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CLIMATE, GEARS CHANGED
Snow falls on Baghdad for the first time in memory! Of course, this is due to global warmi ... er, climate change. Locals aren’t complaining:
"It is the first time we’ve seen snow in Baghdad,” said 60-year-old Hassan Zahar. “We’ve seen sleet before, but never snow. I looked at the faces of all the people, they were astonished,” he said.
"A few minutes ago, I was covered with snowflakes. In my hair, on my shoulders. I invite all the people to enjoy peace, because the snow means peace,” he said.
It’s a snow surge! Another positive development - Baghdad motorcycle racing:
Ali Imad, a 24-year-old motorcycle mechanic who takes part in the races, said he has an “odd love” for motorcycles and simply enjoys the recreation, especially popping wheelies for the crowd.
"Life is difficult and hard and suffering. We had sectarianism. Thanks be to God, we overcame that,” he said.
In the parking lot amid the whirl of engines, he said, “People are happy and comfortable."
Outstanding.
UPDATE. “You people are fooling yourselves,” chides Penguin. “That is the warmest snow to ever fall on Baghdad since records have been kept.”
Is there any part of that sentence that doesn’t make a lefty cringe?
Nope. I’m amazed that this line was actually published by CNN.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 12 at 04:12 PM • permalinkPray forgive me for going off topic this early in the thread, but I thought you may find some satisfaction from watching Ezra Levant sticking it to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
Levant was the publisher of the now-defunct Western Standard magazine when they published the Khartoons; as the result of a complaint from some whining little asshole, he was haled before the Commission. Here’s the video he posted on his website.
Posted by Mambo Bananapatch on 2008 01 12 at 04:13 PM • permalinkWhile we mull over the prospects for peace (snow or no snow) the number crunchers have been at it again and now revised the death count down to 150,000. Has this been further subdivided into
(a) those civilians who are not insurgents or engaged in some nefarious activity killed by coalition forces,
(b) isurgents/mahdis/jihadis etc killed by coalition forces, and
(c) people of all sorts killed by insurgents/jihadis/mad mahdis etc?"Life is difficult and hard and suffering. We had sectarianism. Thanks be to God, we overcame that,” he said.
I get so sick of hearing that “life is hard” talk. Listen Iraqis, and your fellow Arabs and Muslims. Life is hard for everyone. You do your best to deal with it. Hopefully without blaming America, Britain, and the West in the process.
/bitchiness
Posted by wronwright on 2008 01 12 at 05:29 PM • permalinkRaad Kamal, another spectator, echoed that sentiment. “I expect anything, car bombs or suicide bombers. But if I decided to stay in the house all the time, then it means I am a dead man, and I do not want to be a dead man. I decided to go outside and live my life."
Raad...WE have a State here in the U.S. who’s MOTTO IS: Live Free or Die.
The motto comes from a statement written by the Revolutionary General John Stark, hero of the Battle of Bennington.
#7 Mambo Bananas
The real violence in Edmondton is worth a look, too.
Thanks for those links. He’s Ezra Levant is correct.
I hope he wins the good fight.
...small-minded thought police.
You’re being awfully generous there, Rebecca, in describing their IQ.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 12 at 08:00 PM • permalinkIt is really quite humbling to see how enthusiastic the Iraqis are about things which are, to us, easily accessible.
It is a good reminder for me, and should be a lesson to the “quagmire” brigade - who ironically are in an ideological quagmire of their own.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 01 12 at 08:02 PM • permalink"Life is difficult and hard and suffering. We had sectarianism. Thanks be to God, we overcame that..."
...and praise be to Allah, I am now the proud and envied owner of a Fat Hog!!
I mean…
...a motorcycle!!
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2008 01 12 at 08:09 PM • permalinkMeanwhile in the national socialist areas of the world, we have unreported death and chaos. Who remembers Gareth Evans, former Foreign Minister of Australia? Gareth is now Crisis Group’s President & CEO. A national socialist leading the Crisis Group working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict? What did they do in Iraq?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 01 12 at 09:03 PM • permalinkSon is over in Iraq right now, I think(unit moved and he wasn’t free to say exactly where) somewhere north of Baghdad. Hadn’t heard from him for almost three weeks, then his mother got an e-mail the other day. Entire message:
“It’s snowing.”I’ve heard of brevity in communications, but that was a bit much.
