That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama’s brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things – one of those crazy things.

The Coincidence Theorist’s Guide to 9/11.
[Via Left Blank]

When my sister and her family visited from Seattle, they had packed plenty of gear to distract their young children: plastic bags full of small, hard toys with sharp edges we are still finding, usually in the middle of the night with our bare feet; decks of various juvenile playing cards such as “Rat-A-Tat-Cat”; books after books; and a portable DVD player with a postcard-sized screen, “just for the flight.”

I don’t know if they were shocked at first by our relative lack of stuff, but they came to appreciate the simple life we represented to them. At least they said they did. Maybe they felt like Harrison Ford when that Amish chick saves him in “Witness”.

They even made plans to get rid of their TV when they returned home. “We don’t really watch it all that much anyway,” they said.

I don’t know if they’ve done that yet, but as soon as they left, we ran to the supermarket and bought a portable DVD player.

You were talking in your sleep.
You said, “oh no.”
I touched your head and you stopped.

No idea whether this chart is genuine, or accurate, or whether a statistician would find it significant, but some other people think it shows that whenever Bush’s approval ratings drop, another terror warning is issued, causing the approval rating to improve a little. Not sure if those little blips are statistically significant. What I find interesting is the fact that his approval rating is now down below what it was prior to 11 September 2001, which if you’re into conspiracy theories, or just generally wacko, or cynical could lead you to conclude we’re late for another major terrorist strike.

Paper trail? We don’t need no steenking paper trail.
On the other hand, the OSCE is going to monitor the presidential elections in the US this November. It’s so cool the way Bush is turning the US into a third world banana republic.

Tourist helicopters and limousines.
Every time I watch people eat, or shop for food, I wonder how secure the chain of food production, processing, packaging and delivery is.

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