I’ve been thinking about Ahmadinejad’s confident claims that he can take out the US and Israel - and achieve dominance for Islam.
How could he possibly do that without the help of thermonuclear bombs in the multi-megaton range? We also call them hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs, and they are beyond his capability to make. And, I can’t [...]
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I tend to be the collector of obscure facts.
Such as the five percent rule for drug smuggling. The rule is that you only catch five percent of all the drugs smuggled across your border. Sometimes you get more. Sometimes you get less, but generally you only get five percent.
In other countries, like Russia, it’s actually [...]
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Posted in Iran, The U.N. on Mar 9th, 2007
There are a lot of reasons why I don’t like the UN. It’s mind-numbingly corrupt. It’s appetite for hypocrisy is gluttonous. It’s horribly inefficient, in the extreme.
And, it’s outrageously stupid.
Stupidity is a hot button for me, so I can’t pass up examples of it.
Here’s one. Today, the Associated Press reports:
In Vienna on Thursday, delegates to a [...]
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Posted in Hezbollah, Lebanon, The U.N. on Aug 13th, 2006
I think that the Israeli government has played this one out really well.
There is a UN cease fire that Israel has signed, which means that there is a clear end to the fighting in sight.
At the same time, Israel has positioned forces in such a way that they will be able hinder Hezbollah reinfiltration south [...]
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Posted in Europe, Hezbollah, History, Hitler, Iran, Islam, Judaism, Lebanon, Media, Nazi Germany, PLO, Palestinians, Peace, Society, Terrorism, The U.N. on Aug 3rd, 2006
A friend of mine called me up last night and said, “John, you’ve gotta see this movie.”
Being the rather cynical guy that I am, my mental response was “Well, I don’t HAFTA see anything.”
Not knowing that she was already talking to the world expert on everything, she went on, “It encapsulates the whole conflict. Everything.”
Riiiiight, [...]
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