As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.
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Hit ‘Em Again, Harder…Harder
As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.
Hit ‘Em Again, Harder…Harder
As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.
Well, Duhhhh…
Not there was much doubt, but Israel has provided the U.S. government with evidence of Arafat’s complicity in the Israeli terror attacks.
More Irony
The growing sense of new pogroms against Jews worldwide may spur additional emigration to Israel, further confounding Palestinian extremists’ goals. Some may conclude that Israel, buttressed by a growing Jewish population willing and able to defend itself, may be the safest place…
Wobbly Watch
An interesting article in the weekly Standard by Kristol (never known as a big Bush fan) and Kagan, asks the question, “has Bush jumped off the anti-terrorism train?
Either this is more of a deep deception by the White House and, as Jonah Goldberg has pointed out, they have recognized that a “war on terrorism” is indeed too simplistic, and has declared war on the real enemy instead, but don’t want to tip their hand yet, or they really are out to sea in a policy sense. There’s insufficient evidence for me to tell which is the case.
End Near For Chavez?
A half a million people reportedly marched on the Palace in Caracas demanding his resignation.
If he refuses, can a coup be far behind?
[Update at 2:37PM PDT]
Now, he’s apparently shut down the private television stations, while condemning them on the government station. This is always the end point of imposed socialism. No other freedom can survive the usurpation of property rights.
I think that President Chavez is due for a long vacation in someplace like Havana, and soon.
[Update at 2:52 PM PDT]
Here’s the latest update from AP.
Multiple shots were fired near the palace, and scuffles with police erupted in several downtown locations. Some people fired on crowds from rooftops. A body lay in a pool of blood next to the presidential palace.
Greater Caracas Mayor Alfredo Pena, a Chavez opponent, quoted Manuel Rojas, director of Caracas’ Hospital Vargas, as saying that four people were killed and 24 wounded.
“Chavez has shown his true face. This dictator’s apprentice brutally ordered the repression of a peaceful demonstration,” Pena claimed.
[Late update at 10:34PM PDT]
The coup is now official according to Reuters. Chavez is history.
I don’t know if this is good, but getting rid of Chavez surely isn’t bad. At a minimum, we should be in there gathering up any intel that we can, to see what kind of mischief Castro was up to in South America, and what relationships there may have been with guerilla groups like FARC in Colombia (which may be the next threat to stability in the region).
Disaster Prevention
Nice catch by the bellicose babe.
This should be much bigger news. These guys are real heros.
It also points up what fools the Al Qaeda folks were.
Only One Day Left For Tickets
I’d like to take another little war break here, for a post on loftier and more inspiring subjects.
I know that I’m often (but justifiably) hard on NASA and the ISS, but watching the orbital construction going on right now is pretty damned cool. It’s like when I was a kid and was fascinated by the bull dozers, but much better. It almost makes me feel like I’m living in the twenty-first century, even without the flying cars.
I don’t have NASA TV, but those who do can probably see it non-stop for the next few hours. Fox is cutting to shots of it occasionally. The video isn’t great–it’s a little grainy–but you can clearly see the swirling blue ocean and clouds slowly scrolling past the station on the earth over three hundred miles below.
How anyone can think that there’s no market for views and experiences like that is totally beyond me.
Anyway, for those who want to get down and pa-tay to celebrate space, the Yuri’s night party is tomorrow night. The flagship party is at the Air Museum at the Santa Monica airport, and they’ll be linked by video with the other parties, and the space station. I just got this press release:
Yuri?s Night: The World Space Party, rocking the world on April 12, reached its goal of 100 parties today by blasting into orbit. The 99th and 100th Yuri?s Night parties take the form of video messages from the International Space Station (ISS) and the US Space Shuttle.
The greetings transform Yuri?s Night from a planetary celebration of space to one that has taken its first steps into the solar system.
?I just wanted to tape a short greeting to all of those of you who are attending Yuri?s Night,? said astronaut Jim Newman, speaking 360 miles above the Earth?s surface onboard Shuttle Mission STS-109. ?There are really no boundaries visible from space,? Newman continued, ?and I just wanted to leave you with this short message, celebrating the accomplishments of humans in space, and hoping for a better future for humans on Earth.?
Newman?s message will join a special greeting from the Expedition Four ISS Crew of Yury Onufrienok, Daniel Bursch and Carl Walz, that will be broadcast worldwide on April 12.
Both videos will be the centerpiece of Yuri?s Night parties around the world. The dual recordings hold particular significance for Yuri?s Night, as April 12 is not only the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin?s historic first spaceflight, but also the anniversary of the first launch of the Space Shuttle.
The Space Station greeting was recorded at the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolyov, Russia, and made possible by the support of the Youth Space Center, Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU). Victoria Mayorova, Youth Space Center Director, Yulia Stetskyuk, BMSTU student, and Julia Tizard, a student at Manchester University, joined forces to bring the World Space Party into orbit.
?Yuri?s Night unites humanity in a peaceful celebration of space,? said Tizard. ?Since humanity is now in orbit, it only makes sense to celebrate Yuri?s Night there as well.?
Slow Cook Or Flambe?
I missed this piece on Tuesday at Tech Central, in which Sally Baliunas compares the threats to the planet of global warming versus an asteroid strike.