This takes the cake.

Explain this one, Angus.

Man shoots wife during DIY project

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<i>…Ronald Long fired the shot from inside their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.</i>

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tis definitely time for levity.. much too serious at this party

At dawn the telephone rings, “Hello, Senor Rod? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house.” “Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?” “Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Rod, that your parrot, he is dead” “My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International competition?” “Si, Senor, that’s the one.” “Damn! That’s a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird. What did he die from?” “From eating the rotten meat, Senor Rod.” “Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?” “Nobody, Senor. He ate the meat of the dead horse.” “Dead horse? What dead horse?” “The thoroughbred, Senor Rod.” “My prize thoroughbred is dead?” “Yes Senor Rod, he died from all that work pulling the water cart.” “Are you insane?? What water cart?” “The one we used to put out the fire, Senor.” “Good Lord!! What fire are you talking about, man??” “The one at your house, Senor! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire.” “What the hell?? Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a candle?? !!” “Yes, Senor Rod.” “But there’s electricity at the house!! What was the candle for?” “For the funeral, Senor Rod.” “WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??!!” “Your wife’s, Senor Rod”, she showed up very late one night and I thought she was a thief, so I hit her with your new tailor made Super Quad 460 golf club.” SILENCE . . . . . . . . . . . LONG SILENCE . . . . . . . . . . “Ernesto, if you broke that driver, you’re in deep shit!!”

Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders’ film about the Quran (English)

Live Leak…Graphic Video Warning!!…Of why Islam is a fiendishly evil cult, that needs to be crushed and crushed badly.

Obama Rx for Economy: 21st Century Regulations

“To renew our economy — and to ensure that we are not doomed to repeat a cycle of bubble and bust again and again — we need to address not only the immediate crisis in the housing market; we also need to create a 21st century regulatory framework, and pursue a bold opportunity agenda for the American people,” Obama said.

“We do American business — and the American people — no favors when we turn a blind eye to excessive leverage and dangerous risks,” he added.

Return Fire:

“However, what is not necessary is a multi-billion dollar bailout for big banks and speculators, as Senators Clinton and Obama have proposed. There is a tendency for liberals to seek big government programs that sock it to American taxpayers while failing to solve the very real problems we face,” McCain said.

Clinton’s camp hit Obama for his plan, saying he “announced a series of broad, vague principles while offering no new concrete solutions to provide Americans with greater confidence in the market or keep them in their homes.”

Symbolism:

Obama was speaking at The Cooper Union from the podium used by presidential aspirant Abraham Lincoln in 1860 when he delivered his “Right Makes Might” address, which helped him win the Republican presidential nomination.

Just wait until, Rev. Wright sees you again. You will pay for using that white mans podium.

Don’t know about everyone, but “symbolism” and symbols, combined with a generic “if you elect me, not only will I save all the people of this nation, but of our world and toss in Mars and Uranus too” speech, does nothing for me.

In Focus: Obama’s Jewish Problem?

Who said this? “We’ll be [in Iraq] a century, hopefully. If it works right.

“That’d be Gen. Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak, in a 2003 interview with the Oregonian. A former chief of staff of the US Air Force and now co-chair of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, McPeak was against the war but not, you’ll have noticed, the kind of sustained military occupation that every glib pundit and blogger has arraigned John McCain for advocating in 2008, when things in Iraq are beginning finally to “work right” and when his necessary precondition for a century-long garrison was that American soldiers were not being killed.

McPeak made headlines last week for accusing Bill Clinton of “McCarthyite” tactics. On any other day, this might have some legitimacy to it, but what did Clinton do to incur such a conversation-stopping epithet? He had referred to a potential match-up between his wife and McCain by saying: “[I]t would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country,” which of course carried the clear implication that Obama doesn’t love his country and isn’t devoted to its interest. This may be low and disingenuous, but the word for it, as ever, is “Clintonian” not “McCarthyite.

“At all events, what really seems to have unhorsed McPeak is this interview, conducted again with the Oregonian in 2003, and recently excavated by the American Spectator, in which he blames the stalled Arab-Israeli peace process on American Jewry:

We don’t have a playbook for the Middle East. You know, for instance, obviously, a part of that long-term strategy would be getting the Israelis and the Palestinians together at . . . something other than a peace process. Process is not a substitute for achievement or settlement. And even so the process has gone off the tracks, but the process isn’t enough. . . . We need to get it fixed and only we have the authority with both sides to move them towards that. Everybody knows that.

So where’s the problem? State? White House?

New York City. Miami. We have a large vote - vote, here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it.

Pajamas Media

Who Do Iraqis Want to be U.S. President?

Omar Fadhil is PJM Baghdad editor

Iraq The Model

SiteMeter Intrigues Me

I clicked on over to our SiteMeter page, and had a look at the map of the last 500 visitors.

There are some pretty interesting places there.

NZ man claims ‘rape by Aussie wombat’

Via Yahoo7

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A New Zealand man has been sentenced to 75 hours’ community service for telling police he was being raped by a wombat.

In a later call to police, Cradock retracted the wombat rape complaint, but said the incident had left him with an Australian accent.

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Don’t ask, Angus, don’t ask.

A bad day for Inane J. 1, 2, 3… Awwww

At Bolt’s.

Bolt:

Another green does some Garretting of the facts on plastic bags:

Clean Up Australia chief executive Kerrie-Ann Johnson yesterday insisted the impact of plastic bags on marine life had not been exaggerated. “It is a very big issue,” Ms Johnson said.

Asked to identify studies supporting her claim, Ms Johnson said one by the Australian Marine Conservation Society had concluded that 90 per cent of albatross chicks had bag remnants in their gullets.

AMCS national campaign manager Craig Bohan said his organisation had not conducted any such study.

A reader response:

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Is it just me, or did April Fooling start early this year?

A Persian gent jailed in Dubai claims to be acting as an ambassador for the Hutt River Principality.

I’d guess that many West Australians regard the Hutt Royal Family more with affection than disdain. Even today, a hundred years and more after Federation, the idea of WA seceding from the Commonwealth gets a regular run - everyone talks about it, but Prince Leonard just rolled up his sleeves and did it.

South Australia Collecting Taxes From England

Australia clearly doesn’t tax us poor residents enough if they’ve started to tax English folks.

Obama Advisor Blames US Jews for Lack of Mid-East Peace

Bits and pieces:

(IsraelNN.com) Once again, a furor surrounding US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has erupted, this time over a senior military advisor to the Obama campaign with a history of anti-Israel remarks. He has strongly criticized pro-Israel Jews in the United States for allegedly torpedoing peace efforts in the Middle East.

Latest storm
The storm surrounding McPeak is the latest in a series of anti-Israel revelations to tar the Obama campaign in recent months. Obama has long been a favorite son of left wing elements in the United States, but has been strongly criticized for failing to cut ties with radical preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright has called Israel a “racist country,” said that “Israel” is a dirty word, and claimed US foreign policy was responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Another anti-Israel activist, Arab-American Ali Abunimah, has claimed to know Obama well and to have met him on numerous occasions at pro-Palestinian events in Chicago.

Arutz Sheva

Headline of the Day?

“Kiwi admits to false Wombat rape report”

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UPDATE: NewsCorp’s version - ‘Wombat rape made man speak Strine’

UPDATE #2: So what is it with Antipodeans, substance over-use and wildlife, anyway?