Wednesday? Really? Already?
Remember a year ago when I reported that the British version of the NSA, known as GCHQ, was recruiting in online games? Of course you don't, because most of you completely ignore any news that I post. In fact, you're not even reading this right now. Well, at any rate, MI6, the British version of the CIA (sort of), is putting ads on Facebook. Ironic much?
About a year ago (sensing a theme yet?) I postd an article that spoke in detail about a Balochi rebel group known as Jundallah. An Iranian legal official has escaped an attack, possibly by Jundallah. According to the article (written by the Iranians, so take it with a grain of salt):
I keep raving about Michael Yon and Michael Totten, and Totten's got a great piece in Commentary Magazine that everyone should read. One of Senator Obama's claims is that he didn't support the war in Iraq because he thought it took the focus off of the so-called "real fight" in Afghanistan. Most global security experts, a group to which Senator Obama doesn't belong, have understood for years that Afghanistan is just one symptom of a much bigger problem that spans the entire Middle East. As Totten points out:
When Senator Obama was blathering on about Pakistan during the debate Friday night, I have to admit that I wondered whether he even knew what Pakistan was. He certainly has no tangible concept of the actual conflict that we're in, and I defy anyone to produce a scrap of evidence that Senator Obama's opposition to the Iraq War had anything to do with Afghanistan. Opposition to the invasion was simply the boilerplate liberal position of the day; and his claim that opposing the invasion while he was a liberal state senator from south Chicago showed political courage is beyond absurd. Read the whole piece by Totten, because it really puts the situation in context (and aside from a couple of mentions about Obama, it's not really a political piece).
Need a laugh? Ever watched Kindergarten Cop? They have a great story of Army chicanery at Ranger Up. Go check it out.
I'm still annoyed at the YMCA. I was going to try to go for a swim at a different location last night, but I ended up blowing about an hour or so trying to get the decals on my truck renewed, only to get there and find out that they're good until next July. Joy. At any rate, with that hour or so wasted and all, I think I'm going to put it off for one more day. Given the chaos of last week, and my plans for this weekend (which will be discussed later this week), this may have been the wrong month to join the Y. Ehhhhhhhh.
So, for the last couple of days, I've been watching Red vs. Blue, a machinima series that uses the Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3 video games to make movies. I watched a ton of the episodes over the course of two or three days in 2007. I've been catching up with the series from the beginning at Machinima.com. I'm also seriously considering buying the DVD set. Nerdy? Totally, but also pretty entertaining.
Okay, another rant: I'm pretty sure I got drunk-texted last night. I went to bed around 20:45, and was sort of nodding off when I got a text at around 21:10 from a girl I went on a couple of dates with in February, and one in late August/early September, who I talk to on very rare occasions. I'd texted her a few times in the last couple of weeks, with pretty much no response. Well, apparently she was out for a beer. I asked her how she was, and then told her I was in bed and asked in a flirty way if we could talk tomorrow (I'm ever the romantic diplomat). She said that was fine, so I figured that was the end of it. I was just about to nod off again when I got another text from her, an hour later, to say "Night!" So, at this point, she had interrupted my sleep at two crucial moments, and I slept horribly the rest of the night. Very annoying.
Okay, folks, there's more to come as the week progresses. Stay tuned.
About a year ago (sensing a theme yet?) I postd an article that spoke in detail about a Balochi rebel group known as Jundallah. An Iranian legal official has escaped an attack, possibly by Jundallah. According to the article (written by the Iranians, so take it with a grain of salt):
Southeastern Iran has been the scene to a wave of terrorist attacks by the Jundullah militant group in recent years.
The militant group, whose leader Abdul Malik Rigi has appeared several times on the US state funded VOA, has been behind a series of kidnappings and murders in the southeastern province.
I keep raving about Michael Yon and Michael Totten, and Totten's got a great piece in Commentary Magazine that everyone should read. One of Senator Obama's claims is that he didn't support the war in Iraq because he thought it took the focus off of the so-called "real fight" in Afghanistan. Most global security experts, a group to which Senator Obama doesn't belong, have understood for years that Afghanistan is just one symptom of a much bigger problem that spans the entire Middle East. As Totten points out:
Most of the September 11 hijackers were Saudis. All were Arabs. None hailed from Afghanistan. This is not coincidental. Al Qaeda’s politics are a product of the Arab world, specifically of the radical and totalitarian Wahhabi sect of Islam founded in the 18th Century in Saudi Arabia by the fanatical Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab. He thought the medieval interpretations of Islam even on the backward Arabian peninsula were too liberal and lenient. His most extreme followers cannot even peacefully coexist with mainstream Sunni Muslims, let alone Shia Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, secularists, feminists, gays, or anyone else. Their global jihad is a war against the entire human race in all its diversity and plurality.
When Senator Obama was blathering on about Pakistan during the debate Friday night, I have to admit that I wondered whether he even knew what Pakistan was. He certainly has no tangible concept of the actual conflict that we're in, and I defy anyone to produce a scrap of evidence that Senator Obama's opposition to the Iraq War had anything to do with Afghanistan. Opposition to the invasion was simply the boilerplate liberal position of the day; and his claim that opposing the invasion while he was a liberal state senator from south Chicago showed political courage is beyond absurd. Read the whole piece by Totten, because it really puts the situation in context (and aside from a couple of mentions about Obama, it's not really a political piece).
Need a laugh? Ever watched Kindergarten Cop? They have a great story of Army chicanery at Ranger Up. Go check it out.
I'm still annoyed at the YMCA. I was going to try to go for a swim at a different location last night, but I ended up blowing about an hour or so trying to get the decals on my truck renewed, only to get there and find out that they're good until next July. Joy. At any rate, with that hour or so wasted and all, I think I'm going to put it off for one more day. Given the chaos of last week, and my plans for this weekend (which will be discussed later this week), this may have been the wrong month to join the Y. Ehhhhhhhh.
So, for the last couple of days, I've been watching Red vs. Blue, a machinima series that uses the Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3 video games to make movies. I watched a ton of the episodes over the course of two or three days in 2007. I've been catching up with the series from the beginning at Machinima.com. I'm also seriously considering buying the DVD set. Nerdy? Totally, but also pretty entertaining.
Okay, another rant: I'm pretty sure I got drunk-texted last night. I went to bed around 20:45, and was sort of nodding off when I got a text at around 21:10 from a girl I went on a couple of dates with in February, and one in late August/early September, who I talk to on very rare occasions. I'd texted her a few times in the last couple of weeks, with pretty much no response. Well, apparently she was out for a beer. I asked her how she was, and then told her I was in bed and asked in a flirty way if we could talk tomorrow (I'm ever the romantic diplomat). She said that was fine, so I figured that was the end of it. I was just about to nod off again when I got another text from her, an hour later, to say "Night!" So, at this point, she had interrupted my sleep at two crucial moments, and I slept horribly the rest of the night. Very annoying.
Okay, folks, there's more to come as the week progresses. Stay tuned.
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