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The key to keeping cool in hot weather is to wear light clothing, and, most importantly, to keep your dance moves small and subtle; you’re supposed to feel the heat, not make more of it. If you’re not sure what the proper technique is, simply follow the example of the extra-double lovely Martha Reeves, as she and the Vandellas perform Heatwave.
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  1. More good wishes for Christopher Hitchens from the sanctimonious, merciful crowd:
    George Berkin, at nj.com:
    “It would be a huge blow to Hitchens’ ego (as it is to any ego) to admit that he’s been wrong these many years. But Hitchens’ rebellion against God has been so public that God may require a very public humbling.”
    John Bressendon writes:
    “Since Christopher Hitchens’ announcement earlier this week that he is being treated for cancer of the oesophagus, I’ve seen a lot written along the lines of ‘say what you like about Hitch, but I hope he gets better soon’. Well I don’t. I’m delighted that he’s got cancer, and I hope it gives him many years of painful misery.
    “Full disclosure: both my mother and my biological father succumbed to the big C. In her case it was very sad. In his? Just desserts.”

  2. I hope Hitch pulls through. There’s not a lot we agree on, but he’s a pretty interesting guy.
    I feel this demotivator is spot on, as they say.

  3. Harper has chosen David Johnston as the new GG.
    http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/contentposting?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20100707%2fgovernor-general-100707
    Seems like a good choice to me. One of the stated reasons in the article was that his background would give him the “right stuff” to be a proper aribtrer should the need arise and a sticky constitutional issue arise. Given the previous cozying up of the NDP, Liberals,and Bloc this is more than just a theoretical possibility.

  4. EBD…thanks for the wonderful Motown music…took me back to warm summer nights on the Detroit River (Canadian side). Good times!

  5. I agree with you EDB. Hitchens anti-theism and his ability to convince others has brought about some nasty comments about his cancer. OTOH, pre-cancer Hitchens probably would have cheerfully toasted an announcement that a pedophile priest had developed penile cancer.

  6. Motown! GREAT!
    I love the small dance moves — Martha and the Vandellas trying not to get hotter than they already are!!
    As for Christopher Hitchens’ recently diagnosed cancer: I think he’s a horse’s ass when it comes to religion and his arrogant pronouncements such as “God is NOT Great,” but I deeply regret that he’s ill with cancer and wish him only the best.
    I have to question the “Christian” motivation of anyone who would gloat at Hitchens’ misfortune, saying he deserves it. Even if he does “deserve” it — he, after all, is a profligate smoker and drinker — he is in need of Christians’ compassion, and prayers. No doubt, Christopher’s brother, Peter, a confessing Christian, will be praying for him and feeling the weight of his only brother’s distress.

  7. They’re baaack!
    Climategate’ scientists honest: report
    http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/07/07/climategate-report-east-anglia.html
    “The inquiry by former civil servant Muir Russell into the scandal at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, found there was no evidence of dishonesty or corruption in the more than 1,000 emails stolen and posted to the internet in late 2009.”
    Among other doozies Mr. Russell twists himself into a pretzel explaining that the “hide the decline” graph was misleading but unintentionally so.
    A funny read if you have a dark sense of humor.
    Syncro

  8. “I have to question the ‘Christian’ motivation of anyone who would gloat at Hitchens’ misfortune…”
    I agree, batb, but unfortunately a lot of them see themselves as ‘more Christian than thou’ and furthermore they don’t believe that they’re gloating. They see themselves as spokespersons for G*d, and believe that he’s exacting his revenge. That particular combination of sanctimony and profound, ineluctable malice is certainly revolting.
    On a completely different topic, Rondi Adamson wrote something that got me thinking:
    “There is one thing I can take away with certainty from the G20 protests — face coverings should be banned. Burqas, niqabs, balaclavas, bandannas and other face coverings should be outlawed in public. Thank you, Black Bloc protesters, for crystallizing something for me that had previously been anything but clear.”
    I’d never thought of it before, but – leaving entirely aside the whole burqa/niqab debate for a moment – I think she has a point. I believe it would be reasonable, sensible, and legally justifiable to pass a law banning face coverings during any protest or in any place where a riot is going on. In the west, covering one’s face during a riot is neither a fashion choice nor a religious statement; it’s a means of hiding one’s identity when one is either committing a criminal act or considering the possibility of committing a criminal act.

