Archive for August 21st, 2007

Today’s Example of Mainstream Media Bias

Israeli forces kill 2 children in Gaza, screams out today’s AP headline.
You have to go down a few paragraphs to get a better perspective of what probably happened.
The Israeli army said ground forces fired at two Palestinians who were spotted near a rocket launcher in an area of northern Gaza where a rocket was fired [...]

Catmeathead, Trad, and the Art of Litigiousness

Sheikh Taj Din “Catmeathead” Hilaly is back in the news. But this time it is because of unpaid wages, not uncovered meat.

A year after splitting from the nation’s leading Muslim group, declaring he would no longer accept money to be its spiritual adviser, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali has done an extraordinary about-face by insisting [...]

Hamass

Hamas has removed the image of “the big chicken” from the front page of its website, and replaced it with this image:

In case your vision fails you, the text reads: from surgeon depth ALQASSAM INCOMING.
No, I do not know what that means. All I see is a horse’s behind.
And he seems to be riding on [...]

The Targets

 Al-Qaeda has reportedly set their sights on some famous infidels.
David Beckham and Justin Timberlake are the targets of an alleged Al-Qaeda murder plot.
An internet video, which has been posted on YouTube, brands Becks, 32, and JT, 26, as criminal influences on young Muslims.
Fellow footballers Wayne Rooney and Thierry Henry, as well as rapper P Diddy [...]

Red Dwarf

 I couldn’t resist this story.
A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry.
Daniel Blackner, or Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf, was due to perform at the Circus of Horrors at the festival known for [...]

Milestone

This blog reached – wait for it – one million dollars unique visitors at 8:58:35 am Israel time, Tuesday August 21st. This represents the number of unique visitors since I installed the new Sitemeter counter in August 2004.
And who was the one millionth visitor?

If this is you, identify yourself in the comments and know you [...]