Another song that goes through my mind at the moment. Is it so safe? (The song's about the yardies in Jamaica giving Strummer and his public school chums a tough time.) And the martian reference, which I forgot, doesn't the IraqI war coverage look like the set of a B movie martian film?

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Busy old day today, been to Dudley most of morning - finishing up at Telewest. Now, gotta clean! Amanda and the kids are back, from a week away at her mum's, and in a few minutes! Gotta ditch the chicken bones, throw out the pizza boxes, do the dishes and generally deodorise the place. Gets smelly when you're working 18 hours a day and not showering.

Be good to see the kids again, I've missed them.

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""Oh, people of Palestine, Oh, people of Iraq. The Crusader, Zionist America has started an attack against our Iraq, the Iraq of Islam and Arabism, the Iraq of civilization and history. It opened a Crusader Zionist war against Iraq. If Iraq is defeated, if the nation [of Islam] is defeated in Iraq - this will be our last breath of life... "

It gets worse! This is the stuff that sends shivers down my spine. It's being taught in every school in every Arab country.

"America will be destroyed, Allah willing, and Palestine, Iraq, and the Middle East will become a cemetery for oppressors..."

Watch and read such gems of thought: The "Life Is Sweet" Show: With the Family of Said Al-Khotari, the Suicide Bomber Who Blew Himself Up Outside the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, and Other Guests. From April 24, 2002 (Aired from Jordan). Such TV shows remind me of cosy Sunday evenings when I was a teenager, watching Songs of Praise, wishing there was something else on. Now with 100 channels on my TV, I still don't see the world for what it is. Lucky, I have the internet? Or, better I didn't know?

It is these teachings that we must stop or else this war on terrorism will never stop.

For days I've been humming to myself this song Killing an Arab by the Cure from 1979. I have no idea of the motives of the writer at that time, I guess there's some dichotomy. But this religious shit is getting to me.

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