans in the 1990s.

Under cross-examination by Milosevic, who has refused to appoint counsel and is defending himself, Rowland said her doubt about the prisoners' deaths sprang from how the corpses looked.

When Milosevic said most bombing victims were killed by the blast effect, and were not dismembered, Rowland retorted: "If you were hit by a bomb -- heaven forbid -- I think I'd be able to tell by looking at your body whether that was the manner of death."

Don't worry, Fiskie. I seriously doubt you'd ever be called upon to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth anyway.

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By Popular Demand ...

Our old friend is taking on another Target of Opportunity.


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Your Civics Lesson For Today

Why is it always those who are the most ignorant about all things military who always howl the loudest about Generals Who Are Against The War™?

Maj. Gen. Anthony General Zinni, Bush’s not-so-busy envoy for the administration’s Middle East war process, is also making sense. But why would the Bush Administration bother to listen to anyone who happens to be a general when it comes to war?

Hmm. How's this for an answer ...

Because it's not a general's fucking decision to make, asshole!

The U.S. has a rich tradition of miltary subservience to civilian masters -- even Draft Dodging Wimps™ get to say jump, and the grunts ask how high. That's what separates us from the little brutal dictatorships men like Alterman claim to despise so much.

Would Zinni have insight in how to conduct a war? Of course. Does that make him an authority in whether a particular situation warrants a war? No. As I learned in my Public Administration theory courses (have pity on me) from nearly a decade ago, those how know how always take orders from those who know why. This applies to decisions of national security at least as much as it does in public sanitation.

Retired Generals can be wrong. Very wrong. I seem to remember some very dire predictions before Desert Storm, from many current and former military commanders, with better credentials than Zinni (I certainly respect Zinni, but the guy did make some, er, miscalculations).

This is not to say that we need a robust, open debate on Iraq. But just make your arguments, already, and stop trying to hide behind retired flag officers and geriatrics like Scowcroft, in lieu of having a point. Especially when you would never, ever agree with anything else they had to say.
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Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

This man appears to be our last hope of averting yet another MLB player strike. The season was nice while it lasted, wasn't it?

Of course, I cannot deny that I will accept these crybaby millionaires with open arms when they agree to yet another stop-gap labor contract that resolves pretty much nothing.

Why? When you love the sport, it's like looking at a supermodel. She may be cold, inhuman, and have the personality of soggy Wonder™ bread, but you still lust after her. I mean, when I see a thing of beauty I'm not about to let something like a complete lack of a soul cloud my judgement.
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AAAAAAUUUUGGHH!!!!

"Coast Guard watches ports while other missions suffer"

So, the Coast Guard spent 9 percent fewer operational hours on search and rescue missions this spring than last year, along with 15 percent less time on drug interdiction and a whopping 53 percent less time on environmental protection. Port security, however, rose 800 percent.

Screw homeland security! What about protecting the pristine quality of our jetties???


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I Think I'm Going To Vomit Now

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee has quietly informed the Navy that it will need extra time to review a recommendation that Cmdr. Kirk S. Lippold, skipper of the destroyer Cole when terrorists blew a hole in the side of the ship in October 2000, be promoted to captain.

This is nothing short of shameful.
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Arlington, Va. (Sep. 12, 2001) -- The air was thick with smoke in the driveway between the outer ring and the next ring at the Pentagon on the second day after the terrorist attack of Sep. 11. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Michael W. Pendergrass.
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It's Like He's Trying To Suck! Phil donahue just held a love fest with Louis Farrakhan. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more egregious display of sycophancy, with Phil even giving Farrakhan credit for things he never did, like fill Yankee stadium.

Playing Larry King to Farrakhan's Ross Perot, Donahue didn't even take exception to his bragging of his close relationship with Muammar Qaddafi, nor did he ...

Ah, what's the friggin' point? The guy's a clown. Why do I even bother? Someone wake me up when his ass is sent back to obscurity.
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Speaking of Left-wing "Enlightment"

Here's another reason why the Indymidiots should never be confused with neo-nazis:

I think it's a great idea for everyone to take a close look at the 9-11 victims. I've been through much of the list, and it's an eye opener. Although, having said what I did above, about not treating one victim differently than another, I must confess hypocrisy .. because I do indeed see some victims as being very different than others.