  9. There are four pillars to hot weather comfort:
    1. Shade
    2. Breeze
    3. Very cold beer
    4. Nakedness

  11. I hope in his will Hitchens leaves instructions for an atheist funeral and just throw the body in a dump or something when he’s done with it.
    Or will he do like Douglas Adams and rail against religion his whole life then have his funeral in a Church.

  12. Thanks for adding your kind thoughts about someone who is dying of throat cancer, dinosaur.
    Maybe Hitchens’ epitaph will read “Outing the malevolent ill will and vindictiveness of putative Christians, even in death.”
    Mercy.
    Dave Poffin makes a good economic point about taxes on tobacco, etc:
    “Like all the other so-called ‘sin taxes’ out there, there is a fundamental problem with believing you can sustain and expand revenues by raising the cost of ‘sin’ to the point that some of the “sinners” will no longer be able to afford them. Taxing behavior designed to stop said behavior is not a viable method for growing a revenue stream; not in the eyes of sane normal people, at least. Yet our Political Heroes keep trying this technique over and over and over again.”

  13. I’m delighted that he’s got cancer, and I hope it gives him many years of painful misery.”
    well ya know EB, I feel the same way whenever a cop gets shot to death because after all, a dead cop can never laugh at a victim.
    ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!

  15. I enjoyed that. The same as blue tech,it brought back memories of Motown,and other things,such as taking the tunnel bus and walking to Tiger Stadium.

    Hey ,what do you think of the playing the song “Footloose”,as a selection one night?

  16. re: Hitchens, “I’m delighted that he’s got cancer, and I hope it gives him many years of painful misery.” the compassion… that one’s hard to fully grasp.
    Cuba has announced a release/exile of 52 political prisoners to Spain, largely a result of Catholic Church and Gov’t of Spain negotiations, and very likely the promise of acceptance of the murderous regime and possibly future investment. Differing a fair bit from the BBC’s take on events, here is the south Florida based and freedom supporting, Babalu Blog’s take on it…
    (Instapundit has linked as well…)
    http://babalublog.com/2010/07/spain-and-the-catholic-church-negotiate-forced-exile-for-political-prisoners/#comments

  17. Hold on to your hats folks. The new GG has been selected. It is not a woman. It is not someone with a hyphenated name or nationality. It is a white Canadian male,and this really sends a tingle down my leg,he hasn’t worked at the CBC.

    I’d hate to be a cat within Mansbridge’s or Newman’s circle of stumble.Not only does this announcement take them out of the loop now,it takes them out of the running for next time.We can’t possibly have two white males in a row as GG,that wouldn’t be PC. I f’en love it.

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/07/governor-general.html#socialcomments

  19. Perhaps if we pray for Hitch, he will have a miraculous cure. I don’t think you have to believe in miracles to experience one. As Chesterton suggested: The disbelief in miracles is no match for the miraculous. And as that other Catholic convert, Evelyn Waugh noted: Miracles do occur, but it is presumptuous to expect one.

  20. Not wishing ill on anyone but won’t it be funny when Hitchens comes face to face with the God he swore never existed.

  23. I think this might be some sort of allegory about Canadians always returning to the Liberal fold:
    “A group of 15 monkeys at Kyoto University’s primate research institute in Aichi Prefecture, which are the focus of a string of high-profile scientific studies, escaped from their forest home which is encased by a 17ft high electric fence.
    “The monkeys made their bid for freedom by using tree branches to fling themselves one by one over the high voltage electric fence located nearly three metres away.
    “However, despite the intelligence shown in their great escape, the primates appeared unsure as to what to do with their newfound freedom: the monkeys remained by the gates of the research centre and were lured back into captivity by scientists armed with peanuts…”
    Still, they’re pretty smart – makes you wonder if Geordie-accented hotel staff-member Michael’s theory (at 1:22) about safari-park monkeys might not have a bit of truth to it.

