April 17, 2006

Bride of "Glad to See the Back of Him"

Hatched by Dafydd

Just a fast addendum to our previous post, Glad to See the Back of Him: Sami al-Arian has indeed offered a guilty plea; but in addition to deportation, he has also agreed to serve some prison time... and he has admitted to a series of facts that clearly and unambiguously prove that al-Arian was, in fact, an operative for the Jew-hating terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

WARNING: The New York Sun has a very grabby and aggressive website; if you leave this article open even long enough to read it, the Sun will transfer you to its homepage, so you can see its "breaking news." It will do this every couple of minutes or so, even if you minimize the page and are working on other pages -- such as Movable Type's "Edit Entry" page (ahem).

It will even do it if you save the article as a file and load the file instead of the actual web page; you might have to turn off Java and JavaScript.

I am in awe of the sheer audacity and colossal narcissism of the New York Sun: it is the Bill Clinton of newspaper websites.

Back to Sami al-Arian:

Prosecutors and Mr. Al-Arian agreed that he should be sentenced to between 46 and 57 months incarceration on one count of conspiracy to assist a group or individual on a federal government terrorist list. The judge overseeing the case, James Moody Jr., has agreed to impose a sentence in that range at a hearing still to be scheduled.

Since al-Arian has already been in custody without bail for 38 months, he should serve between eight and nineteen more; but with "a reduction for 'good time,'" which I think is like time off for good behavior, he may get an additional six months off. The earliest he could be released is June, but he might be held longer, depending on the actual sentence imposed.

He did not admit to being a leader or founder of PIJ. But among the facts he did admit to were these, each of which he steadfastly denied through his trial:

  • That he was, in fact, "associated with" Palestinian Islamic Jihad;
  • That he "performed services for" PIJ;
  • That he definitely knew that Ramadan Shallah, Bashif Nafi, and Mazen Al-Najjar were all associated with PIJ; these men worked for al-Arian's "think tank," the World & Islam Studies Enterprise;
  • That he lied to a reporter from the St. Petersburg Times about Shallah's connection with PIJ, and al-Arian's knowledge of that connection, after Shallah fled the country when he was named PIJ's secretary general.

Perhaps, at long last, those on the Left who have adamantly maintained the complete innocence of Sami al-Arian -- if they have a shred of decency left -- will finally 'fess up that al-Arian duped them. That he played them like a cheap mijwiz... thus calling into question (cough) the sagacity and judgment of said lefties.

Say, is that a Sus scrofa cristatus tooling along through the heavens?

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, April 17, 2006, at the time of 2:33 PM

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The following hissed in response by: Dan Kauffman

" if you leave this article open even long enough to read it, the Sun will transfer you to its homepage, so you can see its "breaking news." It will do this every couple of minutes or so, even if you minimize the page and are working on other pages -- such as Movable Type's "Edit Entry" page (ahem)."

Click on "Printer-friendly version" Select all then paste into Wordpad, ;-)

The above hissed in response by: Dan Kauffman [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 17, 2006 3:04 PM

The following hissed in response by: salfter

The New York Sun has a very grabby and aggressive website; if you leave this article open even long enough to read it, the Sun will transfer you to its homepage...

That's why you use NoScript. I browse with JavaScript disabled for nearly all websites, only enabling it when it's really needed. JavaScript can be enabled temporarily or permanently for a site, depending on how abusive a given site may be.

The above hissed in response by: salfter [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 17, 2006 5:39 PM

The following hissed in response by: salfter

Hmm...upon looking at the source for their page, they have a meta-refresh tag that forces you to their homepage after 10 minutes. That is truly evil, and blocking JavaScript won't fix it.


At least the printer-friendly version doesn't have a meta-refresh tag.

The above hissed in response by: salfter [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 17, 2006 5:45 PM

The following hissed in response by: Mr Lynn

Re yr NY Sun warning, I have not had the problem. I use Safari, on my Mac, so maybe this is a fault of that odious Internet Exploder.

/Mr Lynn

The above hissed in response by: Mr Lynn [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 17, 2006 8:47 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dick E

Dafydd-

OK, I’ll buy “mijwiz” -- obscure, but at least a relevant metaphor. And understandable, even if someone doesn’t know the definition.

But, come on, “Sus scrofa cristatus”? That’s about as strained as you can get.

I’m willing to accept that both terms are part of your vocabulary (although I suspect there may have been an assist on the play by Wikipedia). But, sheesh! Even knowing the definition of “Sus scrofa cristatus”, that one still doesn’t make sense.

We all (well, most of us anyway) appreciate the rhetoric of the erudite, but please don’t try to blow us away with obscure terminology. You may also obscure your message.

The above hissed in response by: Dick E [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 17, 2006 11:34 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dick E

Dafydd-

By the way, comments like the above are why I wish you would put an email contact on your blog. I really would rather have sent this to you privately.

The above hissed in response by: Dick E [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 17, 2006 11:38 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

Dick E:

It's simple laziness. All I have to do is figure out how to use Outlook, so I can check multiple e-mail addresses; but I'm slothful, languorous, lackadaisical.

For the obscure terminology, you have it backwards: I decide what I want to say and in what language, then I look up how to do that. Thus, instead of simply saying "when pigs fly," I hunted down the actual species of domestic pig that would be found in the Middle East, and used that instead.

Some obscure phrases I oft declaim in casual conversation, such as rem acu tetigisti, fiat justicia ruat coelum, or quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- as the occasions seem to rise often. Those I only look up the spelling, because my spelling is troubled, even in English.

(I didn't look those up this time, so I'm sure I misspelled one, two, or all three. I know what they mean, I'm just not sure of the spelling.)

If you ever went to hear me speak on panels at a science-fiction convention, you might be surprised at how similar my oral language is to my written.

When writing fiction, I trim my speech to the character speaking or narrating, of course.

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 18, 2006 12:08 AM

The following hissed in response by: dasbow

What do crispy scrotums have to do with anything?

The above hissed in response by: dasbow [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 18, 2006 3:45 AM

The following hissed in response by: cdquarles

Dafydd,

Multiple emails in Outlook? All you have to do is set up each account (pop3, imap, smtp) then click send/receive to download all of your (not webmail) emails.

The above hissed in response by: cdquarles [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 18, 2006 11:47 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

CDQuarles:

Oh, it's not that I wouldn't know how to set it up. It's just sitting down and doing it, when I have 1,001 other things that are much more critical.

...And if I'm ignoring all of them, what chance does Outlook have? <G>

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 19, 2006 4:57 AM

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