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Taiwan, China, and other things. Recovered from the defunct TypePad platform.
Easy for him to say.
But the distinction may be lost on the two Japanese hostages scheduled for beheading, as their executioners recite prayers from the Koran…and scream, "Allahu Akbar," while they hack with the knives.
Pretty serious charge. The prosecutor better damn well have the goods.
UPDATE (Jan 19/15): The prosecutor is found dead of an apparent suicide, hours before he was to appear before Argentina's parliament.
Fortunately, there's nothing in the least-bit suspicious in all of this.
UPDATE (Jan 21/15): No powder residue found on the hands of the prosecutor who is said to have committed suicide.
UPDATE (Jan 22/15): More than one entrance to site of the apparent suicide, and two were unlocked.
UPDATE (Feb 13/15): President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is charged with covering-up the 1994 bombing of the Jewish center. More here.
There’s no ‘fun’ in fundamentalism: Snowmen are strictly prohibited by strictures of Islam, says learned Muslim preacher man.
Hey Moe! What's that in your turban?

Predictably, Joe Hung of Taiwan's China Post was less than sympathetic to victims of this latest Islamic enormity:

Whoa, Joe – you forgot to capitalize the "p" in "prophet" in your column title. That makes YOU guilty of willful, abominable and hideous blasphemy.
By your own reasoning, you (and the entire China Post staff) are now fair game for murderous Muslim fanatics everywhere.
No need to thank me for pointing that out for ya, though. Sleep well.
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Guess they know what their audience likes…
Surprise, surprise: Chinese Sino-Imperialists arm Iranian Islamofascists with lots and lots of shiny new Dalian riot control trucks. ("Tiananmen Square" brand billy clubs cost extra, apparently.)

(Image from Popular Science.)
She's a beaut, ain't she? I'll bet Chiu Yi is kickin' himself he didn't have one of THESE babies during the KMT election riots of '04.
Cheer up, Chiu. You've still got 2012 to look forward to. Why, in a few years time, you'll be out there crackin' heads with the rest of 'em!
And moving not so far off topic I see that Iran has joined China in their jihad against Google. (Good news indeed, for China's new Google substitute.)
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