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Gustav is making more noise than Fay, but it’s probably on par with typical T-storms here in central Florida

“Kristen makes holy spirit guides of the netherworld hump teddy bears like cracked up rhesus monkeys.”

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I got a sweet ice cream maker, the Cuisinart ICE-50BC. It’s pretty awesome except for a couple things… rather important things.

1. It’s loud as hell. I mean really, really super loud. I have to double the volume on my TV to hear it over the gnashing of the motors.

2. The instructions to put the top part together were lacking in direction. I had to bumble through them and figure it out on my own, eventually.

Otherwise it makes really good ice cream, and after a month of testing, I think I’ve got a solid base to work with (secret recipe, bitches!).

Van Halen - Ice Cream Man

Fay is a little gusty, but I’ve seen many average T-storms worse than this

Russia: Poland risks attack because of US missiles

Gotta love that Russian thinking: “If you have a defense against our missiles, we will attack you with nuclear missiles, but if you are defenseless against our missiles, then all is well.”

It’s like that useless advice to potential rape victims, “Don’t fight it and enjoy the ride.”

Seems we definitely need to put more missile defenses in eastern Europe against “Rogue Nations” like Russia.

Small Talk with a Web Designer

If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers

I only watched part of it, but that was some uber-biased programming, very pro-Muslim. Does it redeem itself later? I don’t know; the falsehoods that show was vomiting while I watched were too much to bear.

• Jerusalem isn’t mentioned in the Qur’an, dammit.
• When Muslims controlled Jerusalem, they were NOT nice — EVER — to Christians and Jews. Non-Muslims were always treated as second class citizens — dhimmis — according to the Qur’an.
• Gaza Arabs (not Palestinians) are NOT caged inside Gaza, they’re kept OUT of sovereign countries (Israel AND Egypt) which have been attacked — many hundreds of times, in Israel’s case — by those same marauding Muslim Arabs.

National Geographic should be ashamed of the bilge quality of the show they produced.

How easy is it to turn a “moderate” muslim into a radical muslim?

“More than that. An entire society sanctifies death and the suicide terrorists. In Palestinian culture a suicide terrorist becomes a hero, a martyr. Sheikhs tell their students about the ‘heroism of the shaheeds’ and that causes the young people to imitate the suicide bombers, in order to achieve glory. I’ll give you an example. I once met a young man named Dia Tawil. He was a quiet boy, an outstanding student. Not a Muslim extremist and not radical in his ideas against the Israelis. I never heard extreme statements from him. He didn’t even come from a religious family: His father was a communist and his sister was a journalist who didn’t wear a head covering. But Bilal Barghouti [one of the heads of the military arm of Hamas in the West Bank] didn’t need more than a few months to convince him to become a suicide terrorist.” (Tawil, 19, blew himself up in March 2001 next to a bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem; 31 people were wounded.)

– Masab Yousef, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef and now a Christian in California

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