John Farrell asks PNH (who mentions how now Iraqi women must cover their heads, and/or hide):
But by that you don't mean you think Iraq was better under Saddam Hussein, I take it.
Well, if one measures better-off solely by the likelihood that you'd be disappeared by standing in the public square and shouting "Saddam Hussein is a murderous fiend who should be punished for his crimes," then yes Iraq is better off.
However, there are a large number of murderous fiends, petty thugs, and other unpleasant entities rising in his place.
Nicholas Kristoff reported back in May of 2003 that Basra had been turned into a wholy owned subsidiary of Iran, as the British let the formerly oppressed religious majority threaten store owners with death if they continued to sell liquor, and beat women who did not cover their heads.
I'm not so sure about this better off thing. I don't think woman in Basra feels safe going into the public square and shouting that they aren't going to cover their heads to satisfy a bunch of sock puppets from Tehran, much less going outside without being covered from head to toe.
I don't know what possessed either Bush or Blair to ignore that the Baath Party would be rapidly replaced by Islamic Fundamentalists.
Mingus or Coltrane?
I'm a sucker for the big band sound, so I'm going to marginally favor Mingus ('specially 'Better Get It In Your Soul' and 'The Shoes of the Fisherman...')
Bagel or Bialy?
It's not like I'm going to find either that passes muster out here.
Sherman or Grant?
I liked the cartoon better than the spin-off about MTM's boss. Though when I was young, I thought the photographer character was cool, and the publisher was one bad-ass Lady.
I just ran a lookup on that IP address, it resolves to pfilter2.ikano.com. HTTP GET on that host returns "connection refused".
Ikano sells "Private Label" ISP. So it looks like one of their customers or customers' customer was spamming you.
It'd be worth time contacting Ikano directly. They make a lot of noise about being able to detect spamming behavior. Maybe they need education on comment spamming.
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