  25. I recently applied for a building permit for a new house. It was going to be 100 ft. tall and 400 ft. wide with 9 turrets at various heights and windows all over the place and a loud outside entertainment sound system. It would have parking for 200 cars and I was going to paint it snot green with titty pink trim.
    The City Council told me to go to hell.
    So I sent in the application again, but this time I called it a Mosque.
    Work starts on Monday…

  26. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/07/first-they-came-for-the-scientists/#comment-425445
    Deanster says:
    July 7, 2010 at 7:52 pm
    What you’ve described is the “Fabianism”. Unlike the Communists, who took you by force, the Fabians strive to take you over from within. The three pillars of influece that must be taken are 1) the Media, 2) the Education Elite, and 3) the Courts.
    It is indisputable that the AGW crowd is operating through the Fabian model. The Media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the agenda. The University system is nothing more than an “expert” witness to the agenda, and will exonerate any wrong doing associated with the agenda [just look at the “investigations” that have involved UEA and Mann]. Lastly, the Courts have been complicit in allowing the EPA to usurp powers of authority that are not designated to it in the Constitution.
    Unfortunately, the American Public is too involved with the latest Iphone or Ipad to notice or care that their individaul freedoms and liberties are very slowly being dissolved.

  27. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/07/first-they-came-for-the-scientists/#comment-425447
    Mike Lorrey says:
    July 7, 2010 at 7:56 pm
    Smokey: “But the PNAS list is an official blacklist endorsed by a quasi-national organization. It is entirely political in nature, arbitrarily assigning names based only on someone’s perception, and not allowing for any recourse if a listed scientist objects.”
    Thats exactly right. Many of the names on that list are NOT persons who describe themselves as AGW skeptics, but they were unfortunately naive enough to think that being a public spirited citizen and putting your name to a statement urging objectivity and restraint against jumping to conclusions, would be met with anything other than condemnation and character assassination.
    There should never be recriminations and reprisals taken against anybody of any political persuasion for expressing their opinion in an earnest and honest manner in a respectful mein. Those that seek to engage in reprisals ARE, in fact, fascists *using* marxist methods (for those who have studied political science, ideology and propaganda, etc know that there is not much difference between the practices of Goebbels, of Mao, and Alinksy. Alinsky never needed to use actual bullets in his “community organising” of urban leftist insurgencies because he found it was more effective simply to destroy the person in reputation, because such tactics have the added bonus of often times making one’s target behave badly in public, and occasionally end their own lives in private.
    Many who think in the traditional political spectrum are very blinkered about how they define “fascist” and “marxist”, seeing fascist as being someone who uses the state to exterminate a given ethnic group, when that is merely one minor and nonmandatory policy, when in general fascism is any policy that seeks to use the force majeur of the state to dictate how private citizens live their lives and use their property. Land use zoning regulations are a form of fascism as much as directing industry what to produce and how much to produce. Economically, marxism is fascist in nature, in that it seeks an extreme form of central planning and regulation of economic enterprises to the point that the whole reason for having a private owner is rather superfluous and is thus done away with.
    Where marxists and fascists tend to differ is in foreign policy. Fascists are nationalists because they seek to bolster and preserve the power of the state to achieve perfect order, their method of enforced ethnic homogeneity as a means of building nationalist loyalty is merely one means to an end, while marxists are internationalists who seek to tear down nation states through revolution in order to achieve global brotherhood of workers under The Party. Both use socialism as a means to an end, so the idea of defining one as right wing and the other as left wing is really only valid from a certain perspective of international politics. Both are totalitarian in nature and both are enemies of the individual, the concept of individual ownership of property, and the private acquisition of wealth.
