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Don't miss Roger L. Simon's description of what he learned from an otherwise reasonable man, a taxi-driver in Seattle:
...I phoned Gerard from the airport. What had the man said on the way to his place? Gerard - wisely - had let him continue. There was no point in fighting with a man like that. Better to learn how his mind worked. Gerard simply inquired why the Israelis would want to back Al Qaeda when Al Qaeda was sworn to destroy Israel. The man replied by talking about his childhood, his Islamic education. He had learned about the Jews from the Koran. That was the truth, of course.
It goes without saying, that the taxi driver is not being disabused of such notions at his local mosque.
There are still a few Glitches in Microsoft's new search engine:
iPods are Being Sold at Airports in Vending Machines:
Mark Mullins, executive vice-president of Zoom, the company behind the machines, tells the AJC, “We put in some iPods and found we couldn’t keep them in stock. We found no customer resistance to swiping a card and buying a $300 item from a machine. We’re selling thousands (of iPods), and the machines at the Atlanta airport are major contributors to that.”
A Google News search for "Hugo Chavez" turns up headlines that have an undeniably favorable ring. Here are all the headlines from the first page of the search, as of 9:27am this morning Pacific Time ... except for the most recent headline ... which may change things:
(Click here for a saved copy of the search.)
Can you believe how favorable all these headlines are? "Create unified party" ... "popular origin" ... "backs Ecuador" ... "demands apology from US ambassador" (those rotten US ambassadors! how dare they assert drug traffic is up in Venezuela!) ... "person of the year poll" ... "Archbishop" ... even, "Let's now make friends with Venezuela!"
But all that may change now. Because the latest headline is:
Now that they themselves are being threatened, MSM may start to notice what a danger to the Western world Chavez is.
