Monday, December 1 (Updated)

• Scipio notes: To eliminate rabies you kill dogs.

• Who's Next?

  The likely targets would not at first be American. India was chosen for a reason. It was next door to Pakistan, it had poor security, and exiting to Pakistan was theoretically possible. Indeed if there were twenty not ten attackers, then ten have escaped. The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Spain, France, Britain, are all convenient targets. All these nations lack any meaningful ways of killing the plotters, which to them is the only thing that matters in considering such attacks. -- Whiskey's Place: The Bombay World

• It’s Not the Cold War by Mark Steyn

  What’s relevant about the Mumbai model is that it would work in just about any second-tier city in any democratic state: Seize multiple soft targets and overwhelm the municipal infrastructure to the point where any emergency plan will simply be swamped by the sheer scale of events. Try it in, say, Mayor Nagin’s New Orleans. All you need is the manpower.

• Surprise: Captured Mumbai attacker implicates Pakistani military, intel @ The Long War Journal

• Free Fire Zone to Open on for US on Afghan Border?

  If tension escalated with India, the "war on terror won't be our priority", a security official said during the briefing. He said the Pakistani security establishment would not "leave anything" on the Afghan border if troops were diverted to the Indian frontier. -'Pak may redeploy 1 lakh troops along Indian border' - Express India

• Unspeakable: Doctors shocked at hostages's torture

  "Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again," he said.

• In the O-Era It Will Be the Axis of Appeasement: The Spectator

  What is not yet commonly understood is the emergence of what might be termed an ‘axis of appeasement’ which runs from left to right. In Britain, this became apparent straight after 9/11 and solidified as the Iraq war shaped the entire British political zeitgeist into 1930s-style defeatism.

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• Strategy Page updates you on the military/political situation in Afghanistan: March To The Sound Of The Guns

• Looking to net 1,000 hostages? Pirates attack cruise ship off Somali coast - Telegraph

• He knows if you're going to be bad or good/ So be good for... Minority Report comes to Britain: The CCTV that spots crimes BEFORE they happen | Mail Online CCTV cameras which can 'predict' if a crime is about to take place are being introduced on Britain's streets.

• Cobb: The Next Great Republican will have to be someone we know but haven't seen.

• Some balls. Swapped eggs for stones: Gay penguins steal eggs from straight couples - Telegraph "Now keepers have decided to segregate the pair of three-year-old male birds to avoid disrupting the rest of the community during the hatching season."

• Obama's Good Students

  "Some of the worst people in the United States have gone to the Harvard or Yale Law Schools: Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Spitzer, Mr. and Mrs. William Clinton, and countless -others. And why not, since these institutions serve as the grandest receptacles in the land for our good students: those clever, sometimes brilliant, but rarely deep young men and women who, joining furious drive to burning if ultimately empty ambition, will do anything to get ahead."

• What do women want?: best of craigslist : Seeking a sexual tyrannosaur for a romp in the park - w4m "I cannot stress this enough however, you must play as a ROBOTIC dinosaur. This is very specific, my interest lie entirely in animatronic dinosaurs, not real ones. I thought I should mention this as there have been unfortunate miscommunications in the past, leading to performances that have left me without an orgasm."

From July, 2008

Posted by Vanderleun at November 30, 2008 3:28 PM