Endgame Viable

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February, 2006

• No Humor Required. 2006-02-02 5:13 PM.
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  And you thought Christianist fundamentals were bad. Check out Storm grows over Muhammad cartoons. 205 words.
• Send More WalMarts. 2006-02-05 10:03 PM.
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  Oddly enough, I agree with GK’s assessment about Those Cartoons. Muslim protesters, carrying signs about slaying and butchering Europeans while burning down Danish consulate buildings, are not exactly painting their culture in a very positive light. Muslim leaders, too, are suspect, as this opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph points out: The complained-of cartoons first appeared in October; they have provoked such fury only now. As reported in this newspaper yesterday, it turns out that a group of Danish imams circulated the images to brethren in Muslim countries. When they did so, they included in their package three other, much more offensive cartoons which had not appeared in Jyllands-Posten but were lumped together so that many thought they had. 246 words.
• Tacky Cartoon Resignation. 2006-02-08 3:30 PM.
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  I can’t find much of anything to write about today except the Danish Cartoon Incident and the Coretta Scott King funeral. And there’s not much to say about the funeral except that it was awfully tacky of Democrats to use it as a political soapbox. So… 290 words.
• Drawing The Line. 2006-02-09 6:28 PM.
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  I think it’s about time to draw a distinction between sensitivity toward religion and denial of information. So many MSM reports about the Danish Cartoon Incident contain disclaimers that say, “we will not show the cartoons because they aren’t relevant to the story,” or something like that. Then they go on to describe the cartoons as “offensive” and run a lot of quotes from outraged and insulted Muslim leaders over the horror of it all. 498 words.
• More Cartoon Musings. 2006-02-13 7:21 PM.
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  I continue to muse about the Danish Cartoon Incident, which is growing into a full-scale Cartoon Intifada (uprising). I don’t like link-fests, but here are some recent articles on the subject that I’ve found interesting. 542 words.
• Cartoon Intifada Part Of The Project?. 2006-02-14 6:21 PM.
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  Warning: If you are already bummed about where the world is heading, do not read this. 460 words.
• Tuesday Smorgasbord. 2006-02-21 8:12 PM.
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  A smorgasbord of topics today as I sit here in agonizing pain from a strained neck muscle. 591 words.
• Friday Smorgasbord. 2006-02-24 8:44 PM.
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  No one story has jumped out at me today, so here’s a link-fest of random cultural interests. 362 words.

March, 2006

• Islamic Law & Order. 2006-03-10 4:23 PM.
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  From Michelle Malkin: Free Muhammad Al-Asadi. Malkin discusses a Yemeni newspaper editor facing a potential death sentence for publishing those Danish cartoons (he covered them with big black X’s and condemned them, too, but that doesn’t seem important to the prosecutors). Here’s the part I really enjoyed. 129 words.
• Borders and Waldenbooks: Dead To Me. 2006-03-30 5:44 PM.
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  In the wake of today’s announcement that Borders and Waldenbooks will not stock an issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it shows some of those Mohammad cartoons on its cover (uh.. I dunno where I read it, just look it up on Google News), I will no longer be frequenting their establishments. (Not that I ever did before, but that’s beside the point.) Take that, you stupid lemon-eating Sharia-lovers! 69 words.

April, 2006

• No Love For South Park. 2006-04-06 6:12 PM.
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  I haven’t read a word in any of my daily blogs today about South Park, which is weird. Not too long ago, every conservative blogger in the world was constantly harping about the “creeping Sharia watch.” (Liberal bloggers ignored the whole thing.) Anything even remotely related to a Muslim forcing prehistoric Islamic laws on the rest of us was major, major news. So last night South Park, the only show I’ve seen that even comes close to touching this subject, runs the first of a two-part parody about the Cartoon Jihad and nothing? 268 words.
• Malkin Grudgingly Approves Of South Park. 2006-04-07 7:08 PM.
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  Malkin finally jumped on the bandwagon today: South Park And Cartoon Jihad. I think I see now why conservatives have been so slow on this – it must really infuriate them that South Park, of all things, is leading the charge against worldwide dhimmitude, while their own efforts so far have produced bupkis. :) 54 words.
• Cartoon Wars, Part II. 2006-04-13 5:42 PM.
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  I’ve been trying to research whether Comedy Central actually did censor Mohammad in last night’s South Park. Fortunately, National Review Online did so for me, and it sounds like Comedy Central did, in fact, refuse to show it, which is a huge relief. I was pretty annoyed when they blacked out Mohammad (especially since he was “just standing there looking normal”) and I would have been really super annoyed if I’d found out that Matt and Trey had censored themselves. 80 words.