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In this week’s Bulletin:

* Blogger Michael Totten reports from Kurdistan;

* Paul Toohey wraps up the matter of the Bali Nine;

* Master diplomat Larry Perkins brings together Bahrain and Tennessee;

* An astonishing Winter Olympics photo gallery is presented;

* And a Continuing Crisis column appears, mentioning Dick Cheney, Satan, Harry Whittington, Wonkette, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Keysar Trad, the Great Big Mufti, the Olsen Twins, Mai Cong Thanh, Nguyen Van Chinh, John Howard, Paul Keating, the Rolling Stones, Michael Kalmanovitch, Mark Latham, Kim Beazley, Simon Crean, Michael Leunig, and Mohammed the Prophet.

1. “And a Continuing Crisis column appears, mentioning Dick Cheney, Satan, Harry Whittington, Wonkette, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Keysar Trad, the Great Big Mufti, the Olsen Twins, Mai Cong Thanh, Nguyen Van Chinh, John Howard, Paul Keating, the Rolling Stones, Michael Kalmanovitch, Mark Latham, Kim Beazley, Simon Crean, Michael Leunig, and Mohammed the Prophet”

   I’m confused: is this in ascending or descending order of evilness?

   Posted by paco on 2006 02 22 at 01:10 PM • permalink

1. “OUTCOME: Temperatures instantly plunge to 23°C. Organiser Michael Kalmanovitch describes the savage cold snap as ‘ironic’.”

   Whoa, Tim!  Didn’t you mean 23°F??

   Posted by the wolf on 2006 02 22 at 01:17 PM • permalink

1. A minus sign is missing. Fix on the way.

   Posted by Tim B. on 2006 02 22 at 01:27 PM • permalink

1. So how did the Oompah-Loompah bobsled team do?

   Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 02 22 at 01:38 PM • permalink

1. And why does the one in back look so pissed off?

   Posted by tim maguire on 2006 02 22 at 04:53 PM • permalink

1. That’s Stoop Davy Dave.  He wanted to be in front but paco asserted his seniority at being appointed a minion – 6 weeks and 3 days.  Of course, SDD went completely unnoticed and paco reaped the praise that came from a 9th place finish.

   Job well done boys!

   Posted by wronwright on 2006 02 22 at 05:36 PM • permalink

1. The really embarrassing thing is that the photo is from the Summer Olympics. I’m not really sure how we messed that up. Or how, under the circumstances, we finished in ninth place, since we were the only ones dragging a sled around in Greece.

   Posted by paco on 2006 02 22 at 05:50 PM • permalink

1. That’s the LAST time I let Paco drive, OR handle the scheduling, and that’s final!
   um, I mean, unless he pulls seniority on me again, that is.

   Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 22 at 06:02 PM • permalink

1. The Ronnie Johns Half Hour devises a sketch in which viewers are encouraged to celebrate High Five A Muslim Day.

   Hey Tim, it wasn’t canned as it aired the other night.

   Posted by Anthony_ on 2006 02 22 at 06:38 PM • permalink

1. Everything you need to know about High Five a Muslim Day (now canned?)

   Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 02 22 at 07:11 PM • permalink

1. OT: In France they are shutting down soup kitchens serving soup to the homeless for fear that the soup has pork in it and will – you guessed it – be offensive to homeless Muslims. Seems they also think that the vast right wing conspiracy (probably funded by Bush) is serving soup with pork in it in order to alienate homeless Muslims.

   Thus, in order not to offend anyone, French officials are enforcing the policy of letting the hungry stay hungry. Madness…

   Link to Telegraph story

   Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 02 22 at 07:46 PM • permalink

1. I’m hoping to get ‘mufticulturalism’ accepted in dictionaries.  I claim I created it a few days ago on this site, so hands off you lot!

   Posted by Barrie on 2006 02 22 at 08:21 PM • permalink

1. Damn furriners caint spell our’n sippin’ whiskey right. JACK DANIELS. NO APOSTROPHE!!

   Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 02 22 at 09:38 PM • permalink

1. Paul Toohey’s wrap up of the Bali 9 is a must read.

   Key quote: “The former Eurest colleague said Lawrence, who had recently ended a relationship with a long-time girlfriend,…”

   Bugger me!  I had no idea that Renae Lawrence was a dyke.  Just like Dick Cheney’s daughter.  I sense a conspiracy here – the dark hand of KKKarl Rove.

   Posted by Kaboom on 2006 02 22 at 10:04 PM • permalink

1. What altitude is that bobsled at? It looks like it just exited a wormhole or something.

   Posted by PW on 2006 02 23 at 04:45 AM • permalink

1. #14

   I had no idea that Renae Lawrence was a dyke.

   What ever gave anyone that idea?

   Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 02 23 at 05:20 AM • permalink

1. One way of solving the problem might be to coat social security cheques with pork fat.

   Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 02 23 at 09:52 AM • permalink

1. 15 Well how DO you think we ended up at the Summer Olympics?  Einstein was right about space-time being all curvy and stuff.

   Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 23 at 11:59 AM • permalink

1. Not mentioned in Tim’s summary of this week’s bulletin:
   A review of Robert Fisk’s book, where Tony basically conducts a sycophantic biography of Fisk, but fails to review the book itself……

   Posted by entropy on 2006 02 23 at 12:01 PM • permalink

1. That’s not a bobsled, you dummies.  It’s the new Caterham Super Seven.

   Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 02 23 at 07:55 PM • permalink

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