Happy New Year!
And hopefully, you didn’t have your car broken into like I did earlier today.
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And hopefully, you didn’t have your car broken into like I did earlier today.
From a Martin Fletcher article
One activist said: “Do Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and the elite of the Revolutionary Guards really think that I, or anyone else, after being beaten by the police, witnessing the murder of Iranians on the streets, hearing stories of rape and murder in the prisons, and knowing of electoral cheating, will ever remain passive and quiet? None of us will ever accept the rule of Ahmadinejad and Khamenei after what they have done.”
They probably do get it. and here’s hoping they don’t try to literally kill an entire generation in their desperate bid to keep power
Of course, it could be disinformation, so make of it what you will
Iranian Supreme National Security Council has ordered a complete check-up of the jet which is on standby to fly Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family to Russia should the situation in Iran spiral out of control.
The order, to the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard Corps, was dated on Sunday, 27 December, the second day of recent unrests in Iran.
The document containing the order was sent to Shahrzad News office in The Netherlands.
The letter has been signed by Said Jalili, the current secretary of the council and one of two representative of Iran’s religious leader Ali Khamenei.
(HT: Sullivan)
You know, if you only get 1/10th the people to show up despite giving them the day off and helping bus them in, then maybe your support isn’t quite as strong as you’d hope.
Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition leaders as Iran’s police chief threatened to show “no mercy” in crushing any new protests by the pro-reform movement.
Pro-government rallies were staged in Shiraz, Arak, Qom and Tehran, among other cities. Demonstrators at a rally in Tehran chanted “Death to Mousavi,” a reference to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Some shouted “Rioter hypocrites must be executed” and held up a banner that read: “We sacrifice our blood for the supreme leader.”
The government gave all civil servants and employees a day off to attend the rallies and organized buses to transport groups of schoolchildren and supporters from outlying rural areas to the protests.
After all, they only had to endure a bad bus ride, and meanwhile the opposition is facing bullets, and your thugs shooting them, running them down with cars, beating them arresting them, and they’re still getting several hundred thousand people to show up. So, maybe the Iranian Junta will kill off an entire generation, it’s going to be the only way they hold on.
Abstraction
Source: xkcd
Find out with this quiz.
I got a 17 out of 20, should have gotten 18, but I didn’t pay attention.
and here’s a related thing The Metro Atlanta Solar System Project
Evidently some of the shrieking violets on the right want to put this guy up, torture him, and declare him a war criminal. I’m shaking my head because it’s really one of the dumbest things I’ve heard. Save the term ‘war crime’ for something worthy of the phrase.
Some guy lighting his underwear on fire in a vain attempt to kill people isn’t worthy of the phrase ‘war crime’. Keep it simple, it’s several hundred counts of attempted murder, and a darwin award to boot. This idiot deserves all the ridicule and mockery, and by extension so should the terrorists, taunt them, mock them. Really, this is the best you can do?
If the British can laugh at the nazis, then we surely can heap a ton of scorn onto the backs of these terrorists. Just make sure a picture of his undies is put all over the world. Heck put it on the internet as a LOLTerrorist… now what would be a good caption for his undies, maybe “somewhere 30 virgins pointed and laughed?” what else… any ideas?
After all, a Politician would never hold up a nominee for political reasons, right?
An alleged attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration — if there were one.
Instead, the post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has held up President Obama’s nominee in an effort to prevent TSA workers from joining a labor union.
DeMint, in a statement, said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s alleged attempted attack in Detroit “is a perfect example of why the Obama administration should not unionize the TSA.”
Yeah, Democrats do it too, Republicans do it, Heck I bet Whigs would do it if they could. But there’s a risk to obstruction, and something happens which could be somehow tied to your obstruction. So, nice try to deflect DeMint. It isn’t working, but the good news? You’re just one of a string of incredibly dumb things to come from elected officials in South Carolina this year, (lets we forget Sanford, and the attempted prosectution of Phelps just to name two)
Oh and the fella that Sanford is objecting to?
Southers is assistant chief for homeland security and intelligence for the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department. He is also an associate director at the University of Southern California’s Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, and he served as a deputy director of homeland security for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R).
Even after all this time on the planet, we’re still finding novel and amazing things out in the world.
Scientists have identified a novel antifreeze molecule in a freeze-tolerant Alaska beetle able to survive temperatures below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Unlike all previously described biological antifreezes that contain protein, this new molecule, called xylomannan, has little or no protein. It is composed of a sugar and a fatty acid and may exist in new places within the cells of organisms.
“The most exciting part of this discovery is that this molecule is a whole new kind of antifreeze that may work in a different location of the cell and in a different way,” said zoophysiologist Brian Barnes, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology and one of five scientists who participated in the Alaska Upis ceramboides beetle project.
Are there implications on hibernation for higher order animals? or new classes of antifreeze for cars and other machinery in extreme climates? Either way, I still think it’s fantastic and amazing.
Nate Silver has it:
Therefore, the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000. This means that you could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning.
Really, we’re afraid of what?
Really, the “war” on drugs is better named, the war on people
A 10-year-old girl in New York has been suspended for bringing peppermint oil to her middle school and distributing it to other students.
The Commack School District said in a statement on its Web Site that the oil is “an unregulated over-the-counter drug.”
Photo: An Iranian opposition protester holds stones as he stands opposite security forces during clashes in Tehran on December 27, 2009. ( -/AFP/Getty Images)
Some people would thrive in this, I’d end up insane.