Dog of Flanders / Canis Flandriensis

"It's Only Make Believe"

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:19:03 +0200

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says he won a pledge from Syria to increase border security with Lebanon and take steps to stop the flow of arms.

"I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine"

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:02:47 +0200

Entomologists will be pleased with this high quality Iranian symposium on swarming Acrididae.

Oh. It's a typo. No locusts.

"Bring Sally Up"

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:30:44 +0200

Now everyone will want one.

Gone With The Wind

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:41:49 +0200

Dutch journalist Harald Doornbos, who promised us a pro Green Helmet piece, seems to have his blog totally vacuumed.

Correction: individual posts are accessible, but not the main page.

UPDATE: back again.

Fidel zombie watch, ctd

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:25:58 +0200

We have pictures, but no sound.

Assault, ctd

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:23:55 +0200

The situation according to Debkafile: two assault columns with a large airmobile force in between.

Short UN metacommentary

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:07:15 +0200

Short of being forced to eat their own balls, everything will be spun as an arab victory, as in:

I live in a cave and aspirate bat droppings: a great victory over the infidel!

Beam him up, Scotty

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:30:58 +0200

My entry for the Puddle Pirate's "Where's Castro?" photo shop contest.

UPDATE: the photoshop contest seems to have vanished together with the Israeli offensive. No, wait, there it is again.

Assault

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:59:17 +0200

My guess for the Israeli battleplan: a number of different columns converging to envelope Tyre, bypassing most of the south and east.

"Whoa Silver!"

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:55:37 +0200

Yes, the guys running to and fro on this set of Adnan photos appear staged. We can agree with that. However, John Hinderaker seems to have a bad case of Adnan-fever when he conjectures the car appearing on both sides of the destroyed bridge. No such thing, the car remains on the same side of the bridge, the last picture is taken with a tele lens.

Observe the same tree and pylon on the left, and another tree and apartment building on the right. Also, the very thin shadow under the upside down car in the last picture is indicative of a tele lens, and possible even the hint of an horizontal line at the bottom, that very well might be the fissure between adjacent slabs of concrete also visible in the first picture.

UPDATE:
for John, who remains sceptic, a little diagram: the three blue lines are the left, right and middle of the road. The car is on the left side of the road, so, not visible.

UPDATE:
Qasim seems to be the name of the village where the coastal road from Tyre to Beirut crosses the Litani. The 2nd "Qasmiya bridge" might then just be another bridge upriver.

Fidel Zombie Watch, ctd

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:03:17 +0200

Days Fidel is "recovering" from abdominal surgery: 8

Oops!

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:36:46 +0200

A DOF photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Brussels has been withdrawn after coming under attack by Leftist web logs. The blogs accused DOF of distorting the photograph to include ~~more~~ smoke and damage.

"Whatever You Want"

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:46:07 +0200

Some Lebanon-based photostringers have been accused of pushing their own agenda.

Not so Samuel Aranda, whou couldn't be more "neutral" if his brains fell out.

Image:
top:
Tyre, LEBANON: Rockets fired from Israel are seen falling in the outskirts of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, 06 August 2006.

bottom:
Tyre, LEBANON: Katyusha rockets are fired from the outskirts of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre into Israel, 06 August 2006.

UPDATE:
The incorrectly labeled image has been deleted.

"Abdul Abulbul Amir"

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:35:43 +0200

More Beirut wackyness with "Black Burqah".

"The Weakness In Me"

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:01:29 +0200

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