I'll be heading to London on Saturday. Last call for any London readers who might want to hang out. E-mail me at contact information above directly.

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One of the ways Howie had been fighting high gas prices is I had a deep freeze full of deer. I had one big ass roast left. Monday I rested from a 64 hour week and celebrated my first death threat by having a glass of fine homemade wine and slapping that sucker on the Barbecue for 7 hours, tasty. Rick sends along summer barbecue rules for those of us that need refreshing. more...

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We've already brought you news that Egyptian blogger Alaa was arrested. Egyptian Sandmonkey makes the following suggestion to help:

We have started an e-mail campaign to the Egyptian embassies and the US State Department in order to push for his release, and have started protests in front of the Egyptian embassy and consulates in the US for his release. We will also hold protests in France, Italy and Gemany. We could use your help in getting the word out and sending them an e-mail demanding his release.

Addresses for the Egyptian embassies in the US and Canada are available here, templates for e-mails to be sent to the embassies here, and the contact information for the person to e-mail in the US state department is here. If you are a journalist or know one, help us spread the word by writing about this or demanding your local newspaper write about this. If you have a blog or a website and would like to raise awareness about this issue, banners for the Free Alaa campaign can be found here and here. We could use any help we can get, so if you have any ideas or ways to help us, please do.

Egypt has fewer than 830 bloggers all in all, 60 of whom are political and less than 30 are politically active. Now 6 of those are in jail - 20% of all politically active Egyptian bloggers - and amongst them one of Egypt's most highly profiled one.

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Howie is home feeling crappy this morning. Rusty, I expect will be along eventually with smashing news. Co-Bloggers have at it. Open trackbacks on this post if you can post them. They have been a bit flaky for some users lately.

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Via Rantings of a Sandmonkey:

Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary's branch fight for independence. He, and about 10 others, were rounded up in the street, beaten up and thrown in a police car. Amongst those who got arrested were at least 3 girls, and the police beat up at least another 2 girls as wellÂ…

Â…I will be damned if we let the regime get away with this. So, readers, if things come to that, we will need your help. The Committe to protect bloggers is no more, we are on our own and the regime is getting more desperate, paranoid and brutal by the minute. We will most certainly need your support to get him out, but let's just hope it doesn't come to that.

Hat Tip: Tiger Hawk who has the contact information for the Egyptian Embassy

The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
3521 International Ct. NW
Washington DC 20008
Phone (202) 895 5400
Fax (202) 244 5131
(202) 244 4319
Email: embassy@egyptembdc.org

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You're just going to have to share with everyone, I guess, Howie.

From: hisham faiad Signed-By: yahoo.com | Mailed-By: yahoo.com
To: freewheeling@verizon.net, vinceautmorire@gmail.com, mjpechar@yahoo.com, lists@chrisshort.net, trader66@wabash.net, tim@opinionbug.com, pajamahadeen@hotmail.com, dreadpundit@hotmail.com, richard.hyscience@gmail.com

Date: May 7, 2006 7:10 AM

Subject: why u insult the holly qouran ? why why

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/084371.php
why u insult the holy qouran ? why why
did u know any thing about the holy qouran ?
he is the speaking of allah ( the good )allah give u
ur head , hand , leg , face , eye ... etc and he can
take this things all of this things so why u insult
his speaking why why ? where ur mind go ?
ur without mnid . allah Venge of u .
i ask u somthing .

give me ur country & address and give somtimes
to ............ cut ur neck
yes i willl cut ur neck beazn allah i will do that
if ur brave give ur address and somtimes to
killing u cut ur hand whiche Sacrilege the holy qouran

in shaa allah i will cut ur neck

Well, it looks like someone found the contact page. Still, the poor guy wasn't nearly as creative as this commenter from long ago:

when muslim's are in heaven,you all christs burn in hell.devil will do meetballs from your bodies.

But hey, we'll take 'em when we can get 'em.