Firehand; You must have raised him right. (via samizdata)
Posted by dean martin on 2008 01 12 at 10:20 PM • permalink#26 Evans being the knumbskull who scrambled an RAAF Mirage fighter to Tasmania in 1983 during the Franklin Dam brouhaha. Rather like Horatio Rudd nowadays, wanting to dispatch the navy to protect whales. Send Australian soldiers to protect human beings in Iraq, however, and it’s a misuse of defence forces.
Labor never changes.
An alternative “snow-based” execution for Saddam. How to kill Saddam Husein.
But Global Warming is still happening, MSNBC says so!
Study: Winters in Northeast warming quickly
From 1965 to 2005, winter temps increased 2.5 degrees, research shows“Winter is warming greater than any other season,” said Elizabeth Burakowski, who analyzed data from dozens of stations for her master’s thesis
Wait… MSNBC is referencing students’ master’s theses now?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 12 at 11:49 PM • permalink#28 Firehand,
May the Lord watch over your son and bring him safely home.Speaking of snow and brief messages, after the Battle of Eylau in 1807 Marshal Ney sent to Napoleon Bonaparte a report on the role his corps had played in the battle: “Engaged Russians at Preussiche-Eylau.” One of the Emperor’s secretaries sent it back to him with the suggestion that it was too short and that the Marshal ought to elaborate on it. Ney returned this: “Engaged Russians at Preussiche-Eylau. Snow.”
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 01 12 at 11:54 PM • permalinkFrom 1965 to 2005, winter temps increased 2.5 degrees, research shows
Considering that from approximately the mid-’40’s to the mid-’70s, we were in a cold period, that’s hardly surprising. If the bint had looked at winter temps from, say, 1935 to 1975, she would have seen them falling. Like the Newsweek folks did. When they declared pollution was causing global cooling.
Cherry-picking fucktards.
Dave S., this .pdf has a collection of “New Ice Age” and “Global Warming” articles, headlines and magazine covers from the past 100 years. Some of them are a real hoot.
Have a look at the illustration on the cover of the March 1, 1975 “Science and News” magazine (page 4 of the .pdf)
By the way, you’ve been quoted (your comment #3 here) over at El Cid’s. Hope you don’t mind.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 13 at 01:45 AM • permalinkMay Student unions unravel completely. Never has there been a starker “We want it but you pay for it.”
Trouble is of course that now the intellectual-flavoured robber barons are back in they might just prop them up.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 01 13 at 02:19 AM • permalink#41 Peter, there are links to more of those videos here (in post & comments)
(via El Cid)“She’s a thug. You’re a thug.” Pretty awesome indeed!
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 13 at 09:20 AM • permalinkDave S., this .pdf has a collection of “New Ice Age” and “Global Warming” articles, headlines and magazine covers from the past 100 years. Some of them are a real hoot.
I can’t thank you enough for that. It’s in the “Ammo” folder. And it will be printed out and left prominently at work.
By the way, you’ve been quoted (your comment #3 here) over at El Cid’s. Hope you don’t mind.
Hell, no. I’m an attention whore.
Dean, both he and the daughter got the ‘right’ stuff growing up. Like my old Cub and Boy Scout manuals that hadn’t been edited to remove stuff on campfires and knives and such.
I ask you, when the kids decide to play elf, and elves have spears(as everyone knows), how could I not make spears for them?
When he was in Basic, he wrote that the DI was a bit surprised when they issued the cleaning gear: “Drill Sergeant, do we have anything better?”
“What do you mean better?”
“A one-piece rod, some really good bore cleaner?”
Sniff. He really did listen when he was growing up.
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Sounds like a budding “Evel Imad”. Get the man an Elvis suit and helmet!!