Here are a couple of links ..
http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/

http://cf1.newsday.infi.net/911/victimsearchframe.cfm?view=all#results

some stats ..
2824 victims .. down from an estimated high of wha.. 8000?
76% of the victims were caucasian
658 of them were bond traders at Cantor Fitzgerald
295 of them were employed at Marsh & McLennan insurance
etc..

You can look at them individually, or in the statistics... either way you get a very good idea of who the victims were from those links. One thing I have not been able to determine is how many victims were under the age of 20.

Everyone should ask themselves how they feel about this group of people, on an individual level, not as an 'American', or any other damn 'thing'... as a person that has seen a lot of body counts being pumped into their homes via the boob tube, from all over the planet, since they were old enough to be exposed to it.

Ask yourselves what you feel about the physical loss of the WTC buildings themselves. When I think of the towers I do see a loss, but not of capital or any such bullshit, I see the loss of physical manpower invested in the construction, and the resources extracted from the Earth. I don't give a shit about 'office space', and not being a New Yorker, I have no sentimental attachment.

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"I Know Better Than You What's Good For Your People."

Classic. Hundreds of white supremacists around the mall and this self-righteous asshole is castigating an African-American cop. Their own reporting of the event confirms that this was more a riot than a counter-demonstration.

That makes perfect sense to me. How can these "anti-fascists" counter the neo-nazis through rhetoric, when their messages are essentially the same? There is a lot of whimpering among the Nazimedia crowd about their cause being "hijacked" by white fascists. They should be allowed to promote their own brand of hatred and intolerance without a bunch of skinheads showing up to steal the limelight.

Oh, I forgot: these Leftists aren't preaching hatred against Jews; it's the "Zionists" they're after. I'm sure that's what Billy McKinney meant. He just used the word "Jews" because it was easier to spell.
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Punditwatch Pre-Brief

Never let it be said that Tim Russert gave anyone a free pass.

He just grilled Al Sharpton on both the Jewish "meddling" in black Congressional races as well as his support for Louis Farrakhan. Shown a brief clip in which Farrakhan stated unequivocally that Saddam Hussein was no worse than George Bush "or his father," Sharpton yammered about not knowing the "context" of the remarks.

As if such a context existed in which such a remark would be either accurate or acceptable.
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Re-Calibrate Your Irony-Meters

Rep. Unaware of FBI Records Request

"I know of no such request of House members," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "I just want to say that checking on the leaks, wherever they are, is important because some of this information leaked out ... is a distorted view of what may have happened on Sept. 11."

Way to be on the ball, Nancy. Makes you wonder why we have elections in the first place, if staffers are able to run amok without the knowledge or approval of their members.
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Furnish The Truth

This is one of the best letters to the editor I've read in a long time.
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Hate The Law, Love The Bureaucrat Redux

I wonder what Kaus and Stuart Taylor will have to say about this.

Probably nothing.
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"You Want Paper or Plastic?"

I'M SO HAPPY!!!
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Meet Me In St. Louie

Off to the Gateway to the West for business. Posting will be light through Thursday, but not nonexistent.

Te lo juro.
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One Last Post on the McKinney Race

I wasn't going to comment anymore on the McKinney-Majette race, agreeing with Scott Koenig's assessment that this was now in the hands of the voters in Georgia's 4th congressional district.

But then I read this latest update from GoodbyeCynthia.com: the McKinney campaign has borrowed yet another page from the Jesse Helms book of dirty tricks, trying to intimidate Republican voters from crossing over to the Democratic primary by lying to them about what their rights are:

Here's an example sent in by a goodbyecynthia.com viewer:

location: North DeKalb

comments: I just received a recorded phone message that
started with "Warning for Republican Voters"... it
went on to WARN Republican voters that it is
illegal for a Republican voter to vote for a
Democrat "without proper documentation"? There was
no mention of who was providing this important
information... By the way I wonder if they realize
it's illegal to vote for anyone without proper
documentation?

I sincerely hope the Atlanta Journal-Constitution knows about this and will publish something to set the record straight, informing its readers of their rights, as well as these reprehensible tactics by the McKinney campaign!

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Those Who Would Threaten Them

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McKinney Update

Relations between McKinney and Nation of Islam run deeper than a mere stump speech, according to WashTimes:

An article in the Nation of Islam's weekly newspaper, Final Call, notes that Mrs. McKinney is being assisted in her volunteer coordination by Steve Cokely.

