Friday, February 18, 2005

Missile Dolls

According to a tape recording of the conversation released by The Standard, when the reporter, Oliver Finegold, asked Livingstone how the party went, the mayor replied: "Were you a German war criminal?" When the reporter said he was Jewish, Livingstone said: "Well you might be, but actually you are just like a concentration camp guard, you are just doing it because you are paid to, aren't you?"
http://www.iht.com/...brits.html



Symposium: Noam Chomsky: Academic Insider or Outsider?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/...2

Parlez-vous bureaucratique?
France's mighty bureaucracy has acknowledged the havoc wreaked by the near-total impenetrability of the language it uses by publishing a dictionary of the 3,000 most commonly used administrative terms which the average French person does not understand.
http://www.guardian.co....html

Russia defied stern American warnings yesterday to announce that it had agreed to start shipping nuclear fuel to Iran in three months. Within hours President Bush vowed to stand by Israel if its security was threatened by Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk...html

It was business as usual on NPR the other afternoon. A lady expert was complaining that, in his State of the Union address, George W. Bush had made no mention of ''climate change.'' This is true in the narrow sense that, if you were hoping for some meaningless bit of Clintonesque hot-air micropolitics, the president didn't boldly pledge to join our European allies in pretending to abide by the Kyoto Treaty.
http://www.suntimes.com...6.html

1 Comments:

Blogger Aaron said...

Oh boy! Steyn is back from off his hiatus!

Fri Feb 18, 11:44:00 AM GMT-7  

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