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5-2-03
Quote
of the day
In fact, many of
the remarks made by religious people are nonsensical. People say, “I
think Jesus is my best friend.” No one responds as they should
to that, which is to say, “You should be locked up, that’s
utter crap.” For some reason, in what used to be called the Christian
world, a free pass is given to anyone who makes any remark, however
stupid, if it’s baptized by faith.
- Christopher
Hitchens
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Tony Benn: pathetic
The
Daily Saddam Mirror has the full text of Senile Benn's sad,
simpering interview with Saddam.
Naturally, The Mirror
attempted to give weight to this sorry spectacle;
SADDAM Hussein
has told Tony Benn in an extraordinary face-to-face TV interview that
Iraq has NO weapons of mass destruction and NO links to al-Qaeda.
Well, that settles
it then. They've used an upper case "NO". Bring the troops home
now.
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Hell freezes over: the Mirror publishes a pro-America column
Is
Tony Parsons trying
to get fired?
IT
IS not difficult to imagine the rejoicing that the Columbia space shuttle
tragedy will cause in certain squalid corners of the globe, including
some morally bankrupt parts of Britain.
I
have never known such poisonous anti-Americanism abroad in the world,
which is saying something for someone who grew up during the Vietnam
war.
[...]
The
Labour Party pacifists you only ever hear about when they have another
white flag to wave. And the screaming hordes across the globe whose
idea of a good night out is burning the Stars and Stripes.
The
news that the men and women on board included the first Israeli in space
would have been the cherry on the cake. Isn't it strange how the people
who shout loudest about the Nazis always seem to carry the virus of
anti-Semitism in themselves?
A
predication. Over the next seven days, all those America-hating, Bush-is-a-cowboy
commentators will start crawling out of the woodwork to report how the
space shuttle tragedy is a blow to America's "arrogance",
"pride" and "egotism".
The
fact is that the seven men and women who died were shining examples
of how great the human race can be. They were brave, intelligent, with
the quiet selflessness that's always the mark of true heroes.
[...]
America
has an ability to assimilate people from around the world - to make
them true Americans - that is unknown in Europe.
There
is a generosity of spirit about the United States that is completely
lacking anywhere else.
[...]
When
deriding American culture, it is customary to trot out a few sneers
about McDonald's - as if they don't queue around the block for the stuff
from Moscow to Manchester.
[...]
Those
astronauts who died were explorers, pioneers and the last of the frontiersmen.
When we lose that will to strike out for the unknown, we will start
dying as a species.
If
we could only see it, we will realise that the disintegration of the
space shuttle was truly a tragedy for the entire world.
The
seven men and women who died on the shuttle were a credit to their race.
The
human race.
Let's hope Tony can
get a job at a real newspaper before too long.
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Computer
Intelligence & Chess
Interesting
article by Ray Kurzweil about the growing
power of computer chess programs, and it's not good news for humans.
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Everything you need to know about Hollywood
Rottweiler
has a beautiful
picture.
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Answers to Space Shuttle questions
Dale
Amon at Samizdata has an excellent,
informative post answering many of the "what if..." questions
surrounding the Columbia disaster.
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The hell of Zimbabwe
What John
Humphreys has to say does not give one a lot of hope for that nation.
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Education Cult
I don't think Mark
Harrison likes the public education sector very much.
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Anagram fun
GEORGE BUSH .....................HE
BUGS GORE
DORMITORY .....................DIRTY
ROOM
EVANGELIST .....................EVIL'S
AGENT
PRESBYTERIAN .....................BEST
IN PRAYER
DESPERATION .....................A
ROPE ENDS IT
THE MORSE CODE .....................HERE
COME DOTS
SLOT MACHINES .....................CASH
LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY .....................IS
NO AMITY
MOTHER-IN-LAW .....................WOMAN
HITLER
SNOOZE ALARMS .....................ALAS!
NO MORE Z ' S
A DECIMAL POINT .....................I'M
A DOT IN PLACE
THE EARTHQUAKES .....................THAT
QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO .....................TWELVE
PLUS ONE
And for the grand
finale: PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA: When you
rearrange the letters (With no letters left over and using each letter
only once): TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS
(Thanks to Niki Everett
for this)
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