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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
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Archive for October 24th, 2007
Iran
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Iran has an economy the size of Finland’s and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?
No shit. If the President of Finland was rattling his saber would we be so wound up about it? I doubt it.
But then Finland is not full of scary Muslims!
I’m not saying that Iran is completely without threat, but let’s keep things in perspective here. We’ve already found ourselves bogged down in one middle east disaster, let’s resist the urge to double down.
The Massage Room
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
“The Massage Room on 54th and Penn is a sex business,” read an anonymous letter sent to the Armatage Neighborhood Association last year. “Everyone on the corner knows this — can you do something?”
In September, the parlor closed after police arrested a 23-year-old woman for prostitution and cited a 53-year-old man with loitering with intent to commit prostitution.
Damn! That place is just 3 blocks from my house!
I guess it’s too late to make an appointment now.
Giuliani
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Kevin Drum puts it best:
Choosing the best presidential candidate among the 2008 contenders is a tough job. Picking the worst is easy. Rudy Giuliani is the guy you’d get if you put George Bush and Dick Cheney into a wine press and squeezed out their pure combined essence: unbounded arrogance and self-righteousness, a chip on his shoulder the size of a redwood, a studied contempt for anybody’s opinion but his own, a vindictive streak a mile wide, and a devotion to secrecy and executive power unmatched in presidential history. He is a disaster waiting to happen.
I’ll take anyone but Rudy.
Links
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007T has a video of his team sprint from track nats.
(dis) reports on last weekends racing and posts a shocking picture.
Brian is riding around in circles up in Canada and has some photos racing on a 138 meter track.
Jimmer names the cheaters!
Masi Guy reports on the sad circumstances in regards to the California wild fires.