Mr. Cokely gained notoriety in the late 1980s when he said that Jewish doctors had injected black babies with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Max Sawicky is still an ignorant jackass.


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Nothing Irrational About This Gathering

Michael Moynihan has done the most thorough reporting on yesterday's rally for reparations on the Mall in the blogosphere, or anywhere else.

In addition to Charles Barron's "mental health" remark, Moynihan has assembled an entire page of audio files of the socialist event of the season, including the "comic stylings" of Pam Africa (what do you mean, "who?"). The sound quality is so good, you can actually hear the spittle flying!

Or, if frothing idiots aren't your bag, baby, the Heritage Foundation held this panel discussion on the reparations issue, featuring Linda Chavez, Gregory Kane, and Joseph Hicks. But for those of you who prefer "Free Mumia" rantings and eulogies to Khalid Muhammed to reasoned debate, you're sure to be disappointed.
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Could Be Worse. A Lot Worse.

You are 36% geek

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines! Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals! You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

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Goodbyecynthia.com Gets Results!

AJC has picked up on their follow-the-money item.

Telephone calls on Friday to the McKinney campaign were not returned.

Yeah, you'll have that.
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For Those of You Who Haven't Seen It

C-SPAN has finally posted video of the McKinney-Majette debate from last Friday.
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Speaking of Conspiracy Drivel ...

Part IV of Mike Ruppert's cavalcade of lies is up on The Enchanted Kingdom. Should be only one more to go.
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Another Gem From the Good Folks at GoodbyeCynthia.com

At least some of the infamous 9/11 McKinney campaign donors have also been named in the 9/11 victims' lawsuit:

1. Mohamed S. Omeish (Vice-President of the American Muslim Foundation) gave $500 on 9/11

2. Abdurahman Alamoudi (President of the American Muslim Foundation) gave $2000 on 9/11

3. Ahmed Totonji of Herndon, Virginia gave $1000 on 9/11

4. Jamal Barzinji (Marjac Investments, Manager--Herndon, Virginia) gave $500 on 9/26/0

I hope Majette floods the airwaves with this over the weekend.
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More Donahue Nonsense

TV's Henry sent me this WashTimes story on the newfound notoriety of Donahue's languishing show:

"Thank you, Donahue I can already see a number of prominent news people tinkering with the biggest news story to ever not happen in the history of mankind — and the media wants to expose the truth, but the truth is often the first casualty in war," read one missive.

"From the beginning, Phil Donahue said he wanted to give a voice to those who have not been heard," said MSNBC spokeswoman Cheryl Daly. "That must be what happened last night."

The sudden alliance between Mr. Donahue and the alternative news media may be unpredictable, though.

"This idea did not originate with my Web site. And the big media e-mail list didn't start here either," said Michael Rivero of Whatreallyhappened.com, a Web site that featured the Rumor Mill directives.

"I only urge my readers to contact their elected officials, not the media," Mr. Rivero said. "And while I think the intentions behind the e-mail campaign were honorable, this buzz may actually cause more harm than good for MSNBC. Reporters don't like getting bombarded with messages, particularly from alternative sources. This may actually alienate Donahue from the rest of the media."

What a lovely new fan base the putz has created for himself. The story does not attempt to predict whether this will help Donahue in the long run, or mortally wound him. It merely lays out the possibilities.

I believe that's where we come in.
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I Saw This Coming ...

Louis Farrakhan is coming to Georgia's 4th this weekend to stump for Cynthia McKinney:

The site of the rally had not been announced Thursday. Steven Muhammad, a Nation of Islam member who heads the metro group Muslims Active Politically, would say only, "He's here to ensure that money does not interfere with a race, that the people's voice is heard in the 4th District, not the money of political lobbies."

According to the online version of Final Call, the Nation of Islam's newspaper, Farrakhan told McKinney during a July meeting, "We are going to fight like hell for you."

McKinney's campaign manager, Bill Banks, said he knew little about the visit or why Farrakhan is coming.

"We have a lot of people coming in. They saw what happened to [U.S. Rep. Earl] Hilliard in Alabama," Banks said, referring to a black congressman who was beaten in a Democratic primary by an opponent who raised more than $1 million, much of it from pro-Israel donors concerned about his relations with American Muslims.

