Dust off that Branch Plan

In case you have not seen it yet, generally bad news all the way around. She wasn't perfect, but in a nation short of leaders that don't have a beard and a funny hat - bad news.

Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in a suicide attack.

Ms Bhutto had just addressed an election rally in Rawalpindi when she was shot in the neck by a gunman who then set off a bomb.

At least four supporters of Pakistan's former premier Nawaz Sharif were killed and another 12 wounded in the capital, Islamabad, when gunshots were fired on an election rally.

People ``fired on our workers who were gathering for an election public rally,'' Siddique-ul-Farooq, a spokesman for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, said in a phone interview today. Farooq said supporters of Nawaz Khokar, a leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam, the party backed by President Pervez Musharraf, fired at the rally.

THERE GO THOSE EVIL NON-RAPING JEWS AGAIN...

IsraelNN.com:

A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.

The abstract of the paper, authored by doctoral candidate Tal Nitzan, notes that the paper shows that "the lack of organized military rape is an alternate way of realizing [particular] political goals."

Yes, you read that correctly. The LACK of organized military rape is also a devious Israeli military scheme. Well, at least it's comforting to know that our own academics aren't the most ideologically retarded lunatics in the world. I was starting to get worried.

(h/t Best of the Web Today)