Bridges to Nowhere!

Unfortunately, I am not involved in the project, but anyhow...

From the diaries ~ whataboutbob

and

Bridge blogging by PeWi, great! With an edit - afew

I don't know why I want to defend this pope, but hey - I don't even know if I succeed.

***from the front page - Jerome

So, I am reading all these Diaries about divisive issues and that gets me thinking, and I have to agree with those that say, petrol tax is not really a problem, at least that can be discussed rationally. There are however aspects that are so divisive that it becomes funny again.

more below the fold

Original embedded image got access-restricted, new copy hosted & inserted from NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2006 by DoDo

and I though, ah yes, it is Friday, lets have some bridge blogging.

So your task, for this diary. Find bridges, that are award winning or aren't quite used in the way originally intendet.

And yes, The photo is copyrighted and by Jan Grarup, Denmark, Politiken/Rapho.
The title is: Kashmir earthquake aftermath. It was a People in the News: 2nd prize. And I stole it here

Basicaly hardcore but loveable gay characters.

He has a comic strip out commenting on the controversy sourrounding the Mohammed comic strips.

At first I only wanted to comment, but then the comment developed into a fuller parsing of the text, so I decided to make my own diary. I meant to read the enzyclica anyway, since I wanted to write about it in my Church Magazine that I edit (not available online!)

Then I started reading and after a while I got bored and ran out of time and decided that I would not finish and blog about it at all, but then Agnes made this diary and so I thought, I want to contribut as well, and got this out of hiding

So here goes.

Not, that I can tell you much about them, but here is a special mill.

from the front page...whataboutbob

Sorry for the late and very short posting - had a rather "interesting" AGM today.

so I feel rather...

wobbly...

Back from the front page ~ whataboutbob

This TBB will be another trip down parallel lines. No, not railway lines. Parrallel, as such, as it starts with an image of a bridge

but continues quite different after the fold.

"I have to admit the mood of the meeting was a bit cynical," Renate Gensch, the head of the paper's works' council told the Guardian. "Mr Montgomery doesn't speak German. He had to talk to us using translators," she added. "We looked hard on the internet and couldn't find a single good word about this guy."
The Guardian

some quotes after the fold

Back from the front page ~ whataboutbob

We all have heard that the Syrians are upset that they are accused of being involved in the killing of the former Lebanese Prime minister. But what is interesting is that the guy that did the research did not want this information to be published
"The names were not in copies of the report released for general distribution."

- because it was only one single source that supported it.

In einer neuen Fassung habe er die Namen gelöscht, weil sie von einem Zeugen nur genannt und nicht bestätigt worden seien. "Es hätte einen falschen Eindruck" von Schuld erwecken können, sagte Mehlis.

In a new version those names were blackened, since only one witness named them, and I did not want to create the impression that it has been confirmed. "A wrongful impression of guilt could have been construed." said Mehlis the prosecutor and author of the report.

Now Rice is calling to invade Syria. - well not quite yet : find a way to hold Syrian authorities accountable.
[update] central witness is a known crook. The spiegel reports this morning. [/update]