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May 10 2011
The Leaning Tower of Fukushima
The building containing Reactor 4 at Fukushima might fall over!
Would that be a significant problem?
“Of course not! There are never any significant problems with nuclear power! Shut up!”
But what about those 1535 fuel assemblies stored in the spent fuel pool at Reactor 4?
If the whole building falls over, wouldn’t they all be exposed to the air, with no cooling whatsoever? Would it be a significant problem if they all started burning? According to the BBC…
If you are in any doubt as to what this means, it is that in the company’s view, it is possible that enough fissile uranium is present in the cooling pond in enough density to form a critical mass – meaning that a nuclear fission chain reaction could start.
Would an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction at Fukushima be a significant problem?
“Of course not! There are never any significant problems with nuclear power! Shut up!”
May 07 2011
Lawsuit by the Unborn Bankrupts Democrats and Republicans
Both major parties in the United States suffered a probably fatal setback with their plans to buy the next election when a class action lawsuit on behalf of the unborn of all future generations awarded more than $50 trillion to establish a fund for preserving the biosphere.
Democrats immediately whined that they are “better than Republicans,” and UAFG spokesman Jacob Freeze replied…
“You worthless clowns should be happy that you got away with nothing worse than bankruptcy in civil court, because you didn’t even have enough real conviction about anything to prove mens rea, but Republicans are also charged with crimes against humanity and the unborn, and all of them will be hanged, including anyone who even so much as registered as a Republican!”
“So Obama gets a free pass?”
“What are you talking about? Obama will hang with the rest of the Republicans!”
May 05 2011
25 Navy Seals Defeated Exactly One (1) Arab with a Gun!
MIGHTY WARRIORS!
“Around 20 to 25 Navy SEALs, wearing night vision goggles, slid down ropes from the helicopters into the compound.”
A senior U.S. official also told Fox News that only one of the five people killed in the raid was carrying a weapon and firing. The detail seemed at first to diverge from White House accounts claiming the Navy SEALs encountered resistance throughout the raid and were engaged in a firefight during much of the 40-minute operation. However, the scene was described as chaotic, with U.S. forces encountering barricades and women in the compound screaming and attacking the men.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Only one of the five people killed in the raid that got Osama bin Laden was armed and fired a shot, a senior defense official said Thursday, acknowledging the new account differs greatly from original administration portrayals of a chaotic, intense and prolonged firefight.
May 04 2011
Team Obama Admits Multiple Lies About Osama
Killing Osama bin Laden was a big victory for the U.S., but how exactly the raid went down is another story – and another, and another.
The contradictory statements seem certain to raise suspicions about the White House’s version of events, given that no independent account from another source is likely to emerge. The only non-U.S. witnesses to survive the raid are in Pakistani custody.
First we heard that Osama was shooting at US soldiers and using his wife for a shield!
At a Pentagon briefing earlier in the day, a senior defense official said bin Laden used a woman as a human shield so he could fire shots. “He was firing behind her,” the official said.
And…
The Al Qaeda leader took his wife as a human shield during the firefight in Abbottabad, (Obama’s chief counter-terrorism adviser, John) Brennan told reporters at a White House briefing.
“Here is bin Laden, who has been calling for attacks, living in a million-dollar-plus compound, hiding behind women put in front of him for a shield,” Brennan said.
It wasn’t just Brennan saying it.
A senior defense official gave a similar description to reporters at a Pentagon background briefing, saying bin Laden and other male combatants at the compound “certainly did use women as shields.”
Osama had a gun! He was shooting at our soldiers! He used his wife for a shield!
Bin Laden was not armed and did not employ one of his wives as a human shield, the White House said Tuesday.
And so what if they got every detail wrong? It’s an honest mistake! “Fog of war, yada yada” said Jay Carney.
And now back to you, John Brennan, to wrap it up!
“Thinking about that from a visual perspective, here is Barack Obama*, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front…” Brennan said.
“I think it really just speaks to just how false his narrative has been over the years.”
*Or did he really say…
Here is George W. Bush*, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front…”
*Or did he really say…
Here is Hillary Clinton*, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front…”
*Or did he really say…
Here is Rush Limbaugh*, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front…”
*Or did he really say…
Here is Dick Cheney*, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front…”
*Or did he really say…
Here is John McCain*, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front…”
*Or did he really say…
Here is Tom Friedman*, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million-dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front…”
*And he could have named any one of thousands of fat cats who live multi-million dollar compounds, far removed from the front, and call for more and more and more and more and more attacks, and the details don’t really matter.
May 04 2011
Americans Celebrate the Death of Osama bin Laden
Americans outside the White House celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, May 2, 2011
May 03 2011
Slam Dunk Osama Guantanamo: Jump the Shark!
The most important single fact about the CIA and the only fact that anybody knows for sure is that the CIA is stupid, and way back when I was occasionally invited to parties on Embassy Row in Washington (because of the Harvard Cyclotron) I proved this over and over with a little game.
“The stupidest person at every party in Washington always works for the CIA,” I would say, and inevitably some guy in white socks would get red in the face and blurt out…
“That’s not true!”
