The Noble Pundit

Saudis fear that Britain sees them as the next Iran – If the House of Saud is getting concerned that the West is seeing through the facade, that’s a good thing.

Power-tower ‘terrorist’ arrested in California – The guy is complaining because it was difficult to negotiate his surrender. He’s pulling bolts out of power [...]

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Interesting story, this is. A bus driver in Jacksonville removes several Muslim kids from the bus. The kids end up walking home and are refused transport two days later (the first event happened on a Wednesday, the second on a Friday). Those are the facts that are agreed on. It gets [...]

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Well, they’re an exaggerated threat in their own mind.

I think that after the concern expressed about their most recent “veiled” threats against Israel, they started to get the message that the US is not going to brook that kind of language.

They threatened to hit settlements in the Golan Heights if Israel were to go after [...]

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A “donnybrook.” I like that.

The cause of this little flare-up? Howard Dean’s comments that he would like to “be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks…”

OK, so he’s pandering to the last group that is still officially allowed to be oppressed: poor Southern white males. Being a member [...]

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Carnival Of The Capitalists #4 is up over at Robert Prather’s Insults Unpunished.

He’s got 34 entries this week, all of which look great! Go over and take a look!

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Make excellence a ‘black thing’ – SATs, HOPE scholarships and grade inflation. A well written column that makes excellent sense.

Castro: Is Schwarzenegger All Muscle? – Fidel questioning someone’s intelligence. Pretty funny.

Mind the gap – A column slamming “hipocrisy.” Yes, spelled with an “i” not a “y.” Excellent article.

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I seem to be on a bit of a Palestinian/Israeli article kick tonight. I wonder why? Oh well, no matter.

Today marks the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist opposed to the peace process.

I think that this points out a huge and significant difference in the Israelis from [...]

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Once again, Israel has restricted access to the Temple Mount in anticipation of violence during Ramadan. The Palestinians are, to be expected, upset about this. So why would Israel feel a need to do this? What justification might they have?

Well, how about:

Al-Qaida plans to launch massive attacks on U.S. and allied interests [...]

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Was just looking at the last update to my site (to make sure everything was kind of OK) and I noticed in the ‘Blogs Linking Me’ a new site: HobbyBlog.

I went over and took a look. Looks like it hits on one of my pet topics: Roman coinage.

Very cool! Go take a look, [...]

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What is the fascination that Al-Qaida has for airplanes? We’ve got 9/11, the El Al flight coming out of Kenya (unsuccessful), and now this report coming out that they have acquired Russian made SA-7 missiles with the idea of shooting down a Western airliner during Ramadan.

Why?

What does shooting down a Western airliner really accomplish? [...]

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We knew it had to start happening at some point. Shi’ites in Basra are nowexecuting revenge killings against Ba’athists Sunnis who used to run Iraq.

We’ve really done a pretty good job of keeping these kind of events under control. But look at the response of the Iraqi police chief in Basra: With [...]

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Permanent ban on Internet service taxes bogs down as temporary ban runs out – The ban needs to get renewed ASAP. The last thing the Net needs is getting taxed.

Day of the Dead: Many Mexicans seek burials in their homeland – I’m going to skip the rude comments here – although the possibilities are [...]

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The last couple of days, one of the guys I work with has been bringing in the daily editions of the Orlando Slantinel, er, Sentinel. I haven’t actually read the Sentinel in quite a while, outside of the classifieds, (mainly because I get almost all my news information from the Net, including the Sentinel [...]

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Stopped by a convience store to get a drink while I was out picking up lunch today. On the door they had a sign that could only work for Halloween:

Take Off
Masks
Before
Entering
Store
Thanks!

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see that working any other day. Unless maybe you’re in a bad section of town.

Know why [...]

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The “Second Annual Spherewide Short Story Symposium – Halloween Edition” is now up and available for your reading pleasure over at Master of None.

I get a special mention as being the first person to enter two times in a row! Go me! (Be warned though, my story is most certainly not scary. [...]

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Something Awful has a collection of Halloween stories that didn’t quite make it (look for today’s post).

I particularly liked the first one The Cursed Bean.

Of course, the link for Preggie Pops is a little more, um, odd. Just another little something to make you go “Hmmm” to start the morning.

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I couldn’t resist linking to these also:

Get PLAY: NU gets good vibrations – Hmmm. Makes you wonder what they’re really studying at Northwestern.

The perfect gift for the pet that has—ahem—almost everything – ” ‘How are you, Bucky?’ He gave me his paw, and I shook his hand. He went to clean himself, and I’ll [...]

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Ignoring Jewish Humanity – Raises good questions, but ones that are never answered.

Poll: Young not in step with 30-plus crowd – Oh great. Now, according to CNN, I’m old.

BLOODY KING LINKED TO SAXON BEACH FIND – Another of those little history stories I like so much.

“35 or 40” countries able to make nuclear weapons: [...]

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So what were these guys talking about?

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Gees, that friendly “charity” known as Hamas has declared that “there is no room for discussion” of another cease fire until Israel stops its aggressions.

Sounds like something a child would say: “I’ll act right when you quit punishing me!” That’s the time to jack up the pressure, not to release it. That’s when [...]

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