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Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 19 December 2009
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Posted on 12/19/2009 9:05 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 19 December 2009
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Posted on 12/19/2009 6:21 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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Don't mention the Muslims (cont)
Reader Alan draws attention to Nick Cohen's piece on the (rather daft) TV series Spooks. From Standpoint Magazine: The real MI5 deals with radical Islam
Iran Solidarity at Trafalgar Square
Family outing today to Trafalgar Square to sing carols round the Christmas tree and listen to one of the choirs. Husband and teenager went ahead as there

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Outrage! CAIR -supplied Counsel files 'contempt' complaint against Rifqa Bary in Ohio case
"Barbarossa" filed this latest Jawa Report concerning abuse by Rifqa Bary's parents and their CAIR-supplied counsel in the Franklin, Ohio custody
Wiedl on Ramadan
From the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report: [In] an article titled “Dawa and the Islamist Revival in the West” scholar Nina Wiedl explores

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Christmas Carols VI
There are today carols for many of the great Feasts of the Church but by far and away most often we use the word to refer to the songs about Christ’s
Cambodia to deport Uighur asylum seekers
From Earth Times Phnom Penh - The Cambodian government has decided to deport 20 Uighur asylum seekers back to China despite concerns from human rights

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Catherine Ashton Off To An Intolerable Start
Catherine Ashton, I suspect, has never understood the legal, moral, and historic claims of Israel to those parts of Judea and Samaria (the terms used
A Cinematic Interlude: Una Vita Difficile (Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari)
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Annoying Americanism of the Season
What the bloody hell is a "holiday season"? Where has this "Happy Holidays" malarkey come from? It's brass monkeys out there, yet
Footprints in the Snow
Here is the father of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe, and the Bluegrass Boys doing his classic from 1945, "Footprints in the Snow." This video

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Keats quiz
Did Keats love Fanny Brawne for her brains? If not, what?
A Musical Interlude: I Found A Million-Dollar Baby (Adolf Ginsburg Orch., voc. Paul Dorn)
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Truth And Beauty, So Be Sure To Bring Your Tape-Measure
Here is a thoroughly scientific new Truth about Beauty:    Beauty is between eyes, mouth of the beholden by Karin Zeitvogel 
A Literary Interlude: My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)
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Nellie The Elephant And CPR Or, What About Babar?
Listening to music during CPR training could improve technique   (Research: Effect of listening to Nellie the Elephant during CPR training
An Idea Whose Time Will Never Come
Saudi Arabia, NASA to cooperate on research News Date: 18th December 2009 Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)

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Christmas Carols V
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day On Christmas Day in 1863AD one of the USA’s great poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), composed the
A Despatch From Keighley
One Yorkshire town, three news items, one common theme. From The Telegraph, at the bottom of a news item about the family prestige murder of Tulay Goren. 

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