Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
You could say (I suppose) that he should have avoided PA: Some More Chevy Reliability
| I inspected the bill and discovered that they charged me $45.81 for the chevy serpentine belt!
Good lands! Astounded, I looked it up on NAPA’s website and found the price there to be a mere $18.99! So I’m less than thrilled about that. |
Sorry, Tom. Maybe when the NAPA chief reads my post, he’ll see to it that you have a lifetime supply of belts.
…how many folks will see matters this way?
What difference will it make?
I expect the snoring to continue.
| THUS, BY supplying weapons to Hizbullah, Syria and Iran have inadvertently provided concrete evidence for all the world to see of just how dangerous the combination of “outlaw regimes” and their “terrorist allies” can be.
In this respect, Israel is fortunate that the conflict erupted when it did, because had it occurred in another five or ten years, who knows what types of horrific weapons might then have been found in Hizbullah’s arsenal. And so, by inciting the start of hostilities last month in an effort to divert the world’s attention from their nuclear program, Iran may actually end up achieving precisely the opposite. Through their actions, Iran has just made the case, better than the most eloquent of Washington press spokesmen ever could, as to why they pose a grave and immediate threat to the entire free world with their obstinate pursuit of nuclear weapons. And it is this very same argument, which the Iranians have just unwittingly bolstered, that Bush may one day soon choose to make in justifying the need for possible military action against Iran to stop their drive toward nuclear weapons. |
Mexican fishermen found after 11 months at sea
| Three Mexican fishermen found drifting in the Pacific Ocean could have been lost for almost a year and two others were missing and presumed dead, the manager of a fishing company that rescued them said on Wednesday.
Early reports suggested the fishermen had been lost at sea for about three months and drifted more than 8,000 km (5,000 miles) before they were found by a Taiwanese tuna fishing trawler in waters between the Marshall Islands and Kiribati on August 9. But Eugene Muller, manager of Koo’s Fishing Co. Ltd in the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro, said it now appeared they had been at sea much longer than that in an extraordinary story of maritime survival. |
Here’s the headline I clicked on over at Covenant News: ‘Nightline’ Showcases Vile Female
And here’s a screenshot of what I got. (Click it for a larger view.)
A story about a vile female features an ad showing a female who would have been called vile not so long ago.
How the standards change!
EXTRA! EXTRA!
The Brits are entertaining a move toward a little common sense.
Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown
| The Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk.
The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background. The system would be much more sophisticated than simply picking out young men of Asian appearance. But it would cause outrage in the Muslim community because its members would be far more likely to be selected for extra checks. |
Outrage in the Muslim community. Oh boy.
Well, we’ll see if there’s political spine over there.
Meanwhile, how about some outrage in the Muslim community over somebody else’s racial and religious profiling.
Whose profiling might that be?
Those who plan and set out to execute suicide and homicide missions.
UPDATE I — 7:25 am, Pacific Time
Top Muslim policeman slams UK “terror profile” plan
| Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Ali Desai, one of Britain’s top Muslim police officers, said of the plan: “What you are suggesting is that we should have a new offence in this country called ‘traveling whilst Asian’.”
“What we don’t want to do is actually alienate the very communities who are going to help us catch terrorists,” he told BBC Newsnight on Monday. Muhammad Abdul Bari, general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, was eager to dispel a siege mentality, saying “If you treat a community as a problem community, you are not going to get support from them.” Asked what he thought passenger profiling might provoke, he told Sky News: “It could end up in racism unfortunately.” “If the profiling is done on the basis of race and religion, it will be wrong, it is not going to work.” |
NASA can’t find original tape of moon landing:
| The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong’s famous “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” a NASA spokesman said on Monday. |
| The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws. |
Would the US accept something similar to this for Iraq? Of course not!
Would the US accept the implicit equivalence between itself and Al-Qaeda? Of course not!
But this has to be good enough for Israel.
This gives an aura of legitimacy to Hezbollah.
And indulges the foolishness that cut-throat terrorists will abide by a new UN Security Council resolution.
Oh well. It appears the spineless lost and the Presidentially-labeled Islamic fascists won.