Depressing article in
The Independent
on the results of the Iraq election: [link]
Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.
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Islamic fundamentalist movements are ever more powerful in both the Sunni and Shia communities. Ghassan Attiyah, an Iraqi commentator, said: "In two and a half years Bush has succeeded in creating two new Talibans in Iraq."
It sort of seems like we invaded Iraq and Iran won.
I had to figure out the weather, that meant I needed to find some info. Luckily, I knew that information lived on a barstool at a bar called Milo's Place.
I walked into Milo's Place and looked around. It was the same story as every other bar anyone's ever been in, filled with broken dreams and penguins. I wasn't here to take in the ambiance, I was here for information. Information's name is Eddie, or Eddie the Platypus from his days in the Australian mofia, but these he could be found at the end of a bar trying to wash away the shattered debris of his life under a tsunami of Fosters.
Edit: Totally the wrong thread.
Oh, but Iran's pretty harmless. 'Cept for the part where they're trying to get nuclear weapons, and their president says that Israel should be destroyed.
I don't know what Web 2.0 is but some acquaintances of mine have a blog specifically for snarking about Web 2.0.
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I decided to try an experiment, based on the fact that I am too lazy to click on all of the links, and so far, I think I was right-- just reading about the links is entertaining enough.
It sort of seems like we invaded Iraq and Iran won.
Gud, may I tag? It's so bitterly funny.
Go ahead, but I'm not the first to say that.
How cool is this? Brand new Duesenberg for 2007.
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I wager that I'll post links today that Perkins will click on.
Especially if someone can tell me how to stop Adobe Distiller from compressing the crap out of my JPGs inserted into a Word file. I'm futzing with the conversion settings, and it's handing me the same jagged crap every time.
