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this situation will spawn endless conspiracy theories.

Castro has a double?

In five years all of that quaint undiscovered charm will have been replaced by Marriot and Starbucks.

Ask a liberal if they would prefer pristine third world villages full of malnourished kids or a tourist boom fueled by American corporate investment. Go ahead, ask.

I don't like:

Iranian guy acting crazy with a smile on his face

Chavez visiting crazy guy - smiling the same crazy way

Both of them in bed with NK

All of them certainly capable of using non-state actors to advance political agendas

The U.S. giving the mistaken impression that we can't be absolute savages if it comes down to it

The crazy Iranian saying how the U.S. will get a good slap in the face soon. August 22nd being a date with some symbology to it.

AND NOW CUBA IN A POSITION WHERE THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABLILITY IF SOMETHING GETS LAUNCHED FROM THERE.

Really. I don't like it.

...s'il vous plait...

8/22/06?

8-22?

I'm not tuned in to such frequencies (better foil, I guess) ...  I get your point, just not sure about the timing...

I doubt it. If something gets launched from Cuba, do you really think we will sit back and say, "Well it's a rough time for them, their leader is sick, lets cut 'em some slack, hmmm?" It will be crater city from Havana to Caracas.

I choose 1979 Led Zeppelin released their album, "In Through The Out Door."

565 - St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland

1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses

1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy

1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War

1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States

1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia

1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia

1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion

1780 - James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)

1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue

1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion

1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico

1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia

1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.

1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded

1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile

1910 - Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.

1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered

1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.

1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.

1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

1938 - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are on the cover of Life Magazine

1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad

1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)

1944 - World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany

1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.

1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union

1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis

1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed

1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails

1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage

1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles)

1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America

1969 - Elvis Presley begins performing live again in Las Vegas

1970 - Neil Young released his album, "After The Gold Rush."

1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies

1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as secretary of state.

1978 - The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua

1979 - Led Zeppelin released their album, "In Through The Out Door."

1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued

1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered

1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.

1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

2004 - The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

I've had friends complain how they hate travelling to Mexico now. It's not "authentic" enough for them anymore. They don't seem to realize that they are enjoying the misery of the third world. They'll whine about the new Mexican WalMart that's ruining their vacation.

A lot of travelling is about having exotic stories to tell. Nobody wants to hear about what WalMart is like in Mexico.

I think there are more varieties of poverty than middle class wealth. When people are poor they are forced to adapt to the local climate, food, etc. When people are middle class they tend to start wanting pretty similar things (Walmarts, Home Depots, fast food, cars, AC, etc).

Of course, eventually people get rich enough they start yearning for something "authentic" like their poverty-stricken ancestors had!

1791 looks good.. 1922 doesn't hurt...

1973's got my vote though...

...but I'm not sure that date-correspondence is what jdavenport had in mind when he mentioned the "symbolism" of August 22nd...

From:

BBC: ON THIS DAY

[Wednesday] 10 November 1982: [Leonid] Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/november/10/newsid_251600
0/2516417.stm

Speculation is growing that Leonid Brezhnev, who has ruled the Soviet Union for the past two decades, has died.

Suspicions that a senior Communist party figure had died were fuelled by a sudden change of the television schedules on Wednesday evening. Light entertainment programmes were replaced by sombre documentaries about the Russian revolution and the Second World War.

Newsreaders on the main evening news bulletin dressed in black but made no announcement of any death.

Mr Brezhnev was last seen in public on Sunday at the traditional Red Square parade in Moscow to mark the anniversary of the 1917 revolution.

The 75-year-old leader had not looked well for several years but there was no indication of his imminent death.

Mr Brezhnev's failure to sign a public message of congratulations to Angola's president on Wednesday - Angola's national day - has fuelled belief he is dead. The Soviet leader normally signs messages to all "friendly" heads of states so the absence of his signature represents a previously unheard of breach of protocol.

I swear I've never met any of these guys.

But they want authenticity that they can enjoy during brief forays from air-conditioned hotel rooms. With all of the moaning about the homogeonizing effects of the global economy, there are plenty of new choices in the produce aisle that people don't complain about. My friend from Colombia used to laugh at all of the varieties of mushroom in the supermarket. Then he went back for a visit and said that it is the same in Bogota now.

If people want an anthropological museum, I suggest settlments along the lines of Plymouth Plantation or Colonial Williamsburg. The workers get paide good wages, everyone learns something, nobody gets screwed in the name of respect for diversity.

With the Israeli siege of a Mosque(?) in which Palestinian terrorists had holed up with several hostages.

It was posted by someone else Somewhere around here...

"Adult Films" recently?  You sicko...

Are you looking to get whacked by some crazy Cuban millitant? LOL

nuclear missile in your pocket or are you just happy to be a nefarious dictator?

Your quote by Reagan is good, but not every man is good.  Look at Hilary.

I'm looking for a new tag.  Just haven't found the right one yet.

Nice little song lyric on yours.

I have a big brief due on August 22.  Are you telling me I should try to get an extension?

The song has really grown on me.  Something in it is really joyful and optimistic.  That and I love the video.  Anything having to do with books makes me happy.  If you haven't seen the video, you ought to you tube it.  Besides, Natasha Bedingfield is hot and the cute little book is adorable too!

Is President Nutcase in Iran the one who thinks August 22 is significant? Maybe that is the date Mohammed ordered his first massacre. Or perhaps that is the date the Great Pumpkin Missing Iman reappears.

It might be a good idea.  Even if nothing happens, it still gets you some more time.

