Month: August 2004
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New blogs
Always nice to see a blog that was started about the same time as my own, and looks pretty much the same. Stefan Geen’s blog is an interesting read.
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Is Mark Steyn a girlie-man?
Mark Steyn concludes his latest article in the Spectator with the following: The President has to be a terminator: he has to terminate regimes and structures that support Islamist terrorism. And, if every bigshot associated with the cause winds up like Uday and Qusay, the ideology will become a lot less fashionable. All these girlie-man…
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Vernon Blake
Vernon Blake got the sack, apparently for doing his job. He was pissed off with his boss always playing solitaire and not doing any work. So he installed win-spy, software that secretly takes screenshots of users activity. Low and behold his boss was playing solitaire all the time – so Blake went to management and…
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Bomb blasts rock Iraqi churches
It seems a new tactic is being used in Iraq, attack the 600,000 strong Christian population.
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That uranium thing
Josh Marshall details a look into the Niger-Italian-Iraq uranium story. Have a read. Yglesias discusses it here.
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Dinner with Bill Gates
A Microsoft intern describes visiting Bill Gates’ home in Seattle, and having dinner with him and some fellow interns. Fascinating insight. Via AnOasis.
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Ahern's staff knew of NIB 11 years ago
So Ahern might have known about the whole thing 11 years ago but did nothing about it. Why does that not surprise me. Wholescale theft of customers, outright robbery, and what’s done about it? Or what will be done about it….nothing I would predict. And as for the ‘class act’ Flynn: The Inspectors’ Report includes…
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Oil, Sudan, Darfur, China and genocide
Kevin Drum points to the cover of the Economist. This has hardly been the UN’s finest moment, and China and supposed-American-ally Pakistan abstained on even the milquetoast resolution that the United States eventually compromised on. But I suppose it’s a start. But I am left wondering why those two countries abstained. CNN reports that Zhang…
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"We the Media" published
Dan’s book has finally been published, and the trolls even followed him to Amazon. Sad people.
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Europe's economic woes: Oversold?
Will Europe’s economy stand up to its old population and spiraling pensions costs? It might, or at least according to this article. Also mentioned is Chirac’s likely successor, Nicolas Sarkozy. In office, Sarkozy has steered a complicated course of talking of reform, including efforts to increase working hours in France, while also pushing through a…