    That said, marxism as a social-historical theory, per se, is neither right nor left, it is a set of tools. It is a way of looking at history and society. Marxism in art is a progressive evolution of art away from the realism of the Renaissance masters and toward an avant garde academic movement of art commenting on art for the sake of promoting political orthodoxy. For instance, the Bauhaus School of art and architecture is decidedly marxist in nature because it seeks to empower the people to have “good art” and “good furniture and architecture” that is utilitarian and common. The Constructivist school is also marxist, as is Art Deco (now I love art deco design quite a lot, but this says nothing about my politics). Such avant garde movements arose as a means of establishing a new elite that was intent on telling people what was good art. Futurism, particularly of the italian variety, was closely aligned with Moussolini’s fascist movement, however it is also marxist as it attempts to define a progression of history of a person or thing through time as a more true definition of that person or things identity. So to, then, is the Cubism of Picasso that evolved out of Futurism.
    Similarly, political correctness is social marxism as it uses softcore psychological methods to enforce orthodoxy and drive out dissent.
    Now, back to political activism. A political group can be marxist in tactics without being marxist in agenda. Understanding that these two can be entire divorced from each other and still allow the group to be effective is of crucial importance. One important concept of marxism is dialectical conflict, the idea of creating opposing groups to polarize an issue, putting them in conflict, and dictating the progression of the conflict in order to manipulate the public into moving their perception of the “moderate middle” by alienating and disenfranchising a group that gets manipulated into committing atrocity.
    Real marxists would use this method, for instance, to stage protests whose aim is to encourage police forces to brutalize peaceful demonstrators, in order to strip the state of its moral authority to govern and moving public sympathy toward the cause of those protesting.
    However, my eminent domain activism, for instance, also utilized dialectical conflict. I behaved as a tin pot fascist, “victimizing” the poor supreme court justices, in order to motivate their allies in the two major parties into voting for the Eminent Domain Restriction Amendment that I was the actual author of. Thus I was a non-marxist using marxist tactics to achieve anti-marxist ends. Some might say it was unethical of me to do that, but in reality, since I, as a libertarian, was excluded from the electoral political process by rigged election laws, it was perfectly acceptable for me to use other means to get elected officials to do what I wanted even though they thought they were acting against me and not with me.
    To conclude, marxist tactics are inimical to and corrosive of classical liberal representative democracy and republican individualism. They are intended to undermine a stable political system in order to establish a new political order. On the other hand, if a representative democracy is intentionally structured to alienate and disenfranchise some segment of society, using such tactics is the only option in order to achieve a more perfect union. This is true whether the disenfranchised are blacks fighting for civil rights, libertarians fighting for access to the ballot, or scientists fighting to reestablish scientific principles of skepticism, objectivity, and transparency.

  28. from Piper Paul:
    “Real marxists would use this method, for instance, to stage protests whose aim is to encourage police forces to brutalize peaceful demonstrators, in order to strip the state of its moral authority to govern and moving public sympathy toward the cause of those protesting”
    I’m still wondering who( Miller?, Mcguinty? Blair?) ordered the G20 cops to stand back on Saturday , then go ballistic on Sunday.

  29. O’s “huge” psycho “blow”.
    “Our engineers are telling us completely opposite,” Roberts told Brown. “This is the same Corps that constructed the floodwalls that basically flooded (New Orleans) following Hurricane Katrina,”.
    …-
    “Oil spill turning point: Tar balls in Lake Pontchartrain
    Tar balls have begun showing up on Lake Pontchartrain in a huge psychological blow for the people of New Orleans.”
    http://campbellbrown.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/07/oil-spill-turning-point-tar-balls-in-lake-pontchartrain/

  30. About the new GG, all I have to say is that while I am disappointed that they did not choose a former military person, I am glad that they opted for a minority person. Having a white Anglo-Saxon heterosexual and possibly Christian appointed to the position of the Queen’s representative is a rare honour in this day and age.

  32. Sad Day @ the CBC
    Next GG not a Journalist & CBC/Ekos poll shows the Liberals at lowest support in over a yr. 23%
    Conservatives 34%.

