gag gulled
We are very close to the end:
What other scenarios are there?
The US embassy in Baghdad circulated a memo to all Americans working for the US government in the Green Zone. It ordered them to wear protective gear whenever they were outside in the Green Zone, including just moving from one building to another. Guerrillas have managed to lob a number of rockets into the area in recent days, and killed one US GI on Tuesday.What the fuck are they going to do? Move the green zone to Kurdistan? They cannot move it out of Baghdad (would be admitting defeat,) but they also cannot defend it (no way to clear a large enough security corridor around it to stop rockets because hundreds of thousands of people live in the immediate area.) So I guess they will just sit there until a rocket gets lucky and hits something important. Then we'll pull out like in Beirut after the Marine barracks bombings.
What other scenarios are there?
gonna have to say this seems like a mixed blessing.
According to UK's Telegraph, a deadly species of jellyfish, translucent and the size of a thumbnail, is spreading along Australia's coastline as a result of global warming.
Irukandji jellyfish are among the world's most toxic creatures – all but impossible to detect in the water but packing a potentially lethal punch belying their tiny size.
Their discovery has halted production of Warner Bros. Pictures' Fool's Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, who were originally due to be filmed swimming in the sea. Dr. Jamie Seymour, from James Cook University, said she had found five of the animals off Queensland's Fraser Island.
at the risk of contradicting my previous post, heres one for the cassandra squad.
the prince and the peeper
maybe dkos and mydd can ban digby from the blogosphere for this conspiracy mongering.
when people say theres a cancer growing on this white house, this is probably not what they had in mind. although he might be the first person in history to view a leave of absence for chemotherapy as a relief.
IMHO and the rest of the table we now have great Cantonese in Brooklyn......Pacificana opened after 3 years of construction from a fire.....1/2 the same owners and some new ones, dim sum is rumored to be awesome (1 1/2 hour wait at the peak last sunday), we tasted some dumplings that were grand cru and the mains we ordered were super......good news for us in Brooklyn
http://events.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/dining/reviews/21unde.html?ref=dining
http://events.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/dining/reviews/21unde.html?ref=dining
I think we saw a gyrfalcon on saturday. Alex, is it possible? It was HUGE, bigger than any eagle I've ever seen. But it had pointy bent wings like a falcon, and very dark, almost black, on the underside. We saw it quite close up, near the north shore of Lake Erie, which I know is a hot spot for migration.
nature porn tonight on discovery.
gilliard would shit a pickle over this one if he werent hanging on by a thread. so ill say it for him. fuck you, bloomberg, you little fucking twerp. what a bunch of creepy assholes we have running this country.
leahy sprouts notochord. meanwhile, the transvestite slips on a pair of kneepads and inhales at the altar of the sweaty codpiece.
Apple TV Has Landed -- Wow, requires a 16:9 television, which in the US means an HDTV. Not sure I would have gone that way. And I have trouble with the "iPod for your TV" analogy. My iPod has a disk twice the capacity of the Apple TV. Where do you even get a 40 Gig drive these days, from "Ye Old Computer Shoppe"? But I may have to get one anyway.
100 year old photoblog
gore about to testify on capitol hill about climate change on cspan 3.
The fabulous David E says that Obama is a 'Magic Negro' -- a non-threatening black man upon whom white Americans can rely.
Rush felt that this reference entitlee him to sing (to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon) "Barack, the Magic Negro, doo doo do doo."
I really don't know anything about the fabulous David E, but I took note of this paragraph:
By the way, this whitie supports Obama because he was against the Iraq war when 90% of the country was stupid on Bush.
Rush felt that this reference entitlee him to sing (to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon) "Barack, the Magic Negro, doo doo do doo."
I really don't know anything about the fabulous David E, but I took note of this paragraph:
Poitier really poured on the "magic" in "Lilies of the Field" (for which he won a best actor Oscar) and "To Sir, With Love" (which, along with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," made him a No. 1 box-office attraction). In these films, Poitier triumphs through yeoman service to his white benefactors. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is particularly striking in this regard, as it posits miscegenation without evoking sex. (Talk about magic!)I just saw "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". While there was much less on-screen fucking than in "Boogie Nights" -- very much less -- the topic of sex was broached, in an oblique 1960's PG sort of way. Specifically, the two fathers were chided for being dried up old farts who had forgotten the power of hot monkey love. But I guess the oblique reference wasn't fabulous enough.
By the way, this whitie supports Obama because he was against the Iraq war when 90% of the country was stupid on Bush.
