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This is one of those thinly veiled attempts to incite hated against Latinos. Although this stupid law supposedly includes the Canadian flag, the Burundi flag and the flag of Tanzania the REAL concern is potentially illegal immigrants flying the Mexican flag. Can't have THAT in the U.S...

Somewhere, Shanek is having a deep, prolonged orgasm... I think it interesting this is an interstate highway. I thought those were federal, not state. ETA Link.

Don't you just know there's a cleaning lady planning her early retirement right now.

From the BBC: Sounds like someone has got Mushie's jimmy in a jamb.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/iraq/us-occupation-blamed-for-new-iraq-terror-front/2005/07/17/1121538864304.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7777352/ No...wait...the insurgency in Iraq is local. Isn't it?

On the news this morning a political analyst was discussing Tom DeLay and his (alleged?) improprieties. I don't want to get into the DeLay specifics; I just wanted to mention how the following came up. The analyst was basically defending DeLay and said something to the effect (paraphrasing)...

For those of you who don’t know me (hello) I work in Italy teaching English as a foreign language and now that I’m good enough at the basics that I can play with the form a bit, I’ve started introducing skeptical themes into my lessons. Sometimes the material demands it, for example...

lNCB story So, it is unpatriotic to pledge alligence to the flag of the United States of America if you are speaking a foreign language. Not just unpatriotic, offensive, too. As offensive as wearing a cross upside down in a church. And yet with all that stupidity, the boy manages to top...

Howard stringer, Sony's (SNE ) newly appointed chief, is the latest member of one of the world's most exclusive clubs: foreigners running Japanese companies. This group -- the Japanese call them "blue-eyed" CEOs -- includes Carlos Ghosn at Nissan (NSANY ), incoming Shinsei Bank head Thierry...

This is prompted by a little derailment Kimpatsu and I have engaged in here; http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1870798655#post1870798655 I'm wondering how non-native speakers of non-Roman alphabetical languages do what they do. On the one hand, I can sort of...

I feel like I'm in a backwater country. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041021/pl_nm/campaign_observers_dc_1 Interesting that the observers aren't welcome, too. Figures.

From the excellent news source www.truthout.com: "There has been poor strategic thinking in this...poor operational planning and execution on the ground," says Zinni, who served as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000. Zinni blames the poor planning on the...

Speak softly, carry a big stick, beat the crap out of a couple of people as examples.

From the intelligent and always insightful Lady of Liberty Rachel Mills: http://www.livejournal.com/users/rachelmills/

From the article: The rest of it is here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?storyID=13958

Why the Bush Doctrine is dead http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/02/1064988339740.html