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LINKHow mosquitoes find their targets....easy to answer. They just look around and when the spot me they ring the dinner bell...

I have written elsewhere that what keeps fellow African leaders from condemning his tyranny is that they are similar Marxist liberators. But maybe things are changing LINK

Philip Jenkins has a long interesting interview where he disagrees with those shouting Europe is becoming Muslim. He points out the population explosion in the middle East will calm down by 2020, that most Muslims are more ethnic moderates than rabid bigots, the importance of church as community, and that the lack of civility in political discourse might have a blowback when Hillary takes over.
(thanks for the "headsup" from the roving Medievalist)

Iran seizes British soldiers inside of Iraqi waters...
Sounds like the mullahs have placed a "kick me" sign on their bottoms.

And the good news of the day: The number of Tuberculosis cases in the world have leveled off.
Ignore the parts of the article that laud "treatment". The dirty little secret is that it's the improvement of nutrition and increased wealth that stops indoor crowding that leads to the decline of the disease
Alltogether now: It's the obesity stupid...