July 2005 – Page 11

Fireworks!

Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 11:54 AM CST

Click here to see the grand finale (17.8 MB .avi file, be patient!) of the Broadland, SD fireworks extravaganza, presented by Medary.com, our friends and family.

No fingers were blown off or eyes put out in the making of this video.

Oh, Great, I Just Got An iPod!

Contributed by: filbert Monday, July 04 2005 @ 05:03 PM CST

Teenagers charged with stabbing boy, 15, to death for iPod[*1]

Two New York teenagers were charged yesterday with murdering a 15-year-old boy for an iPod, the first fatality in a rising tide of similar attacks.

Wonderful. Maybe I can disguise it as a clunky, bulky old Walkman cassette player or something.

Report From Planet bin Laden

Contributed by: filbert Monday, July 04 2005 @ 04:49 PM CST

A Frenchman, Georges Malbrunot, who was a hostage of the Islamicists but was released in December 2004, comments on who the “us” is in “why they hate us”:

“Little by little, we came to discover we were really on planet bin Laden,” he wrote in Le Figaro. “For them [the terrorists], France is the West, it’s a global vision, it’s the infidel West against the Muslim world.”

Via OpinionJournal[*1] .