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The Walls have Ears...the Immans claim they were "only praying" and discriminated against. But if you dig deep into the story, you find another passenger understood Arabic and was alarmed at their conversation.

Robert Altman director of M*A*S*H* has died. For the clueless, the name of my blog comes from Dr. Hooker's books, not the movie...when Hawkeye returned to Maine, he set up his clinic over a Fishmarket.

Don't mess with Shiva....headsup from the Freeper archeology ping.

Dinesh D'Souza,criticizes Dawkins and other atheists for blaming religion for war and massacres, while never noticing that atheist regeimes have killed more people than the "wars of religion" ever did.

Did you know about the forgotten Oriental Jews-- 870,000 Mizrahi refugees were driven out of Muslim countries since 1945, of whom 600,000 sought refuge in Israel, where they now form half the Jewish population...."

And BULLETIN BULLETIN (as DaveBarry often writes):
The Good News: Madonna now plans to adopt a girl so she can have a matching set of black orphans...

the bad news:alas, this kid is in the process of being adopted by some Aussie missionaries who live in Malawi