Absolutely hilarious and sadly true:

Do you believe?The Flat Earth Website owns a website here, and a forum here: with such posts as:

Australia Doesn’t Exist
I own a space shuttle, and am giving free rides by “mbrooksay” who says, I own a space shuttle, and I am willing to give all you retarded **** free rides in space, AROUND the Earth, to once and for all end this crazy society. Sign-up list is here.

while another

moves to dispute the whole “water turns the other way in Australia” idea. Which brings to mind that funny Simpsons episode.

Here’s the interesting bit of their mission statement:

Then, in the year of our Lord fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, it all changed. For decades a small band of self-proclaimed “enlightened” individuals had been spouting their heretical nonsense that the Earth was in fact round. Citing “proof” based on nothing more than assumptions, half-truths and blind guesses, they dazzled the populace with their ” . . . undeniable mathematical and scientific evidence . . . that the world is shaped not like a pancake, but an orange!”

So are they just plain old cooks? Do you think they’re absolutely true? Or maybe you just like their quote at the top of their website…”Deprogramming the masses since 1547″.

Saddam Hussein yelled with anger and defiance as his verdict to hang was read yesterday. Two court bailiffs had to lift him to his feet after he was ordered to stand by the judge, and as his sentence was being read he continued to yell “Allahu Akbar!” (God is Greatest) and “Long live the nation!”

Saddam was convicted of ordering the deaths of 148 Shia men and teenage boys in the town of Dujail in 1982. The killings followed a failed assassination attempt against him and were intended to act as a grim warning to others not to oppose him.”

Saddam wanted to face a firing squad; the request was refused. Many celebrated in Baghdad with celabratory gunfire while fighting broke out in the northern part of the city.

Saddam’s lawyer said the former president urged Iraqis “not to take revenge” on the US coalition and to “unify in the face of sectarian strike”. [...] Amnesty International described the trial as a “shabby affair marred by serious flaws”. [...] Security was stepped up in the capital in anticipation of a violent reaction to the verdict. Sunni supporters predicted a “firestorm” of violence. Saddam, who was captured by US forces in December 2003, is still seen as the figurehead of many of the insurgent Sunni groups conducting a campaign of terror against Coalition troops and Iraqi civilians.

This trial was the first that Saddam was to face after being captured by U.S. forces in December of 2003. The event has been interrupted by hunger strikes, walkouts, boycotts, the murder of three lawyers and the sacking of the original trial judge, who announced in court that he did not believe Saddam was a dictator.

Hussein will appeal the case, as they are automatic for death penalties and life sentances, within 10 days. Within 20 days, the prosecution and the defense must submit their documents to the appellate chamber. The case will be forwarded to the appellate chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal. If sentence upheld, execution must be within 30 days.

Watch the video here from CNN.com.

Information and additional reporting [Sky News UK] and [CNN]

A new device, The Mosquito Box currently in used only in Britain, sends out 80 decible bursts of sounds that can only be heard by teenagers.

The ultra high-pitched noise can only be heard by those under 20, and is so discomforting that it forces young people around it to quicky disperse after a few minutes. The new gadget has been installed in hopes of deterring loiters and gangs around restaurants and other commonly frequented store-front areas.

The box can be mounted on the outside walls of any building, and it’s piercing 16khz pulsing sounds will not penetrate walls. To teenagers, the sound resembles a “demented insect” or “a very badly played violin.” Additionally, shop owners can control the strength of the signal as loiterers come and go.

Because the body’s natural ability to detect some frequency wave bands diminishes almost entirely after 20, adults are completely immune to the sounds.

[Telegraph.co.uk]

The film British film, Death of a President, chronicles a fake scenario in which President Bush is shot after giving a speech at a Sheraton in Chicago.

Predictably, the film has sparked a lot of controversy. The film-makers commissioned by Channel 4’s Liza Marshall, had to be protected by private security guards during it’s screening this week at the Toronto International Film Festival after threats were made on their lives.

Marshall stated that the movie was created in order to study the effects of the war on terror.

She argued, “Gabriel did a huge amount of research into all aspects of the terror debate and has emerged with a seriously considered film about the state of America.”

The movie uses digital editing to attach the portrait of President Bush on the actor’s face and voice editing to create speech just like that of the President’s.

