World’s heaviest man set to marry

Manuel Uribe on his weight-loss diet - first broadcast July 2008

The world’s heaviest man says he is to marry his girlfriend later this month after losing nearly half his original body weight.
Mexican Manuel Uribe said he and Claudia Solis would wed in his home town of Monterrey on 26 October.
The […]

More of what we are basically going up against:

The Taliban have rebuilt a camp in South Waziristan that trains children to be suicide bombers, a video from Pakistan shows. Children as young as seven years old are indoctrinated to wage jihad in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The video, obtained by AfPax Insider, was shot in August in […]

Strikefirst Records has relaunched and has added three new bands to their roster. The bands are: Hope For the Dying, The Great Commission, and Through Solace. Jesus Wept are also still on the roster. I’m not quite sure why Jesus Wept (who are an awesome band by the way) are not on Facedown but oh […]

She told me that the gas was sprayed into the room where the babies and children were being kept while their mothers prayed together their Ramadan prayers.Panicked mothers ran for their babies, crying for their children so they could flee from the gas that was burning their eyes and throats and lungs. She grabbed her […]

Much has been written about the last days and the end times just prior to the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. But just how do these events fit together? What is the chronology of events which will take place in the last days? While the following timeline is by no […]

Short stories by Bruce Sterling
Green Days in Brunei - from the Crystal Express collection and Dinner in Audoghast - from the Crystal Express collection, Islands in the Net - the freedom fighters definitely draw from Bedouin culture. Thanks to Michael H. for the references]
Other Short Stories
Gwyneth Jones’s Bold As Love (Arthur C Clarke Award winner), […]

Say what you will about negotiation with terrorists, but it appears that diplomacy is finally yielding a breakthrough in the War on Terror.
The News
According to a CNN report, on September 24-27, the final days of Ramadan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia held talks with 11 Taliban delegates, two Afghan government officials, a representative of former […]

De même que pour connaître le communisme, à l’époque, il fallait écouter ses évadés. Et certainement pas ses apologistes. Voici une interview de Hossain Salahuddin, originaire du Bangladesh, à lire (en français) sur Anti Jihad Point de Bascule:

L’invité de Frontpage Interview aujourd’hui est Hossain Salahuddin, poète, essayiste et ex-musulman. Il est l’auteur de […]

Brooklyn police stumbled upon a trove of possible terrorist related materials including; al Qaeda news clippings, chemical manuals and weapons literature. The discovery was made while responding to a landlords call regarding photocopied drivers licenses he discovered in an evicted tenants apartment.
From The NY Post
The tenant, Hisham Khaleel, 35, had been evicted.
Responding officers found 13 […]

Dandelion Salad
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October 06, 2008

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