But it was all too true, and the CIA has demonstrated this self-evident proposition once again by jumping the shark with their already ridiculous story about the death of Osama bin Laden.
It wasn’t enough just to kill one sick old Arab chained to a dialysis machine in a house with no telephones. It wasn’t enough to kill one sick old Arab that it cost us more than $1 trillion to kill.
They had to jump the fucking shark!
They also had to prove that all that torture at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib was a very good thing!
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), who was repeatedly subjected to methods including “waterboarding” and stress positions, provided the CIA with the name of bin Laden’s personal courier, according to US officials. The killing of the world’s most wanted man as a direct result of information obtained from Guantanamo detainees such as KSM will reignite the debate over whether torture is a legitimate interrogation technique in the “war on terror”.
Torture paid off!
HURRAH!!!
Now we can forget all those pesky accusations about crimes against humanity and the Geneva Conventions! Torture saved us from UBL! Case closed!
And this is exactly the same kind of overkill that couldn’t stop piling new and ever more incredible weapons into the arsenal of Saddam Hussein until the CIA had inflated him from a tin-pot dictator with a rusted-out army all the way to the status of SUPERHUMAN MONSTER, who supposedly possessed not only the kind of armament that he might have actually possessed, like chemical and biological weapons, but also a whole fleet of totally imaginary drone-bombers which could fly all the way from Baghdad to Manhattan, along with 500 tons of yellow-cake for non-existent nuclear weapons.
This was exactly the same kind of overkill that couldn’t stop piling new and ever more HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES upon the very idea of losing the War in Vietnam! It wasn’t enough that Vietnam would be re-united under a communist ally of the Russians! The CIA also had to “prove” that dominoes would fall all the way from Saigon to London unless we sent yet another hundred thousand soldiers to fight and die in those god-forsaken rice-paddies! Western Civilization will die! Defeat is not an option! Be very afraid! And don’t just feel fear…
Piss your pants and give us all your money!
So of course anybody with minimal intelligence immediately sees right through these ridiculously exaggerated stories…
But that still leaves 85% of the American electorate to piss their pants and give away all their money.
May 03 2011
Obama’s Silly Fable About Osama Unravels
Marc Ambinder, the National Journal’s White House correspondent, has just posted a sort of trial-balloon for the anonymous sources who play him like a penny-whistle.
From Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, the modified MH-60 helicopters made their way to the garrison suburb of Abbottabad, about 70 miles from the center of Islamabad. Aboard were Navy SEALs, flown across the border from Afghanistan, along with tactical signals, intelligence collectors, and navigators using highly classified hyperspectral imagers.
After bursts of fire over 40 minutes, 22 people were killed or captured. One of the dead was Osama bin Laden, done in by a double tap — boom, boom — to the left side of his face.
BOOM BOOM! Shot twice in the face, and then identified by “facial recognition!”
Shot twice in the face, most likely with something like the standard Navy Seal assault rifle, the Colt M4A1 carbine…
And then identified by “facial recognition!”
And then disappeared into the ocean!
But wait… There’s more!
Officials produced a quick DNA match from his remains that they said established bin Laden’s identity, even absent the other techniques, with 99.9 percent certainty.
A quick DNA match?
With what?
Where did they get the other sample of Osama’s DNA to match their corpse? Did it “fall off a truck?”
No jury in the world would believe this nonsense, but in the Global War on Terror…
We don’t need no stinking juries!
Meanwhile Osama may be dead, or he may be alive, or he may have died last week or last month or whenever, or he may have died in Pakistan or Afghanistan or Yemen or wherever, and the only sure bet about Obama’s silly fable is that none of us will ever know what actually happened.
May 02 2011
Six Assassinations in Two Days
On Saturday, April 30, 2011, the United States assassinated Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Saif Al-Arab Gaddafi, along with three of Muammar Gaddafi’s grandchildren, and on Sunday, May 1, 2011, we likewise assassinated Osama bin Laden and one of his sons, along with an unidentified woman. All of them were apparently assassinated by American or NATO soldiers, and none of them was anywhere near a battlefield.
“Justice has been done,” said the clown Obama. Was he talking about the three young children we assassinated in Libya, like tens of thousands of others in Afghanistan, or the unidentified woman in Pakistan, like hundreds of thousands of others in Iraq?
“Justice has been done,” said the clown Obama, “Bradley Manning broke the law,” said the clown Obama, “Hope and Change,” said the clown Obama…
And so it goes.
May 02 2011
Let Them Eat Cake: Faces from a White House Dinner
Jason Biggs, Ariel Winter, and Jack McBrayer
Apparently my invitation to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner got lost in the mail (again!) this year, but judging from these photos that I found on the internet, everybody had a wonderful time!
May 01 2011
Bamyan Heart of All Hazaras
Asia heart of world,Afghanistan heart of Asia,Hazarajat heart of Afghanistan,Bamyan Heart of All Hazaras in world,these boys are belongs to Bamyan.look at there friendship they don’t think about bout there Poverty.they need your help.
Photo and caption by Jamail Haider.