Still Wondering

So... Couldn't the AP shut down all the speculation by just producing (Capt.) Jamil Hussein? "We talked with people in the neighborhood," is how you prove there is an urban legend; it's not how you prove it true or false. Still there are no names of any of the six "burned Sunnis". No graves. No pictures. And the real police never got called on it.

So why not produce Jamil Hussein, the source of the six-burned-Sunnis story? Either that, or start reporting on guys getting drugged, kidney robbed, and waking up in a bathtub full of ice with a note... or that Jamaican vacation-toothbrush-picture story..... (ewww)

Foolish Man

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An Italian fathers' rights activist says he tried unsuccessfully to self-immolate on live television to call attention to dads unable to see their kids.

OK, this was a cry for help.... But I also don't think it was gasoline he poured down his front. As anyone who has gotten gasoline on his testadingadangleaderos can tell you, this guy wasn't hopping around and whimpering enough for it to have been gasoline. It burns.

An errant splash of gasoline got me back in the early 80's, and my eyes didn't stop watering until Bill Clinton was halfway through his second term.

Hence the Smile

Victory for Me...

Drudge quotes Frank Rich NY(pa-tuee!)T as saying, "we have lost in Iraq," and "The Iraq-Vietnam parallels at this juncture are striking."

Well yeah Frank. The parallels are: 1) the conflict hinging on the will of the American people, and 2) the press lying to the American people in a conscious effort to break that will.

Regardless, you can wipe the smile off your face Frank. You're pronouncement is the wishful thinking of a despicable man.

Merry Christmas

Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy:

Crucified Santa gains few fans for B.C. artist

METCHOSIN, B.C. (CP) — A Vancouver Island artist has put an effigy of a crucified Santa Claus on his front lawn, causing some neighbours to complain it’s traumatizing their children.

Jimmy Wright said the figure is intended to be a comment on society’s growing appetite for consumer goods.

"I don’t know how it came into my mind but I thought I’m going to take Santa Claus and I’m going to crucify him."

Don't know how it came into his mind? Come on, google 'crucify' and 'santa' and you'll see it's come into 93 thousand minds, many more than that, of course. It's just that most people don't want to offend their neighbors. What Jimmy wanted to imply is that he has a complex and artistic mind, but really, taking two symbols of the season and putting them together, how creative is that? Do something really creative Jimmy. Creative minds put cheese into aerosol cans. Creative minds make documents platform independent. Hackneyed minds attach store bought Santas to sticks.

Obvious Misuse

The headline says it all:

Oversized condoms a headache for many Indian men

OK, I can imagine (only) why oversized condoms could be a problem, but if they're giving these men headaches, then the overlarge devices are being misused in a way that's hugely perplexing.

Waiting For Jamil

Michelle Malkin is asking where the AP source Jamil Hussein has gotten to. Good question. He's the source for the AP's six-Sunis-burning line in the Twelve Days of Christmas song. Seems like the AP could produce him and clear up everything.

No, Not Bitter At All, Why Do You Ask?

Nancy Pelosi and Germaine Greer walk the streets during a traditional 'Krampus run' in the Austrian village of Gresten in this December 2, 2006 file photo. In folklore, Krampus was a devil-like figure who drove away evil spirits during the Christian holiday season and traditionally, he appeared alongside Santa around December 6, the feast of St. Nicholas.....

Bonk! Bonk! On the head!

"No, really, there's a zebra right behind you. Oh, look! And baby ducks too!"

Global Warming

Anyone who thinks religion is waning in the West should consider the Global-warmists. You don't even need to read the articles anymore, they're all the same: 1.) the temperatures are rising, which has never happened before, 2.) people, and more specifically, American people, are to blame, and 3.) This will kill us all in this particularly horrible way.

The "this" changes, but other than that the articles are all the same. And most of them, since the early 90's, have thrown in that "the science is now settled". Anyway, I just ran across this:

"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."

And what struck me was the first image that came to mind: the e-mailer was a church elder, urging a scholar to skirt information damaging to their, assumed shared, dogma.

Har

From the Corner:

For Heisenberg's birthday, I thought (although I was not sure) that you would enjoy my favorite Heisenberg joke: Werner Heisenberg, out for a drive, is stopped for speeding by a policeman. 'Do you know how fast you were going?!,' yells the irate cop. 'No,' replies Heisenberg, 'but I know exactly where I am.'"

They think Heisenberg's birthday was yesterday... but can anyone really know that?