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11. juli 2005
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Do I have the coolest readers or what? One regular reader just sent me three books I've been wanting to read for some time.
Kenneth R. Timmerman: The French Betrayal of America
Scott Turow: Ultimate Punishment - A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
James E. Moon: Squares,Triangles and Saucers
The third book is a novel written by a very cool guy I've known from message boards for years. I'm looking forward to reading it.
Thanks a bunch, JD!
PS: As it is, I became so immensed in Turow's book that I ended up reading it through before I got around to publish this. An excellent treatment of the delicate subject of the death penalty, finding no easy answers but ultimately concluding that capital punishment can not feasibly be implemented in a just way.
7:12:46 PM 
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Hillary Clinton about George W. Bush:
"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Newman is in charge in Washington," Clinton said referring to the freckle-faced Mad Magazine character. She drew a laugh from crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Newman's catchphrase: "What, me worry?"
Hmm. Now that you mention it...
Aside from the Mad theme, Senator Clinton emphasised her image as a centrist (or opportunist, if you are cynical) by agreeing that the Iraq war is a crucial part of the war on terror.
She echoed her husband's calls for the United States to remain in Iraq until peace can be maintained by the Iraqi people, saying the mission was part of the "long struggle against terrorism" by the U.S.
"The threat of terrorism is as close as our daily commute," said Clinton, adding that people around the world admired the "famous resilience" of the British in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks.
Positioning for '08.
3:55:39 PM
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There is little tolerance for anti-American sermons in Kuwaiti mosques:
"The Al-Siyasah newspaper has received news that several mosques in Kuwait have begun to exhibit a new phenomenon manifested in the rejection by worshippers of extremist prayers expressed by some of the Imams during their Khutbah [friday prayer]. These prayers included invitations to fight the Americans and to become more hostile towards them. An example of this [phenomenon] was when Nabil al-Awadi, who is an Imam at one of the mosques in the southern region of Al-Surrah, began preaching against the Americans in his last Friday Khutbah. As a result, the people at prayer cut off his speech and demanded that he stop talking. Additionally, the worshippers at the mosque of Aisha Shabib in the Al-Jabiriyah neighborhood shouted, 'O' Allah, make Islam and America stronger' in response to what the Imam of that mosque had said during friday prayer about America and the current war [in Iraq]."
Kuwaitis still remember who helped them get their country back.
Via the Winds of War Monday Update, which has lots of good links.
2:00:38 PM
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Arthur Chrenkoff: Good news from Afghanistan, part 14 aka Coming Home.
The country is getting ready for the parliamentary elections, vaccinating children against polio, writing new laws, improving prison conditions, girls and women are going to school, and a woman has found out what to do with all the unused burqas.
12:52:27 PM
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I was speculating, and partly joking, when I wrote that Jacques Chirac's well-publicised joke about British and Finnish cuisine was the cause of London beating Paris to the 2012 Olympics. But according to the Sunday Times, that is precisely what happened.
All the same, it was tight and Chirac’s remarks about British cuisine — “After Finland, it’s the country with the worst food” — had helped by alienating the two Finnish members of the IOC, Jari Kurri and Peter Tallberg.
Kurri, a former ice hockey player who once punched a team mate on the nose for talking too much, and Tallberg were in no mood to forgive. If the Finns had voted for Paris it would have been 52-52 and Rogge would have cast the deciding vote, probably for Paris.
By contrast, Tony Blair's lobbying is widely credited with swinging many key votes to London.
2:02:59 AM
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