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Samples of presidential poetry can be found here. (We also learn that "Bush sometimes refers to his wife as a lump in the bed.")Useful Fools found out that the ACLU Honors Islamofascists.
Rich Lowry has a must-keep list of what Democrats believe.
Mortimer Zuckerman tells us that we must do it right in Iraq:
It took seven years to transfer power in Bosnia--the same as it did for Japan from 1945. The U.N. has been in Kosovo four years, with no prospect of withdrawal. The success in tiny East Timor required two years. So who could imagine we would restore normality so swiftly in Iraq, a large, fractured society that has been physically and mentally tortured for decades?The UK Guardian reports that gun crime spreads 'like a cancer' across Britain:
Handgun crime has soared past levels last seen before the Dunblane massacre of 1996 and the ban on ownership of handguns introduced the year after Thomas Hamilton, an amateur shooting enthusiast, shot dead 16 schoolchildren, their teacher and himself in the Perthshire town.Andrew Sullivan points out that Babs endorses Davis, but can't even spell his name correctly.
Iraq's soccer players have a different motivation these days:
"Before the war, if we lost a game, it was very difficult," midfielder Ali Waheb Setet said. "We knew what would happen - we would be sent directly to jail after a very bad game."On the lighter side, some French people are headed to Eat Onions:The players no longer fear physical punishment. Instead, they have new motivation for their first Asia Cup since Saddam was overthrown, hoping to bring some cheer to weary citizens at home.
Tired of being sniggered at, people from French villages whose names sound like "Filthy Swine" and "My Arse" plan a weekend get-together in a tiny hamlet whose name means "Eat Onions" in old French. The idea, local newspapers say, is for the villagers to form a united front against constant teasing and forge a new pride in their colorful toponyms.A "hand analyst" who read Schwarzenegger's palm print at Grauman's Chinese Theatre said that she sees "tremendous leadership ability":Only villages "with suggestive names that evoke a smile, a laugh, or have a singsong folkloric name" can take part, say organizers, who plan a gourmet market to show off local fare and say they do not want the event spoiled by vulgarity. Among the 15 or so villages joining the event in the southwestern village of Mengesebes (Eat Onions in Occitan, an old language from the south of France) are: Saligos (which sounds like Filthy Swine), Montcuq (sounds like My Arse) and Trecon (Very Stupid).
Quirky French place names are nothing new to some English-speaking tourists who several times a year make off with signposts from the southwestern town of Condom.
"There is this odd kind of Teddy bear thing mixed with warrior energy," said Beth Davis as she traced her finger into the well of the actor's palm print in the landmark Hollywood theater's courtyard Sunday.Japan confirms the 8th case of mad cow disease.
Shanghai is sinking at the alarming rate of 1.5 cm a year, with the financial district of Pudong. The subsidence is blamed on over exploitation of underground water and an overabundance of high-rise buildings.
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