Kidman Twitches For Bewitched? Oh, wonderful. …

Kidman Twitches For Bewitched?

Oh, wonderful. Another bad movie based on an old sitcom. Eventually I suppose they’re going to run out of old sitcoms, but it won’t be any time soon.

CNN.com - Suspected terrorists arrested in Pakista…

CNN.com - Suspected terrorists arrested in Pakistan - Sep. 20, 2002

Yes, Pakistan is a fun place. It does seem like a lot of cells are getting broken up recently. Maybe this is some sort of chain reaction — the first group tells on the second, which tells on the third — or maybe it’s a coincidence. This group is allegedly (who knows if there’s any actual evidence) behind the attempted assassination of Musharraf and at least two attacks on Western targets — the bombings of an American consulate and a Sheraton hotel, both in Karachi. I am guessing that their group (”Harkat Ul Mujahideen Al-Almi”) is behind the other attacks on Westerners in Pakistan.

Pakistan also identified two al-Qaeda men killed in the raid that captured Ramzi Binalshibh last week. Both were Yemeni. For some reason, nobody’s trying to stop the flow of terrorists from Yemen, even the people who want us to focus on Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq.

CNN.com - Suspicious packages cause town evacuatio…

CNN.com - Suspicious packages cause town evacuation - Sep. 20, 2002

Wow, a whole town. The packages resemble pipe bombs, but the ones checked so far were apparently fakes. Still, they’re going to check them all, as they should.

Barnesville, the county seat of Lamar County, is scheduled Friday night to host a festival called Buggy Days. Authorities said they hoped to hold it as planned.

I’m guessing they mean like a horse-drawn carriage. Though mosquitos and ants are still a possibility.

A writer, a weblog, her opinions: Yourish.com M…

A writer, a weblog, her opinions: Yourish.com

Meryl’s “inner bitch” (her term, not mine!) introduces us to Yasser’s “little machine gun”. Sometimes, they make it too easy.

Reuters Wire | 09/20/2002 | Hitler Comparison Caus…

Reuters Wire | 09/20/2002 | Hitler Comparison Causes Storm Before German Poll

You know, “Storm” is yet another word you might want to avoid when you’re talking about Hitler.

Here’s an idea… If we are going to maintain a force in Central Europe, why don’t we ditch the Germans and move to the western states of the old Soviet Bloc — Poland, the Czech Republic, etc.? Those countries could use the economic boost, their leaders aren’t running for re-election on blatant anti-Americanism, and if the Russians get frisky again we’d be in better position to do something about it. Closer to the Middle East as well. It would cost some money at first, since we’d have to build new bases or retrofit the old Soviet ones, but we can afford it. And it would teach the Germans a lesson. Of course, the Germans would have to build up their army again, and the French might not like that, but I find I’m not particularly concerned by what the French think either.

The co-writer of the story is named “Emma Thomasson”. I hate those double-s freaks.

Arab school board reviews overtime You know how…

Arab school board reviews overtime

You know how it is. You find someone who can competently teach “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, you try to get as much out of him as you can. Sometimes, he has to go over. And suicide bombing instructors are hard to find, of course.

No, this is a story about Arab (”Pronounced AY-rabb”) Alabama. I love these stories, and I’m convinced that the writers for the Huntsville Times do too.

Paging Michael Chiklis The Birmingham police de…

Paging Michael Chiklis

The Birmingham police department continues to resemble “The Shield”. We’ve had one cop running a gambling operation, and a couple of cops beating up a suspect and then sending him on his way. Two stories in today’s Birmingham News. First:

Ex-girlfriend: Officer pistol-whipped her

And that’s not all! He also broke into her home, forced her to crawl from one end of the house to the other, and (probably; she can’t prove this) forced her to perform oral sex on him. To Protect and Serve!

Second:

Ex-officer’s attorney takes self off case

A capital murder case, at that. A former police officer (it’s not clear if he worked for Birmingham, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me) is charged with killing his wife’s ex-husband and his new wife over a custody dispute. He then allegedly put them in the trunk of their car and set it on fire. The attorney wants off the case not because he doesn’t like his chances but because of a confict of interest; the judge didn’t like it that he’d represented both the former officer and his wife.

Season 3 sounds promising for "Ed" Viacom has f…

Season 3 sounds promising for “Ed”

Viacom has finally given up and allowed the producers to dump the woeful Clem Snide song and bring back the original theme by the Foo Fighters. Now if only the rest of the show returns to the way it was in the first season…

Bring Back the Nigerians! At least they’re inte…

Bring Back the Nigerians!

At least they’re intermittently entertaining. I’ve gotten at least six pieces of spam advertising big savings on inkjet cartridges in the last 24 hours.

Army scorn scheme bared The Army — the United …

Army scorn scheme bared

The Army — the United States Army — is concerned about how civilians are concerned about possible problems at the chemical weapons incinerator in Anniston. (Where they eat dirt.) How are they going to answer the concerns? By mounting a public relations attack upon Alabama’s leaders.