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Could this story be true?  It’s been under the radar for months, and Mickey has not relented.  This may set a new MSM record in avoiding topics too disruptive to their own delicate sensibilities.

Philippines wants to create MILF haven

. . .Heh. . . Get your mind out of the gutter–it’s another kind of haven.  One destined to attract a lot of tourists seeking MILFs

Philippines eyes plebiscite to okay Muslim homeland
MANILA, July 17 (Reuters) - The Philippines will hold a plebiscite early next year in more than 700 southern villages to set up an ancestral homeland for Muslims, part of a deal with the country’s biggest rebel group, officials said on Thursday.

Hermogenes Esperon, the president’s peace adviser, told reporters the proposed Muslim homeland would also be empowered to collect about 75 percent of taxes from oil, mines and fisheries in the area.

He was speaking in Manila a day after government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiators hammered out a deal in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.

“The government has agreed to grant broader political, social and economic power to the Muslims based on a deal we have reached with the rebels in Malaysia,” Esperon said, adding everything that was agreed was within the country’s constitution.

I don’t have a lot of data here, but I’m guessing this will work out great!

Via JWF

Legal scholars find spare time, invent controversy

Colombian military used Red Cross emblem in rescue attempt, and likely violated several principles of the Geneva Convention.

Two things:

1. What part of the Geneva Convention did FARC break in taking the hostages?
2. Terrorist organizations apparently can count on the goodwill (and discreet nature) of international NGOs.

Make that three: Why does anybody care?

** update:  Uribe apologizes for use of symbol.

Is Obama’s Truth Squad also writing iPhone publicity material?

With so much money and creative marketing talent sitting on the bench of the Obama campaign, it’s inevitable that some of their restless energy would spill over to other areas.  Witness the 3G iPhone publicity EXPLOSION at top tech blogs like Gizmodo and Engadget. It is an absolute firestorm of publicity. Like last year’s initial iPhone launch, you have Apple fanboys camping out, filming the unboxing of their shiny new device, and adopting “Apple” as their middle name.

Ok, I made up that last part, but the level of idolatry is eerily familiar.

Waterboring

Christopher Hitchens willfully submitted himself to the waterboard TWICE but somehow emerges physically, mentally, and physiologically unharmed enough to write an introspective article

Cincinnati-style Chilly: Isolating Mugabe

Cincinnati mayor Mallory cuts ties with sister city Harare in light of recent events in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Cincinnati was Harare’s only sister city.

At least somebody is ready to isolate this man.

Quote of the day

from Tom Maguire:

The same folks who can read the Constitution and Bill of Rights and find an unassailable right to abortion and gay marriage can’t find a right to possession of a firearm.

More Chicago political fallout

Dems close to Illinois Gov. are circling the wagons amid perjury allegations.

All your innovation belongs to us

In a nutshell, this is the common theme of the 2008 election–one side insists that only the government can foster innovation and generate energy independence while the other acknowledges that private innovation has an important role, and should be justly rewarded.

McCain’s $300 million prize for car battery innovation earns nothing but scorn from the Democratics.

“The battery prize is another gimmick,” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-San Francisco, said. “It doesn’t wash. We already know what we have to do right now: support renewable resources and support clean-car tax credits,” which McCain has voted against, she said

Barack Obama has also ridiculed McCain’s plan as a gimmick.

Sen. Barack Obama today ridiculed a proposal by his presidential rival, Arizona Sen. John McCain, to offer a $300 million taxpayer-funded cash prize to boost advanced battery research.

“When John F. Kennedy decided that we were going to put a man on the moon, he didn’t put a bounty out for some rocket scientist to win — he put the full resources of the United States government behind the project and called on the ingenuity and innovation of the American people,” the Illinois senator said in a speech in Las Vegas. “That’s the kind of effort we need to achieve energy independence in this country, and nothing less will do.”

