Is the Zawahiri letter a forgery?

Sure seems like it.  According to Prof. Cole, it was probably written by a Shiite.

The analogy I’d draw (and it’s a pretty fair one, I think) is a
fundamentalist Southern Baptist opening a letter with a Hail Mary. 
Simply ain’t gonna happen.  I mean, it’s like a freakin’ religion with these people.

So not only would this have come from a Shiite… but one who didn’t even know enough about Salafism to know he was writing something pretty unlikely.

Now, who do we know who could be that incompetent?  Who do we know who stages fake events to manipulate public opinion…?

Save the angry letters.  That was just snark.  I know there’s no proof of where the letter came from, and no clarification
of how it was intercepted.  And all the intelligence agencies — the same people we were told (falsely)
were certain there were WMDs — supposedly agree.  So, fine.  We’re just supposed to take it on faith. 

Except for the fact that it doesn’t make any damn sense.

PS — just heard from Prof. Cole, who believes that since the letter calls Husain an "Imam," something a Sunni would not do, the analogy may be fairly exact.  Even so, much of the rest of the letter is worthy of controversy.  I recommend frequent visits to his site, btw.  He promises more on the issue shortly.

Friday pudublogging: Dik-diks Gone Wild!

My buddy Chris, who is a film director who got nominated for an Emmy last year and thus has an eye for beauty, just got back from a trip through Madagascar, Egypt, and Kenya.

He took this picture while in the latter:

Wild dik-diks!

They were a little stuck-up, as all dik-diks are, and mostly just interested in talking about Demi and Ashton and Tori Spelling getting a divorce.  They thought Valerie Plame was the name of a runner-up on America’s Next Top Model.

But still.  Wild dik-diks.

Gotta go to Kenya now.

Friday pudublogging: Dik-diks Gone Wild!

My buddy Chris, who is a film director who got nominated for an Emmy last year and thus has an eye for beauty, just got back from a trip through Madagascar, Egypt, and Kenya.

He took this picture while in the latter:

Wild dik-diks!

They were a little stuck-up, as all dik-diks are, and mostly just interested in talking about Demi and Ashton and Tori Spelling getting a divorce.  They thought Valerie Plame was the name of a runner-up on America’s Next Top Model.

But still.  Wild dik-diks.

Gotta go to Kenya now.

A little thing called the United States Constitution

Article VI of the United States Constitution concludes with this:

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

But Bush says that Harriet Miers’ religion is one of the main reasons he chose her.

Funny thing, how seriously these people can take the "original intent" of a document they’ve apparently never bothered to read.