Tuesday, January 31, 2006  100 posted by bat020  British death
toll in Iraq reaches 100  Update: The Stop the War Coalition has
called a protest for 5pm this evening (Tuesday 31 January) in
Parliament Square. Stop the War has also called for protests in
other city centres at 5pm tomorrow night.   Monday, January 30,
2006  Hamas, and liberal terror. posted by lenin  "Wait til you
see the whites of their eyes, boys..."  The reaction to Hamas'
electoral win has been almost universal: horror compounded by
the darkest imaginings about exactly what these guys have in
store. An Islamic State, the dread burqa, suicide bombings, and
absolutely no recognition of Israel's Right To Exist. Decades of
bloodshed, all because of Extremists On Both Sides/Palestinian
Intransigence/Hamas' Refusal To Stop Terror/Etc. There are
threats that aid to the Palestinians will be cut, a more or less
open admission that aid is a political tool to domesticate and
control Palestinian politics.  A couple of observations. Here's
Shuggy, one o