Surprising, when you consider that Obama’s own proposals include similar cash “gimmicks“. Is Obama jealous because McCain beat him to the headline?

In 2004, the $10 million Ansari X-Prize competition gimmick was won by a private American company and sent an ordinary American into space. Twice.

In defending his recent pivot on receiving federal campaign funds for the 2008 election, Obama described the nature of his fundraising as a “parallel public financing system“, ostensibly because the involvement of so many small donors lends “public” characteristics to his campaign finances. Conversely, Obama suggests that as President he would dismiss a similarly-conceived “parallel public energy independence system” developed by anyone less than an activist federal government. How telling.

Bloggers lawyer up

An indepth summary of shadowy Iraqi moneyman Nadhmi Auchi apparently trips the nervewires.

We’re talking BIG Underground Drills, baby.

Self-inflicted problem solving for dummies.

The mastery of creating a problem, speaking truth to it, and then offering yourself as the only solution to the problem.  San Francisco is struggling with some easily preventable housing ills.

George Will echoes a similar observation.  When you intentionally manufacture scarcity, you better be prepared  accept responsibility for whatever consequences that may develop.

Technology Dopers

The debate over the mysterious LZR swimsuit heats up as the Olympics approach.

Alien video coming tomorrow

Will it actually be proven a hoax (ala “Alien Autopsy”) before it’s even released?

Didn’t this end badly before?

FOXNews.com - “German Archaeologist on Trail of Ark of the Covenant”

Uncle Hugo, your slip is showing

Now what, exactly, could be on a dead terrorist’s hard drive?

It should make some peeps nervous, but I really don’t think they care anymore.

Fair and Barracked

Obama may go on the O’Reilly Factor, according to Fox’s Chris Wallace. And why not?  There may be more democratics watching that particular show than Olby’s entire audience that night.

As usual, the fun bits are in the comments.  But how can you run for president and not appear on the most-watched cable “news” hour?

Freak-deaky floating jellybot portends aerial armageddon swarm

Sorry about that little bit of future fear mongering–I don’t know why I wrote that. Unprovoked specimens are actually quite peaceful to observe.

You know? Why not?

This is a real man–the Ultrasexual.

Jimmah Carter, ‘merican idiot

Visiting Hamas leadership is bad enough, but placing a wreath on the grave of a despicable terrorist is either just braindead, anti-American, or very corrupt—or all three.

Greed stuffs its face while the word starves

Riots and instability spread as food prices skyrocket.  Experts might argue over the exact causes of the crisis, but you really don’t need to scroll down much further on the CNN’s homepage to see the real reason:  man consumes 420 oysters in one sitting.  Which is apparently some sort of record.

Sad, but you could see this one coming. . .

A world ‘peace activist’ was found murdered during her hitchhiking trek though western Asia. While wearing a bridal gown.

After she had gone missing last month, her sister came from Italy to look for her, and ended up having to identify her body at the morgue. Per the sister:

“Her travels were for an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of trust, but not everyone deserves trust,” another sister, Maria, told the Italian news agency, Ansa.

Could the poor woman not learn this fatal lesson before the trip?

Yet the potholes remain unfixed

Six jerktowns shortened the duration of their yellow lights, conceivably to generate more stoplight cam revenue.

Another “moron” in Vinman’s estimation?

“The politics of the Karl Rove era were designed to distract and divide the very people who would ordinarily be rebelling against the deterioration of their way of life. Working Americans have been repeatedly seduced at the polls by emotional issues such as the predictable mantra of “God, guns, gays, abortion and the flag” while their way of life shifted ineluctably beneath their feet.”

- Jim Webb

(v - I added trackback)

Who are your Googlegängers?

Do you have a Google namesake?   Mine apparently are lawyers, felons and rock musicians.

And now for something completely different . . .

Autoracing chief Max Mosley is embroiled in a nasty sex scandal.  And I mean nasty in an S&M, barking German commands to multiple fräuleins sort of way.

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