Majette has raised more than $1.1 million, more than half of that in the past six weeks and much of it coming from out-of-state Jewish donors.

McKinney has raised about $640,000. More than half of McKinney's donors have Arabic names and live out of state.

The story goes on to note that Majette has been endorsed by (wait for it) Hank Aaron. I see a great last-minute campaign spot here: split-screen, Aaron on one side, Mr. Gutter Religion on the other.

Damn, I should become a consultant.
(Via GoodbyeCynthia.com)

UPDATE: Max Sawicky is not impressed:

Sounds like Ms. McKinney has incorporated Calypso Joe into her campaign, doesn't it? Follow the link, however, and you read that LF is doing a rally in Georgia to support McKinney, and there is zero evidence that this rally has any connection to McKinney's campaign. So would it be ungentlemanly to say that Professor Reynolds has told a fibby?

Would it be ungentlemanly to say that Max Sawicky is a flaming twit?


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Huh?

The best defense I've heard of the Justice Department's post-September 11 detentions (and refutation of Human Rights Watch's latest hysteria) was on NPR today.

Seriously.
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Phil Donahue Recycles Lies About 9/11

I'm sure I was asking for it for watching this clown to begin with, but I can't remember when I've seen something so shameless outside the murky world of Nazimedia.

Last night's show featured Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband was killed at the World Trade Center, and is now leading the charge for an independent investigation.

I'm not sure which is more disgusting: Donahue's exploitation of this woman's grief, or the fact that she has quite obviously been taken in by the conspiracy idiots. She repeated several of the lies common to the more popular theories, specifically those dealing with the response from NORAD and the FAA.

She even repeated the oft-repeated lie about NORAD's response to Payne Stewart's doomed flight, which is as clear a signal as any that these ideas are not her own.

It's bad enough that charlatans like Mike Ruppert and Barry Zwicker are able to make money hawking their books and videos. But I never had much sympathy for those foolish enough to believe their unmitigated bullshit.

Until now.
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Life Imitating a Monty Python Sketch

No, they don't contain lark's vomit. But Bertie Bott's Harry Potter Jelly Beans do come in vomit, dirt, earwax, and booger flavors.

Someone actually brought these to my office this morning.
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Cynthia McKinney Campaign Dispatch

I just received this opinion piece via e-mail, from the Office of Cynthia McKinney (cymck@mail.house.gov). More conspiracy drivel, originally published back in June, and contains no information that I haven't already dealt with over at the Conspiracy Blog. (Advantage: Me!)

Methinks she's getting desperate!

UPDATE: Discussing today's WaPo story on McKinney's unsavory campaign contributors (which is a rehash of the ten-day old Atlanta Journal-Constitution story, which was a rehash of the Indepundit's reporting) on CNN's Crossfire, Paul Begala has, mere moments ago, predicted a Majette victory.
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Beware Claims of Bias From The Daily Wanker

Here's one for the Pot & Kettle Files: Brian Whitaker has a problem with the apparent slant in the translations of Arab Media by MEMRI. He even goes so far as to accuse MEMRI of ... wait for it ... intentionally trying to portray the Arab world in a negative light.

Well, duh! I've never doubted for a second that MEMRI's primary agenda is to expose the ugliness that passes for news in the Middle East. And it doesn't surprise me that several pro-Israel hawks sit on MEMRI's board. But this following passage underscores why this is really not a problem:

Nobody, so far as I know, disputes the general accuracy of Memri's translations but there are other reasons to be concerned about its output.

Well, there you have it. Frankly, I don't expect a "balanced" view of the Arab media from MEMRI any more than I expect Morris Dees' SPLC to produce positive stories about white people. I am quite capable of reading MEMRI's translations without drawing the conclusion that all Arabs share the virulent bigotry of some of their imams.

Secondly, Whitaker might want to compare MEMRI's work with the English translations done by some of the Arab media themselves. Does MEMRI really paint a more negative picture of the Arab media than, say, Arab News? I certainly don't think so. Come to think of it, if Mr. John R. Bradley expended a mere fraction of the venom he reserves for James Taranto and other "White Trash bigots" on the same objects of MEMRI's wrath (and still gets to keep his job), my view of the Arab world would greatly improve.

