Welcome to the second weekly installment of ShrinkWrapped's Top 10. Out of hundreds of posts, these caught my attention and deserve your perusal.
1) The Man Who Saved the World is by John Noonan at the Officers' Club; he tells a story that is chilling and must be read. We all have a lot to be thankful for.
2) Snouck blogs from Amsterdam at Snouck Hurgronje and deserves to be read by anyone interested in what is happening on the continent. Western Hotel is very short but pithy.
3) Robert Godwin, under his nom de blog of Gagdad Bob, has done an invaluable service to the blogosphere by putting together a collection of "wise old Islamic sayings". His post, Cultural Sensitivity 101, can be found at One Cosmos and is very aptly named.
4) Meanwhile, Bernie Golomb blogs at Plank's Constant and refutes Dinocrat's post from last week with How the world looks when you've created nothing: Islam Bernie says it best himself:
There are many, many creative inventions in Islam, but they are unrecorded because most simply do not apply for a patent.
Go see for yourself (unless you offend easily). And check out More Muslim Inventions while you are there.
5) Archonix at The Unoriginal Muse writes that It's the little things. He writes from the UK and points out that:
You can rather tell a country's government has lost its collective marbles when it comes up with ideas like this.
Wait until you see what "this" is.
6) Bird Dog blogs at a group blog, Maggie's Farm (with apologies to Robert Zimmerman). The pup makes some interesting points about global warming that could, if universally recognized, reduce some of the hot air produced by all the Climate Hysteria.
7) Kathy Krajco is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a major in biology and a minor in English and she works as a tennis pro; is this a great country or what? She blogs At the Zoo and explains for those less gifted in the art of cognition, that Pacifists aren't as moral as they pretend; see Pacifism: The Mark of Cain:
Pacifists. Wearing a "humanitarian" mask, they say, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
And then villify those with moral courage for putting them to shame.
According to European “morality,” we should have left them to the Third Reich. And the Soviet Union.
8) Spook86 suggest there are levels to the Dubai Ports World story that might cause one to pause a bit and think, rather than mindlessly react. His post on the Port Call can be found at In From the Cold. Here's a taste:
... it's not that simple. Cancelling the port deal could mean the end of U.S. basing rights in the UAE, strained relations with other regional partners, and the potential loss of a key defense contract, all viewed as critical in fighting the War on Terror. Collectively, those factors probably explain why the deal hasn't already been nixed, and why the Bush Administration may put up a fight--even with political allies.
9) Bruce Kesler posts at the Democracy Project and performs an invaluable service by documenting a new form of an old disorder, and adds that the New York Times has a long history of failure when it comes to confronting evil. In Does American Holocaust Denial Continue? Bruce makes some cogent points:
At a panel on “America and the Holocaust: New Research” the author, Laurel Leff, of the book Buried by the Times about the New York Times’ purposeful failure to highlight the holocaust although it was aware, presented additional findings about the failure of American journalism to stand up to Hitler’s depravities even when it involved their own professional colleagues.
Plus ca change...
10) And finally, a Quantum computer that many would envy; it does its best work when it is switched off!
Read and enjoy, and as always, if you have an interesting blog post you think I should consider in a future Top 10, send me the url and I will have a look.
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