Dan has posted a rather impressive threat analysis over at Winds of Change.

He has even attracted some ignoramus named Tony who writes long ignorant (against Bush, the war in Iraq and link between Iraq and Al Queda) ranting comments. Let’s hope that his type of thinking does not prevail, or, if it does (like with a Dean presidency), that he or someone he loves dies in the next attack.

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Well at least two people seem to searching for proof that he is: judge moore alabama cthulhu.

Other oddities include:

crush a horse

pooh smoking weed

lovecraft anton levay

and er jew zealand

At least, no one has come my site looking for Cthulhu porn or sex with the Goat with a Thousand Young. However, we do seem to attract those searching for sex with robots.

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Yesterday afternoon, while guzzling a 20 ounce diet coke, I found my teeth acting as a strainer for the beverage. Out of my front teeth I pulled an 1/8 inch piece of clear plastic or glass. My throat felt pretty scratchy and did until this morning.

On the side of every Coke bottle there is an 800 number for questions or queries. I called the number and after quite a while on hold I got to speak to a decent chap. He was genuinely concerned with what I had found and took down all sorts of details. Number of the bottle, source of purchase, size of the object and other pertinent details. He told me that someone from the local bottler would be in touch within 48 hours…it took under 20 for me to get a call.

I have been asked to send them the shard, and I popped it off in the post today. So concerned were they to get the offending object they offered to send a stamped envelope for the object. I have been promised “coupons” for my trouble. It will be interested to see what that actually means.

So far, I am pleased with their customer service.

My engineer father assures me that even if it were glass, it wouldn’t kill me. Still, the whole thing was a rather nasty occurence, and something I would have expected in Honduras, not Maine.

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A most charming example of total ineptitude and lack of reasoning power on the part of HMG’s consular service minions, a common failure amongst bean-counters the world over. [Americans do have some very useful slang words, sometimes.] One hopes the poor gentleman eventually got the right assistance, and the intelligence services show at least a little intelligence.

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Natalie Solent has the skinny on a very touching piece about a Jewish Ethopian’s quest to get to Israel. It is quite stunning what he had to go through (it was necessary to keep secret that he was a Jew) to get to the promised land. It is always good to see when a country/religion takes care of its own.

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Michele has put this up to let everyone know the type of hatred that shows up on that abominable site. I am proud to help her expose these bastards for what they are: vicious hate mongerers.

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Dale has written a detailed examination of article explaining the Islamo-Nazi strategy in Iraq. It is to keep Iraq in chaos, so that it will neither advance economically nor be able to sustain democracy.

Yussuf al-Ayyeri sees democracy as the greatest threat to Islam (and of course a Zionist plot). He believes democratisation will be bring secular reasoning and materialism to the Islamic world, which would lead young Muslims away from the goal of turning the entire earth Islamic (by force).

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NHS is not known for speedy anything except asking for more dosh. Now those pesky pigeons have come home to roost in a most intimate way, as the individual cited in this post can attest.

David Farrer, over at the most delightful Freedom and Whisky, specialises in spotting and highlighting a great many incidents of this unfortunate tendency of government, no matter the level, to do everything badly whilst spending the people’s money most unwisely.

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From The New Criterion Vol. 21, No. 7, March 2003 (OK, so I’m a bit behind in my reading):

“The greatest American artist of his generation.” That is how Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of The New York Times, described the video and performance artist Matthew Barney. You have probably heard of Matthew Barney by now. He was recently the subject of a long and respectful profile in The New Yorker by Calvin Tompkins. The New York Times has been singing his praises for years. In one signature work called “Field Dressing (Orifill),” this great artist is depicted in a video “climbing” — we quote Mr. Kimmelman — “naked up a pole and cables and applying dollops of Vaseline to his orifices.”

If you remain skeptical about Mr. Barneys achievement, you now have the opportunity to judge for yourself. A “major exhibition” of Mr. Barneys work (why are all exhibitions these days prefaced by the adjective “major”?) will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through June 11. Fans of Mr. Barneys work will be pleased to know that “Cremaster,” his five-part film cycle inspired by the muscle that raises and lowers the testicles, will be screened daily. The show hadnt opened when we went to press, so we cannot comment on the particulars of the exhibition. Nevertheless, we thought readers might like to know something about the preparations the Guggenheim had to make for this celebration of “the most important American artist of his generation.” Genius, we know, can be demanding. The New York Times reminds us that it can be potentially messy as well. Among the logistical problems the Guggenheim faced in accommodating Mr. Barneys work was storing one ton of Vaseline at the proper temperature. This is “the most important American artist of his generation” we are talking about, so the Landmarks Preservation Commission was quick to give the Guggenheim permission to build a temporary wooden enclosure on the roof of its Frank Lloyd Wright building to keep the goo at the required air-conditioned temperature. Vaseline, the Times explained,

will be seen running down the interior of the Guggenheims rotunda in specially designed troughs. Frozen Vaseline will cover the front of an Art Deco bar. ... [A] hidden hose, fed from the roof enclosure through the museums lighting system, would keep the Vaseline on the bar at 17 degrees so it holds its shape.

The curator chiefly responsible for this homage to Mr. Barney described the exhibition as “among the most exhilarating” of all the “complex and eccentric exhibitions” the Guggenheim has mounted. Perhaps. It certainly threatens to be among the most oleaginous. Of course, visitors will be told not to touch the, ah, works of art. But it is reassuring to know that the Guggenheim promises to have “paper towels on hand” in case of accidents. It was Oscar Wilde who observed that life imitates art. The spectacle of Matthew Barney being hailed as “the most important American artist of his generation” and taking up valuable real estate in a premier New York museum for almost four months could have come straight from the acid satirical imaginings of Evelyn Waugh. What a swindle.

Let’s see. That would be . . . March, April, May . . . June.

Damn! Missed it by this —><—much!

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