h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"I guess I'm not being nice."
What? You? Surely not! I'm sure everyone on here would agree that your the biggest fluffiest anglo-saxon scholar they know

I also think you're probably right in the first part of that post!

'Vice President Dick Cheney revealed today that he shot a fellow hunter while on a quail hunting trip over the weekend because he believed the man was the fugitive terror mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Mr. Cheney acknowledged that the man he sprayed with pellets on Saturday was not al-Zawahiri but rather Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old millionaire lawyer from Austin, blaming the mix-up on "faulty intelligence."

"I believed I had credible intelligence that al-Zawahiri had infiltrated my hunting party in disguise with the intent of spraying me with pellets,” Mr. Cheney told reporters. "Only after I shot Harry in the face and he shouted 'Cheney, you bastard' did I realize that this intelligence was faulty."

Moments after Mr. Cheney’s assault on Mr. Whittington, Mr. al-Zawahiri appeared in a new videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera to announce that he was uninjured in the vice president’s attack because, in his words, "I was in Pakistan." '

http://www.borowitzreport.com/

two more news items for you

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1709959,00.html
british fake news service

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1710029,00.html
Europe and the USAs Long War (there's a few more articles on this so called Long War there today as well).

This is humorous. Sort of.


The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/coincidence-theorists-guide-to-911.html

freedom pastries

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E88F2072-9109-460F-BDC3-4133EBF525FF.htm

"Iranians love Danish pastries, but now when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they have to ask for Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."

Oh so many parallels.

and this is interesting too, especially given how the 'cartoon' thread in ask is currently going:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5DF5AAE3-90D8-45B3-9F53-DC216D13C991.htm

Sure you've read them all anyway. I'll stop posting if you ask

I'll have to pass that on to a little wider audience. . .

You know, that 'religious reason for the Iraq war' bit is wacky.



But somehow it sounds true.

Truth, wackiness and a whole lot of familiarity:

""They very well may try to impose their rule on our land as well,"
"The USA and the European Union are all Christian countries; of course their beliefs influence polices and decision-making"

Oh No! They wanna come over here and take over our countries! And enforce their foreign beliefs on us! We must stop them at all costs!

(only difference between that and the 'muslims trying to take over Britain' stance, as far as I can see, is that at least the above quote has some recent evidence to support it)

I was also rather tickled to see someone described as "an expert on Christian Zionist affairs"

But then I'm never quite sure what anyone means by 'Christian Zionist'

Here's a very interesting interview with Sami Al-Arian, American university professor, accused terrorist, two years of solitary confinement then aquital and then another year of solitary while the U.S. government decides what to do with him:

http://www.usforacle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/20/43f9b8cbba683?in_archive=1


Also, my notes for some interesting googling concerning certain cartoons.

Richard Pipes - GHW Bush's "Team B" - http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=apr93cahn

Daniel Pipes - GW Bush's US Institute of Peace -> Flemming Rose -> cartoons.



Ahmed Abu Laban

Well, this is very interesting:

'NEOCONSERVATISM has failed the United States and needs to be replaced by a more realistic foreign policy agenda, according to one of its prime architects.

Francis Fukuyama, who wrote the best-selling book The End of History and was a member of the neoconservative project, now says that, both as a political symbol and a body of thought, it has "evolved into something I can no longer support". He says it should be discarded on to history's pile of discredited ideologies. '

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=266122006

Sort of like Karl Marx saying 'can I buy a Macdonalds franchaise?' (in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union took over the world)

Well, didn't Marx say: "I am not a Marxist"?

I'll be interested to see if power hungry people listen as much to Mr. Fukuyama now.

not for the article, but for the picture! Made me laugh anyway, might have to save it off and see if I can get it onto a T-Shirt

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/02/22/with_royal_dissent.html

A request rather than a link, although you may not be able to reply with an actualy link itself due tocontent.

Can't remember the name but an American cartoonist has entered the Iranian holocaust cartoon compo.
Not surprising or interesting in itself,but the cartoonist is a very famous anti establishment one. I think his surname is steinburg or something. I have seen his stuff before and he does court controversy with his work. If he's the one I think he is, he's very reclusive and currently lives in the south of france.
Not into it enough to know whether it is commentary on prejudice or actual prejudice (I tend to think the former). He's a bit uderground (Or was) and has a very distinctive style. Cult following I think is the term.
If anyone knows who I mean and has a link to his iranian compo entries I'd be appreciative of it to see his take on it.

This American cartoonist in the south of France that you're thinking of isn't the Australian cartoonist in Melbourne, is it?

'Melbourne cartoonist, Michael Leunig, says he has been the victim of a hoax involving a cartoon competition in an Iranian newspaper.'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1569102.htm

no, he's a cult figure in cartoon circes, I seem to recall. Sure it was a name like steinburg.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1726328,00.html

"The British government has accused its Danish counterparts of making "a serious mistake" in the way it handled relations with Muslim countries after the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad."

Yeah, they should have treated them proper, like what we did. Witness the high regard in which the British government is held by 'Muslim' (sic) countries worldwide.

(I mean, I think they did make a mistake, but the GB Govt coming out like this smacks of opportunism)

have you seen this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
Or something akin to it?

nope. first time I've heard the word used.