Month: March 2006

The judge proves to have sense.

The Real Ugly American interviews T.

Wilsonizer contrasts the two nations in planning and executing a postwar occupation.Wilsonizer’s post made me think of these numbers from an earlier post:Comparing Quagmires:Japan- VJ Day 8/15/1945- Constitution Ratified- 11/3/1946

Hugo Chavez wanted to make a political statement with his new Venezuelan Chavista Coat of Arms, but the joke turns out to be on Hugo.Coat of Arms comparison via Venezuela News and ViewsA.

Religious differences.

Musing Minds has this news.

Sarah Sands was fired as editor of the Sunday Telegraph on March 7, 2006.Now she claims that it was because she published an “Islamophobic” article…

Creative plumbing in Norway…A woman said she thought she was in heaven when she turned on the kitchen tap to find a plentiful supply of beer.

On March 3, 2006 at a mosque in Norway a violent brawl broke out that left four men seriously injured.

Edwin J.

Mark Steyn is banned in the UK.Too bad.

Code Pink was having a difficult time gathering signatures to condemn the War in Iraq.They had hoped to collect 100,000 signatures by International Women’s Day on March 8, 2006.

TigerHawk takes a closer look at the Muslims of invention.

Cindy Sheehan, peace mother, is shown being arrested for laying across and blocking the front doorway of the UN building in New York on Monday March 6, 2006, before Aljazeera pixilation…

Ambassador Cindy Sheehan, the anti-American and anti-War protest mother, says she will have to postpone her speech to the European Union Parliament planned for Tuesday.Mother Sheehan says she suffered serious injuries during her arrest on Monday in New York: “I could not go to Germany,” Sheehan wrote.

Up to 150 protesters gathered at the Danish consulate in Toronto on Saturday in support of freedom of speech the publication of controversial cartoons depicting Muhammad:While other countries have republished the cartoons since the initial printing, further fuelling the controversy, protesters continued to target Denmark in their demonstrations, with attacks on the country’s embassies in Muslim countries, setting the country’s flag on fire, and calling for a boycott of Danish goods.”Some of us will not stand idly and meekly by while a principle fundamental to any free society is violently and senselessly threatened,” event co-organizer Daniel Dale told the cheering crowd of between 100 and 150 people on Saturday.”Some of us will not stand idly and meekly by while a principle fundamental to any free society is violently and senselessly threatened,” Daniel Dale said.

Things are tough all over.

This is frightening!…Turkey suggests EU should strengthen anti-defamation laws Turkey, a country that has witnessed nearly 1,200 deaths from honor killings and family feuds in the last five years, has voluteered and is doing a terrific job mediating between the EU and the Muslim World.

Here is today’s crazy talk from Turkey.

Austin Bay says it best:Former Serb dictators Slobodan Milosevic’s long-running trial is finally over– without a conviction.

Nov.

With strong links to Al Qaeda, Abdul-Mahid al-Zindani leads the prosecution team in a Yemeni journalist’s trial.

More on the ports debacle from today’s Wall Street Opinion Journal(Via GOPinion)Dubai Ports World finally threw in the kaffiyah on its American operations yesterday, agreeing to sell them “to a U.S.

Another, former Guantanamo Bay detainee was re-arrested this time in Moscow for blowing up a gas pipeline in January of 2005: A former Guantanamo prisoner has been arrested in Moscow on charges of blowing up a gas pipeline in Russia’s Muslim Tatarstan Republic in 2005, Interfax said Thursday.

** An Egyptian Copt has been arrested for munching on Danish cheese!

More on Cindy Sheehan’s strange way to honor her hero son.Via Indepundit, Via Say Anything, Via WILLisms…Mother Sheehan has been too busy these last two years to put a headstone on Casey’s grave!As LT.

Update: The gun was a toy!

Another, former Guantanamo Bay detainee was re-arrested this time in Moscow for blowing up a gas pipeline in January of 2005:A former Guantanamo prisoner has been arrested in Moscow on charges of blowing up a gas pipeline in Russia’s Muslim Tatarstan Republic in 2005, Interfax said Thursday.

In a radio interview the Nation of Islam official told the Jews who quit the Illinois Anti-Discrimination Panel that “They need to come back or shut up!”VIDEO HERE”For those who try to condemn me because of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s remarks on Saviours’ Day, which were perceived by some as anti-Semitic, it’s ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous…

The SIU Cheerleader says that instinct kicked in when she started to cheer after being strapped to a backboard.

Sugiero has the story from Spain.

** Sectarian violence in Iraq has declined by “90%” this past week.

Freedom for Egyptians and a friend describe their experiences as progressive women in Egypt.And, speaking of Moderate Muslims…

Jack Lewis reviews the New York Times article on Walmart and blogging.Glenn Reynolds has a number of bloggers commenting on the story.

Who knew?

Another brutal death, this time on Saint-Martin, has stoked fears in France of a festering anti-white hatred among the country’s black and Arab populations.