The last war of 2008 is won.
Last victory dance.
Wooo.
Holy Crap Al Franken is a United States Senator.
June 30, 2009
June 29, 2009
Madoff Sentence
If I went into a bank with a gun and walked out with ten grand, I would get what? Ten years? Twenty? What is the right sentence for a guy who walked off with billions? Do we even have a scale for this sort of thing?
June 28, 2009
June 27, 2009
June 26, 2009
June 25, 2009
June 24, 2009
Just an Affair
So the whole missing Governor affair turned out to be just that - an affair. Kinda boring, once you think about. I was hoping for secret plastic surgery or some kind of amnesia And lucky us we get to see the mother of all mid-life crisis's play out in news conference form. At least the man had the decency of not bringing his wife along for the soul-bearing. No more lectures on family values from anybody. Ever.
Argentina
So it turns out that the mysteriously missing Governor was not, in fact, "hiking the Appalachian Trail" but rather took a seven-day trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina that no one, not his staff, not his security detail, and not even his wife knew about. this is really kind of weird. Do you know anyone who just takes off for a foreign country for a week and not tell anyone? Do you know anyone who is the boss of something not making arrangements for when they leave? I mean the man is Governor of South Carolina. He didn't tell his staff? The Lt. Governor? Somebody?
I demand an investigation. Maybe a hearing.
I demand an investigation. Maybe a hearing.
June 23, 2009
June 22, 2009
Case of the Missing Governor
Have you ever just wanted to take off, leave it all behind, and not tell anybody where you're gong?
Well, the Governor of South Carolina just did.
Well, the Governor of South Carolina just did.
Basiji Hunting
There are certain people in this world who just cry out for a beating. The Basiji are at the top of my list. These are the irregular Iranian paramilitary force. They do the things too thuggist for the regular Iranian security services. They beat unarmed protesters. They beat women and children. They shoot and kill women on the street. There are everything you hate about a street gang and the secret police, rolled up into one.
Behold: Basiji Hunting.
Good hunting, kids, good hunting.
Behold: Basiji Hunting.
Good hunting, kids, good hunting.
June 21, 2009
Rock The Casbah
The Clash wrote this when the Ayatollah baned rock music in Iran back in the early 80's. True story.
June 20, 2009
June 19, 2009
Good Point
The fact that we stole the election by such a large and unbelievable margine is proof that we didn't steal the election:
Khamenei said the 11 million votes that separated Ahmadinejad from his top opponent, Mousavi, were proof that fraud did not occur. Ahmadinejad watched the sermon from the front row. State television did not show Mousavi in attendance.
"If the difference was 100,000 or 500,000 or 1 million, well, one may say fraud could have happened. But how can one rig 11 million votes?" Khamenei asked during Friday prayers at Tehran University.
At least Florida was close.
Khamenei said the 11 million votes that separated Ahmadinejad from his top opponent, Mousavi, were proof that fraud did not occur. Ahmadinejad watched the sermon from the front row. State television did not show Mousavi in attendance.
"If the difference was 100,000 or 500,000 or 1 million, well, one may say fraud could have happened. But how can one rig 11 million votes?" Khamenei asked during Friday prayers at Tehran University.
At least Florida was close.
June 18, 2009
Soccer Protest
Even the jocks get in on the action:
It was a simple gesture — green tape wrapped around a wrist — but its symbolism resonated half a world away.
Several players on Iran’s national soccer team wore the green tape on their wrists during a World Cup qualifying match against South Korea on Wednesday, an apparent sign of solidarity with opposition leader Mir Hossain Mousavi.
Protesters at home who accuse the government of rigging Iran’s June 12 election in favor of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been wearing green — the color of Mousavi’s campaign — in a show of support for the opposition candidate.
The best part is that Iran State TV, which has been avoiding showing any protests, had to show this, cause soccer is too big a deal in Iran to censor. Soccer Explains the World had a great chapter on soccer in Iran.
It was a simple gesture — green tape wrapped around a wrist — but its symbolism resonated half a world away.
Several players on Iran’s national soccer team wore the green tape on their wrists during a World Cup qualifying match against South Korea on Wednesday, an apparent sign of solidarity with opposition leader Mir Hossain Mousavi.
Protesters at home who accuse the government of rigging Iran’s June 12 election in favor of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been wearing green — the color of Mousavi’s campaign — in a show of support for the opposition candidate.
The best part is that Iran State TV, which has been avoiding showing any protests, had to show this, cause soccer is too big a deal in Iran to censor. Soccer Explains the World had a great chapter on soccer in Iran.
June 17, 2009
Big Talker
North Korea is a small, isolated, starving country. The biggest military threat it poses is that it would lose any conflict with the west and implode in a mass of refugees and chaos. So naturally, it talks big:
North Korea warned Wednesday of a "thousand-fold" military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked, the latest threat in a drumbeat of rhetoric in defense of its rogue nuclear program.
North Korea would enviably lose any war, but war is bloody mess that all rational non-North Korean countries will avoid at all costs. North Korea needs the threat of war and an escalating crisis cause that's all they got. Lucky for us, we have an Administration that is the essence of calm and thoughtful. Just think about a President McCain, and how he wouldn't be able to resist getting into a dick-measuring contest with Kim Jong-Il. North Korea needs a crisis. Obama shouldn't give him one.
North Korea warned Wednesday of a "thousand-fold" military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked, the latest threat in a drumbeat of rhetoric in defense of its rogue nuclear program.
North Korea would enviably lose any war, but war is bloody mess that all rational non-North Korean countries will avoid at all costs. North Korea needs the threat of war and an escalating crisis cause that's all they got. Lucky for us, we have an Administration that is the essence of calm and thoughtful. Just think about a President McCain, and how he wouldn't be able to resist getting into a dick-measuring contest with Kim Jong-Il. North Korea needs a crisis. Obama shouldn't give him one.
June 16, 2009
InfoWar
This is the world now. From Wired's Danger Room - denial of service attacks are now part of the fighting:
Pro-democracy activists on the web are asking supporters to use relatively simple hacking tools to flood the regime’s propaganda sites with junk traffic. “NOTE to HACKERS - attack www.farhang.gov.ir - pls try to hack all iran gov wesites [sic]. very difficult for us,” Tweets one activist. The impact of these distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks isn’t clear. But official online outlets like leader.ir, ahmadinejad.ir, and iribnews.ir are currently inaccessible. “There are calls to use an even more sophisticated tool called BWraep, which seems to exhaust the target website out of bandwidth by creating bogus requests for serving images,” notes Open Society Institute fellow Evgeny Morozov.
This is about the information. Information is key, not bombs. And the side of freedom always has better nerds than the fascists.
Pro-democracy activists on the web are asking supporters to use relatively simple hacking tools to flood the regime’s propaganda sites with junk traffic. “NOTE to HACKERS - attack www.farhang.gov.ir - pls try to hack all iran gov wesites [sic]. very difficult for us,” Tweets one activist. The impact of these distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks isn’t clear. But official online outlets like leader.ir, ahmadinejad.ir, and iribnews.ir are currently inaccessible. “There are calls to use an even more sophisticated tool called BWraep, which seems to exhaust the target website out of bandwidth by creating bogus requests for serving images,” notes Open Society Institute fellow Evgeny Morozov.
This is about the information. Information is key, not bombs. And the side of freedom always has better nerds than the fascists.
June 15, 2009
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