My Tag Line.  And I'll switch from my saying to my Dad's favourite saying:  "The only thing in the entire world that NO ONE can take from you, that you must make a conscious decision to give up is your good name.  I plan to be buried with mine.  You?"

I could just provide the list above to the Court.  I'm sure that would do the trick.

The oracle speaketh here.

Involves:

Return of the 12th Iman - Imam Mahdi

The end of the Iranian month of Mordad

The Islamic date of Rajab 28, the day Saladin conquered and entered Jerusalem.

It doesn't matter if we beleive in this - what matters is if Ahmadinejad believes in it.

Note however, neither Wikipedia nor the BBC feel it noteworthy to assign August 22nd as being connected to Saladin's adventure...

"It doesn't matter if we beleive in this - what matters is if Ahmadinejad believes in it."  Very true.  I would conflate all manner of apocalyptic prophecy to this self-fufilling nature however.

"I would conflate all manner of apocalyptic prophecy to this self-fufilling nature however."

Still, something to pay attention to when state-scale actors MAY buy into it... or use it to manipulate their populations.

...power has been greatly exaggerated.  Not that his superiors aren't on the same page...

...and I'd equate the collective will of an industrialized democracy with the individual will of a despot, as far as it goes...  They can both be diverted into various channels... We like to think we're insulated on the large scale from the whim of the individual madness... and we are, but not immune...

    Iran successfully detonates their first nuclear weapon.

    Folks we better stop trying to fight a politically correct war and start killing people and breaking things or we are done.  The U.S. Military are not policemen and OUR administration better stop trying to make them cops and let them be soldiers.  We need to break out the real weapons, give Iran and Syria some sort of massive show of our capabilities and start doing maneuvers and massing troops within sight of the Syrian and Iranian borders.  Once Syria is even more nervous than they are now we need to do a little side line diplomacy and schmooze them back to the Sunni/Arab side.  It's not normal that they are siding with the Shi'ia Persians.  I believe that that is possible.  Then when Iran is alone we squeeze.  I believe that alot of the Iranian backed insurgents will come out of the cities and towns and move towards the Iranian border if they believe we are planning action there.  This will make them more vulnerable and an easier target with hopefully less civilian damage.  Just a thought.

No small decision.

1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses

Didn't an athlete-turned-actor named Bosworth make a bomb of a movie?  Bomb?  As in nucular bomb?  Think about it!!

Blow up how? Start a war?

If there's one thing I've been saying more and more lately: It's time to start killing people.

Don't care how it sounds. Kid gloves are screwing us, and Israel, over.

War is hell? Not yet. But it should be.

Iran no longer needs artificial lighting, because the radioactive sands will be glowing for the next quarter of a million years.

..not just of it, but for it.

Others might not have it.  But is that sufficient cause to knock their heads together?

Kid gloves IN AMERICA screwed us on 9/11.  That is the limit of my personal mandate.

If we can find ourselves unmotivated to hold China accountable for their great sins of armament of our enemies in varying degrees, I don't see why their proxies merit our national vigor.

"It's time to start killing people."  

<sarcasm>That's worked SO well!! By all means, let's continue. </sarcasm>

This is a great cartoon:

http://cantotalk.blogspot.com/2006/08/raul-castro-finally-speaks.html

Ask a liberal if they would prefer pristine third world villages full of malnourished kids or a tourist boom fueled by American corporate investment. Go ahead, ask.

You must've had this in mind.

So war never solved anything, is that where you're going? Calling on sanctity too, going to compare platitudes of pro-life and anti-war? All killing is the same? No difference between killing and murder?

Psh. Your sarcastic comment ignores the truth. Killing in sufficient numbers has worked quite well since the dawn of time. The only type of person who can't see the difference between murderous fiends and deadly warriors is that person with no moral compass. That person's opinion is so much self-defeating nonsense.

A time to kill. It's a real thing, and it's now.

n/t

...where I did not intend to go.

I'm all for self-defense.  When we put boots into other peoples' neighborhoods is when I become much more discerning and critical of the necessity of terminal violence.

"The only type of person who can't see the difference between murderous fiends and deadly warriors is that person with no moral compass. That person's opinion is so much self-defeating nonsense."

I'm sorry, do we live in a country that is chartered to secure the blessings of liberty for OTHER COUNTRIES' posterity, or our own?  Obviously, we don't stop every "murderous fiend" outside of our country---we pick and choose.  When the world was larger, we weren't so concerned about the price of tea in China, as it were; we were concerned with our own well-being, as it extended to the ends of our arms.  Woodrow Wilson was elected because "...He kept us out of war..."

If we had a murderous gang of law-flaunting psychopaths in this country, I would advocate their arrest.  If they didn't surrender, I'd advocate their meeting justice with extreme prejudice.  But when my tax dollars are exported for the benefit of other countries, my pursuit of justice ends.  If I feel strongly enough, I'll write my own check to prop up another government, thank you very much.

I love how some people think that killing parents and uncles of non-state actors puts the children and nephews into a calm, rational state of acceptance, and how these same people think that the answer is to step up the killing of non-state actors.

Speaking of following where one isn't leading, you certainly felt free to take any liberty you saw fit with my statements. Not to dispute the idea of taking liberty to others, but precisely where did I mention that, hmmmmm? Yeah, thought not.

"I love how some people think that killing parents and uncles of non-state actors puts the children and nephews into a calm, rational state of acceptance, and how these same people think that the answer is to step up the killing of non-state actors."

Psh, babble on. If you want to take my broad statements and come up with some ridiculous argument that you can then defeat well go right ahead. Have fun with yourself.