Jawa Report emails: I just learned that the Global Islamic Media Front–an al Qaeda propaganda outlet–has released documentation of the two Fox News hostages. The message and vid were the same ones you saw yesterday, with the addition of photo IDs—including Centanni’s Congressional press pass. Centanni’s pass may be why this group of thugs believes his hostage taking could actually exert leverage, and the speculations that it was his Fox
August 24, 2006
Moral Arithmetic
I want to post a portion of an email I received from Dario, which points to one of the preferred talking points being trotted out of late by the Manichean “we’re the ones who are really tough on terror” / “what are you guys worried about? There’s no such thing as an Islamic threat, you stupid Nascar loving bedwetters!” coalition of anti-war leftists, foreign policy lifers, and bongwater libertarians. And
“The Ayatollah’s Answer” (or, how I learned to stop worrying about the bomb and worry, instead, that some crazy Persians might actually USE the freakin’ thing)
From the WSJ: Anyone who still thinks a nuclear-armed Iran won’t pose a serious, and perhaps mortal, threat ought to consult this week’s bipartisan staff report from the House Intelligence Committee. Drawing on open-source information and mindful of classified background, the report lays out the history of Iranian nuclear deception and its attempts to promote trouble throughout the Middle East. It notes that “Iran probably has an offensive biological weapons
9 tentative retirement plans for Pluto now that it’s been ignomoniously removed from the solar system in the same way JD Salinger’s short stories have been removed from most American Lit anthologies
Join the team of Armstrong and Kos as expert financial consultant to the stars Wait 5 weeks, replace Tony Kornheiser on “Monday Night Football” Six words: “So You Think You Can Dance?” Challenge Pat Buchanan for the title, “Coldest Rock in the Universe” Buy a mess of them Tony Robbins tapes, get rich, finally start living a little, you know? “Well, I’ve always really wanted to learn to paint.” Apply
“Al-Borz News Service: President Ahmadinejad Expected to Announce Iran’s ‘Nuclear Birth‘“
From MEMRI: The Iranian news service Al-Borz, which is known to have access to sources in the Iranian government, predicted that on the first anniversary of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s government, in late August 2006, Ahmadinejad is expected to announce what the news service called Iran’s “nuclear birth.” In addition, an August 23, 2006 article about Iran’s reply to the incentives proposal, that was posted on the Iranian Foreign Ministry-affiliated website,
red pills found behind the sofa cushions, green pills edition (prolepsis 2)
Just woke from another of my vivid blue agave dreams (hundreds of naked Indians labor to build an enormous casino inside the hollowed-out carcass of a giant, magical buffalo, the buffet to which features nothing but kippers, wild salmon, and owl kabobs)—only to find a curious note from my hoodie. Seems he’s been “living a lie” and has decided to run off with a pastel short sleeve button down Madras