The clip provided here begins with 12,000 demonstrators on the streets waving placards which read ‘War Is Terrorism’ and ‘Stop Bush’. The rest of the scene then unfolds with the shooting, and then a news report.

Click here to watch it.

Let’s not forget that this film couldn’t be made if it weren’t for the democracies throught the world we have today. Stated perfectly through a comment on the above “news” site:

Spin as you like – this is a disgusting film subject and the American poeple take high umbrage. The anger of Americans at such shoddy treatment is rising fast.

- Pat, USA

Agreed.

There is much more to Memorial Day than sales, BBQs, and an extra day off. We must take this time to remember those who have died in the line of duty to preserve the freedom some of us take for granted everyday. Michelle Malkin heads a very humbling tribute at Hot Air.

“Appropriately” enough, the NY Times ran this article on the top left front cover today:

Iraqis’ Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of Civilians

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 28 — Hiba Abdullah survived the killings by American troops in Haditha last Nov. 19, but said seven others at her father-in-law’s home did not. She said American troops shot and killed her husband, Rashid Abdul Hamid. They killed [...] a 77-year-old in a wheelchair, shooting him in the chest and abdomen,
[...]
“[h]er husband was killed in front of her eyes,” Ms. Abdullah said. As Asma fell, she dropped her 5-month-old infant. Ms. Abdullah said she picked up the baby girl and sprinted out of the house, and when she returned, Asma was dead.

The story then mentions a much later paragraph within the continuation of the story inside the paper with:

Four people who identified themselves as survivors of the killings in Haditha, including some who had never spoken publicly, described the killings to an Iraqi writer and historian who was recruited by The New York Times to travel to Haditha and interview survivors and witnesses of what military officials have said appear to be unjustified killings of two dozen Iraqis by marines. Some in Congress fear the killings could do greater harm to the image of the United States military around the world than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

The four survivors’ accounts could not be independently corroborated, and it was unclear in some cases whether they actually saw the killings.

Of course no side of the story can be denied until a full investigation is carried out. However, the alleged incident at Haditha should not be placed on the cover; it was a clear attempt to portray the entire Marine Corps. by the alleged actions of few.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, told CBS:

[I]t would be premature for me to judge” the outcome of a Pentagon investigation into the killing of as many as a dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines.

But at the same time, Marine Gen. Peter Pace said he believes its critically important to make the point that if certain service members are responsible for an atrocity there, they “have not performed their duty the way that 99.9 percent of their fellow Marines have.”

From MacWorld.com

The MIT Media Laboratory expects to launch a prototype of its US$100 laptop in November, according to Nicholas Negroponte, the lab’s chairman and co-founder. The facility has been working with industry partners to develop a notebook computer for use by children in primary and secondary education around the world, particularly in developing countries. The laptops should start appearing in volume in late 2006.

“In emerging nations, the issue isn’t connectivity,” Negroponte said at the Emerging Technologies Conference on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Cambridge campus Wednesday. “That’s not solved, but lots of people are working on it in Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, etc. For education, the roadblock is laptops.” He and his colleagues believe that equipping all children in the world with their own laptop will greatly improve the level of education and help stimulate children to learn outside of school as well as in the classroom.

[...]

The laptop can be powered either with an AC adapter or via a wind-up crank, which is stored in the housing of the laptop where the hinge is located. The laptops will have a 10 to 1 crank rate, so that a child will crank the handle for one minute to get 10 minutes of power and use. When closed, the hinge forms a handle and the AC cord can function as a carrying strap, according to Negroponte. The laptops will be ruggedized and probably made of rubber, he said. They will have four USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, be Wi-Fi- and cell phone enabled and come with 1GB of memory.

Think of all the possibilites a lap top like this has in “2nd world” countries. Just some food for thought :)

Published May 5th by Robert Spencer, Trackback from Cao’s Blog -

Last Friday, firefighters conducting a routine inspection in a Brooklyn supermarket found 200 automobile airbags and a room lined with posters of Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq. An element in the airbags can be used to make pipe bombs. The owner of the building, according to the New York Post, “served jail time in the late 1970s and early 1980s for arson, reckless endangerment, weapons possession and conspiracy, according to the records.” But officials were definite: this has nothing to do with terrorism.

Then what is needed to convice people that this guy was a terrorist or supporting terrorism?! What has the world come to!!!!