Good news: An interesting comment about Opus Dei is found in a Malaysia news story:... Faigal exclaims: “Gross exaggerations! ...Acts of self-mortification are common in other faiths as such Hinduism and Taoism.”
Yes, we superior people in the west don't pray three hours a day, fast, and practice self mortification to try to find God, as is common in eastern religions...Spending three hours a day in front of a tv, dieting, and jogging is not the same thing at all...
Bad news: Mugabe is still honored by other African leaders
Worse news: He is trying to have him copy his example on how to wreck their own economies...
Bad News: Egypt arrests democracy advocates and blogger Aala...
Worse news:They are extending their "emergency laws" to crack down on extremists...but by doing so, they are preventing true democratic reform, making those who oppose the government chose either silence or radical Islamic parties....
Bad news:Woman reporter tortured to death in Iraq...LATimes covers story...
Worse news: Won't stop moonbats from insisting we let murderers take over Iraq.
GOOD NEWS: Dafur agreement story HERE...
Bush's involvment was crucial...but don't expect the press to thank him.
Steyn says= But, whatever international law has to say on the subject, the only effective intervention around the world comes from ad hoc coalitions of the willing led by the doughty musketeers of the Anglosphere. Right now who's on the ground dragging the reluctant Sudanese through their negotiations with the African Union? America's Deputy Secretary of State Bob Zoellick and Britain's International Development Secretary Hilary Benn. Sorry, George, that's as "multinational" as it's gonna get.....The good people of Darfur have been entrusted to the legitimacy of the UN for more than two years and it's killing them. In 2004, after months of expressing deep concern, grave concern, deep concern over the graves and deep grave concern over whether the graves were deep enough, Kofi Annan took decisive action and appointed a UN committee to look into what's going on. Eventually, they reported back that it's not genocide. Thank goodness for that. Because, as yet another Kofi-appointed UN committee boldly declared, "genocide anywhere is a threat to the security of all and should never be tolerated". So fortunately what's going on in the Sudan isn't genocide. Instead, it's just hundreds of thousands of corpses who happen to be from the same ethnic group, which means the UN can go on tolerating it until everyone's dead, at which point the so-called "decent left" can support a "multinational" force under the auspices of the Arab League going in to ensure the corpses don't pollute the water supply.
BadNews: DavidBlair is not convinced it will work.
BBC= Liberia sex-for-aid 'widespread'...Young girls in Liberia are still being sexually exploited by aid workers and peacekeepers despite pledges to stamp out such abuse, Save the Children says.Girls as young as eight are being forced to have sex in exchange for food by workers for local and international agencies, according to its report...The United Nations promised to put safeguards in place after sexual abuse in the refugee camps of West Africa was first revealed four years ago. ...
The latest allegations come on top of a probe into charges of rape, paedophilia and prostitution involving UN troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
Finally: Good news. My blog is listed with the Euston Manifesto.
It's nice to be associated with some Democrats for a change...
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