Thanks Hisham Faiad, you're my Islamotard of the week!

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Update: Working. For now.

My bad. Comments not working anywhere.

You can still leave a comment, but you'll have to click on the title of each post, then scroll down to the comments at the bottom of the individual post page.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but we're apparently under spam attack. I hope it's like a fatwa or something.

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Sneakeasy receives email of support from Centcom Via Captain Ed.

I caught your post about the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. Good luck with the project! IÂ’m not sure if you have been to the US Central Command website but we regularly post news, photos, audio and video from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. You (and your fellow bloggers) are welcome to use any materials you find on our site. If youÂ’d like to receive the weekly electronic newsletter and monthly Coalition Bulletin, just ask.

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1 Ah yes, Spc. Flowers. We've spoken before.

Posted by: Michael Hampton at May 03, 2006 10:42 PM (FVbj6)

2 The screaming eagles taking on the keyboardists CREAM THEM

Posted by: sandpiper at May 04, 2006 07:35 AM (760E/)

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Josh Trevino has come up with a voluntary, nonpartisan and nonideological code, meant to bring a basic measure of decency to online discourse. As one of the last of the anonymous bloggers, I wholeheartedly endorse it.

I've never understood the need to make claims of authority when writing online. Either what I write makes sense, or it does not. As long time readers of this blog know, I never write anything on this blog which is related to my academic research. My graduate school training may have helped me learn to write, but it did not train me to write about terrorism, propaganda, or South Park. My field of expertise usually comes as quite a shock to those meeting "Rusty" for the first time.

You do not need to know who I am. I am not Dr. Rusty Shackleford. For those of you who know the real me and have helped me keep my identity private, I thank you. Even though I have not even met some of you personally, I consider you friends.

There have been various attempts to "out" me. For the most part, these efforts are attempts to shut me up. No untenured college professor would dare to say some of the things I've said over the years--even when they are in tongue-in-cheek. Thus, trying to dig into the personal lives of public figures is a way to squelch what they really think.

The tactic may be familiar for readers of John Aravosis' America Blog. Aravosis and his readers have made it their mission to "out" gay public figures who have taken public stances against issues they support. They justify this as pointing out "hypocrisy"--a gay Congressman is a hypocrite if he doesn't support gay marriage and thus "deserves" to be outed. But really, this is nothing more or less than the online equivalent of blackmail---either change your policy stance or we will reveal to the world embarrassing information. Closetted gay Congressman who agree with Aravosis need not feel threatened. Their secret is safe.

At the most nefarious level, though, trying to "out" anonymous bloggers can be dangerous. The recent online attacks against my long-time blog friend Aaron is evidence that the various death threats I've received in the past should be taken seriously. Thus, for those of us who use humor to take on the Islamists and jihadis, our anonymity is also our shield against potentially violent repercussions. While I don't think most jihadis have the means to carry out their threats, it is possible that some of them do. Yet another reason for me to remain anonymous.

You can find the online statement of principles here. Here is the part that attracted me:

Persons seeking anonymity or pseudonymity online should have their wishes in this regard respected as much as is reasonable.

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Not the kind of thing to say to bloggers since they are just waiting on an argument and have blogs.

Glenn Reynolds Via TCS Daily : It seems like a lot of people are trying to shut up bloggers all of a sudden. It also doesn't seem to be working very well.

One example from last week was a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against a blog, Aaron's CC

Related : Michelle Malkin Details another cyber attack on Typepad and Livejournal as well as last nights attempted hack of Aarrons.cc

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I'm busy preparing for finals today and putting last minute touches on my London trip. How can you help? Send us a trackback, and we'll issue a fatwa against you. Getting us to link you has never been so easy!

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Ok so things happen faster than I can blog em. IÂ’ve mixed the things I did not get to with new things as well. Enough clicky clicky to keep you and I busy for a while. I try to keep roundups to a minimum but the time man! Comments and Trackbacks on this post are open.

