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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 |
Did human beings, as we know them, develop from earlier species of animals?
Here's the result.
Can we conclude from this that evolution has not developed flawlessly in the United States and Turkey?
11:54:39 AM 
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A scandal has erupted in Germany about Günter Grass having served in the Waffen-SS for a few months at the end of WW II. He was 17 then. Hadn't fired a single shot. Can you blame a child of that age for falling under the spell of propaganda at that time and place? At least he did what was right after the war and maybe it is this small blemish, this shame, that led him to write those magnificent books.
In my personal opinion he is not a lesser writer now. Germany had better watch the developments in its own country.
Independent: "The citizens of the small German town of Delmenhorst have failed at the last minute to thwart a notorious far-right group's plans to buy a hotel overlooking a park for use as a training centre for neo-Nazis from across the country."
11:45:41 AM
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BorowitzReport: "In a move aimed at further tightening airport security, the Federal Aviation Administration announced today that it would ban all people from flights leaving or entering the United States, effective immediately."
Hilarious this Borowitz is!
Guardian: "The severe government-induced crisis in air travel coincided with the call by a large number of MPs for a parliamentary session to discuss the crisis in Lebanon and amid a growing discontent among different circles over the manner in which the Blair-led government had conducted itself during the Israeli war against Lebanon. More importantly, the crisis unfolded as Israel was being dealt the most humiliating defeat since it was created less than 60 years ago. I wonder too whether it is a mere coincidence that only days earlier Tony Blair was criticised widely for once again blaming Islam and the Muslims for the rise in 'international terrorism'.
I have a feeling that all the Muslims detained in connection with the recent police operation to foil and alleged plot are innocent and will soon be proven so. I also suspect that the entire episode has been deemed, despite its enormous cost, to be of utility to a government that is increasingly out of touch with reality and seriously short of public support and sympathy.
Despite all the revelations about the latest 'terror plot', politicians and security chiefs got it wrong before and are likely to have got it wrong now too."
Guardian: "When the government announced last Thursday that it had foiled a massive terror plot, broadcasters and newspapers were barraged with a wave of sceptical views from listeners and readers."
Independent: "Tony Blair's government has created more than 3,000 new criminal offences during its nine-year tenure, one for almost every day it has been in power.
The astonishing tally brought accusations last night of a 'frenzied approach to law-making' that contrasts with falling detection rates and climbing levels of violent crime."
And is Britain more secure? No!
11:13:47 AM
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