The Origins of “Rule of Thumb”

I was surfing random stuff online a while ago using StumbleUpon and arrived at this page containing the following:
rule of thumb -No, this phrase is definitely NOT “P.C”! Who knew? “Rule of thumb” derived from the days when woman were sometimes beaten with a switch. To be “kind” the switch could not be thicker than […]

Sharia Arbitration Courts In UK

Glad to see Ali Eteraz opposing them and providing logical reasons more eloquently than I could.

The Ultimate List of Top 20 Things the British Gave the World

The Bad Stuff:
1. The Spice Girls
2. Colonialism
3. Mad Cow disease
4. David Beckham
5. America
6. George Galloway
7. Colonialism
8. Tony Blair
9. J.K. Rowling
10. Colonialism
The Good Stuff:
1. Ali G
2. The English Premiere League (as in football, not “soccer”)
3. Dido
4. Colonialism
5. The Beatles
6. America
7. Princess Diana
8. Mr. Bean
9. America
10. The English language

Ms Gibbons Heads Back Home

Finally! I’m glad she’ll soon be reunited with her loved ones.
While watching this video of the Sudanese minister of foreign affairs speaking about the pardon (yeah, as if she did something wrong), he made an interesting comment which caught my ears.
He was basically saying that they expect to be treated back in the same manner […]

Teddy Bear “Crisis”: Quotes From “Free Ms Gibbons” Facebook Groups

NOTE: Scroll down for the post on the Teddy Bear Crisis.
NOTE II: Expect a follow-up article about this issue very soon. 
Ah, how I love the internet and the freedom of expression it provides. I discovered three Facebook groups dedicated to opposing the imprisonment of Ms Gibbons. Two are started by Sudanese. The following is a […]

Mohammed the Teddy Bear (Update III)

… puts us in the headlines again and boosts our supreme notoriety. Spare some time and read the story here.
A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad… the charge could lead to six months in jail, 40 lashes or […]

British Exports to Sudan Doubled Since Darfur Conflict

Hmmm…

Attack on British Embassy in Sudan Foiled

Great. Just what we need. Al-Qaeda in Khartoum.

Britain’s Terrorist Plot

It needs no introduction. It’s all over the news. And guess who did it? The Irish! Oh yes, it was them, believe me, “we” had absolutely nothing to do with it. Bleh.
It’s sickening what those filthy butchers are trying to inflect upon innocent people. But what sickens me even more is how too many Muslims […]

Ali Eteraz On Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood

Hilarious!
Here we have a man, who is no longer a Muslim, and which most of the Muslim world claims to hate (certainly the fundamentalists do), get knighted by a nation, UK, which formerly colonized most of the Muslim world. Upon his knighthood, the hardline clerics in both Pakistan and Iran become extremely upset.
There is something […]

Defence Minister Says Sudan Will Fight Foreign Intervention

I’m really busy today and I don’t have time to comment much but this article is a must read for everyone interested in the thoughts going on inside the mind’s of the vast majority of non-Southern Sudanese.

’Israeli interest’
When asked if the United States and its allies are trying to impose democracy in Sudan, the defence […]

Highlighting Some Details On Sudan’s Recent Acceptance

Why am I not surprised?

April 19, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese government denied on Thursday that it had made any concession on the international peacekeeping force to be deployed in Darfur, reiterating that this force should be African and under the African command.
… Ismail said that the 3,000 UN personnel will be engineers responsible for […]

US To Unveil New Sanctions Over Darfur

Hmmm…
March 29, 2007 (WASHINGTON) — The United States will impose tough new measures against Sudan, likely within days, to try to force it to change course on Darfur and aims to pressure Khartoum militarily by helping rebuild forces in the south, U.S. officials said.
…Military options like a no-fly zone over Darfur — which Britain wants […]

House OKs Timetable For Troops In Iraq & Iran Seizes 15 British Sailors

Looooooooovely!!!

Britain’s Prince Harry Is Bound For Iraq!!

As the UK prepares to withdraw some of its troops from Iraq, it also prepares to send Prince Harry there. Here’s more:

British royalty has a long history of service in the armed forces. Queen Elizabeth II was a uniformed driver in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II, along with her sister, Princess […]