  34. Even though I find Christopher Hitchens’s virulent anti-Christianity most unbecoming, I’m sorry to hear he has cancer. The glee of his detractors is disgraceful. As Christians, we’re called to “pray for [our] enemies”. Unintended consequences: Hitchens will have a LOT of prayers said for him by a LOT of Christians! (His illness might be a blessing in disguise: perhaps his humility quotient will rise and he’ll gain a little more compassion—not bad things for anyone.)
    Re the rumour about the Harpers’ separation: I’ve been in touch with another in-the-know type, who says this is very much a rumour at this point. I sincerely hope so. Time will tell.
    Thanks for the Financial Post article: the environmentalists are altogether a menace. I’m going to go out on a limb here: I think it has everything to do with the secularization of the West. As G.K. Chesterton said, “If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.” Human beings are naturally spiritual. Now that a critical mass of people in the West have turned their backs on the Judeo-Christian dispensation (while enjoying its fruits—while they last), we have a critical mass of Gaia, Obama, American Idol, Me-Myself-and-I etc. worshippers. These people are utterly gullible and seem willing to fall for anything: the shallower and more “no obligation” the better.
    I note that my grandparents’ and, generally, my parents’ generation—they lived in a time when Christianity wasn’t ridiculed—didn’t seem to be so easily duped. Though often broken—but not in the utterly profligate way it is today—the Judeo-Christian moral code (summed up in the Ten Commandments) was respected and there was such a thing as shame for transgressing. Not any more.
    Well, actually, there is still shame—for such non-biblical things as smoking, being “mean” to any category of minority (all sharing, if not living off, our beneficence), and Mother Earth, etc. Gore’s carbon credits are just modern day indulgences, foisted on the gullible by people who’d laugh the original indulgence system—quite rightly—out of the room. So, the West is still full of religious fervour—for false and altogether rapacious gods. (One notes that these gods demand, by fiat and strong-arm, government intervention all kinds of sacrifice, but not the voluntary love, compassion, and service to others that the Judeo-Christian God requires.)
    The moral capital of the Judeo-Christian dispensation has almost been spent. The account’s very nearly empty, and we’re seeing the decay all around us. Ted Byfield—a hero of mine—said two decades ago that it would have to get far worse before it gets (if it does) better. A good sign is that the getting worse seems to be rousing the sleeping giant. I hope it’s not too late.

  35. “'[David] Johnston was likely chosen [Governor General] for his constitutional knowledge and level-headedness, observers say.’ The committee … prefer[ed] someone who is well-versed in the inner workings of federal government.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/david-johnston-to-be-named-canadas-next-governor-general/article1632368/
    Finally, a serious choice for Governor General: someone who knows a lot about constitutional law.
    Trust Prime Minister Stephen Harper to raise the bar after two broadcast (no pun intended) journos who had little or no aptitude for being the Queen’s representative here in Canada — except for their solid feminist, visible minority, CBC bona fides — held the position.
    Re lookout’s comment @ 8:58, I totally concur, though it’s a tough argument on which to get a discussion going which, IMO, tells me how far down the road to servitude we’ve come: Lobsters and frogs don’t even know they’re being had for dinner when thrown in the pot of boiling water.

  36. “Former Justice attorney J. Christian Adams on Tuesday testified…that his former employer [the Justice Department – EBD] not only abandoned the voter intimidation case for racial reasons, but had instructed attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.
    “The department abandoned the New Black Panther case last year. It stemmed from an incident on Election Day in 2008 in Philadelphia, where members of the party were videotaped in front of a polling place dressed in military-style uniforms and allegedly hurling racial slurs while one brandished a night stick.”
    (…)
    “The Bush Justice Department brought the first case against three members of the group, accusing them in a civil complaint of violating the Voter Rights Act. The Obama administration initially pursued the case, winning a default judgment in federal court in April 2009 when the Black Panther members did not appear in court. But then the administration moved to dismiss the charges the following month after getting one of the New Black Panther members to agree to not carry a ‘deadly weapon’ near a polling place until 2012.”

