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Toy Soldiers

Assalaamu alaykum,
my son has playmobil knights and playmobil pirates,
we bought them for him as good sets to get his little immagination going, they are not realistic looking, and have lots of men with beards to be ‘the goodies’ plus they are basic and can be enherited by his little sisters when they get older.
but i [...]

Supermarket ripoff

From Coyote Blog:
Either a) the media and particular green advocates have no real understanding of science or b) I am missing something.

That is a very easy question to answer, there is no conundrum: Most of the media and green advocates have no understanding of science, whether it be physics or chemistry, Darwinism or climate science. [...]

Coming Aboard

Well, ooer. I appear to have been enticed aboard the good ship Counting Cats- in fact, my last memory is of having a drink in a tavern, then a thump on the head, and now I awake, chained to this oar, and the large sweaty gentleman banging a drum tells me I am obligated to [...]

Pirates!

It’s all been pirates this week. Pirates in Somalia and now pirates in Sweden.
They have jailed the Pirates Bay lads.
This post is not about any issues of intellectgual property and copyright.
The way Pirates Bay works means they do not host any material. It’s more like a directory or a search engine. It allows [...]

Pirates!

They’re not like Johnny Depp or Keira Knightley ya know.
They are gits.
The freedom of the seas is a fundamental principle which must be re-imposed - it is the fundamental reason the Royal Navy exists. If that takes ultra-violence then so be it. I do not care for the Somalia is a failed state and [...]

Just Like Jackie Chan…

From The Times:
“Seven of the nine pirates landed on our ship, all with weapons,” Peng Weiyuan, the captain of Zhenhua 4, said in a telephone interview with China Central Television.
“Our crew, who had been well trained and prepared, used water cannon, self-made incendiary bombs, beer bottles and anything else that could be used to battle [...]

Nice types you mix with Barry

We are communist men and women, underground in the United States for more than four years.
 Barackkks mate, William Ayers

Ayers was not simply protesting “against” the Vietnam War. Firstly, he wasn’t against war in principle, he was agitating for the victory of the communist forces in Vietnam. In other words: He wasn’t against the war, he [...]

Cheese Eating Commando Monkeys

French combat frogmen sneaked aboard a yacht off Somalia today, overpowered a gang of gunmen and rescued two hostages in a daring raid that President Sarkozy called a warning to pirates in the lawless Red Sea area.
One pirate was killed and six taken prisoner in the 10-minute assault by 30 men from the Hubert Commando, [...]

Blessed be his name

First up, a couple of reports –

The first on global temperature changes from the superb, and thoroughly sane site Watts up with that –
Confirming what many of us have already noted from the anecdotal evidence coming in of a much cooler than normal May, such as late spring snows as far south as Arizona, [...]