romunov’s blog et al

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.

This is why I hesitate to hail the “great UK arrest”. With time, more and more pieces won’t fit no matter how you turn them. Kinda like the 7/7 bombing.

And what are they hiding? Is there something that they could unearth that could damage their splendid performance?

The Government issued a stern warning to the media not to put the probe into the alleged terror plot at risk by publishing information about suspects.

And another one about the Holocaust:

Krege and his team found no evidence of individual graves, bone remains, human ashes, or wood ashes.

I might start building a database, more and more evidence is piling up that the myth is nothing but a walking pile of bovine hind excrement.

And here’s another “only democracy in the Middle East” bit for Peter.

Earlier today, August 11, the Israeli Army and Border Police shot an Israeli demonstrator with rubber bullets from close range in the head and neck, causing serious injuries. The man, who is a lawyer, was taken by the army to Tel Hasomer hospital from where he is reported to have suffered brain damage.

In total 9 people were shot with rubber bullets in a non-violent demonstration in Bil’in. Those shot included 2 villagers of Bil’in as well as citizens of Denmark, France, USA, Japan and Israel. Other people from United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark were beaten, struck with rifle butt or injured by sound grenade fragments.

They use American counting machines in Mexico.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist who claims he was robbed in the July 2 election, said the recount of 9 percent of ballot boxes was only half complete but inconsistencies from the original tallies already topped 100,000 votes.

If you have a slight interest in the battle between Evolution and ID, read the article here. Kudos to PZ Myers. How does this guy find time to blog, work and interact with bystanders and his family? I suspect he’s a robot or has invented a chilly dog that gives you energy to last you a week with no sleep.

He also posts a story on a study about various things:

They also collected other data on age, gender, education, genetic literacy, religious belief, attitude toward life, attitude toward science and technology, belief in science and technology, reservations about science and technology, and political ideology, and carried out a statistical analysis to determine the relative contribution of these variables to ignorance about evolution.

I guess Slovenia can do better.

Bullemhead reports that OLGA’s tab and chord database went offline again, thanks to DMCA.

This is how they argue:

…ensure that composers and songwriters will continue to have incentive to create new music for generations to come.

What a load of crap. I search a tab because it cuts corners and because I’m not skilled enough to transcribe the music myself. It would take me too much time to figure every song out myself.