Finally, one has to ask whether it is even possible for MEMRI to provide a more balanced view of Arab media, unless it resorted to censoring itself. Read this latest dispatch and tell me what could possibly be offered as a countervailing weight, to make the Arab world appear more cosmopolitan.

UPDATE: Taranto offers this cut on Whitaker's technicolor hypocrisy:

Now, everyone makes mistakes, even Whitaker and his colleagues. But we feel confident in saying that at the Guardian, most of the errors are not of the same magnitude as Memri's.

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Idgit Rabbit!

It takes something like this to avert my attention from the McKinney race:

A video clip circulating Monday shows a protester dressed as Yosemite Sam in a crowd listening to Barr speak in Canton Saturday. The costumed man, John Harris, 35, of Marietta was making light of a recent Barr mishap -- a gun that accidentally fired at a supporter's home. Harris wore an oversized foam cowboy hat and a button with the words, "Bob Barr's Official Gun Safety Trainer."

Harris is approached by man in a light blue shirt identified by the online newsletter politicalvine.com as a Barr staffer. He appears to shove Harris, sending the rootin', tootin' protester reeling backwards.

It could have been far worse. The Barr campaign could have rigged a large castle drawbridge to flatten Harris.

The video is available here.
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The Trick To Reading Fisk

I've discovered a way to read a piece of Robert Fisk's reporting without taking away the sensation that you've just experienced the most heinous bullshit imaginable.

You just have to completely forget everything else you've ever read by him. While you're at it, it wouldn't hurt to just forget everything you've ever read period.

That's pretty much what Fisk is banking on anyway, or else he couldn't possibly have penned his latest dollup of nonsense. Remember, it was barely a week ago that he wrote of U.S. Special Forces raids as if they were against Cervantine windmills, and its victims were all innocent goat farmers. It was simply inconceivable that there were Taliban or al-Qaeda in these villages.

Now, he's changed his tune once again, elevating the al-Qaeda foreigners to the status of demigods in the country from which they had to flee for their lives.

A second, older man had travelled from Uruzgan with his mother. "My mother had leg and back pains and I brought her to Kandahar so she could see the doctors. But when I heard the stories about these martyrs' graves – and that they might cure her – I also brought my mother here. She is happier here than going to the doctor's." I watched his elderly mother on her knees, scraping dust from the mud tombs, praying and crying.

The two soldiers at the graveyard appear to have succumbed to the same visionary trance as the worshippers. "I've seen for myself people who get healed here," a young, unbearded man with a Kalashnikov rifle on his shoulder told me with a smile. "It's true. People get well after visiting the graves. I've seen deaf men who could hear again and I've seen the dumb speak. They were cured."

This is not the time – and definitely not the place – to contradict such conviction. The sand blasts over this graveyard with a ruthlessness worthy of Osama bin Laden. The city cemetery is much larger – there are square miles of tribal graveyards within the perimeter. But it is the al-Qa'ida dead who attract most mourners. Attracted by what, the foreigner wonders? By the rumours and legend of healing? By the idea that these men resisted the foreigners to the end, preferred to die rather than surrender, that the non-Afghan "martyrs" had fought like Afghans?

Perhaps it's as well the American special forces boys don't drop by for a visit. They might see something that would – and should – worry them.

But don't you dare go into their villages with stun grenades, uh, flashing and, er, handcuffing these poor people.

There you have it: two diametrically-opposed, contradictory views of the Afghan political terrain, with the same byline, and within the space of a week. Somewhere between these two hyperbolized fantasies, you'll find reality.
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Hey, I Resemble That Remark!

Good thing I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon revamping the color scheme for this blog. You can imagine the lump I felt in my throat after I read this bit at Tapped:

WHO IS A BLOG? Demosthenes has an excellent (but long) post on the difference between pseudonymity and anonymity as it relates to bloggers. But staring at Demosthenes' difficult-to-read white-letters-on-dark-background site for several minutes has almost blinded us. Be warned!

That template looks vaguely familiar. Where have I seen it before?

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He Wuz Robbed

The line-up card from Friday night's Giants-Pirates game, in which Barry Bonds hit his 600th home run, has been reported stolen.

Fortunately for Ruben Rivera, he has a pretty tight alibi.
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