26 'Elul 5766 * 19 September 2006: International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Arrr!

Relevant to today’s holiday: The Wikipedia article on International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Islamic intolerance” (Make the intolerant walk the plank!)
  
• “Jihad, the Lord's Supper, and eternal life”
  
• “Unclaimed baggage”
  
• “Gazans warn pope to accept Islam” (I cannot make something like this up.)
  
• “New group blog: Burning Issues”
  
• “Haniyeh's guards fire on protesters”
  
• “BORDER INSECURITY: 9th Circuit: Laptops May Be Subject to Customs Inspections After Overseas Trips” (Make the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals walk the plank!)
  
• “Survey: Rabbis wary of muckraking media”
  
• “Tensions still high over pope's remarks”
  
• ““Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines” (Someone at Diebold be sipping the rum on the job, I think.)
  
• “'Ishmaelites have Mecca and Medina'”

Today’s weird thing be “An Engineering Masterpiece!”, which Josette sent me a copy and I subsequently found on-line. Enjoy, and stay away from me treasure. Arrr!

Cap’n Aaron