Judge to terror professor, “Your only connection to widows and orphans was that you create them."

Yemen Participates in UN World Press Freedom Day finally.

Iranian Workers Protest “Slave” contracts.

Doyle, you suck!

Congratulations FNS.

ACLU challenges KY law to allow soldiers to be buried with honor. See Stop the ACLU and Rightwingsparkle.

Demosophia all settled in at mu.nu

Hot Action Cop (Very hot!)

Warning object behind banner may be more “Bad Gay” that it appears.

Debbie at Hyscience on Berlusconi resignation.

Pork Busters via Glenn Reynolds.

Ohio Primary Election Via Interested Participant.

Iran says, “whawhawhaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

First step in the “action plan”—make sure the infidels are afraid to criticize Islam.

Llama Butchers Celebrate Stonewall Jackson.

Michelle Malkin gets three links because well she’s that good be sure to click because all those protest signs the MSM does not show, she does. Also she has the “Tarheel SUV Terrorist” indictment. John at Stop the ACLU has more.

Iran feels secure believing that he who has the oil can do whatever he likes.

Religion of Peace followers Murder Hindus, shocking!

American Released from Afghan custody.

Iran Shells Iraqi Kurdistan, crosses border and Denies it.

When you are in a Pakistani Video store, “Money Shot”, means something else. Normally a severed head!

The best way to plead ones case and gain groundswell support from the ~87% of Americans ambivalent to their cause IS NOT to spit in their face.

Bolivia nationalizes gas fields but not coca fields.

Go wish Phinn good luck in his new job, I command you!

Six Meat Buffet under cover with immigrants skipping the skipping. more...

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1 What is the position of the American Indians on this immigration issue ? I am thinking that they may have some strong feelings on this.

Posted by: john Ryan at May 02, 2006 11:35 AM (TcoRJ)

2 john ryan, The American Indians didn't enforce their borders and look where it got them. Time to throw out the trash!

Posted by: Henry at May 02, 2006 12:21 PM (iDMlC)

3 Indians? Why do you always think of Indians as on the reservation oppressed.Many intergrated into white society. My ancestors were German Irish and Shawnee. Have one Indian and his wife indian too two doors down from Mom another across the way. They check white on their census and are accepted as such. Well except they tan well even in winter.

Posted by: Howie at May 02, 2006 12:27 PM (D3+20)

4 Native Americans... Indians are from India .... DUH !!!

Posted by: memphis761 at May 02, 2006 01:42 PM (D3+20)

5 American Indians was the preferred term before the PC imbeciles decided it wasn't.

Posted by: traderrob at May 02, 2006 03:21 PM (3al54)

6 PC or not, it does make it easier to distinguish between the two when we white folk are talking about them, when there are so many Indian nationals in this country, saying "Indians" gets kinda confusing. Hey, I grew up playing Cowboys and Injuns too ya know. And yeah I don't know of anybody around these parts that doesn't at least claim to have some "injun blood" in em. But there are more Indians from India than the native kind around here. I became a lot more senstive to the whole issue when I met my girlfriend who is 1/4 Miwok.

Posted by: memphis761 at May 02, 2006 03:37 PM (D3+20)

7 thanks Howie, mucho.

Posted by: Jane at May 02, 2006 09:51 PM (Ffvoi)

8 Think about it.. which sounds best? native american giver or indian giver sorry, that's all I could come up with ...

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at May 03, 2006 05:01 PM (FCC6c)

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Actually, tomorrow is the last day of classes, but since most classes follow a M-W-F schedule, today is really the last day.

Seriously, I think my head might explode. Just one more paper on why drugs are bad, mmm-kay, and I think I might help my head along.

So, if I don't post today it's because I'm: a) dead--suicide b) dead--murdered by student c) in jail--for murdering student d) passed out--drunk

On that note let me remind my British friends that I'll be in London from the 14th - 20th and I'm trying to put together a wee shin dig. Contact me directly.

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