Notes from around blogtopia™ that you may have missed.

Lisa at All Hat and No Cattle has returned to her base in Alabama from Costa Rica, but her “stuff”, including her computer hasn’t shown up. She hoping for mañana.

Badtux is spending the week in the desert, leaving The Mighty Fang and Mencken in charge. If you are interested in an apartment full of stuff, they only accept the primo ‘nip.

On Sunday, John McKay at archy celebrated his fifth blogiversary™, which certainly qualifies as a middle-aged blog.

Mustang Bobby has had a brush with infinity…make that T-boned an Infiniti. No humans were seriously injured, but the world is now short one candy apple red Mustang convertible. It is amazing how that car was apparently invisible to the driver of the Infiniti making a left turn right in front of Bobby.

Sharon Weinberger of Danger Room writes about the attempt to change reality: Terror Tourism? What Terror Tourism?

A Jerusalem Post opinion piece that attempts to rebut a series of stories on “terror tourism,” has at least one major problem: one of the rotating advertisements next to the piece, is, in fact, for a terrorism tour of Israel. Oops. Calev Ben-David says the series I co-wrote in Slate rests on the “bogus premise” that Israel would encourage such tours (again, I was somewhat distracted by that large, banner advertisement for the “ultimate tour of Israel,” but oh well)…

Israel is not the monolithic entity that is presented by US politicians and the media. There are voices of dissent in Israel about the methods being used by their government, but those voices are never heard in the US, because anyone who mentions them is painted as a “terrorist-loving anti-Semite”.

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The BBC tells us that MAC-V MNF-I is claiming that Iran ‘behind Green Zone attack’

The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday’s bombardment of Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone.

Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and rockets.

He said Iran was adding what he described as “lethal accelerants” to a very combustible mix.

There has as yet been no response from Iran to the accusations.

Think of the Spam Song, and substitute “Wolf” for “Spam”.

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Update: The weapon involved in the incident was a Heckler and Koch USP [universal self-loading] 40-caliber pistol, which has multiple safeties to prevent accidental discharges. Someone was screwing around with the weapon and pulled the trigger. One of the reasons for buying the HK USP is because it is so safe to carry.

WCNC in Charlotte reports: Pilot’s gun discharges on US Airways flight

CHARLOTTE, N.C.– A gun carried by a US Airways pilot accidentally discharged during a flight from Denver to Charlotte Saturday, according to a statement released by the airline.

The statement said the discharge happened on Flight 1536, which left Denver at approximately 6:45 a.m. and arrived in Charlotte at approximately 11:51 a.m.

The Airbus A319 plane landed safely and none of the flight’s 124 passengers or five crew members was injured, according to the statement. It was a full flight. An airline spokeswoman said the plane has been taken out of service to make sure it is safe to return to flight.

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BBC reports that MAC-V MNF-I admits that at least 4000 members of the military of the United States have died during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

When will the nightmare end?  When will there be too many deaths for the “legacy” of one small corrupt individual?  When will someone be held responsible for what has happened?