Month: June 2006

When will this become an Olympic sport?

Or when will it come to the Americas?

I’m suspicious of surveys. But maybe I should cut this one some slack:

Once upon a time I also heard that one out of every ten people I meet is homosexual.

Maybe I give the Muslim survey more creditibility.

What do you make of it?

Did Al-Qaeda read this?

A peace activist group says a Roman Catholic priest and two military veterans infiltrated a Minuteman III missile silo site in northwestern North Dakota, using sledgehammers and hammers to gain access.

The Wisconsin-based group Nukewatch, in a statement, said the men were able to break a lock and enter the silo site Tuesday morning, paint the word “disarm” on the silo lid and pour some of their blood on the lid.

Minot Air Force Base confirmed that three people “unlawfully entered” the missile site west of Garrison but said they were quickly detained by Air Force security and turned over to local law enforcement officers, who took them to the McLean County jail.

The clowns had time to do all that, yet they were “quickly detained”? It doesn’t add up to me.

And I wonder if any terrorists figure they can do better.

Oh wow.

So once again it is up to the Israelis to show restraint

The international community urged restraint as thousands of Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border poised for an offensive over the kidnapping of a teenage soldier.

Maybe they should.

But I wonder what the US would do if they suffered an attack on US soil in which a proportionate number of American troops were killed and kidnapped.

I have no idea how the American and Israeli militaries compare in size. Would the ratio be anywhere near 100:1?

If so, how much restraint would the Americans show?

Besides, I don’t think the kidnapping is the sole catalyst here.

(Am I urging bloodshed? Of course not. I’m just commenting on further evidence of an already-obvious anti-Israel bias all around.)

Not for a bit.

Not this:

All Palestinian factions except Islamic Jihad have reached an agreement on a statehood initiative that implicitly recognises Israel’s right to exist, sources in Fatah and Hamas said.

And even more certainly, not this:

A man’s sexual orientation appears to be determined in the womb, a new study suggests.

(By the way, on that last item, contrast how the sentence ends with the headline that precedes it — “Sexual orientation of men determined before birth.)

Now his life is forfeit.

So I’m helping publicize his story a little bit more:

As befits a fugitive with an alias, “Amir” is both a hero and a hunted man. In hiding since May from a Pakistani terrorist group doggedly tracing him, he wrote in an e-mail on June 18, “I know that they will kill me soon.” But no fear, he wrote in broken English: “I am ready for die.”

Amir, a Christian in majority-Muslim Pakistan, knew he would have to flee with his family when he mounted an undercover rescue of Christian children kidnapped by Muslim traffickers. In doing so, he gathered film footage that could severely damage a popular Islamic charity—and terrorist front—in Pakistan, called Jamaat ud Dawa, or JUD.

While his life was always at risk, things turned worse weeks after the rescue. Amir hoped to win safe passage to the United States or another country to escape JUD. But while U.S. embassy and State Department officials have seemed eager to collect his evidence against JUD, they offered no visa or asylum as of June 22, more than a month since Amir pleaded for sanctuary.