* the Flying Spaghetti Monster gets a write-up in the uk press. awesome. (link)
* "The final text of the Iraqi constitution has still not been worked out, and so the United Nations cannot begin to print it in several million copies so that Iraqi voters can read it before the October 15 referendum. It is going to be very difficult to get the printing and distribution done with only a month to go... You wonder if they will ever be able even to submit a final text for printing." (link)
enjoy your TurningPoint(tm), suckers.
* "Contrary to what the Bush administration would have you believe, Iraqis had had virtually nothing to do with al-Qaeda before the American invasion. Iraqi Sunnis had once mostly been secular Arab nationalists. But the American destruction of the Baath Party has made religious fundamentalism attractive to them as an alternative political identity. The US has succeeded in pushing 5 million Middle Easterners away from secular nationalism and toward the arms of al-Qaeda. Operations such as Fallujah and Tal Afar, involving the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, the damaging of a majority of buildings in the city, and the deaths of thousands, will not soon be forgotten by the country's Sunni Arabs. Some have spoken of taking revenge by finding a way to hit the American homeland. Things are not going well." (link)
Monday, September 12, 2005
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The newspaper in Portland, Oregon had a flying spaghetti monster article on the front page of the "Living" section on Saturday:
http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/living/1126350342113670.xml?oregonian?lvls&coll=7
Good to see some msm coverage.
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