  37. Excerpt from a column by Former Security Intelligence employee David Harris in the NP:
    “We give audience to Canadian journalists who confound us by stumbling from one relativistic noun to another in confused attempts to be neutral about those wanting to kill us. Having effectively banned ‘terrorist’ from their lexicon, media gut language and our understanding by grasping for the non-judgmental word ‘militant’ – a term formerly reserved for nonviolent unionists and the like.
    “Remarking on the trend, I suggested – facetiously – in a speech a few years ago that CBC might soon describe as ‘activists’ those firing rocket-propelled grenades into Parliament. Little could I know that CBC Toronto summit reporters would routinely refer to rioters, including some approximating Criminal Code definitions of terrorists, as mere ‘activists’ and ‘protesters’. It reminded me of the former CBC foreign correspondent who preferred to “go live” on coverage of baby-killing guerrillas. It was the only way to slip in the ‘T’ word without the producer’s snipping the tape.
    “So, too, in recent CTV stories of Taleban attacks on Afghanistan’s Jalalabad airfield. Neither a Kabul-based reporter nor the anchor nor the writer of the network’s accompanying website piece could force themselves to call these killers of our own Canadian and allied soldiers, ‘the enemy’, let alone ‘terrorists’. Instead, befuddled CTV journalists came up with the word ‘militant’ – and repeated it eight times, plus ‘gunmen’, ‘insurgents’, and ‘fighters’. Like those local police and civic leaders, they’d do anything to avoid facing unpleasant reality, and we viewers put up with it. As in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Kabul, we can no longer properly distinguish between our enemies and ourselves.”
    The whole thing here.

  38. EBD, Power Line and Pajamas Media are doing a really fine job of covering the racism at the heart of Obama’s Department of Justice (sic).
    The MSM is mum on this crucial issue. Business as usual . . .

  39. David Harris via EBD: “As in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Kabul, we can no longer properly distinguish between our enemies and ourselves.”
    ‘What I call patting the snake: “Good snake. Pretty snake. … Wait! Let go! I can’t breathe! … Ohhhhhhhhh nooooooo! … clunk
    How deluded can we get?

  40. EBD, when I click your link I get this message:
    Sorry, the page you’re looking for does not exist.
    [I get the same message, batb, which is very odd because the URL is correct. Go here instead, and scroll down to “David Harris: Canada feeds the haters.” – EBD]

  42. An oldie but a goodie:
    ================
    One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
    The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn’t see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
    Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
    “Hellooo Mr. Frog!” called the scorpion across the water, “Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?”
    “Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?” asked the frog hesitantly.
    “Because,” the scorpion replied, “If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!”
    Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. “What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!”
    “This is true,” agreed the scorpion, “But then I wouldn’t be able to get to the other side of the river!”
    “Alright then…how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?” said the frog.
    “Ahh…,” crooned the scorpion, “Because you see, once you’ve taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!”
    So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog’s back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog’s soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
    Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog’s back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
    “You fool!” croaked the frog, “Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?”
    The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog’s back.
    “I could not help myself. It is my nature.”
    Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

  44. From PowerLine:
    Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0.
    Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.
    Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.
    Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.
    Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.

  48. Three held in Norway ‘al-Qaeda bomb plot’
    “We believe this group has had links to people abroad who can be linked to al-Qaeda, and to people who are involved in investigations in other countries, among others the United States and Britain,” Ms Kristiansen said.
    She said one of the men was a Norwegian citizen, 39, a Muslim Uighur from China, who had lived in Norway since 1999.
    Another was an Iraqi citizen, 37, who was granted Norwegian residency on humanitarian grounds.
    The third man was an Uzbek national, 31, who was granted permanent residency in Norway on grounds of family reunification
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10554523.stm

  50. SDA commenter Manny’s letter to the CBC ombudsman regarding the CBC’s bias (disinformation, effectively) on the matter of putatively malnourished Palestinian kids is the subject of a Kathy Shaidle post at NewsRealBlog.

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