February 9, 2004

From Slate.com's "Other Magazines" Newsweek previews Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and says the anti-Semitism charges leveled against the film have merit. While Roman prefect Pontius Pilate is shown as conflicted and sympathetic, the Jewish high priest Caiaphas is unabashedly evil, as seen in a fictitious scene where Pilate laments, "If I don't condemn him, Caiaphas will start a rebellion; if I do, his followers will." 11:34:32 PM

Michael Bell a former Canadian ambassador to Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Egypt defends the decision to ignore people in favour of politics by not sending a Canadian representative to the home of a murdered Canadian because he lived in the a Jewish town in the West Bank. Meanwhile terrorists don’t seem to care if Jews live in the West Bank, or in Ottawa. Maybe the Canadian government will send them a note or something but the planned attack on "Jewish targets'' in Ottawa. 11:30:34 PM

Hole in One NASA has released a picture taken from the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and its lander within the Martin crater they came to rest within. Opportunity is now peering out from within the crater and can see its parachute and backshell in the horizon. Actual and enchanced picture with outlines of the Rover and Lander. 11:23:37 PM