Friday, September 24, 2010

Stuff below the fold

Despite the US media mainly covering the protesters against the Pope in the UK, Melanie Phillips sarcastically notes some politicians in the UK noticed he had a lot of support

How refreshing to find in the Prime Minister a man of rock-like principle, who wouldn’t dream of making opportunistic use of a wildly successful Papal visit which revealed the existence of a huge constituency either signed up or receptive to the message of uncompromising Christianity that the political class has until now brusquely ignored!

Might we now therefore expect the Prime Minister to repeal the pernicious ‘equality’ laws and the whole panoply of totalitarian victim culture and thought crime under which, as the Pope pointed out, Christians in Britain are now being oppressed?

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BelmontClub blog points out that Afghanistan is only one in a complex mix of local wars...
From Niger to Yemen to Pakistan itself — and in places all across the globe — the administration is fighting against an unacknowledged and loosely organized global force while openly engaged in only one place: the “war of necessity” in Afghanistan. The notion that America is only in conflict with a bunch of Islamic apostates and fighting ‘to end it where it began’ is an inaccuracy bordering on falsehood.

yes, we in the Philippines know that, but with the US help, they can't hide here any more (and the Aussies are helping the moderate Muslims in Indonesia rout out their nut cases too).

What you might have missed is that in Somalia, the African Union troops are doing quite well.

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Forget the smart bombs: Try a smart virus.

Of course, China has been doing that for quite awhile.

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